Rep. Greene to Lead GOP Visit to Jan. 6 Defendants in DC Jail: Reports

Republican lawmakers sitting on the House Oversight Committee are planning to visit the jail holding Jan. 6 defendants in Washington, D.C., multiple media outlets confirmed.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Rep. James Comer (Ky.), who both sit on the committee, told media outlets on Wednesday that they are intending to organize a trip to the Central Detention Facility to visit defendants who were criminally charged for their involvement in the Jan. 6 Capitol breach.

Comer’s spokesperson confirms with Fox News Greene leads the effort.

Greene told ABC announced that she would mail a note this week to congressmen to start the process of scheduling the visit.

Use the Comer told It is located on the hill. “not high on [his] list” He will then let you know what the schedule is.

The Epoch Times reached out to Greene’s & Comer’s offices in order for more information.

Tucker Carlson Airs Footage

It comes two days after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) released more than 40,000 hours of Jan. 6 footage to Fox News’s Tucker Carlson, who then aired some of the footage on his show on Monday and Tuesday.

Only one tape aired Monday’s photo showed Capitol Police officers walking side by Jacob Chansley (a Jan. 6, defendant who was sentenced to a 41 month term after pleading guilty for obstruction). Chansley was not armed, and passed several Capitol Police officers.

Another video of Brian Sicknick from Capitol Police giving direction inside Capitol, apparently following clashing against protestors. Carlson claimed that it cast doubt on Sicknick’s main story about his death due to a head trauma.

These tapes were broadcast and have caused a stir in Congress as well as in the media. Republicans Although some people had mixed responses to the tape’s release, almost all of them were happy with it. Democrats Fox News coverage and the release of these tapes were condemned.

Greene claimed that Democrats had been lying to Americans in the wake of the tapings being shown. “had people in place to make” The Capitol was breached.

“The Democrats that support Antifa terrorism, lied about Covid and locked down America, ripped our borders wide open to Mexican Cartel terrorism and daily fentanyl murder of Americans, were the ones who did not place the National Guard at the Capital on J6 when they knew the intelligence because they had people in place to make it happen,” Greene wrote a Tweet on March 7, citing Tucker Carlson’s Monday segment. “Then they blamed all of us for the breach of the Capital and have tortured American citizens as political prisoners.”

“You don’t get to ignore Antifa anarchists and terrorism on one hand and be all about justice for J6 on the other,” She said it in another blog post.

More than 1000 Americans have been charged and arrested since Jan. 6, 2021 for the Capitol breach. According to a March 8 report statement Publication by U.S. attorney’s office, D.C. This statement lists over 320 persons charged with assaulting and impeding law enforcement.

‘Human Rights Abuse’

Greene explained to The Hill that the visit was partially intended for a look at the Washington facility’s conditions.

“They’re pretrial, and they haven’t even been convicted, and they’re not allowed to see their families, many times are not allowed to see their attorneys. The food has been a major complaint,” Greene stated this to the outlet. “There’s been complaints of it tasting like cleaner.”

“We’re going to be addressing the human rights abuse, such as the fact that they’ve been held in solitary confinement up to 23 hours a day, denied the ability to see their families,” Greene.

Inspection in November 2021 report Published by U.S. Marshals Service found “systematic failures” Conditions of confinement in Washington prison These violations were observed in Washington jail. “overpowering” There are strong odors from urine and sewage. Punitive withholding of food or water. Lack of attentiveness. “observable injuries” U.S. In the report, Marshal Lamont Ruffin said.

The Epoch Times reached out to the Washington Central Detention Facility in order for them to comment.

“As prisoners of this Jail, we have witnessed the horrendous treatment and have been personally afflicted by the hellacious conditions this Jail insists on tormenting its traumatized guests with,” Reads: letter Written by Jan. 6, some prison inmates. “A more accurate terminology to describe the facility … would be to call this location an ‘evisceration facility,’ of the body, mind, and soul.”