The candidate of the Trump Bureau of Labor Statistics was an “ spectator ” outside Capitole on January 6, says the White House

The video speaks, which was also Archived by PropublicaAntoni watch moving away from the crowd on the west side of Capitol Groups. The tear gas was in the air, and the conservative radio host Alex Jones can be heard of a megaphone.

At that time, the police struggled to prevent the crowd from taking over the inauguration platform. The crowd had surrounded the building but had not yet entered the Capitol.

Other images show Antoni on the east side of the Capitol building, walking south, far from the building.

“These images show EJ Antoni, passers-by of the events of January 6, observing and then leaving the Capitol region,” said White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers, in a statement by email. “EJ was in town for meetings, and it is false and defamatory to suggest that EJ is committed to everything that is inappropriate or illegal.”

The investigation of the Ministry of Justice on the January 6 attack was the most important in its history, the prosecutors have traveled video evidence to identify and accuse the participants. The department mainly focused on the burden of people who have entered the Capitol building or who have engaged in aggravating behavior outside. During his first day in power, Trump ended the investigation into the attack on January 6, forgiven every 1,500 Capitol defendants and commissioned the sentences of others.

Trump dismissed the former BLS chief Erika Mcentarfer earlier this month, suggesting without evidence that she had “rigged” job reports for political purposes. The president then declared that he would appoint Antoni, a frequent guest in the “war room” of Steve Bannon, who has long criticized the BLS.

Antoni said in an interview with Fox News On August 4, before its appointment, that the agency should suspend the publication of the monthly employment report, rather published quarterly data until the reports are more “exact”.

Antoni must be confirmed by the Senate to take over the BLS.

While the Republicans control the room on January 6 caused problems for Trump’s candidates in the past. Trump withdrew his appointment from Ed Martin to take over the American prosecutor’s office for the Columbia district after Senator Thom Tillis, RN.C., said This past support from Martin for the participants of January 6 would be a break.