- The House’s January 6 commission asked telecoms companies to preserve Republicans’ messages.
- Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene claimed they’d be “shut down” if they handed over data to the commission.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene claimed on Tuesday that any telecommunications company that complies with a request to hand over Republicans’ messages to the January 6 commission would be “shut down.”
The House committee is investigating the circumstances surrounding the Capitol riot.
On Friday, the group asked social-media companies to turn over records related to the riot. On Monday, it asked 35 social-media and telecommunications companies to “preserve” records from a list of Republicans in Congress, former President Donald Trump, and Trump’s family.
Several Republicans described those requests as a form of authoritarian overreach, a theme that dominated Greene’s appearance on Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on Tuesday.
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