Rep. Greg Steube.Photo: Michael Brochstein/Sipa/AP
Steube used a screenshot of CNN to illustrate his claim, though he seemingly didn’t realize that the photo was of a set with a green screen behind it, and not a television set actually erected in National Statuary Hall, where Lincoln’s desk was once located.
As CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski noted, Steube removed the tweet after he realized the CNN panelists in the photo were simply speaking in front of a screen.
This is the latest headline for Steube who earlier this month faced criticism forwaving his gun aroundwhile appearing via Zoom in a hearing on gun control legislation.
“I’m in my house. I can do whatever I want with my guns,” the Republican said, when another lawmaker said they hoped the weapon wasn’t loaded.
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Steube, a Florida representative, was one of147Republican congresspeople to vote in favor of overturning the 2020 presidential election results. He hascondemned the actionsof those who entered the Capitol but also been openly critical of the committee investigating the Jan. 6 riots, whichbegan televising its hearings last week.
The first few days of the hearing have featured several new revelations about the events leading up to the attacks and how former PresidentDonald Trumpand his allies responded.
In opening remarks, Vice Chair Liz Cheney — the top Republican on the House committee — described what was to come in the hearings.
“As you will see in the hearings to come, President Trump believed his supporters at the Capitol, and I quote, ‘were doing what they should be doing,'” Cheney said. “This is what he told his staff as they pleaded with him to call off the mob, to instruct his supporters to leave.”
source: people.com
