GOP Rep. Says January 6 Was 'Made Up': 'That Was A Staged Thing'
Source: MEDIAite
May 21st, 2026, 7:25 pm
Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) said on Thursday that the January 6 insurrection was made up, claiming that the event was staged by those who opposed President Donald Trump. Norman was asked by press about the Department of Justices new $1.776 billion fund set up as part of a settlement of Trumps $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over the 2019 leak of his tax returns.
The Department claimed the fund was meant for victims of lawfare and weaponization to be heard and seek redress, leading many to question whether Jan. 6 rioters could receive money through the fund. When pressed on this possibility, Norman claimed that the insurrection had not taken place in the way it remembered, seen on video, and spoken about by those who saw or actively took part in the riot.
NORMAN: Look, January 6th was an issue that was made up in the first place.
REPORTER: Made up, sir?
NORMAN: That was a staged thing from day one.
REPORTER: The riot was staged?
NORMAN: When you had police officers letting people in the building, when you had people thats not being prosecuted Ray, I forget his name. Theres no excuse for that.
REPORTER: Your colleagues, though, your Republican colleagues ran for their life and barricaded themselves in their chamber. You think they were acting?
NORMAN: No, there was a riot there but it was a self made riot by members who hate Trump. It was made up, in my opinion.
More than 140 police officers were injured on January 6, including sustaining traumatic brain injuries and other lasting ailments. The attack caused approximately $3 million in damage to the Capitol.
Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/gop-rep-says-january-6-was-made-up-that-was-a-staged-thing/
GOP CREDOS - "Repeat a lie enough times and it will become the truth."
It's clueless mindless selfish zombies like thus guy, who have destroyed this country.
purr-rat beauty
(1,461 posts)It's straight up Bullshit
SC can do better
MarcoZandrini
(212 posts)you jest!
chicoescuela
(3,216 posts)republianmushroom
(22,742 posts)One has to wonder if he knows the difference between a turd and a wooden stick.
sop
(19,359 posts)You're smarter than the reporters who no doubt lack the analytical reasoning to ask that question.
everyonematters
(4,260 posts)SonOfNebanaube
(149 posts)liberalgunwilltravel
(1,256 posts)Should experience a staged thing up close and personal. How do such cretins get elected? Oh, right other cretins vote for them.
OldBaldy1701E
(11,575 posts)**Looks at stuff after his name**
Oh...
Carry on, then.
Timeflyer
(3,799 posts)Orwell, 1984--every damn day.
Bengus81
(10,380 posts)and therefore don't qualify for any compensation. Guess Fat Hitler doesn't need the money.
Rhiannon12866
(258,986 posts)littlemissmartypants
(34,399 posts)His claim that Democrats were the instigators of the attack on the capital on J6.
I saw it on the PBS Newshour yesterday.
AverageOldGuy
(4,179 posts)GiqueCee
(4,767 posts)... even though his primary residence is reported to be in Florida. Well, whaddya expect? Honesty is a cardinal sin in the GOP.
The Wizard
(13,862 posts)It's time to stop Civil War reconstruction.
GiqueCee
(4,767 posts)... is what happens when cousins marry for several generations in a row.
Bengus81
(10,380 posts)travelingthrulife
(5,604 posts)They are ridiculous people.
Maraya1969
(23,576 posts)were against him?
MoseShrute
(147 posts)Let him present the evidence in a court of law
Norrrm
(5,614 posts)MAGAs trying to kill polce on Jan6
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Was your flagpole damaged on Jan6 while viciously attacking police?

travelingthrulife
(5,604 posts)from being confirmed if they hated Trump? Stupid, stupid people.
surfered
(14,334 posts)dlk
(13,345 posts)They can always find a way to go lower.
GiqueCee
(4,767 posts)... brain-damaged, web-footed, room-temperature IQ would even consider voting for a malicious, mendacious moron like Ralph Norman? I suspect that a common question in the 5th district might be: "If we get a divorce, are we still brother and sister?"
Jesus wept.
