Former Pennsylvania state Representative Rick Saccone was in the crowd storming the Capitol.
In a now-deleted video on his Facebook page, Saccone said "We're storming the Capitol. They broke down the gates. They're macing them up there. We're trying to run out all the evil people in there and all the RINOs that have betrayed our president. We're gonna run 'em out of their offices."
The caption that accompanied the video read “We are storming the capitol. Our vanguard has broken thru the barricades. We will save this nation. Are u with me?"
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Late Wednesday afternoon, Saccone posted another message to his Facebook page. It reads:
"I see some people are twisting the peaceful protest into something else. Everyone from our group was involved in peaceful, first amendment assembly. It was part of the metaphor to storm the castle so to speak. People that I heard breached some barricades to reach the steps to wave flags. Some carried a huge American flag up the steps which drew a loud roar of approval from the crowd. No one I no [sic] of intended or condones any violence unlike those on the left. Did not see any violence but did see some smoke what some said was tear gas being sprayed at people. I cannot imagine anyone being shot for a trespass. The punishment for trespass is not death. My heart goes out to the young lady who was shot. Again, these were hundreds of thousands of peaceful protestors, especially those from Pa. What do you think?"
In 2018, Saccone lost a close election to Democrat Conor Lamb in the old 18th Congressional District.