Ken Buck doesn’t blame president for deadly U.S. Capitol riot; Ed Perlmutter says “this is an inflection point” – By Jesse Paul (The Colorado Sun) / January 6 2021
All nine members of Colorado’s congressional delegation say they are safe
U.S. Rep. Ken Buck said he’d like President Donald Trump to address the nation and ask for an end to rioting Wednesday at the U.S. Capitol, but that he doesn’t blame the president for inciting the demonstrations.
“I was a prosecutor for 25 years. When people do stupid things, the people that do those things are responsible,” Buck told The Colorado Sun during a brief interview on Wednesday. “The president didn’t order anybody to do this. This is a country that welcomes protest — peaceful protest. I don’t blame the president at all for this.”
Buck, who is also chairman of the Colorado GOP, spoke to The Sun from a safe location that he and his staff had been evacuated to after Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol as federal lawmakers were set to sign off on the Electoral College results. Buck is the only one of the three Republicans in Colorado’s congressional delegation that wasn’t set to challenge the outcome of the November election even though he is a Trump supporter.
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