A small group of Republican members of Congress, including Reps. Louie Gohmert, Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Paul Gosar, went to the correctional facility in DC that houses the January 6th prisoners and asked to visit the facility. They did this because they’ve been stonewalled by this administration thus far on getting any information about the facility.
According to Louie Gohmert, they showed their IDs and were eventually told they’d need to wear masks, which they readily complied with. After a a few minutes, a woman came out and told them her supervisor says they were trespassing. They argued that as members of Congress they have oversight and should be able to at least tour the facility, but to no avail. When they asked to speak to the woman’s supervisor, they were told to wait.
Eventually the same woman walked out of the building and Gohmert was told she was the supervisor. They followed her outside, only for her to circle back into the building and lock the doors, according to Gohmert.
RSBN was on the scene and got the whole thing:
Matt Gaetz explains what happened:
After asking questions and being ignored for months on the conditions of the January 6th prisoners, we were unable to get any answers and still have gotten no answers.
We’re not going away. We’re going to continue to show up and press these issues. pic.twitter.com/EUfb9tMJKd
— Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) July 29, 2021
Below are a couple clips RSBN posted on their Twitter timeline:
Wow… @MattGaetz, @mtgreenee, @replouiegohmert, and @RepGosar have been locked out of the federal prison while trying to ask questions and evaluate the conditions! pic.twitter.com/sci9YtDWRb
— RSBN 🇺🇸 (@RSBNetwork) July 29, 2021
"There appears to be something very different about this place…" @MattGaetz wants the answers so that he and his colleagues can just do their jobs! pic.twitter.com/SPDJsJLhee
— RSBN 🇺🇸 (@RSBNetwork) July 29, 2021
Right now a press conference with these members of Congress just ended and I’ll add it here as soon as RSBN gets the video on their YouTube account.
UPDATE: I’ve got the press conference cued up to 1:18:30 where it starts: