J6 Cop Coughs ‘Go F*ck Yourself’ To Republican Congressman During Jack Smith Hearing
Former Metropolitan Police Department officer Mike Fanone coughed “go fuck yourself” during a Thursday hearing where former special counsel Jack Smith testified. Smith appeared before the House Judiciary Committee for…
Former Metropolitan Police Department officer Mike Fanone coughed “go fuck yourself” during a Thursday hearing where former special counsel Jack Smith testified.
Smith appeared before the House Judiciary Committee for roughly five hours and defended his prosecutions of President Donald Trump. During questioning, Republican Texas Rep. Troy Nehls blamed U.S. Capitol Police leadership for the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, prompting Fanone’s outburst.
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“I would like to quickly address the police officers of January 6th — Mr. Dunn, Mr. Fanone, Mr. Gonell, Mr. Hodges, I’m a member of the new select committee to actually examine what happened that day,” Nehls said. “And I can tell you, gentlemen, that the fault does not lie with Donald Trump. It lies with Yogananda Pittman and the U.S. Capitol leadership team.”
Fanone then interrupted to cough, “go fuck yourself.”
“We know the Capitol leadership team, specifically Yogananda Pittman, had the intelligence, and there was going to be a high propensity for violence,” Nehls added after the disruption.
Pittman was assistant chief of U.S. Capitol Police at the time of the riot. She previously acknowledged