It’s no secret and no surprise that the US Capitol rioters from 6 January last year have done themselves few favours in the intervening 12 months.
Yet the decision by some of them to call up the office of Nancy Pelosi on 7 January – after trashing it the previous day – to ask about items they’d left behind is certainly among the more jaw-droppingly baffling ones.
According to Jamie Raskin, Democratic Congressman from Maryland, though, that’s exactly what they did. He told Business Insider this week that police officers were scrambling to take the calls of people asking the day after the riots if there was a lost and found for their purses, phones, or other items left behind on 6 January during the insurrection.
“The officers quickly got on the phone and said, yeah, just give us your name, your address, your social [security number], you know, and we’ll tie up these loose ends.
“But what’s so fascinating to me about that there really were people who felt as if they had been summoned to Washington by the president,” he said.
Perhaps some of them should have asked about their marbles?