KS Toronado
(23,881 posts)because he has an R behind his name?
live love laugh
(16,491 posts)JohnnyRingo
(20,999 posts)Don't ask for his "opinion" on gas prices or how attractive the president is.
lastlib
(28,640 posts)...did repuglykans OPPOSE EVERY investigation into it??
rickford66
(6,099 posts)Oh, "MAGA logic". Ie, the absence of logic.
BumRushDaShow
(172,382 posts)Happy Hoosier
(9,632 posts)ColoringFool
(1,104 posts)Biden, in order to make the outgoing Trump look bad.
Quantum Chess.
AllaN01Bear
(29,808 posts)mwb970
(12,163 posts)He said the crowd was entirely Antifa agents trying to make trump look bad. Is this that same ridiculous claim? It sounds insane on the face of it.
Ol Janx Spirit
(1,079 posts)...all go to as proof that it was somehow "staged."
They always reject out-of-hand the notion that the completely outnumbered officers were just interested in saving their own lives that day by at least seeming to cooperate with a much larger mob of angry people heading their way. What else were they supposed to do? And now because they did that then the whole thing must be staged?
I've discussed J6 with many conservatives and they always point to the actions of the overwhelmed and vastly outnumbered police officers that day as "proof" it was somehow not what it obviously was. They also like to throw in Nancy Pelosi not calling in the National Guard as the cherry on top of their ice cream sundae of self-soothing lies.
But to admit that their people showed up and beat police officers and used flag poles as battering rams to break into the building--the U.S. f'n Capitol--would be far too painful for them and their eggshell-egos. It destroys every argument they've made to themselves to justify their political positions over the years.
It's pathetic....
BumRushDaShow
(172,382 posts)and there was video footage of some of them.
Six US Capitol police officers could face discipline for 6 January actions
The rest became cannon fodder for the savage thug mobs.
tanyev
(49,696 posts)Am I understanding this correctly, Rep. Norman???
Jimvanhise
(606 posts)Trump was impeached because he told the crowd to go to the Capitol Building even though the permit for his rally prohibited anyone from approaching the Capitol Building. The hours of video make a liar out of this guy and of Trump. Republicans are desperate to rewrite the history of that day. A few weeks later when Capitol police officers testified to Congress about what happened and video of the attack was shown, many Republicans refused to look at the video and on Fox News they complained that the police were "crisis actors" and that they didn't believe that the rioters yelled racial slurs at black officers. There are documentaries about what happened that day and they should be shown on every network every week. Across the world newspaper headlines declared RIOT IN WASHINGTON DC!
chouchou
(3,317 posts)I'm thinking I'm hitting the Powerball twice today!
moreland01
(878 posts)what Jared Polis did was so very wrong.
justhanginon
(3,385 posts)Just take a minute and think about how world class incredibly stupid you have to be in order to believe this drivel. Either he is insulting the intelligence of all South Carolinians or he thinks at least the maga cult of dubious intelligence in his district will obediently buy into his crappola.
Ritabert
(2,617 posts)Explain that.
Marcuse
(9,086 posts)flashman13
(2,568 posts)And in South Carolina the sky is yellow and the sun is blue.
YoshidaYui
(45,782 posts)THEY CAN ALL GET FUCKED. MAYBE WE SHOULD HAVE A GENERAL STRIKE IN THIS COUNTY AND NO BODY GOES TO WORK UNTIL THE WHOLE FUCKING SYSTEM CRASHES IN ON ITSELF.
Martin Eden
(15,890 posts)....did he pardon them, and
WHY is he going to pay them millions of dollars???
GiqueCee
(4,767 posts)... GOP tying their own shoelaces together, and then wondering why they did a face plant in their own bullshit.
Trying to reconcile two diametrically opposed concepts "IT'S ANTIFA WITH TDS! and LET'S PARDON THEM ALL AND THEN PAY THEM FOR BEING TRAITORS!" must have short-circuited their brainstems.
Oh. Wait. Ya gotta have a brain before you can have a stem. Never mind.
BBbats
(314 posts)I guess thet won't be paying out of that slush fund to the criminal ANTIFA actors who made up all the rioters in an effort to make Trump look bad.
joanbarnes
(2,140 posts)AZ8theist
(7,647 posts)greatauntoftriplets
(179,363 posts)Norman is an ass.
Orange Buffoon
(248 posts)
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