Bennie Thompson actually said...

"As Chairman of this Committee, I will not give that lie any fertile ground."

"Some people are trying to deny what happened, to whitewash it, to turn the insurrectionists into martyrs."

"While our institution's endured and while Joe Biden is the legitimately elected President of the United States, a peaceful transfer of power didn't happen this year."

"If not for the heroism of the United States Capitol Police and the Metropolitan Police Department, many more lives might have been lost."