Rep Emanuel Cleaver alleged that he was spit on, saying that he was “walking into the Capitol to vote, when one protester spat on him.” Cleaver claims that the “man who spat on the Congressman was arrested, but the Congressman has chosen not to press charges. He has left the matter with the Capitol Police.”

This is a lie. The US Capitol Police arrested three people that day and not one of them was the elusive Spitman, so there was no chance for Cleaver to decline the pressing of charges. Cleaver could not even identify the spittle spatterer. Watch the video. There is a female police officer with Cleaver, who could have easily arrested the man who shared his lung cookie with Cleaver, but does not and is not asked to do so. The officer then appears to walk back the way she came, passing by the phlegm flinger who is still standing in the same place. Cleaver then returns, not with the female officer who had witnessed the “attack,” but with a male officer who could not have identified the loogie launcher if he had, well spit on him (by the way, what does this say about Cleaver’s attitude towards female law officers?). The two men then search for the arch villain while standing right in front of him. Hannibal Hocker continues to shout “Kill the bill!” while Cleaver looks over his shoulder, no doubt thinking, “Where could that rascally racist have gone?” Cleaver and the male officer then leave, dejected as Elmer Fudd, having failed to capture the criminal mastermind.

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