Two clips showed Sen. Josh Hawley running from rioters as they poured into the building, according to the committee.
While the videos drew laughter from the hearing’s audience in real time, the internet was just getting started. Within minutes and then for hours, people mercilessly roasted Hawley.Some set the videos to music — mostly songs with lyrics about running. Others dabbled in wordplay by creating a new term to describe what the junior senator from Missouri was doing: Hawlin’.
Aside from the brief burst of laughter, things remained somber at Thursday’s hearing. Rep. Elaine Luria introduced Hawley as the senator who, while passing protesters as he walked across the east side of the Capitol on Jan. 6, held up his fist in solidarity with them before entering the building.A U.S. Capitol police officer protecting the building reported to the committee that Hawley’s gesture “riled up the crowd,” Luria said, with a giant version of the fist-pump photo projected behind her.
But that safe space didn’t last, Luria said. “Later that day, Sen. Hawley fled after those protesters he helped to rile up stormed the Capitol.”The videos played. A three-second clip showed Hawley bounding down the halls of the Capitol, passing several officers, which Luria said the senator did to escape rioters flooding into the building. The committee replayed the footage in slow-mo for good measure.
Hawley has continued to make political hay — and money — out of the fist-pump picture. Hawley slapped a rendition of the image on several pieces of merchandise, along with the slogan “SHOW-ME STRONG!” — a reference to Missouri’s nickname, “the Show-Me State” — and began selling the items in February,Internet users keyed in on Luria’s juxtaposition of the fist-bump photo and the running videos to target Hawley.
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