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Introduction: Related topics on other pages: The road to tyranny is all downhill from here Violence and hate speech come from the left Those on the left tend to disregard the truth The stolen presidential election of 2020 Overview and recap articles: (Scroll down for timely news, or click here.) Stand With the January 6th Protestors. President Trump's intentions are clarified by his words and actions. Trump released a tweet on December 19, 2020, inviting supporters to a "Big protest in D.C. on January 6th." Approximately 120,000 people accepted his invitation. Trump spoke to those in attendance saying, "I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard." Many of the protestors walked to the Capitol building. Some deviated from Trump's instructions by attacking police and breaking windows to enter the building. The DoJ has charged 1,265 people with crimes related to the January 6th protest; 718 pled guilty to the charges, and 460 were locked up. Ashli Babbitt was shot and killed during the riot. Two others were killed under circumstances that suggest they were targeted by government security forces. Like the other protestors, they were unarmed and posed no serious threat to the police. Were the protestors of January 6th involved in an insurrection? They carried no guns into the Capitol building. They fired no shots. The State of the Coup. [Scroll down] The stage was set for detailed motions, prepared to be brought to the House floor, challenging the electors of the states in question, which would have triggered an actual investigation before Biden's "victory" could be certified. But before that could occur, elements of Capitol Police attacked a lawful and permitted assembly of protesters with rubber bullets and concussive tear gas grenades, fired into crowds that had been largely peaceful up to that point. Federal agent provocateurs tore down barriers and led a charge on one side of the Capitol, while police opened welcoming doors (only possible from within) to the gathered protesters on the other side. A grave threat to the congressional assembly was announced, so they adjourned and were hysterically evacuated. When they reconvened later, it was, by rule, an "emergency session," in which challenges to the electoral college went unregistered. Congress, told it had been attacked by the mob, preceded to confirm the votes presented by each state, giving Biden the Presidency. Critically, the intended challenges, by virtue of the timing of these events, were never made part of the permanent record. They were history, but rendered nonexistent in official governmental history, and thereby beyond referencing in further motions. [...] It is essential to note that Trump's requests, echoed by the Capitol police chief, to secure the Capitol with 20,000 National Guard troops were denied by both Pelosi and the mayor of Washington, D.C. This federally instigated calamity then served as the Reichstag fire that the Left had been waiting for. It presented an opportunity to blame Trump for inspiring an "insurrection" and gave the FBI and DoJ an excuse to go full Gestapo, SWAT teams were brutally employed to round up and imprison, sometimes indefinitely, anyone whose cell phone signature placed them in or near the Capitol on January 6th, 2021. The Anti-Democratic Democratic Left. The January 6, 2020, riot was a stupid and dangerous gambit. But the buffoonish act was certainly not an "insurrection" that justified militarizing the capital for weeks, stocking a congressional investigating committee with partisans, or using the day to permanently delegitimize the Trump candidacy. No one arrested was armed. Many of the rioters were let into the Capitol by law enforcement. And we now know that Trump actually did request 10,000 guardsmen to keep the peace, a fact covered up by the January 6 committee. Insurrectionists do not advise their partisans to march "peacefully and patriotically" to the Capitol. Of the five who died on January 6, four likely died from natural causes. The left spread a gargantuan lie that Capitol Officer Sicknick was killed by "insurrectionists." But in fact, he died the following day from natural causes. The left also suppressed news of the circumstances surrounding the one violent death of Trump protestor Ashli Babbitt — the unarmed military veteran who was lethally shot while entering a broken window. The name of the shooter, an officer of the Capitol police, in a first, was deliberately suppressed by the media for months. How
the Democrats and Media Enablers Censor News. For almost three years the extensive
videotapes of the J6 Capitol riot were kept hidden from the public. Now they are released and
people are closely examining them. What they show in clear relief is that the crowd of
thousands peacefully assembled for thirty minutes on the Capitol's West Plaza, and were brutally
and deliberately attacked for exercising their right to freely assemble. Here is the timeline
of the beginning of events there, and it is matched by videoframes of the event.
Timely news and commentary: Army secretary, Pentagon stymied National Guard on Jan. 6; inspector general covered it up, report says. The Pentagon dismissed an order from President Donald J. Trump to use the National Guard to ensure safety on Jan. 6, intentionally delayed Guard deployment for hours, lied about it to congressional leaders, and used its own inspector general to cover it all up, a U.S. House report concludes. After a two-year investigation, the Committee on House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight put the blame for failure to get National Guard troops to the U.S. Capitol on former Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy, two Pentagon Army generals, and Acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller. "Over the past 24 months of this investigation, my subcommittee staff have faced incredible obstacles in pursuit of the truth; missing and deleted documents, hidden evidence, unaccounted-for video footage, and uncooperative bureaucrats," said U.S. Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.), chairman of the subcommittee. Straining at gnats, swallowing camels. If, for some unfathomable reason, you were getting all your news from the Democrat Media Industrial Complex (DMIC) you would be missing at least half of what's going on, and the information you were getting would consist mostly of innuendo, half-truths, and complete fabrications. [...] The J6 story is one with very long legs. The DMIC has never, to my knowledge asked Kamala Harris why she went to the DNC headquarters that morning, rather than to the Capitol to oversee the counting of ballots which could make her the first female VP in American history. No one in the DMIC is asking why the FBI has been unable to locate the person who planted the bomb outside DNC headquarters, why they decided to scrub all the agent's phones afterwards or how many federal agents or assets were in the crowd at the Capitol that day. If you want to know what's important, look at the stories the DMIC doesn't report on. Liz Cheney Referred For Criminal Investigation For Witness Tampering Related to J6 'Star Witness' Cassidy Hutchinson. The Committee on House Administration's Subcommittee on Oversight Chairman Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) released a second report on the events surrounding January 6 as well his investigation into the weaponized J6 Committee on Tuesday. "This interim report reveals that there was not just one single cause for what happened at the U.S. Capitol on January 6; but it was a series of intelligence, security, and leadership failures at several levels and numerous entities," Loudermilk said. Loudermilk's report outlined criminal recommendations against J6 Committee co-chair Liz Cheney for witness tampering based on her communication with J6 'star witness' Cassidy Hutchinson. Now It's the Investigator Being Investigated: House GOP Concludes Liz Cheney Tampered With J6 Witness. It's always interesting when the investigator becomes the investigated. Such is the case with former Rep. Liz Cheney, who served as vice chair on the hyper-politicized Jan. 6 Committee and who often acted as more of an Adam Schiff clone than a Wyoming Republican. On Tuesday, the House Oversight Committee released its interim report on the J6 protests and concluded that A) the events were preventable and B) Cheney may have criminally tampered with a witness during the inquiry. Liberal ESPN Commentator Realizes January 6 Was an Inside Job After DOJ Reports 26 FBI Agents in the Crowd. Liberal ESPN host Stephen A. Smith highlighted the "bombshell" DOJ report during a podcast episode Sunday and ripped the Democrats for lying about January 6 and smearing anybody who suggested the FBI was involved as a "conspiracy theorist." "You know what I'm getting really pissed off about? I'm getting really ticked off that every time they open their mouth about something pertaining to y'all, they seem right!" Smith said of conservative commentators who he realized have been right all along. As The Gateway Pundit reported, Inspector General David Horowitz released his much-anticipated January 6 report on Thursday. In the IG report released last week, the DOJ admits to 26 "confidential human sources" (page 77) working that day inside the Trump protest at the US Capitol. The IG Report ignored how many "undercover employees" were also at the US Capitol that day. The FBI on J6. The Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the FBI issued a report last week that detailed at least 26 FBI Confidential Human Sources (CHSs) were present at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. There are limitations imposed on the OIG in an investigation like this. If the office found 26, there were likely more. The OIG's mandate is limited to interviewing current FBI employees only. If the FBI was working with Capitol police, and the Capitol police had a CHS, the OIG would not learn of or report on this because of lack of jurisdiction. The same with the CIA and other three-letter agencies. And, if agents were involved, all they had to do was retire or move to another agency to avoid investigation. The report does not detail the total number of agents that might have had information but fell out of purview. If you look at the report, you will see in the methodology who was not interviewed. The OIG could not interview anyone that was not currently employed by the FBI. For example, the report details at least David Bowdich, Jeff Sallet, John Brown, Terry Wade, and Stephen Laycock all declined to be interviewed. The Deafening Silence Over the J6 Pipe Bombs. The silence over the Jan. 6, 2021, pipe bomb incident is deafening. The radio silence on what we've been assured are "viable" pipe bombs planted outside the DNC and near the RNC on J6 continued in the Inspector General's report when he offered only a few treacly paragraphs on the issue. Keeping the pipe bomb issue on the DL raises the spidey senses of those who believe that the pipe bomb incidents, far from being a J6 sideshow, were a planned diversion by — who, exactly? — to stop the Electoral College counting when Republican senators were to be offering proof of shady ballot counting and calling for an audit of the 2020 election. Shocking and Disgusting Revelations Emerge About the USCP Officer Who Killed Ashli Babbitt. New, shocking revelations have emerged regarding the USCP officer who shot and killed Ashli Babbitt on January 6th, 2021. According to a new report, then-Lt. Michael Byrd, who claims to have saved "countless lives" that day, was paid tens of thousands of dollars in taxpayer money after the shooting and even demanded cash from a memorial fund meant for the families of slain officers. The report also reveals Byrd's long history of professional misconduct. Naturally, after a House Oversight subcommittee requested more information, the USCP claimed it could not find any records associated with the officer's disciplinary record. One Internal Affairs investigation involved him leaving his post to play cards. [...] According to sources, surveillance video proved that Byrd had committed the alleged breach of protocol. Instead of admitting to it, he ended up lying to investigators, leading to a recommendation that he be fired. USCP administrators never took action, though. 20
(or So) Obvious Questions about January 6. Even before Donald Trump ascends to the presidency
on January 20, his appointees should ask themselves the questions that follow — all of them simple
and straightforward. With Christopher Wray stepping down from the FBI directorship, they will have a
much better chance of getting straight answers quickly.
Jonathan Turley Questions Why J6 FBI Informants Weren't Charged While 1,500 Others Were Arrested. George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley, following the release of a new report, said Thursday that there were "more questions than answers" about FBI informants at the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the Capitol building. Hundreds of people stormed the Capitol building during the certification of the electoral votes on Jan. 6, 2021. The FBI made more than 1,500 arrests related to the riot, according to a report by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz. Turley said that the presence of informants who were not told to be there would be of interest to defense attorneys. DOJ Inspector General Reveals Details About FBI Informants and January 6. Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz released a report Thursday revealing the FBI used dozens of confidential human sources in the lead up to former President Donald Trump's speech at the Ellipse on January 6, 2021 and ahead of the congressional certification of the 2020 presidential election results at the U.S. Capitol. Horowitz also noted some of these sources were on the ground in Washington D.C. on January 6, but not authorized to enter the U.S. Capitol or to encourage attendees of Trump's rally to commit illegal acts. "Our review determined that none of these FBI CHSs was authorized by the FBI to enter the Capitol or a restricted area or to otherwise break the law on January 6, nor was any CHS directed by the FBI to encourage others to commit illegal acts on January 6," Horowitz' office released in a statement. Many informants illegally entered the U.S. Capitol anyway, but have not been charged. "None of the CHSs who entered the Capitol or a restricted area has been prosecuted to date," the report states. FBI had 26 informants at Jan. 6 Capitol riots — and most were involved, bombshell DOJ report confirms. The FBI had at least 26 confidential informants on the ground in Washington, DC, during the Jan. 6, 2021 storming of the Capitol — most of whom engaged in illegal activity during the chaos, the Justice Department's watchdog confirmed in a bombshell report. Leadership at the bureau had long been adamant that it did not have sources who "orchestrated" the riot. Questions about whether the FBI had informants involved in the riots were met with "conspiracy theory" labels by many mainstream media outlets. "If you're asking if the violence at the Capitol was part of some operation orchestrated by FBI sources or agents, the answer is no!" outgoing FBI director Christopher Wray told lawmakers back in July. Wray had long refused to divulge exactly how many informants were present that day. FBI Had 26 Confidential Human Sources At Jan. 6 Events In Washington, D.C.. More than two dozen confidential human sources (CHS) were in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, 2021, according to a new report the Justice Department inspector general released on Thursday [12/12/2024]. Twenty-six CHSs were present in total, and the inspector general said that 11 of these "entered the restricted area around the Capitol." At least one informant entered the Capitol amid the riot, and the FBI reimbursed that individual's travel expenses. While the Justice Department confirmed the FBI's deployment of confidential sources at events related to Jan. 6, the inspector general denied "any CHS [was] directed by the FBI to encourage others to commit illegal acts on January 6." Liz Cheney Whines Over Potential Consequences to Do With J6 'Unselect Committee'. From the start, the Select Committee on January 6 was rocked by problems, with perhaps no other member of that committee in as much trouble as now former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY). There's been chatter about criminal referrals for Cheney for months, especially since she is a former member of Congress, though it also came up once more earlier this week with President-elect Donald Trump weighing in during his "Meet the Press" interview with Kristen Welker. As was also mentioned, President Joe Biden is reportedly considering a preemptive pardon for Cheney and others. [Advertisement] During th[a]t interview, Trump reminded how involved in the Harris-Walz campaign that Cheney had been, noting he "thought it was a terrible move." Speaking of her role on what he referred to as "the unselect committee," and Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-MS), Trump referred to their actions of "inexcusable" when it comes to how "they deleted and destroyed all evidence of, that they found." He also brought up how Secret Service agents rebutted testimony from the committee's star witness, Cassy Hutchinson, though the driver was delayed from doing so. "They said it was total b···s···," Trump offered. "And all of this stuff came out. People lied so badly. Now, listen, this was a committee, a big deal. They lied. And what did they do? They deleted and destroyed a whole year and a half worth of testimony. Do you know that I can't get — I think those people committed a major crime." Nearly 4 Years Later, No Letup in Jan. 6 Prosecutions, Possible Pardons or Not. Even as President-elect Donald Trump promised on Sunday to act "very quickly" on pardons for many of the protesters involved in the events of January 6, the Biden administration's Justice Department is continuing to arrest and try people for actions that occurred almost four years ago while opposing motions to delay trials because of the need for "the prompt and efficient administration of justice." If the defeat of Kamala Harris constituted at least a partial repudiation of the lawfare against Trump and his supporters, the message appears to be lost on top brass at the DOJ. Prosecutors are pushing ahead with what they consider the department's crowning achievement: the so-called "Capitol Siege" investigation into the events of Jan. 6, 2021. In what Attorney General Merrick Garland describes as the biggest criminal investigation in Department of Justice history, more than 1,560 people have been charged for federal crimes never before used against political protesters, including under a post-Enron obstruction statute overturned by the Supreme Court in June. At least 1,000 of these defendants have been convicted — either at trial or by accepting plea offers — with some 650 defendants ordered to serve time in a federal prison. Sentences range from a few days in jail to up to 22 years as the DOJ seeks "terror enhancements" to tack on additional time. Liz Cheney Threatens Donald Trump's DOJ With 'Sanctions' If They Investigate Her. Liz Cheney threatened Donald Trump's incoming Department of Justice on Monday, claiming that any move to investigate the now-defunct January 6th committee would be "sanctionable conduct." The statement, put out in response to Trump's recent "Meet the Press" interview, also denied allegations that she and her colleagues destroyed evidence. [Advertisement] While speaking to NBC News' Kristen Welker, the president-elect said the following. "Cheney did something that's inexcusable, along with Thompson and the people on the un-select committee of political thugs and, you know, creeps," the President-elect said, referring to Mississippi Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (the committee's chairman). "They deleted and destroyed all evidence." That triggered Cheney, who lashed out, stating that Trump committed the "worst breach of our Constitution by any president in our nation's history." The Editor says... Liz Cheney, Accused of Destroying 117 January 6 Files, Says She Should Not Go to Jail. Liz Cheney, a former member of the partisan January 6 Committee, said Monday that she should not go to jail for allegedly destroying 117 of the panel's files. President-elect Donald Trump accused members of the partisan panel on Sunday of destroying committee evidence that he said exonerated him from allegations of wrongdoing. [Advertisement] The accusation came after Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA), who led the House Administration Committee's oversight investigation, said in January his computer forensic investigators discovered that 117 files went missing, presumably deleted or encrypted by the panel's members. [Advertisement] "It's obvious that [the J6 committee] went to great lengths to prevent Americans from seeing certain documents produced in their investigation," Loudermilk told Fox News. "It also appears that Bennie Thompson and Liz Cheney intended to obstruct our Subcommittee by failing to preserve critical information and videos as required by House rules." [Tweet] How Government Unions Won in Wisconsin by Stacking [the] Judicial Deck. Remember when impassioned protesters stormed a Capitol building and disrupted the democratic process? No, not the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. I'm talking about the pro-union one that stormed the Wisconsin state Capitol on Feb. 21, 2011. More than a decade ago, hundreds of protesters charged into and occupied the state Capitol in Madison, fighting against the enactment of Act 10, Wisconsin's sweeping and transformative labor reforms. Why Are Dems Appeasing the Cop Who Killed Ashli Babbitt? Incredibly, U.S. Capitol Police captain Michael Byrd, the cop who shot J6 protester Ashli Babbitt, appears to have been extorting the Democrats for favors, including a promotion. Even more incredibly, leading House Democrats have obliged him. Much of this bizarre saga Rep. Barry Lourdermilk (R-GA) has documented in a detailed letter to U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) chief Thomas Manger. What is undeniable is that Byrd shot and killed an unarmed woman of a different race. Undeniable, too, is that no police officer in recent memory has received anything like the treatment proffered to Byrd for a comparable shooting. Indeed, only in the DIE-infested miasma of the D.C. swamp does Byrd's story make any sense at all. In the way of background, Ashli Babbitt entered the Capitol alone on the Senate side through a broken window at 2:23 P.M. on January 6, 2021. Upon entering, Babbitt climbed over a velvet rope to honor the walking lane designated for visitors. She had less than 20 minutes left to live. You Might Have Missed It, But Ray Epps' Lawsuit Against Tucker Went Down In Flames. A federal judge dismissed a January 6th defendant's defamation lawsuit against Fox News and its former primetime TV anchor, Daily Caller co-founder Tucker Carlson on Wednesday. Delaware Federal District Court Judge, Jennifer Hall, ruled that Carlson's reporting on Epps was protected under the First Amendment because Epps' lawyers did not prove Carlson had acted with "actual malice." "For the reasons announced from the bench today, it is hereby ordered that Defendant's Motion to Dismiss for Failure to State a Claim is granted," Hall, a Biden appointee, wrote. Members of the corporate media claimed that Epps would win his lawsuit against Fox News and prove Carlson had acted with "actual malice" in his reporting on the Jan. 6 defendant, according to an MSNBC discussion on the defamation case led by former Republican National Committee chairman and MSNBC political analyst Michael Steele on July 16, 2023, following news of Epps' lawsuit. A J6 Testimony. I knew I was in trouble when the media accounts of J6 took the tone they did on J7. Nothing the media said matched with what I had seen myself. Skeptical of the media since 1980, even I was a bit surprised at how decisively the tone and anger and verbiage synched across channels. [...] Let's remember how Tucker Carlson got fired. He started showing clips from the video inside the Capitol on J6 — exposing how one Capitol Police officer was reported by media to have been murdered, yet the man was calmly seen making an inspection of the building three hours after he was supposed to have been beaten to death. Carlson also reported that the officer was calmly texting with his brother later that night, as other sources had reported. Tucker's famous last words were to the effect of "Tomorrow night, we'll go deeper into the [J6] video" to expose more lies that we had been told. He never did that show. It was reported that he was called into meetings and warned not to go down the J6 rabbit hole. Liberty Under Siege: The Largest Mass Surveillance Effort in American History. Before January 6th, 2021, financial surveillance in the United States was largely limited to a well-defined framework designed to combat money laundering and terrorism. [...] The U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary has exposed just how far-reaching this financial scrutiny has become. Their interim report revealed that federal agencies searched databases using terms like "MAGA" and "TRUMP" to identify potential threats. Activities once considered harmless — such as booking a hotel, buying a firearm, or possessing certain religious texts — are now deemed suspicious indicators. Notably, Bank of America handed over customer information for those who happened to be in Washington, D.C., during the week of January 6th, without a valid warrant, seemingly at the mere suggestion of federal agencies. Every person visiting D.C. during this time is now effectively on a federal terror watch list. Their purchases — be it firearms, ammunition, or Bibles — and their movements are now monitored in what is arguably the largest, most prolonged mass surveillance campaign aimed at a single political group in U.S. history. Michael Byrd, Ashli Babbitt, and the Lewis List: A Case of Institutional Hypocrisy. In the dark corridors of Washington, there exists a confidential mechanism known as the "Lewis list," maintained by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia. On paper, this list serves as an internal quality control — a catalog of law enforcement officers whose credibility has been compromised to such an extent that their testimony could threaten the integrity of prosecutions. The Lewis list was born out of the 1985 Lewis v. United States case, which stressed the need to ensure that officers with questionable integrity were not relied upon in criminal trials. Over the past decade, the list has reportedly influenced at least 20 cases, preventing tainted testimony from undermining justice. However, its mere existence unveils a troubling paradox: a justice system that must silently track its own compromised agents to protect itself from their tainted records. Recent credible reports from the U.S. Attorney's Office indicate that Lieutenant Michael Byrd of the U.S. Capitol Police, the officer who shot and killed Ashli Babbitt during the events of January 6th, may be on the Lewis list. If true, this suggests that Byrd's disciplinary record is far from trivial; it raises alarms significant enough for federal prosecutors to deem him too unreliable to testify in court. Report: Dems Pressured Capitol Police to Show Preferential Treatment to Officer Who Killed Ashli Babbitt. The United States Capitol Police officer who shot and killed Ashli Babbitt during the events at the Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, reportedly received preferential treatment from the law enforcement agency after Democrat lawmakers applied pressure. Internal emails reveal that House Democrats leaned on U.S. Capitol Police to provide extraordinary financial and professional support to Lt. Michael Byrd, the officer who fatally shot unarmed protester Ashli Babbitt, according to Just the News. [...] The benefits for Byrd included a $37,000 retention bonus, security upgrades, and assistance in raising over $164,000 through a GoFundMe campaign. This is far more than any other officer who was present at the protests received from the agency. Nevertheless, Byrd was not satisfied. Proud Boys Leader Enrique Tarrio Is Still Being Tortured in Prison by the Spiteful Biden Regime! The Dishonorable Judge Kelly's gavel came down with a thunderous bang, reverberating throughout the courtroom. It is September 6th, 2023. The Proud Boys are being sentenced in the DC Kangaroo Court. Biden's Department of Injustice asked the judge for Tarrio's head on a silver platter — a 33 year sentence. Tarrio's guilty verdict was their key to connecting Trump to the Proud Boys in his DC case. The judge gave Tarrio 22 years. Pardon All J6ers. I will leave it to others, including the great Miranda Devine, to detail how the decade-long international Biden family crime spree will end without legal accountability for those — including Joe himself — involved. Or explain how the pardon represents another lie told by "my word as a Biden" Joe or speculate that more pardons, perhaps for his brother Jim and every other relative who benefitted from the family's global grift, are in the making. Instead, I tip my hat to Joe Biden for laying the groundwork for President-elect Donald Trump to offer similarly-generous clemency to all January 6 defendants on Day One of his presidency. That's not to say Trump is not already considering such a plan — but Biden's claims that his own DOJ "selectively" and "unfairly" targeted his son will be delicious words for J6 pardon-detractors to eat when the time comes. So too will Biden's accusations that "raw politics has infected this process and it led to a miscarriage of justice." This from the man whose DOJ not only initiated two investigations into his predecessor, which led to an armed raid of Mar-a-Lago and historic federal criminal indictments against Trump and co-defendants, but whose DOJ also continues to investigate, arrest, prosecute, and imprison Americans involved in protesting the rigged 2020 presidential election. Judge Orders Fani Willis to Release All Communications with Jack Smith and J6 Committee. A judge ordered Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to release all communications with Jack Smith and the House January 6 Committee. Earlier this year conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch asked the Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia, for a default judgement against Fani Willis refusing to answer its open records request. "Defendant has not filed an answer and no answer has been served upon [Judicial Watch]. ... Defendant's answer was due 30 days after service, or on April 10, 2024. Pursuant to [Georgia law] the case automatically became in default when an answer was not filed by the due date. Further pursuant to that Code section, Defendant was permitted as a matter of right to open the default within 15 days of the day of default, or by April 25, 2024." Judicial Watch wrote in its motion earlier this year. "I think this is the first time in Judicial Watch's 30 years that a government official failed to answer an open records lawsuit in court," Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said. Why All the January 6 Defendants Deserve a Pardon. The events of January 6, 2021, left behind images of rioters storming the Capitol that shocked the world. While the breach itself was a pivotal moment, the aftermath will also have a lasting impact on the American psyche due to a series of legal and political maneuvers that have unjustly affected thousands of individuals. As the defendants await President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration on January 20 — hopeful for pardons — the current conversation revolves around who should be granted this relief. On Sunday, President Joe Biden pardoned his son, Hunter Biden, who had been convicted on gun charges and pled guilty to tax-related offenses. In the wake of this, former President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social, questioning whether Hunter Biden's pardon would extend to the January 6 defendants he described as "hostages." Donald Trump hints at mass pardons for Jan. 6 defendants after Biden pardons son Hunter. President-elect Donald Trump hinted at mass pardons for defendants tied to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot — with his team vowing he would also overhaul the "Democrat-controlled" Department of Justice — a little more than an hour after President Biden pardoned his son Hunter Sunday night. "Does the Pardon given by Joe to Hunter include the J-6 Hostages, who have now been imprisoned for years? Such an abuse and miscarriage of Justice!" Trump posted on Truth Social. The 45th president, who won back the White House last month, floated pardons during his campaign for the more than 1,500 defendants either still facing trials or those already convicted for breaching the Capitol as Congress was voting to certify Biden's 2020 election win over Trump. Criminal law Should be Inelastic. [Scroll down] In July the Court ruled that a president has absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for actions within his conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority. Moreover, he is entitled to at least presumptive immunity from prosecution for his official acts. Since then, we learned how factually weak the case was. For example, we learned what had previously been hidden — that he had in fact asked for the National Guard to be present on January 6 to prevent any possible rioting (as he had claimed) and that Pentagon leaders had deliberately delayed their deployment to the Capitol. (Something they concealed for over three years.) [...] So, not only did Trump ask that the demonstration be peaceful, he did everything in his power to keep it that way. That case should never have been brought, but in any fair adjudication should have been dismissed, unless you think that being a Republican deprives a president of a right to free speech. The fate of the J6 defendants is still being considered by the District of Columbia courts, but the Supreme Court's ruling in June of this year (Fischer v U.S.), makes clear the prosecutors erred in an overly expansive reading of the relevant criminal law. We don't want revenge, we want justice. Case in point: a story broke on November 27, 2024 concerning Michael Byrd, the Capitol Police (CP) officer who shot and killed Ashli Babbitt on January 6, 2021. Byrd has a checkered career in the CP. During the J6 demonstration he shot Ashli Babbitt, a small, unarmed female Air Force veteran in the neck, killing her. Byrd says that by shooting Babbitt he "saved countless lives". Babbitt was reportedly 5'2" tall and weighed around 110 lbs. He could've just pushed her down and sat on her. Did he not have a taser or pepper spray? The DOJ had previously cleared Byrd of criminal charges and he was subsequently promoted. House Oversight investigators have given the US Capitol Police until December 4, 2024 to turn over all records and devices used by Byrd from 1/1/21 through 1/1/24. Given the GOP's record of holding people accountable, I don't expect much. There are now roughly 800 Americans languishing in terrible conditions in jails for their actions on J6. The 6th Amendment states that, "In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial... by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed..." It's been four years. That's not speedy. The 5th Amendment assures us that "no person shall be ... deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law". Are these citizens receiving due process? The Pentagon betrayed America on January 6. I've long been writing about the most insurrectionary insurrection to ever have been insurrected by domestic terrorist, white supremacist, racist, Deplorable insurrectionists. I speak, of course, of January 6, the only insurrection in history to have featured noinsurrectionist guns, which ended after a few hours when the insurrectionists, who had no intention of overthrowing the government and no chance of succeeding even if they did, left of their own accord. Congress promptly finished its business and departed. A harrowing day it was, as only protestors were killed, though AOC and Kamla Harris were in deadly danger — nearly killed — despite AOC being in an entirely different building, and Harris being at DNC Headquarters. [Tweet] As time has passed, we've learned more about what actually happened that day. Donald Trump really did authorize 10,000 troops. Nancy Pelosi and DC's Mayor refused them. They were afraid of the "optics" of armed troops at the Capital, though those optics were no longer disturbing when armed troops and fences ringed the Capital for months thereafter. Judge dismisses Ray Epps defamation lawsuit against Fox News. A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed January 6 defendant Ray Epps' year-long defamation lawsuit against Fox News, ruling that Epps failed to "state a claim." Epps, who some conservatives had speculated was an undercover FBI agent sent by the bureau to stoke the January 6 riot in 2021, filed the lawsuit last year, claiming that an indictment from the Justice Department might not have surfaced against him if it wasn't for Fox's coverage. The January 6 defendant also argued that Fox News and former host Tucker Carlson engaged in a "years-long campaign spreading falsehoods about Epps." Those falsehoods, the original complaint alleged, had destroyed the lives of Epps and his wife, per NBC News. Judge takes stunning action in case of mysterious J6 activist Ray Epps against Fox News. After a two-day hearing, a federal judge tossed Ray Epps' defamation lawsuit against Fox News on Wednesday, saying he didn't provide enough facts to show that former host Tucker Carlson acted with "actual malice" when he insinuated that Epps may have been working with the government to provoke the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill uprising. The Hill reported Epps was "at the center of a conspiracy theory about what sparked" the events that day, when protesters objecting to what they perceived as unusual election procedures that gave the White House to Joe Biden eventually rioted. Epps, a former U.S. Marine, sued Fox claiming the network "knowingly" promoted what his lawyers claimed were "destructive conspiracy theories." Here Are the Seven Men Shot in the Head by Capitol Police on January 6, 2021 Without Warning. A new video was released recently depicting the seven men and Trump supporters who were shot in the head without warning by Capitol Police on January 6, 2021. According to earlier reports, Capitol Police Inspector Thomas Loyd Jr. ordered police to fire on the unsuspecting Trump supporters. There is now video that shows the Trump supporters were not acting violently and had no idea they police were about to start firing rubber bullets at their heads. David Sumrall, private investigator and founder of StopHate.com obtained all the footage of the Capitol "insurrection" at the start of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's unprecedented probe of Americans who protested the stolen election in the nation's Capitol on January 6, 2021. Tragic Ashli Babbitt and the buried Jan. 6 truth. So now we know that the cop who fatally shot unarmed Donald Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt, 36, during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot was rewarded with a promotion and a $36,000 bonus. There were no ill consequences for his rash actions that day. Instead, Capt. Michael Byrd, 56, was held up as a hero of democracy, despite the fact that he had a lengthy disciplinary record that includes leaving his loaded handgun in a public bathroom in the Capitol Visitor Center, "improperly" firing his gun at a car near his home while off duty and abusing a Maryland cop who tried to stop him entering a high school football field as a "racist a······," again while off duty, according to a letter released last week by the GOP-led House Administration Committee's Subcommittee on Oversight. Three entries in Byrd's internal affairs record are missing, wrote subcommittee Chairman Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) in a letter to Capitol Police Chief Thomas Manger. Treason: text and intent. Didn't much of the Harris/Biden Administration "prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States," particularly immigration law? Sure, but did they do it by force? One might argue that force applies to every effort, including lawsuits, cutting barriers erected by Texas, etc. to keep the law from being enforced, and the threat of force, imprisonment, etc. was always present for anyone trying to enforce immigration law, but again, that probably wouldn't work, though there was certainly one of the broadest conspiracies in history. This one didn't work for the DOJ for J6 either, where the worst insurrection ever featured no weapons, little damage and not the slightest possibility of destroying the government, though it did delay Congress for a few hours, which can only be counted a good thing. Report: Capitol Hill Police Chief Thomas Manger Is Falling Asleep at Meetings as Officers Discuss Security for Donald Trump at 2025 Inauguration. Tarik Johnson resigned from the US Capitol Police after more than 23 years of service after the events at our Capitol on January 6th. He previously appeared on Tucker Carlson Tonight on FOX News to tell portions of his story. Federal intel and law enforcement agencies knew about the warnings of a massive disturbance at the Capitol on Jan. 6, days before the event. But Speaker Pelosi refused to call in the National Guard days before the protests as President Trump requested. It was Pelosi who left the US Capitol vulnerable and put tens of thousands of Trump supporters in danger by her actions. Frontline officers on duty that day did not know anything about the threats. They were left in the dark. DOD 'Intentionally Delayed' National Guard Deployment To The Capitol On Jan. 6. Federal bureaucrats within the Department of Defense (DoD) delayed the deployment of the National Guard on Jan. 6, 2021 and covered it up, according to a House Republican investigation of government conduct related to the Capitol riot. On Thursday, Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., who is leading a review of the work completed by the partisan Jan. 6 probe run by then-Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, sent a letter to the inspector general for the Department of Defense demanding a correction to an agency report published in November 2021. "This report was the final product of the DoD IG's review into the events of January 6, and reviewed how the DoD responded to requests for support as the events unfolded," Loudermilk, the chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight for the House Administration Committee, wrote. "Throughout the Subcommittee's extensive investigation into the failures of January 6, 2021, we have discovered numerous flaws and inaccuracies in the report that your office has yet to appropriately address." J6 Shocker: Phone companies dispute FBI testimony on pipe bombs suspect, key lawmaker reveals. Cellular carriers have told Congress they possess intact phone usage data from the vicinity where two pipe bombs were planted during the Jan. 6 incident, directly disputing FBI testimony that agents couldn't identify a suspect because the phone data was corrupted, a key House chairman tells Just the News. The revelations from Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., the chairman of the House Administration oversight subcommittee, adds new intrigue to a debate that has gripped Washington for nearly four years: Why can't the FBI with so much evidence and manpower identify the suspect who planted the explosive devices at the Democrat and Republican Party headquarters hours before the Capitol was breached. "In the days and weeks following January 6, 2021, the FBI opened an investigation into the pipe bomber and attempted to identify the suspect by analyzing cell phone data linked to the area surrounding the RNC and DNC," Loudermilk told Just the News. Cop who fatally shot J6 protestor has lengthy disciplinary record that includes gun incidents. The Capitol Police officer who fatally shot Ashli Babbitt during the Jan. 6 riots and then was promoted has a lengthy internal affairs and disciplinary record that includes firearm-related incidents, a sweeping congressional investigation has found. The issues in Captain Michael Byrd's background included a failed shotgun qualification test, a failed FBI background check for a weapon's purchase, a 33-day suspension for a lost weapon and referral to Maryland state prosecutors for firing his gun at a stolen car fleeing his neighborhood, according to congressional and police documents obtained by Just the News. Byrd's record was uncovered during a larger House Administration Oversight Subcommittee investigation into the Capitol Police disciplinary process and was chronicled in a letter Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., the panel's chairman, sent Wednesday to the department's chief, Thomas Manger, in which the lawmaker expressed concerns about the officer's promotion to captain. J6 Bomb Case Takes Shocking New Twist as Phone Provider Disputes FBI Claim About Suspect. For nearly four years now, we have no answers regarding who planted pipe bombs outside the headquarters of both the Republican National Committee and Democratic National Committee in Washington, D.C., on the night of Jan. 5, 2021. The bombs did not go off and were a mostly forgotten part of the events of Jan. 6. Now, a new report indicates one of the reasons investigators are giving for why they can't find the perpetrator isn't accurate. [Advertisement] In a report by Just the News' Steven Richards and John Solomon published Wednesday, mobile phone providers say they have "intact phone usage data from the vicinity where two pipe bombs were planted during the Jan. 6 incident." The FBI has testified that one of the reasons a key suspect couldn't be identified was because of corrupted phone data. [Advertisement] Surveillance photo of the individual who allegedly planted the pipe bombs at the headquarters of each party's headquarters on the evening before the Capitol incursion has been in the public domain since March of 2021. [Tweet with video clip] Judges Postpone January 6 Trials After Trump Landslide Victory. Two federal judges postponed trials for January 6 defendants on Thursday after Trump won the 2024 presidential election in a landslide. Judges Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee and Rudolph Contreras, an Obama appointee, delayed the trials because they don't want to use resources if Trump is going to pardon J6ers as promised. According to the Justice Department, approximately 944 January 6 defendants — mostly peaceful first-time offenders — have received sentences for their activity at the US Capitol. Approximately 562 January 6 defendants have been sentenced to prison. Now is the right time in our country's history to release the JFK files. [Scroll down] As another example, the evidence is now overwhelming that January 6 was a devious plot to frame Trump and his supporters as insurrectionists. If you need some reminders: refusal to call in the National Guard; Capitol police inviting the Stop-the-Steal crowd in through unlocked Capitol building doors; symbolic gallows erected by a surreptitious group at the foot of the Capitol under the noses of the Capitol police and not removed until after J6; fake pipe bombs the FBI knew were fake; Ray Epps; fake narratives such as of J6 police deaths; ridiculously long prison sentences for Stop-the-Steal supporters for what was at worst unintentional trespassing; etc. Think of all the people — FBI officials and personnel, members of Congress (certainly Nancy Pelosi but many others too), Capitol police, etc., who had to know. How many have spoken out to date that it was indeed a plot? FBI winding down investigations of Jan. 6 that are still in pipeline, agency sources say. As Jan. 6 defendants anticipate pardons from President-elect Donald Trump, there are indications that the FBI is winding down any further investigations of the attack on the Capitol in 2021. According to sources at the FBI, Jan. 6 cases still being investigated "are dead." "They're not going anywhere. They're dead. They're going to be closed, because they still have some in the pipeline," an FBI source said. DOJ Rushing to Prosecute J6ers Before Trump Issues Pardons and Ends the Investigation. The Justice Department is reportedly narrowing its focus on prosecuting the most "egregious" offenders involved in the Jan. 6, 2021 protest at the U.S. Capitol building. Of particular concern are those who committed felony assaults on law enforcement officers, according to an NBC News report. This development comes after President-elect Donald Trump won the presidential election and prepares to take office in early 2025. The primary reason for the Justice Department's tighter focus is likely the possibility that Trump will pardon or commute the sentences of many of those who were arrested and are facing prosecution over Jan. 6. His victory has sparked optimism among the defendants and those supporting them. During the 2024 campaign, Trump promised to pardon those targeted by the state over the riot and protest. He has repeatedly referred to these individuals as "warriors," "unbelievable patriots," and political "hostages." Trump's victory has undoubtedly stirred up a level of unease among prosecutors who pretend the riot was a direct threat to democracy and wish to throw the book at as many people as they can over the matter. Deconstructing the Mythology of January 6. [Scroll down] Another major advocate for violence at the capitol on January 6 was Jayden X. His real name is Jonathan Sullivan. As a left-wing activist he made a name for himself in the George Floyd protest era of 2020 but made a specific purpose of misleading Trump supporters inside the capitol that he was on their side. He urged them to burn down the capitol: "we about to burn this s··· down," "we got to rip Trump out of office... f···ing pull him out of that s···... we ain't waiting until the next election we about to go get that m·····f·····." Sullivan then can be seen leading the crowd in a chant of, "it's time for a revolution." Before arriving in the Capitol, Sullivan said, "There are so many people. Let's go. This s··· is ours! F··· yeah, We accomplished this s···. We did this together. F··· yeah! We are all a part of this history," and "Let's burn this s··· down." Sullivan maintains that what he did that day misleading the protesters and inciting them to violence was the right thing to do. His incitements undoubtedly contributed to the killing of Ashli Babbit, which Sullivan filmed. Sullivan sold the snuff film for more than $90,000 to major media outlets such as NBC. His alias of JaydenX is built upon the false hagiography built by American intellectuals about what a profound afro-pessimist Malcolm X was and that the dreams of black Americans are best met in the unrealized violent fantasies of Malcolm X, killed too soon by the government. At his sentencing hearing in April of this year, Sullivan explained: "he bragged that he'd sought to "make those Trump supporters f··· s··· up." Fight! Fight! Fight! Vs. Fake, Fake, Fake. On January 6, 2021, tens of thousands of unarmed Americans protested for free and fair elections outside the Capitol, and Democrats have made sure Americans never forget that date. Corporate reporters have falsely called protesters "insurrectionists," "terrorists," and "violent extremists." Politicians have accused Trump's voters of trying to somehow overthrow the federal government without firing a shot. In contrast, an assassin kills one Trump-supporter, injures several others, and nearly takes President Trump's life, and the propaganda press acts as if it never happened. If that glaring inconsistency does not vividly demonstrate how fake the J6 "insurrection" narrative has been, nothing else can. It's not just about a squirrel. [Scroll down] This after four years of more uneven application of the law. For example, we've seen George Soros-backed district attorneys vow not to prosecute people for some crimes. Some of those are victimless crimes, which doesn't bother me, but it also includes things like shoplifting, which is anything but victimless. As a result, shoplifting got so bad and brazen in some places that many chains just shuttered locations because they couldn't make a profit. It wasn't all that long ago that we were locked in our homes and told we couldn't go to church, to school, to visit our dying family in the hospital, to do anything except for approved activities, and even then, there were rules we were forced to follow. All of that went out the window when a career criminal died at the hands of a police officer and mobs throughout the nation set fire to entire neighborhoods. At that point, the deadly virus that was akin to ebola and the Black Death really wasn't that bad and people should totally be fine with rioters destroying communities. Very few of them were arrested and even fewer were convicted over their actions during those riots. But then people went on an unguided, unapproved tour of the Capitol and suddenly it was a threat to the very republic. Is the Age of the Big Lie Over? No event in recent memory has spawned as many lies and as much mendacious reporting as the Capitol brouhaha on January 6, 2021. Indeed, citizen journalists and the alternative media are responsible for all honest reporting on this epic subject. Yes, all. No journalist has experienced January 6 quite as intimately as Steve Baker. He spent nearly two hours live streaming inside the Capitol on that fateful day and is now affiliated with Glenn Beck's "The Blaze." In the three years following January 6, Baker has reported fearlessly on the injustice being dished out in the D.C. courts. The DoJ noticed. On March 1, 2024, the FBI disregarded Baker's status as a journalist and arrested him on four misdemeanor charges. While ignoring Baker's arrest, if not applauding it, the legacy media have made a hero out of a man who personifies the era's mendacity, former Capitol police officer Harry Dunn. If there is any one individual who has ascended into the media stratosphere solely on the basis of a lie it is the shameless Officer Dunn. Unfortunately for Dunn, Baker's just released two-part documentary, "A Day in the Life of Harry Dunn," brings him crashing back to earth. Dunn's lies matter. They have made him the most celebrated hero of the Left's most celebrated event. Actually, The Democratic Party is Hitler. Insurrection was supposed to be established as fact by the House J-6 Committee, but it died of illegitimacy after destroying all its accumulated records last year, including documents in evidence and the videos of all the witnesses it deposed. Whoops. The Jack Smith prosecution in Judge Tanya Chutkan's DC Federal District court was a backup plan for that, but the July SCOTUS decision on presidential immunity has, so far, gummed up that ploy. Mr. Raskin would need a Democratic House majority to pass such a resolution, in any case, and it looks unlikely that he will have that. Biden-Harris DOJ Weaponizes Hundred-Year-Old Anti-KKK Law Against Conservatives. A law originally intended to protect black voters in the late 19th century is now a "powerful weapon" for the Biden administration to target its political opponents, one legal expert told the Caller. The law is often wielded by the Biden-Harris Department of Justice (DOJ) to target pro-lifers protesting abortion clinics, the Daily Caller first reported. Last year, the Conspiracy Against Rights charge was levied against Douglass Mackey for a 2016 social media post and former President Donald Trump over January 6. "I was not aware of the Biden-Harris DOJ's abuse of this harsh conspiracy against rights statute in these other contexts, but I am not surprised," Stephen Crampton, Senior Counsel with the Thomas More Society, told the Caller in a statement. Fact Check: Kamala Harris Claims Trump 'Sent an Armed Mob' to U.S. Capitol. Claim: Vice President Kamala Harris claimed that former President Donald Trump "sent an armed mob" to the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021. Verdict: False. While speaking from the Ellipse in Washington, DC, on Tuesday night, Harris delivered her closing statements. In her closing statement, Harris claimed that Trump had "sent an armed mob" to the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, though the riot had started even before Trump finished speaking. "We know who Donald Trump is," Harris told the crowd. "He is the person who stood at this very spot nearly four years ago and sent an armed mob to the United States Capitol to overturn the will of the people in a free and fair election. An election that he knew he lost." Harris's comments come as other Democrats, such as President Joe Biden have also claimed that Trump "encouraged" protesters to go to the Capitol. Google Could Identify the Jan. 6 Pipe Bomber Tomorrow If It Wanted To. We're approaching the four-year anniversary of the infamous January 6 pipe bomb case, and still the FBI pretends to be clueless as to the identity of the suspect. In this same span of time, Revolver News is proud to have broken countless stories regarding the pipe bomb case that overwhelmingly point toward a government cover-up involving the FBI, ATF, the Secret Service, Capitol Police, and even Kamala Harris herself. The evidence is so [damaging] that we have long referred to the January 6 pipe bombs as one of the two smoking guns of the Fedsurrection (the other smoking gun being Ray Epps). Our reporting has completely reshaped the national conversation not only about the pipe bomb but January 6 generally, and the reverberations continue to make their way to the top. Just recently, no less than Elon Musk (a confirmed reader of Revolver) expressed his view that the pipe bomb story is a hoax and that the identity of the bomber could very well be a secret government employee. 'Bob's Burgers' Voice Actor Sentenced to 1 Year for Jan. 6 Involvement. "Bob's Burgers" and "Arrested Development" actor Jay Johnston was sentenced on Oct. 28 to one year in prison for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, incident at the U.S. Capitol. The prosecution — U.S. Attorney General for the District of Columbia Matthew Graves — requested that the judge sentence the 56-year-old Los Angeles-based comedian to 18 months in prison based on his involvement in what Graves called a "violent attack that forced the interruption of the certification of the 2020 Electoral College vote count." In July, Johnston pleaded guilty to felony interfering with police officers during a civil disorder, which carries a maximum sentence of five years. Graves said that despite Johnston's participation, he continued to message family and friends claiming that the event at the Capitol was a set-up by law enforcement and Antifa and was "exaggerated by the media." Please Do Not Attempt Another 'Insurrection'. The right to peacefully protest is guaranteed by the Constitution, but any kind of public demonstration outside of the counting centers is fraught with risk, since it could easily be seized upon by the Biden-Harris administration for their own purposes. I think here of a possible reprise of Jan. 6, 2021, when President Trump advised his supporters thronging the Mall to go "peacefully and patriotically" to the Capitol to protest the election. We do not yet know how many agents and operatives had infiltrated the crowd around the Capitol in what some are calling a fedsurrection, but some say that agents provocateurs were inciting them to violence and urging them to enter the building. When the largely peaceful assembly stood fast, the Capitol police incited them further by firing flash bangs and rubber bullets into the packed mass. It was only at this point, urged on by Ray Epps and others, that they surged forward. We may expect that agents will be present in any crowds that gather outside of counting centers as well, whether these are in Maricopa County, Atlanta, Philadelphia, or Detroit. Handwriting Expert Says White House Lawyer Wrote Note Cassidy Hutchinson Took Credit For. A handwriting expert hired by House Republicans investigating the since disbanded Jan. 6 Committee said the panel's star witness was not the author of a note she took credit for at a congressional hearing two years ago. On Monday, journalist Julie Kelly published the conclusions of a graphologist commissioned to analyze the handwriting on a note displayed by Jan. 6 Select Committee Vice Chair Liz Cheney during the public appearance of former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson before the panel. The note in question included a proposed statement for then-President Donald Trump to issue as rioters descended on the U.S. Capitol. "That's a note that I wrote at the direction of the chief of staff on Jan. 6, likely around 3 o'clock," Hutchinson said under oath at a hearing of the Select Committee in June 2022. Authorship was immediately disputed by former Trump White House staff. "The handwritten note that Cassidy Hutchinson testified was written by her was in fact written by Eric Herschmann on January 6, 2021," a spokesperson for the former White House lawyer told ABC News at the time. 'Star Witness' Lied During J6 Committee Hearing, House GOP Finds. The House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight released a report on Monday that suggests that the Democrat-controlled January 6th Commission's "star witness," Cassidy Hutchinson, lied during a public hearing. The House Administration Subcommittee's Monday report was related to Hutchinson's June 28, 2022, testimony, when she said that she personally wrote a proposed Tweet on Jan. 6, 2021, for President Donald Trump to send advising rioters to leave the Capitol. The text of that proposed Tweet said, "ANYONE WHO ENTERED THE CAPITOL ILLEGALLY WITHOUT PROPER AUTHORITY SHOULD LEAVE IMMEDIATELY" — with the word ILLEGALLY scratched out. At the time, Hutchinson testified that she wrote the note as dictated by then-Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows and Eric Herschmann, one of the President's attorneys. However, Herschmann alleged that Hutchinson was lying, and that he was the one who wrote the note. [Tweet with video clip] It's the Great Reversal, Not the Great Reset. Not only have we experienced unprecedented unconstitutional abuse of government power exercised in response to COVID-19, 2020 election irregularities, and January 6, which has left our country in a state that has more in common with a banana republic than the constitutional republic that has defined us previously for some 230 years. Recent developments suggest that this could be a prelude to worse to come. The Dems vs. Free Speech. Citizens who felt that the 2020 presidential elections were unfair landed in the capital on January 6th, 2021, to have their voices heard. The protest did go overboard, as most protests do. So how did the state react? The protest, in which the demonstrators weren't even armed, was branded as an "insurrection." Many protestors were found guilty and were awarded draconian punishment. One of the protestors was sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment. Liz Cheney Under Fire for Allegedly Improper Contacts with Cassidy Hutchinson. Former J6 Committee Co-Chair and Rep. Liz Cheney has long been criticized for her role in creating a one-sided and at times erroneous record of what occurred on January 6th. That includes editing out Trump's call for supporters to protest "peacefully," burying evidence on Trump's offer to supply National Guard support for that day, and highlighting a false account of Trump in his presidential limo that was directly contradicted by witnesses. She now stands accused of unethically contacting a key represented witness to get her to change her testimony. In my view, ethical proceedings are unlikely after the disclosure of ex parte communications with former Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson. However, the evidence seemingly contradicts public accounts of how Hutchinson decided to fire her counsel and change her testimony. Hutchinson was represented by Stefan Passantino, who some clearly viewed as a stumbling block to getting Hutchinson to turn against Trump. Hutchinson would claim under oath that Passantino pressured her to stay "loyal" to Donald Trump and coached her responses to support Trump despite her conflicting accounts. Report: Liz Cheney colluded with anti-Trump witness Cassidy Hutchinson and helped her obtain a lawyer. House Administration's Subcommittee on Oversight just exposed how unethical and dirty the January 6th witch hunt was. The Kamala-loving "Republican" Liz Cheney is probably the dirtiest of all the Never Trumpers who used J6 to attack the Bad Orange Man. [...] Yeah, Liz knew communication with Hutchinson in private as a witness would be unethical. So she worked to make sure Hutchinson got an attorney so they could plausibly cover their tracks. Liz Cheney contacted controversial J6 witness on encrypted app behind lawyer's back, messages show. While vice chairwoman of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, former Rep. Liz Cheney used an encrypted phone app to directly and indirectly communicate around defense counsel — and possibly ethical rules — with a witness who would later change her testimony in shocking fashion, according to evidence obtained by congressional investigators and Just the News. Cheney's Signal communications with witness Cassidy Hutchinson on June 6, 2022 and her friend, Alyssa Farah Griffin, were recently obtained by Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., chairman of the House Administration oversight subcommittee that has identified significant problems with the original Democrat-run inquiry into the Jan. 6 incident. The communications are now raising fresh concerns about the ethical conduct of that Democrat-run investigation. Merrick Garland's Last-Minute Push to Corrupt the 2024 Election. Consider the following contrasting scenarios: [#1] Attorney General Merrick Garland is advancing a dead-letter indictment against Donald Trump in Washington related to the events of January 6 with a kitchen-sink 165-page "immunity" motion filled with retread accusations about the former president's conduct before and on that day. Special Counsel Jack Smith is expected to file another document this week in a desperate attempt to advance the January 6 narrative, an issue only of interest to the bloodthirsty base of the Democratic Party. [#2] Attorney General Merrick Garland is sitting on a bombshell report expected to reveal the number of FBI confidential human sources, known as informants, involved in January 6. The findings of a years-long internal investigation conducted by DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz are contained in a draft report recently submitted to Garland for review; Horowitz told Congress last month he does not expect the report to be released before Election Day. The dichotomy, of course, represents the latest example of the weaponization of the Justice Department at the same time Garland laughably insists no such thing is happening. 10-07-23: evil and civilization's thin veneer. We live in a very different time than the 1940s. It's a time when a minor riot at the Capitol, likely provoked by government operatives, a riot that ended peacefully in a few hours when the "insurrectionists" left of their own accord, has been sanctimoniously proclaimed "worse than Pearl Harbor," which was an actual act of war that killed more than 2400 Americans and wounded 1000 others. It was an insurrection that came within millimeters of overturning the US government, despite not a single "insurrectionist" carrying a gun, and despite the Capitol Police inviting them in, amicably chatting with them, even escorting and showing them around as they snapped photos of the statuary and themselves. It was an insurrection where numerous politicians like Kamala Harris and AOC claimed they were in imminent, deadly danger aand barely escaped with their lives, despite Harris being at DNC Headquarters and AOC being in an entirely different building, neither of which were ever occupied, or threatened. It was an insurrection where Congress, temporarily displaced, finished its business after the insurrectionists left without burning anything down, killing anyone, or taking hostages. The Insurrectionists, particularly Ashley Babbitt, weren't so lucky. Another Conspiracy Theory Bites the Dust. As I explained last week, Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz has not yet issued a report on the DOJ's role in the events of January 6. Horowitz announced on January 15, 2021 that he would conduct the inquiry; the DOJ is the only government agency that hasn't published the findings of an internal investigation. Now we know why. Or at least the official excuse. Horowitz informed the House Weaponization subcommittee on September 25 that he had paused his investigation for an unspecified amount of time so as to not interfere in the department's "ongoing criminal cases" into January 6. "We reinitiated it last year and I'm in the process of reviewing a draft report," Horowitz told Representative Thomas Massie (R-Ky) during a hearing on FBI retaliation against whistleblowers. Setting aside the dubious explanation — the DOJ's criminal investigation continues to this day with new arrests announced each week — Horowitz used the delay to explain why the report won't be released before Election Day. Trump in January. One clear reason the Jan. 6 prosecutorial cheerleaders are trying to hold on to a last shred of credibility is: what if they have to pull off a fake insurrection again? Can they count on the Antifa to whip it up? Will Congress have a leg to stand on? What if there is no Mike Pence to give them cover this time? What if the votes do go back to the states? What if the Republicans go belly up again? Alternatively, what if the Pentagon actually obeys its commander in chief and does provide legitimate security for the Congress and the crowd? What if the Congress is forced, this time, to follow the constitutional procedures it is charged with, in certifying the election if the votes have been tallied without prejudice? Government Source Confirms FBI Dirty Tricks With Key Jan 6 Pipe Bomb Footage as Cover-Up Unravels. Revolver News first started critically covering the January 6 pipe bomb story in March of 2021. Now, nearly three and a half years and several ground-breaking investigative reports later, the scandalous story of the January 6 pipe bombs is firmly established as one of the two major smoking guns of what we have come to call the Fedsurrection. As though this weren't significant enough, the pipe bomb story elevated still further in its significance with the release of surveillance footage of the discovery of the DNC bomb, overwhelmingly suggesting that Kamala Harris' Secret Service detail is at the very least in on the cover-up. Indeed, Kamala Harris' own refusal to acknowledge her narrow brush with the DNC pipe bomb seems to defy any innocent explanation (after all, shouldn't it be a key talking point of hers that she almost lost her life to terrorism on January 6?). Trump: the January 6 narrative crumbles. January 6. To hear those suffering from terminal Trump Derangement Syndrome, it was an insurrection — caused by Trump — worse than the Civil War, worse than Pearl Harbor, a horrendous, nation-shattering event. Poor Kamala Harris barely escaped with her life, despite being at DNC Headquarters at the time, where the surely fake bomb threat was unfolding. Even AOC was in mortal danger, despite being in an entirely different building. It was the insurrection where no insurrectionists brought guns, and the only deaths were protestors killed by the Capital Police. It was an insurrection where the insurrectionists were invited inside and escorted by Capital Police, where they comfortably chatted, took in the sights, took selfies and willingly left a few hours later and Congress completed its business. Even so, on January 6, "our democracy" hung by a thread. We know that because the report of the January 6 Committee said it was all Trump's fault. They could have issued that report before their first meeting, but what would have been the fun in that? Besides, all the on-air, Hollywood-scripted posturing was essential to Liz Cheney's election efforts, which resulted in one of the most epic defeats in American electoral history. Guest Column: DOJ Dusts Off Civil War-Era Statute to Replace 1512(c)(2). If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. That's what Attorney General Merrick Garland's Department of Justice (DOJ) is doing in their over-zealous prosecution of January 6 defendants. In June, the Supreme Court in United States v. Fischer effectively nuked hundreds of "obstruction" of Congress charges against January 6 defendants, ruling that a post-Enron statute, 18 U.S.C. §1512, designed to punish document destruction, did not apply to a Capitol Hill protest "gone wild." Nonetheless, obsessed with targeting Trump supporters, the DOJ is now charging multiple defendants with a Civil War-era statute — 18 U.S.C. §372 — which punishes (up to 6 years in prison) those who intimidate "officers of the United States" from their posts. The DOJ charges that J6ers conspired to chase Members of Congress from Capitol Hill in violation of Section 372. Once again, the DOJ is unfairly prosecuting J6ers under a statute that does not apply to their conduct. Wife of American Patriot and Marine Corps Captain Chris Kuehne Delivers Shocking Update. US Veteran and American Patriot Chris Kuehne entered prison last week as a political prisoner of the outlaw Biden-Harris regime. Chris sent a video to The Gateway Pundit on his way into prison. [Video clip] President Trump's Directives to Pentagon Leadership to "Keep January 6 Safe" Were Deliberately Ignored. Many are aware that the January 06, 2021, US Capital protest events, supposed pipe bombs, and associated claims have been weaponized and propagandized to support the narrative that President Donald Trump himself was and is an insurrectionist. The contrived narrative of this event and associated misleading video footage have been highly edited and manipulated — essentially a form of "cheap fake" PsyOp propaganda. [...] Selectively edited video and a wide range of manipulated "leaks" and press releases were used by the J6 committee to develop and reinforce this narrative. And then there was the lawfare and unconstitutional violations of due process involved in the political sham trials, convictions, and over-the-top sentencing of a wide range of individuals who, at most, had committed misdemeanors. So it should come as no surprise that, when the Republican-controlled House convened investigations into these matters (Committee on House Administration's Subcommittee on Oversight), it was revealed that there was a wide range of lies, withholding of information, and promoted false narratives. Yet still the Mockingbird corporate media persisted with their lies and misrepresentations, and continued to support the promoted narrative of President Trump being an insurrectionist. Hey, this election is not about your precious feelings! [Scroll down] Camp 2 of Against-Trump voters are those who sincerely believe he's a "threat to democracy." I have a bit less respect for those voters because I think they're being melodramatic rather than analytic. [...] As for the threat Trump poses to democracy, Camp 2 points to Trump's action and inaction on Jan. 6, 2021. Indeed, it was not his finest hour. But the notion that we almost lost the Republic that day — to a hooligan in a buffalo-horn hat and his unarmed sidekicks who made a ruckus and swiped some souvenirs from the Capitol Building — is overblown, at best. Note that the Supreme Court ultimately decided that the gross offenders were grossly overcharged by the Democrat prosecutors, and the Court threw out the most serious charges. Were FBI Informants Among J6 Crowd? Biden DOJ Won't Deny It. Republican Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) grilled Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz over claims that FBI informants were among the crowd on January 6, 2021. Horowitz was questioned about his report, which has taken nearly four years and won't be released before the election, before the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. The report will include the number of FBI informants who participated in the J6 protest, which Horowitz claimed he had "not made such finding." However, he did not deny it either. "Do you have evidence of the number of confidential human sources that were operating on the Capitol grounds on Jan. 6?" Massie asked. "Our report will include the information in that regard," Horowitz replied. Massie continued to grill Horowitz, asking him if there were more than 100 undercover officials among the crowd, which Horowitz refused to answer. "I'm not in a position to say that, both because it is in draft form and we have not gone through the classification review," Horowitz said. "And so I need to be careful." FBI Agent Caught Red-Handed Stealing From J6 Defendants During Raids. A former FBI agent has admitted to stealing personal property while conducting search warrants related to January 6 defendants, raising questions about corruption within the federal agency. Nicholas Anthony Williams, 37, from Houston, Texas, confessed to stealing nearly $10,000 in cash and silver bars from multiple residences during raids from March 2022 to July 2023. Williams, a special agent assigned to both the criminal violent gang and counterterrorism squads in the FBI's Houston office since 2019, exploited his official position to take valuable items, according to court documents. The plea agreement revealed that Williams used the stolen money for personal purchases, including firearms, and attempted to sell the stolen silver bars to others. How the Pentagon Betrayed President Trump on January 6. [Scroll down] January 6, of course, proved to be a Reichstag moment, but in precisely the opposite way Milley suggested. Democratic Party leadership responded to the riot much the way the Nazi leadership responded to the Reichstag fire, namely using an event of ambiguous origin as pretext to suppress speech and imprison its political opponents. For the Democrats, Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans served the role that Jews and communists did for the Nazis. With the perpetrators identified, all investigations for the next two years would be tailored to defame the accused and exculpate the complicit. By the evening of January 6, the Reichstag narrative had been set. Said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to her filmmaker daughter Alexandra, "I just feel sick with what he did to the Capitol and to the country today. He's got to pay a price for that." The "he," of course, was Donald Trump. For the following two years, the left controlled the White House, Congress, the media, and the D.C. courts. That control enabled them to shoehorn all evidence into their pre-set narrative. Ashli Babbitt case judge sets trial for $30 million wrongful death claim. A trial date has been scheduled on July 20, 2026, for a case triggered by shooting death, by a police officer, of Ashli Babbitt, one of the protesters who went to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to protest the decision by Congress to legitimize the presidential election victory for Joe Biden. Michael Byrd, then an officer with the U.S. Capitol Police, shot and killed her while she was inside the building. His fatal attack came, apparently, with no warning or notice. Government watchdog Judicial Watch is helping in the case, on behalf of Babbitt's husband, Aaron. The Silent Insurrection: General Milley's Hand on January 6. In the days and weeks leading up to January 6, the nation's highest-ranking military officer, then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley, was moving in lockstep with the political anxieties of top Democratic leaders. These Democrats grew anxious as over 140 House Republicans planned to contest the election results during the electoral college certification that day. Milley was then deeply engaged with a circle of confidants including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, former Obama National Security Advisor Susan Rice, and former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, among others — all of whom shared a unified disdain for President Donald Trump. At a House Oversight Committee hearing in April addressing the 3-hour and 19-minute delay in mobilizing the D.C. National Guard on January 6, Colonel Earl Matthews, one of four Department of Defense witnesses, testified about an "irrational" fear among a "clique" of senior military officers concerning the potential misuse of the National Guard by the president. General Milley Ignored Trump Order to Deploy Nat. Guard at US Capitol Prior to Jan. 6. Shocking new details were released by Republicans on the House Oversight Committee on Friday of US military brass ignoring President Trump's request for security on January 6th. President Trump knew there would be a massive crowd of Americans at the planned rallies outside the US Capitol and at the Ellipse that day. So, Trump ordered the National Guard to be deployed to the US Capitol prior to the planned protests on January 6. The newly surfaced transcripts, which were previously concealed, reveal the truth that many in the mainstream media have ignored. The Democrats Defraud the Voters With A Little Help From Their Friends. The MSM often fails to report news unfavorable to the Democrat party, so most people are unaware of the administration's censorship program. The MSM's refusal to report such news results in Americans having vastly different views depending on their media sources, greatly inflaming our divisions. When reporting on January 6, the MSM always excludes Trump's admonition to his supporters to march to the Capitol "peacefully and patriotically and make your voices heard." Trump never mentioned violence, nor did he call on his supporters to enter the Capitol building. The MSM hides that others, who were never punished, were the ones who exhorted the protestors to enter the Capitol. Leftists Deserve the J6 Treatment. Even though Trump correctly believed (and still does believe) that the 2020 election was rigged in Biden's favor (mail-in ballots stuffed into unsecured drop boxes in the dead of night, the use of Zuckerbucks to increase ballot collection in Democrat neighborhoods, and the Intelligence Community's efforts to defraud the American people with regard to Hunter Biden's "laptop from Hell" all amply support this conclusion), he left office as legally required on January 20. Trump never called for violence against Joe Biden or the U.S. government. He never urged Americans to revolt against their country. Even on January 6 — the half-day of protest that leftist pundits and politicians say was worse than 9/11 and the Civil War combined — President Trump calmly urged his supporters "to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard." In other words, he defended his First Amendment right to speak his mind and the First Amendment right of all Americans to speak theirs — but he never, ever called for violence against his political enemies. What You Don't Know Might Surprise You. [In the debate between Trump and Harris,] everything she said was disingenuous or an outright lie. One whopper — more significant than you might realize — was her stating that she was in the US Capitol building when the J-6 riot happened. You'd think she'd want to be on-hand there, seeing as a joint session of Congress was about to certify her as the first female veep in US history — a chance to be joyful and shine! But, in fact, at 11:15 a.m. on 1/6/21 — hours before protesters breached the Capitol — Kamala Harris was spirited away a few blocks to 430 South Capitol Street, the headquarters building of the Democratic National Committee, where a pipe bomb (or facsimile of one) had been planted hours before by some DC law enforcement person (Capitol police? FBI? DC Metro Police? A paid "contractor" to the preceding outfits?). The exact identity of the culprit has never been released by the FBI, though they have all the perp's cell phone data and closed circuit TV footage. DOJ Is Dropping Nearly Half of the J6 Obstruction Charges. The Supreme Court's ruling in Fischer v. United States was expected to have far-reaching implications. Now we are seeing those play out. In late June, SCOTUS handed down a ruling regarding the requisite elements of one of the statutory charges the Department of Justice brought against many of the January 6 defendants. As Ship noted, while at first blush, the decision was a win for J6 defendants, there was reason to exercise caution — on remand, the DOJ could come back and try a second bite at the apple with more refined framing of the charge. (They've yet to do so in Fischer, for what it's worth.) But there's been movement on the issue — both from the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals and from the DOJ itself — in a promising direction. On September 9, the D.C. Circuit vacated the convictions of 11 J6 defendants under § 1512(c)(2), including that of Guy Reffitt, who was convicted by a jury in March 2022. Eight Primary Forces That Threaten America Today. [#2] Eroding Rights of the Individual: Our Constitution was specifically designed to protect individual citizens from the government. But that protection is rapidly eroding as Democrats seek to expand the power of the government and control of citizens' lives and money. Nothing is more telling than the Soviet style years-long imprisonment and in some cases torture of J6 protestors, many of whom were barely guilty of trespassing, normally an extremely minor misdemeanor. AG Garland Refuses to 'Quibble' Over Ruined Lives. On Friday, August 30, I received an email from an entity known as Corrlnks. The email read, "This is a system generated message informing you that the above-named person is a federal person in custody who seeks to add you to his/her contact list for exchanging electronic messages." The above-named person is Sara Carpenter, a medically retired NYPD officer who in December had been sentenced to 22 months in prison and 24 months of supervised release for her innocuous role in the largely peaceful protest at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. I was sad to see this. Of the eight surviving women I profile in my book, Ashli: The Untold Story of the Women of January 6, Sara was the last one to be incarcerated. She left behind an adolescent son and a life in ruins. The month she spent at Ground Zero in September 2001 counted for naught in the DoJ's cruel calculus. To Attorney General Merrick Garland, Sara Carpenter was literally just a number. Debunking Kamala's Biggest Lies That the ABC News Moderators Let Slide. January 6: "And on that day, the president of the United States incited a violent mob to attack our nation's Capitol, to desecrate our nation's Capitol. On that day, 140 law enforcement officers were injured. And some died." FACT-CHECK: False. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick died in the hospital the next day and not by a fire extinguisher to the head, as falsely claimed by multiple mainstream media outlets. His official cause of death was two strokes, occurring many hours after the Capitol riot. According to the DC medical examiner's office's report, Sicknick suffered no injuries, internal or external. He also didn't have a reaction to bear spray, which national news outlets had fallen back on, claiming that the mace used by the rioters caused the officer's pair of strokes. Specifically, Sicknick succumbed to "acute brainstem and cerebellar infarcts due to acute basilar artery thrombosis," the coroner said. This sounds like the treatment given to some of the January 6 bystanders: Dan Bongino Reveals New Explosive Whistleblower Claims on January 6 Pipe Bomber. Former Secret Service Agent Dan Bongino said a whistleblower has come forward to him with new information on the January 6 'pipe bomber.' Dan Bongino said according to the whistleblower, after the pipe bombs were found at the RNC and DNC headquarters, "assets on the ground, including a whistleblower, was briefed about the pipe bombs the next day and show a picture of a guy in a hoodie." However, according to the whistleblower, the law enforcement agents were told to stand down two days later. "But two days later after the pipe bombs, he notes, emphasis his — without explanation, they were told to stand down! No need to look for the guy anymore" Bongino said. 72-Yr-Old 'Jan 6 Praying Grandma' Gets Largest Ever Fine. Rebecca Lavrenz, known as the "J6 Praying Grandma," has been sentenced to 12 months of probation, including six months of house arrest, and ordered to pay the largest misdemeanor fine in U.S. history for her involvement in the January 6th Capitol protests, The National Pulse can report. Lavrenz, 72, was found guilty of four federal misdemeanor charges related to her participation in the protest against the certification of the 2020 presidential election results, which amounted to walking into an open door at the U.S. Capitol and praying in the tourist areas. In his sentencing memo, Biden-Harris U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves opined that because Lavrenz had pointed out the political persecution of J6ers, she should be considered "unrepentant" in her "promotion of the riot." That, Graves laughably claims, "is powerful evidence that she continues to pose a threat to future acts of political violence." Praying Great-Grandma Sentenced! DOJ Orders Peaceful, God-loving 72-Year-Old To Pay $103K And Orders Half Year House Arrest. On Monday, in yet another affront to America's justice system, the Department of Justice sentenced a 72-year-old woman to a half year house arrest, with restrictions on her internet use, 12 month probation, and a $103,000 fine. Rebecca Lavrenz, who is known as the "J6 praying grandma," never committed a violent crime, let alone a felony. Before January 6th, 2021, she had a squeaky-clean record without so much as a speeding ticket. Now, she is, in the blistering words of the government, "a threat to future acts of political violence like that which engulfed the nation on January 6." Despite that ominous rhetoric, it's unclear — even with having read the Government's recently issued Sentencing Memo several times over thoroughly — just, what, precisely, she did. All told, her nightmarish ordeal and story represents just the latest in a series of never-ending assaults on innocent Americans by an increasingly weaponized and corrupted system of justice, which has ruthlessly targeted those overwhelmingly peaceful demonstrators who appeared at the Capitol on January 6th, 2021, making a mockery of the rule of law and due process ever since. January 6 Show Trials Now Represent The Gravest Injustice In U.S. History. Every student of the First Amendment knows about the infamous Alien and Sedition Acts, the Palmer Raids of World War I, the persecution of the Chicago 7, crackdowns on anti-war movements, and the FBI's infamous COINTELPRO abuses and surveillance of Martin Luther King and the Black Panthers. But the single greatest mass infringement on fundamental First Amendment freedoms is happening right now. And the civil liberties establishment, which rakes in millions annually parroting the civil rights talking points of the 1970s, has turned its back on the greatest mass political persecution in American legal history: the railroading of January 6 defendants. As these words are written, the US District Court for DC is approaching a grim milestone. Sometime in the next few weeks, a total of a thousand years of prison time will have been handed out to J6ers. January 6 injustices are eclipsing all other American legal disgraces of the past. Praying
