House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently picked a retired United States Army general to conduct a security review of the Capitol in the wake of an incursion into the building on Jan. 6, but his past remarks paint a troubling picture for Washington, D.C.’s future.
Retired Lt. Gen. Russel Honore will lead the assessment of Capitol defenses before, during and after the January riot, a role Pelosi handpicked him for on Jan. 15, according to NBC News.
While Honore served in the American armed forces for decades, his documented outspoken beliefs against Republican lawmakers and even our constitutional rights have many worried.
Images and social media blurbs posted by the retired officer show he is nowhere near an impartial party, threatening the fairness and objectivity of his review.
In one now-deleted Tweet, Honore called Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley a “little peace [sic] of s—,” who should be chased out of the D.C., echoing the same anti-lawmaker rhetoric he is supposedly tasked with defending against.
One picture even shows Republican lawmakers as cans of volatile gasoline dangerously close to an overhead fire. On the ground, spilled gas spells out the word “Sedition.”
An idiot could see that Capitol defenses were grossly inadequate, putting the blame squarely on Nancy Pelosi. Bike racks as barriers, really?
This was highly planned, with Pelosi and crew just an arm’s length away in the planning and execution. One officer had to die of causes allegedly directly related to the unlawful incursion to make it shock and empathy memorable, politically useful, MSM worthy and to offset the death-by-officer civilian in the building. Both deaths were tools.