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Four GOP lawmakers claimed during a House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing on Wednesday that the real victims of the Jan. 6 insurrection were the Trump supporters who were hurt as they illegally stormed the Capitol—not the hundreds of police officers who were injured, or the Capitol staff who were terrorized. Conspiracy-peddling Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ), blamed the media for a false representation of the riots and claimed that Ashli Babbitt, who was fatally shot by Capitol Police while trying to break into the House chamber with a U.S. flag draped over her, was “executed.” In contrast, he said, Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, who died in the wake of the riot, merely died of natural causes.

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