Hawley was specifically responding to a tweet from Honoré that called for him to be disbarred.
"This little piece of shit with his @Yale law degree should be run
out of DC and Disbarred ASAP," Honoré said in a post that now appears to
be deleted.
Pelosi's office on Thursday lauded Honoré in response to the accusations of partisanship against him.
"General
Honoré is a committed public servant whose name is synonymous with
integrity and professionalism. His efforts to review the U.S. Capitol’s
security infrastructure, interagency processes and procedures and
command and control have included seeking bipartisan input in order to
achieve its mission," spokesman Drew Hammill told Fox News. "There is no
room for partisanship in the Speaker’s efforts to make the U.S. Capitol
a safe place for staff, workers, press and Members."
Honoré also previously, on MSNBC, called for former Homeland Security
Secretary Chad Wolf "to be run out of Washington. He has no business in
charge of Homeland Security."
"They are acting like an uncontrolled mob on the street with uniforms
and badges that they don’t show," he also said, regarding federal
agents in Portland, Oregon, attempting to control nighttime riots.
"Police don’t do this. Watch this, what kind of bullshit is this?"
But
Pelosi herself praised Honoré when she announced last month that he
would head an investigation into the security situation at the Capitol.
"The
General is a respected leader with experience dealing with crises," she
said on Jan. 15, announcing his appointment to investigate the security
at the Capitol. "House Leadership has worked with General Honoré, seen
up close and personal his excellent leadership at the time of Katrina,
particularly Mr. Clyburn was the head of our Katrina task force. So, he
and I and others know full well how fortunate we are that the General
has accepted, is willing to do this."
The Speaker added that there
"is strong interest in the Congress in a 9/11‑type commission, an
outside commission to conduct that after‑action review. In the
meantime, I am very grateful to General Honoré for taking on this
responsibility."
Then this week, Pelosi said in a letter to members that Honoré has provided a grim report of Capitol security.
"For the past few weeks, General Honoré has been assessing our
security needs by reviewing what happened on January 6 and how we must
ensure that it does not happen again," she said. "It is clear from his
findings and from the impeachment trial that we must get to the truth of
how this happened... As we prepare for the Commission, it is also clear
from General Honoré’s interim reporting that we must put forth a
supplemental appropriation to provide for the safety of Members and the
security of the Capitol."
The concern about future Capitol
security -- and the ongoing significant presence of national guard
troops in the Capitol complex -- was spurred by the Jan. 6 riot at the
U.S. Capitol.
Former President Donald Trump, after months of making false claims
that he'd won the presidential election, called a rally in Washington,
D.C., with his supporters for the same day Congress and then-Vice
President Mike Pence were meeting in a joint session to certify the
results of the election.
Trump, at the rally, repeated his false
claims that he'd won the presidential election as he and advisers used
pitched rhetoric, riling up the large crowd. Trump told his supporters
to march to the Capitol after the rally.
Eventually,
the large pro-Trump mob overwhelmed the Capitol police and breached the
Capitol, forcing hundreds of lawmakers and Pence into hiding as they
ransacked the building.
Trump was eventually impeached for
allegedly inciting an insurrection in the Capitol riot, but was not
convicted at the Senate trial last week.
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I have seen some of his televised statements and read some of his stuff. He has already decided on the outcome of the investigtion, now he just needs facts to back of his angle of attack. He is a borderline nutter.
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