Grandma Gets Arrested. [Synopsis from the National Constitutional Law Union]
["]A good portion of America has heard the story of Rebecca Lavrenz, the 72-year-old
great-grandmother and faithful Christian who entered the Capital building with a group
for several minutes, caused no harm, and left when she was asked. Through my organization,
NCLU, I represented Rebecca in her legal battle against the Biden/Harris justice department, and
all I can say is that the outcome floored me. [...] In the sentencing, Judge Zia Faruqui made
several charged statements, including, "I don't know why being the J6 Praying Grandmother is more
important than being an actual Grandmother." He then said, "Your faith is being misplaced
right now." Faruqui, a member of the Board of Advisors of Muslim American Public Service,
took shots at Rebecca's Christian faith which is not appropriate in any setting.["]
The Editor says... This article in Newsweek is replete with half-truths and bias: Bongino: When This Story Breaks, It'll Be The Biggest Scandal In DC's History. In a recent segment on Fox News, host Jesse Watters and Arizona Representative Eli Crane expressed strong criticism of the FBI's latest announcement concerning the ongoing investigation into the January 6 pipe bomber. [Tweet] The segment highlighted their skepticism about the lack of substantive updates and questioned the agency's credibility in light of its past actions. During the broadcast, Watters questioned the effectiveness of the FBI's recent press briefing, where new photographs of the suspect's possessions were shared. "Tell me about this FBI announcement today they came out, they did a big dog and pony show, gave us some photos of the gun, the backpack and the air conditioning unit. Did you really learn that much from what was announced today?" Watters asked, implying the superficial nature of the update. [...] This segment on Fox News not only questioned the recent FBI announcement but also hinted at deeper issues within the organization that might affect its future credibility and operations. Evidence Mounts for Kamala Role in J6 Plot. [Scroll down] Here, for instance, is an example of Harris's duplicitousness excerpted from her convention speech. "[Trump] sent an armed mob to the U.S. Capitol, where they assaulted law enforcement officers." For starters, the mob was conspicuously unarmed. Of course, too, Trump encouraged the crowd at his speech to march "over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard." And finally, the crowd at the Ellipse where Trump spoke did not reach the Capitol until at least an hour after the Capitol was breached. In her defense, Harris might say Trump did tell his crowd to go to the Capitol. If not with guns, some were armed with flag poles and the like, and a few probably did mix it up with the police. Together, however, these half-truths amount to a conscious misrepresentation of Trump's role on January 6. Garland Makes An Example Of J6 Protesters To Shut Up Anyone Else Who Might Question Elections. Attorney General Merrick Garland boasted on Friday how his office has prosecuted nearly 1,500 Americans for protesting the 2020 election, warning others they may face similar lawfare should they raise any concerns about the administration of the upcoming November election. Speaking at a press briefing, Garland essentially said the Jan. 6 prosecutions should serve to remind Americans what happens if they raise questions about an election. "I think our prosecutions have made clear what we think about people who try to interfere with the peaceful transfer of power, which is [an] essential and fundamental element of our democracy. A quibble about whether we have 1,500 or slightly less than 1,500 — but we have way more than 1400 now — prosecutions. We have a substantial number of convictions," Garland boasted. Suspect was across the street from Capitol Police squad car while walking to Jan. 5 bomb drop, video shows. A Capitol Police squad car with its emergency lights on was parked directly across the street at the time a hoodie-clad suspect allegedly carrying a pipe bomb walked down the alley toward the rear of the Republican National Committee building, Blaze News has learned. Video never before disclosed or made public shows the pipe-bomb suspect bathed in the red and blue squad-car lights on Jan. 5, 2021, just as he or she walked to place the explosive device. The footage was discovered by social media user "Armitas" (@accabbat on X),who provided it exclusively to Blaze News. An individual with similar dress to the suspected pipe bomber who emerged from the same alley minutes later was unrelated to the bombing case, according to congressional investigators who have access to a camera angle that has not been made public. AG Merrick Garland Brags About J6 Prosecutions and Issues a Veiled Threat Regarding Upcoming Elections. During a press conference at the Department of Justice on Friday to deliver remarks about a DOJ lawsuit against a property software management company, RealPage, AG Merrick Garland issued a veiled threat regarding the upcoming 2024 General Election. A man in the audience, presumably press, took the opportunity to ask Garland about the transfer of power during the upcoming election. The man mentioned that "prosecutors and judges" in DC are apparently expressing increasing "concerns about the upcoming transfer of power and potential danger of another January 6." He asked Garland if he shares those concerns, to which Garland responds: "I think our prosecutions have made clear what we think about people who try to interfere with the peaceful transfer of power, which is an essential and fundamental element of our democracy. I quibble about whether we have 1500 or slightly less than 1500, but we have way more than 1400 now, prosecutions." 14 Lies Kamala Harris Told During Her DNC Speech. [#1] Vice President Kamala Harris falsely claimed that Donald Trump "sent an armed mob to the U.S. Capitol" on Jan. 6[,] 2021, and further accused the former president of "fann[ing] the flames" after "politicians in his own party begged him to call off the mob and send help." That is false. During his J6 speech, Trump specifically telegraphed to protestors to "peacefully and patriotically make [their] voices heard." Trump also released a video calling for peace during the riot and had previously sought to deploy thousands of National Guard members to the Capitol ahead of the demonstrations. J6 Prisoner for 3+ Years With No Trial Gets News That Feds Aren't Done Torturing Him. More than three years after Jake Lang was locked up in the D.C. gulag and moved around to multiple prisons to make it difficult for his attorneys to find him, the January 6 protester now faces new charges. However, he hasn't faced trial yet for the first round of charges against him. Lang has been awaiting trial for his activities on January 6, 2021, while locked up for three-plus years. During his years in prison, Lang has been put in solitary confinement and "the hole" multiple times. He's kept his head up, led efforts to get aid to other January 6 defendants including financial help, and been a party to a case, Fischer v. United States, that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. And it's that last bit of information about SCOTUS that has angered U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves and the other D.C. prosecutors who easily snuck a ridiculous Sarbanes-Oxley charge of interference with an official proceeding past the black-robed robots who rubber-stamped the prosecution. Another Suspicious Moment in DNC Pipe Bomb Mystery. One reason the public should remain highly suspicious about the circumstances surrounding the so-called "pipe bombs" discovered on January 6 is the national media's collective disinterest in the matter. Major news outlets, including those with full time J6 beat reporters, have completely ignored the shocking findings recently confirmed by DHS Inspector General Joseph Cuffari related to the Secret Service's role in the events of January 6. Cuffari determined Kamala Harris, the incoming vice president and U.S. Senator at the time and now Democratic candidate for president, came within 20 feet of the alleged explosive when she inexplicably left the Capitol at 11:22 a.m. to visit the Democratic National Committee headquarters instead of staying behind to relish her history-making moment. New Video Appears to Show DC Police Units Planting a J6 Pipe Bomb. One of the great mysteries about the January 6, 2021, events is the lack of curiosity by the FBI about who planted the pipe bombs at the DNC and RNC headquarters. Amid all of the available CCTV video and surveillance technology exploited by the justice department, their transparent unwillingness to identify the pipe bomber has always been a dog that did not bark. The Occam's Razor explanation for why DC and federal law enforcement have been incurious, points to law enforcement actually planting the bombs. New CCTV video seems to show exactly that. New CCTV Footage Seems To Show DC Police Planting The Pipe Bomb On Jan 6th. Newly discovered video appears to justify the belief that the DNC "pipe bomb" scare was part of an inside job perhaps orchestrated by law enforcement or others to initiate panic in Washington on January 6. This video, captured by a security camera outside the DNC building, shows an officer with Harris's detail exit a DC Metro Police SUV at 12:51 p.m. The officer, carrying a bag of some sort, points toward and then walks in the direction of where the second pipe bomb was "found" just outside the building. (For unknown reasons, no video is available for the bench area that day.) How Much Longer Can Media Ignore OIG Report Confirming Kamala's Secret Service's Role in Pipe Bomb Hoax? Nearly a week ago, we ran a bombshell piece based on the DHS' Office of Inspector General (OIG) Report that turned out to confirm numerous aspects of our ground-breaking coverage on the January 6 pipe bomb hoax, including new information indicating that Kamala Harris' own Secret Service detail at the very least participated in a cover-up of this hoax. Likely on account of its utterly damning and inconvenient contents, the OIG report had been assiduously suppressed at the orders of the highly corrupt and political DHS head, Alexander Mayorkas, of open borders fame. In fact, at the time that we published our own expose based on this report, the report was still non-public. Days later, the report became public for all to see, confirming our reporting on its contents and then some. [...] Amazingly, the media has responded to the release of this report with near total silence, a near complete blacklist of coverage. In fact, the media blackout is so startling that one wonders why DHS head Mayorkas bothered suppressing the report for so long in the first place. FBI's 4-Acre Geofence Dragnet at the US Capitol on Jan. 6 Violated Fourth Amendment, Defense Attorneys Contend. The FBI's "alarming" use of general warrants to scoop up the private location data of the devices of thousands of people on Jan. 6, 2021, was a violation of the Fourth Amendment that enabled an illegal four-acre dragnet to generate criminal charges without probable cause, defense attorneys argue in federal court filings. In the wake of the protests and violence at the U.S. Capitol, the FBI served search warrants on technology giant Google Inc. and telecommunication companies, including AT&T. The warrants sought to determine who was in and around the Capitol during the hours of unrest and rioting, court filings indicate. Unlike other common uses of search warrants — served against specific individuals or for specified things — general warrants seek the identity of potential defendants first, with the alleged crimes coming later, defense attorneys say. Trump Was Right about the Size of the Crowd on January 6, 2021. The legacy media is having meltdown over something Trump said in his press conference on August 8th. He claimed the crowd attending the January 6, 2021 rally was larger than the one that gathered for Martin Luther King's speech on August 28, 1963. [...] On January 6, 2021 there was not only an ever-growing crowd congregating at the Capitol, primarily at the West Front, but there was a mammoth gathering at the Ellipse, about two miles away, listening to Trump's speech. When the speech was over the mass of humanity that was at the Ellipse began walking up the Mall and Constitution Avenue toward the Capitol. It was a surreal sight, as I was at the Capitol looking down the Mall. As this massive crowd slowly arrived at the Capitol grounds, it stretched from the Grant Memorial in front of the Capitol to the Natural History Museum, slightly more than halfway between the Ellipse and the Capitol, a distance of perhaps a mile or so. NY Judge Slaps AG Garland, Federal Bureau Of Prisons With Complaint. U.S. District Court Judge Rachel P. Kovner, presiding over J6 hostage Ryan Samsel's pro se case for emergency medical treatment, ordered the United States Marshals Service to serve the defendants the massive complaint Samsel filed in the Eastern District of New York showcasing how the federal government is playing political football with his life. Samsel sued U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons, the U.S. Marshals Service, the Metropolitan Detention Center, and the Washington Treatment Correctional Facility on July 19 in the Eastern District of New York, in two separate lawsuits. Watergate(s) on Steroids. AP reported, "More than 1,230 people have been charged with federal crimes in the [January 6] riot, ranging from misdemeanor offenses like trespassing to felonies like assaulting police officers and seditious conspiracy. Roughly 730 people have pleaded guilty to charges, while another roughly 170 have been convicted of at least one charge at a trial decided by a judge or a jury, according to an Associated Press database." That's more than twice the number of people who were at the Capitol, where protesters previously faced no more than an arrest and a dismissal of the case. This sounds familiar: Ashli Babbitt $30 Million Wrongful Death Suit Hearing Set for August 6. Judicial Watch, a nonprofit American conservative activist group, announced Monday that a hearing has been set for Tuesday, August 6, in the Ashli Babbitt $30 million wrongful death suit filed on behalf of her estate. Babbit was shot and killed by a Capitol Police officer during the Jan. 6 protests. Judicial Watch posted to Twitter/X Monday and said Babbitt and her family "deserve accountability and justice": [Tweet] Secret Service Whistleblower: Management Took His Phone and Wiped All Texts/Emails Related to January 6. A Secret Service whistleblower has come forward with information about the agency's behind-the-scenes cover-up job related to January 6. The Department of Homeland Security Inspector General on Friday released a highly redacted report that revealed the Biden-Harris DHS stonewalled its investigation into January 6. In July 2022, the Department of Homeland Security's watchdog opened a criminal investigation into the Secret Service's 'deletion' of January 6 text messages. The Secret Service told the January 6 Committee that it has no new text messages related to the Capitol protest after it turned over documents and data. Thoughts in the Clouds of War. In America, the January 6th hostages demonstrate the degree of hatred there exists for patriots of all colors. This is made all the more clear when Palestinian protestors do immeasurably more damage and harm to the capitol, shut down the legislature and if arrested at all, are set free within 48 hours. Many of the January 6th hostages languish in prison under the worst conditions, many of whom caused no destruction or behaved in aggressive or hostile ways other than being patriots and acting on their First Amendment rights. Testimony Of January 6 Star Witness Refuted By New Witness: Report. More testimony against former President Donald Trump has been refuted. Cassidy Hutchinson, a star witness for the January 6 Committee and a former aide to ex-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, claimed under oath that she heard Tony Ornato, who was the head of presidential security, say the former president lunged for the steering wheel of his limo to head back to the Capitol during the riot. But now a new witness who was interviewed by the Department of Homeland Security's Office of the Inspector General has said that that never happened, The Daily Caller reported. "We also interviewed [redacted] Secret Service agents in the limousine with the President. The limousine driver said that the President was angry when his request to go to the Capitol was denied, whereas the President's detail lead, who was seated in front of the President, said he did not recall if the President was angry," the report said. "We asked [redacted] agents whether the President reached for the steering wheel or lunged toward the detail lead when his request to go to the Capitol was denied, and [redacted] witnesses said those actions did not occur." Trump Did Not Lunge For Limo Steering Wheel On Jan 6, Witnesses Tell Inspector General. Former President Donald Trump did not attempt to grab the steering wheel of a presidential limousine on Jan. 6, as was suggested by a star witness of the Jan. 6 Committee, according to witnesses interviewed by the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG). Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to ex-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, testified to the Jan. 6 Committee in 2022 that she heard from presidential security official Tony Ornato that Trump had lunged for the wheel of "the Beast" after being informed that he was going back to the White House rather than to the Capitol on that day. However, witnesses who were inside the vehicle and interviewed for a DHS OIG report examining the Secret Service's response to Jan. 6 said that Trump made no such move. Blocked OIG Report Confirms Kamala's Secret Service Role in Jan 6 Pipe Bomb Cover-Up. Revolver News has for several years been at the forefront of exposing the RNC and DNC pipe bomb hoax as one of the key smoking guns of the January 6 insurrection. Recent events have elevated the significance of our reporting to still loftier heights, as a result of national attention on the Secret Service in the aftermath of the Butler, PA, assassination attempt on Donald Trump and increased attention on Kamala Harris in light of her becoming the presumptive Democrat nominee for President. As our reporting has highlighted in damning and multifaceted detail, both Kamala Harris and the Secret Service are directly relevant to the pipe bomb hoax. Now, based on conversations with several individuals with direct knowledge of the DHS Office of Inspector General's report on the Secret Service's activities on January 6, we can confirm definitively that Kamala's Secret Service detail played an immediate and direct role in the cover-up of the DNC pipe bomb hoax on January 6th. Kamalagate: The Harris Deception That Doomed Dozens of J6ers. [UCLA student Christian] Secor's alleged offenses, argued Assistant U.S. Attorney Kimberly Paschall, "from him pushing on a crowd of people to breach the Rotunda door to sitting atop the Senate dais in the chair occupied minutes before by Vice President Mike Pence," merited pre-trial detention. [...] At roughly 2:20 p.m., twenty minutes after protestors first entered the building, [Kamala] Harris was "evacuated" from her chamber. Where she went Paschall did not specify, but, she claimed, Harris "remained within the Capitol building" until the certification process resumed at 8 p.m. Secor's case was not unique. Harris's presence at the Capitol remained part of the judicial boilerplate for nearly a year. Countless other J6 defendants had their sentences affected for having breached Harris's space. Not until November 4, 2021, did Politico reveal that Harris was never "evacuated." In fact, she was not in the Capitol or on the Capitol grounds on January 6 at any time during the protest. The consequences of Harris's silence on this issue were far reaching. According to Politico, "Many of the 650-plus defendants" arrested to that point faced charges that they, like Secor, had threatened her space. Pelosi's top security aides got warning about Capitol breach night before Jan. 6 riot, memos show. Two top House security aides under then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi got stark warnings from police the night before the Jan. 6 riots that protesters might try to breach the U.S. Capitol through its tunnel systems and block lawmakers from voting to certify Joe Biden's presidential election win, according to newly obtained memos and text messages. The documents obtained by Just the News also confirm that Pelosi's team played a role in the botched security planning for that fateful day. "We have identified numerous open source comments indicating groups intentions of finding the tunnel entrances and confronting/blocking the MOCs (Members of Congress)," Capitol Police Deputy Chief Sean Gallagher wrote Deputy House Sergeant at Arms Tim Blodgett at 8:55 p.m. on Jan. 5, 2021 in an email that got forwarded less than an hour later to Blodgett's boss, then-Sergeant at Arms Paul Irving. After Losing in the Supreme Court the DOJ Looks to be Doubling Down By Filing New Felony Charges Against January 6 Defendants. To recap briefly — for more than three years DOJ used 18 U.S.C. Sec. 1512(c)(2) as its "felony of choice" for any January 6 defendant who did not engage in a violent felony assault on a law enforcement officer. That statute made it a crime to "corruptly obstruct" a congressional proceeding such as the counting of Electoral Votes on January 6. That statute carried a potential maximum sentence of 20 years, and the manner in which the Sentencing Guidelines treated the offense left most convicted January 6 defendants facing three to five years in prison, even if they engaged in no violent conduct. The application of that statute was contested repeatedly by hundreds of defendants who filed motions to dismiss. Every district judge denied those motions and endorsed the manner in which DOJ was charging the crime for conduct on January 6 — every judge except one. That judge agreed with the defense argument that the language of that statute suggested a much narrower factual scenario for it to apply, and that it was not correct to use it in a "dragnet" fashion for any act that "obstructed" a congressional proceeding such as was being done by the DOJ. After that single judge was reversed by the Court of Appeals, defendant Joseph Fischer took his case to the Supreme Court where, on July 26, the Court ruled that the defendants and the lone judge had it right all along, and DOJ and every other district judge had gotten the issue wrong. No One Knows Where the J6 Gallows Came From. Committee on House Administration's Subcommittee on Oversight Chairman Barry Loudermilk (GA-11) wrote United States Capitol Police (USCP) Chief J. Thomas Manger to request records and information relating to USCP's investigation into the gallows assembled on the Capitol Grounds on January 6, 2021. That was a major tool of the J6 panel. It was constantly used to suggest Trump supporters were planning to hang Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi. "Since January 6, 2021, photos and videos of the gallows have been widely circulated and featured prominently by the Democrats' January 6 Select Committee and even by President Biden in his short-lived reelection campaign," Loudermilk wrote. "Despite this, there are very few answers as to who is responsible for the gallows' construction. The individuals captured on CCTV have never been identified, and it remains a mystery why the gallows were allowed to be assembled and stay in place for such a long time." Why Did Chris Wray Get So Triggered When Asked if There Were Any Confidential Human Sources at J6? Chris Wray got really triggered when Victoria Spartz asked him a very simple and straight forward question: She asked Wray if he could confirm there were no confidential human sources at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Wray became enraged, triggered and snarled back at Spartz, not even denying her question. Just pure anger. [Tweet with video clip] J6 Political Prisoner John Strand Released From Prison. The tremendous impact of SCOTUS' historic Fischer v. USA ruling last month is being felt across the Nation as politically persecuted J6 defendants advance closer toward justice. On Wednesday, July 24, 2024, AFLDS Creative Director John Strand was released from prison after his Second Motion for Release Pending Appeal was granted by United States District Judge Christopher Cooper. His release comes after the High Court ruled last month that the DOJ misused and inappropriately charged January 6 defendants with "obstruction of an official proceeding." Strand was originally sentenced to 32 months of incarceration. He endured a horrific and grueling year-long prison term for four misdemeanor charges that were wielded against him. Democracy is Under Attack, But Not By Trump. What [the Democrats] refer to as "election denialism" is actually a manipulation of the accurate term, which is election integrity preservation. A president takes an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. When allegations of election fraud arise, as they did after the 2020 election, the president has an obligation to ensure nothing nefarious occurred and, if it did, to seek appropriate remedies. This alleged "election denialism" ties into January 6th, where they claim Trump "incited an insurrection." The First Amendment enumerates the right of Americans to peacefully protest. Trump's calls for his supporters to "peacefully and patriotically make their voices heard" align perfectly with the Constitution and negate the insurrection label, which is defined as "a violent uprising against an authority or government." [...] Silencing and suppressing dissent or investigation in the wake of potential interference with America's sacred elections is the most blatant attack on democracy there is. As a result, many peaceful protesters of the 2020 election who were in the crowd on January 6th have had their 8th Amendment rights, which protect Americans from cruel and unusual punishment, utterly violated, as many continue to rot in prisons to this day. It's Hoaxes All the Way Down. From the Steele Dossier to "safe and effective," everything we are fed by the mainstream media is built on some hoax or another. January 6th, for instance, was not an insurrection. Not one person can provide a reasonable scenario in which a riot at the Capitol building would result in Donald Trump remaining president. Forget all the other obvious flaws to the theory. Just provide a scenario in which the rioters getting into the building could, under ANY conceivable circumstances, result in the replacement of our government or the peaceful transfer of power. I am waiting and will wait forever. As Scott Adams has said many times, you don't overthrow a government by delaying the filing of paperwork at a ceremony. And that is the most the riot could accomplish. A Decade of Conspiracists? January 6 was a buffoonish riot. In magnitude and lethality, it marked only a fraction of the destruction in lives and property of the green-lit Antifa-BLM-organized 120-day "summer of love" of rioting, violence, and arson of 2020. The post facto militarization of Washington into an armed camp, the presence of FBI informants on Capitol grounds, the decision not to beef up security forces, the weird effort to suppress videos of the riot and congressional testimonies and evidence, the promotion and canonization of the reckless officer Byrd who lethally shot an unarmed Ashli Babbitt, and the use of solitary confinement for the arrested, long detentions without trials, and inordinately harsh prison sentences (in comparison to the nearly 14,000 arrested in 2020 who were mostly released) will remain controversial until freedom of information suits release the full story of the day's events and aftermath. Republicans or Democrats, conservatives or liberals — who is 'extreme?'. Democrats claim Trump was responsible for Jan. 6 even though he urged his supporters to demonstrate "peacefully and patriotically" and offered thousands of National Guardsmen to protect the Capitol prior to that date. (Nancy Pelosi turned him down. Curious.) Now they won't accept responsibility for Trump's attempted assassination even though they have been calling him (and his supporters) Nazis/fascists/Hitler/extremists/domestic terrorists/far-right/deplorables/etc. for years on end. That is who they are. Kamala Harris Is Hiding Something Big Involving January 6, Pipe Bombs, and the Secret Service. [T]he recent spotlight on Vice President Kamala Harris invites renewed attention to perhaps the darkest and most [scathing] question surrounding the entire Fedsurrection lie: why, against all seeming political interest, would Kamala neglect to mention the fact that she was in the DNC building when the pipe bomb was discovered and removed? Indeed, given how desperate the Democrats have been to hype up January 6th into a "domestic terror" event, to the point of outright fabricating stories to fit this tortured thesis, why would Kamala Harris (or Biden) not publicize the fact that she nearly lost her life to the ostensible MAGA pipe bomb? Put another way, why is Kamala Harris' narrow brush with the DNC pipe bomb not the Democrats' top January 6 talking point rather than its most carefully guarded secret? To this day, Kamala Harris refuses to publicly acknowledge her presence in the DNC building! Trump's Resilience And The Inevitable Endpoint of Democrat Politics. The last time Republicans were given a proverbial punch in the face — the stolen 2020 election — what did they do? They protested in Washington, and almost all of them were doing so peacefully, as Trump had implored them to. Unfortunately, Democrats conspired to leave the Capitol largely unguarded and then decried the GOP when the predictable chaos ensued after police and agents incited a riot by firing stun grenades and rubber bullets into the peaceful crowd. This, of course, was labeled an "insurrection," but it was nothing of the sort. Whatever it was, it was not equivalent to the Democrats' 2020 Summer of Love, with burning cities, widespread violence, and murders of innocent people. That's simply not the Republican way. The bottom line is that Democrats think we live in a democracy, while Republicans — for the most part — understand we live in a republic. The former is the hallmark of tyranny of men, while the latter defines a nation based on freedom and rights guaranteed by a constitution. The 'Through Line' from Ashli Babbitt to Donald Trump. At the sight of a boisterous crowd on the far side of the lobby doors, Byrd panicked. Without a word of warning, he shot and killed unarmed Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt the moment she squeezed her 110-pound body into a broken window frame. Within a minute of the shooting Babbitt, the frightened Byrd made an astonishing radio call: ["]405B. We got shots fired in the lobby. We got shots shots fired in the lobby of the House Chamber. Shots are being fired at us and we're sh, uhh, prepared to fire back at them. We have guns drawn. Please don't leave that end. Don't leave that end.["] Byrd's, of course, was the only shot fired that day. No police officers were killed or serious injured. No members of Congress or staff were molested. In clearing Byrd of criminal action, Biden's DoJ insulted him, arguing that "fear, mistake, panic, misperception, negligence, or even poor judgment" do not elevate a police shooting to the level of crime. Like the Democrats in Congress, Byrd had fallen prey to the media scare stories about the MAGA hordes. As he would later tell NBC's Lester Holt, "I know that day I saved countless lives," and he seemed to actually believe what he was saying. Federal judge orders release of John Strand from Jan. 6 prison term. John Strand, a former model and actor who went to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 to protect Dr. Simone Gold of America's Frontline Doctors, was ordered released from prison July 15 in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court decision stymieing use of a 20-year felony obstruction charge. United States District Judge Christopher Cooper granted Strand's second motion for release since February — just weeks after a Supreme Court ruling strictly limited the obstruction of an official proceeding charge leveled against Strand and 354 other Jan. 6 defendants. Gold, Strand's friend who served a 60-day prison sentence on a misdemeanor count of entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds, praised Strand's integrity after learning of the release order. Clapper and the Spooks — Enemies Foreign and Domestic. According to the corporate media, Democrats, and a handful of Trump-deranged Republicans, January 6 was an "insurrection" on par with the Holocaust, World War II, or 9/11. Except that on Jan. 6, 2021, President Donald Trump was the government. Was he trying to overthrow himself when he told his rally audience to "peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard"? How much of this "insurrection" was instigated and carried out by federal agents? What role did Mitch McConnell and Nancy Pelosi play? So many questions and so little curiosity from the media and the Jan. 6 "committee." What about another insurrection that is being dutifully ignored? And who are these insurrectionists? Insurrections and the Leviathan State. For the past four years, we have been constantly reminded of "the insurrection," a brief moment on January 6, 2021 when a couple hundred unarmed people — some of them demonstrators, some of them FBI plants, some of them tourists going with the flow — were let into the United States Capitol without gallery tickets, and have been prosecuted and vilified for it ever since. They weren't politicians or soldiers; they didn't try to take over the government. So, whatever they may have been, they most certainly did not constitute an "insurrection." That being said, however, that doesn't mean that there hasn't been an insurrection in the United States. [...] On January 6, 2021, following months of coordinated decisions by partisan and/or corrupted judges to dismiss legitimate suits concerning credible proof of election fraud, the Democrat leadership of Congress cut short the constitutionally mandated one-by-one consideration of the several states' electoral college count under the supervision of the Vice President, the last chance to stop an illegitimate transfer of power in the executive branch, claiming that a group of unarmed tourists forced them to flee one of the most potentially securable public buildings in America, intentionally allowing that last possible safeguard to be skipped. About that 'insurrection'.... Democrats and their media toadies like to characterize "MAGA" types as crazed, gun-owning and gun-toting neanderthals of the "far right." They frequently state or imply that these folks own every type of firearm imaginable, from pistols to shotguns to rifles to AR-15s. They say guns should be banned because otherwise these gun-crazed fanatics carry them everywhere... and that would lead to bloodshed and death. They don't just think the MAGA people shoot hundreds of rounds a day out back of their trailer parks, farms, or cabins in the boonies; they think they carry them into the shower, restaurants, bars, weddings, funerals, bar mitzvahs... everywhere! The Democrat-Media Complex would have you believe that Trump urged these gun-toting extremists to overthrow the government — and directed them to "attack" the Capitol Building. And, of course, they say, these mind-numbed Trump-loving automatons did as they were told. Yet when all these MAGA folks strolled through the People's House in an attempt to seize power and reinstall Trump, not a one of them carried a firearm. Is it possible that every one of these thousands of "violent" protesters and insurrectionists forgot their weapons? Every one? The Coming Coup. The January 6 Capitol breach has been called an attempted coup; it was not a coup, but a coup by the extreme left is possible in the future. Before I make my case, a few points should be made about January 6. David Harsany pointed out in the New York Post that the J6 protestors had no plan; a study at Harvard showed that most Jan 6 protestors did not believe they were overruling democracy, but preserving it: ["]The documents show that Trump and his allies convinced an unquantifiable number of Americans that representative democracy in the United States was not only in decline, but in imminent, existential danger... This belief translated into a widespread fear of democratic and societal breakdown, which, in turn, motivated hundreds of Americans to travel to DC from far corners of the country in what they were convinced was the nation's most desperate hour.["] Legal Expert: Supreme Court Jan. 6 Ruling Downgraded 'Insurrection' to Mere Trespassing. Constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley opined at the Hill saying that Friday's Supreme Court decision holding that the most severe law cited in January 6 prosecutions does not apply to riots or protests effectively means that the oft-repeated accusations of "insurrection" have been downgraded to mere trespassing. As Breitbart News reported this past Friday, the Supreme Court decided in Fischer vs. U.S. that the "Department of Justice had taken too broad a view of [18 U.S.C.] 1512(c)(2), a law that prohibits destruction of evidence but was not intended for protests." The Lies We Have Lived Through. Yet another lie was institutionalized: the January 6 riot was a full-fledged, carefully planned armed insurrection to overthrow the government. In contrast, the four months in 2020 of killing, assault, arson, and looting that saw over 35 dead, 1,500 injured law enforcement officers, $2 billion in damage, and a federal courthouse, a police precinct and a historic church torched were "cries of the heart" from the oppressed and victimized. Those untruths ensured that hundreds of mostly naïve protestors who showed up in the capitol soon became convicted felons serving long sentences, while the 14,000 arrested for the 2020 mayhem were mostly released as overzealous but otherwise sympathetic activists. These lies changed the course of the nation. They are birthed by the incestuous marriage of a Washington-New York political culture and a corrupt media. DC Gulag Bodycam Video Confirms J6 Prisoner Was Pepper-Sprayed in the Face Twice, Raising 'Serious Questions and Concerns'. An employee with the D.C. Central Detention Facility (DOC), better known as the D.C. Gulag, pepper-sprayed a January 6 prisoner in the face twice in less than a few minutes for not wearing a mask, bodycam footage obtained by the House Judiciary Committee confirms. [Advertisement] The altercation occurred at the facility on September 5, 2022, and is one among many allegations of abuse against J6ers at the facility. [Advertisement] Former DOC employee Lieutenant Crystal Lancaster allegedly sprayed Ronald McAbee with the chemical munitions after he removed his face mask and refused to comply with her lockdown order. [Advertisement] Last month, McAbee filed a federal excessive-force lawsuit against Lancaster for the 2022 pepper-spray attack. In his lawsuit, McAbee said he had removed his face mask to take oral medication. [Advertisement] "Defendant Lancaster knowingly, maliciously, and sadistically administered the chemical agent directly to Mr. McAbee's face from less than four feet away," the suit says. After the chemical attack, jail staff "placed him in a shower with only very hot water, which amplified the burning sensation of the chemical spray," the lawsuit states. "Mr. McAbee was not provided an opportunity to decontaminate thoroughly." Supreme Court Overturns DOJ's Use of Key J6 Felony Court. In a devastating but well-deserved blow to the Department of Justice's criminal prosecution of January 6 protesters, the U.S. Supreme Court today overturned how the DOJ has used 18 USC 1512(c)(2), the most prevalent felony in J6 cases. The statute, commonly referred to as "obstruction of an official proceeding," has been applied in roughly 350 J6 cases; it also represents two of four counts in Special Counsel Jack Smith's J6-related criminal indictment of Donald Trump in Washington. In a 6-3 decision, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that the "c2" subsection is tethered to the "c1" subsection that addresses tampering with a record, document, or "object." [...] Today's decision means hundreds of Americans have been wrongfully prosecuted by Attorney General Merrick Garland as he insists his department is dedicated to upholding the "rule of law" and pursuing justice "without fear or favor." Supreme Court Thoroughly Rebukes Biden DOJ For Abusing Law To Go After Trump And His Supporters. The Supreme Court held Friday that the Department of Justice (DOJ) interpreted an obstruction statute too broadly when using it to charge hundreds of defendants for their behavior in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. The court sided 6-3 in Fischer v. United States with a defendant who challenged the statute, Section 1512(c)(2), which holds up to 20 years in prison for anyone who "obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding." "To prove a violation of Section 1512(c)(2), the Government must establish that the defendant impaired the availability or integrity for use in an official proceeding of records, documents, objects, or as we earlier explained, other things used in the proceeding, or attempted to do so," Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority ruling. "The judgment of the D. C. Circuit is therefore vacated, and the case is remanded for further proceedings consistent with this opinion." Sex, Lies, and Racial Hysteria: The Quiet J6 Killing of Rosanne Boyland. One wonders what thoughts passed through the fevered mind of Officer Lila Morris as she struck the seemingly lifeless Rosanne Boyland over the head with a branch, then struck her again, and then struck her a third time so hard that the branch snapped in half. [Advertisement] If Morris thought Boyland a hateful white supremacist who deserved her fate, one could, if not forgive her, at least understand how she came to think that way. For the last two years, Morris had heard little else about these MAGA minions and the monster who led them. [Advertisement] President-elect Joe Biden had set the tone when he launched his presidential campaign in April 2019, implying President Donald Trump had called the neo-Nazis involved in the Charlottesville dust-up "very fine people." No major candidate has ever begun a presidential campaign with a more divisive and slanderous opening gambit (one that Snopes conceded was false just this past week). [Advertisement] Biden continued the slander throughout the campaign. [Advertisement] Supreme Court Blows Up DOJ's Biggest Charges Against Donald Trump. The Supreme Court ruled Friday that the government cannot prosecute January 6 defendants under 1512(c)(2), the "Enron" statute, for generally obstructing "an official proceeding" unless they interfered with objects or documents. The bombshell decision could result in hundreds of convictions against non-violent January 6 defendants being overturned — and could result in at least some charges being dropped against President Donald Trump as well. 1512(c)(2) was passed after the Enron scandal, when it was discovered that federal law had a loophole: it was illegal to instruct others to destroy evidence, but not illegal to destroy evidence oneself. Consequently, Congress passed a law prohibiting tampering with witnesses or evidence that is to be used in an "official proceeding." The Department of Justice used that law to prosecute participants in the Capitol riot based on the idea that they had "obstructed" an official proceeding — i.e. the certification of the Electoral College vote in the 2020 presidential election. But critics said that 1512(c)(2) had never been intended to apply to protests or other First Amendment-connected activities. What happens to Jan. 6 cases upended by Supreme Court ruling. The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that prosecutors and judges used a charge too liberally at times in cases related to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, and the decision is poised to directly affect some defendants involved in the 2021 breach. In a 6 [to] 3 decision, the high court limited the scope of an obstruction charge that prosecutors brought against former Pennsylvania police officer Joseph Fischer, former President Donald Trump, and about 350 others, but legal experts say that only a subset of those defendants will see changes in their court cases. The charge in question states that anyone who "obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding, or attempts to do so" is violating the law. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority opinion that the law should not be interpreted broadly but instead should be dependent on language in the overarching statute, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which passed in 2002 after the Enron scandal. The act specified that obstruction meant destroying or manipulating documents that were part of an official proceeding. Jack
Smith's January 6 Case Against President Trump Torpedoed After Supreme Court Overturns
1512(c)(2) Obstruction Charge. The US Supreme Court on Friday delivered a devastating
blow to Biden's corrupt Justice Department and overturned the obstruction charge used to jail
hundreds of January 6 defendants. Biden's corrupt DOJ charged more than 300 J6ers with
18 USC §1512(c)(2). Additionally, two of the four charges against Trump in Jack Smith's
DC case are conspiracy to obstruct so the Supreme Court's ruling on Friday torpedoed the special
counsel's case against Trump as well. The Supreme Court earlier this year heard oral
arguments in Fischer v. United States and at issue was statute 18 USC
§1512(c)(2):
House GOP Plans Legal Move Against Jan. 6 Committee in Steve Bannon Case. House Speaker Mike Johnson announced Wednesday that House Republican leaders voted to file an amicus brief in Steve Bannon's case, just days before the conservative media host is due to report to prison. Leadership's move comes amid of a flurry of activity in the House to challenge the authority of the Jan. 6 committee established by then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi in 2021. Bannon's four-month prison sentence — for failing to comply with committee subpoenas — is set to start July 1. Former Trump administration adviser Peter Navarro is already serving his four-month prison sentence. Biden Govt Used J6 & Mar-a-Lago Raid To Justify More Spying on Political Opponents. America First Legal has published documents revealing that the Department of Homeland Security's intel group advocated spying on Americans critical of the government post-January 6th. The Homeland Intelligence Experts Group initially considered it "inappropriate" to gather intel on Americans before January 6. However, internal meeting notes later showed discussions about expanding efforts to monitor individuals deemed Domestic Violent Extremists (DVEs), many of whom were described as supporters of the former president, using January 6th as a catalyst. Members of the Homeland Intelligence Experts Group also called for federal monitoring of certain websites as potential domestic extremism threats. How January 6 and the Raid at Mar-a-Lago Emboldened DHS to Expand Monitoring of Americans. Today [6/24/2024], following its victory in disbanding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) "Homeland Intelligence Experts Group," America First Legal (AFL) is releasing the third tranche of the group's internal meeting notes, exclusively obtained from litigation. This is the third installment of #DeepStateDiaries, a multi-part series of releases including newly obtained documents. Today's installment shows how the Biden administration's allies on the Brennan-Clapper committee discussed using January 6 and the manufactured raid at Mar-a-Lago to justify further targeting and surveillance of political dissent. Kamala Harris Is January 6's 'Dog That Didn't Bark'. On January 6, vice president-elect Kamala Harris was the dog that didn't bark. Harris did not bark then. Nor has she barked in the three-plus years since. This is surprising. On the surface, at least, she would have had a lot to bark about. Harris's failure to bark suggests her complicity in a plot that — thanks to the good work of Rep. Thomas Massie, Darren Beattie, Dan Bongino, and others — is gradually unraveling. [Advertisement] On January 6, 2021, at just about 1 p.m., an undercover police officer found a pipe bomb just feet from the exterior of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in DC. A bomb had been discovered minutes before near the RNC headquarters. Unknown to the bomber, Harris would be at the DNC when the bomb was found. [Advertisement] Politico was the first to report on Harris's whereabouts at this critical moment. "Harris' presence inside the building while a bomb was right outside raises sobering questions about her security that day," reported Politico. "It also raises the chilling prospect that the riots could have been far more destructive than they already were, with the incoming vice president's life directly endangered." [Advertisement] The left is repeating the most shameful episode in U.S. history. It has been generally proven by now that the events of Jan. 6 were set up by the Democrats who were determined to stop the Republicans from implementing their Constitutional right to request recounts of ballots in the disputed states where fraud indisputably took place. There is no doubt now that FBI agitators were among the crowd, dressed as Trump supporters, such as Ray Epps, the guy who fanatically urged those in attendance to "go into the Capitol," over and over again. Pelosi refused to allow the National Guard that Trump wanted to be present. Those mysterious fake pipe bombs were part of the back-up plan if the paid provocateurs were insufficiently violent. The entire debacle was carefully orchestrated to prevent any recounts — Pelosi, et al., knew only too well that the election had been stolen and their crime had to be covered up. The Jan. 6 committee was a corrupt joke from the outset, their witnesses coached to lie, videos suppressed, transcripts destroyed. All those involved, from Liz Cheney to Benny Thompson are guilty of treason. No wonder they are so fearful of a second Trump administration. Russia's KGB and Ours. [Scroll down] Russian President Putin had attempted to change the subject from his murder squads to ours, telling NBC News in an interview that somebody murdered Ashli Babbitt, a U.S. military veteran, who was among the Trump supporters that went into the Capitol on January 6. With this reference, Putin cleverly moved the attention away from his former comrades in the KGB to the Deep State in Washington, D.C. covering-up for its own crimes. Putin was obviously aware that the Biden "Department of Justice" said it would not pursue criminal charges against the Capitol Police officer who killed Ashli Babbitt. Those who objectively analyze the complete set of circumstances surrounding the incident must conclude that the shooting of unarmed Ashli Babbitt inside the Capitol qualified as murder. The massive, bank-vault-strong doors into the Capitol were open and pro-Trump protesters (and others) were able to just walk in. There were also reports indicating that police gestured Trump supporters inside the building through the open doors. Did Joe Biden's ghostwriter commit the crime that's been wrongfully used against J6ers? It is a serious crime to interfere with a federal investigation, and it seems that Mike Zwonitzer, Joe Biden's ghostwriter, has admitted on the record that he did so. However, to no one's surprise, AG Merrick Garland's "Justice" Department seems uninterested in this possible crime. The big irony is that Zwonitzer's apparent wrongdoing seems to have violated 18 U.S.C. § 1512, which is the same statute that the Garland DOJ has been abusing to put January 6 defendants in prison. One giant problem using geotracking to prove Trump directed 'insurrection'. The Department of Justice, in its strategy for prosecuting former President Donald Trump for supposedly masterminding an "insurrection" during the Jan. 6, 2021 "Save America" rally, has inadvertently bolstered — many would say confirmed — the case that Democrats rigged the 2020 presidential election. Prosecutors obtained a search warrant to access data from Trump's cellphone used in the White House, and after an unpublicized court battle ultimately obtained a massive cache of data culled from Trump's accounts, including location data. [...] But there's another underlying problem with the Justice Department's prosecutorial scheme. Democrats utterly dismissed the legitimacy of geotracking in "2000 Mules," the banned film documentary in which the conservative group True the Vote used the technology to showcase with precision how many times "community organizers" stuffed the ballot boxes in battleground states with illegal ballots for Democrats to systematically rig the election for Joe Biden in 2020. The Biggest 'Revisionist History' About Jan. 6, 2021 Comes From Democrats Like Nancy Pelosi. Questions about the National Guard at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, are once again making headlines this week after new footage recorded by Rep. Nancy Pelosi's daughter shows the former speaker of the House blaming herself for not doing more that day. "Why weren't the National Guard there to begin with?" Pelosi asks in a fury. "They clearly didn't know, and I take responsibility for not having them just prepare for more." [Advertisement] Of course, after the footage leaked, Pelosi joined MSNBC to decry the clip as Trump supporters' "revisionist history." [Tweet] I was serving as the chief of staff for the Department of Defense on Jan. 6, 2021, and it was my duty to ensure our laws and military chain of command were followed. The deployment of the National Guard requires presidential authorization, which Trump gave days before Jan. 6 in the Oval Office, where I was present. It also requires a request from local governing authorities, including D.C. Mayor Bowser and Capitol Police, who report to the speaker of the House. It is worth noting that once the Capitol Police and Mayor Bowser finally made the lawful request for the National Guard, Trump's Department of Defense implemented the fastest cold start of the National Guard since World War II. J6 is a verb now! J6 Inmate Sues DC Jail for Abuse. A Jan. 6 inmate has sued the Washington DC Department of Corrections after a guard pepper sprayed him for removing his face mask to take medication in a September 2022 incident. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in federal court, comes from Jan. 6 inmate Ronald Colton McAbee, who's serving a 70-month prison sentence for allegedly assaulting Capitol Police officers. McAbee admitted to one count of assault last September and pled not guilty to five others — but was convicted by a DC jury anyway last October. According to his lawsuit, McAbee was sitting his in his cell on Sept. 5, 2022, when DOC employee Crystal Lancaster allegedly pepper sprayed him for removing his face mask to take medication. Lancaster allegedly pepper sprayed him even though DC Jail policy required inmates like to remove any face mask while consuming such medication. Turley Demolishes Pelosi and J6 Committee, As Former Capitol Police Chief Finishes Her With More Facts. I reported on the bombshell video of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) admitting responsibility for the lack of security at the Capitol as she was leaving it on Jan. 6. She also said they should have been accountable but weren't. [Advertisement] The video was taken by her daughter for an HBO documentary about Jan. 6, but hadn't been released to the public before a couple of days ago. The House Administration Oversight Committee released it after they got it from HBO. Pelosi gave a ridiculous and desperate response to the release of the video, calling it "revisionist history" from Republicans. That prompted a lot of mockery from people. How could her own words be "revisionist history"? Meanwhile, the former chief of the Capitol Police at the time of the riot, Steven Sund, responded to the video and blasted her, saying he had asked for the National Guard multiple times and he was turned down. Pelosi in full meltdown over her J6 performance. For the last three-and-a-half years, the Democrats have owned the Jan. 6 narrative. Republicans in Congress and the media gave it away without a fight. The good news is that party standard-bearer Donald Trumpappears intent on taking it back. On Sunday in Las Vegas, Trump made his strongest statement yet about that memorable day, saying, "There has never been people treated more horrifically than J6 hostages." Coincidentally or not, a snippet from the footage Pelosi's daughter Alexandra shot for HBO surfaced on line a day later. The video was extracted from about 45 minutes of footage handed over recently to the House administration oversight subcommittee. Shot in the backseat of Pelosi's vehicle as she was being driven away from the Capitol on Jan. 6, Pelosi speaks about her own role in allowing the chaos to happen. "We take responsibility, Terri," a testy Pelosi says to her chief of staff Terri McCullough. "We did not have any accountability for what was going on there, and we should have. This is ridiculous." J6 Capitol Police Chief Says Speaker's Staff Blocked Additional Security. Former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund responded to a viral video of former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) admitting that she was responsible for the lack of preparedness on Jan. 6, 2021. "Pelosi should take responsibility!" Sund posted on X, adding "She put herself in the security decision process and her Sergeant at Arms denied my requests for support before and during the Jan. 6 chaos. She undermined my law enforcement capabilities." Sund, who was in charge of the Capitol Police during Jan. 6, then asked "Why did they change the law (2US1970) that tied my hands?" [Tweet] Combatting Our Homegrown Enemy. Before you conjure up visions of armed white supremacist militias sporting shaved heads and Swastika tattoos stockpiling weapons on a remote compound in the hills of Montana, stop. That is the fever dream the enemy is pitching, a misdirection flanking tactic in the War on America. J6 was never an insurrection at all, certainly not worse than 9/11, Pearl Harbor, or the Civil War. The Proud Boys were never seditious conspirators hell-bent on armed rebellion. [...] That enemy has seized power in the institutions and is loath to give it up. First came the overprosecution and excessive punishment of the patriots who came to the Capitol on J6 to protest a clearly skewed and irregular 2020 election. Some have committed suicide, others were tortured and most were bankrupted, but all had their lives ruined despite being decent citizens without prior crime. It is almost four years later and the arrests haven't stopped. Combatting Our Homegrown Enemy. xOver the past four years we have been subjected to severely altered and unreliable elections that bear little resemblance to the standard of elections from just a decade ago. We were forced to take an unproven shot, forced to cover our faces and stand six feet apart, forced to stay in our homes, all based on lies and exaggerations fed to us by our own government. We are force fed lies by the mainstream media on a nearly continuous basis, while the government censors the truth. The national debt clock spins out of control while the ensuing inflation drives more Americans into poverty. Any attempt to get injunctive relief disappears into a gaping abyss where the once-vaunted American legal system used to be. What has happened to justice in America? Where are the constitutional jurists, the judges and lawyers who are committed to mete out justice fairly and blindly to everyone and to uphold the laws and constitution? With so many examples of injustice being wrought upon us it is an easy question to ask. Civil War if Trump Goes to Prison? [Scroll down] According to the Combatting Terrorism Center at West Point, the January 6 insurrection was accelerationism in action. Accelerationism here is "the goal of hastening the cataclysmic end of economic, political, and social systems so as to more rapidly bring about what is seen as an inevitable end-times collapse." If the Terrorism Center believes that January 6 was about the end times or accelerationism, then domestic terrorism must be a significant threat. But what does this have to do with Trump? The left has to have a playbook with a narrative to work from and stay in sync. If you believe that the January 6 riot was a domestic terrorist event to destabilize the government and Donald Trump was the mastermind, then it is much easier for security agencies to play along with the Biden administration. Witness the FBI entering Mar-a-Lago with guns drawn. Of course, the left always accuses Republicans of doing whatever leftists are up to. Contrast and compare to January 6, 2021: NASCAR Driver, Son, Two Others Arrested for J6 Actions. Three and a half years later, the FBI found their men: a NASCAR driver, his son, and two others. Meanwhile, one man who was murdered during the George Floyd riots never got justice. The FBI didn't even look for the killer. The FBI on Wednesday [6/5/2024] arrested four men from Pennsylvania on multiple felony and misdemeanor charges related to the January 6 protest. A 75-year-old retired NASCAR driver Tighe Scott and his son Carl Scott, 48, Scott Slater Sr., 56, and Scott Alex Slater Jr., 26, were arrested on Wednesday. Three might have been violent. We'll have to see. The elder Mr. Slater only stayed in the building. The FBI wants the riot to look like an insurrection, especially before the election. How We'll Remember January 6. I received a call on Monday from one of the women whose stories I tell in my new book, Ashli: The Untold Story of the Women of January 6. Of the ten women profiled, two were killed on January 6, six were imprisoned, and two await sentencing. Of the ten, no one did anything more overtly criminal than break a window. The woman with whom I spoke wanted reassurance that her sacrifice was not in vain. I told her that Donald Trump's conviction sheds new light on her own arrest and trial. Even the most myopic Republican has come to see that the central issue in the 2024 campaign will be the restoration of American justice. As the election nears, with 1,425 (and counting) citizens arrested, the great majority for simply protesting in or around the Capitol on January 6, more and more Americans will see just how great the injustice has been. The Silent Insurrection: General Milley's Hand on January 6. In the days and weeks leading up to January 6, the nation's highest-ranking military officer, then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley, was moving in lockstep with the political anxieties of top Democratic leaders. These Democrats grew anxious as over 140 House Republicans planned to contest the election results during the electoral college certification that day. Milley was then deeply engaged with a circle of confidants including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, former Obama National Security Advisor Susan Rice, and former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, among others — all of whom shared a unified disdain for President Donald Trump. FBI settles lawsuit out of fear of being caught retaliating against J6 whistleblower, attorney says. The FBI reached a settlement with a former agent-turned-whistleblower out of fear that the bureau would be discovered retaliating, an attorney for the whistleblower said. The watchdog group, Empower Oversight, said Tuesday that the FBI came to a settlement in a civil suit with Marcus Allen more than two years after he was suspended without pay. He said his suspension in February 2022 came in retaliation by the FBI after he raised concerns about the accuracy of FBI Director Christopher Wray's testimony to Congress about the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. Desperate, Lying Biden May Abuse AI To Pull The Ultimate Race Hoax. Consider, if you will (even those who have been so conditioned by threat of defamation suit never to speak of it), the possibility that the Biden presidency was built upon a major deception: an intentionally stolen election that relied upon illegal ballot-harvesting, manipulation of voting machines and a hodgepodge of factors involving a vast network of intricate moving pieces, each knowing just a small part in the larger script so as to ensure plausible deniability. Open your mind, furthermore, to the theoretical premise that Jan. 6 was a false-flag operation intended to derail and deflate the resistance — millions of liberty-loving Americans who witnessed the crime playing out in plain sight while being told their senses were deceiving them and that their own biases and bigotry were the real problem with democracy. Imagine that the entire lawfare campaign of more than 90 felony charges against former President Donald Trump was little more than a political construct with no legal basis whatsoever, and that those waging this stunning affront on American jurisprudence did so with full awareness of their offense and the implications it may have, but were willing to stake it for their own potential benefit. And lastly, recognize that everything sandwiched in between these massive conspiracies was a series of smaller lies designed to blunt American voters' sense of moral outrage and indignation as would China's notorious "death by a thousand cuts." What MSNBC Can Teach The Atlantic about January 6. On Memorial Day, during the Annual Ashli Babbitt Freedom March in D.C., I had the chance to speak with Hanna Rosin, who was covering the march for the Atlantic magazine with fellow reporter Lauren Ober. [...] The ignorance about January 6 is staggering. The tourists near the Peace Monument where the march began just looked confused. They all know who George Floyd was, but most, I am sure, had not a clue about Ashli Babbitt. Ashli, 35, was the 14-year Air Force veteran shot and killed by the Capitol Police on January 6. The corporate media have no interest in sharing her story and even less in telling the story of Rosanne Boyland. Few, even on the right, know about Rosanne. A year younger than Ashli, Rosanne was the second woman killed by police action on January 6 and the woman whose death MSNBC vainly tried to investigate. Why do FBI agents so regularly abuse their power? The raid on Mar-a-Lago in August 2022 is hardly the only example of FBI skullduggery. They raided hundreds of persons who were in attendance at the Capitol on January 6, 2021 in much the same way — fifteen to twenty agents, armed with all manner of weapons. They are still raiding and arresting people who were simply there. Hundreds of such people have been similarly raided, arrested, over-charged, sentenced, and imprisoned for made-up crimes like "parading." Those Americans, several of whom have committed suicide, are being treated as horribly as one might be treated in any third world nation. They are denied medical care, put in solitary confinement, given substandard food, maybe even tortured by vicious prison guards. The FBI raided and abused the family of pro-life activist Mark Houck, for having shoved a man who accosted his son while peacefully protesting across the street from an abortion clinic. The FBI has long been abusing its power to the point that it has become something like Hitler's Brownshirts or Stalin's NKVD who were charged with carrying out the Great Purge. It's High Time We Kicked All the Tyrants and Traitors to the Curb. Since Joe Biden's administration has assumed the highest seat of power, the tyrannical witch hunt against January 6 demonstrators, who were truly mostly peaceful, continues. When some of the Capitol doors were opened or gates removed by the police, even those people who did not go inside "The People's House" but remained outside on the lawn are still being rounded up and put in jail. All they desired to do that day was state the obvious in signs that read, "Stop the Steal." What are they getting for exercising their First Amendment right? Incarceration. It is as if the Biden administration is telling citizens, "Hey, not only did we not steal the 2020 election, but we will also put you in jail just for saying that we did." Or, put another more brazen way: "Yes, we did steal the 2020 election, and we are going to arrest you for noticing. And there is nothing you can do about it." This is all part of the fabulous "fundamental transformation" of America that Barack Obama promised on the campaign trail in 2008. Yes, President Trump spoiled his plans for four years, starting with the 2016 election, but the manipulation of the 2020 presidential election results solidly got the plan back on track. The Myth of the J6 Coup. Those that claim that January 6th was an insurrection fail to explain how, in any scenario, Donald Trump would have been able to seize and hold power. Even if this fantasy is played out, and the trespassers rounded up Congress had had him certified as the winner of the election, they would have simply reversed that vote the moment they were free. Impeachment would have been a slam dunk if that had been the plan. In reality, it was protest that got out of hand resulting in the tragic death of a single person, a protester. [...] For someone to overthrow the government, they must have and maintain the support of the masses. Remember, a significant percentage of his own party hated Trump and worked against him. If he broke countless laws to seize power, there would be rally cries from both sides of the aisle to remove him. Would the vast machine of the federal government continue to operate if there had been a coup? No. Trump's calls to "drain the swamp" would have led much of the federal government to shut down. The Audacity of Merrick Garland. FBI agents last week arrested a man from Maine for his involvement in the events of January 6. According to a Department of Justice press release, Lincoln Deming spent about 30 minutes inside the building after entering through an open door with Capitol Police standing by. Deming faces numerous charges including civil disorder and the dreaded "parading" in the Capitol misdemeanor. The DOJ bragged in the press release about the government's scalp count for its unprecedented prosecution of Jan 6 protesters. "More than 1,424 individuals have been charged in nearly all 50 states for crimes related to the breach of the U.S. Capitol," Matthew Graves, the Joe Biden-appointed U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, boasted. The investigation into the four-hour disturbance, Graves warned, is "ongoing." Indeed. The DOJ, astonishingly, is on pace to arrest one J6 protester a day this year; Graves has stated his intention to bring the total caseload to at least 2,000 defendants before the statute of limitations expires. J6 Inquisitors Nail Their First Big Name. The New York Times editors could barely contain their glee. "Conservative Family Scion Sentenced to Nearly 4 Years for Jan. 6 Attack." The subhead spelled out the details: "Leo Brent Bozell, the son and grandson of influential right-wing figures, shattered a windowpane in the Capitol, pursued a police officer and made his way into the speaker's office during the pro-Trump riot." [...] Although Leo "Zeeker" Bozell, 44, gave up his claim to the Bozell throne long ago for the quiet life of construction work in small-town Pennsylvania, he had name enough to bring out the inner Stasi in the DOJ's weaponized prosecutorial corps. Bozell's mistake was to pay more attention to the 2020 election campaign than was good for him. "He came to believe," the Times reports with astonishment, "that the results of the race had been 'rigged' against President Donald J. Trump." The Times editors chose to ignore the unconstitutional changes in state election laws and the obvious vote-harvesting in key cities. But to overlook 51 intel officials falsely swearing that Hunter Biden's laptop was a Russian op is malpractice bordering on treason. The Whitmer 'kidnapping hoax' is on the brink of collapse. The Whitmer "kidnapping plot," "fednapping," or "hoax," as it's more commonly called, is likely one of the biggest entrapment cases the FBI ever staged, aside from January 6. The two plots are intricately connected and part of the same regime scheme to paint Trump supporters as domestic terrorists. However, when news broke about this "kidnapping plot," Revolver News could smell a rat. We were ahead of the curve, being among the very first to connect the dots between the Michigan Kidnapping Plot and the January 6th Fedsurrection. Our groundbreaking article from three years ago sounded the alarm about possible federal involvement on January 6th, using the Michigan fiasco as a prime example. After all, you literally can't ignore the similarities. The Michigan scheme also had plans to storm the State Capitol. The plot centered around the "Three Percenters," a militia group with strong ties to January 6th. And just like J6, the Michigan plot was also swarming with feds and informants — actually, out of the fourteen people involved, at least five of them were FBI agents or informants. J6er Jake Lang Emerges From 36 Days in Sensory Deprivation Chamber. The capacity of human beings to adjust to nearly any environment is quite terrifying. Just ask January 6 Political Prisoner Jake Lang, who just endured 36 days in horrific solitary confinement at the hands of the Biden Regime. Jake's social media team released a triumphant tweet earlier today, marking his high-spirited release with a hallmark 'what doesn't kill us makes us stronger' attitude. FBI Documents Reveal 'Stand Down' Order Before January 6 Capitol Riot. The Federal Bureau of Investigation continues to face scrutiny over its handling of the January 6 Capitol riot. In response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, the FBI released a trove of internal documents on May 7, posted on its website under the section titled "United States Capitol Violence and related Events of January 6, 2021 Part 35." The newly published 107 pages of documents include email correspondence among FBI officials leading up to January 6, real-time reactions to the violence, and guidance on the bureau's response to the Capitol riot. However, much of the content remains heavily redacted, concealing potential evidence of misconduct. Brent Bozell IV Gets 45 Months in J6 case, prosecutors wanted 11. Federal prosecutors sought eleven years in prison and a terrorism charge against Brent Bozell IV, who was sentenced to nearly four years in the Jan. 6 case. Federal prosecutors sought 11 years in prison and a terrorism enhancement for Bozell, whose father and grandfather shaped the modern conservative movement in the U.S. Brent Bozell IV is accused of smashing two windows (valued under $3,000), allowing the mob to storm into the building. January 6, Covid Stir the Fascist Soul of the Educated Liberal Female. In researching my new book, Ashli: The Untold Story of the Women of January 6, I discovered something unexpected: an alarming confirmation of my September 2022 article in which I argued that Educated Liberal Females (ELFs) are the single greatest threat to our enduring liberties. My new book deals specifically with the ELF's natural foes, the women of January 6. Among the ten women I profile is Dr. Simone Gold. Even before getting caught up in the events of that memorable day, Dr. Gold had set the ELFs on edge through her work with America's Frontline Doctors, a group she founded. An M.D. as well as a lawyer, Dr. Gold, 55 at the time, went to Washington not to protest the election but to address the issue of medical freedom. She had secured a permit to speak at a venue on the east side of the Capitol, but when organizers cancelled the event, Gold decided to give the speech on the Capitol steps. [...] Threatened with a 20-year sentence if she took her case to trial before a rubber-stamp D.C. jury, Gold reluctantly accepted a plea deal. For a single misdemeanor charge, she was sentenced to 60 days at the Miami Federal Detention Center, a maximum-security prison. Deep State Defeated — Jan 6th Backlash Grows. Establishment Democrats trusted former U.S. Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn because he faithfully supported their desired Jan. 6 story, despite the fact that it was far from the truth. In the Maryland House primary on Tuesday, he attempted to duplicate that feat, but reality got the better of him. In the Maryland 3rd Congressional District, where he does not reside, Dunn faced competition from more than two dozen other Democrats. The so-called "hero" lost to Maryland state senator Sarah Elfreth (D), despite beating off relative unknowns who had not received the same endorsement from President Joe Biden. Dunn's campaign released polling data from Upswing Research and Strategy in mid-April, indicating that he was leading "within the margin of error." The Guardian claims that Elfreth's campaign brought in just one-third of Dunn's total fundraising. According to the plan, Dunn was going to be their designated apparatus. Sheriff's Deputy Fired Over Jan. 6 Secures Nearly $400,000 in Settlement. A sheriff's deputy fired for protesting in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021, has secured a large settlement from Bexar County in Texas. Roxanne Mathai, a lieutenant with the Bexar County Sheriff's Office (BCSO) at the time she traveled to Washington, will receive $395,000 in a settlement reached after she sued her former employer, the parties in the case told The Epoch Times. [...] Ms. Mathai posted images and videos on Jan. 6, 2021, from a rally for then-President Donald Trump in Washington, held just before people began breaching the U.S. Capitol. Ms. Mathai went over to the building after the rally. She included captions in her posts, such as "Today has been amazing!" Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar said a day later that he was aware of the materials and that he intended to make sure Ms. Mathai never entered a sheriff's office building again. He said that Ms. Mathai was allowed to exercise her First Amendment rights but should have left once crimes began being committed. There is no indication Ms. Mathai entered the Capitol and she has not been charged. She has said she left around 3 p.m., that she could not see any doors or windows from her position, and that she saw people climbing the walls at the Capitol but didn't think that was illegal. The Editor says... Biden Regime Steps Up Persecution of J6 Protesters Ahead of Trump's Return. The Biden regime is stepping up its relentless campaign of persecution against those who attended the January 6th protests, arresting people at double the rate they have over the past three years. The Epoch Times reports that according to the Department of Justice's monthly update, 1424 people have been arrested in connection with their attendance on that day: [...] Such an acceleration of arrests are a clear sign Biden regime's determination to arrest and convict as many people as possible before the end of the year, knowing that if Donald Trump returns to the White House those investigations will be halted and pardons will be issued to some or all of those involved. Last month, the leftist media site RawStory ran a piece warning that "time is running out" to arrest all the necessary people before the end of the year. The outlet spoke with so-called "sedition hunters" who have helped the FBI identify and persecute as many people as possible. Jan. 6 Arrests Running at Nearly Double the Rate of 2023 and 2022: Report. Nearly 1,425 people have been arrested on Jan. 6 charges, with 2024 arrests running at almost double the rate from 2023 and 2022, a U.S. Department of Justice report shows. Through close of business on May 3, the FBI has arrested 1,424 suspects in the 40 months since the breach and violence at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, the DOJ reported in its monthly update. That includes 159 people who were arrested during the first four months of 2024, nearly double the 83 arrested during the same period in 2023 and the 85 arrested in the same period in 2022, DOJ records show. The FBI has made 391 Jan. 6 arrests since May 2023 and 614 arrests since May 2022, according to DOJ data. Jan. 6 is the largest, most sweeping investigation in FBI history — one that DOJ leaders have pledged will continue unabated. The DOJ has until Jan. 6, 2026, to charge individuals before the statute of limitations expires. RIP David Homol, Fifth J6 Defendant to Kill Himself. David Homol, 55, was arrested by the FBI in Orlando on Jan. 10, 2024. He was charged in a criminal complaint with eight Jan. 6 offenses, including the controversial 20-year felony of corruptly obstructing an official proceeding. The Florida man who allegedly assaulted two police officers at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has committed suicide, according to a police report. He shot himself on the evening of April 17th or the next morning and died from a single gunshot wound. His pistol was on his lap. Mr. Homol was awaiting trial and allegedly struggled with an officer who attempted to take his flag on a flagpole and was struck. Will the Supreme Court Let This Crisis Go to Waste? In Fischer v. United States, the court is considering the validity of using a financial statute to charge January 6 trespassers with obstruction of an official proceeding. During questioning, Justice Gorsuch asked, "Would pulling a fire alarm before a vote qualify for 20 years in federal prison?" He was referring to Democrat Jamaal Bowman, who pulled a fire alarm to prevent a congressional vote yet was not charged with "obstructing an official proceeding." That was Gorsuch's way of asking if something other than party affiliation determines who will face the greater jeopardy of obstruction charges. It was a sarcastic illustration of the decidedly unequal system of justice the DoJ is currently practicing. LAPD uses January 6 techniques to identify Jewish students who fought back at a UCLA pro-Hamas protest. They're studying Facebook posts. They're using frame-by-frame video screenshots of faces to match with gargantuan databases of named faces. They're seeking and taking tips from "friends" and relatives and ex-boyfriends. For the UCLA Jewish students who got into a scrap with pro-Hamas illegal campout protestors, no doubt after hearing a slew of antisemitic statements and being blocked from attending class, they're doing exactly what they did to identify and hunt down January 6 protestors. [...] So now they're spending big bucks to target UCLA Jewish students again, with the same use of intensive investigative techniques as they used on January 6 protestors. They're taking years to do it, calling it their biggest operation, even as Los Angeles is awash with real crime, but this is more important to them, getting their man, or woman, as the case may be, championing a protest the establishment didn't like, same as they did with the January 6 protestors. Has Leftist Lawfare Created the Police State Yet? [Scroll down] The message to Joe Citizen is clear: "If we can take down these people, including a U.S. president and billionaire and anyone who supports him, just imagine what we can do to you." But that citizen doesn't have to imagine that message. It is on clear display with the plight of those who wandered around the Capitol on January 6, with some who committed no violence, including seemingly being convicted for wearing a funny horned hat, sentenced to years of prison. Many of these people have been incarcerated for years, some in solitary confinement, without even being charged, let alone tried, and without access either to medical care or the evidence that would likely exonerate them. Of course, the mainstream does its part to justify such treatment with the mantra that January 6th represented a massive threat to American democracy. The question of 'outside agitators'. The willingness to face that reality when it suits their purposes contrasts with the Left's unwillingness to do so when it does not. It was not that long ago that anyone raising the idea that government-sponsored agent provocateurs played a role on January 6 was immediately labeled a conspiracy theorist and ruthlessly censored. The Pelosi-selected committee steadfastly refused to interview a single one of the prominent instigators video-taped on the scene. The FBI stonewalled any questions about these persons, or the role played by anyone employed by the Deep State. The complicit social media platforms dutifully silenced any such inconvenient questioning. The use of "outside agitators" is not just consistent with what we are learning about today's campus protests, and other leftist movements such as BLM/Antifa. Liz Cheney, January 6 Committee Suppressed Exonerating Evidence Of Trump's Push For National Guard. Former Rep. Liz Cheney's January 6 Committee suppressed evidence that President Donald Trump pushed for 10,000 National Guard troops to protect the nation's capital, a previously hidden transcript obtained by The Federalist shows. Cheney and her committee falsely claimed they had "no evidence" to support Trump officials' claims the White House had communicated its desire for 10,000 National Guard troops. In fact, an early transcribed interview conducted by the committee included precisely that evidence from a key source. The interview, which Cheney attended and personally participated in, was suppressed from public release until now. Deputy Chief of Staff Anthony Ornato's first transcribed interview with the committee was conducted on January 28, 2022. In it, he told Cheney and her investigators that he overheard White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows push Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser to request as many National Guard troops as she needed to protect the city. On January 6, did America's highest-level military officers willfully disobey their Commander in Chief? Even the January 6 committee eventually conceded that President Trump had authorized the National Guard to be deployed on January 6. However, as events unfolded at the Capitol, the National Guard was nowhere to be seen. It showed up hours later, only after the situation was such that Trump and his supporters were tarred as "insurrectionists" and targeted for arrests. Now, a whistleblower has come forward to allege that one of Trump's problems was that military leadership, starting with Mark Milley, made the deliberate decision to ignore Trump's order. That's court-martial stuff, along with the possibility of domestic terrorism and, ironically, insurrection. Whenever thousands of people descend on a city, there should be a large police force in place. And when hundreds of thousands come to D.C. to complain about an election outcome, the National Guard should be there. And yet the troops weren't. Military Brass Stripped Trump of His Power as Commander-in-Chief on J6. The Daily Mail reported yesterday that whistleblower Colonel Earl Matthews said army leaders stripped Trump of his authority as commander-in-chief on January 6. He further claimed that they plotted to block orders to deploy the National Guard to the Capitol. He said they ignored Donald Trump's authority. Colonel Matthews told the Daily Mail that Mark Milley, then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and then-Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy plotted to disobey any orders handed down by Donald Trump. They unreasonably assumed that the president would break the law and use the National Guard to stop certification of the 2020 presidential election results. Feds Charge Former Government Employee With Falsely Implicating Co-Workers on Jan. 6 Capitol Breach Tip Line. Federal prosecutors have charged a former government employee with submitting fake tips accusing several of his former co-workers of being involved in the unrest at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Court records indicate Miguel Eugenio Zapata, 37, was arrested in Chantilly, Virginia, on Thursday on a charge of making false statements to law enforcement. A criminal complaint states Mr. Zapata submitted at least seven tips to the FBI's tipline, purporting to identify government employees and contractors he claimed were involved in unlawful activities at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. The alleged false tips were submitted on Feb. 10, Feb. 16, Feb. 17, and April 11, 2021, as federal law enforcement officials began ramping up efforts to identify and arrest people who entered the capitol, and called on the general public to assist in identifying individuals in the crowd. "None of the seven government employees and contractors were in Washington, D.C., on January 6 or attacked the Capitol," the complaint states. House probe into Jan. 6 to expand, seek interviews with Pentagon officials and Democrat staff. House Republicans are expanding their investigation into the January 6 Committee and the security failures that led to the Capitol breach, planning to add staff and pursue new lines of inquiry, the Chairman of the subcommittee leading the investigation told Just the News. Rep. Barry Loudermilk, Chairman of the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight, told the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show on Tuesday that he aims to publish a final report by this summer after seeking interviews with top Pentagon officials and any former January 6 committee staff willing to come forward. So far, Loudermilk's investigation has spearheaded efforts to release thousands of hours of security footage from January 6, found that the Democrat-led select committee deleted hundreds of encrypted files, and has taken testimony from National Guard whistleblowers criticizing Pentagon leadership for its slow response to the riot at the Capitol. Woman Who Held 'Q' Sign on Jan. 6 Convicted by Jury. A 61-year-old Ohio woman has been convicted on a felony charge for her actions on Jan. 6, 2021, prosecutors announced on April 29. Jurors convicted Therese Borgerding, the Ohio resident, on five counts. A lawyer for Ms. Borgerding did not respond to a query. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia declined to comment. Ms. Borgerding was charged in a superseding indictment in late 2023 with a felony count of civil disorder and four misdemeanors after initially only being charged with misdemeanors. Federal Agents Drag J6 Political Prisoner Ryan Samsel To The Hole. Earlier today, Alicia Powe at The Gateway Pundit exposed J6 insurrection leader James Ray Epps lying to the FBI in a leaked interview obtained by The Gateway Pundit. After the release of this audio incriminating Epps, federal agents raided J6 political prisoner Ryan Samsel's jail cell and dragged him to solitary confinement in the hole of the Metropolitan Detention Center Brooklyn on Thursday night. Epps repeatedly lied to authorities saying he was listening to President Trump's speech at the Ellipse when there is numerous video clips proving Epps was not being truthful. Ray Epps was directing Trump supporters to the US Capitol for hours before the protests on Capitol Hill. Epps later was one of the leading protesters who broke through the first and second set of barriers going to the US Capitol. New Jan. 6 Details Emerge From 20,000 Hours of Newly Posted Video. The more than 20,000 hours of Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol security video made public by a GOP-controlled House committee since November 2023 have started to fill in details long hidden by the now-defunct Jan. 6 Select Committee. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) ordered security video be uploaded to publicly accessible servers beginning last November. Eventually, staff from the Committee on House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight established a channel on the video platform Rumble to store the footage. "Today's release marks the halfway point of the estimated 40,000 hours we intend to publish," Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.), chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight, said on April 15. "My staff has been working tirelessly to release all of the footage and ensure the American people receive the full, unaltered truth of the events surrounding Jan. 6, 2021. The D.C. Court's fiendish plan if the Supremes overrule J6ers' 1512(c)(2) convictions. The Supreme Court is deciding Fischer v. United States, a case challenging how the DOJ and the D.C. court have been using 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2) against January 6 defendants. Because it's obvious that they've violated the most basic precepts of statutory interpretation, it's likely that the Supreme Court will reverse the conviction. However, the D.C. court just issued an order establishing that defendants other than Joseph Fischer who use the decision to appeal their convictions will suffer an even worse fate. This is a reminder that the "law" in Democrat enclaves is unconcerned with justice. Instead, it exists to further the Democrat party's power. [...] The DOJ and D.C. court know that their interpretation of § 1512(c)(2) is likely to be reversed. Even the most ideologically corrupt Supreme Court justice will have a very difficult time pretending that the statute can be extended beyond its manifest purpose of protecting evidence. Any reversal will apply only to Joseph Fischer, the J6 defendant whose case is before the Supreme Court. However, once the Court overturns his conviction, the way is clear for every other J6 defendant convicted using § 1512(c)(2) to challenge the conviction. BLM Leader John Sullivan Who Sought to "Incite Violence" on Capitol Hill Is Sentenced to Six Years in Prison. Antifa-BLM organizer John Sullivan was sentenced on Friday to six years in prison for his actions on January 6, 2021 at the US Capitol. Antifa-Insurgence leader John Earl Sullivan was arrested in Utah after the US Capitol riots. As reported previously, Antifa protester John Sullivan was caught on video posing as a Trump supporter during the rioting at the US Capitol on January 6th. Footage obtained by the Gateway Pundit from militant Black Lives Matter and Antifa activist John Sullivan's Discord server shows the so-called "civil rights activist" reveling inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan 6 as he damaged federal property. Sullivan has maintained in multiple interviews that he regularly attends protests only to record what's going on, but did not actively partake in the insurgence in Washington. This was a lie. He is a leader of the Utah Antifa-BLM movement and was previously arrested in Utah. SCOTUS Justices Signal They May Grant Certiorari in Case of Peaceful J6 Protestor Russell Alford. The United States Supreme Court reportedly signaled that they are considering granting Russell Alford, one of the few J6 defendants to refuse a plea deal, his petition for writ of certiorari, a move that only happens for roughly 1% of cases brought to SCOTUS. Alford is one of the 75 January 6 defendants who joined The Gateway Pundit in our official request to RINO Speaker McCarthy last year for the government's January 6 footage. Judge Shoots Down Effort to Identify FBI, Undercover Police on Jan. 6. A federal judge in Washington D.C. has denied seven motions from a defendant seeking to identify FBI agents in Jan. 6 crowds and gain access to undercover videos shot by Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) officers, at least one of whom incited the crowds at the U.S. Capitol. In a 22-page order, U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras ruled against William Pope on a range of motions filed in his Jan. 6 criminal case since May 2023. Judge Contreras partially granted a government cross-motion to modify the evidence protective order in the case. "I now have the most restricted discovery access conditions of any Jan 6 defendant," Mr. Pope wrote on X. "All I'm asking for is a fair fight in court, but he's denying me rights to defend myself Pro Se that aren't denied to attorneys," Mr. Pope told The Epoch Times in a statement. DOJ and Judge Chutkan, Not Trump, [are] to Blame for "Delay" in J6 Case. The Supreme Court will hear history-making arguments on Thursday in the case of Donald J. Trump v United States. For the first time, the highest court in the land will publicly debate the untested and unsettled question as to whether a former president is immune from criminal prosecution for his conduct in office. And despite claims by Democrats, the news media, and self-proclaimed "legal experts" to the contrary, the matter is far from clear-cut. The case arises from Special Counsel Jack Smith's four-count indictment against Trump related to the events of January 6 and alleged attempts to "overturn" the 2020 election. Smith's flimsy indictment — two of four counts are currently under review by SCOTUS and the other two fall under similarly vague "conspiracy" laws — and an unprecedented ruling issued last year by U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan will be put to the test by the justices. Chutkan, an Obama appointee who also imposed a wide-ranging gag order against Trump and his legal team, denied Trump's motion to dismiss the case based on presidential immunity. People caught with guns and other weapons on January 5 and 6 who you've probably never heard of. [Thread reader] First up is Thomas Gronek from North Carolina who was on the Hippies for Trump bus that got pulled over on January 5. Gronek brought a pink Ruger 10/22 rifle, with 275 rounds of .22 ammo, and a black 9 mm Springfield handgun with 31 rounds of ammo. Gronek was detained until February 18, 2021. On April 1, 2022, his felony charge was pled down to misdemeanor attempted carry. Gronek was sentenced to time served (about a month and a half) and a $50 fine. Harlan Boen from Colorado was arrested on January 5 for carrying a Glock 23 at Freedom Plaza. Boen allowed officers to pat him down, and then waived his Miranda rights. Boen was released from custody the next day, January 6, but faced felony charges. On December 15, 2021 he pled down to misdemeanor attempted carry, and received a suspended 45 day sentence (none served), a $50 fine, and 60 days of probation. On January 6, 2021, MPD stopped Virginians Julian Snell and Thomas Wolfe during a gun interdiction and found two handguns in the vehicle. They were charged with felonies, offered a misdemeanor plea deals, and then received deferred sentencing agreements with a diversion (charges disposed of completely) once they completed some community service. Why SCOTUS Will Toss 350 J6 Convictions. It's unlikely that many Americans sat down with a second cup of coffee and listened to last Tuesday's oral arguments before the Supreme Court in Fischer v. United States. Nonetheless, it was an edifying tutorial on how the Department of Justice abused a federal law in order to charge J6 rioters with a serious felony. The statute is part of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, passed in 2002 to prevent corporations from tampering with evidence to obstruct congressional inquiries or other official proceedings. For 19 years, the law was used only for that purpose. Then, in 2021, the DOJ redefined "official proceedings" to mean anything the government does, including certification of Electoral College votes. This arbitrary revision became necessary because the actual "crimes" committed by most of the J6 defendants amounted to little more than trespassing and disorderly conduct. This obviously conflicted with the narrative being pushed by President Biden, congressional Democrats and the corporate media, all of whom insisted from the beginning that the riot was a "deadly insurrection." Consequently, the DOJ had to come up with something that would sound more serious to the public than charging a few hundred knuckleheads with misdemeanors. President Trump Did Not Incite the Jan. 6 Capitol Riot. President Biden and others claim that President Trump incited the Capitol Riot, falsely described as an "insurrection," on January 6, 2021. This belief explains Colorado's failed attempt to remove Trump's name from the ballot because he is an "insurrectionist," as well as a national YouGov poll that found that 54% of Americans approved of the Colorado action. It is now used as a justification for Biden to refuse to debate Trump. This claim remains a serious problem — not only for Trump, but for obtaining an accurate history of what happened on January 6. A rational evaluation of Trump's words and actions, and other factors, demonstrates that this claim is nonsense. If Trump wanted a riot, why would he repeatedly request National Guard troops for January 6? On January 3, 2021, President Trump asked Secretary of Defense Miller and General Milley to assign National Guard troops to counter violence on January 6. Miller responded, "We've got a plan and we've got it covered." Troops could be legally provided only if requested by law enforcement. The Capitol Police declined the Defense Department's offer of troops. FBI Posthumously Investigated Ashli Babbitt for Felony Rioting. The 62 pages of records Judicial Watch obtained from the Justice Department show that the FBI opened a criminal investigation of Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt after her killing and listed four "potential violations of federal law," including felony rioting and civil disorder. She didn't riot. She tried to crawl through a broken window inside the Capitol. They rewarded Ashli Babbitt's killer while maliciously investigating a murdered woman. They decided not to charge her after her death. The newly obtained records include January 14, 2021, Electronic Communication indicating that eight days after Babbitt's death, under "Case ID#: 176-SD-3367083 (U) Ashli Elizabeth Babbitt," a posthumous investigation was initiated from San Diego, California. Good! The Lie Told To The Supreme Court By DOJ's Solicitor General During Oral Argument in Fischer v. United States. I listened very closely — twice — to the audio of the oral argument before the Supreme Court on April 16 in the case of Fischer v. United States, concerning whether the Department of Justice's use of a particular criminal "obstruction of justice" statute to prosecute defendants charged in connection with the Capitol protest on January 6, 2021. The question before the Court is whether DOJ's use of the particular statute — 18 U.S.C. Sec. 1512(c)(2) — is consistent with the purposes for which Congress passed that statute to criminalize wide-scale document destruction of business records by the accounting firm Arthur Andersen ahead of the DOJ investigation into ENRON. This article isn't about the overall nature of the oral argument or what it might portend for the outcome of the case — that's a deeper dive that is going to require more time than I have right now. This article is about the exchange over sentences imposed on January 6 defendants who have been convicted on of violating Sec. 1512(c)(2), and the duplicity of the Solicitor General on the subject when she tried to "pour cold water" on concerns expressed by multiple Justices over the use of "20 year felony" to address actions by defendants on that day. Oral Argument In J6 SCOTUS Case Lays Bare DOJ's Partisan Lawfare. The Supreme Court heard oral argument Tuesday in a criminal appeal challenging the Biden administration's use of a catch-all provision in a federal statute focused on the destruction of evidence to charge hundreds of J6 defendants with a 20-year felony. Over the course of the hour-long argument, the government made clear its view that the federal statute at issue, 18 U.S.C. 1512(c)(2), had an expansive reach — other than when Antifa burns a courthouse, a member of Congress pulls a fire alarm, or mostly peaceful protesters delay court or congressional proceedings. Anyone paying the slightest attention to the Biden administration's prosecution of J6 protesters and its slap-on-the-wrist coddling of other protesters knows there's a double standard in play. But the justices' questioning of the Biden administration during Tuesday's oral argument in Fischer v. United States forced the government to attempt to justify that disparate treatment. Justice
Clarence Thomas Grills DOJ Lawyer on January 6 'Obstruction' Statute. The US
Supreme Court on Tuesday heard oral arguments in Fischer v. United States and at issue is
statute 18 USC §1512(c)(2):
Justice Gorsuch Lays Waste to the Biden Administration's Argument for Jail Sentences. The Supreme Court heard arguments in the Fischer v. United States case, which related to whether the DC Court of Appeals "erred in construing 18 U.S.C. § 1512 obstruction of congressional inquiries and investigations, to include acts unrelated to investigations and evidence," according to SCOTUSblog. This criminal statute was slapped against hundreds of January 6 defendants, many serving years behind bars. During oral arguments, Justice Neil Gorsuch poked holes in the Biden Justice Department's case, listing four instances of "obstructing a Congressional proceeding," mentioning Rep. Jamaal Bowman's (D-NY) fire alarm stunt last year: [Tweet with video clip] The best part is when the Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar said they would need evidence of intent in these circumstances. "Oh, they intend to do it alright," replied Gorsuch. In March, a federal appeals court ruled that up to 100 January 6 defendants might have had their jail sentences improperly enhanced. Justice Neil Gorsuch Blows Up Department of Injustice's Case Against J6 Protesters. The United States Supreme Court is holding arguments in Fischer v. US, a case that could reduce criminal charges filed against more than 350 Trump supporters who participated in the US Capitol protest on January 6, 2021. The Department of Injustice (DOJ) is using a statute called "obstructed a Congressional proceeding" to prosecute hundreds of these protesters simply for exercising their First Amendment rights. This statute is a serious felony with the potential of 20 years behind bars. CNN notes that this case also has implications for President Donald Trump, who was charged by corrupt special counsel Jack Smith for exercising his First Amendment rights on that fateful day. The Deep State's Accelerating Attacks On Trump Show A Consciousness Of Guilt. The J6 "insurrection that wasn't" was a Democrat effort to entrap and delegitimize Trump and his supporters and to disqualify Trump's candidacy. Evidence shows that then-Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, spearheaded the plan by limiting security at this significant political event and then leading the impeachment against Trump for leading and inciting an insurrection, which she followed with a show trial (the illegitimate J6 Special Committee). That committee, without due process, referred Trump to the DOJ for criminal prosecution. Several states followed suit to remove Trump from the ballot based on the J6 Committee's findings. The DOJ and several states then indicted Trump for bogus criminal actions, i.e., falsely claiming the 2020 election was rigged. There is a growing body of evidence supporting the claim that there was election fraud. Furthermore, questioning the results of an election is protected political free speech. TSA Covering Up 'Quiet Skies' 'Terror' Watchlist On People Who Were In DC On J6. [Video clip only.] Supreme Court Will Hear Arguments on Thursday That Could Overturn Convictions of Hundreds of J6 Rioters. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear a case that could impact the 2024 presidential election and lead to the release of or reduction in sentences for hundreds of January 6 rioters. Before the trials began, the J6 prosecutors decided that the most serious charge they could get a conviction for was an obstruction charge. The prosecutors were alleging that the rioters obstructed an official proceeding of Congress, making the crime eligible to be prosecuted for anyone who "corruptly alters, destroys, mutilates, or conceals a record, document, or otherr object, or attempts to do so, with the intent to impair the object's integrity or availability for use in an official proceeding; or (2) otherwise obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding, or attempts to do so." There are two points of contention for defense attorneys. The first is the definition "corruptly" and the second is the "otherwise" wording that leads, they say, to an overly broad interpretation of the statute. The case involves Joseph W. Fischer, an off-duty Pennsylvania police officer, who is facing several charges as a result of his admitted participation in the riot. CIA Officer Admits To Undercover Journalist That FBI Agents Attended January 6 Protest At Capitol. An official with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) told an undercover journalist that members of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) were in attendance at the protests at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, and also highlighted methods that intelligence agencies use to disempower political opponents. Gavin O'Blennis, a self-proclaimed Contracting Officer for the CIA and former member of the FBI, was caught on camera by an undercover journalist with Sound Investigations as he discussed January 6. O'Blennis claimed that former President Donald Trump incited a riot before going on to say that roughly 20 undercover FBI agents were in the crowd. Bombshell Hearing Set, Three D.C. National Guard Officers to Expose January 6th Committee. The now-defunct January 6th committee is set to take another gut punch after the emergence of three whistleblowers from the Washington D.C. National Guard. According to The Daily Mail, which first reported the revelation, the three officers will testify that then-President Donald Trump and then-Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller did approve the deployment of the guard to help secure the Capitol Grounds. A hearing has been set for Wednesday in front of the House Oversight Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Barry Loudermilk. National Guard Whistleblowers to Testify They Were Ready to Be Deployed on Jan. 6 But Pentagon Delayed Orders. As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, former Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser were both warned about the security situation prior to January 6th and both of them turned down National Guard troops at the US Capitol that day. Pelosi and Mayor Muriel Bowser turned down thousands of National Guard troops at the Capitol on January 6 for political reasons. Chris Wray's FBI also refused to notify the Trump administration and his cabinet secretaries that they believed there could be violence like the mass protests at the Capitol that took place that day. Nancy Pelosi also refused the National Guard at the US Capitol due to politics. Call to Action for J6 Political Prisoner Jake Lang Who Has Been Put in Solitary Confinement with All Communication Cut. J6 political prisoner Jake Lang has been moved to solitary confinement and has had all communications cut off. Even his attorney, Steve Metcalf, is unable to reach him. Exposing Corruption at FBI: Whistleblowers Share Their Stories. Garret O'Boyle and Stephen Friend dedicated years of their lives to serving their country in the FBI. But when they began to question some of the decisions being made within the bureau, they were suspended. [...] After questioning some of the decisions being made within the FBI, O'Boyle was unexpectedly suspended from the bureau in 2022. Friend has a story similar to O'Boyle's. He was assigned to work on Jan. 6 cases, but raised concerns when he was informed that a SWAT team was to be used to arrest a man who was at the Capitol on Jan. 6, despite the fact that the man had agreed to cooperate with the investigation. Friend said he told his superiors, "We should not be doing this. There's other avenues to do it," referring to arresting the man. Shortly thereafter, Friend was suspended from the FBI. "There's No Court That's Found President Trump Tried to Steal the Election, Tried to Derail the Election or Tried to Start and Insurrection" — Robert Kennedy. Independent Presidential Candidate Robert Kennedy, Jr. described his recent interview with CNN host Erin Burnet when he famously explained how Joe Biden is more of a threat to democracy than Donald Trump. [Video clip] FBI Quietly Releases Unclassified File on Ashli Babbitt, During the Solar Eclipse. While most Americans were dialed in on the solar eclipse, the FBI quietly released unclassified documents regarding Ashli Babbitt, the Air Force veteran whom a Capitol Police officer killed on January 6th. On April 8th, the FBI released a highly redacted 69-page file on details of Ashli Babbitt's death, military background, and testimonies on Babbitt's character. On page three of the file, it was written, "BABBITT is deceased, and therefore, this case is not being nominated to TSDB." TSDB stands for "the terrorist screening data.["] Compare January 6 to this incident: Trump Should Talk More About January 6, Not Less. The once relevant political consultant Karl Rove made a bid to gain attention Wednesday by scolding former President Donald Trump for his vow to pardon January 6 defendants. "One of the critical mistakes made in this campaign is that Donald Trump has now said, 'I'm going to pardon those people because they're hostages,'" Rove said in an interview on MSNBC. "No, they're not. They're thugs." Having watched countless hours of January 6 footage in researching my forthcoming book, Ashli: The Untold Story of the Women of January 6, I feel safe to say that Rove has no idea what he is talking about. I would also argue that Trump should talk more about January 6, not less. The Capitol protest/riot lasted a little more than three hours. The Biden witch hunt has lasted more than three years and shows no sign of easing up. Trump is the only one with platform enough to expose this ongoing evil. And evil it is. Of the ten female "thugs" that I profile, the worst crime any one of them committed was to help break a window. That woman, Rachel Powell, a 40-something mother of eight, is now serving a 57-month prison sentence. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Undercuts Democrats on January 6: 'Little Evidence of a True Insurrection'. Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. issued a statement on the January 6 prosecutions Friday, saying that while violent rioters deserved to be punished, many prosecutions of non-violent protesters were excessive. Kennedy's statement undercuts the Democratic Party's effort to portray the 2024 election as a "defense of democracy" and a referendum on the so-called "insurrection," which Democrats blame on former President Donald Trump. 71-Year-Old Grandma Convicted on All Charges by DC Jury After Praying in Capitol on Jan. 6. A Washington, D.C., jury convicted Rebecca Lavrenz of Falcon, Colorado, known on social media as the "J6 Praying Grandma," of four federal misdemeanor charges Thursday related to her participation in the Jan. 6, 2021, incursion of the U.S. Capitol. The 71-year-old faces up to a year in prison and more than $200,000 in fines, the Colorado Springs Gazette reported. According to federal court documents, Lavrenz's crimes were entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly conduct in a restricted area, disorderly conduct in the Capitol Building, and parading, demonstrating or picketing in the Capitol. Another J6er Gets Over 7 Years in Prison.. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth handed down a sentence of over seven years in prison to Taylor James Johnatakis for his role in leading an 'attack' on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Videos provided as evidence showed Johnatakis using a megaphone to direct a crowd against a line of police. Johnatakis allegedly led other rioters on a charge against a police line. Lamberth asserted Johnatakis "barked commands" over his megaphone and gave step-by-step instructions for overpowering law enforcement officers. "In any angry mob, there are leaders and there are followers. Mr. Johnatakis was a leader. He knew what he was doing that day," the judge said before sentencing Johnatakis to seven years and three months. The prosecution was seeking a nine-year prison sentence. Johnatakis was arrested in February 2021 and has been jailed since November 2023, when jurors convicted him of seven counts, including obstruction of the January 6, 2021, joint session of Congress certifying Joe Biden's 2020 electoral victory. Biased Federal Judge Handling January 6 Cases Goes on CNN to Rip Trump in Unprecedented TV Interview. In an appalling violation of the code of ethics, US District Judge Reggie Walton went on CNN to speak publicly about pending legal matters. Judge Walton, a Bush appointee, spoke with CNN's Kaitlan Collins Thursday evening about threats he has received after he called Trump a "charlatan" and rendered excessive punishment to J6 defendants. "I've had more threats than what used to be the case," the judge said referring to a January 6 case he oversaw. Even Kaitlan Collins conceded that it is "rare that we get to hear from a sitting federal judge." Judge Rebukes DOJ Arguments Against Release of Jan. 6 Defendant. A Jan. 6 defendant seeking to be released from prison was granted in part by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia this week. The order, signed by U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden on March 26, will grant the release of Kevin Seefried, a defendant convicted for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol breach, pending the appeal of his conviction. This decision comes despite stark warnings from the Justice Department regarding the implications of such a move. Mr. Seefried received a three-year prison sentence for obstructing an official proceeding among other charges, facing a potential maximum sentence of 23 years. After his conviction, he appealed and requested release pending appeal, a request that gained new relevance when the Supreme Court decided to review a related case, Fischer v. United States, which could impact many Jan. 6 defendants. Some Men Just Want... Why would anyone who purportedly cares about the welfare of his parents, spouse, or children, not to mention his fellow man, think it's a good idea to hamstring law enforcement while making it easier for criminals to roam the streets? Or useful to allow the mentally ill to roam the subways while arresting good Samaritans seeking to protect their fellow riders? Or prudent to allow some folks to riot, causing deaths, injuries and destruction — even during a pandemic — while other folks go to prison for a long, long time for taking a walk in the Capitol, with the Capitol Police kindly opening the doors and providing tours? The expected tantrum of madness should Biden actually lose the election. Right now a rational look at both the polling trends and the disastrous consequences of Joe Biden's presidency all suggest the American public is screaming for a change. The historic shift in the black and hispanic populations to Trump and away from the Democratic Party underlines these trends quite clearly. These trends are further underlined by the presence of two different moderate-left alternative presidential tickets, both drawing the bulk of their support from the Democrats. [...] Expect the Democrats to do everything they can think of to invalid the election in the courts. There will be numerous lawsuits, innumerable demands for recounts, and a strong effort by congressional Democrats to refuse to certify the election. And they will be backed up by their own voters, 57% of whom would support a refusal to certify a Trump election victory. Talk about irony. These same Democrats have screamed "Insurrection!" for four years because some Republicans called for the same thing in 2020, and did so because of legitimate concerns about voter fraud. Now the Democrats will call for the same thing, not because of any evidence of voter fraud but because they simply lost. Mop-Up Man: Is This Former ATF Agent Running the J6 Pipe Bomb Coverup? We have long maintained that the two smoking guns of the January 6 Fedsurrection are the curious case of Ray Epps, on the one hand, and the RNC/DNC pipe bomb hoax, on the other. Our extensive reporting on the case of Epps enjoyed a natural assist from the fact that the now-iconic video of Epps urging the crowd to go "into the Capitol" and the subsequent chants from the crowd of "Fed, Fed, Fed" were seemingly tailor-made to go viral. While our ground-breaking reporting on January 6 had been no less comprehensive and no less damning, for the longest time it lacked a corresponding video clip to help carry this historic scandal into mainstream attention. All of this changed when we drew attention to a certain explosive (no pun intended) surveillance video that had quietly and with great reluctance been released by the Capitol Police thanks to the persistent efforts of Thomas Massie, who has valiantly used his Congressional perch to advance our body of research on the January 6 pipe bomb. Jan. 6 Defendant Released Early After Supreme Court Takes Case That Could Shorten Sentence. A federal judge has released a man sentenced to three years behind bars concerning actions during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol Building after the Supreme Court took up a case that could have affected his sentence and that of hundreds of others. Kevin Seefried, a resident of Laurel, Del., was handed a felony conviction of obstructing an official proceeding. Furthermore, Seefried received a 12-month and 6-month sentence for misdemeanor charges. According to the Department of Justice, Seefried and his son Hunter were among the first people to enter the Capitol during the January 6th insurrection. They were also photographed carrying a Confederate flag while inside. According to Newsweek, the obstruction charge is at the center of the case that the nation's highest court has taken up. DC US Attorney Matthew Graves Fights to Keep J6ers Charged with 'Obstruction' Statute Jailed Pending SCOTUS Decision. Last week US Attorney from DC Matthew Graves fired a warning shot to the US Supreme Court — and J6ers serving time for 18 USC §1512(c)(2), the 'obstruction' statute pending before SCOTUS. Graves threatened to seek more prison time for the J6ers if the Supreme Court reverses the obstruction statute this summer. [...] The Supreme Court is expected to issue a decision on Fischer v United States this summer which means hundreds of J6 cases could be upended. Biden's corrupt DOJ has charged more than 300 J6ers with 18 USC §1512(c)(2). Additionally, two of the four charges against Trump in Jack Smith's DC case are conspiracy to obstruct so the Supreme Court's ruling could torpedo the special counsel's case against Trump as well. If the Supreme Court reverses the statute and jailed J6ers ask for release, the DOJ will respond with a request for consecutive sentences and enhancements. Liz Cheney's Jan. 6 Committee Was So Vicious That [the] Secretary of Defense Himself Felt Threatened. How partisan and savage was the House's kangaroo committee on the Capitol incursion? Run by a cadre of far-left Democrats and NeverTrumper Republican Liz Cheney, it was bad enough that Chris Miller, acting defense secretary at the end of former President Donald Trump's administration, said he was threatened into remaining silent. In an interview with the U.K. Daily Mail published on Friday, Miller said the committee told him they would "make his life hell" if he maintained that Trump authorized a National Guard presence to maintain order in the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The National Guard was not deployed at the Capitol that day until after most of the violence had taken place. Kash Patel claims he was smeared by the January 6 committee. Kash Patel has faced a years-long smear campaign aimed at discrediting his testimony to the Select Committee investigating January 6 that he claims proves Donald Trump did not engage in insurrection. Central to the panel's argument that Trump incited the Capitol riot and is an 'insurrectionist' is their finding that he did not 'deploy' the National Guard to Washington, D.C. as his supporters descended on the Capitol. But Patel testified, and reiterated to DailyMail.com in an interview, that Trump did verbally authorize National Guard deployment during an Oval Office meeting on January 3, 2021 — three days before the now infamous riot. Ronna McDaniel, Now Paid by NBC, Fully Rips Off Her Mask: 'I Condemn What Happened on January 6'. Ronna McDaniel appeared on Sunday's "Meet the Press," but not as an NBC News political analyst as was assumed after a Friday announcement that she'd joined the network. Instead, her appearance was as an interviewee, in a pre-scheduled interview with host Kristin Welker. Welker asked McDaniel about a bunch of hot-button topics but first asked about her record at the RNC, highlighting that one RNC committee member called McDaniel a "failed chair" and asking if McDaniel deserved to still be in her role after the shellacking the party repeatedly suffered at the ballot box during her tenure. Of course, McDaniel believes she did a great job, and any shortcomings were because of the candidates running, or Donald Trump and his supporters. Anyone but Ronna. The Editor says... Former Trump Defense Sec Says Liz Cheney, J6 Committee Threatened to 'Make My Life Hell' If He Contradicted Their Preferred Narrative. Donald Trump's former acting Secretary of Defense, Chris Miller, has revealed that he felt "threatened" by former Congresswoman Liz Cheney and other members of the January 6th Committee after he refused to endorse their version of events. In an interview with Daily Mail, Miller said that he became "fearful" of the panel's tactics after they tried to stop him making claims that ran contrary to their preferred narrative. According to Miller, the panel were particularly upset by a Fox News interview he gave with Trump national security official Kash Patel in which he pointed out that the former president authorized the National Guard to step in quell the protests taking place in and around the Capitol. "The two of us were on [the Fox News show] and the next day my lawyer got a call from the Jan. 6 staff director — I forgot exactly who it was — but basically saying, very legalistic: 'Well, if your client has additional information he wants to share, we'd be happy to have him re-interviewed,'" Miller explained. What Was the CIA Doing at the January 6 Riot? It was like old home week for the alphabet agencies at their reunion at the U.S. Capitol riot on January 6, 2021. In addition to all kinds of feds, assets, narcs, PCs, informants, and other characters from the Department of Defense, FBI, Department of Homeland Security, ATF, and the Department of Justice, you can add CIA to the party. What were they doing there? What a fantastic question. Judicial Watch sued in federal court to uncover January 6 documents relating to "records and communications regarding shots being fired inside the U.S. Capitol, as well as requests for Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Special Response Team assistance on January 6, 2021." Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch wondered what the agency, which is not allowed to operate domestically, was doing there. ["]Why didn't the Pelosi January 6 commission, as corrupt as it was, not disclose the CIA involvement? What were they used for? Were they investigating foreign intelligence operations? Were they investigating American citizens? What else have they done related to January 6?["] Judicial Watch received ATF documents showing that the CIA had multiple operators there that day. House May Refer Members of January 6 Committee for Prosecution. House Oversight Committee chairman Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) announced this week that the House may refer members of the partisan January 6 Committee to the Department of Justice for alleged misconduct involving document concealment and destruction. During his ongoing investigation into the January 6 Committee's activities, Loudermilk revealed that the Committee had disposed of documents and records despite being warned by then-incoming Speaker of the House Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to preserve all records. This news comes in the wake of a House report that found that the Democrat-led committee withheld exculpatory evidence about Trump from the public. [...] Loudermilk specifically called out Rep. Bennie Thompson, (D-Miss.), the previous head of the Jan 6 Select Committee, suggesting that Thompson relinquished decision-making authority to ex-Rep. Liz Cheney. "There's still documents that we need to get hold of. We still don't have passwords for the encrypted documents," Loudermilk said. "It's amazing that you know, when I asked the former Chairman Bennie Thompson, 'all I want you to do is give me the passwords.' He said, 'I don't even know what you're talking about.' Well, I think it's coming down to he probably didn't, because now new information we're getting is that Liz Cheney ran that committee." January 6: The CIA got in on the fun. [Scroll down] There were no bombs at the Capitol. I've been reporting on the murder of Ashli Babbitt, and the cover up protecting her Capitol Police murderer from the beginning. Not only was her murder a textbook case of a bad shoot, her killer, Michael Byrd, a man known for incompetence with his handgun, was promoted. Judicial Watch has filed a wrongful death lawsuit regarding Babbitt. Hopefully, that suit will eventually expose more [Biden administration] abuses. The CIA is supposed to be legally prevented from engaging in spying or law enforcement in America. Counter Espionage is the province of the FBI, but during the [Biden administration], both agencies have become even more weaponized than they were under Barack Obama. Obviously, both are now turned inward, focusing on suppressing the political enemies of the [Biden administration]: Normal Americans. The Face of Democrat Justice. January 6, 2021 — Nancy Pelosi led the congressional electoral vote process. The strategy was to have various Republican members of the House and Senate challenge votes in states where election fraud was suspected. This could change the outcome of the election. During the vote a mob broke into the congressional chambers. Members left for six hours while the building was secured. When Congress reconvened, unchallenged electoral votes were accepted, and Vice President Mike Pence announced Joe Biden as the winner. CIA Involved in January 6 Response — Deployed Bomb Techs, Dog Teams, Texts Reveal. Conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch obtained a tranche of emails that further prove the CIA played a key role in January 6. According to the records obtained by Judicial Watch through a June 5 FOIA lawsuit, CIA bomb technicians were sent over to the so-called 'bombs' found at the RNC and DNC headquarters. They also had dog teams on standby. Per Judicial Watch: A heavily redacted series of text messages from redacted sources state, "Command post is at JERSEY and D St SE." Three additional recipients are added to the text group at 1:21 p.m., one of whom reports: "Just made contact with [redacted] FBI is reporting an additional 3 possible devices for a total of 5 now." A response follows: "Do you have the locations of the other devices?" The reply is: "Not yet, the FBI is going to pass it on. I believe one was located at the gates to the Power Plant." The following text states: "LEO's [Law Enforcement Officers] being attacked on the west side of Capitol with pieces of the restraining fence. Some officers injured." The
J6 backup plan. Does anyone remember the pipe bombs planted near the DNC and RNC on
January 6, 2021, when the Electoral College voted to confirm the BidenDemolitioncrat theft of
the 2020 election? Many questions remain about this incident.
J6 Committee's Suppressed Evidence Scandal Exonerates Trump From 'Insurrection' Narrative. The greatest con job ever to happen in American politics is the false Jan. 6 "insurrection" narrative. The singular mission of this narrative is to stop Donald Trump from ever setting foot in the Oval Office again. A key pillar of the left's propaganda about insurrection is to distort the truth surrounding whether Trump authorized, prior to Jan. 6, the deployment of National Guard troops to keep order on that day. The main architect of this disinformation campaign is former Congresswoman Liz Cheney. During my time on Capitol Hill as the chief investigator for the House Intelligence Committee, I remember briefing then-Congresswoman Cheney on the critical findings of the Russiagate investigation in 2017. Cheney consumed the information in an apolitical fashion, a promising characteristic for someone in such an important position. However, this ended when she must have decided that Trump threatened her dynastic political existence and endangered her father's empire in the defense-industrial complex. Joining the most fraudulent committee in congressional history, Cheney shed her impartiality, catching the same virus that has infected the swamp, one constitutional arsonist at a time, Trump Derangement Syndrome. For over three years, I have done countless media interviews, answered numerous subpoenas, and testified before congressional committees and grand juries about the 45th president's actions regarding the National Guard in the lead-up to Jan. 6, 2021. Unfortunately for the propaganda press, the truth never changed, nor did any of my testimony. Bureau of Prisons Tells Rep. Andy Ogles It Refuses to Transfer Unjustly Imprisoned J6 Defendant Stewart Parks to Minimum Security Satellite Camp. A Federal Bureau of Prison (BOP) official on Wednesday formally refused the written request by Representative Andy Ogles (R-TN-05) to move unjustly imprisoned January 6 defendant Stewart Parks to the minimum security satellite camp located at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Memphis. Despite Parks being a nonviolent, first-time offender convicted after he merely entered the U.S. Capitol on January 6, the letter by BOP Legislative Affairs Chief David Mapp claims the medium security prison is an "appropriate facility" for the Tennessee entrepreneur and former congressional candidate. Ogles originally sent his letter to FCI Memphis Warden F.J. Bowers last month following reporting by The Tennessee Star which offered details from Parks about what he experienced inside the prison. The congressman asked Bowers to reply by February 17. Democrats' Jan. 6 panel withheld crucial evidence, including denial from Trump driver: new report. The House Democrat-led Jan. 6 committee withheld crucial evidence from the public, including witness interviews that conflicted with the testimony of star witness Cassidy Hutchinson and her claim then-President Donald Trump tried to commandeer his presidential SUV and take it to the U.S. Capitol that day, House Republicans declared in an explosive new report Monday [3/11/2024]. The House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight, chaired by Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., released its first findings from its year-long probe into Capitol security failures on Jan. 6, 2021, and the initial Democrat effort to investigate the incident. The report provided evidence contradicting several claims that Democrats made in their final report in December 2022. For the first time, Loudermilk's report released information from the Secret Service driver who took Trump to his Jan. 6, 2021 speech on the Ellipse and back to the White House. The driver, who wasn't identified by name, directly contradicted Hutchinson's story about Trump trying to grab the wheel of the presidential SUV and take it to the Capitol, the report said. Report Confirms Liz Cheney's Corruption in Handling of J6. This week, we heard that three days before the J6 riot/rally, Liz Cheney orchestrated the letter from ten living Pentagon chiefs who said the time for contesting the election "has passed," and the military [National Guard included] can't be involved. On J6, the Acting Secretary of Defense Miller wouldn't send the National Guard for hours. Cheney hid exculpatory evidence that showed Donald Trump did request the National Guard. Cheney keeps saying he didn't order them up, but the President can't do that, and she knows it. Now we have Barry Loudermilk's report confirming her deceit and manipulation. She needs to face justice for what she has done. Maybe she will skate, but that would be an injustice. Rep. Barry Loudermilk's report on the J6 panel is devastating if people pay attention. Cheney surprised her own J6 committee with Cassidy Hutchinson's invented story about what happened in the presidential SUV on Jan. 6. Ex-Trump Adviser Peter Navarro [has been] Ordered to Prison Next Week. Peter Navarro, a former trade adviser to President Donald Trump who was convicted of contempt of Congress, has been ordered to report to prison next week. Arrival at a Miami detention facility on or before March 19 will see him begin serving a four-month sentence for refusing to comply with an order from the now-defunct House Jan. 6 select committee. Trump takes victory lap after Secret Service driver disputes Democrats' J6 narrative. Former President Donald Trump claimed vindication Monday after new evidence released by Congress undercut two sensational claims Democrats made about him during the Jan. 6 investigation, including that he tried to commandeer his Secret Service vehicle that day to go to the Capitol and never offered National Guard troops for extra protection ahead of the fateful event. "These were made-up, fabricated stories," Trump told Just the News in an exclusive interview. Trump spoke hours after the House Administration Oversight Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., released transcripts and other evidence in an interim report that concluded the Democrat-run House Select Committee on Jan, 6 withheld from the public evidence that contradicted its final conclusions. That evidence included an interview with the Secret Service driver of the presidential SUV, who directly contradicted former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, the Democrats' star witness during their 2022 nationally televised hearing, and disputed her claim Trump tried to grab the wheel of the presidential car known as "The Beast" and tried to strangle a Secret Service agent in a desperate effort to get his detail to go the Capitol where the Jan. 6, 2021, riot was happening. House GOP opens probe into Democrat J6 panel 'collusion' with Atlanta prosecutor pursuing Trump. Republican congressional investigators have opened an inquiry into the extent of "collusion" between the Democrat-run House Jan. 6 committee and the Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis during her prosecution of Donald Trump. In a status report released Monday, the House Administration Oversight Subcommittee chaired by Rep. Barry. Loudermilk, R-Ga., said that it located a letter in which Willis in 2021 asked for the House Democrats to send her any evidence that would further her prosecution of Trump. The committee said it was concerned that the Democrat-run investigation led by Reps. Benny Thompson and Liz Cheney may have shared evidence such as video depositions with Willis's office while not providing them to the Republicans that took over the House chamber in 2023. The Republicans raised their concerns in chapter of the report Monday entitled "collusion with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis." House
Committee Releases Report Showcasing How Pelosi's J6 Committee Was Used for Politics and
Lawfare. The House Subcommittee on Oversight released a report and overview
highlighting just how political the J6 committee was. The report outlines how Nancy Pelosi
structured the J6 committee for political intents, and the longer report showcases the evidence of
how Liz Cheney assisted. [...] The "J6 committee staff" that led the conversations with Fani Willis
is a person, and that person's name is Mary McCord. As the lead in the J6 staff effort, there
is simply no way to believe the committee staff that met with Fani Willis did not include McCord.
New Information on Liz Cheney's Deceit and Perverse Actions Surrounding Events on Jan. 6 Raises Serious Calls for Her Arrest and Prosecution. A May 2021 report revealed that Liz Cheney 'secretly orchestrated the Washington Post op-ed by all ten living former Defense Secretaries — including her father — warning against Trump's efforts to politicize the military' prior to January 6. In the Washington Post op-ed, the disgraced congresswoman warned that "involving the military in election disputes would cross into dangerous territory." Weeks later, Liz Cheney led the efforts to impeach President Trump and throw him in prison for not securing the US Capitol prior to the January 6 protests. It is now widely reported that it was Pelosi, Democrats, Mayor Bowser, and the Capitol Police who refused President Trump's request to secure the US Capitol with 10,000 National Guard troops. Capitol Police confirm disrupting Congress is just a $50 fine. I had no intention of watching the SOTU, preferring instead to scan the headlines this morning for key takeaways, but this one caught my eye: HuffPost via AOL reports this morning: ["]Steve Nikoui, whose son in the Marines was killed during the 2021 evacuation of Afghanistan, screamed at President Joe Biden as he gave his State of the Union speech. Nikoui was arrested. [...] Nikoui was charged with a misdemeanor for Crowding, Obstructing, or Incommoding, ABC News reported. Capitol Police said it had warned Nikoui to stop before taking action. 'This is a routine charge on Capitol Hill. People who illegally demonstrate/disrupt Congress typically are released after they pay a $50 fine, so the misdemeanor charge is resolved without going to court,' officers wrote, per The New York Times.["] Well, there we have it. J6 prisoners need only pay a $50 fine and be released with a misdemeanor charge. Liz Cheney, January 6 Committee Suppressed Exonerating Evidence Of Trump's Push For National Guard. Former Rep. Liz Cheney's January 6 Committee suppressed evidence that President Donald Trump pushed for 10,000 National Guard troops to protect the nation's capital, a previously hidden transcript obtained by The Federalist shows. Cheney and her committee falsely claimed they had "no evidence" to support Trump officials' claims the White House had communicated its desire for 10,000 National Guard troops. In fact, an early transcribed interview conducted by the committee included precisely that evidence from a key source. The interview, which Cheney attended and personally participated in, was suppressed from public release until now. Deputy Chief of Staff Anthony Ornato's first transcribed interview with the committee was conducted on January 28, 2022. In it, he told Cheney and her investigators that he overheard White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows push Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser to request as many National Guard troops as she needed to protect the city. He also testified President Trump had suggested 10,000 would be needed to keep the peace at the public rallies and protests scheduled for January 6, 2021. Ornato also described White House frustration with Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller's slow deployment of assistance on the afternoon of January 6, 2021. Fact-Checking the Fabulist in Chief's State of the Union. During Thursday's State of the Union address, Biden fully displayed his fabulist tendencies. His assessment of the administration's accomplishments and his impact was not anchored in reality. He accused Republicans of burying the "truth" about January 6, 2021. This is odd since the January 6 Committee that existed prior to the Republican majority "lost" encrypted files. The Republican majority has also released thousands of hours of tape of the event to the public. Apparently, Biden does not believe Americans can watch the footage and make their own assessment. CCTV Video Shows Kamala Harris Exiting US Capitol at 11:21 AM on Jan. 6 — DOJ Later Lied and Said She was in the Building During Riot. New CCTV video was posted earlier on Tuesday that shows Kamala Harris exiting the US Capitol at 11:21 AM on January 6, 2021. The DOJ later lied and later filed indictments for a year against Trump supporters claiming Kamala Harris was still in the building later that day. The video was released today by Free State Will. [Tweet with video clip] And video also shows a man dressed as a protester in a hoodie coordinating with police before any protesters entered the US Capitol that day. [Two tweets with video clips] More than 100 J6 defendants were charged with 1512c felony charges for their actions that day. The DOJ claimed in the charges that Kamala Harris and VP Mike Pence were in the US Capitol at the time of the rioting. New J6 Footage Shows Kamala Harris Leaving Capitol before Breach, Undermining DOJ Narrative. The House Oversight Committee released the largest tranche of Jan. 6 footage to date on Friday, publishing 5,000 hours of video documenting the Capitol Hill uprising. Much of the footage has been analyzed by Jan. 6 defendant William Pope, who released his findings on Twitter. Perhaps the most notable finding from Pope was footage of Vice President-elect Kamala Harris leaving the Capitol at 11:21 a.m. — hours before the building was breached by angry protestors. Pope's findings definitively disproves prior assertions by the Justice Department that Harris was in the Capitol when rioters broke into the building. [Tweet] Why the Trump SCOTUS victory is bigger than it looks. It is instructive for all Americans that the U.S. Supreme Court just ruled unanimously in President Trump's favor, concerning what should have been an obvious legal fact in constitutional law. The Court asserted that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment (an "insurrection" disqualification, originally aimed at post-Civil War Confederate candidates who might otherwise have had differing views on whether, or from whom, there was an "insurrection") is not within the purview of the states and is, rather, a potential congressional judgment. [...] But there is more. While the justices did not venture into an opinion as to what merits may exist vis-à-vis presidential culpability in a January 6 insurrection claim, it is nonetheless a Supreme Court opinion stemming from an appeal over just that assertion. Since President Trump cannot be proven culpable under standards of actual evidence (the left's fallacy of assertion is not evidence of proof, which is why leftists have been obsessed with "intent"), nor can an insurrection itself be defined and proven (versus mere trespass), the entire fraudulent January 6 DNC program is effectively dead. Tony Bobulinski Sues J6 Show Trial Star Cassidy Hutchinson For Defamation. Biden family whistleblower Tony Bobulinski sued for defamation Democrats' star witness in the Jan. 6 Committee's show trials. Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to Donald Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, famously testified two years ago that President Trump tried to violently hijack a security limousine and drive himself to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The sources she cited at the hearing almost immediately went on record to contradict her sworn testimony. Legacy networks NBC, CBS, and CNN reported Hutchinson's sources were prepared to go under oath to testify that her claims were false. Now Hutchinson is being sued for "malicious conduct" by Bobulinski. He claims the former White House aide fabricated details about meetings between him and Meadows in her memoir released last September, "Enough." Hutchinson, the lawsuit reads, "cashed in on her brief proximity to President Trump to become the 'star' witness of, and in collaboration with, the January 6th Committee and profited from politically left-wing business ventures." What crime would justify this punishment? Checkmating DoJ and Jack Smith. If you have been paying attention at all, you are aware that hundreds of peaceful January 6 demonstrators at the Capitol have received draconian punishments and, as Julie Kelly so assiduously reports, are being very badly treated in confinement. A few have even committed suicide because of their treatment at the hands of the D.C. Courts and the prosecution. Two cases signal that as many as 100 or more of them will have a pathway to obtain reduction of their sentences. As I will explain, these cases and the Supreme Court's grant of certiorari in response to a Trump motion for a stay, may well result in a major loss to Special Counsel Jack Smith and those counting on a jail term for Trump being a vehicle to schlep the demented President Biden over the finish line for a second term. All the J6 defendants who pleaded guilty had to agree not to challenge the levels of sentence enhancement the DoJ said were applicable. Those who refused the plea deals and went to court (a lesser number) were given those enhancements anyway by the D.C. Circuit Court judges. At least 100 J6 attendees were very wrongly over-sentenced. People swept up in the Department of Justice's January 6 dragnet have been getting extraordinarily harsh sentences. While daily headlines are filled with stories of repeat offenders walking away with slaps on the wrist following brutal crimes, the January 6 defendants, almost every one of whom had no previous criminal record (that I'm aware of), were being sent away for years simply for having stepped onto Capitol grounds. These were insane sentences compared to what happened to violent and destructive Antifa and BLM protestors. Now, though, a D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a unanimous decision, held that the prosecutors and the judges improperly used a "multiplier" to reach these sentences. The decision arises in the case of only one defendant — Larry Brock — a retired Air Force officer who entered the capitol wearing a helmet and tactical vest and who was carrying zip ties that he testified he found on the floor and picked up. There's no indication that he did anything other than wander through the Capitol. Nevertheless, for these sins, Brock was sentenced to two years in prison. The Pipe Bombs Before Jan. 6: Capital Mystery That Doesn't Add Up. The newly disclosed video shows a dark SUV pulling up to the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in Washington, D.C., at 9:44 a.m. on Jan. 6, 2021. It sits for several minutes until a uniformed man with a bomb-sniffing dog enters from the right and steps up to the vehicle. The driver complies with his command, the dog sniffs inside and outside the car which is soon allowed to enter the parking garage. The man and his dog exit back to the right. This scene is unremarkable except for one detail: The uniformed man and his trained canine came within a few feet of where a plainclothes Capitol Police officer would soon discover a pipe bomb that had been planted there the night before. The bomb, which the FBI has described as viable and capable of inflicting serious injury, along with a similar one found at the headquarters of the Republican National Committee, would appear to be the most overt act of violence perpetrated on Jan. 6. Responding to the video discovered by this reporter, Rep. Barry Loudermilk, the Georgia Republican who chairs the House Oversight Committee subcommittee now conducting a separate inquiry into Jan. 6, asked, "How could a bomb-sniffing dog miss a pipe bomb at the DNC? We'll add this to our long list of unanswered questions and continue getting to the truth." Federal Appeals Court Decision May Lead to Resentencing for January 6 Defendants. A federal court on Friday [3/1/2024] struck down a sentencing enhancement brought against January 6 defendants facing felony obstruction charges, a ruling that opens the door to potential resentencing for over 100 individuals convicted for participating in the riot at the Capitol. The particular case on which the court ruled dealt with retired Air Force lieutenant colonel Larry R. Brock Jr., whose felony conviction for obstruction of an official proceeding was upheld in the decision issued by the D.C. circuit court. While the court's move to overturn the sentencing enhancement — which is used to increase suggested sentences for judges to consider — may create new work for prosecutors as they move through the approximately 650 remaining charged cases stemming from January 6, sentences levied by D.C. judges generally fell below enhanced guidelines. Appeals Court Overturns Jan. 6 Defendant's Sentence, Potentially Impacting Dozens of Cases. An appeals court in Washington unanimously ruled that a Jan. 6 defendant's sentence was improperly enhanced, a move that could impact numerous other Jan. 6 cases. On Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled that Larry Brock, who was convicted for a range of crimes related to Jan. 6, improperly had additional charges of "interference with the administration of justice." The judge who wrote the court's opinion wrote that the charge doesn't apply to a sentencing enhancement, however, and struck it down. "Brock challenges both the district court's interpretation of Section 1512(c)(2)'s elements and the sufficiency of the evidence to support that conviction," wrote the judge, Patricia Millett. Wife of Tennessee J6 Prisoner Ronald McAbee Declares Justice System 'Failed' After Nearly Six-Year Sentence. January 6 defendant Ronald McAbee was sentenced on Thursday to 70 months in federal prison for the actions prosecutors said he took on January 6. Ronald McAbee previously argued in court that video showed him attempting to help a member of Capitol Police, with the Tennessee man telling a fallen officer that he was helping and wanted to separate him from the crowd. He was convicted in October 2023. Prior to the exchange with police, during which prosecutors argued he assaulted police officers, the video depicting Ronald McAbee's actions on January 6 also shows the former Williamson County Deputy Sheriff appearing to render aid to Rosanne Boylan, who died following a confrontation with police and was trampled by the crowd. His wife, Sarah McAbee, called the sentence part of the "maze of injustice" experienced by their family since her husband was arrested in August 2021 in a statement posted to X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. The Editor says... FBI Forced a Young Mother to Stand Outside Barefoot in 12° Weather While They Ransacked Her Home. Chris Kuehne was sentenced on Friday for his actions on January 6, 2021 at the US Capitol. Chris is a 22-year veteran who received numerous medals and awards, including the Purple Heart, a Navy Commendation Medal with Valor, and a Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal with Valor for actions in combat. [...] On January 6, 2021, Chris went inside the Capitol but did not cause any harm or damage — in fact, he cleaned trash off the floor, helped to stop theft of government property, asked people to leave the building, and went up to Capitol Police Officers to ask how he could help. Chris was also set up by an FBI operative that day. Chris committed no violence and did nothing wrong. [...] For the record, Chris was setup by an FBI operative who was embedded in his Kansas City group before Jan. 6. FBI and Secret Service are Covering Up What They Know About January 6 Bomb Scare, Evidence Suggests. On Monday, Alex Gutentag and I reported that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is misrepresenting the location of the alleged bomb allegedly found at the Republican National Committee (RNC) headquarters on January 5, 2021, and that little about the alleged bomb scare makes any sense. Today, I sat down with Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave of "The Rising" to discuss the issue. They asked me hard questions, and I was glad to have the dialogue. [Paywall] Security Boss Unloads January 6 Bombshell — This is the Most Explosive Update in Years. When Republicans took over Congress last year, Democrats quickly tried to cover up its investigations into January 6. According to reports, they even destroyed evidence, perhaps to foil Republicans' plans to uncover the truth. The left maintains that Trump staged an "insurrection" on that day. And it is certain that Biden will keep saying that as we enter the election. But Republicans have been quietly investigating what really went on. Newsmen like Tucker Carlson dropped bombshells after receiving footage from House Republicans. Now, a new report is revealing another piece of news Democrats conveniently forgot to tell us. RNC Security Officer Who First Responded to J6 Pipe Bomb Claims Official Story 'Makes No Sense'. The director of security for the Republican National Committee recently called into question the official explanation of the pipe bomb that was discovered on Jan. 6, 2021, saying that it "makes no sense whatsoever." Let's be real: not much that happened that day makes sense. The official narrative of events has proven to be less than accurate. And if everything was as cut and dried as the narrative the Democratic Party and many talking heads make it out to be, with Trump supporters twisted into caricatures of "right-wing extremism," then why on earth has so much video evidence emerged since the incident to show that police officers on the scene allowed individuals into the Capitol building and even escorted some of them around? Something smells fishy about the whole situation, but if you dare question the narrative, you get slapped with the "conspiracy theorist" label. That particular phrase was created to shame and silence anyone who questioned an official story coming from the government. Keep that in mind. Turncoat Mike Pence Announces $20 Million to Fight GOP's Turn to Populism. Turncoat Mike Pence was in the news again after announcing he was spending $20 million to fight the Republican Party's turn to populism. Mike Pence made this announcement to slow down President Trump. Once again dirty Mike Pence is doing the will of the DC elites and Democrats to hurt Donald Trump and the country. Pence is most famous for misleading 75 million Trump voters into thinking he had the [courage] to challenge the suspect 2020 election results in six battleground states. Pence lied about this and folded like a lawn chair. After his actions riots broke out on Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021, after police started firing rubber bullets, gas cannisters, and smoke bombs on the Trump protesters outside the US Capitol. Indicted FBI agent stole cash, silver from Houston man prosecuted over Jan. 6 riots, records show. A Houston college student prosecuted for his participation in the Jan. 6 insurrection was one of people robbed by a Houston-based FBI agent, according to newly released court records. Alexander Fan's complaint about missing cash and silver helped lead to the January indictment of FBI agent Nicholas Anthony Williams, according to court records. Fan, 27, was sentenced to 12 months probation in connection to the riot. Fan was found guilty of entering and remaining a room in the Capitol building. He was accused of climbing into an office through a broken window after his entry was blocked by a closed door. J6 Political Hostages Ryan Samsel And Jake Lang Moved In the Middle Of The Night To Undisclosed Location. The US Marshals transferred J6 political prisoners Ryan Samsel and Jake Lang from the DC Gulag predawn Tuesday morning to an undisclosed location, and no one knows where they are. Jail guards forced Samsel and Lang to adhere to a temperature check around 7 pm on Monday, a typical indication that within hours, any semblance of normalcy would be torpedoed, and they would be mysteriously transferred to another jail in another state. At approximately 4 am on Tuesday, Samsel and Lang were chained and shackled in black box cuffs and thrown on a bus and were provided no information about where they would be taken. The two high-profile January 6 defendants could be transferred to any jail across the United States or even housed in a maximum security prison at the BOP's discretion. Railroaded J6 political prisoner teaching Constitution to hardcore criminals. The Federal Bureau of Prisons has barred J6 prisoner Joseph Biggs — a decorated war veteran and former Infowars reporter, but branded an imminent threat to national security by the Biden administration — from legally speaking to the American public, lawyers and other sources close to Biggs tell WND. The years-long ongoing process of destroying Biggs' free speech since his arrest has only become more severe in prison. A decision on Biggs' part to personally divulge even minute details about his case, or of his current incarcerated life as a "domestic terrorist," could result in the immediate revocation of the few privileges — phone calls, the ability to leave his prison cell, visitation, even food — lawyers tell WND. The Military Junta Called "The Democracy". Like everything else in the 21st Century, one cannot look at politics in the same way as they existed in even the 20th Century. As explained, the military doesn't need to have troops in the streets to cause a revolution, they only need to rig elections, inspire upheaval and punish those who object. Sound like January 6th to anyone? They have done this in other nations and were quite proud of it. [...] But we have seen the military used during the inauguration to protect "the democracy's" selection, though we didn't understand the fences and troops surrounding the White House at the time. The national guard couldn't be brought out for January 6th and now we know why. The border is open and military-aged males are being encouraged to enter and take up weapons by the simple inaction of the Department of Homeland Security and the refusal to run background checks on illegals by the ATF. Now we know why. [...] Calling this out online, pointing out the absolutely unconstitutional aspects of everything the government does from the Pandemic to now is, to this illegitimate government, a direct attack. The first thing a military junta does is criminalize dissent and that's exactly what this one did. FCI Memphis Silent on Move of Unjustly Imprisoned J6 Defendant Stewart Parks to Minimum Security Camp Following Letter from Rep. Andy Ogles. Warden F.J. Bowers of the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Memphis did not reply to an inquiry from The Tennessee Star regarding the letter sent to him on Monday by Representative Andy Ogles (R-TN-05), which requested unjustly imprisoned J6 defendant Stewart Parks be moved to the prison's minimum security satellite camp. As of Friday afternoon, The Star has not received a response to a Tuesday inquiry sent via email to a publicly available address listed for Bowers' executive assistant, which sought confirmation that Bowers received Ogles' letter and additionally to ascertain whether Parks will be moved to the prison's minimum security camp, if there are issues at FCI Memphis preventing the move, and if Bowers intends to reply to the congressman. VA Accused of Cutting Benefits for Jan. 6 Defendants. The Department of Veterans Affairs is facing allegations that it cut the benefits from Jan. 6 defendants who haven't been convicted of felonies, which critics say is against VA policy. The allegations were first reported last November by independent journalist Breanna Morello, who filed a lawsuit over the matter last week. Morello's lawsuit claimed that the VA is stonewalling her Freedom of Information Act request for records about Jan. 6 defendants and VA benefit recipients JD Rivera, Hector Vargas Santos and Kenneth Harrelson. [Tweet] What Does an Insurrection Look Like? As the 2024 election approaches, the Democrats are much concerned with what they call "insurrection." They, of course, refer to the events at the Capitol building on January 6, 2021, a day that will live in political opportunism for the party now planning the reelection of Joe Biden. In addition, they use the term to refer to any public objection or legal challenge to the outcome of the 2020 election. Democrats objected in the courts or in the halls of Congress to every Republican presidential election victory of the 21st century. But that, apparently, was not insurrection. The events at the Capitol, so inimical to "our democracy," greatly disturbed the Democrats. So alarmed were they and resolved to protect democracy from its assailants that they now seek to bar the lead insurrectionist, also by happenstance the presumptive Republican nominee for President, from the ballot. [...] The indictments of Donald Trump follow hard upon a three-year campaign to imprison anyone present in the Capitol on January 6 or apparently in the immediate vicinity (other than undercover FBI operatives). Even those admitted by uniformed police officers and harming nothing and no one stand convicted and sentenced. One young man committed suicide. Disney Decided to Enter Political Fray After January 6th. Christopher Rufo has unearthed an explosive video in which Bob Iger announced to employees that the company would start taking political stands in response, presumably, to the danger he saw from the MAGA movement. The all-hands meeting took place in the days after January 6th, and Iger expressed his sorrow that Disney hadn't been political enough in prior years. [Tweet with video clip] There are several striking things about this video, and none of them really have to do with MAGA or January 6th, which I believe were excuses and not causes of Disney's rush into the political fray. Iger puts his finger on the real issue when he starts talking about Disney's commitment to DEI and his assertion that those issues aren't actually debatable or political at all. They are manifestly good in themselves. In other words, the issue is primarily the culture war. Disney committed itself to conducting the culture war in its content, and Iger was signaling in this all-hands meeting that it was now going to engage in it in public. [A] Bomb Sniffing Dog Performed [a] Vehicle Search Outside DNC Hours Before [the] 'Pipe Bomb' was Discovered. An individual who appeared to be part of a security team guarding the Democratic National Committee headquarters used a canine to conduct a search of a small sport utility vehicle in front of the building more than three hours before a plain-clothed Capitol Police officer discovered an alleged pipe bomb just a few feet away on January 6. Grainy footage recently obtained by "Declassified with Julie Kelly" from Committee on House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight Chairman Barry Loudermilk adds yet another question to the unsolved mystery of the so-called January 6 pipe bomber. The FBI claims the suspect planted the devices between 7:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. on January 5 near both the DNC and Republican National Committee headquarters. (A woman allegedly doing her laundry found a device near the RNC around 12:40 p.m. on January 6.) But despite the FBI's ongoing investigation and a $500,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the perpetrator, no one has been identified or charged. Did ABC Showrunners From The J6 Committee Produce The PBS 'Frontline' Propaganda Too? PBS "Frontline" is out with a new documentary last week offering the House Select Committee on Jan. 6 the kind of graphic, vivid depiction of their work that the nine-member panel so desperately craved. Last Tuesday, PBS published "Democracy on Trial," a nearly two-and-a-half-hour documentary chronicling the inner operations of the since-disbanded Jan. 6 Committee. "'Democracy on Trial' traces the road to this unprecedented moment," the video's description reads, "and examines the implications of the historic criminal case unfolding in the midst of a presidential election year." That last part is key. Two years ago, committee staff worked with corporate media to gin up enthusiasm about the J6 show trial to get out voters for the midterms. "They hope their recommendations to prevent another insurrection will be adopted, but also that their work will repel voters from Republicans who they say helped propel the attack," the Post reported at the time. Now that former President Donald Trump appears to be on the cusp of another presidential triumph in November, the Jan. 6 documentary — which is at least partially funded by taxpayer dollars — came just in time to set the narrative again before the 2024 election. Another Near-Miss at the DNC on January 6? The unraveling of the January 6 pipe bomb story, which has the attention of some Republicans in Congress, now threatens to unravel the carefully crafted narrative about what happened on that infamous day. The identity of the individual who planted alleged explosive devices outside the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee remains one of the biggest unsolved mysteries about January 6. The lack of interest in the story by the corporate media and the January 6 select committee — their final report barely mentions the incidents — heightens suspicions that the "pipe bomb" story represents yet another manufactured stunt rather than posing a legitimate danger to the lives of Capitol Hill employees, passersby, and, more importantly, a sitting U.S. senator and incoming vice president of the United States. Will 2024 Be the Most Dangerous Election of Our Lifetime? [Scroll down] After the Republicans took control of the House, the "stop MAGA" operation seems to have moved into the coverup stage. The Swamp's desperation to keep something hidden reveals just how dangerous our own government has become. The bomb threat that triggered the nationwide interrogation of MAGA supporters is starting to look fishier than a Wuhan wet market. The device found outside the DNC headquarters was found by a person in civilian clothes (who many believe was a Capitol police officer). He reported the device to a uniformed police officer, who showed no sign of alarm, and even allowed civilians to continue walking within feet of the bomb. Security video of the location where the DNC bomb was found shows a hooded "person of interest" sitting on a bench while using a phone. The FBI was able to use security video to track this "person of interest" throughout the Metro subway system and back to an automobile in Virginia. Investigators also tied the hooded person to a Metro transit card and license plate owned by a retired Air Force chief master sergeant who was working as a contractor with a security clearance. [...] The House January 6 committee investigated the bomb incident in parallel with the FBI, but hundreds of documents and hours of taped testimony have since been destroyed — in violation of federal records retention statutes. Yet nobody has been arrested for this felony. Documents associated with the bomb threat that were not destroyed, were encrypted and the encryption keys have since been "lost." Jan. 6 Political Prisoner Ryan Samsel Convicted on Seven Counts; Ray Epps Who Was with Him Walks Away a Free Man. In early December 2022, US political prisoner Ryan Samsel called The Gateway Pundit to tell us he has lost his phone privileges for several months starting tomorrow. The prison staff was outraged that The Gateway Pundit had exposed his horrific story of prisoner abuse to the American public. Ryan, who has not even had his case tried in court and has sat in prison for over two years, has been beaten, hogtied, abused, tied to a chair for 12 hours, and denied medical treatment for his injuries and his pre-cancerous growths. On March 21, 2021, after his arrest, Ryan was awakened by correctional officers, and his hands were zip-tied. Then they walked him to an unoccupied cell where he was brutally beaten by the officers. Ryan Samsel lost an eye in the beating. His face was smashed. The next day the guards beat him again. Ryan was beaten so badly by the guards that he lost permanent vision in one eye and partial use of his arm. [Tweet] J6 Committee Admits Its Show Trials Were An Election-Year Publicity Stunt. Key members of the since-disbanded Select Committee on January 6th admit in a new PBS documentary that the entire operation was an election-year publicity stunt. On Wednesday, Frontline PBS published a new documentary, "Democracy on Trial," chronicling the House committee's work. Pivotal players on the partisan probe conceded in the two-and-half-hour documentary that the panel's public performances produced for prime-time television were orchestrated as entertainment media. "The one thing that we knew was the information that we have is compelling," said Illinois congressman-turned CNN commentator Adam Kinzinger. "The thing we needed to do was tell that to the American people in a compelling way." [Tweet with video clip] January 6 Defendants File Challenges in U.S. Supreme Court To Abuse Of 'Obstruction of Justice' Law. The existential fate of the First Amendment of the US Constitution rests in the hands of the Supreme Court and whether the high court of appeal will strike down 18 U.S.C. 1512(c)(2), the most serious criminal charges leveled against former President Donald Trump and an ever-growing number of January 6 defendants. 1512 criminalizes any effort to "corruptly" obstruct, influence or impede any official proceeding." A conviction can result in a prison sentence of up to 20 years. Last April, an appellate court issued a splintered 2-1 ruling endorsing the DOJ's unprecedented misuse of the statute, a law passed under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2002 outlawing evidence tampering in the aftermath of the Enron/Arthur Anderson accounting scandal. The law has never in United States history been used to prosecute demonstrators or rioters. Jan. 6 convicts released after Supreme Court takes up challenge to feds' use of obstruction charge. At least two Jan. 6 defendants got out from behind bars because the Supreme Court is reviewing the legitimacy of charging them with obstructing an official proceeding, which is one of the feds' favorite charges for people who breached the Capitol. The legal challenge brought by Jan. 6 defendant Joseph Fischer accuses prosecutors of using an overly broad interpretation of "obstructing an official proceeding" to launch hundreds of cases stemming from the Capitol riot, including against former President Donald Trump. The case will be argued before the high court in the spring with a decision expected by the end of June. But until then, at least two defendants successfully petitioned for early release pending the decision. If... Then... 2024. January 6 really was a fed-surrection. On January 6, the mostly peaceful Trump-supporters were waved inside by a duplicitous Capitol Police force. Nancy Pelosi really did refuse to get more security, more officers, and more soldiers to protect the Capitol because she wanted an insurrection. The pipe bombs put outside both the Republican and Democrat headquarters were actually placed there by the FBI agents to entrap Trump-supporters. The January 6 fed-surrection was one giant setup and entrapment of all things Trump/MAGA/America First. The Department of Justice and the attorney general are violating their own laws by arresting and imprisoning their political opposition. Biden, Milley, and Merrick Garland are using Stalinist despotic tactics against the political opposition of MAGA. Their globalist game plan is eventually to ignore the First and Second Amendments for Trump/MAGA/America First American citizens. New Details on Capital Pipe Bomb Reveal the Official Story Doesn't Add Up. For more than three years, President Joe Biden's regime has built an "insurrection" narrative around the Jan. 6 Capitol incursion. Oddly enough, however, it seems the Biden regime and its establishment media minions have taken little interest in the discovery of two pipe bombs allegedly planted outside the Washington, D.C., headquarters of both the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee on the evening of Jan. 5, 2021. Now we might know why. Last week, Tucker Carlson presented shocking new details about the pipe bomb story to his enormous audience on social media. In a video posted to X on Jan. 18, Carlson interviewed journalist Darren Beattie, founder of Revolver News. For several years, Beattie and his outlet have done extensive reporting on the pipe bomb story. The interview featured newly released surveillance footage showing what happened when an unidentified pedestrian informed police and Secret Service agents of the bomb only steps away near the DNC. It should strike every viewer as one of the most astonishing things caught on camera since Abraham Zapruder filmed the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Report: Feds Plan to Make Trucker Convoy Another "Insurrection". Lara Logan wrote on X that the truckers should be very concerned. "Be aware — numerous sources indicate the federal govt is planning to try make this another fake "insurrection" and go after people in the convoy the same way they targeted people for exercising their constitutional rights on January 6th. They are already tracing and tracking people through their phones, iPads etc." [Tweet] Tucker spoke with one of the convoy's leaders, Dr. Pete Chambers and Ken Paxton. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Texas will not give up, and he's unsure what the federal government expects Texas to do. They aren't going to help them work with bad people to invade our country. It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like 1776. Former Trump advisor Peter Navarro has been sentenced to four months in prison for defying a subpoena from the corrupt J6 committee. His real crime, of course, is standing up to our modern tyrants. You may recall that in 2012 then-President Obama's Attorney General Eric Holder defied the same "law" by ignoring a Congressional subpoena. Unlike the J6 committee that was investigating a crime that never occurred — a Trump-led insurrection — the Darryl Issa led committee that issued a subpoena to Eric Holder in 2012 was investigating a real scandal: Fast and Furious. Holder, of course, was never prosecuted, nor has he spent any time in jail, nor will he. More recently, Hunter Biden defied a congressional subpoena and still walks free. [...] To be clear, Navarro's sentencing is completely illegitimate and political. Capitol Coverup #17: Bombs Bomb. [Scroll down] [Darren] Beattie tells [Tucker] Carlson the agents eventually drive off in their vehicles, and call in a robot to remove the bomb. This inexplicable behavior raises a number of questions: Kamala Harris was in the building. Didn't the Secret Service, as is their protocol, search the exterior and interior of the building long before her arrival, and if they did, how could they have missed a comically stereotypical bomb in plain view? Secret Service protocol also requires bomb dogs. Didn't they use one here? Secret Service protocol also requires immediately removing a protectee from any potential danger, yet they didn't do that. Why not? How could no one have seen the bomb, which was in plain view, during those 17 hours? Was it actually planted by backpack guy just before it was "found?" I can't tell from the photo, but the timer appears to be a common kitchen timer. If so, it certainly couldn't have been set for 17 hours. Didn't anyone check this out? If they were told they were within the blast radius of a bomb, why did they behave as though they weren't? They continually stand in the open, not even bothering to put their vehicles between themselves and the blast and shrapnel of a bomb. Are they suicidal? Why didn't they evacuate the area and the building? Why did they allow children to walk through the blast radius? Why didn't they call additional help to cordon off the blast radius? The Pipe-bomb Caper. [Scroll down] Rather mysterious behavior, wouldn't you say? Most particularly, nobody among all those LEOs shows any fear of the bomb going off, no effort to get out of the way. Were they a hundred percent sure it was a fake bomb? How would they know? You can assume there was some phone communication going on in those two cars. Did somebody call the FBI? Did the FBI tell the Secret Service agents, "Nah, don't worry, it's a dummy bomb." How would the FBI know that? (Unless they arranged the whole caper.) [...] For three years the entire mainstream media showed zero interest in any facet of the pipe-bomb story — and let's not forget, there was a second identical pipe-bomb planted at the RNC headquarters a two-minute walk away from the DNC. How come such strenuous lack of interest? You might hypothesize the obvious: that the media (and the blob regime they serve) don't want anybody looking into the matter, or even becoming aware of it. Report: Jan. 6 Committee Facing Investigation for Allegedly Deleting Over 100 Encrypted Files. House Administration Committee's Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Barry Loudermilk told Fox News he started an investigation into allegations the January 6 committee deleted encrypted files before the GOP took control of the House: "It's obvious that Pelosi's Select Committee went to great lengths to prevent Americans from seeing certain documents produced in their investigation. It also appears that Bennie Thompson and Liz Cheney intended to obstruct our Subcommittee by failing to preserve critical information and videos as required by House rules," Loudermilk told Fox News Digital. "The American people deserve to know the full truth, and Speaker Johnson has empowered me to use all tools necessary to recover these documents to get the truth, and I will." Former Jan. 6 Select Committee deleted more than 100 encrypted files from its probe in the days before Republicans took over the House majority. A bombshell new report alleges that just days before the GOP took over the House majority in 2022, over 100 encrypted files relating to the January 6th Capitol riot probe were mysteriously deleted. In a new interview with Fox News, the chairman of the House Administration Committee's Oversight Subcommittee, Rep. Barry Loudermilk of Georgia, described the revelation as bringing the investigation into a 'new phase.' Loudermilk alleges that a forensics team found that 117 files had been either deleted or encrypted on January 1, 2023, shortly before the Republicans took over the investigation that had previously been led by Rep. Bennie Thompson and Rep. Liz Cheney. Reference material:  Black's Law Dictionary, 1991, page 1401. Republicans Recovered More Than 100 Encrypted Jan. 6 Files, but There's a Catch. In the days before Republicans took control of the House last year, Democrats deleted more than 100 encrypted files relating to the investigation of the Jan 6 events which, as we now know, were four parts peaceful protest, one part riot, and two parts FBI-sponsored Capitol Hill tourism. The House Administration Committee's Oversight Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.), was supposed to receive about four terabytes of data from the outgoing Democrats but was given only about half that much. All in all, 117 files were deleted, according to a House digital forensics examination seen by Fox News. To give you an idea of how much data that is, two terabytes of hard drive space can store about 500 feature-length movies in 1080p high definition with 5.1 multichannel sound. FBI and Secret Service Are Covering Up Their Role In Alleged January 6 "Pipe Bomb" Plot, New Evidence Suggests. It should have been a national scandal. On January 6, 2021, the day of the Capitol riot, a bomb nearly exploded at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters in Washington, D.C., according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Had it gone off, it could have killed Vice President Kamala Harris, who drove by the alleged bomb, and was in the DNC headquarters when the bomb was discovered. "Although these bombs did not detonate," said the FBI earlier this year, "it is important to remember the suspect walked along residential and commercial areas in Capitol Hill just blocks from the U.S. Capitol with viable pipe bombs that could have seriously injured or killed innocent bystanders." Among those innocent bystanders was the Vice President. But the incident never became a national scandal. