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Adam Schiff: “Those insurrectionists, many of them, they believed what they were doing was ordered by the commander in chief. They…”

On the recordJuly 27, 2021
Those insurrectionists, many of them, they believed what they were doing was ordered by the commander in chief. They believe that the election had been stolen.
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Adam Schiff
Democratic · California
Source
msnbc.com

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Adam Schiff explains the mindset of the insurrectionists and the role of some Congress members in promoting falsehoods about the election.

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