A number of Home Republicans changed three American flags that had been torn down in Washington, DC on Wednesday by “pro-Hamas protesters” who burned them whereas chanting “Allahu Akbar”.
“Earlier in the present day, pro-Hamas protesters took down American flags at Union Station, burned them and raised Palestinian flags,” Home Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) posted on X. “Tonight, we righted their fallacious. The American flag flies once more over Union Station. We won’t let the terrorist group win.”
🚨 Speaker Johnson and a gaggle of Home Republicans in management @rapwilliams Say the Pledge of Allegiance after changing American flags taken down by protesters of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s go to to Capitol Hill pic.twitter.com/lvwm0SMBoS
— Ryan Schmelz (@RyanSchmelzFOX) July 25, 2024
Johnson was joined by a number of Republican members of Congress, lots of whom are US army veterans, together with Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX), Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI), and Rep. Morgan Luttrell (R-TX).
“We raised the flags once more🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸,” Crenshaw posted on X. “Earlier in the present day, terrorist supporters tore down, burned, and changed the American flag at Union Station with a Palestinian flag. After the vote tonight, a gaggle of members, together with many elders and the Speaker of the Home, took our flag again and raised it.”
“It took some time to get it completed as a result of the Hamas supporters lower the connection, however the DC police helped us and zip tied us,” he added.
We raised the flags once more🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Earlier in the present day, terrorist sympathizers tore down and burned an American flag at Union Station and changed it with a Palestinian flag. After tonight’s vote, a gaggle of members, together with many elders and the Speaker of the Home, took… pic.twitter.com/hYbqLmxe21
— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) July 25, 2024
“Tearing and burning the American flag within the identify of Hamas is disgusting and reprehensible,” Van Orden wrote. “These terrorist sympathizers won’t win. The American flag will fly once more.”
The extremists, a few of whom had been flying Hamas flags and carrying Hamas headbands, had been protesting on the ground of the Home of Representatives on Wednesday in response to the Israeli prime minister’s speech through which he thanked lawmakers for his or her continued assist for Israel.
“We just lately discovered from the US director of nationwide intelligence that Iran is funding and selling anti-Israel protests in America,” he stated. “They need to disrupt America.”
He stated the protesters had been “Iran’s helpful idiots” as a result of they had been supporting a terrorist regime that “hangs homosexuals from cranes and kills ladies with out masking their hair.”
“A few of these protesters, it is superb. Completely superb. A few of these protesters held indicators proclaiming ‘Gays for Gaza’. “They could maintain up indicators that say, ‘Rooster for KFC’. These protesters chant, ‘From river to sea’, however many do not know which river and which sea they’re speaking about. Not solely do they get F’s in geography, additionally they get F’s in historical past.”
Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin @Netanyahu: “They refuse to make the easy distinction between those that goal terrorists and those that goal civilians, between the democratic state of the visible and the terrorist thugs of Hamas, as we just lately discovered from nationwide safety… pic.twitter.com/eYH02IEWQo
— Curtis Huck (@CurtisHuck) July 24, 2024