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times on January 17, 2021, Harris never mentioned the potential assassination attempt. In fact, Harris's near-death experience was unknown until the Department of Justice revealed it in a court filing in November 2021. The government had previously incorrectly stated that Harris was in the US Capitol. And the US House of Representatives' official January 6 Committee investigation's 841-page report only briefly mentions the pipe bombs in an appendix. The pipe bombs, which were initially key to the narrative that the Capitol riot was a premeditated act of domestic terrorism, are omitted from the report's detailed analysis and timeline. Darren Beattie's Latest on the J6 Pipe Bomber. In case you missed this report, I want to share Darren's latest must-read report on another scandal associated with the still unsolved mystery of the January 6 (or 5th, as the FBI claims) pipe bomber. This very well could be a game changer at a time when the J6 narrative continues to crumble: [...] The FBI initially offered a $50,000 reward. But as the FBI successfully rounded up hundreds of Capitol trespassers using sophisticated tools such as geofence warrants, the trail of the pipe bomber went cold. Grainy footage released by the FBI purportedly showed the pipe bomber in action the night of January 5 — the time the agency determined the bombs had been planted — and in March, D'Antuono asked for the public's assistance in tracking down the bomber. Anyone who showed an interest in making explosives prior to January 5, 2021, or possessed galvanized pipe, wire, and "multiple kitchen timers" should be turned in to the FBI, D'Antuono said in a dramatic video message, even if the person was a relative or friend. But more than a year later, not only has a suspect not been identified or caught, the pipe bomb story gets weirder and weirder. Tucker Carlson Video: Did the government plant the pipe bomb at the DNC? Ever since January 6, 2021, Darren Beattie has been investigating the events of that day with the persistence of a bloodhound on the scent. One of the narratives that's kept his attention is the story of the pipe bombs found at the RNC and DNC headquarters. Intriguingly, while the FBI has managed to use cell phones and videos to capture every grandma from Dubuque who set foot near the Capitol building, it's been completely unable to catch that pipe bomber. According to [Beattie], that's because the government already knows who set the pipe bomb: The government itself. Beattie appeared on Tucker Carlson to dissect newly-released video of the scene and to explain why he believes the pipe bomb narrative is a hoax meant to discredit Trump supporters by implying that they unsuccessfully tried to blow up institutions hostile to Donald Trump (i.e., not just the DNC but also the RNC). Beattie makes a very good case. [Tweet] Remember Those J6 Pipe Bombs? New Video Shows Capitol Police Knew Right Away There Wasn't a Real Threat. Tucker [Carlson]'s report covers a video was released through the efforts of Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY). He spoke with Revolver News' Darren Beattie about the video. The video shows a man approaching law enforcement parked outside the DNC building at around 1:05 p.m. on Jan. 6. Beattie claims the man is telling them about the pipe bomb that is feet away. Kamala Harris was supposed to be visiting there as well. People walk by including children, but the police make no effort to stop them. An officer approaches where the bomb is and takes a picture of it. The police subsequently call in a "bomb-safe robot" to diffuse it, Beattie says. So among the questions Beattie raises and the video raises are why do they initially appear lackadaisical and unconcerned? Why wasn't it found before this if Harris was supposed to be there, shouldn't they have done a sweep and wouldn't that have found the bomb if it had been sitting out there for 17 hours from the night before? Why didn't anyone else find it before that? Why didn't Harris milk the fact, as you might normally think she might? And who is the guy who told them this information, right around the time the riot is kicking off at the Capitol? Moments Ago Joe Scarborough Lied and Claimed Four Policemen Died on Jan 6. Today, more than three years after Jan 6 and the unraveling of the big lie, Joe Scarborough claimed that four policemen died on Jan 6. [Tweet] Nothing could be further from the truth. Four people did die on Jan 6 but they weren't policemen or women, they were Trump supporters! This J6 Defendant Spent 3 Years In Jail For What The Supreme Court Might Say Isn't A Crime. Tim Hale was incarcerated for 16 months following the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot before he was finally given trial in a D.C. courtroom. For nearly a year, Hale, who spent 12 years as an Army reservist, was stuffed in solitary confinement for 23 hours every day, ostensibly because of Covid-19. The virus, Hale told The Federalist, was a "veil to basically torture us." Citing the virus, the jail offered no religious services, visitation rights, or even haircuts for approximately a year. "I never had long hair because of the military," Hale said. By the time he got to trial, he had hair down to his shoulders. Hale was ultimately convicted of four misdemeanors and a felony under the 1512(c)(2) statute for "obstruction of an official proceeding." The conviction came with a 48-month prison sentence. A new case adopted by the Supreme Court, however, might erase Hale's felony conviction and upend hundreds of charges filed by federal prosecutors against those present at the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. In December, the Supreme Court agreed to take up a case challenging the statute the Justice Department has exploited to prosecute Jan. 6 demonstrators with additional felonies. Federal prosecutors have used the "obstruction of an official proceeding" statute to charge so far more than 300 defendants with felonies in the three years since the riot. It's the most frequently charged Jan. 6 felony, and the basis for keeping many protesters in jail without bond for months or even years before they reached trial. 'Their' Democracy: Tyranny Comes to the US. I am angered that Americans are being conditioned to loathe our shared history and the very people who made our modern country possible. Even our founding documents have been labeled potentially harmful. Make no mistake: these actions are happening because of unscrupulous politicians, bureaucrats, and others who are intentionally destroying our nation's heritage to obtain greater power, control, and wealth. [...] To combat their perceived scourge of heritage America, they forced DIE and other race-based initiatives. They supported violent aggression by BLM and ANTIFA while vigorously pursuing and prosecuting Trump-supporters. At the same time, they hid evidence of J6 defendants' innocence and conspired to persecute their political rivals. They improperly used government agencies to monitor Catholic churches and parental groups. They used federal money to coerce social media to inhibit free speech and abused their government positions to intimidate much of the public into taking an experimental injection. They justified their unconstitutional actions under the banner of promoting their democracy. Furthermore, in defending their democracy, they weaponized government by asserting national security. Tucker: Terrifying New Details About the Mysterious J6 Pipe Bomber. [This video clip is very interesting, and includes details I had not heard before, even though I have followed this story closely, as you can tell by the size of this page.] Darren Beattie Joins Tucker Carlson with Details on New Explosive J6 Pipe Bomb Footage. Revolver News' Darren Beattie joined Tucker Carlson on Thursday to discuss the new J6 pipe bomb footage. Over three years ago, on January 5, 2021, a suspect planted pipe bombs near the Washington DC RNC and DNC headquarters the night before the January 6, 2021 protests. The culprit was caught on video but never caught by the FBI — the greatest intelligence service in the world. The US Capitol was shut down on January 6 after the feds found the bombs near the Republican and Democrat Party headquarters. As previously reported — A mysterious suspect planted two pipe bombs at the RNC and DNC DC Headquarters. The alleged bomb was safely detonated by a bomb squad on January 6. The suspect planted the pipe bombs on January 5, the night before the Capitol riot. The Essential Revolver News January 6 Reading List. On January 6th, the Regime media, and even much of the Republican Party, immediately declared the Capitol riots an "armed insurrection," an assault on democracy, and the worst day for the republic since Pearl Harbor or even the Civil War. For months, Revolver has been doing the investigative work that America's hundreds of other news outlets are too corrupt or too cowardly to perform themselves. [...] On the anniversary of that now fateful day of January 6, 2021, it is more important than ever that American citizens learn the truth about what really happened. Accordingly, we have reproduced the most classic Revolver News investigative reports to get you, your family, your friends, even your open minded acquaintances up to speed. The Regime is attempting to use the false narrative of January 6 to label Trump supporters — and really anyone who dares to be critical of the Regime — as domestic terrorists. One of the best ways to fight back against this agenda is to learn the truth in the articles that follow and share it with others. You're Going To Get Dirty. The trouble I find with conservatives in general and America First people is their demand that everything be pure and sparkling with virtue. This tendency is what allowed the feds and Democrats to manipulate the January 6th protest into a riot and subsequently into an insurrection. The immediate response to the horrible events described on that date by a well-known corrupt media should have been: No, it isn't a riot, it isn't an insurrection, it's a peaceful demonstration. I noticed on the very day of the event, listening on the radio (probably a federal charge under this DOJ) that the reporting went from: "It's amazing how many people came out to support Donald Trump and protest the obviously crooked 2020 election" to "It's shameful for these protesters to violate the sanctified halls of congress" in fifteen minutes, by the same broadcaster. That's a lack of situational awareness and a desire for liberal acceptance. If it had been a Democrat-backed event, it would have been justified by the anguish felt by the people for the demise of democracy and the failure of the election system. Heating System Shut Down on Political Prisoners in DC Gulag. Earlier Wednesday The Gateway Pundit was notified that the heating system at the DC Gulag was no longer working. [...] On Wednesday night, The Gateway Pundit received a call from Mark in the DC Gulag. Mark confirmed that the heat has been off in the DC Gulag since the cold temperatures hit the area. It's currently 22 degrees in Washington DC. A Government that Sows Division and Subsidizes Madness. Remember when all those Trump voters exercised their First Amendment rights to assemble together and petition the U.S. government to address the rampant mail-in-ballot fraud of the 2020 election? Yeah, even though all those people were unarmed and expressed no interest in overthrowing anything, that was totally a violent "insurrection" just as bad as 9/11 and the Civil War. Joe Biden even swears that [the] "insurrectionists" murdered five, or ten, or maybe fifty police officers that day. (That never happened, but one unarmed Trump-supporter was shot in cold blood, and another was beaten to death.) The government and its lapdog media need people to believe insane things. Facts are dangerous and reserved for people who live in reality. Collusion!? Jan. 6 Committee Inserted Itself Into Fani Willis' Georgia Case Against Trump. In the spring of 2022, Georgia prosecutors investigating Donald Trump over his actions related to the 2020 election received an early boost from another set of investigators: the House Jan. 6 select committee. In mid-April of that year, Committee staff quietly met with attorneys working on the case in Fulton County for DA Fani Willis, right around the time she was preparing to convene a special grand jury investigation[,] during which she employed her alleged paramour, Nathan Wade, who would also coordinate with the Biden White House on their case. So[,] Fani coordinated with both the J6 committee and the White House, who helped them assemble their case against the former president. According to Politico, the Jan. 6 committee attorneys allowed the DA's team to review (but not keep) a 'limited set of evidence' they had gathered. Feds Used J6 To Conduct Mass Surveillance On Bank Transactions Flagged With Terms Like 'Trump,' 'MAGA': Jim Jordan. Federal law enforcement instructed financial institutions to use search terms such as "MAGA" and "Trump" when searching private transactions, Republican Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan said Wednesday. Jordan, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and Select Subcommittee on Weaponization, wrote a letter describing how the federal government flagged terms like "MAGA" and "Trump" to see if those phrases were used by Americans when they conducted financial transactions following the Jan. 6th Capitol riot. The letter is addressed to Noah Bishoff, former Director of the Office of Stakeholder Integration and Engagement in the Strategic Operations Division of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). The letter was first reported by Fox News. Army Colonel: 'J6 Committee Investigator Told Me Army J6 Testimonies Were Irreconcilable'. Col. Earl G. Matthews, the Army colonel who served as the senior legal advisor to Maj. Gen. William J. Walker, the commanding general of the District of Columbia Army National Guard during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill protests, told RedState that Bryan A. Bonner, an investigative counsel for the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack, acknowledged to him that the J6 narrative spun by senior Army leaders was flawed, and he would pursue the discrepancies. "He told me that he knew that there were major problems with the DOD's Inspector General report and that he was going to recommend to the committee that they go back to DOD and figure out what went wrong," said Matthews, who, on Oct. 20, filed a 37-page Whistleblower Reprisal Complaint with the Pentagon's inspector general requesting the IG correct its report to bring it into alignment with events and conversations surrounding J6 that he witnessed. Report: Video Shows What Member of Nancy Pelosi's Security Detail Said About J6 Can't Be True. The Blaze has done a remarkable investigative report about what happened at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. They thank House Speaker Mike Johnson for giving them permission to now release the video, and what they are reporting is astonishing. They allege Capitol CCTV footage blows up the story told by a member of Nancy Pelosi's security detail — Special Agent David Lazarus. Lazarus gave testimony corroborating another Capitol police officer's account, claiming that he had an antagonistic encounter with the Oath Keepers. But The Blaze report says what Lazarus claimed couldn't possibly be true. Steve Baker, the investigative reporter on the story, walks through the timeline of events and alleges that Lazarus was elsewhere at the time of the purported incident, not at the site of the incident when it purportedly happened. They point out other conflicts in the testimony as well as to who saw what when. This is truly wild and very disturbing. [Tweet with video clip] The Editor says... Cops Savagely Club Protester's Head With Metal Batons At J6 Fedsurrection. Two DC cops flagrantly broke the law repeatedly beating a demonstrator in the head with metal batons during the election fraud protest on January 6[,] in yet another example of excessive force used by officers. The cops thwarted the protester from barging across the police line by clubbing him in the head in violation of standard operational procedure. As the demonstrator, whose face was covered with a black bandana, attempts to shield his face from the blows, two cops club him in the head. One of the cops is clearly intent on knocking the protester to the ground, violently striking the man on the head at least 5 times until he falls over. As the masked man attempts to get back on his feet, the police continue to strike his head with the nightstick. The Murder of Ashli Babbitt. On January 6, 2021, Ashli Babbit was shot by a Capitol Police officer despite not participating in the breaking of the door windows. She was standing off to the side. Her husband has filed a $30 million wrongful death lawsuit as a result of an unnecessary and totally criminal act committed by a black man named Michael Byrd. The lawsuit details the actions of three officers who were guarding the door, but just before the shooting they reportedly moved from in front of the door to a point to the right, standing next to Babbitt and ducking when they saw Byrd's gun pointed at the crowd. Less than a minute after he killed Babbitt Byrd made a radio call in which he said the crowd was firing at them and he was preparing to return fire. The truth is that the only shot fired that day came from Byrd's gun; there were NO SHOTS being fired at him or other officers. Lt. Byrd stated in an interview with a fake-news propagandist that he could not see Babbitt's hands nor what was in her backpack. It turns out there WAS NOT a weapon in her backpack, but if one had been there it certainly posed no imminent danger as long as it remained there. Liz Cheney vs Stefan Passantino: The Jan. 6 Committee Fraud. It's becoming increasingly clear that U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney was dishonest, manipulative, and destructive while serving on the Jan. 6 Committee. [...] The Jan. 6 Committee did everything it could to avoid being reviewed. It has not released transcripts of many interviews. It claims to have destroyed some videos of interviews. In one deliberately opaque move, the committee seems to have sent some of its documents to various other agencies, making them difficult to gather. Further, the committee called in thousands of witnesses to interview. Yet, it never interviewed [Stefan] Passantino. This is the biggest clue that Liz Cheney and the committee were interested in promoting their narrative rather than finding the truth. The Republican House has since brought the Jan. 6 Committee materials back from the National Archives, and they are being studied by the Committee on House Administration. Some surprisingly bad examples of rule-breaking and simply lying to the American people are beginning to emerge. January 6 an FBI affair. The riot on January 6 at the Capitol had a lot of FBI informants involved. According to Steven D'Antuono, formerly in charge of the FBI's Washington field office: ["]The FBI had so many paid informants at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, that it lost track of the number and had to perform a later audit to determine exactly how many "Confidential Human Sources" run by different FBI field offices were present that day ...["] More recently, some reports indicate that there were at least 200 federal agents or "undercover assets" present on that fateful day. With revelations like that, and these came last September, it appears even more likely that actual Trump supporters and patriots were baited and led into a trap by federal agents. J6 Political Hostage and Army Veteran William Chrestman Sentenced To 4.5 Years In Prison For Walking in US Capitol. US District Judge Timothy Kelly sentenced Army veteran Wiliam "Billy" Chrestman to four and half years in prison Friday for protesting the stolen election outside of the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. Prosecutors sought 63 months, or more than five years, for Chrestman. "I honestly feel I've spent more than enough time behind bars," Chrestman told The Gateway Pundit hours after he was sentenced. "I've been in the DC Gulag for three years. I committed no violence or vandalism on January 6th, 2021." Poison Spiders at the Center of the Web. You know why the judge let provocateur Ray Epps off the hook for his antics before and during the so-called J-6 "insurrection," don't you? Well, yes, it was partly because he was acting at the direction of blob officials, most likely the FBI, but possibly the CIA, Defense Intelligence, or some black-box fed outfit no one ever of (but somehow gets half a billion in funding every year). Ol' Ray, pleaded to one year's probation (no jail time), 100 hours of community service (checking books out at his local library?), and a $500 fine. Say, what...? A speeding ticket on the Rockville Pike would probably cost you more. You remember those videos of Ray on the DC street the day before the riot, importuning the crowd, a commanding presence with his military bearing and red hat, six inches taller than most of the other men around him, yelling, "Tomorrow we need to go into the Capitol, into the Capitol!" At which moment the crowd groaned "no-o-o-o...!" and then commenced chanting, "fed... fed... fed...!" They had his number. His use of the word need was especially beguiling, as in, who actually "needed" that to happen? Truths and Trials: Unraveling the Narrative of January 6th. Regardless of your opinions of January 6th, there is little doubt that it has been used as a political blunt-force instrument to hammer Americans into believing a narrative that is rife with questions and problems. Think of all the things the Left has tried to convince us to believe about January 6th. They've absurdly compared that day's events to those of September 11th and Pearl Harbor. How disingenuous can they be? There is nothing remotely comparable between these two days and January 6th. Report: Army Official Says Mark Milley Delayed National Guard Response to Jan 6 'Then Lied About It'. Colonel Earl G. Matthews, senior legal adviser to Major General William J. Walker, who commanded the Washington D.C. National Guard on January 6th, 2021, has blamed former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Mark Milley for letting the protest get out of hand. The colonel compared the now-retired Milley to the murderous Don Emilio Barzini, who served as Don Vito Corleone's arch-nemesis in The Godfather. "Milley controlled the Army," Matthews told reporter Neil McCabe, arguing that while the Joint Chiefs boss lacked legal authority within the chain of command, he instead leveraged his profound influence and contacts in the Pentagon to delay the Guard's response. "The problem was not with Donald Trump; it's Mark Milley and the Army leadership in control. They stopped the Guard from coming then lied about it and said the Guard acted at sprint speed," Matthews explained. Ramaswamy Embraces 'Responsibility' To Ditch Democrats' Phony J6 Narratives And 'Speak The Truth'. On Saturday, as Democrats and their PR agents in the accomplice media peddled their phony second civil war narrative to "commemorate" the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots, GOP presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy wished the X universe a "Happy Entrapment Day." [...] Having "dug into" the issue, Ramaswamy notes the FBI has been anything but transparent about its involvement — and that starts at the top with the agency's controversial director, Christopher Wray. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has released thousands of hours of video footage from the day — video that undercuts much of the politically driven Jan. 6 Committee's dog and pony show. "We've seen new video footage coming out of Capitol Police officers allowing people to just walk straight into the Capitol who were then arrested later for what the Capitol Police allowed them to do," the candidate said. "That footage wasn't available two years ago." The updated record, Ramaswamy asserts, gives him a "special responsibility" to check the record as "someone who a few years ago was just consuming the mainstream media narrative because it wasn't my job." He said he understands how many Americans have been duped, as well. The Comical Democrat-Media January 6 Storyline for Election Year 2024 Carries On. [CNN's Phil] Mattingly is outraged that 34% of Republicans still believe that the FBI "probably or definitely instigated the attack on the Capitol. He plays a clip of FBI Director Wray's response to a question by Clay Higgins (R-LA) where Wray says: "If you are asking whether the violence at the Capitol on January 6th was part of some operation orchestrated by FBI sources and or agents, the answer is emphatically not!" Unfortunately, Mattingly fails to point out that Wray just answered a question that had not been asked. Higgins, referring to testimony by an FBI whistleblower Steven D'Antuono, asked if the FBI had confidential human sources dressed as Trump supporters in the crowd on Jan. 6. Higgens did not ask Wray if the FBI agents "instigated" the riot. In fact, Wray has repeatedly either refused to answer that question about an FBI presence in the crowd on Jan. 6 or states that he does not know if there were Federal undercover agents in the crowd on January 6th. Apparently, the peasants are not entitled to that answer and CNN's Mattingly has no interest, peculiar for a "journalist," in getting it. Higgins now claims to have plenty of evidence of FBI undercover agents in the crowd that day. A Silly People. January 6, 2021, was not an insurrection. The tapes show it, and the Democrats know it. Kept alive by a self-righteous bunch of treasonous thieves, hunting down participants like animals. It was a protest filled with disgust at the corruption of a major political party, willing to win at any cost, laying a trap for all those who would dare express their disapproval. The hundreds of FBI, Antifa, and BLM operatives in the crowd made sure the protesters were whipped to a frenzy while most Capitol police were told to stay home. It was disclosed, just as I am writing this, that after shooting Ashli Babbitt, U.S. Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd made a false radio report. In the report, he claimed he was being fired upon and was preparing to fire back. The only shot fired was the one that killed Ms. Babbitt. Ray Epps gets probation! So much for the grand 'narrative' of 'insurrection' on January 6. Since that blighted day in 2021, many, many people have come to believe that what happened on Jan. 6, 2021, was a set-up, an event contrived by the FBI, DOJ and democrat radicals like Nancy Pelosi, for example. The committee to investigate what happened was a joke, an entirely partisan exercise to take out the most popular president since Ronald Reagan because he was, and remains, a threat to the deep state bureaucracy that actually runs the country. The evidence presented was cherry-picked, edited, the witnesses coached. That committee was pure show trial, reminiscent of Stalin's style of despotism. It had nothing to do with the truth. It was all part of the Democrats' grand plan to destroy Trump. Ray Epps's all too obvious behavior that day was a fly in their ointment that they chose to ignore. The left with malice aforethought latched on to the word "insurrection" from day one even though not a single protestor was armed. Only the Capitol police were armed; only the Capitol police killed and injured people that day. False Claims Of "Insurrection," Minutes After January 6 Capitol Riot, Suggest Disinformation Plot. Former President Donald Trump, who leads the polls to become the Republican Party's next presidential nominee, has now been denied his place on the ballot in two different states: Colorado and Maine, as a consequence of courts and state officers claiming that he is ineligible to the presidency thanks to a provision in the 14th amendment that bars individuals who "engaged in insurrection" from serving as president. To many Americans, it's simply a given that Trump engaged in insurrection. A mob of his supporters staged a riot both inside and outside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. But neither Trump himself nor any of the people who rioted that day were actually charged with insurrection. In the over 1,000 cases related to that day, you won't find anyone who was charged with insurrection. The Fabricated Memory of January 6th. The Democrat Party has created a fake and fabricated memory of January 6th. They did it with the help of ABC News, with the editors, camera crews, and the post-production people to create a memory that would be played over and over in the media to create a collective memory of an insurrection. We know the then-House Speaker invited her niece (a professional photographer) to come down to the Capitol and photograph the historic event. We also know that ABC producers were employed to produce the televised hearings of the January 6 Commission for several weeks, and had a hand in editing actual J6 footage. This was designed to create an altered, fabricated memory of what happened the day thousands of people came to Washington because they were concerned the election of 2020 had unanswered questions. Not necessarily unanswered by a non-asking media, but unanswered, nevertheless. The people felt there were shenanigans in the 2020 elections, such as late-night voter drops caught on film, mail-in ballots counted at the last minute that all seemed to go for Biden, even from districts that previously had voted overwhelmingly for Trump in 2016. And what about the supposed water pipe explosion in Atlanta that forced the evacuation of a tallying center — and then it turned out there was no pipe burst or flooding after all — it was just a false alarm. We now know, according to FBI Director Christopher Wray, they had dozens — if not hundreds — of embedded FBI agents in the crowd. It was like a Cecil B. DeMille movie production, and it was done for the specific purpose of being able to create and fabricate a memory of an insurrection that never occurred. Rep. Clay Higgins: The FBI lured Americans into a January 6 trap. According to Rep. Clay Higgins (R. LA), who has been investigating what actually happened that day, when one deletes the layers of leftist propaganda, it appears that January 6 was a giant entrapment web that successfully stopped official challenges to election certification, made Trump even more toxic and, worst of all, turned his law-abiding supporters into criminals. For the last three years, Biden's "Justice" Department has been viciously prosecuting more than a thousand Americans for entering the U.S. Capitol on January 6. The DOJ did this even though (a) most were inside involuntarily, as the press of the crowd swept them in whether they wanted to be there or not; (b) the Capitol police opened the doors to them (indeed, it seems they could only be opened from the inside); and (c) 99.9% of them, once innocently inside the Capitol, did nothing but wander through as tourists. Ray Epps Gets Probation For Urging Other J6ers To Storm The Capitol. A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced Ray Epps, the supposed Donald Trump supporter who openly egged on protesters on to enter the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to one year of probation for his role in the riot. Epps had pleaded guilty last September to one misdemeanor count of disorderly or disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, as the Tampa Free Press reported. Last week, federal prosecutors recommended that Epps spend six months in jail for openly cheerleading what some Trump supporters have dubbed the "Fedsurreciton." On Tuesday, Judge James Boasberg departed sharply from that request and actually empathized with Epps, despite, according to Politico, telling the court, "This is not an easy sentencing." Boasberg, according to other media reports, told Epps that he had been "vilified in a matter unique to January 6 defendants," referring to the alleged death threats Epps received. "You were hounded out of your home," the Obama-appointed judge added. "You were hounded out of your town." New J6 Evidence Emerges, Pelosi Colluded With Secret Service? The more we find out about the events of J6, the more Nancy Pelosi becomes suspect. According to sources, the former Speaker of the House was in contact with the Secret Service on that day and was caught on video stating that she was 'waiting' for the 'trespass' on Capitol grounds. She was waiting for it, in her own words. Pelosi reportedly spoke with the Secret Service before they spoke to President Trump on that day and told him that they didn't have the resources to protect him in the Capitol. There was also a communication trail between Pelosi's office and the Secret Service from that day, but, of course, much of it has been 'lost.' Additionally, it was Pelosi's office that was charged with providing security for that day, but Pelosi reportedly denied requests for additional security multiple times. Biden Admin Vows to Hunt Down 'All' Jan. 6 Suspects — Even Those Who Weren't There That Day. The Biden administration has pledged to continue to pursue and convict all people who broke the law in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol incident, including those who never entered the building or who weren't even present at the U.S. Capitol that day. Prosecutors have, to date, charged over 1,250 people with various crimes related to Jan. 6, ranging from being present on Capitol grounds without authorization, to assault of a police officer, to seditious conspiracy. Former President Donald Trump has said on several occasions that he thinks Jan. 6 detainees are being mistreated by the Biden administration and has vowed to issue pardons for many of them. FBI Plant, Ray Epps Is Sentenced To One Year Probation And 500 Dollars After Telling People To Storm The Capitol. Epps, in the lead-up to Jan 6, was caught on camera saying, "We need to go into the Capitol" and texted his nephew on the day that he had "orchestrated it" as protestors breached the Capitol building that afternoon. Over 1,200 people have been arrested in connection with the day, with Biden's Department of Justice sentencing around 450 defendants to a combined nearly 850 years in prison by the end of 2023. Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio, who was not at the Capitol on January 6 but was charged with seditious conspiracy for an organizing role, received the longest sentence at 22 years. His co-defendants, Zachary Rehl, Joe Biggs, and Ethan Nordean, all of whom were Proud Boys affiliates, each received between 15 and 18 years in prison. [Video clip] Woof — a Year Probation and They're Still Saying Ray Epps Wasn't a Fed? I don't know why anyone thought the big man with the big mouth who seemed to be everywhere exhorting people to go to the capitol and do questionable things was a federal plant. Even though the Trump supporters around him the night before and near the capitol all seemed to eye him with suspicion for the actions he was suggesting, if they weren't directly calling him out, and warning others to stay clear of him. FED FED FED [Tweet] [...] Conspiracy types knew the fix was in when they were showing up in backwoods addresses to arrest people they'd found using only cell data or facial recognition software, but the one guy whose face was everywhere was nowhere to be found? And even when folks tracked him down themselves, the only 3 letter agency going after him was... "CBS"? Tucker and Clay Higgins Reveal Huge Number of FBI Assets on J6, Including Some 'Dressed as Trump Supporters'. Tucker Carlson did an interview with Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) over the weekend about Jan. 6 and he asked him about the question Higgins had pursued with FBI Director Christopher Wray in 2022: How many FBI agents/informants were involved on Jan. 6? Tucker detailed how bad Wray's response was to Higgins on the question and asked Higgins if they'd gotten any further information on the question. [Tweet with video clip] Higgins' response was big news. He said that they were "closer to the position where we can reveal the answers" now that they had gotten more information by being in the Republican majority. Higgins said that they had compiled a lot of evidence. He spoke about the involvement of people "to set the stage for what happened" and that there was a "large web" of people involved to "entrap" people. He said there was "conspiratorial corruption at the highest levels of the FBI." Ray Epps Sentence Is in, and It's Surprising Only If You Haven't Been Following Along. After a lot of controversy, Ray Epps finally pled guilty in September to a single charge of disorderly or disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds after encouraging people to go into the Capitol the night before. If you were wondering what sentence he might get for this, wonder no longer. The answer is in, and you might have guessed what it would be. The prosecution wanted six months because they said he had engaged in aggressive conduct to get past the police officers outside the Capitol. However, they also appeared to argue against themselves. [...] His attorney asked for probation, and that's what he got — probation for a year with no restrictions on his travel. He was also ordered to pay restitution of $500 and to do 100 hours of community service. Ray Epps Sentenced to No Jail Time: One Year Probation, $500 fine, and 100 Hours Community Service! J6 Operative Ray Epps was sentenced on Tuesday to NO JAIL TIME! Ray Epps, the only January 6 protester who actually told people to go into the Capitol, has been officially sentenced to one year probation, $500 restitution, and 100 hours community service. Epps did not have to show up for court today — he called in via Zoom. The Biden regime refused to charge Epps with hurling a sign at police when 8 others are rotting in prison today for just touching the sign. Ray Epps steered it towards the police and hurled it at them. He is free today. Our government is broken. Jan. 6: the DOJ plans to arrest everybody in the zip code. Americans are increasingly coming to understand the injustice of most Jan. 6 prosecutions. Without question, the events of Jan. 6 were not remotely an insurrection. No one was armed, and even if they were and managed to seize the Capital building, the Republic would never have been in the slightest jeopardy. Indeed, a number of leftist organizations have seized government buildings and suffered nothing for it. Jan. 6 was nothing more than a spontaneous protest that got, briefly, out of hand. There is no injustice in prosecuting anyone who assaulted a police officer, damaged or stole property or assaulted someone. However, arresting people who were given no notice they were prohibited from entering the building, were welcomed and escorted by the Capital police, never asked to leave and who merely took in the sights and took selfies, is unjust, a political abuse of power. Ray Epps Sentencing Hearing Today Changed to a Secretive Zoom Hearing. Ray Epps will be sentenced today via a secretive Zoom call that is not open to the public or journalists. The D.C. Kangaroo Court suddenly changed Ray Epps' in-person public sentencing hearing to a private/remote Zoom hearing yesterday evening. Epps was scheduled to appear in person today at 10 AM at the E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse in Washington D.C today for his sentencing. According to the Court Docket, on 1/8/24 the hearing was modified to a "hybrid hearing" (government in person/defense via Zoom.) As reported by the Gateway Pundit, Epps was just sued by J6 defendant Eric Clark for "Conspiracy to Violate Civil Rights". The case was filed in a Utah Federal Court. [...] According to another legal expert: "It seems like someone certainly tipped off the powers that be. This is unheard of and furthermore it is illegal for the government to hide a sentencing hearing from the public." Democrats Want Criminals To Vote, But No Ballot Access For Trump. Although former President Donald Trump hasn't been convicted of a crime despite two impeachments, FBI investigations, and myriad prosecutions, Democrats want him stripped from ballots while their party supports ballot access for criminals. The official who unilaterally stripped Trump from the ballot in Maine did so based on her personal view that "Mr. Trump was aware of the likelihood for violence and at least initially supported its use" on Jan. 6, 2021. She is not a judge, and even if she were, such a pronouncement would be contrary to law. Trump's much-viewed public statements on that day were not a clear incitement to violence, and therefore are First Amendment-protected speech. Leftists are criminalizing speech by claiming it equals violence, breaking constitutional standards. The claim is belied by the facts: The vast majority of people listening to Trump that day were not incited to violence. There's plenty of evidence that incitement occurred instead among the proportionally few rioters. Claiming Trump incited insurrection is a political projection intended to promote a one-party state. Internal Secret Service Records Undercut Another Key J6 Committee Democrat Narrative. It has become one of the enduring messages of the House Democrats' final report on the Jan. 6 riot: Donald Trump had a plan and an intention to go directly to the U.S. Capitol to join those disrupting the certification of the 2020 election results. "The Committee's principal concern was that the President actually intended to participate personally in the January 6th efforts at the Capitol, leading the attempt to overturn the election either from inside the House Chamber, from a stage outside the Capitol, or otherwise," the committee wrote in its final report in December, 2022. "The Committee regarded those facts as important because they are relevant to President Trump's intent on January 6th. There is no question from all the evidence assembled that President Trump did have that intent," it added. [...] And then former aide Cassidy Hutchinson claimed in a disputed account based on hearsay that on the way back from his speech Trump lunged at the driver of the presidential limo to commandeer it and take it to the Capitol. The Secret Service and Trump deny that happened, and no evidence has emerged to validate Hutchinson's claim. That did not stop the account from making its way into mainstream media. DOJ Threatens to Charge "Thousands" More J6 Trespassers. In a brazen act of political theater worthy of an ethics investigation, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Matthew Graves gave an hourlong rehash of the events of January 6 to a handful of reporters last week. Graves, a Biden 2020 campaign advisor who was appointed by Biden in November 2021, is overseeing the Department of Justice's unprecedented and ongoing criminal investigation into the four-hour disturbance that has so far resulted in the arrest of more than 1,200 Americans. Acting more like a partisan member of the January 6 Select Committee than an unbiased government prosecutor, Graves used inflammatory — and in some instances inaccurate — language to describe what happened that afternoon and his office's continued pursuit of the perpetrators. "On January 6, 2021, the United States lost control of the grounds around its Capitol and most of the Capitol itself," Graves said from his office on January 4, the same day Joe Biden released his first campaign ad featuring several clips of the Capitol protest. "In scenes reminiscent of a medieval battle, officers engaged in hand-to-hand combat with members of the invading force.' Justice Department Hides Ray Epps' J6 Case and Plea Deal from Public View. Ray Epps' case files and information appear to have been scrubbed from the Department of Justice's webpage after he was given a sweetheart deal, despite leading the actions that sent many to prison on January 6, 2021. It is unclear if the FBI sealed his case after giving a lenient "punishment" to Epps. As The Gateway Pundit reported, Ray Epps was charged, and the DOJ gave him a plea deal because he cooperated with the FBI! Degenerates 'Saving' Democracy? The left is almost always guilty of the very thing(s) they claim of others. This past week, after Colorado and Maine had attempted to remove former President Trumo from the ballots in their states, we've learned of newly unearthed efforts in Illinois and Massachusetts to do the same. The argument from the Biden camp was reflected in his fictitious and largely overreaching speech he gave at Valley Forge late in the week. A speech that his supporters termed inspiring and angry. A speech about the January 6 riot at the Capitol. A riot where the only person shot or killed was a former member of the air-force who was shot and killed without cause by a Capitol police officer. Because Joe Biden's team had control of the Capitol video footage until 2023, we were never able to prove the "mostly peaceful" movements of people inside the building that day. Biden recalls attending funerals of cops killed on Jan 6 — crickets from 'fact checkers'. President Joe Biden delivered his big speech to mark the third anniversary of the January 6, 2021 chaos at the Capitol and as the teller of tall tales is prone to do, he embellished a key detail. On Friday, the octogenarian demagogue uncorked his ugly rant for a small crowd near historic Valley Forge, PA, a location chosen for its Revolutionary War connection at a time when his regime is persecuting GOP frontrunner Donald J. Trump and his supporters like England's King George once did to American patriots. During the 30 minute diatribe, Biden claimed that he and First Lady Jill Biden attended the funerals of police officers who were killed during the so-called "insurrection" against the government. No More J6s. Three years ago, several hundred MAGA conservatives followed a man wearing a buffalo skull on his head into the Capitol. Oh, I know there's more to it — and we'll get to that — but that will do for shorthand. Jacob Chansley, AKA QAnon Shaman. Yellowstone Wolf, etc., a professional activist of somewhat eclectic convictions and eccentric sartorial tastes, led the MAGA election fraud protestors up the steps and into the Capitol on Jan. 6, and they went straight in, without any hesitation or sign of second thoughts. [...] The Jan. 6 "insurrection" was clearly a setup — Nancy Pelosi refusing to bring in the National Guard, the doors opened by welcoming Capitol staffers and Capitol Police, unidentified masked figures racing around shouting "Let's take the place!" This kind of thing doesn't happen by itself. It is made to happen. The D.C. elites were desperate for their own personal Reichstag fire. When none was forthcoming, they lit it themselves. It's not likely that Chansley was actually in on any of this. Fedsurrection Anniversary Day: They Needed an Emergency Session. In honor of our national gaslighting embarrassment, the third anniversary of the FBI's fedsurrection, the FBI laughed in the faces of the general population under their control. The DC-based FBI sent out this message: [...] Following the scale of manipulation within the 2020 election, those who did the manipulation, which included support from the FBI and DOJ, justified to keep their institutional agencies from being exposed, needed to do something to stop any state delegate challenge. One successful state election challenge would have upended the entire system. They needed an emergency session for the January 6th electoral certification. The pipe bombs found in DC on January 6th, were essentially the insurance policy. The FBI was supporting the need for a stoppage of the 2020 electoral certification session in congress. If the FBI could not manipulate the crowd into entering the Capitol Building, the "discovery" of the pipe bombs would have been used to shut down the certification session. Speaker Pelosi would then gain emergency power, switch to an emergency session upon return, and any effort to challenge the delegate affirmation would be nulled. The latter described action by Pelosi is exactly what happened. As Democrat States Try to Keep Trump off Ballots, Harris Claims GOP 'Trying to Silence Voters'. In addition to being infamous for her ridiculous word salads, embattled, do-nothing Vice President Kamala Harris is as tone-deaf as they come. When she's not giddily laughing about yellow school buses or Venn diagrams, she's likely cluelessly displaying how out of touch she truly is. [...] Harris marked the third anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol protests by delivering a speech in South Carolina in which she blasted the Republican Party. The state's Democrat primary will be held on Feb. 3. Given that Jan. 6 has become a veritable religious holiday for the Democrat Party, Harris spoke with all of the solemnity required for such significant anniversaries. ["]Three years ago today, on Jan. 6, 2021, when a mob violently attacked the United States Capitol they used brutal force and fear to try to overturn the results of a free and fair election. They tried to overrule the votes of millions of Americans. On that day, we saw violence, chaos, and lawlessness, but some so-called leaders still tried to mislead and gaslight by saying it was a peaceful protest.["] A bit hyperbolic, Kamala, but we expect nothing less — or should that be more? — from you. As for "peaceful protests," I take it you mean the same way your party hilariously tried to portray the deadly post-George Floyd/BLM riots as "peaceful protests?" An Explainer of Jan. 6 and Its Aftermath. It was a day of infamy. Worse than Pearl Harbor, 9/11, or even the Civil War, Americans were told. A bloody insurrection by a wild, ruthless, armed mob of election deniers. A coup d'etat. A revolution. That first Wednesday in January 2021, however, was none of the above. Yet Jan. 6 will forever be a prominent part of American history — in ways that few people fully realize. It was most certainly a fork in the road. Defining and understanding that historic day requires solid information, full context, and a willingness to look beyond the narratives that began before Jan. 6 was even a few hours old. Jan. 6 is part of a much larger political and societal movement designed to usher in a "new America," according to Victor Davis Hanson, an American classicist, military historian, and political commentator at the Hoover Institution. [Video clip] J6: where non-disorderly conduct was disorderly conduct. [Russell Alford] was a convenient pawn in a government-provoked insurrection that wasn't. Merely being present in a building he had no reason to believe he was prohibited from entering was more than enough, and even if it wasn't, he displayed the worst sort of culpability: he supported Donald Trump, believed the most ethical election ever was fraudulent and thought the First Amendment allowed him to petition the government for redress of that grievance. Appeals Court Upholds Jan. 6 Defendant Conviction for 'Disorderly Conduct' Despite His 'Passive, Quiet and Nonviolent Conduct'. Russell Alford, 62, appealed his conviction and one-year prison sentence for disorderly conduct on January 6 despite only being in the Capitol for 15 minutes. Alford took pictures and uploaded a video on YouTube. The presiding judge? U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is also presiding over President Donald Trump's case. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that "passive, quiet and nonviolent" defendants can be charged and convicted of disorderly conduct" based on the circumstances. Dangerous precedent. If you entered the Capitol building on January 6th, you can be charged and convicted of disorderly conduct. DC US Attorney Matthew Graves Says DOJ is Now Going to Target Thousands of Americans Who Were Around the Capitol on Jan 6. Matthew Graves, US Attorney for the District of Columbia on Thursday held a press conference on the 3rd anniversary of the January 6 Capitol protest. "It's been three years since a violent mob attacked our Capitol," said Matthew Graves, a Biden appointee. Graves thanked the public for assisting the FBI in identifying J6rs and said more Capitol protesters would be arrested. "An important note about those who remained outside the [Capitol] building," Graves said. "We have used our prosecutorial discretion and to primarily to focus on those who entered the building, are those who engaged in violent or rough conduct on Capitol grounds." 'Passive' J6 Protesters Can Be Convicted of 'Disorderly Conduct,' Appeals Court Rules. "Disorderly conduct" can include passively and peacefully walking around the Capitol on Jan 6, according to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals. [...] How funny is the term "rioters who were passive"?! "Peaceful, non-violent rioters who walked through the Capitol and hurt no one, nor damaged any property..." Really top notch journalism from The Hill! This ruling was made by a panel of three female judges, Judith W. Rogers (Democrat), Karen L. Henderson (Republican) and Florence Y. Pan (Democrat). Henderson said in their ruling that "the offense of disorderly conduct traditionally extends not only to acts that would constitute a breach of the peace at common law 'but also [to] conduct tending to corrupt morals, to endanger health or safety, or simply to annoy other members of the community.'" Federal Appeals Court Rules That for January 6 Defendants, Standing Still and Quiet Is Disorderly Conduct. In a victory for the Justice Department and against commonsense, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday that merely being in the Capitol was enough to merit conviction for "disorderly" or "disruptive" conduct. A three-judge panel of the DC Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled that they were participants if people were aware of what was happening around them. [...] Compare and contrast this novel concept of "disorderly conduct" with the free pass given to all George Floyd Memorial Riot and Looting Festival participants. In fact, remember when we were told that going to these riots removed social distancing and lockdown regulations? The finding has an even larger hole in it. [...] The claim that people were "plainly not permitted" to enter the Capitol on January 6 is utter [nonsense]. [...] There is every reason to hope that this will not be the last word. The Supreme Court has agreed to take up the case of Joseph Fisher, who was convicted of "obstructing an official proceeding" by one of the January 6 kangaroo courts. Democrats' star J6 witness waived attorney privilege,opening door for GOP inquiry, memos show. As the Jan. 6 congressional investigation rushed to a close in 2022, one of the House Democrats' star witnesses waived her attorney-client privilege with her first lawyer in a move that could now open the door for House Republicans to question both her and her attorney, correspondence obtained by Just the News shows. Former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony played a large role in shaping House Democrats' final report sharply criticizing Donald Trump for the Capitol riot that ensued on Jan. 6, 2021, but Republicans on the House Administration's Subcommittee on Oversight led by Chairman Barry Loudermilk recently discovered an errata sheet she submitted to Congress that made substantial changes to her account midway through the Democrat-led inquiry. Errata sheets are routinely provided to deponents and witnesses by stenographers to allow for correction of typographic errors and dropped words. [...] Her new lawyer at Alston & Bird, Joseph H. Hunt, sent a letter to the House Democrats' J6 committee on Sept. 12, 2022 waiving her privileges with Passantino, according to the correspondence obtained by Just the News. In it she went beyond the correction of typographic errors and gave fresh, substantive testimony to the committee. After Shooting Ashli Babbitt, Capitol Police Lt. Made False Radio Report: Lawsuit. Within a minute after firing the fatal bullet that struck Ashli Babbitt on Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd broadcast a radio report claiming shots were being fired at him in the Speaker's Lobby and he was "prepared to fire back," a federal lawsuit alleges. The previously undisclosed radio dispatch is also contained on an audio recording obtained exclusively by The Epoch Times of the "OPS2" dispatch channel used by Capitol Police on Jan. 6. Information on the recording is contained in a federal lawsuit filed on Jan. 5 by Ms. Babbitt's widower, Aaron Babbitt of San Diego. Mr. Babbitt, backed in his lawsuit by Judicial Watch, is seeking $30 million from the U. S. government for wrongful death. According to the lawsuit, Mr. Byrd fired his Glock 22 .40-caliber pistol, striking Ms. Babbitt in the left shoulder, then announced that he was being fired upon and was ready to return fire. "In fact, no shots were fired at Lt. Byrd or his fellow officers," the lawsuit stated. "The only shot fired was the single shot Lt. Byrd fired at Ashli. He heard the loud noise of the gunshot. He saw her fall backward from the window frame." Barr: DOJ 'cast their net far too broadly' on prosecuting Jan. 6 rioters. Former Attorney General Bill Barr argued that the Department of Justice (DOJ) cast its net "far too broadly" on prosecuting rioters involved in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol. "Well, you know, like everything else the left does, they did, I think, go too far," Barr told Fox News' Neil Cavuto on Saturday. "I think there were people involved in January 6, particularly the people who attacked the police and broke their way into the Capitol, there were people that should have been prosecuted, but I think they cast their net far too broadly and have been hounding people that really, you know, just wanted into open doors in the Capitol and hung around," Barr continued. Barr, who served as attorney general for former President George H.W. Bush and then again for former President Trump, said he didn't want to minimize what happened at the Capitol three years ago but does not "think it was an insurrection." $30 Million Wrongful Death Suit Over Jan. 6 Protester Ashli Babbitt's Death. A new historic wrongful death and negligence lawsuit on behalf of January 6, 2021, police-murder victim Ashli Babbitt's estate details Officer Michael Byrd's incompetence and multiple revocations of his firearm privileges for previous dangerous incidents. The Gateway Pundit reported Friday, one day before the third anniversary of Jan. 6, that Judicial Watch filed a $30 million wrongful death suit against the federal government for the Capitol Police shooting of Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court Southern District of California. FBI Arrests Three J6rs in Pre-Dawn Raid on Anniversary of January 6 Capitol Protest, Three Years Later. The FBI on Saturday morning arrested three January 6rs on the anniversary of the Capitol protest — three years later. "The FBI executed three federal arrest warrants early this morning at a ranch in Groveland, Florida in Lake County," the FBI Tampa office said in a statement on X. "The subjects taken into custody are January 6 fugitives Jonathan Daniel Pollock, Olivia Michele Pollock, and Joseph Daniel Hutchinson III. The defendants are scheduled to appear in Federal Court in Ocala, Florida on Monday, January 8. No further details concerning their capture are available at this time." MSNBC News Actor Literally Cries About Jan 6. You might note that the tears begin flowing conveniently, as if on cue, right when the introduction starts, and then magically subside in literally about five seconds. [Video clip] Feds nab trio of Jan. 6 suspects on 3rd anniversary of capitol riot. Federal authorities arrested three individuals suspected of participating in the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, on the third anniversary of the event, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced Saturday. FBI agents from the Tampa, Florida, field office apprehended Jonathan Daniel Pollock, Olivia Michele Pollock and Joseph Daniel Hutchinson III at a ranch near Groveland, Florida, according to the FBI's statement. Law enforcement had been searching for Daniel Pollock since June 2021, while Olivia Pollock and Hutchinson became fugitives in March 2023 after removing their ankle monitors and going into hiding before they faced trial in a federal court. The government did not disclose details pertaining to how the arrests were conducted or what may have happened while agents were executing search warrants in its announcement. The FBI also did not explain how it located the suspects at the ranch in the first place. Capitol Police Hit With Lawsuit For $30 Million For Alleged 'Ambush Murder' of Ashli Babbitt on Jan. 6. On January 6, 2021, the United States Capitol Police Lieutenant Michael Byrd shot and killed Ashli Babbitt, an Air Force veteran and a passionate supporter of former President Donald Trump. The tragic incident has left many questioning the actions of the Capitol Police and the events leading up to Babbitt's untimely death. The incident occurred at 2:44 p.m. on January 6, 2021, when Ashli Babbitt was shot outside the east entrance to the U.S. House Speaker's Lobby. She was pronounced dead half an hour later at a Washington D.C. hospital. The autopsy report indicated that Babbitt died from a gunshot wound to her left anterior shoulder, and the suit filed by Judicial Watch alleges that she experienced extreme pain and suffering before slipping into pre-terminal unconsciousness. This article by the Associated Press reeks with bias: January 6: More Americans think the election was stolen and a growing number of voters think the FBI was behind the violence. Three years after a mob stormed the Capitol, a third of Republican voters now believe FBI operatives stoked the January 6 attack, according to remarkable new polling. A quarter of U.S. adults believe that statement is 'definitely' or 'probably' true, according to a new Washington Post / University of Maryland poll. The data come as President Joe Biden prepares to hold his first campaign event of the year stressing the democracy issue near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, in a potential rematch where former President Donald Trump has repeatedly called attention to jailed rioters and said he will pardon a 'large portion' of them. The Case Against Progressive Utopia. On January 6, 2021, a crowd of unarmed, nonviolent Trump-supporters entered the Capitol illegally. Videos confirm that they calmly toured the premises, some shepherded by police. The DoJ has charged more than 1,000 Americans over J6, most with insurrection — the "violent attempt to overturn recognized authority or legally constituted government." Six months earlier (June 2020) in Seattle, heavily armed individuals took over federal buildings, including the courthouse, and violently ejected "legally constituted government" to establish the CHAZ, or the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone. Though this was an insurrection by definition, the socialist perpetrators have not been prosecuted. For progressives, social justice requires a double-standard rule of law. J6 was called democracy-overthrowing insurrection, while CHAZ was labeled "unlawful occupation protest." 'Insurrection' Is OK, as Long As It's by the Left. This week, there was an "insurrection" in the California State Capitol in Sacramento. A group of radical extremists invaded the State Assembly, interrupting the first day of the legislative session and forcing lawmakers to flee the chamber. They continued to occupy the legislature even after the lights were turned off. But eventually, they were allowed to leave peacefully, and there were no arrests at all. The reason: unlike the January 6 protesters in Washington, the California protesters are on the political left. Those who participated in the January 6 event three years ago are still being arrested and prosecuted for the nebulous crime of "obstructing an official proceeding." Some are being punished merely for showing up on the Capitol grounds, without committing acts of violence. They have been publicly humiliated; they have lost jobs; and many have been forced to endure pre-trial detention before receiving long sentences. The left-wing anti-Israel radicals who invaded the California capitol will never be punished. Police Grab Peaceful J6 Protester By The Face And Throw Him Over A Wall. Cops who used deadly force to assault non-violent demonstrators, "passive resistors," on January 6, 2021, escalating the protest into a riot, broke the law in clear violation of the Metropolitan Police Department's standard operating procedures. Police killed four unarmed Americans during the riot and indiscriminately fired sting balls and rubber bullets into the massive crowd, often aimed at their heads; scores of protesters were doused in the face with CS gas and were injured by shrapnel flying from the flash grenades. In countless instances uncovered in the CCTV and police body cam footage that Congress has yet to release, police are seen ruthlessly beating unarmed protesters with nightsticks. Really, He's Not a Fed: Prosecutors Recommend an Outrageous Sentence for Ray Epps. Ray Epps, the only person who was captured on video actually telling people to storm the Capitol on Jan. 6. 2021, has just been recommended for a six-month sentence, while others who entered the Capitol when police opened the doors for them and walked around for awhile taking selfies are facing years in prison. What's going on here? The most obvious explanation is that Ray Epps is or was a fed, and a leader of efforts to fabricate a Jan. 6 "insurrection" in order to frame and destroy Donald Trump. But surely the leftist elites wouldn't dream of doing such a thing, would they? The Daily Wire reported Tuesday that federal prosecutors have "requested" that Epps be given six months in prison for his role in the fictional "insurrection." This recommendation of a slap on the wrist only comes after Epps avoided prison for two years while numerous others caught up in the Jan. 6 riot have languished in the D.C. gulag for three years now. Even more suspiciously, Epps became an establishment media darling, the subject of admiring profiles from the New York Times and 60 Minutes, even as these outlets treated everyone else involved in their sagging "insurrection" as Adolf Hitler incarnate. Federal Prosecutors Seek Six Months Jail Time For Ray Epps. Federal prosecutors are seeking six months of jail time for Ray Epps, a man who appeared to encourage demonstrators to enter the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia submitted a sentencing memo Tuesday, recommending six months of incarceration for Epps because of his alleged participation in the Jan. 6th Capitol riot. "For the reasons set forth herein, the government requests that this Court sentence Defendant James Ray Epps, Sr. to six months' incarceration, which is the high end of the applicable Sentencing Guidelines range of zero to six months," the memo reads. Prosecutors argue a six month sentence for Epps is justified because of his alleged efforts on Jan. 5, 2021 and the following day to inspire rioters and his presence among the rioters who overwhelmed Capitol police. J6 Defendant Victoria White Brutalized And Beaten By DC Police Officers Files Lawsuit Against Police. Victoria Charity White is a peaceful protester that was brutally beaten to a bloody pulp by a D.C. police officer during the January 6th protest. Victoria was later arrested in a FBI raid on her home, and sentenced to jail time for "interfering with law enforcement officers during a civil disorder." Victoria is now fighting back and suing the Capitol Police Officer that brutalized her mercilessly with his fists and a baton, causing her to black out and subsequent brain damage. White is also suing the Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson to investigate her beating and the police brutality that occurred on January 6th. J6 Hostage Ryan Samsel Reveals Exactly How The FBI Tortures Him for Refusing to Flip on Trump. The US Bureau of Prisons acts as the coercion arm of the politically weaponized Department of Justice, torturing J6 political hostages to coerce them into flipping on Trump in exchange for their freedom. Viral photographs of Samsel allegedly locked in a "hard cell" in FDC Philadelphia are a glimpse of the cruel and unusual treatment he's endured in a series of assaults by correctional officers in pretrial custody and attempts by dirty cops to manipulate him with enhanced interrogation to cooperate in a plea agreement. New Video Shows The Q Shaman Reading Trump's Tweet To Stay Peaceful And Go Home To The Crowd. Another video has finally seen the light of day, this one showing Jacob Chansley, the Q Shaman, telling the crowd to go home and stay peaceful. For this, Chansley got 41 months in prison before Tucker Carlson released footage showing him being peaceful and respectful. The dirty feds freed Chansley days later. Q Shaman Jacob Chansley: "We're going to throw up the tweet. Donald Trump has asked everybody to go home. Okay? — This is America. You guys want to stay, that's fine. Donald Trump has asked everybody to go home." [Video clip] Video Surfaces — Hidden from Public: Q Shaman Stands Outside Doors of US Capitol and Tells Everyone to Go Home. Red Voice Media posted a video that we had not seen before from the January 6 protest at the US Capitol. In the video, Jacob Chansley, later dubbed the "Q Shaman," reads a tweet from President Trump to the crowd outside the US Capitol and tells them to go home. Chansley added, "We are peaceful... We are not Antifa." Rigged. Yesterday, Colorado's Supreme Court ruled to take the Republican presidential frontrunner, Donald Trump off its state's ballot because of his involvement in the so-called "insurrection" on January 6, 2021, at the United States Capital. They based their ruling on the "insurrection" clause of 14th Amendment of our Constitution. It didn't matter to the court that Trump offered 10,000 National Guard troops to protect the Capital that was turned down by both Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi and DC mayor, Marilyn Bowser. It didn't matter that no one at the Capital was armed. They did not consider that there were FBI assets in the crowd, stirring up trouble to incite the riot. And they didn't factor in that when Trump was impeached for his involvement on January 6, he was found not guilty. If you were planning an insurrection, you would not offer 10,000 armed soldiers to protect the place where the insurrection was to occur, but if you wanted to create a false flag insurrection to weaponize against your opponent, you would turn down the protection of 10,000 armed troops and help incite a riot. This has been all part of the plan for the last 3 years. The events at the Capital were characterized as an "insurrection" by many Democrats and many in the mainstream media within minutes of the riot breaking out. The media was parroting the word "insurrection" as if they were all given the same talking points. The word "insurrection" was chosen specifically because it is in the 14th Amendment and can be used to prevent a candidate from running for office. Did Jan. 6 'trespassers' have the right to be in the US Capitol? I haven't seen this widely reported but did you know that in general, American citizens have the right to enter the US Capitol anytime the House or Senate is in session to observe? Around January 6, 2021, Congress had limited access to those who got a pass from their member of Congress or visitors' desk, but such passes were generally obtained by most without much trouble. Does Congress have the right to limit our access to watch them conduct business? Who is there to challenge them? In an emergency or crisis, police certainly have the right to impose restrictions. But what about instances where the restrictions aren't clear, or the police aren't stopping people from entering, or the restrictions aren't justified? Jack Smith Wants to Prevent Jury From Learning About Undercover Agents at Capitol in January 6 Case Against Trump. Special Counsel Jack Smith wants to prevent President Trump from blaming provocateurs and undercover agents for the January 6 Capitol riot. "Through public statements, filings and argument in hearings before the court, the defense has attempted to inject into this case partisan political attacks and irrelevant and prejudicial issues that have no place in a jury trial," Jack Smith's 20-page filing said. "Although the court can recognize these efforts for what they are and disregard them, the jury — if subjected to them — may not. The court should not permit the defendant to turn the courtroom into a forum in which he propagates irrelevant disinformation, and should reject his attempt to inject politics into this proceeding," Smith wrote according to the court filing reviewed by The Gateway Pundit. Trump's trial date for Jack Smith's January 6 case is currently scheduled for March 4, 2024 (election interference). DC Police Officer Who Sued Republicans for Racist Attacks on Jan. 6 — Now Admits He Was Watching it on TV that Day. Officer Byron Evans and seven black Capitol Police Officers sued Brandon Straka and several Trump supporters under the KKK Act for "racist" attacks on him and seven other police officers on January 6, 2021. Officer Evans sued Brandon Straka and Roger Stone who was not even at the US Capitol that day along with leaders of the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys and others. Brandon Straka released video on Wednesday of Officer Byron Evans admitting he was watching the January 6 protests on a TV in a room in a secure location. We won't stop covering the lies of January 6. Last week, Blaze News contributor Steve Baker learned from his attorney that he would be charged with federal crimes stemming from his coverage of the events at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. If that sounds vague, that's because it is. The upshot is that Baker has no idea of what, exactly, federal prosecutors intend to charge him with. [...] While the FBI has been busy retaliating against journalists it doesn't like, the authorities have studiously ignored Baker's analysis that U.S. Capitol Police Special Agent David Lazarus, Nancy Pelosi's security chief, gave false testimony that directly contributed to sentencing American citizens to years in federal prison. Baker and our team watched hours of closed-circuit footage from January 6 in the House viewing room on Capitol Hill before publishing his analysis, as our news team reported in October. The night before we published that story, the House of Representatives voted to remove Kevin McCarthy from his position as speaker of the House. This slowed approval of the release of the previously hidden January 6 footage that our story was based on. But in the middle of that transition, we were pleased to report that U.S. Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) approved the release of screenshots confirming Baker's analysis. Turley: January 6 Wasn't Insurrection or Rebellion — 14th Amendment Doesn't Apply. Thursday on FNC's "The Story," network contributor Jonathan Turley questioned the merits of the Colorado Supreme Court's decision to bar former President Donald Trump from the 2024 primary election ballot. According to Turley, the 14th Amendment didn't apply because January 6 was a riot, not an insurrection. "It's nonsense," he said. "I mean, first of all, there's really interesting analogies to go to Bush v. Gore, you know, a little over 20 years ago, they had another 4-3 decision by another state Supreme Court. And what the court did is they were uncomfortable with the ambiguous standards being used by Florida. This is even more so. When I read the 14th Amendment, I see the words insurrection or rebellion. This was neither. This was a riot. [...]" Oath Keepers Founder Stewart Rhodes Says the Biden Regime Is Now Sending Prominent J6 Prisoners to Mental Institutions. On Wednesday Stewart Rhodes, the founder and president of the Oath Keepers reached out to The Gateway Pundit. This was the first time we have heard from Stewart in months since his Washington DC show trial. Stewart was on a 90 day phone restriction at the federal prison he is held at in Maryland. When I asked Stewart how he was doing and if he had any allies in prison he told me, "Almost every prisoner that I talk to here is a Trump supporter and is aware of the nonsense. And I get a lot of fist bumps, actually." That's good! [E]ven the prisoners are pro-Trump today! Stewart reminded me how he predicted that the Democrats were going to use the 14th Amendment to go after President Trump. Stewart predicted this two years ago! Is SCOTUS Poised to Overturn Key J6 Felony Count? An order published by the Supreme Court on December 13 represented a moment hundreds of January 6 defendants and their loved ones had been waiting for: the highest court granted a writ of certiorari petition in the case of Fischer v. USA. In a nutshell, after more than two years of litigation before federal judges in Washington, SCOTUS will review the Department of Justice's use of 1512(c)(2), obstruction of an official proceeding, in January 6 cases. A "splintered" 2-1 appellate court ruling issued in April just barely endorsed the DOJ's unprecedented interpretation of the statute, passed in 2002 as part of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in the aftermath of the Enron/Arthur Anderson accounting scandal. Justices will review the appellate court's muddy decision during oral arguments expected to take place in March or April. A final opinion should be announced before the court's term ends in June. A killer's privilege. The Pennsylvania Department of Revenue recently filed a lien against the property of Ashley Biden for $5,000 she has owed in income taxes since 2015. Her father was the vice president at the time. Ashley lives in Philadelphia with her husband. [...] Maybe she should move to Maryland. Michael Byrd, the Capitol police officer who murdered Ashli Babbitt on January 6, seems to have no fear of the government coming after him. He has owed the government $56,366 since 2019. He bought a $520,000 house in Prince George's County, MD, the same year despite his previous multiple foreclosures and bankruptcies. His house has no lien on it. His last bankruptcy, in 2009, showed debts of $1.2 million, which he incurred after a bankruptcy ten years before. The court let him satisfy the 2009 claims for $14,547. His indebtedness to the government since 2019 has skyrocketed. An accredited business site online claims that Byrd would now have accumulated a $26,632.80 penalty and interest of $11,244.78 for a total of $94,243.29. No effort is being made to make him pay. 'Looks Like an Insurrection': Hamas Sympathizers Take Over U.S. Capitol Rotunda. The trend of radical anti-Israel leftists shutting down government buildings to demand a "ceasefire now" — something which would prolong Hamas attacks against Israeli civilians and give the Iran-backed terrorists a hope of survival — reached a new level on Tuesday when the rotunda of the United States Capitol was closed by authorities while they arrested and removed the demonstrators. [Tweet] Scores of individuals demanding Hamas be allowed to survive unfurled a banner and launched into an off-pitch and dystopian sounding "song" — if you can call it that — that was as incorrect as it was punishing on the ears. The Republican Party's Paper Elephants. While J6 protesters are separated from their families and thrown into jail cells without any semblance of due process, there is silence. While J6 targets commit suicide to avoid the financial costs and emotional carnage leveled by an indifferent criminal "justice" system, there is silence. While Democrat prosecutors, judges, and juries work together to hand out decade-long prison sentences to Trump-supporters as punishment for their unapproved thoughts, there is silence. While Democrat prosecutors, judges, and juries work together to fine, disbar, financially ruin, or incarcerate anybody advocating for election integrity, there is silence. While Democrat prosecutors, judges, and juries work together to deliver harsher judgments against President Trump than the U.S. government has sought for some convicted terrorists, the silence is deafening. At the very moment in history when an opposition party has been most needed to avert America's descent toward total tyranny, the Republican Party has been AWOL for all to see. Speaker Mike Johnson releases J6 footage, but why are potential informants' faces blurred? [House Speaker] Johnson's release of the J6 footage has done a great deal to re-introduce Americans to the falsity of the official narrative of January 6th. The latest release includes footage of Capitol police firing "flash bangs" unnecessarily at the crowd, as well as police opening doors and behavior of protestors inside the Capitol that fails to conform to any definition of "terrorism." As a matter of reinforcing public awareness, such footage is important. For serious researchers of January 6, and for those fortunate enough to have been ahead of the curve by reading Revolver, such information is nothing new. Indeed, we already knew the Capitol Police opened the doors to the crowds in many cases, and that the Capitol Police engaged in egregious acts of unnecessary provocation of the crowd. What Revolver and other researchers are principally interested in is whether and how the newly available footage might advance our understanding of federal involvement in January 6, and help us to piece together identities and networks of informants and agents on the ground that day. Unfortunately such discoveries are made nearly impossible by the fact that Johnson's team have decided to selectively blur the faces of some January 6 participants, and to simply cut out large swathes of surveillance footage in other cases. CNN Town Hall Host Tries To Disrupt Vivek Ramaswamy As He Reveals Truth Behind J6. Whether one supports the presidential candidacy of Vivek Ramaswamy or not, it's impossible to deny that some of the best red pill moments of the election cycle so far have been his debates with establishment spin doctors. During a Town Hall discussion in Iowa hosted by CNN, anchor Abby Phillip tried a new tactic to defuse Ramaswamy and disrupt his ability to convey the facts: She simply kept talking over top of him, contradicting his statements and then refused to give him an opportunity to answer back. The strategy did not work quite as well as she might have hoped, as Vivek trampled her expertly. [Video clip] Florida Man Gets 60 Months In Prison On J6 Capitol Breach Felony, Misdemeanor Charges. A Florida man was sentenced today [12/15/2023] on a felony and six misdemeanor charges related to his conduct during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Anthony Sargent, 47, of St. Augustine, Fla., was sentenced to 60 months in prison for the felony count of civil disorder and misdemeanor charges that included the destruction of property; entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds; engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly conduct in a Capitol building; and act of physical violence in the Capitol grounds or buildings. Credentialed "Blaze Media" Journalist Charged by FBI for Documenting J6. This isn't the first journalist the Biden DOJ has attempted to prosecute, as Owen Shroyer of Info Wars was recently incarcerated for 47 days based on comments he made during his nightly news broadcast. There were several other reporters who have been investigated and charged. However, Steve Baker's case is drastically different than Shroyer's situation. Steve was a well established reporter (not even a Trump supporter at the time) who attended the Trump rally with the intent of documenting the transfer of power during an important day in American history. The FBI harassed him in July of 2021, but left him alone after becoming aware of his status as an established reporter. The only issue is, Steve eventually began investigating the federal government's role in the events of January 6th and uncovered corruption at the highest levels of law enforcement. This apparently upset federal prosecutors who are now formally charging Baker despite him working actively as a credentialed journalist for TheBlaze.com. Rep. Clay Higgins Tells Lara Logan They Have PROOF of FBI Involvement in Jan. 6. Investigative journalist Lara Logan released the latest episode in her much-anticipated investigative series into the January 6, 2021 "Fed-surrection" on Thursday on Truth in Media website. In her latest episode, Episode 9, Logan brings on former Louisiana police officer and current US Congressman Clay Higgins to discuss the events that tragic day back in January 2021. Representative Higgins is famous for confronting FBI Director Chris Wray back in November 2022 on the confidential human sources dressed as Trump supporters INSIDE the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. In November 2023 Rep. Higgins confronted Chris Wray again about the FBI's confidential human sources that were brought to the January 6, 2021 protests. But this time Clay Higgins brought a photo of the government assets boarding buses before the rally on January 6 at Union Station. Lara Logan Releases New J6 Video with GOP Lawmaker and Crime Fighter Clay Higgins who TELLS ALL. Investigative journalist Lara Logan released the latest episode in her much anticipated investigation into the January 6, 2021 "Fed-surrection" today on Truth in Media website. In her latest episode, Logan brings on former Louisiana police officer and current US Congressman Clay Higgins to discuss the events that tragic day back in January 2021. Representative Higgins is famous for confronting FBI Director Chris Wray back in November 2022 on the confidential human sources dressed as Trump supporters INSIDE the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. In November 2023 Rep. Higgins confronted Chris Wray again about the FBI's confidential human sources that were brought to the January 6, 2021 protests. But this time Clay Higgins brought a photo of the government assets boarding buses before the rally. SCOTUS Takes Up Obstruction Charge Appeal for J6 Defendant - Could Be Huge for Trump and Others. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court agreed to hear the appeal brought by a man charged with obstructing an official proceeding relating to the events at the Capitol on January 6th, 2021. The plaintiff in this case, Joseph Fischer, petitioned the Supreme Court to hear his case and asked for a dismissal of the "obstructing an official proceeding" charge as it related to the certification of the election, which declared Joe Biden the winner. At the heart of the Fischer v. U.S. case is 18 U.S.C. 1512(c)(2), which makes it a crime to "corruptly... otherwise obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding[...]