High-ranking company executives among employees being fired after participating in riot inside U.S. Capitol

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High-ranking executives among employees being fired after participating in riot inside U.S. Capitol

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Facebook Inc. FB, +2.33% banned Trump indefinitely and Canada-based Shopify Inc. SHOP, -0.71% closed online stores associated with Trump’s campaign and businesses. Publisher Simon & Schuster said it would drop a coming book by Sen. Josh Hawley, a key backer of Trump’s election claims. Dozens more executives and trade groups denounced the takeover of the Capitol and called for the removal of the president.

A number of companies said they fired employees who participated in the riot at the Capitol after seeing employees in photos and videos posted to social media. Goosehead Insurance said Thursday that Paul Davis, an associate general counsel, was no longer employed by the company. In an email to employees Thursday, Goosehead CEO Mark Jones said the company was “surprised and dismayed to learn that one of our employees, without our knowledge or support, participated in a violent demonstration at our nation’s capital yesterday.” A spokesman for Goosehead, a publicly traded company GSHD, +2.

iframe.twitter-tweet { width: 100% !important; } On an Instagram account, a user identified as Paul M. Davis wrote that he was “peacefully demonstrating” Wednesday. The account, public early on Thursday, is now private; Davis didn’t return a request for comment.Trump acknowledges loss to Biden for first time

 

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Only dumb asses got to a televised riot and then go to work like nothing ever happened.😆🤷🏾‍♂️😆🤷🏾‍♂️

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In other words, white supremacists are everywhere? The fact that this being reported as something unexpected is the problem.

Are 30,000 National Guard protecting the buildings and property or protecting the elected people inside them, that do not do what 'We the People' ask them to do?

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