Colbert crew's behavior in Capitol complex caused Democrat staffer to call for emergency help

Stephen Colbert's comedy crew was warned "several times" it could not trespass on Capitol grounds, and its behavior in a congressional office building during an unauthorized nighttime visit was so boisterous it caused a Democratic congressman's staff to fear for his safety and call for emergency help, police say.

The description that authorities provided members of Congress this week — loud banging on doors, talk of a "cocaine orgy" and threats to place something under a congressman's door — is far different than the light-hearted account of "first-degree puppetry" that the CBS television comic offered after last month's high-profile arrest of his team.

The decision by the Biden Justice Department to decline prosecution of nine Colbert staffers for unlawful entry clearly upset the department, according to an official letter from the department's chief obtained by Just the News.

"It is unfortunate that despite all of the evidence the Department presented, including that the group or its leader had been told several times that they could not be in the buildings without an escort,that the U.S. Attorney's office declined to prosecute any members of the group for Unlawful Entry," Capitol Police Chief Thomas Manger wrote Republican Reps. Rodney Davis of Illinois and Jim Jordan of Ohio in a letter dated Tuesday.

Manger revealed in the letter that the nine members of Colbert's staff who were arrested June 16 for unauthorized access to a House office building hadpreviously been rejected for press credentialsby the House Radio/TV Gallery, had been warned multiple times they could not stay in Capitol buildings without an escort, and were ejected by police from the complex just hours before their arrest for violating building rules.

The chief also revealed that two of the nine staffers when arrested refused to cooperate, citing their Miranda rights, and that one of the staffers initially falsely told responding police officers the Colbert crew was "credentialed staff."

You can read the full letter here:

220910 Response to RM Davis and RM Jordan Re information on the arrest of individuals on June 16 2022[36] copy[89] copy.pdf

The arrests occurred after an aide to Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman called police because he felt threatened by the team's behavior and feared for his safety. The crew was pretending to place invitations to a "cocaine orgy" at the Capitol and was boisterous but not filming at the time police arrested them, the letter states.

"On June 16, 2022, at approximately 8:26 p.m., the United States Capitol Police (USCP) communications center received a call from a staffer for Rep. Jamaal Bowman, (D-NY) working in Room 1605 of the Longworth House Office Building (LHOB)," the letter said, redacting the staffer's name. "He advised he could hear a man shouting outside his office, which is next to Rep. Lauren Boebert's office (R-Colo.)."

The Bowman aide, the letter continued, "stated he heard a man banging on Rep Boebert's office door saying, 'Do you remember me? Do you remember me? It's me. We're going to leave something under your door.'"

The Bowman aide "stated he was very concerned, locked his office door for safety and called the USCP emergency number," according to Manger.

Davis, the top Republican on the House Administration Committee, which oversees Capitol security, told Just the News on Tuesday night that federal prosecutors' decision to decline prosecution of the Colbert team only further created the perception of a two-tier system of justice.

The U.S. Attorney's office in Washington D.C. that made the Colbert decision is thesame one that has prosecuted scores of Jan. 6 defendantsfor trespassing and other crimes related to the Capitol riot.

"The decision by the Department of Justice to not pursue the charges recommended by USCP further highlights the politicization of Capitol security and the double standard for Democrats," Davis said.

Manger's letter states that when police apprehended the team members,they claimed to be filming a skit, but no cameras were found operating..

Police said the crew did not have any official appointments on the day they were arrested but did have appointments a day earlier when they remained with their escorts inside congressional buildings. Staff from the offices of Democratic Reps. Jake Auchincloss and Ted Lieu were involved in helping the crew gain access to the congressional office buildings, the letter stated…

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Former NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio Abandons Run for Congress

Simon Kent20 Jul 2022

Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) announced Tuesday he is no longer a candidate for New York’s tenth congressional district. He withdrew after two months campaigning, lamenting it’s clear “people are looking for another option.”

The Democrat was running in a crowded primary for a deep-blue congressional district that includes his Brooklyn home and parts of southern Manhattan, as Breitbart News reported.

If successful, the determined leftist would have replaced Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) in the district, which was recently redrawn under the supervision of a New York judge.

“I’ve listened really carefully to people and it’s clear to me that when it comes to this congressional district, people are looking for another option. And I respect that,” de Blasio said in a video posted online Tuesday.

His campaign was launched months after his tenure as mayor ended and was the latest attempt by de Blasio to further his national political ambitions, as AP reports.

De Blasio admitted in a recent Atlantic op-ed that he was an “unpopular” politician and made his “fair share of mistakes.”

“And when it comes to being unpopular, I’m unfortunately somewhat of an expert. I made my fair share of mistakes,” the former mayor wrote.

He considered running for governor of New York but opted not to challenge incumbent Democrat Kathy Hochul.

He also had a short-lived run for president in 2019, which lasted two months longer than this year’s congressional campaign.

During his tenure as mayor, de Blasio vowed to cut funding for the New York City Police Department amid the unrest of the 2020 Black Lives Matter riots, despite violent crime rates soaring at the time.

De Blasio also faced criticism for his implementation of vaccine mandates during the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/07/20/former-nyc-mayor-bill-de-blasio-abandons-run-for-congress/

Commerce Sec’y Raimondo:Inflation’s ‘Global’ and Due to War, COVID and We’ll Fix It, So People Should Trust Us on Economy

Ian Hanchett19 Jul 2022

During an interview aired on Tuesday’s “PBS NewsHour,” Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said that people should believe the Biden administration on economic issues like the CHIPS Act despite them getting inflation wrong because inflation “is a global problem driven largely by the pandemic, by Putin’s war. And the Fed has taken strong action and our administration, the president’s administration, is doing everything we know how to do to bring down inflation.”

“NewsHour” Correspondent Lisa Desjardins asked, “How do you answer those, maybe some on the Hill, who are asking you, this administration didn’t get it right on inflation. It’s worse than we thought it was. Why should we trust you in other areas like this?”

Raimondo answered, “Look, inflation’s a global problem. We were chatting before we came on about Europe. Europe’s seeing much higher inflation than we are, in certain countries, it’s double-digit. This is a global problem driven largely by the pandemic, by Putin’s war. And the Fed has taken strong action and our administration, the president’s administration, is doing everything we know how to do to bring down inflation. So, I think this is apples and oranges. What we’re talking about here is getting behind a bipartisan bill to increase domestic [production] of a critical technology to secure our future. Separately, inflation, which, as I say, is a global issue, and we are going to get that under control.”

These people are delusional and insane!

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2022/07/19/commerce-secy-raimondo-inflations-global-and-due-to-war-covid-and-well-fix-it-so-people-should-trust-us-on-economy/