." If convicted, the penalty is up to 20 years in federal prison. The Department of Justice has charged over 300 people under that section, including former President Donald Trump. January 6 Is the Dems' Electoral Strategy. The strategy is not subtle. Democrats and their media handlers have spoken of little but "January 6" for almost three years. Willa Cather once wrote that if you teach people a new word, they think they have learned a new fact. The left wants to make "January 6" such a "new fact — an accusation, a symbol, a belief system, a strategy, and much more. Politicians want to be the victims of January 6 and wear their victimhood like a badge of stolen honor. They equate January 6 with September 11. They claim to have been present when they were not. No one yet claims to have said "let's roll" on January 6, but that might be coming. Defendants remain in jail awaiting trial. Sentences have been imposed that far exceed any prior conviction for trespassing. Video has been suppressed in a way that would make the Watergate defendants proud and envious. Most important, January 6 has served as an accusation against every Republican who might win a federal election in 2024. Republicans are accused of failing to prevent January 6. They are accused of "conspiracy" because they question the many irregularities from the 2020 election. Their phone records are seized. Every statement they ever made is analyzed for possible hidden encouragement to commit January 6. Here's the 'Jan. 6 Jurisprudence' About to Be Unleashed on Trump. Defense attorneys have coined the term "January 6 Jurisprudence" to describe the treatment received by the more than 1,200 defendants arrested so far in connection with the events of Jan. 6, 2021. This carve-out legal system involves the unprecedented and possibly unlawful use of a corporate evidence-tampering statute; excessive prison sentences and indefinite periods of pretrial incarceration; and the designation of nonviolent offenses as federal crimes of terrorism. A universal feature is the requirement that a Jan. 6 defendant, usually a supporter of Donald Trump, face trial in Washington, D.C., a city overwhelmingly populated by Democrats. Federal judges have denied every change of venue motion filed in Jan. 6 cases, arguing those who protested at the Capitol can get a fair trial in the nation's capital. The results so far appear to contradict the court's collective conclusion. Court records show the jury selection process has repeatedly revealed a strong degree of bias against anyone tied to Jan. 6. At least 130 defendants have been convicted at trial — not one has been acquitted by a jury — and hundreds have been sentenced to prison time ranging from seven days to 22 years. Defense lawyers say this track record helps explain why the vast majority of defendants have opted for a plea deal rather than go to trial. New Rumble Channel Established for Release of Jan. 6 Security Video by Congress. The GOP-controlled Committee on House Administration's Subcommittee on Oversight has established a Rumble channel and released the second batch of security video from Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol. The first few videos were posted to the Rumble channel on Dec. 5. By the next day, the collection grew to 135 clips — each about 10 minutes long. The channel had nearly 700 followers on Dec. 7. The committee released the first batch of 90 CCTV clips on Nov. 17 on its House of Representatives website. The two websites now contain nearly 40 hours of the more than 40,000 hours of video from Jan. 6 held by Capitol Police. This is far more than the January 6th protesters did. Our Institutions Have Betrayed Our Trust. "Where were you when the 2020 election count was halted simultaneously in six swing states?" Our public officials and the entire news media have spent countless hours explaining the 2020 election was the "most secure in history" and any attempts to dispute it are not only conspiracy theories, but sedition, as evidenced by the "insurrection" of January 6, where "right-wing radicals" stormed the U.S. Capitol in an effort to "overthrow the government." Hundreds of "protesters" have been rounded up and thrown in jail under the most egregious conditions and forced into plea deals and professing guilt, while those who steadfastly maintained their innocence have been sentenced to many years in prison. Calls to release the tens of thousands of hours of video footage of the event have been consistently thwarted — until now. Fearless investigative reporter Lara Logan has released three reports, [...] exposing the involvement of Ray Epps, a mysterious rabble-rouser who insists he has no ties to the FBI but has never been prosecuted for inciting a riot. Newly released footage show the story line of a violent insurrection is bogus. Police fired on the crowd with no warning, the protesters were peaceful and even smiling with police. Former Capitol Police Officer Blows J6 Narrative Wide Open With Release of New Audio. In another interesting twist, a former U.S. Capitol Police officer made an announcement that could even further damage the already-weakened narrative put forth by the left regarding the J6 riot. Since House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) decided to release all of the footage taken on Jan. 6, 2021, at the Capitol building, the riot has become a topic of conversation once again. Former U.S. Capitol Police Lieutenant Tarik Johnson, who was present at the Capitol on that day, has been challenging the government narrative on the incident and has indicated that the authorities on the ground were ill-prepared for what happened. Now, he indicated that he would be releasing audio recordings that could further blow up the prevailing narrative and suggested a "set-up" and cover-up surrounding the issue. In a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, Johnson indicated that he had spoken with legal counsel to understand the legalities surrounding the release of the audio to make sure he wasn't opening himself up to legal problems. Almost 3 years after J6, Biden's FBI descended on a conservative actor. In Biden-world, the best way to recognize these American "Nazis" (for that's what he's calling them) is to identify and arrest everyone who showed up in D.C. on January 6, 2021. The latest victim is Siaka Massaquoi. You may not recognize Massaquoi's name, but I can guarantee you that you know his face: He plays the California husband who, with his California wife, moved to Texas, where both experienced comedic culture shock before getting used to the ways of that strange new land. The first video, from the Babylon Bee, was so hugely popular that the Bee ended up making several more, all starring Massaquoi. Jan. 6 Committee Tapes Have Disappeared, Says House Republican. The disappearance of videotapes of witness interviews conducted by the Democratic-led House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack has alarmed the chairman of the House panel that replaced it. Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.), who chairs the House Administration Oversight Subcommittee that is currently investigating security lapses connected to the Capitol riot and potential ramifications for upcoming criminal trials, is questioning the disappearance of the video evidence. "All of the videotapes of all depositions are gone," Mr. Loudermilk told the "Just the News, No Noise" television show Thursday night. "We found out about this early in the investigation when I received a call from someone who was looking for some information off one of the videotapes, and we started searching, and we had none," Mr. Loudermilk explained. "I wrote a letter to Bennie Thompson asking for them. And he confirmed that they did not preserve those types [sic]. He didn't feel that they had to." According to Mr. Loudermilk, the videotapes met the requirements for congressional evidence under House rules because some of the segments were shown at hearings, and the now-defunct J6 committee, led by Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss), ought to have kept all of the recordings. Did the corrupt J6 committee destroy evidence of its own proceedings? The corrupt January 6 Committee, which culminated in a show hearing that would have made Stalin proud, conducted multiple witness interviews in the lead-up to the televised hearing. However, it refused to release any information about those interviews, except for anti-Trump, anti-MAGA leaks to the media. In theory, now that there's a new Speaker in the House who is steadily releasing 41,000 hours of Capitol footage about events on January 6, we should also be seeing what the J6 Committee hid behind closed doors. However, that may not be possible. Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA), who chairs the House Administration Oversight Subcommittee, explains that the interview videotapes have vanished: [...] In civil litigation, the moment a lawsuit is filed, the defendant must preserve any documents that could reasonably relate to the subjects at issue in the litigation. If, instead, he destroys those documents, he is guilty of spoliation, and spoliation is a big deal. It's the kind of thing that can see an automatic judgment taken against the defendant because the court will assume that the documents, if they'd been admitted into evidence, would have proven the defendant's guilt. Why Our Legal System is Collapsing. Thrasymachus observed that there is no justice, for it will always be defined as the self-interest of those in power. Just look at the people imprisoned for being escorted into the Capitol Building on January 6th. It was orchestrated and instigated by the Deep State so that they could try to use the 14th Amendment to prevent Trump from ever holding office again. They rigged the 2020 election, and that is something the CIA has done in other countries all the time, and the former head of the CIA has admitted doing so on FOX News. I was asked to invest $10 billion into Russia for the 2000 election to be rigged to take over Russia. The video that could unravel the January 6 Committee's conclusions. I just happened to stumble upon this video on Twitter, and it's not your typical cat meme. [Tweet with video clip] The video captures the unsettling scene of police hurling not one, not two, but three concussion grenades into an apparently peaceful crowd at the Capitol on January 6. In this eye-opening footage, the peaceful atmosphere is shattered by the deafening blasts of concussion grenades. It made me wonder, "Why hasn't this been shown?" It's the kind of reality check that sends shivers down your spine. But here's the kicker: the January 6 Committee, the supposed guardians of truth in the aftermath of the Capitol insurrection, has kept this video, and probably many others, under wraps. [...] How are we to make any sense of it all, with this video, a piece of the puzzle, showing police tossing concussion grenades into what looks like a peaceful crowd? But why did the January 6 Committee keep this nugget from us? There's a "lack of evidence" — is that what we are to understand? Because that's the committee's first line of defense. They're on a mission to decipher what happened that fateful day, not to have a sideshow of unrelated incidents. Were the January 6 tapes edited? House Speaker Mike Johnson is releasing 40,000 of the 44,000 hours of video from Capitol Hill taken on January 6. Tens of thousands of private individuals will be devoting a good part of their time analyzing these videos. There are several problems confronted by analysts. The Department of Justice has had almost three years to edit these videos. The faces of private citizens will be blurred "to protect them from retaliation." How does the DOJ distinguish private citizens from DOJ planted agitators? The answer is they do not. Private analysts will not be able to make that distinction due to the "blurring." Also roughly 5% of the footage will be withheld because it contains sensitive security information. Who determines what "sensitive security information" is? Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy provided Tucker Carlson with 41,000 hours of police and surveillance video. "Sensitive security information" appears to be a fluid concept. There are obviously some very explosive revelations in the unedited videos. They are so "sensitive" that the FBI's Washington Field Office (WFO) refused the share them with their colleagues in the Boston Field Office. The Jan 6 Committee Depositions Have Been Destroyed, Reveals Congressman. Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) says the video depositions of witnesses for the Democrat-controlled January 6 Committee — including Cassidy Hutchinson among others — have been destroyed. According to Loudermilk, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) — who chaired the partisan committee — did not believe preserving the video data was necessary. Loudermilk says when he asked Thompson for the files, the Democrat Congressman confirmed to him they had been destroyed. Expressing frustration with these actions, Loudermilk said, "...according to House rules, you have to preserve any data and any information and documents that are used in an official proceeding." Congressman Suspects More Than 200 Federal Agents [were] in [the] Crowd on January 6. In an interview with Newsmax, Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) reported that he suspects over 200 federal agents were in the crowd on January 6 dressed as supporters of President Trump. Higgins alleges the federal agents were outside directing protesters, and had federal agents inside the Capitol before protesters entered. Additionally, he claims the FBI embedded themselves in online chat groups and suggested acts of violence and occupation of the Capitol. The announcement from Higgins comes after Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.) released over 40,000 hours of video footage recorded on January 6. Higgins said on X, "J6 was an FBI op...." On November 15, Higgins had questioned FBI Director Christopher Wray during a congressional hearing about "ghost buses," and asked if the FBI had undercover agents posing as Trump supporters at the Capitol on January 6. House Rep. Reveals 'At Least 200' Undercover Fed Operatives Set Up Trump Trap on January 6. According to U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA), there were "at least 200" undercover federal agents among the crowd on January 6. The lawmaker further stated that some of the operatives were "dressed as Trump supporters" and were inside the Capitol prior to the breach. "The FBI was not just participating in the January 6th acts from within. I suspect they had over 200 agents embedded in the crowd, including agents or, as they would call it, human assets inside the Capitol dressed as Trump supporters before the doors were opened," Higgins told Newsmax presenter Chris Salcedo. With more information about January 6, why it happened is now obvious. House Speaker Mike Johnson's release of more video and cell phone tapes from January 6 shows further evidence that the "insurrection" on that day was a federal setup. It's more evidence to add to the known fact that, in the lead-up to January 6, then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi refused to have extra security. This knowledge leads to a bigger question that no one, Left, Right, or Center, seems to be asking: Why? Why wouldn't Pelosi want to be sure that "democracy was secure" so that Vice President Mike Pence could certify the Electoral College vote? Ensuring that the Capitol was safe and sound would mean that Joe Biden's presidency would be assured. After all, the election of 2020 was "the most secure in American history," so why wouldn't you want that obvious fact certified and rubber-stamped by Congress? The only obvious answer to why Pelosi wanted to guarantee a riotous breach of the Capitol was what she knew would be the actual results of the Electoral College vote if the process were allowed to run its course. Senators Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley, among others, had previously made noise about challenging election results in several swing states. Judge Chutkan Denies Trump Motion to Subpoena for Missing J6 Records. Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is presiding over Special Counsel Jack Smith's case against former President Donald Trump for 2020 election interference, this week denied a motion by the former president to seek materials he said the House Committee investigating January 6, 2021, had not turned over to the National Archives. On Monday, Chutkan rejected Trump's motion, accusing him of going on a "fishing expedition." Did Democrat 'Bird-Doggers' Disrupt Congress on January 6? In doing research for a book on the women of January 6, I came across the curious case of Emanuel Jackson. Although Jackson does not exactly fit the media profile of a raging white supremacist, there is no denying his involvement. On January 20, 2021, the Department of Justice charged Jackson with two counts of "assault on a federal officer while armed with a deadly or dangerous weapon" and one count "of unlawful entry on restricted building or grounds while armed with a dangerous or deadly weapon." The video backs up the DOJ. On March 18, 2021, News4 in Washington showed a clip of Jackson, baseball bat in hand, flailing at police officers in the crowded tunnel on the Capitol's west side. It's as violent as any recorded act I've seen a protester commit. [...] The question remains: who gave Jackson the bat? It is likely the same entity that drove him to the rally and told him what to say. As James O'Keefe reported in his book on the 2016 presidential campaign, American Pravda, the Democrat party has a history of using homeless people to cause disorder. The practice has a name. It's called "bird-dogging." Nancy Pelosi's Daughter Admits J6 Was a Hoax Not an Insurrection. Nancy Pelosi's nepo-baby, Alexandra, was caught on camera admitting essentially that January 6 and the ensuing prosecutions were a marketing gimmick to propagandize the public for the benefit of the Democrat Party. [Tweet with video clip] The video, apparently filmed surreptitiously in the style of Project Veritas and released by CitizenLens, reportedly between Pelosi and a January 6 defendant she was courting so as to appear in her documentary of the event, featured Pelosi discussing the political implications of the Jan 6 show trials and their effects on the upcoming 2022 mid-term elections. An Admission but No Exoneration. The radical left and their allies in the media have told us repeatedly that January 6th was the worst day in American history. Yes, this includes Pearl Harbor and 9/11. They claim it's the day democracy almost died. They claim that it's the worst event since the Civil War. Well, if that's the case, why is Pelosi's daughter saying that this is going to be a laughing matter one day? [...] Sure, Pelosi's daughter could be speaking out of turn. But there's been a steady drip-drip-drip of information that goes against the entire narrative that we've been fed. Constitution Scholar: Lawfare Punishing Me For Advising Trump Will Cost Me $3 Million. Three lawsuits attempting to bankrupt a constitutional scholar for giving the prior Republican president legal advice will cost him $3 to $3.5 million, John Eastman said Friday. Eastman was a target of Democrats' illegal Jan. 6 Committee and has been harassed by the FBI and courts since assisting Donald Trump in 2020 constitutional litigation. "This is what I call the authoritarian moment in our history," Eastman told reporter Julie Kelly and podcast cohost Liz Sheld. "The whole premise here is: 'The government has spoken and you continue to say otherwise. Therefore you must be lying.'" Eastman's legal defense fund has raised more than half a million dollars so far, "less than a third of what we've already incurred and less than about a sixth or seventh of what we're likely to incur before we're done," Eastman said. To defend himself legally in a Georgia prosecutor's case against Trump and dozens of his associates, Eastman needs to raise $1 million by February, he said: "I'm trying very hard not to completely deplete my wife's retirement fund." Yes, there was violence inside the Capitol on J6, but the police committed it. The newly released J6 footage is a revelation because it shows that the "insurrection" was not by, of, and for the people, it was by, of, and for the government. When it comes to events inside the Capitol, there's growing evidence that the violence came not from the people peacefully and reverentially wandering around but from law enforcement. Certainly, the most recent footage appears to bear that out. There are two narratives about January 6. The dominant one is the Democrat narrative. Practically within minutes of events on January 6, every Democrat politician and media outlet was claiming an "insurrection." [...] Mike Johnson finally stopped the censorship, and crowd-sourcing is revealing the full story of a day that the Democrats have used to persecute, prosecute, imprison, and silence their political opponents. The latest revelation comes from Julie Kelly, who introduces footage showing that the police ambushed Trump supporters who were peacefully and reverentially wandering through the Rotunda on January 6 (most of whom, almost certainly, had no idea they'd been trespassing given that signage had been removed and police were welcoming them in). Nancy Pelosi's Daughter Caught on Hidden Camera Admitting January 6 Was a Hoax. Nancy Pelosi's nepo-baby, Alexandra, was caught on camera admitting essentially that January 6 and the ensuing prosecutions were a marketing gimmick to propagandize the public for the benefit of the Democrat Party. The video, apparently filmed surreptitiously in the style of Project Veritas and released by CitizenLens, reportedly between Pelosi and a January 6 defendant she was courting so as to appear in her documentary of the event, featured Pelosi discussing the political implications of the Jan 6 show trials and their effects on the upcoming 2022 mid-term elections. Supreme Court May Take Up Jan 6 Defendant's Case Challenging Charges. The United States Supreme Court is considering taking up a case of a Jan. 6 defendant who is challenging their charges as a violation of the U.S. Constitution. A man facing multiple criminal charges for his actions during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot of 2021 petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court in July. He called on the SCOTUS to intervene with respect to one particular count that he asserts is unwarranted. He argues that the charge is a potential violation of the constitutional rights of himself and others who are similarly situated. It is not guaranteed that the Supreme Court will actually take up the case or rule in the petitioner's favor. New January 6 Video Proves the Oath Keepers Were Innocent of All Charges. Out of all the innocent people who have been railroaded by the government over the mostly peaceful January 6 Election Justice protest, none have had it worse than the Oath Keepers. The group's founder, Stuart Rhodes, received a prison sentence of 18 years for his role in the protest. Many of the group's members have been sentenced close to that length of time as well. Newly released footage, which has been corroborated by a Member of Congress, proves that Capitol Police officers LIED UNDER OATH during the Oath Keepers' trial. Capitol Police Special Agent David Lazarus was the head of Nancy Pelosi's security detail at the US Capitol on January 6th. He testified under oath in the Oath Keepers trial. The government's central argument that the Oath Keepers were guilty of "seditious conspiracy" and leading an "insurrection" was due to an interaction in which the members allegedly clashed with law enforcement. This "clash" happened at the top of the stairs next to the Capitol Rotunda, also known as the Speaker's Lobby. The jury in the Oath Keepers trial was never shown any security footage of this supposed "clash." They had to take the government's word for it. And they did, since Special Agent Lazarus and other Capitol Police officers appear to have LIED to the jury under oath. Video puts Ray Epps at almost every key ignition point on J6. In the third of a series, Truth in Media's Lara Logan reveals never-before-seen video which puts Ray Epps at practically every point where tensions were ignited between protesters and police at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Logan continued to ask the question: Why was Ray Epps treated as a victim by the same people who condemned almost everyone around him as a threat? Logan's interview with The Gateway Pundit's Jim Hoft is featured prominently in the video. Hoft and the Gateway Pundit have been instrumental in exposing the truth of J6 that leftist media and the Democrat Party does not want Americans to see. Logan and Hoft discussed the J6 "criminal act" that sent at least eight Trump supporters to prison. Those Trump supporters are serving prison sentences for touching a massive Trump sign that was moved toward police at a barricade. Several video angles show Epps holding the sign. Hoft notes that Epps is seen "pushing this sign directly at police and then pushing the crowd as the sign moved toward the police line." Proud Boy Zachary Rehl Continues to Endure Inhumane Treatment at Hands of Bureau of Prisons. The Gateway Pundit has reported on numerous examples of the inhumane treatment J6 political prisoners have faced. Prisoners, like Infowars reporter and War Room host Owen Shroyer, are spending extended periods in solitary confinement, often without explanation. John Strand was sentenced to 32 months in prison and despite the Bureau of Prison's own scoring system, he was sent to prison and placed in isolation. J6 political prisoner Barry Ramey, who was stabbed in the face for watching Tucker Carlson, shared the malnutrition they face, the mail discarded over political views, medical care being denied, and more. In breakthrough, Congress obtains footage of undercover cops conducting surveillance on Jan. 6. Congressional investigators have obtained hours of video footage from undercover officers who were dispatched by the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department to the U.S. Capitol to conduct electronic surveillance during the Jan. 6 riot, a critical new piece of evidence that could help lawmakers fashion long-delayed security reforms. The footage reviewed by Just the News ranges from the mundane — such as chronicling moments when Capitol Police officers are impacted by tear gas fired into the crowd — to more provocative scenes that appear to show plainclothes MPD officers exhorting rioters to climb scaffolding near the Capitol or talking about being undercover with liberal fascist protesters in a crowd. "Well, we go undercover as Antifa in the crowd," one officer that congressional investigators believe is a member of the MPD electronic surveillance unit is captured on video saying. That officer made the comment as he was helping uniformed Capitol Police officers get some water after inhaling tear gas, the footage shows. Taking Action on J6 Video Footage. It's been over 34 months since the events of the 2020 election and January 6th, 2021, sparked a growing fissure in public trust. [...] [The new House] Speaker Mike Johnson, began to roll out hundreds of hours of internal CCTV cameras on the House website Friday Nov. 17th. Though many are cheering and celebrating these initial releases, there remains a great public misunderstanding of what the release of these videos actually means when it comes to discovering the truth. Friday's release saw just a few hundred hours of corridor and portal cams. Releasing this immense cache in dribbles is just another slow walking of the truth, when in reality it would be just as easy to release them all at once. Beyond the issues of releasing the material quickly comes the question: What now? How do you investigate the over 40,000 hours of video effectively? Is that all the evidence? What about the MPD body cam footage, not included in Johnson's announcement? [...] To see the details needed to clearly identify and document individual actions that verify or reject the DoJ's numerous claims of violence by defendants, would take decades with teams of investigators working around the clock. It's expensive work with highly skilled video experts and criminologists and lots of equipment. While the DoJ has millions funded to cover it all up, the J6 Investigators often have to pay their own expenses to achieve any measure of success. Whose National Security? When one takes the totality of goings-on in government today, I don't know how to interpret it any other way than the government intends to attack patriotic American citizens at some point in the future. Perhaps, like January 6th, they intend to pull off a large-scale false flag in order to impose martial law and set about the elimination of the patriotic to install a different governmental system. This is a time, when threats are not only pervasive and some terrorist attacks have been carried out against the nation, that the government typically is determined to increase patriotism through propaganda in order to secure a sufficient available fighting force. This government is not at all interested in doing that, but exactly the opposite. They spend their time trying to prevent any displays of patriotism whatsoever. Anything that smacks of fighting tyranny and preserving freedom are assaulted and criminalized. Videos Prove January 6 was an Inside Job. House Speaker Mike Johnson plans to release all of the hidden footage from the January 6 planned insurrection. We know from countless sources that the FBI was on the ground that day and hiding within the crowd. Ray Epps urged the protesters to go inside the building, and the following day, someone opened the doors and encouraged the protesters to enter the building. Kamala Harris has likened January 6 to Pearl Harbor and 9/11. Joe Biden is using footage from that day in his latest campaign ads, as the left wants the mindless sheep to believe that "MAGA extremists are the biggest threat to our country." The footage is being leaked incrementally, but it is clear that the people sitting in jail are political prisoners. Similar to other ruthless dictators, Joe Biden wanted to stifle those questioning the 2020 election results. He publicly arrested anyone remotely close to the Capitol building to use as examples. "This decision will provide millions of Americans, criminal defendants, public interest organizations, and the media an ability to see for themselves what happened that day, rather than having to rely upon the interpretation of a small group of government officials," Johnson said on his decision to release the footage. D.C. Metro Police Department Officer Caught on Camera Saying They 'Go Undercover With Antifa'. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) sparked a spirited debate last week when he announced that House Republicans would be releasing all of the J6 footage. Since then, members of the chattering class have been going back and forth about the riot now that new evidence further demonstrates that the incident was not worse than the 9/11 terrorist attacks, as was claimed by several on the left. Now, a new revelation has emerged that could either add more complexity to the ongoing narratives about J6, or it could mean absolutely nothing at all. Just the News reported on bodycam footage from a D.C. Metro Police Officer in which he claimed that he and other officers routinely "go undercover with Antifa." J6 Footage Shows Capitol Police Officers Firing Rubber Bullets at Peaceful Protesters. In what could possibly be a major revelation related to the J6 riot at the U.S. Capitol building, a recent report suggests that Capitol Police fired rubber bullets into a peaceful crowd of Trump supporters during the incident. If true, this development raises serious questions about the potential role of law enforcement in the escalation of violence on that day. Human Events published a report detailing an interview between conservative commentator Jack Posobiec and conservative activist Raheem Kassam, who were both present near the Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021. The report claimed that new footage released by House Speaker Mike Johnson shows that Capitol Police, at least in one instance, opened fire on a crowd of peaceful protesters. J6 footage reveals Capitol Police fired into peaceful crowd, gave no warnings. New footage from January 6, 2021, released by Speaker Mike Johnson, reveals that Capitol Police fired rubber bullets and other projectiles into the non-violent crowd that was protesting outside of the building, inciting chaos and confusion. Jack Posobiec and Raheem Kassam were reporting on the grounds in Washington DC that day, walking towards the Capitol when they heard flash bangs go off at around 1:10 pm EST, right around the time President Donald Trump's speech was ending. Posobiec hosted Kassam on his show, Human Events, Monday to recount the events and timeline of the day from their perspective now that these new revelations have finally come to light. Raheem recalled hearing a bang for the first time and initially thought it sounded like "pallets falling off of the back of a truck" before quickly getting a better view from a rooftop of the scuffle unfolding. He reminded viewers that the public was asked to believe that Trump's speech near the White House had incited the "insurrection" despite the timeline of events not adding up. Although this was "debunked rather quickly," this new footage proves that the violence seen that day was incited by police. Biden's DOJ Tormented These Four J6 Protesters To Death. Last week, newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson publicly released 90 hours of Jan. 6, 2021, security footage featuring protesters peacefully walking through the Capitol, often with the encouragement or indifference of Capitol Police officers. The footage further delegitimizes the Biden administration, corporate media, and Jan. 6 Committee's insistence that the 2021 Capitol protest was on par with Pearl Harbor and 9/11. It also exonerates countless peaceful protesters who have been slandered by the media and J6 Committee, harassed by Biden's Department of Justice, and held in solitary confinement without due process. Many protesters were severely punished because federal courts stressed a "need to deter others, especially in cases of domestic terrorism." In other words, they made examples out of Jan. 6 protesters for daring to question the results of the rigged 2020 election. Some Jan. 6 protesters crumbled under the Biden DOJ's political persecution. Four of them took their own lives. Here's what we know about those victims. We Must Demand Justice for the January 6th Protestors! New US House Speaker Mike Johnson struck a blow for liberty and justice last week when he finally authorized the release of all the tapes from the January 6, 2021 "insurrection." We were told by no less than President Biden himself that this was the "worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War." The FBI was unleashed by the Biden Administration to hunt down hundreds of participants in this "insurrection" and lock them up in the gulag where they awaited trial in torturous conditions — many in solitary confinement. A Congressional Committee was set up under then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi to "get to the bottom" of the "Trump-led insurrection." It did not include a single Representative nominated by the opposition Republican Party, but rather two "Republicans" — Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger — who could be relied on by Pelosi and the Democrats to toe the line. In short, the whole thing was an old-fashioned Soviet show trial, where the evidence was kept secret and the pre-determined verdict — guilty — was to be used to tighten the grip of the ruling regime and intimidate any further dissenters into silence. The message was clear: "speak out against the 'perfection' of the 2020 election and you may find yourself in the gulag along with the insurrectionists." It was terrifying and profoundly anti-American. Video Series by InvestigateJ6 Shows Police and Govt. Agents Spray J6 Crowd with Rubber Bullets, Explosive Munitions, Sound Grenades. Recent footage released by InvestigateJ6 reveals police officers started firing on unsuspecting Trump supporters on January 6, 2021, without warning. The footage also reveals that DC police continued their fire on the protesters with rubber bullets, explosive munitions, and gas canisters. The Trump crowd that gathered on the west side of the US Capitol had no idea they were going to be fired on. There was NO WARNING. Four Trump supporters were killed that day, including Benjamin Phillips and Kevin Greeson, who were killed when police started firing munitions on the crowd. The fake news reported the two men had heart attacks — without adding that the men were being bombarded with exploding munitions without warning while they stood in the crowd with tens of thousands of fellow Trump supporters. Release of More Footage Spurs Calls for New Jan. 6 Inquiry. Several House Republicans called for establishing a new House investigation of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol breach after new security footage was released. Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene (R-Ga.) wrote that the release of the new tapes is "not enough" and that there needs to be a probe for the "lies, deceit, and lives ruined." The lawmaker then called on House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to create a new select committee. She criticized the previous Congress's Jan. 6 panel that was chaired by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) and former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.). "Every member of the Jan. 6th committee" as well as former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), the Capitol Police, District of Columbia Police, and Jan. 6 witnesses "who lied" should all be subpoenaed, Mrs. Greene added on X. Mike Lee Isn't Done With Liz Cheney Yet. He Had a Great Question for Her About Those FBI Agents and J6. As I wrote earlier, former Jan. 6 Committee member Liz Cheney had a fit that the House Speaker Mike Johnson released all of the Jan. 6 video. Why? It didn't help the narrative that she had been pushing, when it showed people being escorted through the building by the Capitol police — behaving peacefully — with protesters and police even shaking hands. What odd timing. Lee and Greene presumably have had access to all of the January 6 footage for a couple of years. The Editor says... New J6 Footage Shows Capitol Police May Have Incited Riot By Firing Munitions Into Peaceful Crowd. House Speaker Mike Johnson has released over 40,000 hours of J6 footage including capitol police body cam footage to the public in the interests of transparency, an action which should have been taken years ago. Each new piece of footage only confirms what many Americans already understood; That the few scant minutes of available video recycled by the media paint a false picture of what really happened. Many would argue that J6 was nothing more than a protest that was turned into a riot by police incitement and establishment spin. Even worse, there are many people now languishing in prison because of that spin. The latest footage shows capitol police inviting protesters into the building as they peacefully assembled in the corridors (the same people who would later be prosecuted and labeled "insurrectionists"). House Republicans Must Expose the Full Truth of January 6. On a near-daily basis, the Department of Justice announces new arrests related to the events of January 6. Authorities arrested a Minnesota man on Wednesday for allegedly obstructing law enforcement and other minor offenses; U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Matthew Graves, appointed by Joe Biden in 2021, trumpeted the news on his office's X account. Court proceedings for January 6 defendants fill the docket of the federal courthouse in Washington on any given day as the current caseload exceeds 1,200 Capitol protesters. Political prisoners wait out excessive sentences as appeals slowly make their way through the system. The human wreckage left in the wake of the DOJ's abusive, retaliatory prosecution of individuals who protested Biden's election nearly three years ago is an ongoing tragedy. Meanwhile, the same DOJ — along with their accomplices in Congress and national news media — has concealed the truth about what really happened before and on that fateful afternoon. Leftist
J6 Narrative Officially Debunked. I can hardly wait to see how the "fact-checkers"
handle the actual evidence from videos. Well, I have two facts they can begin with: Masked MAGA-Hat-Wearing J6 "Insurrectionist" Caught Flashing a Badge and Mike Lee Has Questions. The FBI and likely other "law enforcement" agencies had people planted in the January 6 crowd in an effort to incite the so-called "insurrection." That's not news to anyone who doesn't get brainwashed by corporate media. But knowing it and actually SEEING it are two different things which is why this image captured by former political prisoner Derrick Evans is so striking. The paused portion of a recently released J6 video shows a man wearing a MAGA hat and facial coverings flashing a badge at someone off-screen. The J6 Daddy Issues Fascists Are Terrified They're About to Be Exposed. Earlier this year, then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy released the video, but not to the public. Tucker Carlson was given access to it, and he promised to blow our minds with what he found. Unfortunately, that all became caught up in his already-deteriorating relationship with Fox News, and the bombshell wasn't very bombshell-y. If we weren't living in a banana republic, the American public wouldn't have had to wait over two years to see this footage. The J6 Committee carefully curated the film (yeah, I still use that word) to fit their frame job of former President Trump. It's tough to sell the insurrection story when there's a video record that proves that most of the people involved were merely exercising their constitutional right to peaceably assemble. The two execrable Republicans who were integral to the charade — Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney — are no longer members of Congress, but they're still skittish about being found out. Julie Kelly: Investigate the Four Celebrity J6 Cops — Haul Them in to Testify and Force Them Under Oath to Explain Their Lies!. On Friday Night Speaker Mike Johnson fulfilled his commitment to release the security camera footage from the January 6, 2021 protests at the US Capitol. The first batch of video was released Friday afternoon. [...] On Saturday morning, Steve Bannon invited investigative journalist Julie Kelly on to The War Room to discuss this development. During their discussion, Julie Kelly called for a new Congressional investigation into the events on January 6. Steve Bannon agreed and called for an investigation of Pelosi's January 6 Committee. Bannon insists investigators will find "brazen criminality" committed by the committee members in their sham investigation and fraudulent report. Julie Kelly then called on Republicans to call in the the January 6 "hero" cops to come in and testify and explain all of their lies! DOJ Wants J6 Defendant Victoria White to Serve 90 Days in Prison After Capitol Police Beat Her 35 Times in the Face. On January 6, 2021, four Trump supporters were killed. The sham January 6 Committee did not even investigate the deaths of these Trump supporters in their politicized investigation. The four Trump supporters were barely mentioned in passing in their final report. At least two other Trump supporters were nearly killed by police that day. Philip Anderson was knocked out, gassed, and smothered by police that day. J6 political prisoner Jake Lang dragged him to safety and saved his life. The Biden DOJ wants to drag Philip Anderson into a DC Court after they nearly killed him. The J6 videos show Vivek is right about firing half the federal workforce. Within hours of House Speaker Mike Johnson releasing the videos of events in the Capitol on January 6, it became clear that the official narrative was a lie. With police officers welcoming in their unexpected guests, showing them around, and fist-bumping those from whom they'd just removed handcuffs... well, it was clear that the FBI and Justice Department were gaslighting Americans, whether about how the incursion into the Capitol happened or what took place once Americans were in there. This new information is another reminder that our federal bureaucracy is corrupt and that Vivek Ramaswamy is correct that we need to fire half (or more) of America's federal workers. What we were told was that January 6 was worse than the Civil War and Pearl Harbor put together. (And I only just realized that the Democrats and Liz Cheney never mentioned it being worse than 9/11, which makes you wonder exactly how they view events on 9/11.) However, a lot of the now-revealed footage from inside the Capitol on January 6 shows a placid group of Americans walking through the people's house: [Several tweets with video clips] Sen. Mike Lee calls for investigation of J6 committee after tapes released: 'Deliberately hid from us'. Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee is calling for an investigation into the now-defunct House January 6 committee, accusing former and current lawmakers who served on the committee of "deliberately" hiding some of the footage from the Capitol riots. Lee's comments came after House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., began releasing more than 40,000 hours of footage taken at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, when protesters angry about the 2020 election results stormed the halls of Congress. Highlighting the release of the footage in a series of posts to X, formerly known as Twitter, Lee called into question the character of former Republican representatives Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois. FBI Investigation Of Alleged Child Predator Was 'Halted' To Hunt Down January 6 Rioters, Court Docs Show. An FBI investigation into an alleged child predator that was halted after the Capitol riots of Jan. 6, 2021, languished for almost three years before the man was finally apprehended in October 2023, according to court documents. Brogan Welsh, 31, allegedly communicated with an undercover FBI agent in December 2020 about having sexual relations with a 9-year-old boy, but the investigation stopped after the Capitol riots, according to the criminal complaint. The Anchorage FBI later caught Welsh allegedly living with a 10-year-old boy in Alaska in October 2023, through a different investigation, and arrested Welsh on suspicion of distribution of child pornography. [Tweet] "On January 6, 2021, FBI, Washington Field Office [WFO], this investigation was halted due to events that occurred at the United States Capitol Building that day," the documents state. The FBI in 2020 posed as the father of a 9-year-old boy and communicated with an online user going by "gayboy69freak" for several weeks, according to the documents. The user "expressed interest in traveling to Washington, DC to engage in sexual contact with the purported 9-year-old." Rep. Jordan Subpoenas Bank of America Over Allegedly Sharing Jan. 6 Info With FBI. House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) has subpoenaed Bank of America (BoA) for information over the company's alleged sharing with the FBI of private customer data from around the time of the Jan. 6, 2021, events in Washington. The subpoena is part of the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government's probe "into major banks sharing Americans' private financial data with the [FBI] without legal process for transactions made in the Washington, DC, area around Jan. 6, 2021" — the day that supporters of President Donald Trump breached the U.S. Capitol as Congress was certifying the 2020 election, which the former president has called rigged and stolen. Politico first reported the Nov. 16 development. The committee subpoenaed relevant documents from the bank, including internal communications about the decision to transfer the information to the FBI, any communications that the bank had with the agency, and any other information. The lawmakers gave Bank of America a June 8 deadline to comply. House Speaker Mike Johnson OFFICIALLY Releases First Batch of January 6 Surveillance Camera Footage. House Speaker Mike Johnson has recently made the first batch of January 6 footage publicly accessible through the Committee on House Administration website. The Gateway Pundit previously reported that House Speaker Mike Johnson has declared his intention to release thousands of hours of surveillance footage from the January 6, 2021, events at the U.S. Capitol. "Today, I am keeping my promise to the American people and making all the January 6th tapes available to ALL Americans." [Tweet] Speaker Mike Johnson Releases January 6 Capitol Security Footage. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) released security footage from the January 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riots to the public on Friday [11/17/2023]. Johnson took to X, formerly Twitter, and shared a link to a House website containing five pages of videos with roughly 20 videos per page. [Tweet] "To restore America's trust and faith in their Government we must have transparency. This is another step towards keeping the promises I made when I was elected to be your Speaker," he wrote in another post. It comes after Speaker Emeritus Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) provided then-Fox News primetime host Tucker Carlson access to what Axios reported was 41,000 hours of footage in February. Carlson aired a never-before-seen video of Jacob Chansley, the infamous "QAnon Shaman," from the trove on his former show, Tucker Carlson Tonight, in March. Carlson stated in his commentary of the video that Capitol Police officers acted as "tour guides" to Chansley. Also posted under Friday evening document dumps. Speaker Johnson Releases J6 Footage, and the Left Is Gonna Flip Out. [Scroll down] Democrats have long sought to hide this footage from the public, only giving us access to cherrypicked or altered footage, and you can bet that there's plenty of footage here that will destroy the narrative that Democrats and the media have pushed for two and a half years. "This decision will provide millions of Americans, criminal defendants, public interest organizations, and the media an ability to see for themselves what happened that day, rather than having to rely upon the interpretation of a small group of government officials," Johnson continued. "I commend Chairman Loudermilk and his team for their diligent work to ensure the thousands of hours of videos are promptly processed to be uploaded to the committee's public website. Processing will involve blurring the faces of private citizens on the yet unreleased tapes to avoid any persons from being targeted for retaliation of any kind and segregating an estimated 5% of the videos that may involve sensitive security information related to the building architecture." January 6th Footage Shows Protestors Peacefully Entering, Leaving and Making Police Smile. As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier, House Speaker Mike Johnson released the first batch of January 6th footage that is accessible to the general public on the Committee on House Administration website. Johnson, in a post on X, shared, "To restore America's trust and faith in their Government, we must have transparency. This is another step towards keeping the promises I made when I was elected to be your Speaker." He continued to write, "This website will be updated continuously with thousands of hours of footage." As of right now, Rep. Johnson has released over 90 videos that range anywhere [from] 20 seconds to 10 minutes long. Footage Shows Capitol Officers Uncuffing J6 Protester, Giving Fist Bump Before Releasing Him. It appears House Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-LA) decision to release all of the J6 footage might already be yielding some fruit. One video shows Capitol Police officers acting in a suspicious manner. In the footage, Capitol Police can be seen walking a man, who appears to be a J6 protester, to an exit in the Capitol building. The man is handcuffed. Once they get close to the metal detector, one of the officers uncuffs the individual, who gives another officer a fist bump before walking out of the building. [Tweet with video clip] So, what gives? Why would two Capitol Police officers, who were supposedly dealing with an "insurrection" full of people supposedly trying to take down the government, lead one of the "insurrectionists" out of the building and give him a hearty fist bump before he leaves? There are only two possibilities. The first is that the man in the footage was an undercover agent working with the FBI or another federal agency. He could have been among those who were inciting people to violence to make the situation appear worse than it was. Perhaps they cuffed him to make it appear as if he was being arrested, to throw off suspicion from the rest of the crowd of people who were present. GOP Lawmaker Asks Wray About 'Ghost Buses' 'Filled With FBI Informants Dressed as Trump Supporters' on J6. During a House Homeland Security hearing on Wednesday, Rep. Clay Higgins (R- La.) attempted to ask FBI Director Christopher Wray about two vehicles he described as "ghost buses" that arrived in D.C. in the early morning of Jan. 6, 2021, but was abruptly shut down before he could get an answer. Higgins, a reserve law enforcement officer in Louisiana, began by grilling Wray about the use of FBI confidential informants on January 6. "We the people still do not have a definitive answer from you or anyone else in the Biden administration regarding the FBI presence and participation in the months leading up to the November [2020] election and in the weeks and days prior to Jan. 6 and on Jan. 6 here in D.C.," Higgins complained. "We can't get a straight answer." Watch: Dem Cuts Off Rep. Higgins as He Confronts FBI Director About Jan. 6 'Ghost Buses'. GOP Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana attempted to ask FBI Director Christopher Wray on Wednesday about two vehicles he described as "ghost buses" that arrived in D.C. in the wee hours of Jan. 6, 2021. Before being abruptly shut down, Higgins claimed the buses were "filled with FBI informants dressed as Trump supporters, deployed into our Capitol on Jan. 6." During a House Homeland Security Committee hearing, the congressman asked Wray about the federal agency's involvement in the Capitol incursion. GOP Rep. Higgins NAILS Dirty FBI Chief Chris Wray During House Hearing — Exposes FBI Ghost Buses! Back in November 2022, FBI Director Chris Wray testified before Congress on threats facing US national security. During questioning, Republican Rep. Clay Higgins asked Wray about the plainclothes FBI operatives dressed as Trump supporters inside the US Capitol prior to the doors being opened on January 6th. [Transcripts and video clips.] Another SWAT raid screw-up? On November 8, the FBI launched a SWAT raid at the home of Gregory Yetman, a January 6 suspect. Around 7 a.m., Yetman left his home to go to work. He found himself surrounded by armed FBI agents. His brother Todd Yetman claimed, "Greg walked out, froze in the face of guns drawn, and ran." According to journalist Julie Kelly about 30 armed agents were involved in the raid, yet Yetman was able to escape. During the Roger Stone raid, two amphibious watercraft were covering the canal in the rear of Stone's house in case the 67 year-old tried to make a swim for it. During this raid, however, there were no efforts to close escape routes. Is it possible that Yetman was allowed to escape? Journalist Julie Kelly claims this is all about optics and juicing DOJ's "domestic terror" data. Yetman's arrest would have been a non-event for the national media if he had simply surrendered. His escape resulted in a "massive manhunt." The FBI and local law enforcement used helicopters, drones, and search dogs to try to track him down. A $10,000 dollar reward was offered for information leading to his arrest. Local residents were advised to "shelter in place." In short, this was great theater, designed to be covered by he national media for however long it took to arrest him. The Editor says... How much did the DoJ spend to arrest J6 protestor Gregory Yetman? Three years after the January 6 protest that got out of control, the FBI has swooped in and moved to arrest one Gregory Yetman, allegedly for pepper-spraying a cop. [... The FBI staked out Yetman's house.] They cased the joint for three months, obviously working in shifts, probably some with overtime. They used helicopters. They used drones. They used drawn guns and flash bangs that damaged the property, despite getting no resistance from the occupants. They were heavily armed and heavily fortified. They spent time on paperwork. And there were a lot of them, based on the video within the tweet. All of these things cost money, lots of money, probably millions, with each agent on the force drawing a six-figure salary. Is this an agency that has too much money and not enough to do? [...] This targeted guy served honorably in the military and had no criminal record, yet here they go, spending millions to arrest and humilate him, with an undoubtedly draconian sentence headed his way in a rigged courtroom. Lara Logan: Ray Epps Part 2. Why was Ray Epps treated as victim by the same people who condemned almost everyone around him as a threat? We try to answer some lingering questions about the one "election-denying-Donald Trump-supporter" the media and the government didn't seem to hate. [Tweet with video clip] Video of Doctor Forcibly Removed Trying to Save Ashli Babbitt. Dr. Austin Harris tried to save the life of Ashli Babbitt after the unarmed woman was shot and killed by a Capitol Hill police officer who was rewarded for killing her. He was forcibly removed by police. At the time, he claimed that the rioters were antifa dressed as Trump supporters. In fairness, he was right near John Sullivan, an antifa-Black Lives Matter radical. The board-certified cardiothoracic anesthesiologist from Southern California is facing federal charges over his alleged participation in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot in support of ex-President Donald Trump. He was turned in by a "former friend" who spotted a Facebook post of Harris at the scene and reported it to the FBI. J6 Fugitive Gregory Yetman Surrenders to Police After 3-Day Manhunt with Hounds. January 6 fugitive Gregory Yetman surrendered to Monroe Township police on Friday after a 3-day manhunt with hound dogs. Gregory Yetman is a retired Army Sgt. The FBI told locals in Helmetta, New Jersey to keep their doors locked as they searched for Yetman. Yetman is accused of picking up a large canister of pepper spray from the ground and spraying it toward Capitol police and protesters! For this crime — something that happens each weekend at your local Antifa riot — the FBI launched a major manhunt for Yetman! Gregory Yetman turned himself in Friday morning — nearly 3 years after the January 6 protest. How about some hearings on human disinformation and electoral interference instead of so-called AI disinformation? It is not impeachable or a crime to challenge elections. He did not encourage violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. He told the people to march up to the Capitol peacefully and patriotically, a fact that is almost always left out when the public is fed the misinformation. He also told House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to secure the Capitol with the National Guard. She did not do her job. When Trump and his supporters challenge the 2020 election they are called election deniers. Democrats are not called election deniers when they challenge elections. How many votes would Biden have lost if the media and Justice Department hadn't colluded to bury the truth about the Biden family corruption? Heavily Armed FBI SWAT Teams are hunting down a Trump supporter in the New Jersey woods. The FBI and local police are hunting Gregory Yetman in the New Jersey woods near his home. The manhunt was first reported on Wednesday when local news media was tipped off during the raid. [...] The FBI was attempting to arrest Yetman and serve him a warrant for his actions two-and-a-half years ago on January 6, 2021. Gregory Yetman, was a military police sergeant in the New Jersey National Guard at the time of the riot. Yetman is accused of picking up a large canister of pepper spray from the ground and spraying it toward Capitol police and protesters! For this crime — something that happens each weekend at your local antifa riot — the FBI launched a major manhunt for Yetman! 4 California men linked to Three Percenters militia convicted of conspiracy in Jan. 6 case. Four California men linked to the "Three Percenters" militia movement have been convicted charges including conspiracy and obstruction for their roles in the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol. Erik Scott Warner, 48, of Menifee, Felipe Antonio Martinez, 50, of Lake Elsinore, Derek Kinnison, 42, of Lake Elsinore, and Ronald Mele, 54, of Temecula, were found guilty on Tuesday after a trial in Washington's federal court, according to prosecutors. They were convicted of conspiracy and obstruction of an official proceeding — the joint session of Congress in which lawmakers met to certify President Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 election. US rep. releases Jan. 6 video images of Capitol Police officer who Blaze News writer says appears to have lied in court. U.S. Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Georgia) has released video images from Jan. 6, 2021, showing the movements of a Capitol Police officer who Blaze News investigative journalist Steve Baker said appears to have given false testimony regarding his whereabouts that day during a key encounter with members of the Oath Keepers. Loudermilk, chairman of the Committee on House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight, said in a statement to Baker that he released the still frames — from closed-circuit TV video with timestamps — of U.S. Capitol Police Special Agent David Lazarus because "an allegation of a Capitol Police officer lying under oath is very serious and must be fully investigated." Special Counsel Jack Smith argues that Trump can still be convicted in Jan 6 case even if former president genuinely believed he won the election. Special Counsel Jack Smith's team have filed another blistering filing in Donald Trump's January 6 case, accusing him of 'deceit, trickery, or dishonest means,' while arguing his own belief that he won the 2020 election isn't relevant to charges he defrauded the government. The indictment that has Trump heading toward a March trial in federal court in Washington, DC charges that he 'made knowingly false claims that there had been outcome-determinative fraud in the 2020 presidential election,' then led a conspiracy to try to overturn the results for Joe Biden. This included 'dozens' of claims of substantial fraud, dead voters, or illegal alien voters, even while top officials in his own government were telling him there was no such large scale fraud. The Editor says... Here's A List Of All The Pro-Palestine Protesters Who Are Being Prosecuted For Attempting To Storm The White House. It's happening again! A mob of protestors marched through the streets of Washington, D.C., and attempted to storm one of the nation's most beloved landmarks. This time, it was the White House! Fortunately, as we have all seen in the wake of the Jan 6 Capitol riot, anyone who was even remotely in the vicinity of the incident will be hunted down and held accountable. New J6 Footage Shows Ray Epps Whispering to 'Baked Alaska' 'We're Here to Storm the Capitol'. A new report provides fresh evidence that infamous January 6 provocateur Ray Epps may have been an FBI plant. In the first of a two-part series, "Truth in Media" host Lara Logan spoke with Anthime Gionet, also known as "Baked Alaska," a right-wing influencer formerly associated with the "alt right." Video footage from January 5, 2021 and earlier indicate that Epps appeared to be particularly interested in Gionet, who was later sentenced to two months in prison for his participation in the riot at the US Capitol. Gionet (Baked Alaska) was one of several people who filmed Epps on the evening of January 5, 2021 outside BLM Plaza as he told Trump supporters "we need to go into the Capitol!" At first, Gionet said he was amused by Epps' exhortation to breach the Capitol, and yelled 'let's go!' in response, but after he saw him repeat the line several times to different groups that night, he became convinced the "boomer" was an FBI plant and was up to no good. Trump appointee sentenced to almost 6 years in Jan. 6 case. A former State Department official was sentenced to almost six years in prison for attacking police officers during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot on the Capitol, the Associated Press reported Friday. Federico Klein, who was appointed by former President Trump, was allegedly part of a mob that outnumbered Capitol Police on the Lower West Terrace tunnel entrance. Klein then assaulted officers repeatedly, urged other rioters to join and tried to stop police from shutting entrance doors, prosecutors said. U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden sentenced him to five years and 10 months in prison and said his actions were "shocking and egregious." Klein will also have to pay a $3,000 fine and $2,000 in restitution. The government sought 10 years for Klein, who was convicted of eight felonies as well as misdemeanor offenses in July, according to the Justice Department (DOJ). Klein was among nine defendants charged in a 53-count indictment in July. Judge Chutkan Delivers Blow to Capitol Rioter. Judge Tanya Chutkan, tasked with presiding over some of the cases of January 6 defendants, handed her latest blow to a capitol rioter on Tuesday, giving the defendant 14 days in jail. Supporters of then-President Donald Trump descended on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, in an effort to prevent the official certification of the 2020 election results, which gave Joe Biden the presidency. The former president has continued to claim that the election was "rigged," but has denied stoking the violence that took place at the Capitol. This would be a misdemeanor in any other city. J6 Political Prisoner Michael Perkins. J6 political Michael Perkins joined his fellow Americans on January 6 to peacefully protest and share the Word of God with those he met that day. Suddenly, he found himself under attack by Capital Police without warning. He struggled to orient himself after being doused with pepper spray. Michael is accused of hitting a police officer with his flag pole, while blinded and disoriented from pepper spray, something the officer was not even aware of until the trial when the FBI showed him his body camera. When Michael was arrested, and his family detained, 40+ FBI swat agents and Homeland Security raided his home at 5:45 AM using percussion grenades and flash bangs. Michael and his family were walked out at gunpoint by screaming agents. Michael, the sole provider for his family, was sentenced to 48 months in prison. It's almost like there's a conspiracy against Trump. Trump went to bed election night well ahead. By morning he had lost. See Dinesh D'Souza's documentary, 2,000 Mules. Myriad legitimate legal appeals were filed. All were rejected by the courts, either because of cowardice, complicity, or both. A rally was organized in Washington to protest the election results and members of Congress were preparing to challenge them on January 6. Pelosi saw an opportunity to subvert the challenge and refused to provide security for the protest. The FBI infiltrated the protest and arranged to open the doors to the House of Representatives and herd the protesters inside, disrupting the election's challenge by its members. As a consequence the challenge never happened. Biden was certified and Pelosi prevailed over her hated enemy. Seeing another opportunity, and seeing how well rigging can work, she rigged up a committee of political sycophants whose mission was to deliver to the complicit media a narrative that the protest was an attempt by Trump to overthrow the government. Conservative Reporter Owen Shroyer Prepares to Enter Prison Tomorrow for Political Speech Crimes. The War Room host Owen Shroyer released a video on Monday as he prepares to travel to Louisiana Tuesday to enter prison for his speech crime against the Joe Biden regime. Owen will be in prison until Christmas Eve for his offensive words spoken on January 6. As reported earlier — Infowars reporter and War Room host Owen Shroyer was sentenced to 60 DAYS IN PRISON back in September in a DC kangaroo court for his actions on January 6, 2020 and before. Owen stood outside the Capitol on January 6th and warned Trump supporters not to go inside the building. He did not engage in any violence. The corrupt DC court did not like his political speech that day so they are jailing him — just like they do in any other rotten dictatorship around the world today. Legal experts ask Supremes to fix court mistakes in Jan. 6 case. A prominent team of experts in the law is urging the Supreme Court to take up the arguments of one Jan. 6 protester, because the Department of Justice, in its apparent politicization of the prosecutions, has used an unconstitutional law against the protesters. The law, known as the Sarbanes-Oxley statute, actually criminalizes First Amendment-protected speech, explains a friend-of-the-court brief filed by the lawyers at William J.Olson, P.C. The brief urges the high court to take up the appeal of Joseph W. Fischer, one of many thousands who rallied for President Donald Trump that day. A few hundred of those later went to the Capital, and there the protests turned into a riot for a number of people. The legal team explained its brief argues "since the government claimed the election protest on January 6 was an insurrection, it should have charged many defendants with that crime, but instead it charged no one with insurrection, preferring use of a Sarbanes-Oxley provision (which does not apply) to get a more severe sentence." The Biden administration punishes speech and thought crimes. If our government does not respect the Constitution, we have no constitution. If the government refuses to stand behind the principles of free speech, the right to free assembly, the right to petition the government, the right to a speedy trial, etc., those rights don't exist. Instead, we simply have rule down the barrel of a gun: a gun held only in government hands. I thought of that when I read about Doug Mackey, sent to federal prison for seven months because he insulted Hillary voters, and Ryan Kelley, given an extra-long prison sentence on a misdemeanor because he didn't grovel sufficiently before his J6 hanging judge. Briefly, in the lead-up to the 2016 election, Douglas Mackey sent out some silly memes telling Hillary voters to vote by text. Only a moron would believe that. There's no evidence that his memes had any effect whatsoever, other than saying that he thought Hillary voters were morons. Moreover, what he did wasn't original. Others have done it, too, including leftists. Nevertheless, the moment Biden entered the White House, the DOJ came after Mackey. Trump and J6 Defendants Push For Change Of Venue Motion: 'No Such Thing As A Fair Trial In Washington, DC'. J6 Legal Fund, an organization spearheaded by a January 6 defendant that raises funds to secure conservative attorneys for political prisoners, has retained the prestigious polling and market research firm to craft bulletproof data for a Change of Venue motion. While the Department of Justice United States Attorney's Office has approximately a 60 percent overall conviction rate in non-J6 jury trials, the United States Attorney's Office has secured convictions in 100 percent of January 6 jury trials. Donald Trump and his legal team have touted arguments for moving the former president's criminal case out of Washington, D.C. Trump's team contends the District of Columbia's far leftwing political would deprive him of an impartial jury and the January protest evokes an emotional response among DC resident that is unique to the region. Screaming Far Left Protesters Storm Capitol, Shut Down Rotunda. It's only legal when Democrats do it. Screaming leftists entered the US Capitol on Wednesday in an attempt to coerce lawmakers to demand a ceasefire in Gaza. The anti-Israel mob took over the rotunda, screaming against Israel and demanding a ceasefire in Gaza. The mob also hung flags on the Capitol rails. 1,000 Days Without a Trial: Jan. 6 Prisoner Shares His Story. On Oct. 12, Jake Lang passed a milestone: 1,000 days in jail without a trial. To mark the anniversary, he wanted to share with the American people "the horrific conditions of confinement," which he says he and many of his fellow Jan. 6 prisoners have had to endure. "During this time, I've done 20 months of solitary confinement," Mr. Lang told The Epoch Times. "For 15 months of that, I wasn't allowed to have a haircut or a shave." This was intentional, he said, to make Jan. 6 prisoners look like "homeless vagrants" or "deranged terrorists" during video court appearances. Jan. 6 prisoners are frequently denied family visitation, Mr. Lang said. They spend months with no sunlight. Lights in their cells remain on at night, depriving them of sleep. His account aligns with first-hand reports from other Jan. 6 prisoners, detailed in a Congressional report in 2021. A Lawless Justice System Is The Perfect Tool For Criminalizing Opposition To Democrats. Prosecutors are well aware that they can convict just about anyone they want. That's partly because American laws and regulations are now so voluminous that enforcement depends on discretion: picking and choosing whom to go after. The law has ballooned far beyond punishing things everyone knows are wrong to being used as a social control tool. This is why the U.S. Department of Justice can go after peaceful pro-life demonstrators and people who merely walked on public property on Jan. 6, 2021. It's the American enactment of the famous Soviet secret police head's dictum, "Show me the man, and I'll show you the crime." [Tweet] We have seen this incredible power used most incredibly with the various prosecutions of Trump, but it could happen to any of us at any time. The Entire Premise Of Trump's J6 Trial Is An Affront To Free Elections And Rule Of Law. A remarkable thing happened on Monday in former President Donald Trump's criminal trial over his alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election. U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan issued a gag order effectively prohibiting Trump, currently the leading GOP candidate for president, from defending himself in public ahead of the 2024 presidential election. The gag order means Trump cannot speak publicly about the trial, potential witnesses, court personnel, or Special Counsel Jack Smith, the federal prosecutor who requested the gag order and characterized it as "modest" and "permissible." As my colleague Tristan Justice pointed out in these pages yesterday, that means Trump is barred from campaigning against his chief political opponent, which isn't just President Joe Biden but the entire federal government, especially the Justice Department. It also means there's a potentially limitless number of things Trump could say on the campaign trail that would violate the gag order. It's '1984' all over again in Biden's 'Police State'. The Global Day of Jihad didn't live up to its apocalyptic promise Friday. But if it had, it's doubtful that the FBI would have been much use, since it's so distracted with an exaggerated domestic terrorism crisis in which conservatives are the bad guys and the Jan. 6 Capitol riot was a terrorist attack worse than 9/11. This is the "ultra-MAGA-semi-fascist" threat Joe Biden likes to rail against and that he needs for his election campaign to divide the country further, and to justify indicting his main political rival, locking up Donald Trump supporters, and imposing an Orwellian level of mass surveillance, censorship and ideological indoctrination on Americans. The "Police State" being created by this president, or those pulling his strings, is the title of a chilling new documentary by conservative filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza, which opens next week in New York and theaters across the country. D'Souza's contention is that America is in danger of turning into a police state, an opaque and woke version of the authoritarian regimes in China or North Korea — and a recent Rasmussen poll shows that more than two-thirds of Americans agree. Close the Border. The American people, at least the reader, has to start getting tough. Those in the government are not your enemies, because they don't even give you the respect of being a human being. [...] No information has been volunteered about the deadly vaxx, January 6th, 9/11, none of it. We have to fight for every bit of information about what is going on in our nation. It's not supposed to be that way, where the people are subject to all manner of surveillance, but the government is allowed to operate in secret. Just the opposite, everything in the founding documents show that the intent was to allow the people to operate in private and make the government operate in the open. The Attack by Hamas Shatters The Lies About January 6th. For the past three years, our government has lied to us about what happened on January 6th. The Vice President stood before us and compared a riot at the Capitol to 9/11 and Pearl Harbor. [Video clip] Had I never crawled out of my own feedback loop, I'd never have known they were lying because I, too, would have been locked in my home, terrified of either COVID or Trump supporters. I would have been grateful our government brought the hammer down and told millions of Americans that they were no longer welcome in their own country because a small mob of them lost their minds chasing an irrational fantasy that they could stop the certification of the vote and save this country from an oligarchal monopoly that now controls it. Whatever January 6th was, we know for sure what it wasn't. It wasn't 9/11. It wasn't Pearl Harbor. It wasn't October 7th in Israel. And the whole world was watching us pretend that it was. We looked like a fragile nation suddenly, one MAGA flag away from our government being overthrown. Why would they, our president and vice president, not to mention Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, General Mark Milley, and countless talking heads in media, want us to believe that January 6th was like 9/11 in the first place? Why would they think we would believe such an egregious lie? Because they knew the power of fear, they knew that the first "war on terror" was still-standing architecture, and why not use it to intimidate, harass, monitor, and "investigate" Trump supporters, especially those who put on a red hat and protested in DC on January 6th. The Brink of Lexington. [Scroll down] Here's how I know the decision is upon us. The federal law enforcement apparatus is comfortable enough to target school board meetings and pro-life protesters in clear violation of the First Amendment, so they are signaling that the constitution is no longer in play, that's the gist of the message. They manufactured a riot out of a peaceful protest simply to arrest Trump supporters. They hoped it would break their support of Trump and it worked in some cases. When one looks at Trump, all that he's going through, you only have to understand that it's a desperate attempt to get his supporters to break away, to turn their backs. Knowing that, when it is openly broadcast that the FBI has designated Trump supporters as domestic violent extremists one can see through their ploy. Despite the fact that other than the orchestrated fedsurrection of January 6th, there has never been any riot at any of the hundreds of Trump rallies in excess of tens of thousands present. Any disturbance at all was instigated by the feds or their useful idiots, Antifa or BLM. In Her Jan. 6 Courtroom, Judge Who Will Hear Trump's Case Is the Pot Calling the Defendant Incendiary. At her first appearance in the criminal case against Donald Trump for his alleged attempt to overturn the 2020 election, U.S. District Court Judge Tanya S. Chutkan repeatedly warned the former president's lawyers that politics would not be tolerated in her courtroom. But even as she warns Trump about his "inflammatory" language, Chutkan has routinely issued politically charged rulings and made incendiary statements of her own while presiding over some 30 cases involving Trump supporters charged in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, melee at the U.S. Capitol. These include her public assertions that the 2020 election was beyond reproach, that the Jan. 6 protests were orchestrated by Trump, and that the former president is guilty of crimes. She has described Jan. 6 as a "mob attack" on "the very foundation of our democracy." Chutkan's strident language raises questions about her impartiality in handling the case against the presumptive GOP nominee for president in 2024. The FBI lets MAGA know they're watching them. The idea that MAGA discontents — having seen and experienced the judicial abuses against the January 6 protestors, including long imprisonment without trial, draconian sentences, abusive guards, zero medical care, and other third-world style "justice" — would try the same foolish crowd- and-rally tactics to protest an electoral outcome, is nonsense. Nobody is going to do that given what could happen to them. The feds went after even innocent old grandmothers who were led into the Capitol by Capitol Police on January 6 and ended up with long prison terms. The threat of terrorism from MAGA protestors is virtually nil. The characters who have foolishly made internet threats have been shot dead. FBI secretly monitoring MAGA ahead of 2024 election, says Trump supporters could start a civil war. In another disturbing report regarding the FBI, we are learning that they have begun secretly monitoring the MAGA movement for domestic terrorism, worried that Trump supporters could start a civil war. [...] I don't mind the FBI monitoring actual domestic terrorist organizations and those who commit violence across the country, like Antifa. But they probably don't monitor Antifa. Instead they train their sights on the political mass of Trump supporters. Remember earlier this year when we found out they were targeting traditional Catholics? How about they just worry about the actual domestic terrorism groups, like Antifa, and stop targeting Americans who passionately participate in politics. FBI secretly targeting Trump supporters ahead of 2024 election, labels MAGA followers as 'domestic violent extremists': Report. [Scroll down] In October 2022, the Federal Bureau of Investigation created a new subcategory of domestic terrorists labeled AGAAVE — which stands for anti-government, anti-authority violent extremism. The new subcategory is a threat group that is not anarchists, a militia, or sovereign citizen groups. The new classification is officially defined as "domestic violent extremists who cite anti-government or anti-authority motivations for violence or criminal activity not otherwise defined, such as individuals motivated by a desire to commit violence against those with a real or perceived association with a specific political party or faction of a specific political party." The outlet reported, "Government insiders acknowledged to Newsweek that although they are not named specifically, the AGAAVE-Other title applies to political violence associated with Trump supporters." "It was a subtle change, little noticed, but a gigantic departure for the Bureau," according to Newsweek. "Trump and his army of supporters were acknowledged as a distinct category of domestic violent extremists, even as the FBI was saying publicly that political views were never part of its criteria to investigate or prevent domestic terrorism. Where the FBI sees threats is also plain from the way it categorizes them — a system which on the surface is designed to appear nonpartisan. This shifted subtly days after the events of January 6 when it comes to what the Bureau calls AGAAVE." You can't drain a swamp from a raft in the middle. Trump lost his best chance to make America America again when he failed to fight for the J6 political prisoners. Maybe he wanted to cover up the misguided pride that called his supporters to a quicksand swamp he had failed to drain. He does not have the power to get himself re-elected and to live in the D.C. mansion he loves so much. He did have the power to make every J6 defendant a household name, build for them the richest and most aggressive defense fund the world has known, organize a general national strike, shut down D.C., and make life unlivable there. He didn't do it. He was already planning his re-election. President Trump likes to say they are coming for him first before they come for you. Really? Trump lives in a palatial mansion, while some of his supporters still live in stinky stainless steel cells. Trump is alive, while Ashli Babbitt, Rosanne Boyland, and Matt Perna are dead. The FBI was behind a key document used to convict 'Proud Boys' in Jan 6. case. The events of January 6 continue to be framed as a "violent insurrection" which struck at the heart of American democracy. Yet a court case which secured four convictions of "seditious conspiracy" relied on documents authored by the government itself. This was the revelation of a motion in court reported by the Gateway Pundit on October 2. "It is clear from this complete body of evidence that has been completely ignored by the mainstream media, pins the January 6 attacks on the U.S. Capitol directly on the FBI and its operatives," Gateway reported. The Real Motive for Jan. 6. Correctly assessing Motive an important consideration in figuring out who has committed what crime. Why then has the issue of Motive on January 6 been swept off the stage of public discourse? To many, asking such a question may appear provocative, even uninformed. After all, Democrats have repeatedly told us the Motive for January 6: Trump, according to them, wanted to foment an "insurrection." Yet if that Motive were really so obvious, why has it been necessary for the anti-Trumpers to repeat it so relentlessly, literally many times every day? If we examine the true Motive for ourselves, we soon discover that the repeated cries of "insurrection" have tried to stifle analysis of the actual January 6 Motive in favor of accepted "fact." Despite that relentless attempt, or rather because of it, we should ask ourselves: just who actually had the Motive to disrupt the congressional deliberations taking place in the Capitol Building? Meet the Activist Wife Who Networks the Anti-MAGA White House While Her Prosecutor Husband Puts January Sixers in Jail. