President Donald Trump’s nominee to replace the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) head he fired this month was present in the militant right-wing mob outside of the Capitol on January 6, 2021, NBC has found .

Archived footage of the attack shows the nominee, E.J. Antoni, in the crowd on the west side of the Capitol about an hour after the mob dismantled the police barricades at 1 p.m. that afternoon, around the time when rioters were breaching the building.

NBC ’s Ryan J. Reilly reports that the footage appears to show Antoni leaving the area as rioters begin to breach police barricades, and that he does not enter the building. Footage from social media website Parler, archived by ProPublica , and released by the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight, also shows Anto

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