Boebert Suggests Fireworks Instead of New ‘Stupid’ July 4th Tradition That Claire McCaskill Wants to Start By Watching NY Times Video of Jan. 6

Former Missouri Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill was a little full of herself yesterday while speaking with MSNBC about a Jan. 6 video compilation that was recently released by the New York Times.

In a clip shared by the Daily Caller, McCaskill claims that she is going to start a new tradition with her family on July 4th of watching the video.

“We’re going to start a new family tradition in my family: on the Fourth of July and every Fourth of July going forward, we’re going to watch that video the New York Times put together of January 6,” McCaskill explained.

U.S. House Rep Lauren Boebert (R-CO) quote tweeted the video from the Daily Caller and told McCaskill what she thought of the idea, calling the tradition “stupid” and suggesting fireworks instead.

Boebert said, “Claire, you can have whatever stupid tradition you want, we just want to see the 14,000 hours of footage the FBI won’t release to the public. Oh and fireworks.”

Claire, you can have whatever stupid tradition you want, we just want to see the 14,000 hours of footage the FBI won't release to the public. Oh and fireworks. 🇺🇲 https://t.co/pH4GXvZIRG

— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) July 3, 2021

Boebert wasn’t the only one to respond harshly to the video footage as one Twitter user showed the results of McCaskill’s losing election in 2018.

“I’m just gonna watch this,” Twitter user Steve Gold replied to the Daily Caller tweet.

I’m just gonna watch this pic.twitter.com/rOMemv07zf

— Steve Gold (@SteveGold88) July 2, 2021

In a tweet on Wednesday, when the video was released, McCaskill shared the link to it in a tweet and urged, “I beg you. Please watch this. And don’t forget.”

The video is titled, “Day of Rage: An In-Depth Look at How a Mob Stormed the Capitol.”

I beg you. Please watch this. And don’t forget.

Day of Rage: An In-Depth Look at How a Mob Stormed the Capitol – The New York Times https://t.co/mN66hMdJ5K

— Claire McCaskill (@clairecmc) June 30, 2021

As Breitbart reported, McCaskill also claimed that what happened on Jan. 6 was worse than the 2012 Benghazi attack.

From Breitbart:

McCaskill said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that she does not want to “minimize the loss of life in Benghazi” but argued the Capitol riot was “more foundation-shaking to our democracy.” She noted that Benghazi had numerous investigations and called into question why Republicans are refusing to investigate the riot the same way they did Benghazi.

“I have one word: Benghazi,” McCaskill said during a segment about the January 6 commission to investigate what happened at the Capitol. “Benghazi had, in the House alone, six investigations, including a select committee. And … if you compare and contrast, I don’t want to minimize the loss of life in Benghazi or the problems around the security of those locations. I don’t want to minimize that, but let’s compare and contrast those two events and which is more foundation-shaking to our democracy. I mean, the fact that the heart of our government was attacked and that these people were beating police officers — Americans were beating police officers at the heart of our government trying to protect the members — elected members of our democracy that carry out the functions of that democracy, it is astounding to me that these same people who pounded the podium for years on Benghazi, for years on Benghazi, are saying now saying, ‘What?! No. We don’t need to look at this. Let’s move along. Come on, let’s move along.’”

“McCarthy proudly said he was doing Benghazi to hurt Hillary Clinton’s numbers,” the MSNBC contributor continued. “It was obvious. It was such a brutal, bold political move. This doesn’t have to be. They’re making it political by refusing to come together and do what most Americans want, and that is find out what Trump did, why he didn’t do more, why the Pentagon wasn’t ready — all of the questions that still remain unanswered.”