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland is the public face of the government's unprecedented effort to identify, arrest, and prosecute those connected to the Jan. 6, 2021 protest at the Capitol. But the person handling the day-to-day management of the one of the largest and most politically freighted efforts in the history of American law enforcement has largely flown under the radar: Matthew Graves, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. An appointee of President Biden, Graves' office has prosecuted at least 1,100 Jan. 6 defendants — including roughly 200 people so far this year. Republicans claim that the Justice Department's steady pace of Jan. 6 arrests and Graves' prosecutions aim to keep one of Biden's animating narratives in the news — that, as the president put it, "Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our Republic." The political nature of the Jan. 6 prosecutions is illustrated by the long partisan history of Graves and his wife, Fatima Goss Graves. Now There is Evidence the FBI Planned the January 6 Operation and Planted Documents Days Earlier That Were Later Used Against Innocent Americans. In February of this year, The Gateway Pundit's Cara Castronuovo wrote about a shocking development in the US government's case against the Proud Boys. [I]t was discovered that the Government itself was the author of the mysterious "1776 Returns" document. The 1776 Returns document is the title of a 9-page paper that outlined strategic plans for the takeover of US government buildings on January 6, 2021. It was confirmed in court that the FBI was behind the document and and FBI operative was the author of the document. The mysterious document was sent unsolicited to Proud Boy Chairman Enrique Tarrio's Telegram right before January 6th by a "love interest" named Erika Flores. Flores reportedly testified to the January 6th Committee that A GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL was the author of the entirety of the "1776 Returns" and that this FBI and CIA member or associate asked her to share it with Tarrio! Never Forget the Jan. 6 Defendants. Of all the evil that Biden has perpetrated, none is so vile as the imprisonment of Americans known as the J6 defendants. Daily, they suffer cruel and unusual punishment; they are incarcerated in solitary confinement, their medical needs are ignored, and they do not have proper legal defense. The term "American Gulag" aptly describes their ongoing plight. The Epoch Times video titled "The Real Story of January 6 "reveals the truth that has been hidden from the American people. While a narrative has been set that what took place that day was an insurrection, key events and witnesses have been ignored until now. The documentary takes an unvarnished look at police use of force and the deaths that resulted in some measure from it." J6 Committee Destroyed Key Records, Proving the Whole Thing Was Fixed From the Start. It is by now abundantly clear that the Jan. 6 "insurrection" was not the work of Trump supporters, but of Leftist plants in the crowd at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, directed by feds who were avid to frame and destroy Trump. Any lingering doubt about this has now been put definitively to rest by the revelation that the self-righteous apparatchiks who ran the House Jan. 6 Committee show trial did not preserve mountains of evidence that apparently disproved the left's official narrative about what happened on that fateful day. Like the Stalinists they are, it looks as if they framed their enemies and then destroyed the evidence of their own crime. Fox News reported Tuesday [8/8/2023?] that "the House select committee that investigated the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021 failed to adequately preserve documents, data and video depositions — including communications it had with the Biden White House that are still missing — according to the Republican lawmaker overseeing the GOP investigation into the committee's work." Disgusting Merrick Garland: "We Do Not Have One Rule For Republicans and Another Rule For Democrats". Merrick Garland is the most radical, corrupt and dangerous attorney general in US history. [...] He has prosecuted and thrown the book at more than 1,000 J6ers. Many J6ers have been held in inhumane conditions in the DC gulag without a trial date. Peaceful, non-violent J6ers are facing years in prison for the 'crime' of wandering around the Capitol building for a few minutes while ignoring Antifa and BLM terrorists. Proud Boy Enrique Tarrio was sentenced to 22 years even though he wasn't even at the Capitol on January 6! FBI Predicted Those Jan 6 Riots They Instigated. "Violent extremists" would be "very willing to take action" on Jan 6, the FBI correctly predicted two months before the riots the Bureau helped organize and instigate. Funny how that works, isn't it? It's a predictably breathless report from NBC News examining an internal FBI analysis that determined the Stop the Steal protests would require "law enforcement preemption" but that the "disorganization" of extremist groups would "hinder widespread violence." Unless, you know, the FBI stepped in to help organize things a bit. Where was Antifa on January 6, 2021? [Numerous video clips of violent left-wing protests] Meanwhile, conservatives have been renowned for their peaceful protests. You might find a random crazy person being naughty, but otherwise, Tea Party protests were cheerful and ended with the attendees carefully cleaning up any litter they might have left behind. There were no fires, no mass assaults, and no murders. (Hence, no videos to show you.) And yet, suddenly, on January 6, conservatives turned into wild-eyed rioters, exactly like Antifa. Moreover, also on January 6, the hyper-confrontational Antifa was nowhere to be found. Or was that whole thing an illusion? Were conservatives, as usual, peaceful, just like the grannies who wandered wide-eyed through Congress after the police opened the doors and let them in? And were the violent Antifa types hiding in plain sight? DC Drano thinks that we may have watched an illusion on January 6, with the real narrative being precisely the same as the one it's been since the 1960s, meaning violent leftists and law-abiding conservatives: [Tweet with video clip] Democrats Have Become The Party Of Authoritarianism. They Only Understand Power. [Scroll down] Maybe you thought, as @politicalmath put it on X (formerly Twitter), that the left needs "to start looking at this situation and admitting that this is not justice. They need to shake themselves awake and realize that their team is utilizing the justice system for political punishment and that this is destabilizing our entire culture." You might have thought the same thing recently about the Trump indictments. The hypocrisy is after all outrageous. Questioning an election is okay if Hillary Clinton and Democrats do it (as they did in 2016, 2004, and 2000) but it's a "criminal conspiracy" if Trump and Republicans do it. Or consider the draconian prison sentences for Jan. 6 rioters (22 years in one case) compared to the leniency shown to Black Lives Matter and Antifa rioters, one of whom was sentenced to just 10 years despite setting a deadly fire in a Minneapolis pawn shop during the 2020 George Floyd riots — and this only after federal prosecutors invoked Martin Luther King Jr. and asked the judge to show leniency. The Democrats Broke The Constitution In 2020, But There's An Upside. [Scroll down] Even years later, when it was clear to anyone with a pulse that elites manipulated every element of our voting system and stole the election, nothing happened. Not only did no one go to jail for that treachery, but Democrats were allowed to do the exact same thing two years later in Arizona, an ostensibly red state. Arizona essentially watched in real-time as its election was manipulated and the governor's office was stolen from Kari Lake. But here we are 11 months later, and Katie Hobbs is still sitting in the Governor's office while Kari Lake is still fighting in the courts. East of Arizona, Tucker Carlson interviewed Texas AG Ken Paxton, who was just acquitted of corruption charges. Paxton discussed the problems afflicting what's supposed to be blood-red Texas. He talked about the Speaker of a GOP-dominated House being elected by Democrats and, even more treacherously, about the state's highest criminal court — populated by Republicans — taking away his ability to investigate voter fraud, [...] Attorney General Merrick Garland's Testimony Reveals Extensive Corruption by the Department of Justice. [Scroll down] A number of online commentators have covered his testimony in depth. Julie Kelly and Jonathan Turley are particularly detailed and you can scroll through their posts on X, the site formerly known as Twitter. Of particular interest was Garland's claim he had no idea how many undercover federal agents participated in the January 6 event at the Capitol. He was evasive and not credible on the number and role of federal agents on that date. [...] Former Assistant Director-in-Charge of the Washington Field Office has acknowledged in a letter released by the House Judiciary Committee "there were numerous FBI confidential human sources in the crowd." In fact, there were so many and from so many different offices that they could not immediately ascertain how many there were. Merrick Garland Shoots Himself in the Foot With Sloppy Ray Epps Plea Deal: It's Worse Than You Think. xEarlier this week the DOJ charged infamous Fedsurrection provocateur Ray Epps with a single misdemeanor account of "disorderly conduct. Despite what the increasingly desperate regime media would have us think, it is simply ridiculous to think that such a weak misdemeanor charge, issued nearly three years after January 6th, could possibly quell suspicions regarding the true nature of Epps' involvement in the January 6th Fedsurrection. As demonstrated extensively in a recent Revolver piece, this recent move only makes the regime look clumsy and utterly desperate to salvage the crumbling narrative regarding Epps and January 6th. The great January 6 journalist Julie Kelly has additionally speculated that the timing of the misdemeanor charge suggests that it could have been specifically intended to allow Epps (and potentially the feds) to avoid the potential disaster of having Epps testify as a witness in the case of another January 6th defendant with whom he interacted. This is precisely what happened in the case of Steve Robeson, one of the many informants who participated in the disgraced Michigan "Fednapping" entrapment plot, who was conveniently slapped with a bogus gun charge just in time to prevent him from testifying in the trials of the other alleged "plotters." Too Many FBI Informants on J6 to Count. There was a fiery exchange between Republican Congressman Thomas Massie of Kentucky and U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland about how many FBI informants were on the ground at the Capitol on January 6. Garland pleaded ignorance, and according to an interview with the former head of the FBI's Washington Field Office, there were so many FBI assets that nobody knows the number. [Video clip] Is the vote sacred, or just a formality? One dramatic consequence of widespread public distrust of elections occurred famously — or infamously, as one might believe — on January 6, 2021, when thousands of protesters demanded a delay in certification, pending such investigations. A great many of those protesters, most of them peaceful, are still in prison, even though there is credible evidence that they were encouraged by government agents provocateurs to enter the Capitol building. And the prosecutions continue, with no less an aim than to imprison President Trump. Feds Hit Ray Epps With Lame Charge: Doj Trying to Quell FBI Informant Rumors. [Video clip only.] DOJ Gives Ray Epps the James Wolfe Treatment. The man who was seen on multiple video tapes urging the January 6th crowd to storm the Capitol building, the previously well-known agent provocateur Ray Epps, has been charged by the DOJ with one misdemeanor count of "Disorderly or Disruptive Conduct." Worse still, the announcement from Main Justice comes via the format of an "information" which implies a plea deal was already reached as the charge was made public. Now the DOJ can say they 'arrested' the guy, and simultaneously flip the narrative as evidence he wasn't a confidential human source. This velvet glove arrangement bears striking similarity to the DOJ approach when Senate Intelligence Committee head of security, James Wolfe, leaked the Top-Secret Carter Page FISA application, and was only charged with one count of lying to the FBI about it. But wait... it gets better. The pre-selected DC judge is none other than, James Boasberg. Gateway Pundit Uncovers Massive J6 Database Engineered by 'Sedition Hunter' DHS Front Group. The Gateway Pundit has obtained thousands of hours of J6 footage from "Sedition Hunter" online crowdsourcing groups. Sedition Hunters are typically Antifa activists who define themselves as part of an anonymous group that tracks, identifies, and reports Trump supporters and protesters who attended the January 6 protests in Washington DC to the Federal Bureau of Investigations. Defense attorneys representing J6 defendants have access to over 41,000 hours of January 6 footage but are prohibited from publicly disclosing the footage until it is exhibited in discovery in a defendant's trial. J6 defendants typically view their discovery for the first time during trial. The Democrat J6 Insurrection Hoax Keeps Getting Worse. The exact moment when the Democrats ramped up their efforts to turn the United States of America into a Third World banana republic may be difficult to pinpoint, but we know it happened around the time that they decided that January 6, 2021, would be their new holiest of holy days. Oh, they can pretend to be horrified about what they say went on that day, be we know that they privately chuckle at how they've been able to turn their false J6 narrative into a weapon to destroy their political opponents. The formation of the J6 House Soviet Select Committee on Daddy Issues saw the Democrats fully embrace kangaroo court justice and ever since then they've just been rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. With their ultra-slim majority in the House, Republicans have at least been able to slowly uncover information that the Democrats would have preferred to stay buried had they remained in charge. The FBI had so many people at the J6 riot they had to perform an "audit". The trend continues. You're going to need to find some new conspiracy theories because all of your old ones are coming true. Today we are once again talking about the Capitol Hill riot on January 6, 2020. If Democrats have their way, we'll be talking about it for the rest of our lives, but they may not care to mention this particular detail. Trump's critics have long scoffed at claims that the crowd was full of FBI agents and informants that day, but Steven D'Antuono, a former head of the Bureau's Washington field office told the House Judiciary Committee that they had so many paid informants in the mob that they "lost track" of them and later had to perform an audit to see how many of them were there. So were all of those people fighting to defend the Capitol? Nope. It Appears Former FBI DC Supervisor D'Antuono Was Lying to House Investigators About the Number of FBI Operatives Embedded in Crowds on January 6. As reported earlier on Tuesday, The House Judiciary Republicans sent a letter Tuesday that includes transcribed testimony from former Assistant Director-in-Charge of the Washington Field Office (WFO) Steven D'Antuono. D'Antuono testified that the FBI had numerous confidential human sources (CHS) in the Trump crowd on January 6. In fact, they had so many FBI operatives in the crowd they had no idea how many were actually there that day! D'Antuono had quite a record of failures and lies during his time at the FBI. 'You May Have Just Perjured Yourself': Massie Goes After Garland Over Jan. 6 Statements. Republican Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie suggested Wednesday [9/20/2023] that Attorney General Merrick Garland may have perjured himself over his statements about Jan. 6. Massie played a compilation of previous testimony from DOJ, FBI and other agency officials refusing to comment on ongoing investigations into Jan. 6-related incidents. In one instance shown in the clip, Massie asked Garland how many agents were assets of the U.S. government on Jan. 5 and 6 who were "agitating" the crowd to go into the Capitol and how many agents went into the Capitol. Garland refused to answer. "Peter Navarro was indicted for contempt of Congress — aren't you in fact in contempt of Congress when you gave us this answer?" Massie said. "This is an answer that's appropriate at a press conference. It's not an answer that's appropriate when we are asking questions ... you cannot continue to give us these answers. Aren't you in fact in contempt of Congress when you refuse to answer?" The Evolution of the American Police State. With the unconscionable persecution of the January 6th protesters, the unabashed government censorship of speech, the weaponization of federal intelligence and law enforcement agencies, and the egregious abuse of presidential executive orders and emergency declarations, the American police state is no longer a hypothetical possibility but an increasingly indisputable reality. While imperceptibly evolving over many decades, the emergence of the American police state was significantly accelerated with the overreaction to the September 11, 2001 terror attack. Even more important was the Covid 19 pandemic that dramatically increased the momentum toward a police state as once a people are terrorized it is easy to impose a police state on them. When societies lose their freedom, it is not ordinarily because autocrats or tyrants have forcibly taken it away. It is usually the result of the population willingly surrendering their freedom in return for protection against an external threat. While the threat is oftentimes real it is invariably exaggerated. Well, Well, Well, Look at the 'Conspiracy Theory' the J6 Cat Finally Dragged in. Why Now? Ray Epps, the man the news media said was the object of conspiracy theorists of the "hard right," was charged Tuesday with one misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct for his antics at the Capitol Complex on Jan. 6, 2021. It has taken the federal government more than two and a half years to bring the single charge against Ray Epps. There will be no political gulag in Epps's future. He will not be moved 13 times, making it difficult for an attorney or family to find him. No, that happened to the "Q Anon Shaman," as he revealed in my interview on the Adult in the Room Podcast. Epps likely won't be thrown in a cell the size of a closet to waste away his days in prison, as many J6 defendants have. He likely will be able to shelter at home for all upcoming news interviews to once again reiterate that he did nothing wrong on Jan. 6. His record will reflect a misdemeanor disorderly conduct charge that probably will present no impediment to him for the rest of his life. It's likely that Epps, a former member of the Oath Keepers, was charged now because the men the feds wanted to put away, the Proud Boys, have been sentenced. FBI lost count of how many paid informants were at Capitol on Jan. 6 — later performed audit to figure out exact number. The FBI had so many paid informants at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, that they lost track of the number and had to perform a later audit to determine exactly how many "Confidential Human Sources" run by different FBI field offices were present that day, a former assistant director of the bureau has told lawmakers. At least one informant was communicating with his FBI handler as he entered the Capitol, according to Steven D'Antuono, formerly in charge of the bureau's Washington field office. D'Antuono has testified behind closed doors to the House Judiciary Committee that his office was aware before the riot that some of their informants would attend a "Stop the Steal" rally thrown by former President Donald Trump but he only learned after the fact that informants run by other field offices also were present, along with others who had participated of their own accord. FBI Lost Count of How Many Paid Informants They Had in the Trump Crowd on January 6! The House Judiciary Republicans sent out a letter Tuesday that includes transcribed testimony from former Assistant Director-in-Charge of the Washington Field Office (WFO) Steven D'Antuono. D'Antuono testified that the FBI had numerous confidential human sources (CHS) in the Trump crowd on January 6. In fact, they had so many FBI operatives in the crowd they they had no idea how many were actually there that day! Former Capitol Police Chief Sund Testifies He Had 3 Calls with Pelosi on Jan. 6 — Pelosi Said They Never Spoke. On Tuesday, the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight held a hearing titled, "Oversight of United States Capitol Security: Assessing Security Failures on January 6, 2021." Rep. Barry Loudermilk heads the subcommittee. Former U.S. Capitol Police Chief Steven A. Sund testified before the committee. Chief Steven Sund has been outspoken of Nancy Pelosi and her failures to secure the US Capitol that day. It has been widely reported that President Trump asked for the National Guard three days in advance of January 6. But Pelosi turned him down. She refused to call in the National Guard despite numerous warnings of possible violence. After such a long delay, this looks like a fig leaf, publicity stunt, or diversion: Ray Epps Charged With Misdemeanor In Long-Delayed Wrist-Slap. While dozens of January 6th political prisoners languish behind bars, the man caught on camera repeatedly inciting them to enter the Capitol, Ray Epps, was just given a long-delayed slap on the wrist. [...] In July, Epps' attorney revealed that his client was going to be criminally charged, after Epps sued former Fox news host Tucker Carlson for defamation. Epps hired attorney Michael Teter - formerly of Perkins Coie, the firm notorious for helping the Clinton campaign hatch the Steele dossier and collaborating with the FBI to push the Trump-Russia hoax. Teter immediately sent a letter to Carlson demanding that the former Fox News host retract "false and defamatory statements" that Epps was a J6 government plant. Epps, 62, was identified as a key instigator of the riot who has long been suspected of being a fed (or a fed asset), told his nephew in a text message: "I was in the front with a few others. I also orchestrated it." On The Darkest Day In American History, Ray Epps Was Just A Little Rascal. More than two and a half years after the gravest threat to democracy of our lifetime — and maybe of all time — Jan. 6 agitator Ray Epps has finally been charged. See? Justice is being served. According to court documents, Epps was charged with a sole misdemeanor count of "Disorderly or Disruptive Conduct in a Restricted Building or Grounds" via an "information," as opposed to an indictment, which NBC news says suggests "he plans to enter a plea deal." In other words, we'll finally be able to rest — safe and sound and smug — knowing all the Tucker Carlson-fueled conspiracies about Epps being an FBI source or informant have been put to bed. Case closed. He was a wee bit disorderly. Let it go. Ray Epps Charged With A Misdemeanor For His Alleged Role In January 6th Riot. Ray Epps, a man who was filmed encouraging protesters to storm the Capitol building ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021 riot, is being charged with a misdemeanor for his alleged role in the riot. Epps was charged Monday with a misdemeanor for disorderly or disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds by the U.S. Attorney's office for Washington, D.C., according to a court filing uploaded Tuesday. Ray Epps [has been] Charged With a Single Misdemeanor Count of Disruptive or Disorderly Conduct. Federal prosecutors have finally filed a criminal charge against prominent January 6 protester Ray Epps. Epps, a former Oath Keepers member from Arizona, was charged with a single misdemeanor count of disruptive or disorderly conduct in a restricted area in U.S. District Court in Washington on Tuesday, despite his lead role in orchestrating chaos on that day. The charge carries a maximum punishment of a year in prison. The former Marine's activities at the U.S. Capitol on January 5 and 6, 2021, have led many on the right to believe he was acting as a federal informant. "Epps not only urged people to go into the Capitol on Jan 5 and 6, he was one of the first to breach exterior lines, interfered with security, and remained on restricted grounds for more than an hour," wrote former American Greatness reporter Julie Kelly on X in reaction to the light charge. The Long Journey to Our Mistrust. Free speech and free thought face an impending death if we allow it. The Founding Fathers could never have contemplated such. Yet, it is real and presents the most significant impediment to fighting back against the Destroyers. Control of information, Speech, and, importantly, even our associations are threatened as they demonstrate what happens to those that oppose them. Did you know that more people have been arrested for January 6th offenses than those who actually entered the Capital? Trump Vows to Review Cases of Biden's 'Political Prisoners' Who Were Targeted for Their Pro-Life Beliefs. President Joe Biden's hate of conservatives is stronger than ever, causing former President Trump to promise Republicans he will fight tooth and nail for them. Over the weekend, Trump announced that if elected in 2024, he will create a special task force specifically designed to review cases of Biden's "political prisoners." During the Family Research Council's "Pray, Vote, Stand Summit" in Washington, D.C., Trump vowed to get innocent Americans out of jail for standing up for their beliefs while criminals run rampant. "I am announcing that the moment I win the election, I will appoint a special task force to rapidly review the cases of every political prisoner who has been unjustly persecuted by the Biden administration," Trump said. Letter
in Defense of J6 Prisoners' Civil Rights. Dear Director Green. It has come to
my attention that there are problems at the District of Columbia Central Detention/Treatment
Facility, colloquially known as "The D.C. Jail". I understand that it is your organization that
accredits the facility. The Gateway Pundit recently reported a situation of "Cruel and
unusual punishment. Covid lockdown, solitary confinement Torture and abuse" of the
January 6 prisoners. These unconstitutional tactics include:
The Editor says... Jan. 6 Rioter Was Convicted and Sentenced in Secret; No One Will Say Why. Hundreds of rioters have been charged, convicted and sentenced for joining the mob attack on the U.S. Capitol. Unlike their cases, Samuel Lazar's appears to have been resolved in secret — kept under seal with no explanation, even after his release from prison.Lazar, 37, of Ephrata, Pennsylvania, was arrested in July 2021 on charges that he came to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, dressed in tactical gear and protective goggles, and used chemical spray on officers who were desperately trying to beat back the angry Donald Trump supporters. There is no public record of a conviction or a sentence in Lazar's court docket.But the Bureau of Prisons told The Associated Press that the man was released from federal custody this week after completing a sentence for assaulting or resisting a federal officer. Lazar was sentenced in Washington's federal court on March 17 to 30 months in prison, according to the Bureau of Prisons, but there's no public record of such a hearing. He had been jailed since July 2021.Questions about Lazar's case have been swirling for months, but the details of his conviction and sentence have not been previously reported. The Real Threat to Our Democracy. Democrat politicians endlessly warn us about the "threat to our democracy" posed by Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans. [...] They're claiming that MAGA Republicans somehow threaten our democratic way of life and all the benefits associated with it, including the precious right to freely elect our leaders. From that perspective, do Trump and his supporters really pose a threat to our democracy? Democrats inevitably point to the incident at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. They've managed to hype it as an armed insurrection, an attempt to overthrow our government, led by Donald Trump himself. But during that so-called insurrection, only one shot rang out. It came from a panicked Capitol Police officer who shot and killed an unarmed female protester, an Air Force vet. Rational minds have always known that the incident was no insurrection. It was a protest by passionate Americans, outraged by the unresolved voting irregularities witnessed in the 2020 election. Those irregularities were caused by last-minute, unconstitutional changes to voting laws introduced by Democrats. Special Counsel Jack Smith calls for 'narrowly tailored' gag order against Donald Trump in January 6 case. Special Counsel Jack Smith has asked for a 'narrowly tailored' gag order against Donald Trump, to stop him from making 'inflammatory' and 'intimidating' comments to the judge and witnesses in the federal January 6 case. Smith's team has accused Trump of engaging in a campaign of 'disinformation' and harassment intended to intimidate witnesses, prosecutors and others involved in the trial. The extraordinary filing says Trump's efforts to weaken faith in the court system mirror his attacks on the 2020 election and the results. InfoWars host Owen Shroyer sentenced to 60 days in Capitol riot case. Owen Shroyer, a host of the right-wing conspiracy theory platform InfoWars, was sentenced Tuesday to 60 days in prison after pleading guilty for his involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly sentenced Shroyer on one misdemeanor count of entering and remaining on restricted grounds, despite Shroyer never entering the Capitol building during the riot. Why Ken Buck is Wrong About J6 Defendants. U.S. Representative Ken Buck's big wet sloppy kiss to Attorney General Merrick Garland last week could not have come at worse time for the Colorado Republican. Judge Timothy J. Kelly of the federal court in Washington, D.C. was in the process of ordering prison time typically applied to murderers, drug traffickers, and serial child pornographers for five members of the Proud Boys convicted of no serious crime related to January 6. A well-known gun storage company faced backlash for assisting the FBI in yet another armed raid against a January 6 trespasser. And a young man from Utah took his own life just weeks after his arrest on four misdemeanors for his participation in January 6, at least the fourth known suicide of a Capitol protester. Jan. 6 Defendant: 'They Want You Scared'. The left has to have scapegoats to prop up its sagging Jan. 6 "insurrection" narrative, and so Joe Biggs of the Proud Boys has just been given seventeen years in prison for his actions on that fateful day, which involved nothing more than tearing down a fence. If one guy removing a single barrier can bring the government of a superpower perilously close to being overthrown, we're in bigger trouble than we thought. Biggs would be the first to tell you that we are, but not in the way that the leftist elites want us to think. The Post Millennial reported Wednesday that Biggs explained the objective behind his sentence, which Judge Timothy Kelly made harsher because of the circumstances: the fence he tore down "separated law enforcement personnel from the protesters ... on Capitol grounds that day," and so Kelly "ruled that Biggs was subject to heavier sentencing consequences for domestic terrorism." This is ridiculous on its face. 9/11 — that was terrorism. The Fort Hood jihad massacre — that was terrorism. The Boston Marathon bombing? Terrorism. Some people getting let into the Capitol and snapping some selfies? Not terrorism. A Guy Who Wasn't Even At The Capitol On January 6th Gets 22 Years In Prison Anyway. By now everyone acknowledges that the federal government lies to Americans as a matter of course. It's no longer just the so-called "conspiracy theorists" who think that. Anyone who's been paying attention over the last couple of decades has come to that conclusion. After COVID, after the recession that wasn't really a recession because they changed the definition of a recession, after the wars in Iraq and Syria and Afghanistan and Ukraine and so on — there's no reasonable person left in this country who trusts the federal government on faith, and rightfully so. What this means is that, if you're a Washington bureaucrat, toiling away in, say, Joe Biden's Justice Department, you have to adapt. You can't just feed people bald-faced propaganda, because no one will buy it. You have to work to sell the deception. So naturally, that's exactly what the DOJ has been doing. They're coming up with inventive new ways to lie that are difficult to detect, at least on the surface. A French Revolution in America? Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was sentenced Tuesday to 22 years in prison for orchestrating what the Biden Department of Justice called a "seditious conspiracy" after a jury found sufficient evidence to convict and a judge rendered sentence. U.S. district judge Timothy Kelly, who was appointed to the bench by Trump, said Tarrio was motivated by "revolutionary zeal" to lead the conspiracy that resulted in "200 men, amped up for battle, encircling the Capitol" on January 6, 2021. Noting that Tarrio had not previously shown any remorse publicly for his crimes, the judge said a stiff punishment was necessary to deter future political violence. [...] By what standard of justice and by what standard of proof of anti-constitutional intent was Tarrio so sentenced? Mother and Son Sentenced to Almost Five Years in Prison for Walking Through an Open Door at US Capitol. Eric Munchel (32) is a January 6th political prisoner along with his mother, Lisa Eisenhart (59). Eric escorted his mother to Washington, DC on January 6, 2021. They were one of over a million Trump supporters who came to Washington, DC to protest their grievances about the stolen presidential election. This action is guaranteed by the US Constitution. According to The American Gulag website, a project of The Gateway Pundit, Eric Munchel entered the Capitol with a cell phone attached to his chest. He is pictured next to a mob of people who attacked two police officers and pursued them. Munchel admits to having a taser with him that day for self-protection and to protect his mother. He accompanied his mother, Lisa Eisenhart. Ms. Eisenhart wanted to attend President Trump's rally and be part of the events of that day despite having an injured shoulder. Proud Boys leader said DOJ attorneys told him to lie about Trump. On Thursday The Gateway Pundit's Cara Castronuovo reported that Biden officials asked him to lie about President Trump in order to indict him! "They asked me to LIE about President Trump in order to indict him," Enrique Tarrio exclusively told the Gateway Pundit. "I told them to pound sand, and because I refused to lie about President Trump it cost me twenty-two years of my life." "The truth is, I could have been home," said Tarrio. "I could have been home a long time ago. I could be in my warm [...] bed right now, laughing at the world, without a problem... and all I had to do in order to do that WAS LIE ABOUT TRUMP. All I had to do was confirm a lie." Under new policy, 12 media outlets, six J6 defendants [will be] allowed to view J6 security tapes of Congress. A new transparency policy established in the House of Representatives has renewed interest among media outlets and those impacted by the U.S. Capitol riot on January 6, 2021. The new policy opens the database of full 24/7 U.S. Capitol Police security video from Jan. 5th and 6th of 2021 and will allow media and individuals who fall under certain categories to review the footage. Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) chairman of the Committee on House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight said in a statement that "starting September 2023, representatives of U.S. news outlets, qualifying non-profit organizations, as well as defendants charged with crimes related to January 6, 2021 and their counsel, and individuals who were physically harmed on January 6, 2021 at the United States Capitol and their counsel are allowed access to the terminals." So far, there have been 12 media outlets and six Jan. 6th defendants who have requested to view the raw U.S. Capitol security video from Jan. 5 to 6, 2021 after the footage was made accessible on a "first-come, first-served basis." Proud Boys Leader Enrique Tarrio Who Was Not Even in Washington DC on January 6 is Sentenced to 22 Years. On Tuesday Enrique Tarrio was sentenced to 22 years in prison for running a "seditious conspiracy" from a different state somewhere. Enrique was not even in Washington DC on January 6th. Judge Tim Kelly applied a terrorism enhancement to Enrique Tarrio's sentence earlier in the day. Then Kelly forced Enrique to listen to his blustery nonsense before he was sentenced to 22 year[s] in federal prison — more than a murderer. Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio gets 22 years, longest Jan. 6 sentence yet. Enrique Tarrio, the former chairman of the far-right Proud Boys, was sentenced to 22 years in federal prison Tuesday afternoon following his conviction on a seditious conspiracy charge in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. His sentence is the longest in a Jan. 6 case so far, surpassing the 18 years for Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, who was also convicted of seditious conspiracy. Tarrio was one of four Proud Boys found guilty of seditious conspiracy in May. Federal prosecutors sought a sentence of 33 years in federal prison; U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly sentenced Tarrio's co-defendants to much lower terms than those sought by prosecutors. Jim Hoft: FBI Created 3,200 J6 "Playing Cards" to Identify, Surveil and Punish Americans who Attended Jan. 6 Protests. Earlier today The Gateway Pundit released our interview with January 6 defendant Eric Clark who is being persecuted today by his government for walking inside the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. Eric Clark, who has had access to the original 14,000 hours of government footage from January 6, told us about the clandestine system the government is using to identify the Americans who innocently walked into the US Capitol on January 6th — Government playing cards! According to Eric, the FBI has created approximately 3,200 "playing cards" to identify and target the enemies of the regime — Trump supporters. Since that day in January 2021, the Biden regime has rounded up hundreds of Trump supporters, destroyed their lives, hit them with made-up crimes, bankrupted them, humiliated them, and destroyed their families like you would an enemy force at war. In fact, the US would treat captured enemies better than they do American citizens and Trump supporters today. Injustice, American Style: BLM Rioters Walk — J6 Defendants Get Almost 20 Years. A good example is the recent sentencing of "Proud Boy" January 6 defendants, one of the latest of whom got 17 years for an incident in which no "one was killed, no property was significantly damaged, nothing was set on fire, nobody whipped out a gun, nobody got taken hostage, [and] no mass casualties were strewn through the streets," as commentator Monica Showalter put it Friday. In contrast, Black Lives Matter and Antifa rioters routinely get off with minor or no charges. The Hill reports on the aforementioned J6er who had the book — and a few addenda — thrown at him, writing that Florida Army veteran and "Proud Boy Joe Biggs on Thursday was sentenced to 17 years in prison, the second-highest sentence handed down to anyone convicted in connection with the Capitol attack." "Biggs was convicted of sedition and other serious felonies earlier this year after being accused of leading members of the right-wing extremist group to the Capitol and talking with the first rioter to breach police barricades just minutes before he acted," the site continues. Also sentenced Thursday was Proud Boy Zachary Rehl, an ex-U.S. Marine; he got 15 years after a conviction for leading a mob toward the Capitol on J6. This was followed Friday by the draconian sentencing of two other Proud Boys figures: One-time leader Ethan Nordean received 18 years' incarceration for "seditious conspiracy." And Dominic Pezzola was convicted for breaking a Capitol window, ushering rioters into the structure (much as some cops had done), and grabbing a shield from a policeman. He did "get off" relatively easy, however. He'll serve 10 years. A Proud Boy Member Got 17 Years Prison For Moving A Barrier But This Thug With A Fed Earpiece Breaking A Window And Never Even Got Arrested. Suspiciously, a masked man wearing an earpiece was also caught on video breaking a Capitol window but has never been added to the FBI's most wanted list, arrested, or charged. In the video, the unidentified man, dressed like a government agent, encourages a journalist to break the window, saying, "Why don't you guys open up the rest of it?" The journalist responds, "Because I think that would probably be illegal." The masked man acknowledges the illegality by saying, "Well, I know," but then suspiciously breaks the window himself. Shortly after realizing he is being recorded, the masked man quickly drops the window and violently shoves another man, awkwardly blaming him for breaking the window. [Video clip] Law and Order: The Post-Constitutional Episode. It is undeniable that the judiciary and juries in the federal courts in the District of Columbia are almost uniformly left-wing partisans, a key part of the post-constitutional era brought into being by former president Obama. I do not know how or whether this can be rectified, although I expect a resounding victory for Republicans in 2024 followed by a congressional reshaping of the jurisdiction of these courts and their staffing may be the only solution. If you are unaware of the seriousness of this, it's because the press has almost uniformly failed to cover this fairly, and, indeed, has been full participants in the multiple hoaxes which provide cover for these juridical travesties. The local bar, sadly, seems to okay with this. While big firms rushed to defend Gitmo detainees, I am unaware of a single firm volunteering to help the almost 600 defendants rounded up by the Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District, Matthew Graves. Nor am I aware of a single local practitioner who has raised an alarm that due process is unavailable in the District for Republicans. Tyranny: January 6th Protestor Gets 17 Year Sentence for Shaking A Fence. Trump must be elected just to right this grotesque wrong and pardon the wrongly accused and prosecuted victims of Democrat torture. A far-left judge handied down one of the longest sentences yet for someone charged in the Jan. 6 protest. U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly sentenced Joseph Biggs to 15 years in prison. In handing down his sentence, Judge Kelly accepted the regime's recommendation to apply an enhancement that effectively labeled Biggs' crimes as acts of terrorism in seeking to influence the actions of government through threats and use of force. BLM burned our cities down. No punishment. Democrats burned DC during Trump's inauguration. No punishment. I was in DC in 2017 for Trump's inauguration and the Democrats burned the city. The streets were a war-zone. Innocents were randomly attacked in the street. No one was arrested. The enemedia didn't even report on it. Fast forward to the summer of '20, mass Democrat riots, looting, city burnings — no prosecutions. But speak against a stolen election and you are imprisoned, your life destroyed. Non-Violent Jan 6 Defendant Nejourde Meacham Found Dead at 22. 22-year-old Jan. 6 defendant Nejourde "Jord" Meacham has tragically been found dead, according to reports. Meacham, a non-violent defendant charged with entering the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, reportedly committed suicide. He died while facing prosecution for four misdemeanors. Proud Boys leader Ethan Nordean sentenced to 18 years in prison, tying for longest sentence among Capitol riot convicts. A one-time leader in the Proud Boys far-right extremist group was sentenced Friday to 18 years in prison for his role in the January 6 riot at the US Capitol, tying the record for the longest sentence in the attack. Ethan Nordean was one of five members who have been convicted so far of spearheading an attack on the U.S. Capitol to try to prevent the peaceful transfer of power from Donald Trump to Joe Biden after the 2020 presidential election. 'He is the undisputed leader on the ground on January 6,' said prosecutor Jason McCullough. Proud Boy Zachary Rehl is Sentenced to 15 Years for Garbage "Seditious Conspiracy" Charges. Judge Timothy Kelly sentenced Marine Corps veteran Zachary Rehl to 15 years to life in prison for being in the wrong place at the wrong time — walking through the Capitol building for approximately 20 minutes during the Capitol riot on January 6. The government sought 33 years life in federal prison for Rehl, the head of the Philadelphia chapter of the Proud Boys, for "his role in the Capitol riot." Rehl committed no violent crimes on January 6. He walked through the Capitol building on January 6 for merely a few minutes, took a selfie in the building then left the Capitol grounds. Joe Biggs Sobs in Court After He Is Sentenced to 17 Years. Observers in the courtroom broke out in tears as Judge Timothy Kelly sentenced Joseph Biggs to 204 months in prison for walking in the Capitol building for approximately 20 minutes during the Capitol riot on January 6. The government sought 33 years for Biggs. Kelly ceded to the defense that the government sentencing recommendation was egregious. Kelly noted prior offenders who were found guilty of seditious conspiracy had all murdered people, attempted to murder masses of people, bombed or attempted to bomb buildings and committed other violent crimes that resulted in mass casualty. The Editor says... Former Proud Boys leader Joe Biggs sentenced to 17 years in prison. Two former Proud Boys leaders who had been convicted of seditious conspiracy for their actions during the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol were sentenced on Thursday, with the judge handing down one of the longest sentences yet for someone charged in the Jan. 6 attacks. U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly sentenced Joseph Biggs, the former leader of the group's Florida chapter, to 17 years in prison. He sentenced Zachary Rehl, the former leader of the Proud Boys' Philadelphia chapter, to 15 years in prison. Feds Arrest Philip Anderson — After He Was Nearly Killed on Jan. 6 by Police Violence. Philip Anderson was a victim of police brutality on January 6th. He nearly lost his life. Philip started speaking out about the horrific abuse by the US Capitol Police that day months after the attack. Philip first reached out to The Gateway Pundit back in the summer of 2021. Philip Anderson says the Capitol Police killed Rosanne Boyland. He knows this because he was next to her when she died. He was holding her hand. And Philip nearly died himself. Activist Philip Anderson spoke with The Gateway Pundit on the Jan. 6 protests at the US Capitol and how the Capitol police murdered Rosanne Boyland and nearly took his life too. This is an amazing eyewitness report that has been ignored by the fake news media because it does not fit their narrative. The Establishment's 'Gallipoli Campaign' against the American People. [Scroll down] Then came the COVID-contorted, mail-in ballot — manipulated, fraud-filled 2020 election. The stolen election was never as important as the all-out effort to humiliate and vilify Trump and dispirit his voters. So they locked up J6 election protesters as political prisoners. They labeled all political dissent as "disinformation." They promoted Capitol Police lieutenant Mike Byrd for gunning down unarmed veteran Ashli Babbitt in cold blood. They prosecuted anyone who questioned how a dementia-addled, child-sniffing, lifetime politician who had never been popular outside Delaware could have won fifteen million more votes than "rock star" Obama and more votes than any politician in U.S. history. Destroying what is left of the "rule of law," corrupt political partisans posing as prosecutors now seek Donald Trump's lifetime imprisonment for the Establishment-engineered "crime" of refusing to consent to the ruling class's treachery. How have Americans responded? President Trump's popular support has only risen. Stories of J6'ers. Since Joe Biden's inauguration, the administration has sent federal SWAT teams into homes and offices to drag nearly 1,000 Americans off to Soviet-style gulags for January 6-related charges. Many of those Americans have been languishing in horrible conditions for two years, without so much as a trial. And while most of America — and the media especially — has forgotten about these folks, some people have not. In this episode, we feature Lydia Sorrow, who has become a pen pal to J6 prisoners. [Video clip] Clive Kincaid recounts events leading up to, during Jan. 6 Capitol riots. In a wide-ranging interview Thursday with The Durango Herald, Clive Kincaid recounted his life story and the role he played in the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riots. In explaining his life story, he said it is important for understanding how he ended up at the Capitol on Jan. 6. Kincaid, 75, was charged this month for his role at the U.S. Capitol. Pagosa Springs man arrested in connection with U.S. Capitol riots. A Pagosa Springs man has been arrested and charged on suspicion of participating in the U.S. Capitol riots on Jan. 6, 2021. According to a federal complaint, Clive Kincaid, 75, is suspected of bypassing barricades and pushing his way past police and into the Capitol building. He is charged with four crimes, including entering the Capitol without lawful authority; disorderly and disruptive conduct on restricted grounds; disorderly conduct in the Capitol; and parading, demonstrating or picketing in the Capitol. Judge Presiding Over Trump's Jan. 6 Trial Has Track Record Of Politically Charged J6 Rulings. At her first appearance in the criminal case against Donald Trump for his alleged attempt to overturn the 2020 election, U.S. District Court Judge Tanya S. Chutkan repeatedly warned the former president's lawyers that politics would not be tolerated in her courtroom. "The fact that [Trump is] running a political campaign has to yield to the orderly administration of justice," Chutkan said during the Aug. 11 hearing. "If that means he can't say exactly what he wants to say about witnesses in this case, that's how it has to be." But even as she warns Trump about his "inflammatory" language, Chutkan has routinely issued politically charged rulings and made incendiary statements of her own while presiding over some 30 cases involving Trump supporters charged in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, melee at the U.S. Capitol. A review of thousands of pages of hearing transcripts reveals that Chutkan has repeatedly expressed strong and settled opinions about the issues at the heart of United States v. Donald Trump — the criminal case she is now presiding over. Officer Mike Byrd Who Shot and Killed Ashli Babbit inside the US Capitol Is Promoted to Captain. On January 6, 2021, US veteran and Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt was shot in cold blood by Capitol Police Lt. Mike Byrd inside the US Capitol. In July 2021 The Gateway Pundit was first to confirm that Lt. Mike Byrd was Ashli Babbit's killer. Lt. Byrd killed Ashli Babbitt in cold blood on Jan. 6 inside the US Capitol. Another woman and Trump supporter, Rosanne Boyland, was killed by Capitol Police outside the US Capitol. Her body was then dragged through the US Capitol. What Is A Coup Du Publique? You're In One Right Now. [Scroll down] For example, besides the fact that it was over in time for dinner, that Jan. 6 participants called the next day asking if they could stop by to pick up jackets they left behind, that a significant percentage of the participants were being paid by certain government agencies to be there, that participants stood around taking pictures of statues, and that the police on scene may have allowed a large proportion of the protestors in is why the tragic stupidity of January 6 was not a coup or an insurrection or anything more than a stupid thoughtless gift to the Democrats and their deep state allies. Citibank Subpoenaed For Providing Biden DOJ With Private Customer Information After J6. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) issued a subpoena to Citibank over allegations that the company provided private information of customers involved in the January 6 Capitol Hill protests to the weaponized Department of Justice. The subpoena came after Jordan declared the bank was not cooperating with the Committee's requests to turn over crucial documentation. "The Committee and Select Subcommittee have obtained evidence showing that at least one major financial institution provided the FBI with private financial data without legal process," Jordan wrote to Sunil Garg, CEO of Citibank North America. "Bank of America (BoA) provided the FBI — voluntarily and without any legal process — with a list of individuals who made transactions in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area with a BoA credit or debit card between January 5 and January 7, 2021." Jordan's letter also stated that individuals who previously bought a firearm with a BoA product were moved to the top of that list — regardless of the time or place of the firearm purchase. The Committee alleges that the bank shared individuals' private information regarding their accounts with the FBI despite having no criminal past. Is the government hiding evidence of Jan. 6 fence cutter? If you trust that the government has your best interest at heart, then you must not be paying attention. While the government has wasted no time forming a January 6th committee and persecuting protestors, it seems to have glossed over suspicious figures whom the public is demanding answers for. Revolver News founder and editor Darren Beattie joins Glenn Beck to discuss what he knows about these men and why the public should be concerned. Beattie shares that new evidence has surfaced that suggests an unknown man who cut down fences around the Capitol before the January 6th riot may have been an undercover cop — or at least a shady figure whom the government doesn't seem to care about. Government Seeks 30 Years In Prison For J6 Political Prisoner Zachary Rehl. J6 political prisoner Zachary Rehl is no longer able to afford a private attorney without assistance from the American people. The government is seeking 30 years in federal prison for Rehl, the head of the Philadelphia chapter of the Proud Boys, for "his role in the Capitol riot." Rehl committed no violent crimes on January 6. He walked through the Capitol building on January 6 for merely a few minutes, took a selfie in the building then left the Capitol grounds. Prosecutors argue the 37-year-old Marine Corps veteran and his allies, former Proud Boys chair Enrique Tarrio, 39, Joseph Biggs, 39, and Ethan Nordean, 33, aimed to foment a revolution on January 6 to keep former President Donald Trump in power in a "terror attack" that left a stain on American democracy. A National Disgrace: Photos Leaked of Horrific January 6 Prisoner Abuse. January 6 political prisoner Ryan Samsel has been held in prison without trial now since January 2021. During his two-and-a-half years without trial Ryan has been moved around to 17 different facilities. Ryan has been beaten, abused, tortured, and neglected since his arrest in January 2021. Earlier this week The Gateway Pundit received exclusive photos from Ryan Samsel's prison cell at the FDC in Philadelphia. The cell was a size of a closet with a light on all of the time. The cell had a thin blue mattress, no sheets or blankets, no clothing, and he was kept here for five months straight. The photos are just shocking. This is taking place in America today. This is who we are. Ukrainian Corruption Disqualifies Biden From Serving Another Term. In an election with 160 million votes where 50,000 flipped ballots in three swing states would have changed the outcome, and the courts declined to judge on their merits the 19 lawsuits brought contesting the legality of the voting and vote counting changes, Trump's enemies appeared finally to have disposed of the Trump phenomenon. An air-tight media consensus has been imposed dismissing Trump's concerns about the elections, but at least half the country has its doubts. The confidence of Trump's enemies was braced by the events at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. He was impeached unsuccessfully again, even though he had left office. There is no evidence nor even an allegation that he deliberately incited violence or trespass. His offense, it emerges, was to dispute the validity of the election result and on the advice of counsel, to urge consideration of alternatives to confirming the apparent Electoral College victory of his opponent. There is ample evidence that Speaker Pelosi, Washington Mayor Bowser and others ignored warnings that there could be hooligans sheltering among Trump's supporters. All those Dems nattering on about protecting 'our democracy'? It's just a scam. We are living through an ongoing coup in which the fundamental protections of our constitutional order are being destroyed, one by one. To cover this radical "re-set" aimed at a totalitarian state in which dissent is suppressed and the might of the federal government becomes determinative of our fate, the Democrats have devised a cover story that rests on the events of January 6, 2021. With the latest revelations coming from former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund in his hour-long interview with Tucker Carlson, anyone who does not suspect a Reichstag Fire operation intended to justify a totalitarian takeover is living in fantasyland. [Tweet with video clip] Seven Revelations From Ex-Capitol Police Chief That Explode Democrats' Jan. 6 Narrative. Ex-Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund is determined to set the record straight on what happened at the Jan. 6 Capitol riot more than two years ago. After writing a book that challenged the groupthink of corporate media and the partisan Jan. 6 Committee, Sund sat down for an interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson. According to Carlson, the interview with Sund was scheduled to air on the network April 24, the same day Fox News announced the anchor's termination. (Another already-taped interview, with a Federalist senior contributor, was also stifled). Fox News refused to release the footage of Sund's conversation with Carlson, so the pair recorded another sit-down published on Twitter Thursday. "[Sund] knew more about what happened than virtually anyone else in the United States," Carlson said. "Yet congressional investigators weren't interested in talking to him. The media, not interested in talking to him. But we were." [Tweet with video clip] The
Oath Keepers and the United States v. Michael Greene: A Cautionary Tale —
And Then Some. Michael Greene was charged with four felonies:
J6 Committee Destroyed Key Records, Proving the Whole Thing Was Fixed From the Start. It is by now abundantly clear that the Jan. 6 "insurrection" was not the work of Trump supporters, but of Leftist plants in the crowd at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, directed by feds who were avid to frame and destroy Trump. Any lingering doubt about this has now been put definitively to rest by the revelation that the self-righteous apparatchiks who ran the House Jan. 6 Committee show trial did not preserve mountains of evidence that apparently disproved the left's official narrative about what happened on that fateful day. Like the Stalinists they are, it looks as if they framed their enemies and then destroyed the evidence of their own crime. Fox News reported Tuesday that "the House select committee that investigated the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021 failed to adequately preserve documents, data and video depositions — including communications it had with the Biden White House that are still missing — according to the Republican lawmaker overseeing the GOP investigation into the committee's work." The American Reichstag Fire. [Scroll down] The deep state had to take Trump down before he woke up the beast, the American people, to their own agency as sovereign citizens under God. This was why the deep state had to stop Trump from getting re-elected, come hook or crook, and the Capital incursion on January 6, 2021 was the final capstone of their project. The riot at the January 6, Electoral College Assembly was plotted in advance and led by federal agents of various stripes. The result was the real insurrection which was that Joe Biden, who had been declared the winner by the media weeks earlier, was gaveled into office at midnight without the media present and without any of the hearings that had been previously scheduled for 7 states. Those hearings would have finally answered the question, either way, regarding whether or not election fraud had occurred in those seven states. Biden was gaveled into office around midnight with no hearings and with no media present. Biden's victory was thus solidified. This was exactly what occurred after the Reichstag fire in Nazi Germany which took place less than a month after Adolf Hitler had become chancellor. Like the Capital incursion, the Reichstag fire was blamed on an "insurrection" and, in the case of the Reichstag fire, the Nazis were able to whip up a sufficient atmosphere of emergency, with the help of their well-placed allies in the media, to enable Hitler to suspend the upcoming election and, on the death of Paul von Hindenberg, have himself declared Fuhrer and, as such, head of a totalitarian regime. Biden's people have not been able to pull the same thing off in spite of their campaign of mass censorship, their jailing of hundreds of innocent people, and their prosecution of their political opponent, Donald Trump, as they try to strip his name off the ballot and put him in jail. J6 Committee [is] Accused of Destroying Key Intelligence Documents About Capitol Riot. It looks like the background intelligence documents about the Capitol Hill riot have gone the way of certain Secret Service call records, the Capitol Hill pipe bomber's identity, the ID of the White House cocaine addict, and Hillary Clinton's BleachBit emails. Key evidence is missing. It's gone. Vanished. If you're in any way confused, let's be clear: this is how a corrupt, banana republic, tinpot dictatorship acts. Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) and former President Donald Trump alleged that at least two terabytes of information were not preserved by the Bennie Thompson and Liz Cheney show trial producers. "The more we go in," Loudermilk told Fox News Digital, "the more we're realizing that there's things that we don't have [sic]. We don't have anything about security failures at the Capitol, we don't have the videos of the depositions." Loudermilk, who chairs the House Oversight subcommittee, says the documents they did get, 2.5 Terabytes out of 4, were a mess. "Nothing was indexed," he said. "There was no table of contents index," as there usually is in these types of documents. New evidence shows just how biased Trump judge is in Jack Smith's case. Judge Tanya Chutkan, the D.C. federal district court's hanging-ist judge when it comes to the January 6 cases, was (quite coincidentally, I'm sure) assigned to Donald Trump's case after Jack Smith essentially indicted him for believing that the November 2020 election was rife with fraud. (A belief, apparently, available only to Democrats following elections.) The fact that Chutkan hates January 6 defendants, of course, doesn't mean she's anti-Trump. However, Julie Kelly has revealed a trial transcript in which Chutkan openly states her belief that Trump should be in jail. Americans are Not Fooled: Two Thirds of Americans Believe 2020 Election was Rigged, The Feds Incited Jan 6, and the Bidens are a Crime Family. Two out of three Americans are awake and not woke. They see that truth behind the many lies from the Democrats and their corrupt media and Big Tech. In April, a poll at Rasmussen Reports reported that two-thirds of Americans suspect that the Feds incited the Jan 6 riots. This poll was before the former head of the Capitol Police spoke with Tucker Carlson and shared that Jan 6 was all a setup to get President Trump. In May, a poll by Rasmussen Reports found that 62% of Americans believed that the 2020 Election was stolen. This number has grown over time. Also in May, a super majority of Americans per a Rasmussen poll showed that they believed the Biden gang's crimes related to foreign influence peddling were a big deal. What the January 6 Committee Did With the Evidence Undercuts a Huge Dem Narrative. What happened on January 6 shook liberal America to its core. Legions of commentators, elected officials, and some scholars took the airwaves to declare the event worse than the 9/11 attacks — some compared it to Pearl Harbor. The hyperbole was pervasive, which led to congressional Democrats establishing a select committee to investigate the riot. It was a political circus that wasted taxpayer dollars, finding no incriminating evidence against Donald Trump. It also blithely ignored video evidence that shredded its narrative about how this was an American rendition of the 'storming of the Bastille.' If this was such a dark and destructive event in our history, why did the now-defunct committee destroy the evidence? No, I'm not kidding. If this were a trial case, the judge would have no option but to dismiss it because everything appears to have been sent into the furnace. Nothing was preserved, a requirement upon the committee's dissolution. One key piece of evidence that's been lost: the communications the committee had with the Biden White House. Tucker Carlson Releases Redo of Explosive Jan. 6 Interview with Former Capitol Police Chief That Fox Never Aired. Former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund shared his perspective on the events at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, with Tucker Carlson this week, explaining how critical intelligence had been withheld from him in the days before the event. In the interview, Sund revealed that federal intelligence agencies were aware of threats that they never shared with the chief — threats that would surely have prompted him to beef up security in the area. "I had a conference call with the leaders of all the law enforcement," Sund told Carlson. "It was a call I coordinated. Not one person on that call talked about any concerns for the intelligence [about] the attack on the Capitol that we were seeing, that was out there. That's what's scary." Tucker Carlson's interview with the former Capitol Police chief. Fox News shut Tucker Carlson down right before his show was to have aired an interview with former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund. Yesterday, Tucker released a new interview he did with Sund, and it confirms everything you've suspected: The Capitol Police were kept in the dark about possible problems on January 6 and, when problems finally occurred, they were consistently denied timely aid. In other words, it was a set-up. (And I have an even darker take on events than Sund does.) The interview is almost an hour long but, if you have the time, I recommend watching it. I've summarized a few of the high points, below, along with my theory about the fact that things went much deeper than even Sund seems to realize: [Tweet with video clip] [...] Sund claims "we now know FBI, DHS was swimming in that intelligence" about potential violence at the Capitol and "military seemed to have some concerning intelligence as well." Yet, no one told him anything. Nobody gave him documents or gave him information over the phone. He was in an information vacuum. "None of the intelligence that was coming up talking about the storming of the Capitol, killing members of Congress, or killing my police officers was ever discussed..." What really occurred on January 6. Much of the January 6, 2021 mythology is wrong, on the right and left. The J6 relevance continues, as the basis for Trump's impeachment and indictment. Tucker Carlson's unaired interview with Steven Sund, Capitol Police chief on J6, is probative. Carlson intended to air the interview the day he was fired. Sund, and the sergeants at arms of the House and Senate, "resigned" on January 7. These lifelong, consummate law enforcement professionals were at the top of their profession. Carlson elicited Sund's insistence he was denied intelligence indicating that wholesale violence was planned: "This didn't have to happen. Everything appears to be a cover-up." Sund reported that the crowd was filled with federal agents during "a planned, coordinated attack." Carlson just re-interviewed Sund. [...] Were these three officials fired to create convenient scapegoats? Was the intent to silence them before installing compliant replacements? Pelosi's J6 committee destroyed evidence. Sund revealed that whistleblowers have been forced out (Capitol employees lack whistleblower protections). Tucker Carlson's Newest Episode Is Causing Quite a Stir. On his latest episode posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, Tucker Carlson explains that his interview with former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund on Fox News never aired, so he invited him back to have another conversation about Jan. 6, 2021. Below are some noteworthy segments from the nearly hour-long conversation. [Multiple tweets with video clips] 46 seconds of video just changed everything about January 6th. [Scroll down] As you likely know, many are convinced that J6 wasn't merely a "cover-up"; it was an orchestrated incident. Revolver's own Darren Beattie aptly dubs January 6th the "Fedsurrection," and those who hold this belief have valid reasons. This recently surfaced 46-second clip may cast an additionally glaring spotlight on the true events of that day, and some would argue it completely blows up the initial story we were told. This shocking clip reportedly shows DC police were operating "undercover" within the crowd, actively instigating chaos instead of safeguarding Americans. If this is true, it would be a travesty of justice, in every sense of the word and is a criminal act that you'd expect to see in some third-world [dump], like Uganda. January 6th committee didn't turn over its records to the House. This is blatantly illegal. One might almost call it an attack on the Constitution and our legal system. [Tweet] Ironic, isn't it? The self-righteous and arrogant January 6th Committee collected documents, depositions, and videotapes over a 2-year period while conducting what amounted to a Star Chamber kangaroo court. For those of you unfamiliar with the real-world Star Chamber, it was an English court established ostensibly to hold members of the aristocracy responsible for crimes on the assumption that the common law courts might fear convicting men of high standing. It was advertised as ensuring that equal justice applied to all. Instead, it was the embodiment of abusing power. Just like the January 6th Committee proved to be. Report: January 6 Committee Destroyed Evidence and Did Not Investigate Capitol Hill Security Failures. Most close watchers already knew the motive and intention of the J6 committee was to build narratives useful against their political opposition and the 2022 midterm election cycle. Factually, the makeup of the J6 committee was specifically structured for this intention. That said, this remarkable statement by former J6 Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson is essentially admitting the committee destroyed evidence that undermined their preconceived notions. After being questioned by republicans about the absence of evidence provided to the committee, former Chairman Bennie Thomson says: "Consistent with guidance from the Office of the Clerk and other authorities, the Select Committee did not archive temporary committee records that were not elevated by the Committee's actions, such as use in hearings or official publications, or those that did not further its investigative activities. Accordingly, and contrary to your letter's implication, the Select Committee was not obligated to archive all video recordings of transcribed interviews or depositions. [...]" Security Video Challenges the Narrative on First Man to Die at Capitol on Jan. 6. The first of four supporters of President Donald Trump to die on Jan. 6, 2021, received emergency medical care away from the fast-growing crowd on the U.S. Capitol's west plaza — before any explosive munitions were used by police — new security video reveals. Capitol Police closed-circuit-television (CCTV) footage obtained by The Epoch Times calls into question the popular narrative that Benjamin James Philips was struck by a police munition before he collapsed from a fatal cardiac event. Mr. Philips, 50, of Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, had organized a busload of area residents to travel to Washington for Mr. Trump's speech at the Ellipse. He followed the bus in a van. He got separated from the group when he drove away to search for parking. He got as far as the U.S. Capitol that day but never made it back home. It has long been contended that Mr. Philips's death was related to police riot munitions. A popular version of the story is that he was in the thick of the quickly expanding crowd on the west plaza beneath the inauguration stage when he was struck by an explosive munition tossed or shot by police. President Trump Reveals the Dirty Jan. 6 Committee Illegally Destroyed their Records and Documents Now that He Has Full Subpoena Power. President Donald Trump dropped a bombshell report on his Truth Social platform that the sham committee overseeing the investigation of the January 6th Capitol riot has destroyed their documents and records illegally. The Trump Indictment and 2024. The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, which has greenlighted all motions, requests, and recommendations from the Justice Department relative to the Trump investigations and has been extraordinarily punitive towards January 6th defendants, is made up of 15 judges. Obama appointed seven and Biden will have appointed four to date or nearly 75% between them. The D.C Circuit Court of Appeals has a similar roster as Obama and Biden have thus far appointed seven out of 11 judges. Joe Biden has followed in Obama's footsteps nominating equally if not more ideologically bound radical left-wing judges. The Editor says... Ex-Cap Police Lieutenant comes clean: He held back J6 story because he didn't think anyone would believe him. Tarik Johnson is a hero and former Capitol Police lieutenant with an important story to share about what really happened on January 6th. Tarik hesitated to disclose everything he knew, fearing that no one — even Tucker Carlson — would believe him. However, on Thursday, Tarik took to Twitter to open up about his March sit-down with Tucker and reveal some of what he was once too afraid to share. Tarik has now said that Assistant Chief Pittman — a black woman — was mostly responsible for everything that happened on January 6th. Trump plans to ask for recusal of federal judge overseeing 2020 election case and for venue change. Former President Donald Trump says he plans on asking the judge overseeing his federal charges related to the 2020 election to recuse herself and he wants to have the venue moved out of Washington, D.C., in order to get a fair trial. [...] D.C. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, an Obama appointee assigned to oversee Trump's federal election case, donated thousands of dollars to elect Barack Obama as president. Additionally, she ruled against Trump in another case related to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. Chutkan is well known for dealing out the toughest sentences on Jan. 6 defendants, giving longer prison sentences than requested by prosecutors in more than 60% of those cases before her. Trump had said last week that he hoped to be tried in an "impartial" venue such as a court located in nearby West Virginia, rather than in Washington, D.C., where the district's citizens voted overwhelmingly against him. Democrats Are Dancing the Totalitarian Two-Step. Democrats and corporate media throw around terms like 'fascism' and 'dictatorship' as a means of stifling discussion of anyone they disagree with. [...] When it comes to totalitarianism, I am afraid we are there. America as a beacon of freedom and liberty may be in hospice care, barely alive, with little hope of survival or healing. COVID was a good example of "complete control and regulation over public and private life." DEI and wokeism is much the same. Then there is political dissent. Socialist historian Howard Zinn proclaimed, "Dissent is the highest form of patriotism." Socialist two-time failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton echoed, "We need to stand up and say we're Americans, and we have the right to debate and disagree with any administration." The Biden-Garland-Obama junta took a 180 by criminalizing free speech and dissent. As
President Trump is indicted for January 6, more evidence emerges that it was a
set-up. Coincidentally, I'm sure, in the lead-up to his being taken off the air at
Fox News, Tucker Carlson and his team were investigating events on January 6 — the
same events that are serving as the basis for Jack Smith's creative indictment against Donald
Trump. One of the things that Fox News prevented from airing was an interview with former
Capitol Hill Police Chief Steven Sund, during which he told Tucker that the FBI had "a lot of
operatives" in the crowd. There was more, and it all feeds into the reasonable belief that
January 6 was a set-up. January 6 has been enormously useful to the Democrats:
Trump Lawyer Bobb: Jack Smith's New Indictment Empowers Trump Legal Team to Get J6 Answers. The Marine JAG veteran and former senior Homeland Security officer working on President Donald J. Trump's legal team tells RedState that Special Counsel Jack Smith's indictment of Trump revealed Aug. 1 is a surprisingly weak case against the former president. "I don't think anybody thinks Donald Trump believes he lost the election," says Christina Bobb, the author of "Stealing Your Vote: The Inside Story of the 2020 Election and What It Means for 2024." Smith's central legal thesis is that Trump knew that he lost the 2020 election and that his subsequent actions and statements were corrupt and criminal. Bobb says Smith's premise is absurd: ["]If Donald Trump believes and believed at that time that the election was stolen and that there was a plot to steal and rig the election as the president of the United States — he had a constitutional obligation to do exactly what he did, which is communicate with the states and make sure that the states are doing their part to protect their own.["] A tale of two legal systems. The Democrats aren't even hiding that that there are two forms of justice. One for the left and one for the right. If you burn a historic church and attack the White House as rioters did in 2020, you are a protester. Excuses are made for your action. After the attack on St. John's Church in Washington, D.C., Rector Rev. Rob Fisher said in an e-mail to worshippers, "The protests that began peacefully grew to something more, and eventually a fire was lit in the nursery, in the basement of Ashburton House. Protestors easily could have done a lot worse to our buildings, but they chose not to do that." However, if you are expressing your First Amendment right to protest, and you are invited into the Capitol Building, you are branded an insurrectionist and sentenced to jail time, even when video evidence shows you did nothing wrong. Marc Short: Mark Meadows Was January 6 'Ringleader,' He's Likely Cooperating with DOJ. Former Vice President Mike Pence chief of staff Marc Short said Thursday on CNN's "The Lead" that he believes since former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows was not named as a co-conspirator in the special counsel's indictment, it was likely Meadows is cooperating with the Justice Department's investigation into events surrounding January 6, 2021. Fmr. Capitol Police chief calls Jan. 6 'a cover up' in leaked video with Tucker Carlson. The former Capitol Police Chief who was working during the January 6, 2021, storming of the Capitol told former Fox New host Tucker Carlson that the events surrounding the riot appear "to be a cover up." "If I was allowed to do my job as the chief, we wouldn't be here today. This didn't have to happen. Everything appears to be a cover up," Steve Sund told Carlson in leaked video obtained by The National Pulse. "Like I said, I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but when you look at the information intelligence that [they] had, military had, it's all watered down by intelligence to deny National Guard support in advance. I'm denied National Guard while we're under attack for 71 minutes." DC judge who will oversee Trump's criminal case is 'toughest punisher' of Jan 6 rioters. The judge set to oversee former President Trump's latest criminal case is known for her sentencing of January 6 rioters and worked at a law firm associated with Hunter Biden. DC federal Judge Tanya Chutkan, who was picked to oversee Trump's criminal case in the capital was declared 'the toughest punisher' of rioters charged with offenses relating to the 2021 riot. In a profile by the Associated Press, written last year, they said: 'Chutkan has handed out tougher sentences than the [Justice Department] was seeking in seven cases, matched its requests in four others and sent all 11 riot defendants who have come before her behind bars.' Trump Jan 6 Case [is] Assigned to Judge Tanya Chutkan, an Obama Appointee. The DC grand jury indicted Trump in the January 6 investigation. "Trump indicted in federal probe over effort to undo election loss and subvert transfer of power in run-up to Jan. 6 riot" AP reported. Trump was hit with 4 counts: Conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights. Jack Smith hasn't charged Trump with the Jan. 6 riots — but he wants to use it as a judicial cudgel. Of all the outrages in Biden special counsel Jack Smith's latest indictment of Donald Trump — and there are many — the worst comes at the end of the 45-page screed's Count One, the section titled "The Defendant's Exploitation of the Violence and Chaos at the Capitol." This is where Smith waves the bloody shirt. Smith intends to try Trump for the Capitol riot even though he hasn't charged Trump for the Capitol riot. No rioting charge. No allegation of criminal incitement. No seditious conspiracy, no insurrection, no crime of violence of any kind. To levy such an allegation would have been untenable. Secret agents, J6, and Whitmer's kidnapping plot. In an interview that aired on July 7, Tucker Carlson said that xthe Capitol Chief of Police told him the J6 crowd was "filled with federal agents." It remains to be seen how many and what role they played. Everyone knows about Ray Epps, captured on video trying to whip up the J6 crowd to enter the Capitol, but not arrested for anything despite his actions seeming far worse than the trespassing and the like many others were sentenced for. If one does a search using a left-leaning search engine (that is, just about all of them) on "Who is Ray Epps," the results shown on the first page almost uniformly dismiss the "Ray Epps was an FBI informant" narrative as a kooky right-wing conspiracy theory. But read [...] all the details on Epps, and I dare anyone without a hopelessly left-biased brain to tell me the default assumption should be a conspiracy theory. Numerous FBI officials testifying before Congress, including Director Christopher Wray, have refused to deny outright that Epps was working in some capacity for the FBI. Wray came very close to a denial in his July 12 Congressional testimony, but the wording of the questions and/or lack of follow-up allowed him to obfuscate. The Judge Assigned to Trump's January 6th Indictment Is Going to Be a Nightmare. Once again, the political world has been engulfed by another indictment of Donald Trump, this time surrounding his alleged actions involving January 6th. The details include four different counts, including two counts of conspiracy and two counts of obstruction. Those four counts break down specifically to Trump allegedly attempting to obstruct an official proceeding, which has to do with January 6th, while the conspiracy charges appear to center on the supposed alternate electors scheme. Obviously, arguments about selective prosecution and weaponization of the DOJ will be at the forefront for political circles, but even on legal grounds, this indictment appears to be far weaker than the one charging that Trump mishandled classified documents and conspired to obstruct the investigation into the matter. Specifically, counts two and three sure seem like "disinformation" is being criminalized. Regardless, putting even the legal arguments aside, one thing is certain: The judge assigned to this case is going to be a nightmare. Trump Could Have Spent Jan. 6 Talking About The Weather And Still Would Have Been Indicted. Tapes published more than two years later by former Fox News host Tucker Carlson contradicted the hysterical talking points adopted by Democrats on the partisan Jan. 6 Committee. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi left Capitol security woefully unprepared. Protesters were given guided tours by Capitol Police. Brian Sicknick, the officer supposedly "slain" at the hands of violent demonstrators, was captured on camera "healthy and vigorous" after the time of an alleged fatal head injury. The footage, of course, wasn't released until after Republicans reclaimed control of the lower chamber. Trump was the first outgoing president to be impeached and the only president to be impeached twice. They are rubbing our noses in their filth. This regime has no shame. Those stories about the discovery of a bag of cocaine in the White House were not an accidental leak of the truth. The leak was psyops meant to destroy the morale of their enemy, which is the American people. The discovery was meant to show that Biden and his crooks will do anything they want and get away with it, and they do. Law enforcement did nothing — and what will Republicans do about it? Cry? Biden's crew ignores congressional subpoenas without consequence, just as Eric Holder did when he was Obama's AG. In January, Speaker McCarthy promised to make the videos of the January 6 protest public. Six months later, the videos remain under lock and key — right next to Epstein's client list. New Jan 6 Footage Suggests Capitol Police Officer Lied about Injuries. Recently unearthed video footage suggests that a Capitol Police officer was lying when he claimed to have been injured on January 6, 2021. The new footage indicates that Capitol Police Officer Aquilino Gonell may have faked the wounds he sustained on Jan. 6. The video, which focuses on paramedics' efforts to resuscitate protester Rosanne Boyland, shows Gonell going about his business with no sign of serious injuries. The clip begins around 4:50 pm, about 30 minutes after Boyland was first reported to have collapsed amongst the crowd of hundreds gunning for the entrance to the building. The camera, pointing toward a door in the House wing of the Capitol, captures Gonell entering the scene ahead of paramedics. How To Create Conspiracy Theories. Curiously, some conservative politicians, media and politicos often remark of their surprise that so many of the Trump base insists that the January 6 riot at the Capitol was in part a federally driven conspiracy, or perhaps just a mere "demonstration" gone awry. But whether true or not, why would some not believe that — given the efforts of the state to hide and warp facts? Consider what drives rational people to embrace supposed "conspiracy" theories around the so-called "insurrection?" One reason, of course, is that there was evidence of FBI informants present on January 6. Do not take the word of conservatives for such suppositions. Instead, remember what award-winning New York Times's reporter and keen follower of right-wing political activity, Matthew Rosenberg said of January 6, albeit in an ambush interview conducted by Operation Veritas: The left's overreaction — the left's reaction to it in some places was so over the top. They were making it too big a deal ... that gave the opening for lunatics in the right to be like, 'Oh, well, nothing happened here. It was just a peaceful bunch of tourists,' you know, and it's like, but nobody wants to hear that." Rosenberg then remarked that he spotted numerous FBI informants among the crowd milling around the Capitol. Or as he put it, "There were a ton of FBI informants among the people who attacked the Capitol." Cannot the FBI refute such allegations? Apparently not. Jan. 6 rioter who assaulted officer with flagpole sentenced to 4 years in prison. A Jan. 6 rioter who repeatedly struck a police officer with a flag pole as the officer was being dragged down the steps of the Capitol was sentenced Monday to more than four years in federal prison. Peter Stager, a 44-year-old truck driver from Arkansas, was sentenced to 52 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras. Prosecutors had sought six-and-a-half years in prison, citing Stager's "chilling motivation" and the brutality of the assault. The GOP Death Wish. A majority of likely U.S. voters believe our elections are fraudulent, according to Rasmussen Reports, including most Republicans and a quarter of Democrats. What have Republicans done to correct either this real problem or the perception of one? Nothing. Why not perform legitimate audits and scrutiny to fix the problem or reassure skeptical voters? Instead they quickly agreed to certify the 2020 election in the face of an "insurrection," not of Trump supporters, but of the ruling class assisted by federal agents. Republicans played along with theatrical January 6 committee hearings, offered minimal resistance to two "Trumped-up" impeachments of President Trump, seven Republican senators even voting to convict Trump and remove him from office. How's that for the GOP reflecting the will of the voters? Even so-called conservative pundits like Laura Ingraham want us all to "stop talking about 2020." Why? So it can all happen again in 2024? J6 Political Prisoner Ryan Samsel Reveals What Ray Epps Whispered in his Ear. January 6 Prisoner Ryan Samsel called The Gateway Pundit last week. During our discussion Ryan described what Ray Epps told him on January 6. Ray Epps was seen whispering into Samsel's ear before the bike rack barricades came down. According to Ryan Samsel, "I walked up to the gate on my own decision. I did not feel any pressure from Joe Biggs, nor any of the Proud Boys. And that was the gate that everybody sees in the video where you're standing around and Ray Epps is there next to me, correct? That's also so when I go up to that fence, I pull the fence towards me. That's when Ray Epps says in my ear, he says, I got people who are waiting til more people come. Something along those lines." Ryan said Ray Epps then told him, "We got to go into the building. So I pulled the bike rack..." Ryan Samsel says he is willing to take a polygraph test to prove his innocence and that he did not rat on fellow J6ers. MSNBC legal analyst calls for Trump to be locked up before he goes to trial for J6. Former President Donald J. Trump needs to be thrown into a jail cell for pretrial detention if as expected, he is indicted on charges related J6, at least if MSNBC legal analyst Glenn Kirchner has anything to say about it. Last week, the 2024 GOP frontrunner revealed that he had received a letter from the Biden regime's special counsel, "Deranged Jack Smith" informing him that he is officially a target of a Washington, D.C. grand jury investigation and that his arrest is imminent. Rather than be released after arraignment as would normally be the case, Kirschner argued that Trump is far too dangerous to be allowed to remain free and needs to be locked down, likely in the special D.C. gulag that J6 protesters have been detained in under deplorable conditions that some have likened to that of a Chinese gulag. J6 security footage: Secret Service brought Kamala Harris within yards of undetected DNC pipe bomb. U.S. Capitol complex security footage shows the Secret Service brought Vice President-elect Kamala Harris into a garage at the Democratic National Committee headquarters on Jan. 6, 2021, just a few yards from where a pipe bomb had been planted the night before by an unidentified suspect. The video footage, obtained by Just the News and released on Friday, raised immediate concerns with experts on presidential security and top lawmakers in Congress on how the explosive device was overlooked during security sweeps. "I'm still trying to make sense out of what we're seeing," Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., the chairman of the House Administration oversight subcommittee investigating the Jan. 6 security failures, told the "Just the News, No Noise" television show on Friday. "First of all, we know that there was actionable intelligence that there was going to be an attack on the Capitol. It seems like most every three letter agency knew about it. But the chief of police didn't because of the intelligence failure that happened within Capitol Police. DeSantis: January 6 Was Not A "Plan To Overthrow The Government," "Insurrection," Or "Sedition". Gov. Ron DeSantis said the mainstream media has overblown the significance of the January 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol during an interview Friday with Russell Brand. [Video clip] When Republicans Win, the Media Are Hearings-Impaired. When the Pelosi-Picked Panel on Jan. 6 held hearings, they were broadcast live on ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, NPR, CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News (unless they were in prime time, then Fox Business). All these channels devoted more than 20 hours of airtime to a unanimously anti-Trump panel. The witnesses were unanimously adverse to what Trump did. The hearings were so scripted that there was no moment where anyone said a thing that an average Republican would say in the Grand Old Party's defense. None of these networks feel the need to replicate this level of Pelosi pandering now that Republicans hold the House. None of these networks would replicate that pattern of omnipresence for Senate hearings where Republicans might "own the libs" in the Biden administration from the minority. We can imagine that the media elite would defend itself because Jan. 6 was epic, maybe worse than Sept. 11, or that kind of nonsense. It's more honest to imagine that the liberal networks loved these hearings because they were unanimous and carefully scripted with neatly edited videos. You can despise what happened on Jan. 6 and still be upset with the double standard. Judge denies bid by 'QAnon Shaman' to toss out Jan. 6 conviction. A federal judge Thursday denied a bid by Jan. 6 rioter Jacob Chansley — better known as the "QAnon Shaman" — to vacate his conviction in light of footage from the Capitol that day aired by ex-Fox News host Tucker Carlson. Chansley, who stood out from the Jan. 6 crowd for wearing face paint and a horned headdress during the riot, pleaded guilty to obstruction and was sentenced in November 2021 to 41 months in prison. But in March 2023, Carlson aired footage of Chansley that showed him walking in the Capitol unimpeded by a group of officers who followed him — footage he claimed was exonerating. 'Bullhorn Lady' who helped break into Capitol is found guilty in Jan. 6 case. A Pennsylvania mother who was known as "Bullhorn Lady" because she used a bullhorn to instruct rioters at the U.S. Capitol was convicted Tuesday of nine federal counts. Rachel Powell was found guilty on a variety of charges, including felony counts of interfering with officers performing their duties and obstruction of an official proceeding. Her bench trial was held in May, and U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth delivered the verdict Tuesday. Powell was accompanied to court by her children, one of whom was wearing a red "MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN" hat in the courtroom. Powell had posted on social media that former President Donald Trump had given her child a MAGA hat. Absolute Proof Government Setup Everything J6 — Previously Hidden Footage Shows Major Breach of Security — Police were in On It!. [Video clip only] McCarthy Defends Trump over January 6: 'Don't See How He Could Be Found Criminally Responsible'. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) came to Trump's defense over reports that the Department of Justice (DOJ) has been weighing potential charges against the former president for his alleged conduct during the January 6, 2021 riot on Capitol Hill. Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, the U.S. House Speaker said he does not see any reason for the former president to be found criminally responsible for January 6. I'm now officially a target of the special-counsel J6 probe too, says Trump. Donald Trump already faces an indictment from special counsel Jack Smith over obstruction and mishandling of classified material in federal court, but that wasn't Smith's initial focus. At the time when the dispute over the records erupted, Smith already had been tasked with investigating the January 6 riot at the Capitol as a potential criminal conspiracy. According to Trump, that shoe has finally dropped — or will shortly: [Trump statement not shown here.] Note that literally none of this statement, other than the target notice and grand-jury summons, has to do with January 6th. That's likely by design; Trump has gotten himself into trouble talking publicly about his current criminal indictment, and may have learned a lesson from the fallout of the Bret Baier interview. Trump says he's been told he's 'target' of DOJ's Capitol riot probe. Former President Donald Trump revealed Tuesday that his attorneys had informed him he is a target of special counsel Jack Smith's investigation into the events surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot — and that he is prepared for "an Arrest and Indictment" in the case. Trump, 77, is the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination and decried on social media what he called a "WITCH HUNT" and "ELECTION INTERFERENCE" in his bid for a rematch against President Biden. "WOW! On Sunday night, while I was with my family, having just arrived from the Turning Point event in Florida, where I won the Straw Poll against all other Republican candidates with 85.7%, with all polls showing me leading in the Republican Primary by very substantial numbers, almost everyone predicting that I will be the Republican Nominee for President, and as I am leading Democrat Joe Biden in the polls by a lot, HORRIFYING NEWS for our Country was given to me by my attorneys," Trump wrote. Turley: Smith better have something more than just Trump's J6 speech. "If the case is built around Trump's speech on the ellipsis on Jan. 6, I don't believe that it could withstand judicial review," Turley said. "The question is: Does Smith have something else? Something that's a direct link to a conspiracy or effort to cause violence? We haven't seen that," he explained. "I mean the Jan. 6 committee in Congress came up with nothing as a direct nexus to that type of evidence." ... "That's why this indictment, if there is coming, could be so important," he continued. "With Mar-a-Lago, those were classic types of charges, a classic-built case. This one they have to really stick the landing so that no one will question it. ... That's gonna require some very direct and strong evidence. We haven't seen that. Vivek Ramaswamy Tells Tucker 'Pervasive Censorship' Caused January 6. Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy told independent show host Tucker Carlson that "pervasive censorship in this country" caused the January 6, 2021, Capitol Riot. Ramaswamy sat down with Carlson for Blaze Media's" The Summit Friday" where the pair discussed important policy issues including the often explosive topic of January 6. "You want to know what caused January 6, it's pervasive censorship in this country in the lead up to January 6," Ramaswamy said. "You tell people in this country they cannot speak, that is when they scream. You tell people they cannot scream, that is when they tear things down." The pair noted that the protest turned riot has been often blamed on "one man whose name is unspeakable" or "Qanon." However, the unprecedented pandemic, violent riots and tumultuous election cycle suggest there was so much more to it than that. Donald Trump investigation: What is a target letter and what comes next in Jan. 6 investigation. Former President Donald Trump said he received a target letter regarding special counsel Jack Smith's investigation into the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump's declaration that he has received a target letter has left questions regarding what this means for the former president in the Capitol riot investigation. Here is what a target letter is and what it means for Trump. A target letter is when the Department of Justice or a federal prosecutor sends a notice to a person that says he or she is the target of an investigation. The letter will detail the crimes being investigated by prosecutors, along with what the person targeted should do next. Recently Acquitted J6er James Beeks Sends a Message of Hope. After becoming just the second January 6th defendant acquitted of all charges, he has good reason. "I woke up the day after trial, and it was just a whole new sense of purpose in life, and it's hard to explain," Beeks explains at the beginning of a Saturday afternoon phone call. D.C. Judge Amit P. Mehta last Wednesday ruled that there was insufficient evidence to convict Beeks of knowingly working with OathKeepers to obstruct congressional proceedings on January 6th. Beeks was originally indicted on numerous felony counts but was eventually presented with the option of a stipulated trial by the United States Attorney's Office — an offer the former Broadway actor was eager to accept. When is an insurrection not an insurrection? Word emerged the other day that Ray Epps is finally about to be charged for events on January 6, 2021. Sharp-eyed media consumers instantly noticed that, with this news, the mainstream media moved in unison to redefine their previous characterization of events on that day. Since the day Joe Biden took office, the administration has spent an inordinate amount of time, energy, and money to arrest and prosecute every random grandmother who took a picture inside the Capitol on January 6, ignoring the fact that Capitol police welcomed many into the building. The administration has also savaged the constitutional rights of some of those arrested by locking them up without bail or trial for two-and-a-half years and it has been accused of major prosecutorial misconduct. [...] Through it all, Ray Epps occupied an unusual position. Videos, especially the famous one below, showed him seemingly playing an active role: [Video clip] And Just Like That, It's No Longer an Insurrection. [T]he January 6 insurrection is no more. And the deconstruction story is really something. At the center of this narrative switcheroo is non-other than Ray Epps. Before we get to that, let's remember how we got here. It took only moments for the Democrat media complex to anoint the January 6 breach and riot at the U.S. Capitol Building an "insurrection." As if beckoned by an unseen force, narrative builders dutifully lined up to receive the official wafer on their tongues, and voilà! "Trump supporters" who had never committed an act of violence at years of peaceful and crowded rallies were eligible for a 20-year prison stretch. Shortly thereafter, the insurrection became a deadly insurrection when the same media reported, wrongly, that police officers were killed by rioters on January 6. [Tweet] Whistleblower: FBI brass hid identities of Jan. 6 informants. Top brass at the FBI said that the identities of "problematic" confidential informants who were involved in reporting to the bureau from the Jan. 6, 2021 protest should be kept from the public, a whistleblower told the House Judiciary Committee. The whistleblower, an FBI agent, told the committee that Deputy Director Paul Abbate suggested that at least 25 FBI confidential human sources who were at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 should not be publicly acknowledged. Abbate notified one or more of his subordinates that the informants"were too problematic or embarrassing" and that the existence, activities, and identities of these FBI confidential human sources should not be released, according to the whistleblower disclosure sent to the committee. The Big Gaslight. [Scroll down] We have seen video of Capitol Police welcoming protesters into the building on January 6. We know that the congressional leaders who supervise the Capitol Police ordered them to stand down during the event, after leaving them unprepared and underequipped beforehand. All this while President Trump was offering National Guard support — also rejected by Democrat leadership. Why were government plants inciting the crowd into the Capitol? Why did Capitol Police invite protesters inside? Who ordered this? Those police did report to Nancy Pelosi. Empty suit Christopher Wray still runs the FBI. How did he keep his job after the transition? Is the big picture coming into focus? The Dems wanted chaos and facilitated it. Democrat operatives incited and manipulated some January 6 protesters into the Capitol building so the action could be publicly construed as a partisan riot or insurrection. The whole thing was ginned up by the Dems as a political stunt, a dirty trick for the ages, as soon as they knew a Republican crowd would be nearby and likely marching on the Capitol. Far-fetched? No. We have seen the same playbook applied elsewhere with the Michigan governor kidnapping set-up, which was led by undercover FBI agents. These are also the people who gave us the Trump-Russia hoax, so they have no limit. Ray Epps' Lawyers Say DOJ Is Criminally Charging Him Over January 6th, Big Question Immediately Arises. Ray Epps has become one of the most infamous figures surrounding the unrest of January 6th. For years, many have wondered why Epps, who was caught on video directing people to enter the Capitol Building, avoided arrest while others who seemingly did far less were arrested and charged. He also sent a text in which he claimed to have "orchestrated" the events. The theories surrounding that have led Epps to file a lawsuit against Fox News, claiming that he was defamed by Tucker Carlson. In a shocking turn of events, though, the lawsuit claims, as part of its case, that the DOJ has notified Epps that they will be seeking criminal charges against him. [Tweet] Rep. Troy Nehls Destroys Chris Wray Over Jan 6 — Catches Him in Lies on Child Pornography Cases. FBI Director Christopher Wray testified before the House Judiciary Committee today. The hearing, "Oversight of the Federal Bureau of Investigation," examined the politicization of the nation's preeminent law enforcement agency under the direction of FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland. Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX), a former sheriff, destroyed dirty Chris Wray during his testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. Nehls brought video and photos of Ray Epps encouraging Trump supporters to enter the US Capitol on January 5th and January 6th and then leading the charge through the first ste of barriers to the US Capitol. FBI whistleblower: Deputy director told subordinates to hide Jan. 6 informants. An FBI agent told the House Judiciary Committee that Deputy Director Paul Abbate suggested that at least 25 FBI confidential human sources, or informants, involved in reporting to the bureau from the Jan. 6, 2021, protest should not be publicly acknowledged. Many FBI whistleblowers have come forward with their concerns about the bureau as Director Christopher B. Wray is testifying before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. They are making allegations of politically motivated investigations, politically biased leadership and misconduct by senior officials at America's premier law enforcement agency. Ray Epps' lawsuit against Fox News reveals he's being criminally charged by DOJ, 2.5 years after Jan 6 riot. The details of Ray Epps' civil complaint against Fox News reveals that he is being criminally charged by the DOJ, almost three years after the fact. "Finally, in May 2023, the Department of Justice notified Epps that it would seek to charge him criminally for events on January 6, 2021 — two-and-a-half years later. The relentless attacks by Fox and Mr. Carlson and the resulting political pressure likely resulted in the criminal charges" the complaint reads. Thirty months of lies about Jan. 6th. Many of the people who entered the Capitol that day were ushered in by the Capitol guards. They simply walked through doors that were held open for them. The claims of insurrection are entirely ridiculous. How do you mount an insurrection with virtually no armaments? We have since learned that Capitol police, the FBI, and numerous "law" enforcement personnel baited, prompted, encouraged, and ushered peaceful protestors into the Capitol. Nearly all occupiers either had a plane reservation or car ride scheduled for that evening or for the next day. These protestors did not seek to stay beyond their short sojourn. No organized attempt to "overthrow" the U.S. government was in play, and every single Biden official and rational member of Congress is well aware of that. The libstream press, as is customary, has buried the truth: The ranks of actual Trump supporters were heavily infiltrated by law enforcement officers, Antifa, and actual insurrectionists. These groups sought to establish a false flag, making it appear as if President Trump and his supporters sought to overthrow the government. In reality, Trump supporters did not seek to overthrow the United States government; this is total fabrication, well known by anybody who is familiar with the facts. Two-Tiered 'Justice' Intended to Incite Rebellion. The Department of (in)Justice and federal law enforcement routinely look the other way whenever Antifa and Black Lives Matter domestic terrorists rough up citizens and destroy small businesses. Then a bunch of patriotic Americans without criminal records show up at the U.S. Capitol to protest the fraudulent 2020 election, and the Stasi FBI immediately labels every grandparent and veteran within miles an "insurrectionist." While Soros-aligned prosecutors award the left's paramilitary brigades with accolades instead of incarcerations, the Feds have dragged J6 protesters through unfair criminal proceedings, inflicted unnecessary suffering, and forced political prisoners to languish without bail. When political prisoners finally do face trial, the government hides potentially exonerating video evidence and records under fabricated claims of "national security," prosecutors flippantly throw around terms like "treason" and "rebellion" in front of juries, and partisan judges are all too willing to hand down excessive sentences as an unconscionable form of political revenge. Deep State involvement went deep in January 6 events. How extensive was Deep States involvement in the January 6 "insurrection?" The January 6 "insurrection" has been a propaganda bonanza for the Deep State. Would it have required exceptional foresight to predict the outcome of Trump supporters' march on Washington. President Trump had held dozens of peaceful rallies during his campaign. Now his supporters had gone berserk. Or had they? Several anti-Trump groups had an interest in seeing violence on Jan 6. Radical leftist groups like Antifa and BLM would be vindicated to an extent. The Democrat party would gain support as a result of the violence. And even those federal government agencies controlled by the Deep State would benefit. Christopher Wray claimed that FBI agents, "have not to date seen any evidence of anarchist violent extremists or people subscribing to Antifa in connection with the 6th." This was an excellent opportunity for radical groups to discredit Trump supporters. Contrary to Wray's claim at least one radical was exposed right from the beginning. Enough! You have to hotwire the system if you want to be free, if you want a republic, or even a democracy, because they don't want you to have anything. Ever. You are at once their most feared adversary and their most contemptible nuisance. Only you can decide which will invade their private thoughts. I don't know what anyone else is waiting for. They have nothing good in the works. All they focus on right now is how to push you father, hurt you more, make you lash out intemperately, uncontrollably, and even when you don't, like January 6th, they will pretend that you did. All the weight of the federal government and corporate society is now against you. Those who criticize capitalism are the capitalists, actively punishing you for being American. The more you cling to traditional thought, traditional expectations, the more you draw their ire. Tucker Says Capitol Police Chief Told Him Jan 6 Crowd Was Filled With Feds. Daily Caller co-founder Tucker Carlson said Friday the Capitol Police chief told him the Jan. 6 riot crowd was "filled" with federal agents. Carlson obtained more than 40,000 hours of video footage from the riot after Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy handed it over in February. Carlson began airing portions of the footage while he was still anchoring at Fox News. Carlson sat down with actor Russell Brand on Friday and said he was "appalled" by the violence and vandalism seen on Jan. 6. He said the reason he "got involved in commenting on it" was because "the lying about it was immediate: 'This was a racist, white-supremacist insurrection.'" Jan 6 Crowd [was] 'Filled With Federal Agents', Tucker Recalls Capitol Police Chief Interview Which Fox News Killed. Former Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson has recalled the Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund telling him that the crowd on January 6th was "filled with federal agents," in a stunning interview that was killed off by Rupert Murdoch and Paul Ryan's Fox News. Speaking to comedian Russell Brand, Carlson said: "They immediately recoiled when you asked any questions about January 6th, and that was a tip off to me. I mean I had no thought in my head as I watched this happen on television and in the subsequent weeks that US law enforcement or military agencies had anything to do with it. That never crossed my mind. I never thought that there was it was a false flag or anything like that. I'm not a conspiracist by temperament. I never thought that. And then in an interview, that was never aired on Fox by the way — I was fired before it could air. I'm going to interview him again, but Steven Sund was the totally non-political — he worked for Nancy Pelosi, I mean this was not some right-wing activist — he was the chief of the Capitol Police on January 6th. And he said, 'Oh yeah yeah yeah that crowd was filled with federal agents'. What? Yes. Well he would know of course because he was in charge of security at the site." Wife of D.C. U.S. Attorney All-Access White House Pass. On January 6, 2023, Joe Biden hosted an event in the East Room of the White House to commemorate the two-year anniversary of the protest at the Capitol. [...] Sitting in the audience at the time, according to recently released White House reports, was Fatima Goss Graves, president of the National Women's Law Center. NWLC is a far-left nonprofit that promotes any number of radical policies such as abortion on demand, transgender rights, universal income and health care, and racial "equity." Official visitor logs indicate Graves arrived at the White House shortly after 1:00 p.m. on January 6, 2023, to attend an event hosted by "POTUS" with 169 people. The January 6 event at 2:00 p.m. was Biden's only public appearance that day. So, why was Graves there? The answer is simple. Not only is Graves one of the most influential Democratic Party activists in Washington, her husband, Matthew, is the Biden-appointed U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia — and the lead prosecutor currently handling every January 6 criminal case. The strangest thing about January 6th. The one person in America that the FBI can't find is the person who planted the phony "pipe bombs" in Washington DC on January 5, 2021. [Video clip] Man Arrested And Charged With Assault On A Federal Officer In January 6 Capitol Attack. A man was arrested in Florida and charged with assaulting a federal officer during the January 6, 2021 breach of the U.S. Capitol building, the Department of Justice said Friday. Jeremy Rodgers, 28, of Midland, Michigan, was charged with other felony offenses such as "entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon, and act of physical violence in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon," a press release from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia reads. Rodgers was also charged with misdemeanor offenses including "disorderly conduct in a Capitol building, act of physical violence in a Capitol building or on Capitol grounds, and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building," per the Justice Department. The FBI Finally Admits The Shocking Truth About January 6. Will the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol ever come to an end? Despite this happening more than two years ago, the media won't stop talking about that day. Plus the unjust persecution and imprisonment of protesters continues. Was this really some "insurrection?" [...] Now, the FBI admits there was no insurrection on January 6. It's about time. After all, insurrection is an act of rebellion, not just some protest or aggressive behavior that makes some people uncomfortable. An insurrection is to attempt with the use of violence or serious threats to prevent the exercise of constitutional powers. This type of crime carries a prison sentence of four to eight years, in addition to the penalties corresponding to violence. Biden DOJ Edited Video Footage in Order to Convict Innocent Jan. 6 Trump Supporters. Donna Fiducia and Don Neuen co-host Cowboy Logic on Real America's Voice on Saturday night. The two conservatives have used their platform to assist the hundreds of January 6 political prisoners over the past two years. This weekend Don and Donna released evidence that the Biden DOJ edited footage from January 6 in order to convict innocent January 6 protesters and Oath Keepers members. This is a very serious charge and Don and Donna provided all of the evidence on their show. Another
Violent J6 Prisoner Reveals He is an Antifa Operative and Communist. Michael Waller,
a senior analyst for strategy at the Center for Security Policy specializing in propaganda,
political warfare, psychological warfare, and subversion, said he was at the Capitol on
January 6 and witnessed:
Does anyone care that we're holding political prisoners in a DC jail? The New York Times, Sunday, June 25, published an anti-MAGA propaganda screed called "Far Right Pushes a 'Through-the-Looking-Glass' Narrative" by Robert Draper. As his slant projects a "Through the Looking Glass" slur on political victims of the current administration, only Draper's opening paragraphs are worth noting. Draper does point out that Reps. Gaetz, Gosar, Norman, Taylor Greene, and Nehls have acted in support of the Jan. 6 political detainees. They should be joined by every House and Senate Republican — certainly those whose primary loyalty is not to the uniparty. Did the Supreme Court Just Give Jack Smith the Green Light To Charge Trump for January 6? The Supreme Court's decision in Moore v. Harper to reject the independent state legislature theory could give Special Counsel Jack Smith a free hand to bring charges — including, possibly, against President Trump — in respect of efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. By a 6-to-3 vote, the high court held that notwithstanding the Constitution's Elections Clause, the national parchment "does not exempt state legislatures from the ordinary constraints imposed by state law," meaning that state lawmakers are bound by state constitutions and the judges who interpret them. The link between Chief Justice Roberts's opinion and Mr. Smith's prosecutorial potential was ventured on CNN by a retired judge, Michael Luttig, who clerked for Judge — later Justice — Antonin Scalia, spent 15 years as a rider on the Fourth United States Appeals Circuit, and is now one of President Trump's legal antagonists. The Parliamentary Motive Behind the J6 Fedsurrection. Much has been made of the events of January 6, 2021, and with the latest broadcast of CCTV video from inside the Capitol Hill complex, more questions have been raised. Within the questions: the FBI and government apparatus had advanced knowledge of the scale of the J6 mall assembly yet doing nothing? Why were the Capitol Hill police never informed of the FBI concerns? Why didn't House Speaker Nancy Pelosi secure the Capitol Hill complex, and why did she deny the request by President Trump to call up the national guard for security support? Why did the FBI have agent provocateurs in the crowd, seemingly stimulating rage within a peaceful crowd to enter the Capitol building? There have always been these nagging questions around 'why'? Portland Proud Boys Unmask Attackers at Pride Protest — And Well, Well, Well, What Have We Here? It started with the peaceful protest of a "pride" drag show by a children's theater group during the first-ever Pride Day in a small town near Portland, Ore. It could have ended there but for a brawl between the Proud Boys and the masked bunch who attempted to infiltrate the group on Saturday. The gauzy in-between of it all is being seized upon by politicos such as former Congressman Adam Kinzinger and Rep. Eric Swalwell to make their political points. Even Elon Musk wanted to know what was going on. Naturally, because the media and Democrat narrative prevails, the Proud Boys are taking the brunt of the criticism. But the story is not quite so pat as that. [...] The Proud Boys unmasked the interlopers. The interlopers were dressed as members of the so-called Patriot Front group, which sprang up recently, is identified as a racist organization, and is believed to have been infiltrated by the feds at a previous protest, as many memes suggest. [Tweet with video clip] Multiple Secret Service agents have 'testified to the grand jury deciding whether Trump should be indicted for his role in January 6'. At least five Secret Service agents have reportedly testified in front of a grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump's role in the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. The case is one of two being pursued by Special Counsel Jack Smith, who earlier this month brought charges against Trump for allegedly mishandling classified documents. In the second case, a grand jury is weighing whether to bring charges over the then president's conduct in the run-up to the attack and attempts to interfere in certifying the 2020 election results. Convicted Oath Keeper Jessica Watkins Was Set Up by Federal Agent Posing as "1% Watchdog". I do not know all the details of her case, trial and subsequent conviction; however, I do know Jessica Watkins and other Oath Keeper members were entrapped by a federal agent organizing activity under the username "1% Watchdog." I am certain of this element because the J6 committee falsely accused me of being that user. The Gateway Pundit ran an article today which includes an interview from prison with Ms. Watkins, who continues to claim her innocence. This is what the Eighth Amendment is supposed to prevent: Former Head of FBI J6 Pipe Bomb Investigation Comes Clean With Stunning Admission: "I Don't Want Any Conspiracy Theories, Right?". We recently reported on the remarkable fact that former senior FBI official Steven D'Antuono voluntarily submitted himself before the judiciary committee and raised powerful objections to the Mar a Lago raid that serves as the basis of the sham indictment of President Trump. We reported that the most remarkable part of this story is not the objections themselves, but Steven D'Antuono's identity — indeed, D'Antuono has long been a subject of Revolver News' reporting as the man who oversaw the investigation into the infamous entrapment operation known as the Michigan Kidnapping plot and the equally bogus investigation into the so-called January 6 pipe bombs. Finally, we said that we haven't heard the last from Mr. D'Antuono. Now, we are in a position to reveal that Mar-a-Lago is not the only subject matter D'Antuono discussed with the committee, and that Revolver News' Darren Beattie worked with Congressman Thomas Massie to produce questions concerning the pipe bomb investigation for D'Antuono to answer. A letter recently published by Jim Jordan alludes to some of the stunning results of this interrogation. Steven D'Antuono: The FBI's Hatchet Man. Defense attorneys representing two men recently convicted for conspiring to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020 are seeking a new federal trial for their clients amid claims of jury and judicial misconduct. (The men, Adam Fox and Barry Croft were found guilty in August in a second trial; a jury in April failed to reach a verdict on them. Two co-defendants were acquitted after jurors concluded the men had been entrapped by the FBI.) A separate state trial for three other men accused of participating in the scheme is now underway in Jackson, Michigan. The ongoing legal drama is a reminder of the handiwork of Steven D'Antuono, former head of the Detroit FBI field office, which was primarily responsible for hatching and executing the Whitmer fednapping hoax. Supervising and undercover agents working out of that Detroit office and its satellite branches managed the day-to-day details of the wide-ranging operation such as handling the main FBI informant, Dan Chappel, who was compensated at least $60,000 in cash and personal items paid by the FBI for luring the men into the trap. When are enough Americans going to realize our government is a criminal enterprise? Our law enforcement agencies have interfered to affect the outcome of the last three elections. They persecute their political opponents with their typical abuse of the law — lawfare — anyone remotely conservative, anyone perceived as a threat to their power is on their radar for destruction. Trump is their number one enemy for good reason; he actually cares about the American people while they loathe them. The American people are merely an annoying inconvenience to the left. They want us gone; voiceless. What has happened to those who protested the results of the 2020 election on J6 is right out of the Soviet playbook. What is most enraging about all this? That so many Republicans are guilty of letting it happen; too many of them are on the anti-Trump train. They were never going to upset the uniparty's applecart. Far from it. Mitch McConnell? Mitt Romney? Kevin McCarthy? Dan Crenshaw? Liz Cheney? Just a few of many who have opted to sell out the country. Oath Keepers Leader and Political Prisoner Stewart Rhodes Reacts to Trump Indictment — And Predicts What Is Coming. Oath Keepers founder and political prisoner Stewart Rhodes was sentenced on Thursday, May 25th, in Washington, DC. Far-left Obama-appointed US District Judge Amit Mehta on Thursday sentenced Rhodes to 18 years in federal prison. This was after he added extra years to his sentence because he believed Rhodes' actions amounted to terrorism. This was completely ludicrous. The soulless judge then lectured him on what a danger he was to society. Rhodes is currently 57. If this kangaroo court's conviction stands, Rhodes will be 75 when he is released. Leaked Video Shows D.C. Cops Were 'Rioters' and Instigators at J-6 Protest. A leaked video shows that at least one Washington, D.C., cop — and likely more — acted on January 6 as apparent agent provocateurs, dressing as protesters outside the Capitol Building and urging protesters toward the iconic building. [...] Congressman Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) says the authenticated GoPro video raises the question of why police officers, who were identified as intelligence officers, were working to stir up the crowd of protesters instead of working to stop an assault on the Capitol. At one point in the video, the unidentified police officer equipped with the camera said to another that he thought the idea was to get people inside the Capitol Building and trap them inside. The observation by the undercover officer leads one to conclude that there was intelligence about a plan to attack the Capitol, and the apparent response by the police was to let them do it and take pictures. When another officer on the video saw people climbing the scaffolding, he told the officer with the GoPro, "That's dangerous. Somebody's going to get shot." A third officer said, "They're not going to shoot anybody." Yet, they encouraged and participated in the dangerous activity. How to commit the perfect coup against a president and his supporters. [Scroll down] The beleaguered president would give me a gift by asking his supporters to come to D.C. to protest the Senate's pro forma election confirmation. I would deny the president's request for extra security on the day and plant untold numbers of FBI agents in the crowd, and then lob flashbangs at them without first telling them to disperse, inciting panic. I would instruct the Capitol police to open the heavy, sealed, unbreakable doors, forcing the crowd into the building. Then I would spend the next two and a half years relentlessly persecuting and prosecuting the members of that crowd, 99.9999% of whom had no illegal intent and were instead subtly coerced into entering the building. I would deny them the right to a speedy trial, hold them for years without charges, hide exculpatory evidence, seize their funds to deny them counsel, and impose on them the strictest charges possible, even as my party ensured that violent criminals across America walked through the legal system unscathed. I especially would have given a pass to anyone on my side who violently protested the president. The president's supporters would learn in the most brutal way possible that they no longer had the right to free speech and free assembly. Trump [was] indicted, not Hillary, Hunter or Milley. The indictment of President Trump is hooey. [...] Americans know the indictment is a set-up because those are the only crimes the FBI can solve anymore. The January 6 protest became an insurrection thanks to FBI informants and maybe even agents who egged people on. The FBI is best at covering up crimes. Consider Hillary sending state secrets while secretary of state via email to foreign governments and others who paid the troll via donations to her fake charity. Plainclothes cops [were] at [the] Capitol during Jan. 6 riot, one on video exhorting crowd, key lawmaker says. The Metropolitan Police Department in Washington D.C. has confirmed to Congress that it had plainclothes officers at the Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot and that at least one was captured on video exhorting the crowd, a key House investigator told Just the News. Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., the chairman of the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight, said in wide-ranging interview Wednesday night that MPD body cam video that leaked onto the video platform Rumble is authentic and confirms that officers in plainclothes were at the riot. FBI arrests Bob's Burgers actor for January 6 riot actions. Jay Johnston, a voice actor for the animated television show Bob's Burgers, was arrested and charged Wednesday [6/7/2023] for his participation in the January 6, 2021 riot on Capitol Hill. He was benched by that show in December 2021 when his participation in the actions of that day became known. He was the voice of Jimmy Pesto on the show. Partial Victory in J6 Trial VIDEO Shows it Was DC Cops Who Cut Tarps on Bleachers — Not Protesters!. Last Thursday, in the DC District swamp, the jury for the Jan. 6 trial in the case of USA v K. Joseph Thomas produced a stunning verdict, bringing the government's narrative to its knees. The testimony of crooked prosecution witness MPD Police Officer Campanale was shattered by the defense team as his accusations against the defendant proved with the government's own evidentiary video that he accused Thomas of crimes he committed himself. Campanale and other officers of the MPD had cut the tarps on the bleachers before any protestors were under the bleachers. The government has blamed protesters for this damage, even though there is exculpatory evidence they have possession of Metro Police Officers cutting the tarp down with knives themselves. J6 Defendant on Ray Epps: 'They Are Protecting Him Like Crazy'. He is one of the most consequential — and complicated — individuals involved in the events of January 6. Ryan Samsel, then a 37-year-old Pennsylvania barber, drove to Washington on the morning of January 6, 2021 with his girlfriend to watch Donald Trump's speech. Unable to hear the president, they walked east towards Capitol Hill where a large group, including members of the Proud Boys, had assembled. Samsel soon found himself on the front lines of a protest the national media and Joe Biden immediately branded an "insurrection." Video shows Samsel approaching a weak line of Capitol police officers and bike racks positioned on the west side of Capitol grounds shortly before 1 p.m., the time Congress convened a joint session to debate the results of the 2020 Electoral College vote certification. J6 Unmasked: Security footage confirms Capitol door [was] opened, allowing 300 to enter building freely. A door on the West side of the U.S. Capitol was left open and mostly unguarded for key moments during the Jan. 6 riot, allowing more than 300 people to enter the building unimpeded even as officers fought valiantly to keep protesters out of other sections of the official home of Congress, according to police security footage obtained by Just the News. The footage — which confirms concerns first raised by Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., two years ago — shows an episode in a narrow hallway in the middle of the Capitol that began around 2:30p.m. on Jan. 6, 2021 right after the first breaches were reported elsewhere in the landmark building. Capitol Police officers usher a few intruders already inside the building through the non-public Upper West Terrace hallway and toward a fire evacuation door, which is clearly marked by a sign declaring it was an emergency exit, the footage shows. Nancy Pelosi Edited Sound Onto Jan 6th Footage To Make It Sound Violent. From Human Events-In a new scoop, Just The News founder John Solomon appeared on Human Events with Jack Posobiec to discuss revelations surrounding questionable conduct by US government representatives during the Capitol riots on Jan. 6, 2021, including that the Jan. 6 House committee allegedly doctored tapes that surfaced following that fateful day. "Everything about January 6 was scripted," Solomon declared, before adding that upon browsing the security footage, he noticed a glaring lack of sound in many of the scenes that he had previously both seen and heard. [Video clip] Greene flips on public release of Jan. 6 tapes, claims it could 'put the security of the Capitol at risk'. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has changed her position on the public release of the tapes documenting the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, warning Friday that their release could "put the security of the Capitol at risk." Greene said in an interview on the right-wing channel Real America's Voice that releasing the video footage publicly would jeopardize the Capitol's security and endanger those who were present at the Capitol grounds but did not enter the Capitol nor commit crimes. "And this is our real concern with the video tapes. If we released these video tapes just widely for the public — number one, we put the security of the Capitol at risk, because there's over 1,700 video cameras," she said. The Editor says... Are National Events Today Being Staged? [For example,] The January 6, 2021, Capitol protests after Attorney General Bill Barr and FBI Director Christopher Wray refused to investigate election fraud in the 2020 General Election despite video evidence of thousands of illegal ballots being delivered, as well as ballots scanned multiple times, in both Georgia and Michigan. There was also hard evidence of election irregularities in 4 other state hot spots around the nation indicating systematic election fraud, again after Joe Biden admitted (on video) it was going to happen a month before the event took place. Doctored evidence? Democrat-led J6 panel added audio to silent security video for primetime hearings. The Democrat-led House Select Committee to Investigate Jan. 6 doctored a key piece of its evidence, adding audio to silent U.S. Capitol Police security footage used to create a dramatic video montage for the opening of its primetime hearings last summer, according to a Just the News review of the original raw footage and interviews. In at least two instances identified by Just the News, the panel's sizzle reel that aired live and on C-SPAN last June failed to identify that it had overdubbed audio from another, unidentified source onto the silent footage. Multiple current and former Capitol Police officials as well as key lawmakers and congressional aides confirmed that the closed-circuit cameras that captured the video do not record sound and that it was added afterwards. A former spokesman for the Jan. 6 committee told Just the News that the panel was supposed to clearly mark any video that was dubbed with another audio source, and it did so on some occasions in the sizzle reel. But Just the News identified two key pieces of Capitol Police closed circuit television ("CCTV") footage — one from an inside angle showing the dramatic breach of a key entrance to the Capitol by rioters and the other an aerial view of the agitated crowd outside — from a camera system that Capitol Police officials confirmed did not have sound recording capabilities. Yet, the footage shown by the committee inexplicably included sound on the video montage they produced. That video is without any disclaimer showing the audio had been dubbed. DOJ Seeks Fines on J6 Defendants to Seize Donations From Online Fundraisers. A recent review of court records reveals an alarming trend at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) concerning its treatment of January 6 Capitol riot defendants. Federal prosecutors have deployed a tactic of seeking to impose fines on defendants, in addition to their prison sentences with the alleged goal of preventing them from financially benefiting from their participation in the 2021 events in DC, especially in cases where the accused has received a court-appointed public defender. Attorneys for the defendants see the DOJ's fine requests as impairing rights to legal representation. Conspirators for the Constitution: When Anti-Government Speech Becomes Sedition. Let's be clear about one thing: seditious conspiracy isn't a real crime to anyone but the U.S. government. To be convicted of seditious conspiracy, the charge levied against Stewart Rhodes who was sentenced to 18 years in prison for being the driving force behind the January 6 Capitol riots, one doesn't have to engage in violence against the government, vandalize government property, or even trespass on property that the government has declared off-limits to the general public. To be convicted of seditious conspiracy, one need only foment a revolution. This is not about whether Rhodes deserves such a hefty sentence. This is about the long-term ramifications of empowering the government to wage war on individuals whose political ideas and expression challenge the government's power, reveal the government's corruption, expose the government's lies, and encourage the citizenry to push back against the government's many injustices. This is about criminalizing political expression in thoughts, words and deeds. This is about how the government has used the events of Jan. 6 in order to justify further power grabs and acquire more authoritarian emergency powers. This was never about so-called threats to democracy. J6 Footage Shows Camera Rolling as Pelosi Made Her 'Insurrection' Exit. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) began January 6, 2021, by mugging for the cameras — more specifically, a camera operated by her filmmaker daughter, Alexandra Pelosi, who just happened to record every moment of her mother's movements on what would become one of the most infamous days in American history. As a clearly tense Pelosi prepared to convene the joint session of Congress during which Republican members of the House and Senate planned to debate the Electoral College outcome in six states — Pelosi also is seen conducting a caucus video conference that morning criticizing Republican plans to delay certification — her chief of staff warned that President Trump might go to the Capitol following his noon speech at the Ellipse. "I hope he comes, I'm gonna punch him out," she told Terry McCullough. Five Questions for Prospective Republican Candidates. [Question #3] While the federal government has persecuted thousands of patriotic J6 protesters for their personal beliefs, why have Republican politicians remained largely silent? Here's the cold hard truth: America has political prisoners. The Uniparty and Pravda press are committed to the lie that the J6 protest for fair elections was an "insurrection" intended to overthrow the federal government, but most people now see their efforts as pure propaganda. Congress, the courts, and the Department of (in)Justice have done everything in their power to imprison Trump-supporters for doing little more than parade through the Capitol. Had J6 been a Black Lives Matter or Antifa "climate change" event, not only would nobody have been jailed, but also the participants would have been celebrated by the news media and awarded millions of dollars in legal settlements from the police departments accused of having violated protesters' civil rights. Instead, undercover agents from multiple agencies appear to have provoked the Capitol breach; police caused mayhem after having unnecessarily fired smoke grenades and rubber bullets into peaceful crowds; and four Trump-supporters lost their lives. As evidence that we now live in a Soviet-like police state inundated with official propaganda, the president and members of Congress continue to perpetuate the lie that Trump-supporters killed law enforcement officers that day. Any Republican not denouncing these lies is endorsing them. Some reflections on the Stewart Rhodes 18-year prison sentence. Steward Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers, was sentenced to 18-years in federal federal prison for seditious conspiracy, obstruction of an official proceeding, and tampering with documents or proceedings related to the January 6, 2001 protests. Rhodes was not on the Capitol on that date, hence the use of a "conspiracy" charge. Here is the Merriam-Webster definition of sedition: "incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authority." The "lawful authority" in Washington, D.C., on January 6, 2021, comprised the Trump administration — representing the executive branch; Congress, representing the legislature, and the Supreme Court of the United States, representing the judiciary. Joe Biden was not president on January 6, 2021, and, therefore could not be considered "lawful authority" on that date. Mr. Biden, however, peacefully succeeded President Trump on January 20, 2021. [...] There is not the slightest suggestion in President Trump's Farewell Address urging resistance to the Biden administration — unlike the demands for resistance that greeted President Trump's Inauguration. The impetus for the January 6, 2021 protest at the Capitol was not resistance to lawful authority, but concern that the lawful processes of the presidential election of 2020 had been tossed aside. It Was Always Only About Power With the Left. From all the tens of thousands of January 6 Capitol protesters a small percentage entered the Capitol itself. Of that group, an even smaller number committed violent acts. Most of those seriously injured that day were among the protesters themselves. Despite official propaganda, there were not five police officers killed on January 6 as alleged by the Left. Instead, the only likely death at the hand of another was the diminutive, 5'2", 14-year-military veteran and unarmed Ashli Babbitt. She was lethally shot by a Capitol officer Michael Byrd for the likely misdemeanor of trespassing and — illegally entering a broken window to the Capitol. Yet over a thousand protesters were arrested, tried, and mostly convicted of various charges from parading without a permit to insurrection. Many of them were sentenced to long prison sentences. Some may spend most of their remaining lives in prison. Ashli Babbitt's Mother Micki Witthoeft Arrested After Striking Demonic Antifa Organizer and Stalker 'Anarchy Princess'. Micki Witthoeft, the mother of slain Air Force Veteran Ashli Babbitt, was arrested on Tuesday evening after striking an Antifa organizer outside of the Washington, D.C. jail where many of the January 6 defendants are detained. Witthoeft was hosting a vigil for the political prisoners outside of the DC jail when she was apprehended by Metropolitan Police officers at approximately 6:45 pm. Police are seen handcuffing Witthoeft and seating her in the back of a paddy wagon, in footage recorded by Helena Gibson, a January 6 advocate from Florida in attendance of the vigil. Marjorie Taylor Greene Announces Release Of Jan. 6 Tapes To More Outlets: 'Unfettered Access'. Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia announced Wednesday that the tapes showing the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the Capitol building would be released to more journalists. John Solomon of JustTheNews.com, Julie Kelly of American Greatness and an unnamed outlet will receive "unfettered access" to the over 41,000 hours of video footage of the Capitol riot, the Georgia congresswoman posted on Twitter. [The] Feds [are] coming after cash from J6 prisoners. A disturbing report showed up in the Associated Press over the holiday weekend related to the ongoing trials of everyone involved in the January 6, 2021, Capitol Hill riot or, in some cases, anyone who was simply in the vicinity. We already knew that the Justice Department has been combing through the private records of people who weren't even involved and searching Bank of America's sales records for anyone who made any sort of purchase in the vicinity. There have already been more than 1,000 cases brought forward and they're hoping to at least double that number in the future. We've covered dozens of those cases here where people received ludicrously harsh sentences for what amounted to little more than trespassing. But now, the Justice Department is going even further. They are investigating fundraising sites that have raised money for any J6 suspects and asking judges to impose extra fines to prevent the accused from keeping the money that was raised. Government Is Taking Donations from J6 Prisoners So Their Families Starve and They Lose Everything. The Regime is Now Punishing the Conservative Families. And we know the Republican Party will say nothing, and we know the GOP lawmakers will ignore this blatant lawlessness, and we know the media will cheer. The Associate [sic] Press reported this tragic news today. [...] The regime wants them ruined. And now we know the regime wants their families ruined. Stewart Rhodes Never Entered the Capitol, Sentenced to 18 Years for J6. Stewart Rhodes, an Oath Keepers leader, was sentenced to 18 years in prison for his communications before and during January 6. The judge met with five carefully-picked leftist "witnesses" who witnessed nothing of Stewart Rhodes. The Gateway Pundit detailed some of the witnesses statements. Calling non-witnesses to witness is becoming quite popular in leftist courts. Mr. Rhodes was mostly — or only convicted of thought crimes. It's basically a life sentence for a 57-year-old man. He was convicted of seditious conspiracy, based on a Civil War law morphed for this political persecution. That means the others will also spend more time in prison than a murderer. This morning, the corrupt US District Judge Amit Mehta, presiding over the Oath Keepers seditious conspiracy trial, evaluated the "terror enhancement" penalties the government is seeking. He wanted to justify what many see as an outrageous sentence for an absurd conviction. The Vindictive J6 Sentences And What Is Most Troubling. The sentences for January 6 defendants are overly severe, vindictive, and politically driven, but what should be most troubling for Americans is who isn't charged. Hillary Clinton and Hunter and Joe Biden are allowed to escape punishment. Antifa and Black Lives Matter — groups trying to overturn the government — get their convictions erased. Jim Comey, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, Jake Sullivan, and all the many corrupt people who were never charged. Obama Judge Amit Mehta, who determines the sentences in many of the J6 cases, lied and suggested "five people would die" due to the riot, suggesting Brian Sicknick died at the hands of the J6 protesters. The only person who died as a result of a homicide was Ashli Babbitt. She was a Trump supporter killed by a trigger-happy Capitol Hill police officer. GOP Going After Bank of America, FBI for Troubling Violation of Americans' Rights Related to Jan. 6. The House Weaponization Committee shone a big bright light on a concerning action by Bank of America that should concern all Americans. Now, the House GOP is taking action. On Thursday, the House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) said they would be investigating what they'd learned from whistleblower testimony — how Bank of America, without any legal process from the FBI, turned over to the FBI a list of all its customers who purchased anything within the neighborhood of the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area between Jan. 5 and Jan. 7, 2021. That means they turned over the private information of thousands of Americans to the FBI — without any evidence that they were involved in a crime, and did it without even the FBI asking for it by way of subpoena. "QAnon Shaman" Jake Chansley Released From Halfway House. January 6 political prisoner Jacob Chansley, a.k.a. the "QAnon Shaman," is finally a free man! The Gateway Pundit recently reported that Jake was released from prison to a halfway house and was spotted at a halfway house following his prison release. Chansley's mother, Martha Chansley, told TGP's Jordan Conradson in an interview before his release that she was expecting her son to be released from prison soon. 18 Years for J6er, wrist slap for wannabe Nazi assassin. Sai Vashti Kandula must know someone — or something. On Monday evening, Kandula drove his rented U-Haul into a barrier a few hundred feet from the White House, backed up, and rammed the barrier again. Upon being apprehended, Kandula reportedly said he wanted to "kill the president." On Tuesday, based on statements he made at the scene, Kandula was charged with "threatening to kill, kidnap, inflict harm on a president, vice president, or family member." If that were not enough, he was also charged with "assault with a dangerous weapon, reckless operation of a motor vehicle and trespassing." The fact that he carried a Nazi flag in his backpack had to ramp up the threat level. [...] To make for a better photo-op authorities obligingly spread the flag out on the ground beside the truck. [...] On Wednesday, CNN was reporting that Kandula "has been charged in federal court with one count of depredation of property of the United States in excess of $1,000." Just one. CNN, like the rest of the media, either ignored or slighted the shift to this single, relatively minor count. The FBI Knows What Car Was Used In J6 DNC Pipe Bomb, But Refuses To Identify Prime Suspect. The FBI is continuing to stonewall congressional oversight of the agency's investigation into a pair of pipe bombs found at the Democrat National Committee and Republican National Committee headquarters on Jan. 6, 2021. On Wednesday, House Republicans on the Judiciary Committee re-upped demands for a comprehensive briefing on the two-year-old case over which the FBI has refused transparency. "Your failure to comply with our request is particularly concerning given recent media reports regarding the pipe bomb investigation," lawmakers wrote. [Tweet] Arkansas man who put [his] feet on Nancy Pelosi['s] office desk during Capitol protest sentenced to 4.5 years in prison. An Arkansas man who was photographed during the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol protest with his feet propped on a desk in then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office was sentenced on Wednesday to four and a half years in prison. In January 2023, Richard "Bigo" Barnett was found guilty on all eight counts in his indictment, including felony charges of civil disorder and obstruction of an official proceeding. Federal prosecutors asked the judge to sentence Barnett to more than seven years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his actions during the January 6 protest. The Editor says... GOP Reps.: FBI Likely Knows Identity of Jan. 6 'Pipe-Bomber' but Refuses to Cooperate. The FBI still hasn't answered questions about anomalies regarding its investigation of the pipe bombs placed outside the Democratic and Republican national headquarters a day before Jan. 6 — and Republicans' patience about the matter is apparently wearing thin. "We wrote to you on March 9, 2022, requesting a briefing about the status of the FBI's investigation into the pipe bombs," wrote Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio, Andy Biggs of Arizona and Bill Posey of Florida in a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray on Wednesday. [Tweet] Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes sentenced to 18 years in prison on Jan. 6 charges. Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the far-right group known as the Oath Keepers, was sentenced to 18 years in prison for seditious conspiracy and other crimes related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, receiving the longest sentence in a Jan. 6 case to date. Judge Amit Mehta of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia imposed the sentence Thursday [5/25/2023] after a hearing in which Rhodes declared himself a "political prisoner" and likened himself to former President Donald Trump. Prosecutors had asked Mehta to impose a sentence of 25 years in prison, saying Rhodes, who is 58, qualified for a more lengthy sentence under federal anti-terrorism laws given the "threat of harm and the historic significance" of his crimes. Mehta agreed to impose the enhancements, noting that Rhodes did not demonstrate "acceptance of responsibility" for his role in the attack. It was the first time the terrorism enhancement has been applied to a Jan. 6 defendant. FBI Asst Director, "It just doesn't add up" — that the FBI Doesn't Know Who the J6 Pipe Bomber Is. Within the letter from congress you might note this line, "One former FBI assistant director observed, "[i]t just doesn't add up . . . [t]here's just too much to work with to not know who this guy is." What they are talking about is the J6 "pipe bomber," the person who planted the phony pipe bombs in Washington DC, presumably to enhance a domestic terrorism narrative. The scenario is clearly one of the more transparent points highlighting how a political FBI doesn't want to know things that run against the interests of the highly political FBI. The investigators previously tracked the bomber to a 'MetroRail SmartTrip' Card, and then to an identified vehicle via CCTV monitoring. However, for some curiously odd reason, the FBI still has not arrested the individual. Jim Jordan and Andy Biggs are asking the FBI what's going on? The Editor says... Why Is Everyone Protecting Ray Epps? Over the past month, speculation has swirled around why Fox News honchos ousted the nation's most popular cable news host just hours before he was set to begin his nightly monologue. [...] But the timing of his removal — less than 24 hours after "60 Minutes" aired a puff piece on Ray Epps, the infamous January 6 instigator frequently covered by Carlson's show — fueled rumors that Fox News wanted to silence Carlson before he could respond to several accusations made in the interview. [...] Now it appears Carlson was, in fact, prepared to address Epps' interview in his April 24 monologue. Chadwick Moore, author of an upcoming biography on Carlson, revealed in a video message posted on Twitter on Monday that Carlson's scheduled monologue that night "dealt with, among other things, investigations around January 6 and particularly Ray Epps, the only person captured on video inciting people to violence at the Capitol that day and allegedly an FBI informant who still has not been arrested or charged." The Absurdities of Our Age. [Scroll down] A white Ashli Babbitt, 5'2", 113 pounds, a 14-year military veteran, and, like [George] Floyd, unarmed, was lethally shot for the crime of entering a broken window in the Capitol by a black policeman. Postmortem, her life was smeared and slandered, her shooter canonized. Was Babbitt some sinner, Floyd a saint? The choker officer Chauvin a Satan, the lethal shooter cop Byrd godly? The petite Babbitt a mortal danger stopped only by a bullet, the huge and uncooperative Floyd supposedly easy to arrest with no need of force? Why were the downtowns of Washington, D.C. and Seattle simply hijacked and expropriated by violent groups with impunity, while federal troops were forbidden to assist overtaxed local law enforcement? Was that not in stark contrast to the barbed wire, 20,000 soldiers and barricades that marked Washington for weeks after the Capitol demonstrations? Whistleblowers Confirm FBI Involvement in January 6 Protests. The fallout from last Thursday's FBI whistleblower testimonies continues as our worst suspicions about the agency are confirmed — including them having assets on the ground on January 6. [Podcast] Merrick Garland's J6 Juries Prove Durham's Point: Conservatives Can't Get A Fair Trial In D.C. "Did the Durham Report's Criticism of Juries Go Too Far?" The Washington Post's headline from last week asked rhetorically. It was quite an ironic concern coming from the legacy outlet serially guilty of publishing fake news to propagate the Russia-collusion hoax. A better question for the "democracy dies in darkness" rag would be: Did Clinton and Democrats' Dirty Politics Go Too Far? But no, instead of focusing on the substantive content contained in the 300-plus pages of Durham's report detailing malfeasance by the Department of Justice and FBI and the Clinton campaign's responsibility for the scandal, The Washington Post focused on Durham's introductory remarks explaining the "special care" the special counsel's office used in making criminal charging decisions — decisions Durham stressed were "based solely on the facts and evidence developed in the investigation and without fear of, or favor to, any person." After noting the high burden the Constitution places on the government in criminal cases, Durham explained why, in numerous instances, he did not seek criminal charges even though the conduct deserved "censure or disciplinary action." Democrats Cook the FBI's Books on Domestic Terrorism. Even before the Capitol riot of January 6, 2021, congressional Democrats had formulated a plan to project the illusion that the most perilous threat to American national security — not just in our time but in our history — was domestic terrorism fueled by white supremacists. This was, and remains, a political narrative through and through. Democrats are not even subtle in signaling to the public that they should think of Trump supporters — not just the unabashed MAGA faction but any of the over 70 million Americans who found Trump preferable to Democrats — as white supremacists, or at least sympathizers of white supremacists, and ergo abettors of domestic terrorism. I laid this plan bare in January 2021. Again, even before the Capitol riot, House Democrats were proposing their so-called "Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act." They haven't gotten it enacted yet, but they're trying hard, calculating that they can demagogue the Republicans they need to get it across the finish line by masquerading their political project as pro-law enforcement and pro-national security. FBI whistleblowers drop Jan 6 bombshells. Most of the media is either ignoring or trying to "debunk" what was said because they're nothing more than propagandists for the Democrat Party, but on Thursday three FBI whistleblowers testified in front of the House Judiciary Committee. Of the multitudes of bombshells unveiled during the hearing, one bombshell from the hearing was the discovery that FBI agents were present at the Jan. 6th riot, despite testimony to the contrary from FBI Director Chris Wray. DC Police Official Indicted For Tipping Off Proud Boys Before Capitol Riot. A DC Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) lieutenant has been charged with tipping off the leader of the Proud Boys about his impending arrest just before the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. On Friday, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia announced the indictment of 47-year-old MPD Lieutenant Shane Lamond, NBC News reported. Prosecutors said Lt. Lamond, who was head of MPD's intelligence division at the time, was in touch with former Proud Boys chairman Henry "Enrique" Tarrio after he was arrested for his part in burning a Black Lives Matter flag on Jan. 4, 2021, The Washington Post reported. Don't Shoot Me, I'm Only the Whistleblower. House Republicans convened a hearing on FBI whistleblowers yesterday [5/18/2023]. [...] The subcommittee heard testimony from three FBI whistleblowers and one expert on the limited nature of the protections afforded FBI employees. The Democratic members of the subcommittee did their best to disrupt the hearing and defame the witnesses. Their approach is ad hominem. Donald Trump and January 6 are their motif. In today's New York Post James Bovard begins his column on the hearing with the performance of Democratic Rep. Linda Sanchez, straight from the Twilight Zone: ["]Congressional Democrats revealed a new federal crime Thursday: having the same name as anyone who tweeted derisively about the Jan. 6 Capitol Clash. Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-Calif.), vice chair of the House Equality Caucus championing LGBTQI+, sought to demolish FBI whistleblower Marcus Allen for retweeting a post asserting 'Nancy Pelosi staged January 6.' When Allen repeatedly stated that wasn't his Twitter account, Sanchez berated him for interrupting her tirade.[..."] FBI Whistleblowers Share Grievous Governmental Misconduct. Three brave FBI whistleblowers, former Special Agents Garret O'Boyle and Steve Friend and Staff Operations Specialist Marcus Allen, all chose to speak in Thursday's hearing led by the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, knowing they might suffer additional retaliatory action from the government. The three men were suspended from the FBI and have been subjected to grievous retaliatory measures because they dared to tell the truth. According to the Committee's Executive Summary, one other whistleblower, Supervisory Intelligence Analyst George Hill, has testified behind closed doors. Attorney Tristan Leavitt, President of Empower Oversight, also testified in the hearing. FBI obtained Americans' bank records without subpoena: Whistleblowers. The Federal Bureau of Investigation obtained the financial records of Americans' from Bank of America "without any legal process" following the January 6, 2021 riot, according to an interim staff report from the House Judiciary Committee and Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. The report containing allegations from FBI whistleblowers is the subject of a select committee hearing on Thursday. "Just like FBI whistleblowers [Garret] O'Boyle and [Stephen] Friend, retired FBI Supervisory Intelligence Analyst George Hill provided the Committee with detailed allegations of FBI civil liberties abuses," read the report, which was released ahead of Thursday's hearing. "Specifically, he testified that following the events at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, Bank of America (BoA) gave the FBI's Washington Field Office a list of individuals who had made transactions in the D.C., Maryland, Virginia area with a BoA credit or debit card between January 5 and January 7, 2021. He also testified that individuals who had previously purchased a firearm with a BoA product were elevated to the top of the list provided by BoA," it also read. Puppy Dog Republicans [are] Afraid to Act. During the January 6th 2021 protest, one protester — Ashli Babbitt — was shot dead in cold blood by Capitol policeman Michael Byrd. Say what you want about Capitol protest (and we'll leave that discussion for another time), it certainly didn't appear on the video that Babbitt posed an imminent deadly danger to people. She brandished no weapon and took no life-threatening actions against anyone. Yet she was killed for reasons that remain, at best, highly questionable. In a different circumstance, with the races reversed, this action would be trumpeted by the liberal media and the Democrats as yet more proof of the inherent racism of the Republican Party. Why the FBI has so few whistleblowers. [Scroll down] The three FBI special agents who did blow the whistle were treated to an astonishingly vindictive retaliation — starting with pullings of their security clearances, which left them unable to work — and a whole host of other petty, mean-spirited actions that would put the KGB to shame. Whistleblower Marcus Allen, using internal channels, not the press, questioned FBI Director Christopher Wray's congressional testimony claiming there were no FBI informants among the Trumpsters on January 6, politely suggesting that perhaps the Director was being misled by his own men who were involved with such activity. What did he get for that? ["]Allen, on Thursday, will tell Congress that the bureau subsequently suspended his security clearance, questioned his loyalty to the United States, and accused him of holding "conspiratorial views."["] More specifically, he got his clearance pulled while they "investigated" and while he was waiting for this big investigation of some kind, got his paycheck withheld, too. FBI Concerned Jan. 6 Footage Would Expose Undercover Agents, Informants: Whistleblower. FBI officials were concerned that footage from inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, would show undercover agents and confidential informants, a whistleblower said in testimony revealed on May 18. George Hill, a retired supervisory intelligence analyst who worked out of the FBI's Boston field office, recounted that the bureau's Washington field office (WFO) pressured officials in Boston to open investigations on 138 people who attended a rally on Jan. 6, 2021, even though there were no indications the people violated the law. Boston officials pushed back, saying they would need evidence, such as footage of individuals inside the Capitol, to open investigations of the individuals. "Happy to do it. Show us where they were inside the Capitol, and we'll look into it," one official was quoted as saying. "We can't show you those videos unless you can tell us the exact time and place those individuals were inside the Capitol," WFO officials responded, according to Hill. Hill said Boston officials questioned why they couldn't get access to the tranche of some 11,000 hours of footage from inside the Capitol. "Because there may be — may be — UCs, undercover officers, or ... confidential human sources, on those videos whose identity we need to protect," Washington-based officials responded. Former FBI Official Tells House Republicans Bureau Denied Agents J6 Riot Footage To Protect Assets, Informants Present At U.S. Capitol. A former FBI official claimed the bureau denied Boston Field Office agents access to 11,000 hours of U.S. Capitol video footage on January 6 out of fear it would reveal the identities of possible undercover officers and confidential informants present at the riot. Members of the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government shared video testimony during a hearing Thursday of George Hill, who worked as a supervisory intelligence analyst for the Boston Field Office. Hill alleged the bureau's Washington Field Office (WFO) pressured Boston agents to open investigations on 140 individuals who traveled to Washington, D.C., from Massachusetts to attend a political rally supporting former President Donald Trump on January 6, 2021. Feds Set Up Another False Flag To Terrorize Americans. While terrorist-in-chief joe biden was busy on Saturday at Howard University in Washington DC giving their commencement address and labeling Conservatives as 'the most dangerous terror threat' that America faces, just across town, a group of white men that the propaganda media have labeled as being 'white supremacists' marched toward the US Capitol, complete with matching khakis and blue jackets and shirts, all of them wearing matching white masks, with a complete police escort the entire way, a gathering this Gateway Pundit story perfectly labeled as 'Feds On Parade.' With that gathering of 150-200 members of a group which calls itself 'Patriot Front' being filmed by what appears to be well organized folks on dollies using fancy rolling cameras, gaffers and key grips, we'll remind you that one of the definitions for 'a front' is 'a fake' or 'an image of something or someone that is not a true representation of reality,' [...] And with another 'odd fact' about that 'march' being the fact that nobody on the left, in hard-left Washington DC, ever confronts them in the overtly violent way leftwingers nearly ALWAYS react to 'MAGA hats,' numerous commenters on this twitter post about the 'march' called it like they saw it, with one commenter mentioning "That's a lot of Feds" while another commenter tweeted "Feds 100%" while another commenter pointed out "Feds moonlighting on a Saturday" while another commenter brought up "Our side doesn't cover their faces or wear matching outfits," yet another commenter summed up our thoughts perfectly: "If you think the federal government spent a lot on cellphones for illegals this week, you'll be shocked at what they spent on khakis, t-shirts and Nazi flair. And, on overtime wages!" And with another commenter pointing out that these 'marchers' are most likely Feds setting up a huge false flag to be blamed on the same 'white supremacists' that biden was busy demonizing only miles away, and on the very same day, another used only the photograph below to prove his/her point perfectly. [Photo] The Ominous Reason Why Biden Keeps Repeating His False Claim About a White Supremacist Threat. As Ben Bartee noted Saturday [5/13/2023], Old Joe Biden's commencement speech at Howard University "included a hearty condemnation of the alleged scourge of White Supremacy in America." In fact, the alleged president called white supremacy "the most dangerous terrorist threat to our homeland." Then on Sunday, Homeland Security Secretary and failed Disinformation Governance Board overlord Alejandro Mayorkas agreed with Old Joe, emphasizing that "domestic violent extremism is our greatest threat right now." Many other Biden regime officials have said the same thing in the nearly two and a half years now that they have been inflicting themselves upon us. The reason why they keep making this false claim is clear and ominous. [...] Note how Mayorkas related "anti-government sentiment" to "white supremacy." Old Joe revealed the game that is being played here last September when he said in his ominous red and black speech that "Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic." This regime aims to criminalize political dissent, and that will require demonizing and stigmatizing fully half of the electorate. QAnon 2.0? Many have concluded QAnon was a Deep State intelligence operation to lull Trump supporters into complacency in the runup to the 2020 election and to provide a new pejorative term for the Left to use against the Right. The timing of the rise and abandonment of QAnon postings adds credence to this belief. "Trust the plan" was a component of a sophisticated strategy (concocted far earlier than almost anyone now realizes) to ensure Trump's 2020 defeat. This strategy included the placement of the fake DNC and RNC J6 pipe bombs, the 51 intelligence professionals swearing to the Russian provenance of the laptop from hell, failure to call up the National Guard on J6 and the dozens (hundreds?) of agents provocateurs embedded in the J6 crowds. The strategy also includes the J6 kangaroo courts and onerous sentencings to deter future protests. [...] Now comes Patriot Front, sallying forth from rented U-Hauls, complete with a military drumbeat, to provide a poor excuse for a White supremacist boogeyman in time for the 2024 election. The Editor says... A Fed Gets Recognized Dressed As A Patriot Front Member When He Had His Mask Down, Takes Man's Phone Filming Him. Everyone by now is beyond suspicious about the so-called white supremacist group Patriot Front. These guys wear the colors of the FBI and are all too organized with their strategic pop-up marches. This one member/agent got recognized by a man filming when his mask was down and stole his phone to delete the footage. No real white supremacist would care, most neo-Nazis are proud to be who they are. Joe Rogan questioned the legitimacy of a march that took place over the weekend, suggesting that participants looked too suspicious to be white supremacists. [Video clip] Time for Republicans to Confront January 6 Lead Prosecutor. During the 2020 presidential election cycle, Matthew M. Graves donated $2,000 to the Biden-Harris campaign. The modest contribution was a no-brainer for Graves. Not only was he a domestic policy advisor for the campaign, he worked at the time for the same white-shoe law firm as Douglas Emhoff, Kamala Harris' husband. Graves' kowtowing paid off. In November 2021, Graves took the helm of one of the most politically-charged U.S. attorneys office's in the country: the District of Columbia. Since then, Graves has escalated the pace and nature of the ongoing investigation into the events of January 6. His fixation on a four-hour disturbance that occurred more than 28 months ago has nothing to do with law and order and everything to do with using the full weight of the federal government to punish Americans who protested Biden's election that afternoon. At the same time, Graves, who is in the unique position of prosecuting both local and federal crimes in the nation's capital, has allowed D.C. to descend into violent chaos. Tolerance Is Overrated: It's Time To Start Gatekeeping American Society Again. Look at the circus surrounding January 6th, for example. The establishment turned a protest of unarmed people who walked into a building and then left of their own accord into an "insurrection." Did some people get violent? Of course, though not a single person died because of the actions of protesters. Was there property damage? Nothing compared to the billions in damages caused by the BLM and Antifa riots. But conservative protesters are being labeled enemies of the state and are being locked up right now while BLM is labeled "mostly peaceful." The double standard is clear, but the reason for it is often misunderstood. They do not want liberty movement organization. They do not want planned actions. They do not want open marches by conservatives. They do not want the world to see our numbers. They wants us silent and complacent and uninvolved. Provoking a reaction is not the end game. The double standard is not the end game. The end game is for conservatives to give up because they fear the double standard. Every strategy of the left circles back around to pacification of the population, whether they are accusing us of racism or transphobia or fascism or insurrection. Jan. 6 pipe bombs at RNC, DNC were inoperable, says ex-agent who contradicts FBI's official story. Nearly two years ago, a person wearing a sweatshirt with the hood pulled up, a pair of Air Max Speed Turf shoes with a yellow Nike logo, a backpack and gloves walked through Capitol Hill alleys equipped with what federal investigators say were two live pipe bombs. Now a former FBI agent who worked on the case says the pipe bombs planted near the Republican National Committee and Democratic National Committee a day before Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol were inoperable. The former agent, Kyle Seraphin, said that technicians who worked in the Joint Program Office for Countering IEDs told him that the devices left at the RNC and DNC were incapable of detonating. "The devices were primitive and had all the components you would have for a bomb, but they weren't assembled like a real bomb," he said. "They would have never gone off. There was no chance they could have actually detonated. So they were inert devices. They just looked good." His account contradicts the FBI's official version that the bombs could have gone off at any time that day — a story the bureau repeated in January when offering a $500,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of a suspect. The Editor says... J6 Jackals Circle Trump. In 2002, David Frum, chief speechwriter for President George W. Bush, coined the phrase "axis of evil" to describe the despotic regimes of North Korea, Iran, and Iraq during the nascent stages of the global war on terror. Today, Frum is warning the country about a different axis of evil that he believes similarly threatens the security of America and perhaps even the world: Donald Trump, the Oath Keepers, and the Proud Boys. "One after another, the foot soldiers of the January 6 attack on Congress are sentenced to prison terms, which for many will mean the lifelong loss of political rights," Frum tweeted on May 8 in faux concern for the railroaded defendants. "Yet the commanders who plotted and ordered the attack are escaping with impunity — even running for high office." Frum, who hasn't lost his touch as he's transitioned over the past two decades from a neoconservative to a full-blown Marxist, was referring to the recent convictions of members of the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys. The next step in the plan to remove Trump. Just last week the Proud Boys trial around the events of January 6, 2021 concluded. Four leaders of the Proud Boys were convicted of "seditious conspiracy" in a heavily biased DC court for their activities related to the mostly peaceful demonstrations of that date. [...] To my mind, there are some dangerous precedents that have been set for subsequent attacks on Donald Trump and on the GOP presidential campaign. The first of these is having a court identify the J6 events as "sedition", meaning an attempt to overthrow the legitimate government. Prior to this time, despite the J6 committee attempts to label the events as insurrection, there has been no successful effort to classify them as more than a riot. Being able to apply a label of "sedition" is a huge legal step, bringing into play the 14th Amendment to the Constitution that prohibits anyone guilty of insurrection from holding the office of President. Occam's Razor — Fed Entrapment. Occam's Razor: When faced with competing explanations for the same phenomenon, the simplest is likely the correct one. (1) An investigative silo within the federal apparatus falsely identified me as "1% Watchdog." (2) When confronted with the truth of the matter, and after their own independent investigation, federal investigators acknowledged that some other entity fabricated their bona fides using my identity. (3) Admitted (by them) the most likely motive was to influence trust amid the communication group of "1% Watchdog." [...] In my humble opinion, and applying Occam's Razor, "1% Watchdog" was/is a federal agent. What other motive would a person carry to fabricate their identity, create false bona fides, if not to influence a sense of trust in their target audience? American Despotism. The United States surveillance state, with no analytics to assess mountains of data, uses intelligence not for the public but for the kleptocrats' interests: to spy on conservative media and political enemies, including President Trump. The FBI not only peddled the fraudulent Steele dossier, it has long wasted taxpayer money for its agents to infiltrate unimportant dissident groups, entrap their members in silly plots, and then imprison them. In the farcical plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Whitmer, five of the "militiamen," those who concocted the plot, were FBI agents or informants entrapping those they arrested. [...] Unsurprisingly, the FBI payroll funded the leaders of the Proud Boys and the Three Percenters who called for violence at the January 6 capitol riot. Homeland Security labels the riot an "insurrection" to justify its increased surveillance over political dissidents even as it declares "white supremacy," meaning Trump supporters, the country's greatest terrorist threat. Federal Government Burns the Whole House Down. The Department of (in)Justice secured more J6 wrongthink convictions last week — this time netting four Americans for "seditious conspiracy" because they were not members of Black Lives Matter or Antifa. Regime thugs Merrick Garland, Christopher Wray, and Lisa Monaco (the titular heads of America's Gestapo forces) actually took a victory lap and stood solemnly together while warning Americans that this is what happens to those who dissent from the federal government's enforced truth. [...] The federal government has spent the last two years lying about everything that happened on January 6, 2021. The liars transformed a million-person protest against election fraud into an "insurrection" — even though the people supposedly trying to "overthrow" the government arrived at the Capitol unarmed. The government alone killed Trump voters that day, and no protesters killed anyone, but the State-controlled corporate media continue to echo fake-president-but-real-liar Joe Biden's claims that "MAGA extremists" murdered ten or more police officers for fun. J6 Political Prisoner Pete Schwartz Was Sentenced to 14 Years, More Time in Prison than a Murderer. Peter Schwartz, age 47 and a Kentucky welder, served his country in the Army Reserve. He was indicted after he was accused of pepper-spraying officers during the Jan. 6 protest. He was arrested on Feb. 2, 2021, in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. Pete was with his wife when 30 agents assaulted him with flashbang grenades, armored vehicles, and more than 10 assault rifles aimed at his chest. "At no point did either my wife or I resist but we were both roughly handled and forced/dragged up the stairs after being shackled and handcuffed as we were shoved around," Schwartz said. Last year, the DC jury found Pete and his co-defendants guilty on every single charge. There were no victims to Pete's alleged crimes. The prosecution presented no witnesses. No Evidence? No Problem! Four Proud Boys Found Guilty of 'Sedition' Over Jan. 6 Capitol Protest. Four members of the Proud Boys were found guilty of seditious conspiracy on Thursday in a DC show trial as corrupt DOJ head Merrick Garland continues to push the limits of what's possible when it comes to jailing your political opposition. Proud Boys Found Guilty of Seditious Conspiracy. [Scroll down] Until 2022, no American had been convicted of the post-Civil War statute. But Joe Biden's Justice Department seized on the law's vague language — the same manner in which top officials weaponized an untested post-Enron evidence tampering felony — to criminalize political dissent. Six members of the Oath Keepers were found guilty of seditious conspiracy at two separate trials and four other defendants, including one member of the Proud Boys, have pleaded guilty to the offense. Both seditious conspiracy and obstruction of an official proceeding are felonies punishable by up to 20 years in prison each. Most of the government's evidence consisted of inflammatory text messages posted in group chats, which included the presence of an unknown number of FBI informants. No defendant was accused of bringing weapons to the Capitol or assaulting a police officer. Tarrio, the group's leader, was in a Baltimore hotel on January 6, having left Washington under court order following his arrest on January 4, 2021 for an unrelated incident. J6 rioter gets 14 years. One of the latest trials of people who participated in the January 6 riot on Capitol Hill has resulted in a sentence that should alarm anyone interested in equal justice under the law. Kentucky resident Peter Schwartz was sentenced to fourteen years and two months behind bars for his participation in the riot yesterday. Prosecutors had been asking for more than 24 years, but U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta apparently felt this sentence was a compromise. Schwartz definitely participated in what can rightfully be described as "rioting" but just how serious were his crimes? The underlying details offer little in the way of describing anything that would merit a sentence of this nature and the conduct of the judge during sentencing clearly indicates significant bias. WaPo Reporter Tells Wallace: No Evidence Linking Trump To Proud Boys Violence. The conviction of Proud Boys leaders for "seditious conspiracy" on Jaunary [sic] 6 energized MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace. She was ready to pounce — on Donald Trump. She was hoping to parlay that into a prosecution of Trump. It had everything but the "lock him up" chants. J6 Political Prisoner Dominic Pezzola's Attorney: Evidence Confirms J6 Was An Organized Government Plot. Defense attorney Roger Roots, representing J6 political prisoner Dominic Pezzolla, was on "pins and needles" during a call with The Gateway Pundit Thursday morning as jurors reached a partial verdict on the Proud Boys seditious conspiracy trial. Suspense suddenly morphed into shock, heartbreak and despair. An hour later, a full verdict was deliberated convicting Enrique Tarrio, Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl and Ethan Nordean on three counts of conspiracy and every other felony leveled against them by the Department of Justice. "I mean look at Tarrio — Tarrio was not even in DC! Look at Pezolla, he had only been a Proud Boy for 30 days," Roots lamented. "They convicted everyone on the breaking of the fence, including Tarrio — are you kidding me breaking the fence from 50 miles away?" Former FBI agent on violent extremism task force alleged to have urged Jan. 6 rioters to kill cops. We saw this tweet Wednesday, but we saw that it came from NBC News' Ken Dilanian, which means to take it with a big grain of salt. The report, however, is by Jonathan Dienst and Ryan J. Reilly, who aren't quite as bad. The way NBC News tells it is that an ex-FBI agent accused of urging January 6 rioters to kill police was a member of the FBI's Homegrown Violent Extremism unit, and you all know what homegrown violent extremism is — white supremacists, the biggest domestic terror threat to our country. [Tweet] Enrique Tarrio, three other Proud Boys found guilty of seditious conspiracy. The one-time president of the far-right Proud Boys group Enrique Tarrio and three subordinates were convicted of numerous felonies including seditious conspiracy for their roles in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack. A federal jury in Washington, D.C. found Tarrio, Ethan Nordean, Zachary Rehl and Joseph Biggs guilty of conspiring to prevent the peaceful transfer of power from Donald Trump to Joe Biden and using force and prior planning to hinder the 2020 presidential election certification. The jury initially did not find a verdict for the fifth defendant, Dominic Pezzola, on the most serious charge, seditious conspiracy, and they were sent back to deliberate by Judge Timothy Kelly. After several hours, they found him not guilty of seditious conspiracy, but remained hung on whether he was part of the conspiracy to obstruct. Former FBI Agent Faces Charges Related To Capitol Riot: Authorities. The Justice Department charged a former FBI agent on Wednesday for unlawfully entering the U.S. Capitol for nine minutes and three other misdemeanor counts after allegedly threatening police during the riot on January 6, 2021, according to court documents. Jared Wise, 50, who worked in the bureau from 2004 to 2017, was arrested on Monday for allegedly entering the Capitol after a mob breached the federal building where members of Congress were counting Electoral College votes to certify the 2020 presidential election. According to court documents, video surveillance shows Wise entered the Capitol around 2:23 p.m. through the Senate wing door. Once inside, the former federal agent "clapped his hands and raised his arms in triumph" until he continued through the crypt and past the Memorial Door, FBI testimony says. He eventually exited through a window near the Senate wing at approximately 2:32 p.m., court documents say. California man gets 4 1/2 years for [his] role in US Capitol riot. A Southern California man who assaulted police with pepper spray during the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced to 4 1/2 years in prison, federal authorities announced. Jeffrey Scott Brown, 56, of Santa Ana received a sentence of 54 months in federal prison for felony and misdemeanor charges related to the mob attack by supporters of former President Donald Trump, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a Friday press statement. Outcome of Proud Boys Trial Could Decide Trump's Fate. Of the hundreds of video clips used as evidence in the marathon trial of five members of the Proud Boys, prosecutors began closing arguments not with a clip of the defendants engaged in criminal activity but with a clip of Donald Trump. The government showed the jury a portion of the September 2020 presidential debate; goaded by Joe Biden and then-Fox News host Chris Wallace to condemn "white supremacists and militia groups" in an effort to downplay Black Lives Matter and Antifa violence, Trump asked them to "give me a name." Biden quickly answered, "the Proud Boys." "Proud Boys, stand back and stand by," Trump said in response. The offhand remark — Trump later said he did not know who the Proud Boys were — made the group "jubilant," assistant U.S. Attorney Conor Mulroe told the jury on Monday morning. The Ruling Class's Stalinist Purge. In lockstep, the Establishment Borg demanded that anybody who showed up in D.C. on January 6, 2021 to protest election theft be arrested. It did not matter how ludicrous it seemed that Joe Biden — a mental midget who struggled throughout his venal life to garner support anywhere outside Delaware — could have "won" fifteen million more votes than "rock star" Obama had in his last election. It did not matter that no presidential incumbent in the modern era had ever gained substantially more votes during his re-election race, as Trump did, without being declared the winner. It did not matter that reports of voting irregularities in battleground states were numerous or that the judicial system failed to acknowledge sworn witness affidavits attesting to election fraud. The ruling class said Trump had to go, and when his supporters voiced their objection, they were summarily targeted as "enemies of the State." Gig Harbor man convicted in connection with Jan. 6 Capitol riot. A Gig Harbor man has been convicted in connection with the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. David Charles Rhine was convicted of four misdemeanor crimes by a federal jury. According to The Tacoma News Tribune, Rhine was convicted of entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds; engaging in disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly conduct in a Capitol building; and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building. Pence testifies before federal grand jury investigating Trump's role in Jan. 6. Former Vice President Mike Pence appeared Thursday before the federal grand jury convened as part of the special counsel investigation into former President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss and remain in power, according to a source familiar with the matter. The testimony is a significant development in the special counsel's probe, as Pence could provide critical insights into Trump's thinking in the days leading up to the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. The former vice president published a memoir and Wall Street Journal opinion article detailing several of his interactions with Trump, but some details were left vague. Special counsel Jack Smith's team is particularly interested in Trump's efforts to try to block the certification of the election, NBC News previously reported. 