House GOP Tries to Mock Jan. 6 Hearing and Just Clowns on Itself Instead

The House GOP took aim, apparently inadvertently, at one Thursday night in an effort to discredit the Jan. 6 hearings. Sarah Matthewsformer deputy press secretary at Donald TrumpThe White House testified Thursday that Trump, through a tweet, gave the protesters the “green light” to escalate their attack. About half an hour after the event, the House Republican Conference recirculated an earlier tweet from Matthews — in which she thanked Trump and Mike Pence for their service — and wrote, “Just another liar and pawn in the Pelosi witch hunt.” The moment of the attempt at chicks was hindered by the fact that, as within the elections Jacob Rubashkin pointed out a few minutes later, Matthews currently works for House Republicans.

The tweet was removed soon after. “The tweet was sent at the staff level and was not authorized or the position of the conference and therefore was deleted,” a House GOP spokesman told The Hill. The Twitter account of the House Republicans, generally independent corner of the platform, is managed by the office of Rep. Elise Stefanik, Republican no. 3 of the House of Representatives. CNN Melanie Zanon directed By Thursday evening, Matthews’ tweet was “getting a boost within the House GOP, where Matthews is widely respected and has worked as a staffer.”

Matthews’ tweet wasn’t the only one the official House Republican account deleted Thursday night, as Mediaite reported. Less than ten minutes after attacking Matthews, the House GOP called the proceedings “all heresy,” prompting Twitter users to wonder if it was “a terrible typo,” as New York Times‘ Maggie Haberman said, or whether House Republicans really intended to condemn the hearing as contrary to religious doctrine. The official House Republican Twitter account confirmed as much within 40 minutes, by which time it had deleted the “heresy” tweet and posted a new one. reading, “All Rumors.” journalism Ben Jacobs he joked, “The Grand Inquisitor of Twitter has purged this heresy from the website.” The series of unfortunate events prompted Kentucky State Senator Whitney Westerfield to offer some advice to his fellow Republicans:

Since Trump was permanently suspended from Twitter “due to the risk of further inciting violence” days after January 6, the former president was forced to respond to the hearing on Truth Social, the social media platform he created. Trump tried to discredit Matthews by claiming she was someone “I didn’t know” and was “clearly lying,” though without specifying which parts of her testimony were allegedly false. As part of the post, Times‘ Peter Baker recordsTrump included a tweet of his with a photo of himself in the Oval Office with the spokeswoman he “didn’t know.”