Committee 1/6 Chairman Bennie Thompson was spotted holding an unscheduled tutorial on the street on Committee 1/6 after the hearing.
Video courtesy of freelance journalist Matt Laslo who has given PoliticusUSA permission to use his work:
Impromptu tutorial from Jan 6 Special Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson outside the Cannon House office building pic.twitter.com/XKzSXMnl7E
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Thompson was telling a group of young people, “People overseas who look up to us as Americans, and we act like thugs, and that’s not who we are, so our committee’s responsibility is to find out what happened and make recommendations to Congress. , so if adopted, it will never happen again.
Laslo told us that Thompson was surrounded by his new security detail and was heading towards a waiting car. However, “he took his time”.
President Thompson didn’t have to take his time talking to young people and explaining to them what the 1/6 Committee does, but it’s heartening that he loves his country and democracy so much that he tries to educate them about the streets and spreading American values and democracy even when he is not in the courtroom and there are no television cameras.
President Thompson is a true patriot and his behavior is what a public servant is supposed to do instead of the crime and corruption that are detailed in his committee hearings.
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Based on Capitol Hill, Matt Laslo is a freelance journalist and writer who has covered the campaigns and all aspects of federal politics since 2006.
