Republican Rep. Devin Nunes said the precautions taken in Washington, D.C., to prevent potential attacks on government buildings is “narrative building” to portray Republicans as a “dangerous domestic terrorist threat.”
“This is all about narrative building. What they want to do is they want to label every conservative and Republican across this country as some type of dangerous domestic terrorist threat,” Nunes told Fox News’s Maria Bartiromo Sunday morning.
National Guard troops have been placed in the city since the siege of the Capitol on Jan. 6, with additional barbed-wire fencing erected around the Capitol for security.
“This is nothing compared to the threats we’ve seen over the last two decades since 9/11/2001 of radical Islamic potential attacks on the Capitol and the targeting of politicians and other government buildings,” Nunes added of whether he’s seen intelligence that warrants the kind of precautions taken.
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“So what this is really about, this is a Hollywood production scene. So nobody’s in Washington, D.C., you can’t find anybody, nobody’s on the streets, the restaurants are mostly closed,” he continued.
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Nunes said, however, the “narrative building” will “blow up” for Democrats.
“I don’t think this is going to work. It looks ridiculous. It looks worse than a third-world country. I’ve been to a lot of third world countries during my time in Congress, Maria. And to see this fencing, this razor wire, is completely absurd, when we’ve had over the past real serious threats that continue to this day in terms in terms of foreign intelligence looking at radical Islamic problems that we still face,” he said.
