Jesus take the wheel. These people are crazy:
In an eyebrow-raising series of tweets that read like a paperback political thriller, Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX) claimed on Tuesday that he was the subject of a Capitol Police intelligence investigation. Capitol Police almost immediately fired back and said there was never any investigation and Nehls’ version of events was wrong.
The back and forth started Tuesday morning when Nehls attacked Capitol Police on Twitter, appearing to possibly be softening the ground for whatever may be coming down the pike by castigating investigators for secretly entering his office nearly three months ago.ADVERTISING
Nehls had been aware of the incursions almost the entire time because, according to his account, police botched one of the supposedly clandestine entries. But he only disclosed the alleged break-in now.
Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger quickly issued a statement refuting Nehls’ claims. Manger said no case investigation was ever initiated or conducted into Nehls or his staff, and he suggested that police had not broken into the office, but entered in the course of duty having found it left “open and unsecured.”
“The United States Capitol Police is sworn to protect Members of Congress. If a Member’s office is left open and unsecured, without anyone inside the office, USCP officers are directed to document that and secure the office to ensure nobody can wander in and steal or do anything else nefarious,” the statement said.
The statement explained that Capitol Police entered after an agent was noticed that the office had been left “wide open.” After police followed up with the office, Manger said, the department decided not to take further action.
According to Nehls, who has attacked the Capitol Police response to the Jan. 6 riot, the agency opened a “malicious investigation” into his office. It began, he said, on Nov. 20, when officers secretly entered his office and took pictures of “confidential legislative products.”
But that wasn’t the end. Nehls added that, two days later—when most members and staff had cleared out for Thanksgiving recess—three officers with the Capitol Police intelligence division returned to his office, “dressed like construction workers,” only to find a staffer in the room.
What’s this paranoid garbage all about? Bizzaroworld:
The tweets came two days after Axios reported that a Jan. 6 “shadow” committee, featuring Nehls, an election objector and former sheriff, was investigating Capitol Police “negligence” in response to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
That’s right. The Republicans are running a competing January 5th “investigation” in which the real insurrectionists were the Democrats and the Capitol Police who failed to stop the good, patriotic Republicans from storming the building and threatening to kill them.
I’m serious. That’s really what they are doing, And if they get control of the House in 2022, it’s going to be a three ring circus like we’ve never seen before. They. Are. Batshit. Crazy.