Miller-Meeks (R-Ia-02): Trump should stay and 'plenty of blame to go around' for US Capitol riot

[rurallib]

https://qctimes.com/news/local/miller-meeks-trump-should-stay-and-plenty-of-blame-to-go-around-for-us-capitol/article_8cf5914a-d959-5b69-8314-fa329a1e23d2.html

{the following bolded passages were done by me}

While continuing to condemn the mob violence that gripped the U.S. Capitol Wednesday, freshman Iowa Republican U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks on Thursday suggested President Trump and congressional Republicans should not be held accountable for stoking the violence.

And while recognizing Democrat Joe Biden as president-elect, Miller-Meeks insisted "there was fraud" in the 2020 presidential election, despite a series of reviews and court cases that found no evidence of widespread issues.

"I think there is plenty of blame to go around to all of us," Miller-Meeks told the Quad-City Times of the "feeling of helplessness and powerlessness and hopelessness" Americans feel, fueled by a pandemic, racial turmoil and a contested presidential election, that has led to unrest across the nation.

Miller-Meeks said that if Democrats were not blamed or held accountable for violence that erupted during protests this summer over police killings of unarmed Black men and women, Trump and Republicans likewise should not be held to blame for the U.S. Capitol riot and Americans expressing "grievances" over what numerous state and federal courts and election officials have found was a free and fair election.

comment:
Thank goodness there is still a very good chance the errors that put her in office even for a little while can be corrected.

[exboyfil]

1. Thank you Iowa

God I hate my home state sometimes. So far my newly minted Republican Representative hasn't been all bad.

In two years this one better be gone or we won't have a country left.

You think a woman that won by just 6 votes would consider the ramifications of trying to overturn an election that was lost in three states by 10s of thousands of votes. Not to mention the 7 million popular vote.

[rurallib]

2. I have come to hate your home state also

Once the pandemic lightens we are probably out of here.

[SharonClark]

6. I hate Texas for Cruz.

I hate Missouri for Hawley.
I hate whatever state it is that elected the QAnon freak.
Etc.

Is that where we’re going on DU?

[CottonBear]

7. GA elected QAnon Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA-14).

At least we were able to elect Warnock & Ossoff to the Senate.

In 2 years time, maybe Greene can be voted out.

[CottonBear]

3. Can you add her party affiliation and state to your OP?

It helps to understand where this person is from and who they are.

[rurallib]

4. Yes indeed. I apologize for the oversight.

One of my own pet peeves on here.

[CottonBear]

5. Thanks! The news is fast and furious these days!

She seems to be just awful. She’s probably in cahoots with Georgia’s Republican freshman representatives, QAnon Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA-14) and gun dealer Andrew Clyde (R-GA-9). They’re a loathsome lot of seditious, idiots.

[progressoid]

8. And on the other side of the state, Feenstra is showing himself as Steve King in a better suit.

My wife and I are ready to leave this state. We've spent most of our lives here but it's not home anymore.

[rurallib]

9. right you are - I could never understand how Berkely Bedell was ever elected out there.

Feenstra has always been a snake.