Normally, when picking people for top government positions that require Senate approval, such as BLS Commissioner, you don't also choose someone who rioted against your own government. But these are not normal times, are they?

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's pick to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics was among the crowd outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, with the White House saying he was a "bystander" who wandered over after seeing coverage on the news.

E.J. Antoni, an economist from the Heritage Foundation nominated by Trump this week, after the president fired the previous BLS head, appears in numerous videos posted on social media of the crowd on the Capitol grounds.

The footage shows Antoni approximately an hour after the mob removed police barricades. The footage appears t

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