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Oregon Republican Party falsely calls U.S. Capitol riot a ‘false flag’ meant to ‘discredit President Trump’

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This article was published more than&nbsp;2 years agoCommentGift ShareThree weeks after hundreds of people stormed the U.S. Capitol in a violent rampage that left one police officer and four rioters dead and led to more than 100 arrests of the pro-Trump rioters, the House to the Senate, charging the former president with inciting the mob.In Oregon, the state Republican Party isn’t just backing former president Donald Trump — its official position falsely claims that the entire episode was a “false flag” operation staged to discredit the GOP and silence Trump’s supporters.Last week, the state party released a passed by its executive committee that says the supposedly fake operation was meant to undermine Trump and give more power to President Biden, citing websites by John Solomon and the Trump-friendly Epoch Times.Advertisement“The violence at the Capitol was a ‘false flag’ operation designed to discredit President Trump, his supporters, and all conservative Republicans; this provided the sham motivation to impeach President Trump in order to advance the Democratic goal of seizing total power,” the resolution says.Oregon GOP Condemns Betrayal by the Ten House Republicans Who Voted to Impeach President Trump — Oregon GOP (@Oregon_GOP)State Republican parties nationwide have been castigating members for opposing Trump, voting to impeach him and certifying Biden’s victory. During the weekend, the Arizona Republican Party former GOP senator Jeff Flake and Cindy McCain, the widow of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), for not being loyal to Trump, and Gov. Doug Ducey (R) for certifying Trump’s loss in the state. Hours after Rep. Tom Rice (R-S.C.) voted to impeach Trump, the chairman of the South Carolina GOP released a scathing statement the congressman’s decision.The Oregon GOP, which has a small minority in the state legislature, nominated Jo Rae Perkins, a follower of the radicalized movement QAnon, to run against Sen. Jeff Merkley (D) in November. 57 percent of the vote to Perkins’s 39 percent. In December, Republican state exiting a back door of the Oregon Capitol and holding it open for far-right rioters to enter and storm the building. Last week, the Oregonian that Nearman’s chief of staff, Becky Mitts, is on the Oregon Republican Party’s executive committee, which voted to approve the resolution.AdvertisementThe Jan. 19 resolution, which the Oregonian was approved by party officials rather than elected Republicans in the state, compares GOP lawmakers who voted for impeachment to Revolutionary War traitor .“The ten Republican House members, by voting to impeach Trump, repeated history by conspiring to surrender our nation to Leftist forces seeking to establish dictatorship void of all cherished freedoms and liberties,” the resolution says.Without elaboration, the group also incorrectly claims there is “growing evidence” the riot at the U.S. Capitol was a ‘false flag’ operation, meaning an event undertaken by one group that is disguised as another. The term has been to support false claims.The Oregon state GOP also compared the Capitol riot to the in February 1933 — a flash point that allowed Adolf Hitler to seize on the fears of German citizens to consolidate power. Hitler was able to pass emergency legislation that, he claimed, was required to keep the country safe — which included suspending freedom of speech, assembly and press.Advertisement“They’re using the circumstance that’s occurred and they’ve turned it around and said, ‘You know what? We need to declare all of these so-called ‘groups’ that we don’t like as insurrectionists,’” Kevin Hoar, the state party’s communications director, said in a .Oregon Republican Party Chairman Bill Currier in a also falsely claimed that the protesters on Jan. 6 were “peaceful” and that “Democrats and their enablers are trying to falsely assign blame” to them for the riot at the Capitol.So far, more than 100 rioters — an overwhelming majority of whom are fierce Trump supporters — have been charged for their actions earlier this month. The group includes individuals who stole property such as the of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), U.S. Capitol Police officers and to kill lawmakers.In the Facebook video, Currier added that the Oregon GOP’s resolution is just the start. The state party is working with a “patriot network of RNC members,” he said, in several other states “to coordinate our activities and to coordinate our messaging” for their own similar resolutions.“It needs to be strong and loud and immediate,” Currier said. CommentsGift ArticleTOP STORIESGoing GlobalEssential reporting and analysis from correspondents around the world.Try a different topic or to save your preferences

This article was published more than&nbsp;2 years agoCommentGift ShareThree weeks after hundreds of people stormed the U.S. Capitol in a violent rampage that left one police officer and four rioters dead and led to more than 100 arrests of the pro-Trump rioters, the House to the Senate, charging the former president with inciting the mob.In Oregon, the state Republican Party isn’t just backing former president Donald Trump — its official position falsely claims that the entire episode was a “false flag” operation staged to discredit the GOP and silence Trump’s supporters.Last week, the...

Oregon Republican Party falsely calls U.S. Capitol riot a ‘false flag’ meant to ‘discredit President Trump’

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