'It's Fairy Dust': The Proud Boys Case Goes to Jury. A marathon January 6 trial besieged by scandal, controversy, and acrimony is now in the hands of a Washington, D.C. jury. After nearly four months of back and forth, the government and defense attorneys made their final pitch during closing arguments this week in the multi-count case against five members of the Proud Boys. The drama surrounding the trial, both inside and outside the courtroom, is worthy of a Netflix series: shocking revelations of numerous FBI informants, deleted government evidence, outbursts from the bench, colorful defense attorneys, last-minute accusations of an assault on police, a mysterious "attack plan" sourced to a former intelligence operative, and concerns over a jury stalker, to name a few. At the center of the drama are innocent men held behind bars awaiting trial as the January 6 Select committee conducted televised hearings portraying the Proud Boys as one of the masterminds behind a "domestic terror attack" the Biden regime compares to 9/11. We Could See Tucker Carlson's Split With Fox Coming. I have a new job idea for Tucker Carlson and whoever Fox News sent packing with him — and no, it's not replacing Don Lemon at CNN. It's a simple request. Tell us the story of January 6 and the "Fedsurrection," as some call it, that you didn't tell us before. One could tell that the wildly anticipated January 6 insights by Carlson appeared to shake the Fox News suits to the core. Carlson was given access to thousands of hours of video recordings from the January 6 protest and riots. Viewers expected multiple nights of exposés. Instead we got 1.4. The next night, a chastened-looking Carlson gamely led his show with something else and only later gave an update on the January 6 information. The good news was that the horn-wearing "Q Anon Shaman" was freed from prison as a result of Carlson's revelations. The bad news was that the January 6 Committee and the Department of Justice already knew Jacob Chansley was a non-violent trespasser on January 6 but put him in prison for political reasons anyway. And except for some follow-ups with Chansley's attorneys and mother, there wasn't much else said about it. Former FBI Agent Who Refused to Raid Jan. 6 Suspect Warns of Agency's Weaponization. Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures, Stephen Friend was told. Why would he — an FBI special agent — not want to hunt down and jail rioters who killed police officers at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021? The question, its justification, and its accuracy were equally troubling when they were presented to Friend by an FBI superior on Aug. 23, 2022. "I responded back that no police officers were killed by any of the individuals who were charged with the violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6," Friend recalled. Report: Here's the Reason Tucker Carlson Is Out at Fox News. [Scroll down] But according to the Los Angeles Times, individuals familiar with the matter who were not authorized to speak on it suggested that the decision to terminate Carlson's employment was made directly by Rupert Murdoch, the chairman of Fox Corporation. According to the report, Murdoch has been concerned about the host's reporting on the January 6th Capitol riot. Carlson's coverage of the riot included presenting footage not shown by the January 6 committee. Among other things, the footage shows Capitol Police escorting the so-called "QAnon Shaman" Jacob Chansley around the Capitol and letting him into spaces. This footage prompted Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and others to call for Chansley to get a retrial. [...] Other footage presented by Carlson showed Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick walking around after the riot, contradicting liberal claims that he was killed during the violence. Tucker also reported on evidence that suggested that federal agents may have been the ones who incited the violence. '60 Minutes' Portrays Ray Epps as a Victim as He Provides the Sob Story. Ray Epps sat for a '60 Minutes' interview that aired Sunday night, and it didn't sit well with Republicans. The show portrayed Epps as a victim who only stood out because he's 6'4". The host claimed the actions of Ray Epps were only a "conspiracy' theory." The 6'4" victim blames Fox News and well-known conservatives for casting him as an organizer of January 6th. His actions were miniaturized. However, Epps took credit for orchestrating the riot! No one hatched that in some wild conspiracy. '60 Minutes' asks Ray Epps about texting a relative, "I orchestrated it," after leaving Jan. 6 Capitol riot, "I was boasting to my nephew. [...] I shouldn't have used that word," Epps said. Ted Cruz Advisor Has Great Question About That Ray Epps Interview. Why is the FBI only answering "60 Minutes" now? This failure also excited more comments from people about Epps' status, because once again, as with so many other things, the FBI refused to be straight -forward on the matter. These are the same folks who now have reportedly been looking to develop sources within Catholic Churches to fink on their fellow congregants. Now, I'm not saying that Epps is a "fed." However, it isn't hard to see that there is a fundamental difference between a statement to Congress and one to "60 Minutes," as some noted. [Tweet] But even if you're not under oath, it's still a potential crime to intentionally say something false to Congress. The FBI statement was also terse to say the least, only covering the FBI being a source or employee. It doesn't deny other agencies. While the FBI is now disavowing Epps in a statement, not under oath or to Congress, there have been other reports about informants, including about one high up in the Oathkeepers who was allegedly secretly reporting about the group's activities in the lead-up to Jan. 6. Ray Epps: Tucker Carlson Is 'Obsessed With Me,' GOP Lawmakers Had Bigger 'Impact' On Riot Than Me. Ray Epps, the man accused by many of being involved with federal law enforcement during the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, said over the weekend that Fox News host Tucker Carlson was "obsessed" with him and trying to ruin his life. Epps made the remarks in an interview that aired Sunday night on CBS News' "60 Minutes." [...] Epps addressed a text message that he sent to his nephew immediately after the riot in which he claimed that he "orchestrated it." "I was boasting to my nephew. I helped get people there. I was directing people to the Capitol that morning," Epps said. "I know exactly how it sounds. I've been scolded by my wife for using that word. I shouldn't have used that word." 60 Minutes Basically Screams, 'Leave Ray Epps Alone!' [Scroll down] All anyone has to do is compare Epps' story with that of Jacob Chansley, aka the "QAnon Shaman," to see how ridiculous Epps' claims of targeting and persecution are. How many of the J6 prisoners had a five-acre ranch to sell so that they could go into hiding? How many of them have been invited onto 60 Minutes and agreed to an interview? Inquiring minds want to know. Yet, CBS went there anyway, because the January 6 narrative of the evil Donald Trump/MAGA attempt to "overthrow democracy" must be kept alive. [...] Once again, if for no other reason other than being curious journalists, why hasn't CBS or 60 Minutes interviewed any J6 prisoners and attempted to cover their stories? Most of these men and women did not have the luxury of being able to go into hiding. Many were SWATTED, arrested, and have been languishing in gulags for going on three years now. Political Prisoner Kenneth Joseph Thomas a Veteran and Father of Four Did Not Enter US Capitol, Did Not Attack Police, Faces 30 Years in Prison. In less than a month, K. Joseph Thomas faces a judge and jury for 12 federal charges surrounding his attendance at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Joseph estimates he faces 30 years in prison. As a husband, father of four, and home for his father-in-law on hospice, he is anxious about the well-being of the family for whom he is the only breadwinner. With the full weight of a politically weaponized government on his back, Joseph knows he is going into the fire, but that has never stopped him before. 60 Minutes Steps Up to Defend Ray Epps, Who Is Absolutely Not a Fed, Oh No. The media love affair with the most suspicious person involved with the Left's Jan. 6 hoax, Ray Epps, continues. On Sunday evening, 60 Minutes is planning to air a profile of Epps, a man whom they claim has been unjustly vilified in the conservative media. In doing so, they're just calling new attention to the gaping holes in their Jan. 6 propaganda narrative. The Leftist political and media elites have been insisting ever since Jan. 6, 2021, that the disturbance at the Capitol on that day constituted an "insurrection," an actual attempt to overthrow the government of the United States and, presumably, to install Donald Trump as a dictator. Over the intervening two years, the Left's case has steadily unraveled, and one of the most glaring examples of its weakness has been the curious case of Epps. Amid all the hysteria about "MAGA Republicans" supposedly determining to storm the Capitol and overthrow the government, Epps is the only person who was captured on video actually exhorting people to enter the building. Yet instead of being arrested, Epps has become a media darling. Suspicious? In the extreme. Ray Epps Is Going on '60 Minutes,' and the Gaslighting Has Already Started. Ray Epps, who I'm assured just wants to be left alone to live in peace and harmony, is doing what all people who want to be left alone do: He's going on 60 Minutes to get backslaps from the press. The left-wing CBS News show, which has been caught in numerous journalistic scandals over the last several years, began plugging the interview on Friday. It will air Sunday evening, but the gaslighting has already started. Tucker Carlson's impact: Most believe government agents 'provoked' Capitol riot. A sizable majority of likely voters believe that the Capitol riot of Jan. 6, 2021, was provoked by government agents secretly operating in the crowds, a stunning rejection of the blame that Justice Department prosecutors and a special House panel have put squarely on the head of former President Donald Trump. While many had suspicions of undercover agents fanning anger in the crowd about Trump's electoral loss to President Joe Biden, the airing of never-before-seen videos by Fox's Tucker Carlson jumped that number to 65% in the latest Rasmussen Reports survey. Rasmussen reported that nearly half (47%) said it was "very likely" that agents whipped up protesters to the point of attacking police and breaking into the Capitol, where Congress and former Vice President Mike Pence were trying to certify Trump's loss and Biden's win. "Following Tucker Carlson's release of previously unseen videos from the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, more voters now believe it may have been provoked by undercover agents," the poll analysis read. Jake Chansley — An Update and a Prediction: Storm Clouds on the Horizon. A new GiveSendGo account has been created to finance the legal effort to hold the Government accountable for its failure to produce the videos favorable to Jake prior to his sentencing hearing. I do not expect this to happen without a long and drawn-out fight. I'm prepared to bring in additional legal help — two attorneys have already signed on to the effort once the battle is fully joined. They are exceptional trial attorneys who have spent decades practicing in federal court and have no reluctance at all to enthusiastically take on DOJ in this and other cases. You will recognize one when his participation becomes public. The other is my "secret weapon" soon to be deployed into the fray. Jake has been given information on these two attorneys and is enthusiastic about them joining the effort. He is 100% on board of this new fund, and will lend his own voice of support in the near future. For now he is not making any public comments while these matters play themselves out in the courts. Jake endorses the plan that any funds raised in excess of what is needed to support his legal efforts will be used to support the legal defenses of other J6 defendants and the January 6 Legal Defense Fund. 19 Times Democrats And DOJ Deliberately Politicized Law Enforcement. [#7] As the Department of Justice continues to concoct crimes to charge Trump with related to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, the agency has continued on a nationwide hunt to find any and all in Washington, D.C., that day, even questioning 71-year-old grandmothers. The agency, meanwhile, has refused lawmakers' questions about the extent of federal law enforcement's involvement. Wray played down the agency's own negligence about federal preparedness at an August Senate hearing and claimed, "We did not have any credible intelligence that pointed to thousands of people breaching the Capitol. According to Newsweek, however, the FBI deployed commandos with "shoot to kill authority." The FBI has been even less forthcoming about a pair of pipe bombs planted at the RNC and DNC headquarters. Jan. 6 rioter who pinned Capitol police officer sentenced to 7.5 years. A Jan. 6 Capitol rioter who pinned a D.C. police officer in a doorway received seven-and-a-half years in prison on Friday, one of the longest prison sentences doled out so far. Patrick McCaughey, a 23-year-old from Connecticut, was dubbed #ThePinman by online investigators after he pinned a police officer with a shield. Before his sentencing, he apologized to U.S. District Court Judge Trevor McFadden, calling his behavior "monumentally stupid." Former Cassidy Hutchinson Attorney Sues House Of Representatives Over J6 Smears. Stefan Passantino, a Washington D.C. attorney who represented former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson before the House Select Committee on Jan. 6, is suing the lower chamber for lawmakers' political assassination of Passantino's legal career. On Monday, Passantino filed a Federal Tort Claims Act Complaint against the January 6th Committee over the panel's abuse of power undermining legal ethics to pursue a political narrative. Hutchinson, according to the complaint, was co-opted by members of the Select Committee to circumvent Passantino and orchestrate a defamatory operation against the longtime D.C. attorney as a vehicle of witness intimidation amid proceedings. Is 2024 Only A Mirage? Remember, these bad actors are also the folks who encouraged unethical federal prosecutors to callously force Jacob Chansley — who posed no real threat to them whatsoever — to enter a plea for four years in prison while they knowingly hid from him, his defense attorneys, and the court, the exculpatory videos that established his innocence. In a fair world such prosecutors would be fired, disbarred, and sent to prison to take the place of the man they wrongfully forced to go there. But so far, they haven't been, and such is but one more example of justice wrongfully delayed that should be a warning to us all. If such unethical — and indeed, criminal — federal prosecutors, and the tyrants they work for, would be so evil as to do that to a powerless man like Chansley who posed no real threat to them whatsoever, there is little doubt that such evil people will not hesitate to do far worse to prevent a presidential candidate like Trump from gaining victory and therefore, continue to insulate themselves from any accountability for their wrongs. Shocking New Evidence Reveals Feds Possibly Instigated Violence During the Jan. 6 Capitol Riot. More revelations about the federal government's actions concerning the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol have surfaced, and they could place more scrutiny on the state's role in the affair. A motion filed by a lawyer representing members of the Proud Boys, a right-wing activist group, indicates that there were a significant number of informants who infiltrated the group. The motion, which was obtained by American Greatness' Julie Kelly, noted that FBI informants were "vastly outnumbered" by confidential human sources (CHS) and "plain-clothes operators representing other law enforcement agencies." The document notes that "[a]n agency called Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) seems to have played a major role in handling and running CHSs among the Proud Boys on January 6, 2021." The Biden Justice Department Is Showing Its True Colors. Simply put, early sentencings of January 6 defendants did not produce prison terms as long as DOJ was expecting. I have written that early sentences handed out in the first few cases to be resolved suggested that the Judges did not view the nature of the criminal conduct to be as serious as the DOJ prosecutors were arguing, and they were reluctant to hand out the draconian sentences that DOJ was seeking. Let[']s begin with the very first case where a sentence was handed out, which I wrote about back in July 2021 if you check my archives. The defendant was Paul Hodgkins, and he pled guilty to a single count of violating 18 U.S.C. Sec. 1512(c) which is the "corruptly obstructing" Congress charge. Hodgins went inside the Capitol as well as inside the Senate Chamber. He didn't engage in any violence, and he didn't cause any property destruction. Picture from Jan 6 Resurfaces — Three Individuals with "Civil War" Shirts [are] Now Suspected of Being Deep State Plants. Almost immediately on Jan 6 as soon as violence broke out at the Capitol, social media put out a picture of three white males all wearing the same T-shirt that said — MAGA — CIVIL WAR — January 6 ,2021. These individuals are now suspected of being Deep State plants. A picture of reportedly pro-Trump MAGA patriots on Jan 6 was shared wildly by the far-left. This picture showed three men in the same T-shirt with the same logo "MAGA — CIVIL WAR — January 6, 2021." Far-left VOX was sure to share the photo to build upon the narrative that Trump supporters, were violent and ready to take down the Capitol that day. Despite President Trump having 1.1 million people at his rallies to Joe Biden's less than 2,000 supporters at his "rallies", and there being no reported violence at Trump rallies, the left was quick to call all the acts of violence that day committed by Trump supporters. A local ABC affiliate was certain to share this photo as well shortly after Jan 6. Jeremy Brown Sentenced to 7 Years and 3 Months in Prison for Refusing to Work as an Undercover Operative for FBI on January 6. Former Green Beret and January 6 political prisoner was sentenced to 7 years and 3 months in prison on Good Friday. Jeremy Brown did nothing wrong. But he did expose Chris Wray's lies. In March of 2021, Jeremy Brown began speaking out about how the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) contacted him in December 2020 and attempted to recruit him to spy on patriots and everyday Americans on January 6th. In December 2020 FBI agents contacted Jeremy Brown at his home for "posting some things online." Jeremy later released video surveillance of the FBI contacting him at his home. And Jeremy then later released an audio recording of his actual meetup with the FBI. Jeremy struggled for months about whether or not to go public with this information. But according to his Facebook page — "After listening to politicians and the FBI Director, Chris Wray, tell lie after bald-faced lie to the American People, he could not stay silent any longer." Appeals Court Calls Into Question Hundreds of January 6 Prosecutions. There's been an interesting development in the prosecution of the January 6 rioters. A three-judge appeals court has ruled 2-1 that the Justice Department can proceed with several hundred cases where defendants are charged with obstructing an official proceeding — for the time being. What's still to be decided is whether or not about 300 rioters acted with "corrupt intent" in invading the Capitol building during an official proceeding. And all three appeals court judges questioned whether the prosecution had interpreted "corrupt intent" on the part of the rioters correctly. What seems esoteric in nature is actually crucial to the defense of hundreds of January 6 rioters. The "corrupt intent" standard does not apply to those rioters who are also charged with assaulting police. But for those defendants who are charged only with obstructing Congress, how that term is defined could mean liberty or 20 years in prison. A Hiccup in the Prosecution of the J6 Defendants. In a 107-page split opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia may well have torched the outrageous overcharging of hundreds of people who peacefully walked through the Capitol, a public building, on January 6, 2021. The question before the court was whether the phrase "obstructing, influencing, or impeding an official proceeding, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2)" warrants charging those who peacefully walked through the Capitol with felonies. [...] The three defendant appellees were not among the hundreds of demonstrators who engaged in nothing but walking through: each was charged with some form of physical encounter with law enforcement. The lower court held that assaultive conduct is not covered by this statute because the conduct must have included what was defined in a prior subsection, which requires action relating to "a document, record, or other object." Let the House hearings on the false 'insurrection' of Jan. 6 begin. The latest instance of likely House Republican ineptitude is revealed from the concatenation of two developments, in Washington, DC., and at the Tennessee State Capitol in Nashville. In Washington, a defense attorney for the Proud Boys has charged that undercover operatives, perhaps as many as 40, were involved in the Jan. 6 commotion at the Capitol, and likely served as agents provocateur. (No wonder, the Capitol doors were opened to admit a part of the throng.) Meanwhile, in Nashville, the Tennessee State House expelled two members for disruptive behavior on the House floor during an unruly gun protest. The operative part of the account in The New York Times on the ouster of the two legislators — an account sympathetic to the legislators — appeared twelve paragraphs into the story: "The lawmakers who were expelled readily agreed that [their] outburst violated the House's rules of conduct...." And the Tennessee House took appropriate action. Tennessee state legislator Gino Bulso pointed out that failure to have acted against the unruly legislators would have encouraged further future attempts at "'mutiny on the House floor.'" Donald Trump, Tiberius Gracchus, And America's Imminent End. [Scroll down] Obama set in motion a new set of rules in America, and Trump's indictment, the Soviet-style attack on J6 attendees, and the prosecution of Douglass Mackey combine to demonstrate exactly what those new rules are: Thou shalt not oppose the Democrat party, thou shalt not speak badly of or mock the Democrat party or its minions, thou shalt not push back against the regulatory state, and thou shalt not express traditional American values. These sham "prosecutions" are really persecution. They are nothing more than the Democrats' regulatory state wrapping itself around American citizens' necks like the Burmese Pythons killing most native species in the Everglades. The indictment of a former president and current presidential candidate on such a weak and preposterous theory as this one puts the lie to the idea that the Constitution limits our government. This is nothing less than the established "swamp" inventing new legal theories while ignoring existing law to crush a political opponent. That foretells the end of the Republic. FBI Had 'At Least 40' Undercover Informants Instigating Trouble on January 6th. Law enforcement agencies had at least 40 undercover FBI informants participating in surveillance work among defendants during the January 6 Capitol Hill protests. Roger Roots, the lawyer for defendant American Proud Boys member Dominic Pezzola, filed a motion to reveal all undercover informants related to the January 6 case. According to the filed document, several undercover law enforcement officers were at the Capitol that day, with at least 40 undercover informants or agents walking among them, which Roots claims were instigating trouble. "Some of these undercover Metro officers marched with the Proud Boy march, and some appear to have played roles of instigators, in that they are seen on body-worn videos chanting 'Go! Go!,' 'Stop the Steal!,' and 'Whose house? Our house!' on January 6. Others generally followed demonstrators toward the Capitol," Roots said. Jan. 6 Rioters Fight To Await Trial At Home. If the government had had its way, Eric Munchel and his mother, Lisa Eisenhart, would already have been in jail for two years. Arrested in February 2021 for participating in the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, they finally are scheduled to go on trial next week in the Washington courtroom of U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth. It won't be the first time Munchel and Eisenhart will find themselves before Lamberth. He is the judge who declared two years ago that they were far too dangerous to be allowed outside prison walls. Home confinement, enforced with ankle monitors and GPS tracking, Lamberth ruled, would not be sufficient to protect the public from the honky-tonk bartender and his traveling-nurse mother. Democrat Bloodlust. Jacob Chansley has just been released early from his 4½ year sentence a few weeks after Tucker Carlson released new footage from the Capitol on Jan. 6 that shows Chansley peacefully walking around the Capitol with police officers and leading a prayer in the House chamber thanking the police for their help. According to the Democrat Newsmedia Colluders (hereafter the DNC), Chansley is the "QAnon Shaman" that 'led' an armed insurrection against the United States on Jan. 6, 2021, and of whom MSNBC said, "Make no mistake... Chansley is a stone-cold thug." Quite surprisingly for the leader of an armed insurrection, Chansley was not carrying a gun through the Capitol. He was carrying what CNN describes as "an American flag on a speared flagpole," and which "government prosecutors have characterized as a weapon." Surprisingly, however, Chansley was not seen using the flag as a weapon. He was seen using it as a flag. He did not point it at anyone or use it to beat or threaten anybody. Despite this, government prosecutor Kimberly Paschall in made-for-TV words called Chansley the "terrifying ... flag-bearer" of the mob "chaos." But Chansley is nowhere seen leading the mob. He was not carrying a flag celebrating "chaos." He was carrying the American flag. Is that against the law now? Prosecutor Admits DC Police Officers Acted as Provocateurs at US Capitol on Jan. 6. Three D.C. Metropolitan Police Department undercover officers acted as provocateurs at the northwest steps of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, a federal prosecutor admitted in court papers. The admission came in a March 24 filing before U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras that seeks to keep video footage shot by the officers under court seal. Prosecutors accused the defendant in the case — William Pope of Topeka, Kansas — of an "illegitimate" attempt to unmask the video as part of his alleged strategy to try the case in the news media. Pope filed a motion to remove the court seal on Feb. 21. "The defendant is not entitled to 'undesignate' these videos to share them with unlimited third parties," Assistant U.S. Attorney Kelly Moran said. "His desire to try his case in the media rather than in a court of law is illegitimate, and the government has met its burden to show the necessity of the protective order." Video footage long hidden under court seal has become a major topic, especially with prosecutors disclosing the involvement of multiple FBI informants in a number of high-profile Jan. 6 cases. 'No One Is Above the Law'? Don't You Believe It. [Scroll down] And let's just say it: Ray Epps. He was at the U.S. Capitol, on the grounds, and was captured on video doing more to foment an "insurrection" over two days in January 2021 than anyone. But while Iowa grandmas who wandered onto the open lawn of the Capitol and then left have been jailed, charged, and convicted, and others have spent more than a year wasting away in D.C. jails, Epps remains free. Totally equal under the law! The reality is that an awful lot of people are above the law — they just all happen to be Democrats and leftists or members of Democratic voting blocks. Police Left Lower West Terrace Tunnel Doors Unsecured, Giving Protesters Easy Access. Just minutes after misfired tear gas canisters drove police back into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, the retreating officers left unsecured the sets of double doors in the Lower West Terrace tunnel, giving protesters easy access to the entrance and sparking several hours of brutal violence, videos reveal. Cell phone video entered into evidence in a recent Jan. 6 criminal case shows that protesters walked right through the sets of double doors at the back of the tunnel and began fighting against the police for access to the rest of the Capitol. For months, questions have been raised by defense attorneys and case observers whether the doors at the tunnel entrance were locked and secure. Prosecutors contended in court filings that the doors were locked when the last officers retreated into the Capitol at about 2:40 p.m. However, two videos that were entered into evidence by the U.S. Department of Justice in Jan. 6 criminal cases show that neither set of doors was secured. All protesters had to do was pull on the outer handles to gain entry. Tucker Carlson Encourages Jacob Chansley To Sue Liz Cheney. Fox News host Tucker Carlson called on Jacob Chansley, the "QAnon Shaman," to sue Liz Cheney "for the crime she committed against him and against our justice system." "The Biden administration is demanding that Chansley serve another six months in a halfway house just to make sure his life is destroyed," Carlson began. "Let's hope that when he finally gets out, he has the energy to sue Liz Cheney of UVA for the crime she committed against him and against our justice system," he added. [Tweet] How the Media Doubles Down on Falsehood. The release of the recordings of the supposed January 6, 2021 "insurrection" (J6) has sparked a lot of controversy in the media and on Capitol Hill. The J6 event was reported by the congressional "investigation" and the media as a catastrophe, akin to or worse than 9/11. Oops, now the truth is coming out with the release of over 40,000 hours of video surrounding the event, and we are finding it is nothing like that was depicted. Jan. 6 Political Prisoner Jake Lang Has Now Been Held in Prison for 800 Days Without a Trial. Jake Lang attended the January 6, 2021 protest and rally in Washington DC because he believed the election was stolen from Donald Trump. Jake was one in a million Trump supporters who turned out that day to hear President Trump speak at the Ellipse in Washington DC. Later that day Jake walked to the US Capitol where he was gassed and trampled when Capitol Police pushed Trump supporters down the stairs. Jake was nearly killed. The woman next to him was gassed, kncked down, trampled and then beaten with a stick by police. She died on the steps of the US Capitol. Her name is Rosanne Boyland. Jake Lang was next to Rosanne when she died. Being a former wrestler, Jake was able to crawl out of the pile. He then went back and saved Phillip Anderson who was knocked unconscious next to Rosanne Boyland. Jake was not able to rescue Rosanne but he saved the life of another man that day. Overcoming America's Political Paralysis. Separating the truth from the lies is like assembling a massive jigsaw puzzle with no edges and no picture on the box. You pick through the pieces and assemble sections, but it's hard to discern the big picture. The mystery of the "January 6 insurrection" was one essential part of the puzzle. Why did the government arrest innocent people and then throw them in prison, mostly incommunicado, and then ferociously hide all interior video footage? The brave twins at the Gateway Pundit finally explained the reason. Turns out the "insurrection" was declared and the Capitol chambers were emptied just minutes before the vote was to be taken to certify the fraudulent 2020 results. When they reconvened later that evening under "emergency rules," the certification was rushed through without objection. [...] We must now realize that in our corrupt government, everything they say is a lie. Their job is to divert the American people from the truth of the scam so they can keep stealing. We are now in the final stage, where the corruption is made permanent so nothing can be done to end our slavery. The FBI and the Proud Boys. I haven't followed the January 6 prosecutions as closely as I probably should have. I thought it was obvious that the Capitol riot was the most overblown story of modern times. The idea that the protesters who entered the Capitol (mostly peacefully, as far as I could see, more or less invited in by Capitol guards) were mounting an "insurrection" was and is absurd, given that not a single one of them brought a firearm, and they made no attempt to harm anyone inside the Capitol. Some insurrection! A big trial is now going on in Washington — the biggest, as I understand it, of the post-January 6 trials. Five Proud Boys are the defendants. Like Donald Trump, when asked about this group in a presidential debate, I don't know a[ny]thing about the Proud Boys, except that, unlike Black Lives Matter and Antifa rioters, they have never burned down a big chunk of a city. The FBI had more people in the Proud Boys than the Proud Boys. The new House oversight committee investigating the political weaponization of the Justice Department may want to bring on some additional staff and start putting in some overtime. Every new story that comes out about the FBI's actions in recent years makes the Bureau look worse and worse. The latest story posted by our colleagues at PJ Media involves the ongoing "seditious conspiracy" charges being brought against leaders and members of the Proud Boys. The trial of chapter leader Zach Rehl was preparing to call a witness this week, but ran into a problem. Their "witness" turned out to be a confidential informant for the FBI who had been spying on the defense team. That brought the trial to a screeching halt "until these issues have been considered and resolved." That's putting it mildly, to say the least. Federal Prosecutor Admits DC Police Officers Acted as Agent Provocateurs During Jan. 6 Riot. Undercover police officers acting as agent provocateurs incited protesters to riot on January 6. The stunning development was uncovered during J6 defendant William Pope's trial. As reported by the Epoch Times' Joseph Hanneman, a federal prosecutor "admitted in court papers that three D.C. Metropolitan Police Department undercover officers acted as provocateurs at the northwest steps of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021." The report cites an admission in a March 24 filing before U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras that sought to keep video footage shot by the officers under court seal. Informants Everywhere. After nine weeks of testimony from multiple government witnesses, including FBI agents, the Justice Department finally concluded its case-in-chief in the Proud Boys' seditious conspiracy trial on Monday. Five Proud Boys, including the group's leader, Enrique Tarrio, are accused of conspiring to "oppose the lawful transfer of presidential power by force" on January 6, 2021. It is Attorney General Merrick Garland's most consequential case related to January 6; convictions will help build a similar case against Donald Trump largely based on his infamous "stand back and stand by" remark to the Proud Boys during an October 2020 presidential debate. Most of the evidence is nothing more than inflammatory, braggadocious chatter in group texts; Tarrio wasn't even present at the Capitol on January 6. Another defendant, Ethan Nordean, can be seen on surveillance video walking through an open door as Capitol police stood nearby. Similar to other so-called "militia" groups tied to January 6, no one brought weapons to the Capitol that day; no one was charged with assaulting police officers or lawmakers. New Video From Jan 6th Shows Undercover MPD Encouraging Protesters To Storm Capitol. Three police officers appear to be among those chanting "drain the swamp" and "Whose house? Our house!" as protesters invaded the Capitol on Jan. 6, the government said in a federal court document filed Friday. The actions were recorded on GoPro video by a Metropolitan Police officer stationed at the Capitol "in an evidence-gathering capacity," the document said. The government's filing involves the case of a Kansas man charged with multiple felonies in connection with the Capitol riot. William Pope, of Topeka — who is representing himself — has asked the judge to release videos in his case that he says show undercover Metropolitan Police officers inciting protesters to breach the Capitol on Jan. 6. [Video clip Ray Epps' Lawyer Threatens Tucker Carlson: 'You Didn't See What You Saw on J6 Video — or Else'. The man seen urging people inside the Capitol Building on multiple videos on Jan. 5 and Jan. 6 in 2021, Ray Epps, wasn't really urging people inside the Capitol, lawyers tell Fox News' Tucker Carlson. Instead, you're believing your own lying eyes. And if you don't hep-to and apologize for stating what's on video that was captured on those days, then we'll sue you. So goes the gist of the letter sent to Tucker Carlson and Fox News from Epps' new attorney. The letter from Epps's lawfare lawyer, formerly of Perkins Coie, to Carlson claims, [...] New Video Shows Police Officers Inciting Crowd on January 6th, Prosecutors Desperately Try to Hide Footage. A federal prosecutor made a rather explosive filing on Friday, admitting that three police officers helped instigate parts of the crowd on January 6th. The case, which is before US District Judge Rudolph Contreras, involves a defendant named William Pope who is seeking to uncover the videos in question. Prosecutors are none too happy about that, arguing that "unmasking" the videos would put police officers at risk. Emergency Motion Claims FBI Didn't Disclose Informant Inside Proud Boys Defense Team. Critics of the harsh prosecutions in the January 6th debacle continue to be vindicated. Those who have said the whole thing was a setup keep getting proved right by our own Department of Justice. According to lawyers for Zachary Rehl, a Proud Boys chapter leader charged with seditious conspiracy, the government failed to disclose that one of the witnesses scheduled to testify was actually a confidential informant for the FBI. Surprisingly, the Associated Press reported it. Meadows, other top Trump aides ordered to testify in Jan. 6 probe as judge rejects claims of executive privilege. A federal judge has rejected former President Donald Trump's claims of executive privilege and has ordered Mark Meadows and other former top aides to testify before a federal grand jury investigating Trump's efforts to overturn the election leading up to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell ABC News. Meadows, Trump's former chief of staff, was subpoenaed along with the other former aides by Special counsel Jack Smith for testimony and documents related to the probe. Trump's legal team had challenged the subpoenas by asserting executive privilege, which is the right of a president to keep confidential the communications he has with advisers. Federal prosecutors reveal Proud Boys witness was informant. Federal prosecutors disclosed Wednesday [3/22/2023] that a witness expected to testify for the defense at the seditious conspiracy trial of former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and four associates was secretly acting as a government informant for nearly two years after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, a defense lawyer said in a court filing. Carmen Hernandez, a lawyer for former Proud Boys chapter leader Zachary Rehl, asked a judge to schedule an immediate emergency hearing and suspend the trial "until these issues have been considered and resolved." Lawyers for the other four defendants joined in Hernandez's request. US Capitol rioter who barged into Pelosi's offices sentenced to three years in prison. A 24-year-old Pennsylvania woman who barged into then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office during the January 6, 2021, US Capitol riot was sentenced Thursday to three years in prison after a federal judge ridiculed the idea she was "a little girl." Riley Williams was convicted in November of several counts including resisting or impeding an officer, civil disorder, and disorderly conduct in the Capitol building and grounds. The Death of Dissent. The lead prosecutor in charge of the January 6 investigation, the largest probe in Justice Department history, just confirmed what American Greatness has reported for months: the number of criminal cases related to the Capitol protest is expected to at least double before it's all over. U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Matthew Graves, an advisor to Joe Biden's presidential campaign who took over the powerful office in late 2021, sent a letter to the chief judge of the D.C. District court warning up to 1,200 more individuals could face charges. "We expect the pace of bringing new cases will increase, in an orderly fashion, over the course of the next few months," Graves told Beryl Howell, who ended her term as chief judge last week. Graves' office just surpassed 1,000 total defendants in what he renamed the "Capitol Siege" investigation — which means the final caseload might well exceed 2,000. Eight Startling and Uncomfortable Ways the Democrat Party Emulates the Nazi Party. [#3] [I]n January 1933, Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. Within four weeks a mysterious, and in all likelihood staged, fire broke out in the Reichstag (Congress) Building which the Nazis blamed on Communist agitators as their opening salvo in a violent coup. Using this pretext, the Nazis rushed to arrest and harshly prosecute selected elements of their political adversaries, thus intimidating the balance. They also forced through the Reichstag the Enabling Act of 1933 in March of the same year. This law embedded the Nazis as the sole dominant political party and ensured that only the Nazis could win future elections. The Democrat party seized upon in all likelihood a setup disturbance at the Capital on January 6, 2021 to proclaim that it was an "armed insurrection" and the opening salvo in a violent coup attempt by Trump, his supporters and white supremacists. Using this pretext, the Democrats rushed to arrest and harshly prosecute those in attendance in order to intimidate their political enemies. In the footsteps of the Nazi Party, the Democrats immediately pushed to pass the For The People Act, which would have overturned virtually all existing voter laws, embedded the Democrats as the sole dominant political party and ensured that only the Democrats could win future elections. Jacob Chansley's Lawyer Intends to File to Vacate Conviction. Bill Shipley, the lawyer representing Jan. 6 defendant Jacob Chansley, started the process of requesting the court to vacate Chansley's 41-month sentence next week, Shipley confirmed in an exclusive interview with The Epoch Times on Friday. Shipley said he intends to file a vacate-conviction motion pursuant to 28 U.S. Code § 2255 (remedies on motion attacking sentence) next week, pending government response to a letter he sent to the DOJ on Friday requesting information about Chansley's case. That provision in the law states that a "prisoner in custody under sentence of a court established by Act of Congress claiming the right to be released upon the ground that the sentence was imposed in violation of the Constitution or laws of the United States." On Friday [3/17/2023], Shipley sent a letter to Assistant U.S. Attorney Kimberly Paschall to ask about the factual basis of the government's representation of Chansley's case in a separate lawsuit. He said he's "prepping the battlefield" for a prospective filing to request the court to vacate Chansley's conviction. Don't fall for another Jan. 6-style trap! President Trump has stated that he will be arrested on Tuesday and we should all take to the streets. Don't do it! Stay home, and let the lawyers handle it. This is a set-up, just like January 6. Don't fall for it. Don't go anywhere near a federal building, don't stand with groups of people you don't know, and don't send threatening emails. USCP Flips Its Lid in Filing Over January 6th Footage Release. The release of January 6th footage to Tucker Carlson by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy continues to make waves, after the general counsel for the USCP threw a fit about it in a recent court filing. The case in question involves providing January 6th defendants access to the footage, something the USCP and the DOJ are fighting against. The police force's general counsel argues that they did not get to review most of what was released by Carlson, with some of it being from the so-called "sensitive list." There seems to be some confusion here by the Capitol Police's leadership in regard to who works for whom. The USCP is subservient to the US Congress and is subject to oversight via no less than four different committees. Ultimately, the police force answers to a chain of command that leads back to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy because, unfortunately for their chosen narrative, Nancy Pelosi is no longer in charge. In other words, it is not the USCP's job to determine what gets released and what doesn't. Yet, the filing complains of not getting to review each and every clip that was to be released nor having a say in what ultimately left the facility. DC Gulag Political Prisoner Jeffrey McKellop Reveals the Extent of Government Agents at J6 Capitol Protest. For weeks now The Gateway Pundit was informed about Jeffrey McKellop a decorated former 3rd Special Forces Group soldier and US government contractor. Jeffrey is currently being held in the DC Gulag in Washington DC as a political prisoner after he served his country for 22 years of military service. Jeffrey has been silenced by his government. After his arrest in March 2021, Jeffrey delved into video footage and documented evidence from January 6. Jeffrey was able to identify numerous government informants and agitators in the massive Trump crowd that day. After he put together his evidence he sent it out to numerous contacts. That was when the FBI came into his prison cell and took his research. They then attempted to silence him and banned him from phone and mail privileges. Jeffrey's trial is scheduled to start in April, 2023. He has been in prison for two years TODAY without a trial. He was arrested on March 17, 2021. What's the difference between an "insurrection" and a riot? For the first time I know of, since that incident, our country has been holding prisoners of conscience in solitary confinement without a trial. Democrats had free rein on prime-time television to sell the American people a narrative of an insurrection, yet many rightfully remain unconvinced. A stink is attached to the entire process with a kangaroo court, scripted television, and zero defense of those accused of high crimes. Process matters. Dozens died in the streets due to rioting during the pandemic, and property damages were billions of dollars. Comparing the differences in how these two series of actions were spun is instructive, and analyzing the different approaches to how we reacted is reasonable and proper. It is an inconvenient truth that an overwhelming majority of participants at the Capitol did no physical damage and harmed no one. The only known violent death was Ashli Babbitt, who was unnecessarily shot. We, the People, used to mean something. Now, it's little more than a catchphrase with the government going after a thousand people (many who never set foot in the Capitol building). They are targets because of what they think. What does that portend? Freedom today is defined by what some Democrats decide it to be. You can riot in American streets almost without consequence, but demand change at our Capitol, and you will be imprisoned and the key thrown away. How does this square in our "free" country? DOJ Planning Hundreds of New J6 Prosecutions in Latest Filing. Federal prosecutors are eyeing charges against more than 1,000 individuals who may have participated in the January 6th, 2021 riots at the Capitol building. The United States Attorney in Washington sent a letter this week to the chief justice for DC's federal court system stating that prosecutors overseen by US Attorney General Merrick Garland may bring between 700 and 1,200 new individuals into the justice system, according to Bloomberg News. The staggering figure represents approximately a doubling of prosecutions sought in connection with the event where supporters of President Donald Trump entered the Capitol in an attempt to disrupt proceedings certifying President Joe Biden as winner of the 2020 election. Questioning the January 6 Aftermath. Tucker Carlson's release of January 6th footage raises questions about the status of free speech and due process of law. For more than two years, politicians, media, and big tech have worked together to proliferate a narrative: January 6th was an entirely "violent insurrection," and according to Vice President Kamala Harris, even on par with the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the September 11th terrorist attacks. Department of Justice (DoJ) prosecutors have worked diligently to publicize and penalize all participants, including the peaceful ones, to the most severe extent possible. [...] The FBI didn't just question people at the Capitol on January 6th, but those on the Ellipse as well. My friend, a loving mother and emergency room nurse, purchased her adult son's flight to attend the Save America rally with her credit card. Her son was not near the Capitol that day, but FBI agents showed up at her door months later to question her. That was the day she lost faith in the FBI and bought a doormat that reads, "Come back with a warrant." January 6 Doesn't Shine a Candle to COVID. With House speaker Kevin McCarthy's release of thousands of hours of Capitol surveillance video footage to Tucker Carlson, and Carlson's subsequent airing of the footage on his popular Fox News show, it's more clear now than ever: what the American left did to Trump, on COVID, on crime (especially the Antifa/BLM riots), at the border, and the like, was far worse than anything that occurred at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. After Tucker began airing newly released Jan. 6 footage on Tucker Carlson Tonight this past Monday (3/6/23), the next day, Ben Shapiro summarized well what we learned: ["]The reaction to January 6th was to throw Donald Trump off all social media; it was to paint all republicans as rioters. ... It turns out, even a huge majority of the people who were at the Capitol, and in the Capitol that day, were not in fact rioters. [... "] The J6 Committee's Obstruction of Justice. Jacob Chansley became the face of the January 6 event because of his outlandish makeup and dress on that day. He was photographed in the Senate chambers and charged with "knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority, and with violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds." He argued in his defense that he had been admitted to the building by the Capitol Police and was escorted around by them. His attorney made "extraordinary efforts" to get security video to bolster his claims but was unable to gain access to it. Following Chansley's failure to corroborate his story, he was coerced into pleading guilty to "obstructing an official proceeding." Judge Royce Lamberth sentenced him to 41 months in prison to set an example, as requested by the prosecution. Suddenly, Tucker Carlson has broadcast proof that Chansley's story is true. He was admitted to the building without any sort of violence that has been documented. While some broke windows to get in, Chansley was part of a group that simply walked in when the police opened the doors to allow them in, contrary to Judge Lamberth's written opinion. The Democrat-Media Insurrection Myth. There were two events recently that were met with considerable hysteria by what remains of the Democrat party and their stenographers in what passes for our "news" media. First, the purchase of Twitter by Elon Musk, who promised to restore freedom of speech there. Second, Tucker Carlson's release of the videos of the Capitol riot that took place on the Jan. 6, 2021 given him by Republican Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy. The reasons for the hysteria in Liberal Land over both of these positive developments is that the Democrat-Media Collusion Team has been in charge of virtually all institutions since Jan. 6, 2021 and they had painted a picture of the events at the Capitol Jan. 6 that would further solidify their own wealth and power. The Democrat-Media Collusion Team, the self-described great defenders of our democracy, cannot not abide any such positive democratic developments. Imagine what the serfs might think if the government or "news media" actually told them the truth for a change! It's absolutely terrifying. Jacob Chansley saved us all. On J6, Chansley ambled down the corridors, got a police-conducted tour, then said a prayer and howled. Who knows his politics, or cares? What neither Chansley, nor hundreds of others who were there that day did, was riot. They did not come brandishing firearms. (Who goes to insurrect without guns? This is America about which we are talking.) They set no fires. This is worth repeating. They set no fires. (Whereas Antifa set fire to the "Church of Presidents" in a real riot, albeit memory-holed, in front of the White House.) Now, granted, Chansley may be just a very, very weird, though non-violent, guy. The others, though, walking about calmly, staying between the lines, taking selfies with the police... these seem to be just plain decent folk who wandered in through open doors to a place ordinarily open to the public. There are two other reasons that this calmness and decency are so remarkable. Agents provocateur, of whom there were beaucoup. An "agent provocateur" is a person working for the government who tries to provoke someone into committing a crime. And then there was this little context thing. A J6 defendant who walked into Capitol through an open door, spent less than a minute inside, faces prison. By any standard, the treatment of January 6 defendants has been a disgrace to the Department of Justice, the DC federal bench, and the Constitution. Scores of people have been held in inhumane conditions in the DC Gulag, denied their constitutional right to speedy trial, and denied access to exculpatory evidence. The blanket media coverage excoriating them as "violent insurrectionists" has prevented these constitutional outrages from becoming a national scandal. But there is a chance, a small chance, that the release of CCTV Capitol video by Speaker McCarthy may change the national consensus (other than in conservative media) that there is nothing to see here, they are getting what they deserve. One such instance powered by the video release is the case of Daniel Goodwin, who faces federal prison via DOJ prosecutors. Goodwin's crime was simply walking through an open door into the Capitol, spending less than a minute inside, and immediately leaving when asked to do so by a Capitol policeman. Watching the wheels fall off the statist juggernaut. [Scroll down] The release of the full load of Jan. 6 surveillance footage has tipped the scale. This was foreshadowed by the obvious rigging of the congressional hearing on the subject — where so much information was withheld and the members of the panel were selected almost entirely for their bias. The resulting political demise of Liz Cheney meshes well with today's cascade of dominoes. Although the Jan. 6 "event" will have little, if any, actual effect on the destiny of our nation, the Deep State's big guns had to come out. Why? Because they have to destroy Trump. Their lapdog media's bullets are just bouncing off his chest...and their many malfeasances are becoming ever more obvious. Proving Trump a criminal is their only way out, and their acquired sloppiness is helping to escort them to the losing side of history. Proud Boys J6 Case Upended By Hidden FBI Messages Judge Calls 'Much Ado About Nothing'. A federal judge on Monday [3/13/2023] blocked the questioning of witnesses on the bulk of FBI messages disclosed unintentionally in the trial of Proud Boys leaders over the January 6 Capitol riot. The messages caused a stir last week after defense attorneys began questioning a witness about several FBI messages that prosecutors say contain classified information, according to POLITICO. Defense attorneys allege that prosecutors may be attempting to hide information damaging to their case behind classification barriers. The government's seditious conspiracy case against five Proud Boys leaders — Joe Biggs, Ethan Nordean, Dominic Pezzola, Zachary Rehl, and Enrique Tarrio — is one of the most important trials surrounding the January 6 riot, prosecutors say. The trial, which has already undergone numerous delays, was put on hold again last week after prosecutors handed over thousands of messages sent and received by FBI Special Agent Nicole Miller, one of the lead investigators into the Proud Boys' possible involvement in the January 6 breach. A 'Spill' of FBI Secrets. The FBI agent squirmed on the hot seat. Confronted with messages the Justice Department attempted to conceal, Nicole Miller, one of the lead FBI investigators assigned to the Proud Boys case, was on the verge of admitting that the FBI monitored privileged communications between one defendant and his attorney in 2021. "It appears so," Miller responded when asked by defense attorney Nicholas Smith on March 8 to confirm she and another agent discussed the content of emails exchanged between Zachary Rehl, one of five Proud Boys currently on trial for seditious conspiracy, and his former lawyer. Smith read aloud one of Miller's texts: "I need to find other emails, but this one email definitely indicates that they want to go to trial, But don't freak out, Jason and Luke." Smith turned to Miller. "Now, 'Jason,' you understand to be referring to the prosecutor in this case, Jason McCullough. Correct?" But jurors never heard an answer. After prosecutors loudly objected, Judge Timothy Kelly abruptly dismissed the jury. Everything You Need To Know About Tucker Carlson's J6 Tapes. Last Monday and Tuesday night, Carlson's program aired new surveillance footage of the U.S. Capitol from the Jan. 6 riot that undermined the left's narrative of a "deadly insurrection." Contrary to critics' claims that Carlson entirely glossed over the riot, he showed viewers graphic scenes of the turmoil that legacy outlets and Democrats on the Jan. 6 Committee had endlessly played for Americans. [...] Fox News also aired footage of since-deceased Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick walking around the complex after altercations with demonstrators that supposedly killed him. Democrats and the legacy press exploited Sicknick's death on Jan. 7, 2021, claiming it was a direct consequence of clashes with demonstrators. First, The New York Times claimed Sicknick's death was due to a blunt-force injury from a fire extinguisher. After the paper issued a quiet correction, CNN linked Sicknick's death to a chemical irritant, such as pepper spray or bear spray from the crowd. The D.C. medical examiner's office concluded in a report published a month later that Sicknick had died of natural causes. House Democrats, however, continued to use the officer's death as justification to label the riot "deadly" for Capitol Police. Ray Epps Lied — He Committed Criminal Acts and It Was All Caught on Video. On January 11, 2022, then Rep. Adam Kinzinger defended likely FBI cut-out Ray Epps. Kinzinger claimed Ray Epps, the one person caught on video directing Trump supporters to break into the US Capitol, did nothing wrong. [Tweet] In his testimony before the sham January 6 Committee on January 21, 2022, Ray Epps insisted "I don't break the law" and "It's not in my DNA." But is that the truth? Was Ray Epps being honest in his testimony under oath to the January 6 Committee? Did Ray Epps, a likely federal cut-out commit any crimes on January 5th and 6th 2021? We believe we have evidence he did. Ray Epps is a free man. He was NEVER arrested after encouraging Trump supporters to rush the Capitol Police — And we have evidence that several Americans are now serving time for a criminal act Ray Epps was involved in on January 6th. Jan. 6 Trial Paused Due to FBI Allegedly Altering Evidence. FBI agents allegedly attempted to alter and destroy evidence that would have cleared an American citizen of being charged with faked crimes of domestic terrorism in a series of trials beginning on January 6, 2021, at the US Capitol, which has become a rallying crime for the Administrative State to punish the American people for supporting populist President Donald J. Trump. On that fateful day in 2021, when millions of People used their right to petition the government, strong forces assembled in Washington, D.C. to build a narrative that populists were violent and planned a violent rebellion to destroy the United States government. While individuals awaited trials for two years, the media and the RINO-Democrat axis bombarded the public with reports that Trump supporters engaged in treasonous activity. More questions than answers in the wake of Tucker Carlson's January 6 exposé. While I agree that it appeared that Tucker Carlson shifted from a fairly assertive open (on Monday) to a significantly less assertive set of shows throughout the balance of the week, he did hit a few nerves and caused an apoplectic response from the January 6 committee members, the Democrats, a handful of weak-kneed Republicans, and the plurality media. [...] We all knew that January 6 was not an insurrection. The J6 committee (without further evidence) didn't establish any coordinated effort to overthrow the government. On three important fronts, Carlson contradicted the bogus narratives (established by the J6 committee) around Jacob Chansley (the QAnon Shaman), the death (reported murder) of Officer Brian Sicknick, and the false testimony from Ray Epps. "They lied!" [...] Most importantly, there are dozens of Americans illegally incarcerated for their alleged actions on January 6. Find any and all incarcerated persons on video and run a loop of all of their activities. If criminal behavior (beyond trespassing) can be ascertained, prosecute accordingly. Let everyone else free. Did Nancy Pelosi direct the US Capitol Police to stand down? The release of previously withheld January 6 video footage by House speaker Kevin McCarthy to Fox News is interesting for a number of reasons. By broadcasting, Tucker Carlson has shed light on the propaganda fest known as the "United States House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack." The Democrats even hired a former ABC News executive to produce the cherry-picked video production and edit out inconvenient images that worked against their predetermined narrative. One segment of the newly released video stands out: up to nine Capitol police officers were shown acting as de facto tour guides for the man dubbed the "QAnon Shaman" (Jacob Chansley) by the mainstream media. For anyone with a law enforcement background, this scene is quite bizarre. No competent police officer would casually stroll through a high-security building with an alleged "terrorist leader" of his own volition without a directive from his superiors. Even as Jan. 6 Narrative Implodes, Pence Still Blames Bad Orange Man for Endangering His Life. Mike Pence is running hard to be the Mitt Romney of 2024, the controlled opposition establishment Republican nominee who will run for president and lose gracefully. Or if he somehow wins, he will do the Left's bidding, but in a restrained, ostensibly conservative way. The formerly genuine conservative Pence showed that again Saturday at the Gridiron Club dinner in Washington, an annual event where speakers usually keep things light. The famously stone-faced former veep may have been incapable of cracking jokes, but he sure went all-in on making his remarks as heavy as possible and signaling that he would happily carry water for the Left, repeating his claim that Trump endangered his life on Jan. 6 — even as the Left's Jan. 6 narrative is in a full state of collapse. Unnerving: 'Geofence' warrants threaten every phone user's privacy. The last time your phone asked you to allow this or that app access to your location data, you may have had some trepidation about how much Apple or Google know about you. You may have worried about what might come of that, or read about China's use of the data to track anti-lockdown protesters. What you probably didn't realize is Google has already searched your data on behalf of the federal government to see if you were involved with January 6th. But last month, the federal district court in DC issued an opinion in the case of one of the many defendants who stands accused of sacking the Capitol in the wake of the 2020 election. Leaked chat proves FBI helped orchestrate J6. Special Agent Nicole Miller accidentally revealed that her boss ordered her to destroy 338 items of evidence via chat logs that were leaked. That's bad news for the prosecution. And now it's official. We are living under the very government our founding fathers warned us against. Apparently, Miller not only lied to the defense, but also may have spied on attorney-client communications (last I checked, these fall under the 'privileged' category) after also being asked to "edit out that I was present" during a meeting with a confidential informant. I guess this is the kind of 'higher loyalty' James Comey wrote about. Dramatic New Video Shows Efforts to Revive Lifeless Rosanne Boyland on Jan. 6, 2021. A dramatic new Metropolitan Police Department bodycam video shows how officers and medics from three police agencies worked for 15 minutes to try to revive a lifeless Rosanne Boyland after she was dragged feet-first through the Lower West Terrace tunnel on Jan. 6, 2021. The urgent efforts to restart Boyland's heart were a stark contrast to the previous 10 minutes outside the tunnel, where protesters begged police for medical help, but their pleas were ignored. Boyland, 34, of Kennesaw, Georgia, was the last of four people who died at the U.S. Capitol that day. Jan. 6 Videos Show Antifa Disguising Selves as Trump Supporters, Trumpers Stopping Vandals. Videos of Jan. 6, 2021, some of which were previously censored, are now circulating online and sparking controversy and shock. The videos show people who appear to be Antifa infiltrating Trump supporters and Trump supporters stopping Antifa vandalism. Another video shows a man who said he witnessed Antifa disguising themselves and saying they wanted to make Trump supporters look bad. The eyewitness further insisted the Jan. 6 protesters committing vandalism were not Trump supporters. [...] Finally, an eyewitness account: a man who said he was an emergency management coordinator in Pennsylvania stated that he saw Antifa trying to disguise themselves and saying, "We got to shake this up so that these people look bad." Footage Shows "QAon Shaman" Jacob Chansley Telling January 6th Protesters To Go Home. Footage from January 6th shows Jacob Chansley, or the "QAnon Shaman," on a speaker reading then-President Donald Trump's tweet telling protesters to go home. "Donald Trump has asked us to go home," Chansley said to the gathered crowd. "We made our point and Donald Trump has asked for everybody to go home. So what are we going to do? We are going to obey our president, we're going to do what he asked. "Respect the Capitol," a man in the crowd shouted. This Great Stage of Fools. This week a very intelligent person, Naomi Wolf (B.A. Yale, PhD Oxford) did just that. She offered up a" full-throated apology" to conservatives for falling for the Democrats' narrative on the January 6 events. ["]I believed a farrago of lies. And, as a result of these lies, and my credulity — and the credulity of people similarly situated to me - many conservatives' reputations are being tarnished, on false bases.["] What opened her eyes was the videos shown by Tucker Carlson. [...] No one is charged with bearing a weapon into the Capitol. Body cams show "outrageous misconduct by law enforcement. D.C. Metropolitan Police launched an aggressive and unnecessary offensive against the crowd assembled on the west lawn. Even though protestors were respecting police lines at the time, footage shows officers throwing stun grenades and other devices containing rubber bullets into the crowd beginning shortly after 1:00 p.m." and that conduct enraged the crowd. Inside the Capitol "police used batons to beat at least two women on the head resulting in injuries;" "excessive force caused the deaths of four supporters." There's no evidence any officer was killed there and "there's no evidence the reported suicides of other officers after January 6 were related to the protest." The claim that the protest was to affect the count was also bunk. Tucker Carlson's Naysayers Self-Identify for All to See. Tucker Carlson's recent exposure of the Democrats' J6 narrative as a long-running lie has rattled a lot of cages. The sound and fury from serial liars like Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on the Senate floor and Mitch McConnell (R-KY) during a press conference this week only reinforced the validity of Carlson's reporting. After all, anyone with an ounce of critical thinking capability could see for themselves how key points of the narrative imploded while watching the incriminating video evidence presented. While many America First Americans have long suspected the truth about the Democrat J6 hoax (which, after all, is just the latest in a series to be exposed as bald-face lies), consumers of the legacy media have bought into that narrative for the last two years and have written off dissenters as "conspiracy theorists." Fortunately, there are a few open-minded among the normies who bought into the J6 hoax who have now had their minds dramatically changed by Carlson's bombshell reporting. Tucker pulled his punches. I watched what I thought was a serious journalist blow the first night of the supposed big J6 tape release. But I couldn't help noticing that he picked stuff we already knew — and he was WEAK. Where was the video of fed provocateurs and violence coordinators? Capitol Police flash bang and rubber bullet/baton attacks on an unarmed citizen crowd? The deceptions about the barricades? The beatings of unarmed women and lots of unarmed men, and one, Roseann Boyland, who died? What was so hard about demonstrating to the public that the J6 was a Reichstag Fire scam? Defendant Moves to Dismiss Jan. 6 Case Based on Newly Disclosed Footage, FBI Testimony. A defendant in the Proud Boys trial over Jan. 6, 2021, charges moved on March 9 to dismiss the case, after some footage from the day of the breach was shown for the first time. Dominic Pezzola is one of the Proud Boys members on trial for obstruction of an official proceeding and other charges. The newly disclosed footage, shown on Fox News this week, "is plainly exculpatory," Pezzola's lawyers said in the new motion. "It establishes that the Senate chamber was never violently breached, and — in fact — was treated respectfully by January 6 protestors," the motion reads. Among the clips Fox's Tucker Carlson broadcast was one of Jacob Chansley, another defendant who's serving a jail sentence after pleading guilty, walking around accompanied by police officers. The officers didn't stop Chansley and even tried to open doors for him. He eventually made it into the Senate chamber, where he and others later knelt and prayed. Chansley, during the prayer, gave thanks to the officers for "letting us into the building." Turley Raises a Big Question about J6 Chansley Case, Then Elon Drops a Bombshell Video. The questions surrounding the case of Jacob Chansley — the guy known as the "QAnon Shaman" — have gotten more traction since Tucker Carlson began raising the issue on his show. Carlson raised questions about the video showing Chansley being led around the Capitol building by multiple police officers. They don't stop him; they even open doors for him. After they lead him to the Senate chamber, he says a prayer for their help on the Senate floor. Chansley was sentenced to 41 months in prison for pleading guilty to "obstruction of an official proceeding." He never hurt anyone, that wasn't even alleged. Chansley's attorneys said that this video was not turned over to them. Had it been turned over, it certainly could have factored into his defense to such a charge. Plus, if the prosecution was in fact aware of this video, then they would have had a legal obligation to turn it over to the defense. DOJ Gets Hit With Huge Legal Motion After Merrick Garland Falsely Claims 5 Officers Were Killed On J6. In the aftermath of explosive new January 6 footage revealed by Fox News primetime host Tucker Carlson, there have been false claims made by Biden officials that police officers were killed by protesters during the Capitol riots. Attorney General Merrick Garland in particular misrepresented the incident and implied that five police officers died due to the January 6 incident. "I think all Americans saw what happened on January 6th, and most of it saw, most of us saw it,,, as it was happening," Garland said. "It was a violent attack on a fundamental tenant of American democracy. That power is peacefully transferred from one administration to another. Over a hundred officers were assaulted on that day. Five officers died. We have charged more than a thousand people with their crimes on that day. And more than 500 have already been convicted. I think it's very clear what happened on January 6th." The Editor says... More Benedict Arnolds Than One Could Count! A massive cache of 41,000 hours of surveillance video recorded at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, was withheld by the U.S. government from the American people for two years until Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) exclusively turned over copies of those videos to FOX News host Tucker Carlson and his producers. The videos have finally exposed precisely what happened on January 6 after Carlson broadcast snippets from the videos in a devastating two-part television exposé that debuted on March 6 and 7, 2023. The many lies that the so-called January 6 Committee, composed of seven members of the corrupt Democratic party and two corrupt Republicans, have been exposed for all of America to see. In a massive Brady violation, the U.S. Government withheld video exculpatory evidence from J6 defendants and their attorneys. The judges, sua sponte, should release all J6 prisoners forthwith. Any delay is simply another egregious criminal act toward the destruction of the rule of law. What we purposely weren't shown about Jan. 6. Now, to be certain, a riot took place on Jan. 6. In that riot, dozens of officers were injured; some 1,000 people were arrested. But Carlson isn't wrong that tape appears to show some of the people in the Capitol wandering around aimlessly, not violently, or that the media's original portrayal of Sicknick's death — it was widely reported that he had been directly murdered by the crowd — was incorrect. Argue with Carlson's framing all you want; I have significant disagreements with it. But it is clear that Jan. 6, as ugly as it was, was a riot and not a "danger to our democracy"; that many of those in the Capitol were in fact gawking rather than rioting; and that the Jan. 6 committee went out of its way to present certain footage but avoid other footage. A decision was made by the Jan. 6 committee and the media to avoid the possibility of any nuance whatsoever regarding the riots. Instead, the only acceptable narrative determined that a riot was an insurrection, that insurrection threatened the overthrow of the United States, and that the insurrection continues to percolate throughout conservative circles. Any mitigating evidence to that overblown narrative was discarded. A Handy January 6 Fact Sheet. Clearly, it's panic time. The White House, Congress, and the Democratic Party propaganda arm that is the corporate media realize their carefully engineered narrative about January 6 is imploding in real time. Which is why they're accusing Carlson of "whitewashing" and "rewriting" the events of January 6. Anything less than total fealty to regime-approved talking points about what happened before and after that day now is considered a "threat to democracy." But facts are facts. And no amount of pearl-clutching by the hags on "The View" or threats made by U.S. senators can alter the reality of January 6. Between video recordings, witness testimony, court filings, and news reporting, the undeniable truth about January 6 cannot be willfully wished away even by the most skilled spinmeisters. Indisputable video evidence exposes the truth, and Democrats erupt into a conniption. Tucker Carlson shows real footage from January 6th, and the media and the other Democrats squeal like pigs, denouncing the expository tapes as "lies" and Carlson a cherry picker. This is rich coming from Democrats and the media, who deliberately chose to show a small portion of the videos. The J6 committee was never seeking the truth. It was seeking to destroy President Trump to preclude a run for 2024. If they sought the truth, they wouldn't have lied about the number of people who died that day, and they would have investigated why Pelosi chose not to secure the Capitol, despite urgings from Trump. It is illegal to withhold exculpatory evidence, so why haven't all the defendants had access to all tapes and testimony? J6 committee co-chair: None of us watched the surveillance video, actually. This raises all sorts of interesting questions, no? CNN reporter Alayna Treene reported an aside from January 6 committee chair Bennie Thompson as a reaction to a new policy of access to surveillance video of the riot that really should become the story. Kevin McCarthy is now allowing controlled access to all of the video for House members, a step that Nancy Pelosi never took, so that the entire Congress can decide for themselves what happened that day. As it turns out, that's a step that even the J6 committee members never bothered to take — even though their select panel's only mission was to investigate the riot: [Tweet] Former J6 Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson Claims He Didn't Have Access to January 6 Footage. Former January 6 Chairman Bennie Thompson claimed he never had access to January 6 footage after Fox News host Tucker Carlson released never-before-seen footage. Bennie Thompson told CNN that he is not aware of any January 6 Committee members having access to the J6 footage. "I'm actually not aware of any member of the committee who had access. We had a team of employees who kind of went through the video," Bennie Thompson told CNN. This week we saw more proof of the Democrats' disdain for democracy. It is said that when an individual responds to an allegation with a personal attack, the allegations are probably true, and the accused is most likely guilty. This week we saw proof of the guilt of the Democrats during two separate instances. We look at Exhibit 1. Tucker Carlson aired episodes based on the security camera footage from the Capitol Building on January 6, 2021. The footage was the most closely guarded secret in the DC, although newly elected Speaker Kevin McCarthy had pledged to release it to the public and did so. Carlson debunked the Democrat narrative of a mass armed and dangerous insurrection with visual proof. The insurrection narrative was mounted by the Democrats and their PR agencies that masquerade as news media outlets by slyly editing the footage to convey chaos and violence. Footage of crowds being unruly, lighting up a fire outside the Capitol building, and windows being broken were played in a loop to push the insurrection narrative. The actual insurrection in DC went unpunished. After two years of selective leaks of video by Pelosi's Pretorian Guard, the nation finally gets to see the whole story — and the Capitolists hate it. CNN said, "US Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger on Tuesday ripped into Fox News host Tucker Carlson over his commentary about footage from the January 6, 2021, insurrection that he aired Monday night, saying the host cherry-picked from the footage to present offensive and misleading conclusions about the attack." The political appointee whined in a memo leaked to CNN, "Last night an opinion program aired commentary that was filled with offensive and misleading conclusions about the January 6 attack." Manger also wrote, "The program conveniently cherry-picked from the calmer moments of our 41,000 hours of video. The commentary fails to provide context about the chaos and violence that happened before or during these less tense moments." This is the same group that selective leaked out-of-context video for two years. Some are now trying to turn a blind eye to the massive security failure on January 6, 2021. But many people around the world continue to wonder, how on earth was it possible that in the greatest country in the world, in the most armed nation on the planet with the best and most expensive security agencies in the universe, one of the most important buildings was left unprotected and was easily taken over by protesters while the presidential election was being certified and the Vice President was in the building? Why is no serious investigation done to understand that security failure and hold accountable every person who was in charge that day? Isn't that the most important investigation to be carried out? GOP Congress Members Organize Trip To See J6 Prisoners. A delegation of GOP congressmen, led by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, are assembling plans to visit prisoners awaiting trial for participating in the January 6, 2021 riots that rattled Washington and the world. Republicans continue to criticize the detainment centers where prisoners are being held with minimal recreation time, visitation rights, and black mold infestations. Greene has partnered with House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) to release a letter later today informing D.C. corrections officers of their travel plans. Schiff's Panic on Parade: Joins Schumer in Trying to Shut Down Tucker and Fox. We saw Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) — even before the Tucker Carlson Jan. 6 video footage coverage started — threatening Fox and saying that he had a right and an obligation to tell them what to report. It was a stunning attack on Constitutional freedoms, even as he ironically claimed they had to suppress speech to preserve "democracy." After Carlson's first report, Schumer then demanded that Rupert Murdoch shut him down and not let him do a second night because our "democracy depends on it." It isn't our "democracy that depends on it," it's their narrative and their power that requires it. That's what's teetering on the cliff and failing. Investigating the Investigators: Rep. Loudermilk Announces Probe Into the Jan. 6 Committee. Georgia GOP Representative Barry Loudermilk, chairman of the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight, said on Wednesday [3/8/2023] that his panel is launching an investigation into the January 6 Committee to find out if important information about the day's events was hidden by the panel. [...] Hopefully, Loudermilk will investigate the actions (and inactions) of then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. Although she was not technically the head of the Capitol Police, as some reports have indicated, she was nevertheless deeply engaged in security matters. In a 2022 supplement to a Senate probe, minority Republicans concluded that: ["]The Speaker's office was heavily involved in planning and decision-making before and during the events of January 6, 2021, and micromanaged the Sergeant at Arms.["] Loudermilk has been in the news recently because of persistent rumors that he led a "reconnaissance tour" of the Capitol for protesters the day before January 6 to give them the lay of the land, a claim the J6 Committee endorsed. As RedState's Streiff reported, however, Tucker Carlson nuked that story into next week as he has so many others in recent days. An egregious denial of due process for Jan. 6 protesters. For more than two years, while they controlled every lever of power in Washington, the Democratic Party and their media allies told a one-sided story about what happened at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. For more than two years, the surveillance footage from the 2021 Capitol riot, aired this week by Tucker Carlson, was kept from the American public by a Democratic Congress so a false narrative became cemented in the public consciousness. For more than two years, footage that could have exonerated Jan. 6 defendants was kept from their legal teams. People are in prison because of that cover-up. Take the footage aired by Carlson Monday night of so-called "QAnon Shaman" Jacob Chansley being escorted around the Capitol by police officers who help him open the door and enter the empty Senate chamber. It is hard to reconcile these calm and even cordial scenes with the nearly four-year prison sentence Chansley now is serving for "obstructing an official proceeding." McCarthy Skewers Media for J6 Footage Hypocrisy. Democrats are panicking and weak-kneed Republicans are outraged, but House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is defending his decision to give Tucker Carlson access to the video evidence of the events of January 6. And he clearly isn't shy about calling out the media and the Democrats who claim to be triggered by it. The media has falsely claimed that Tucker Carlson downplayed Officer Brian Sicknick's death by showing evidence that the was up and walking around — as opposed to the false narrative that Sicknick had been killed by rioters — and that Carlson was "whitewashing" the Capitol riot. When asked on Tuesday if he regretted giving Carlson the footage, McCarthy said no. "I said at the very beginning: transparency. What I wanted to produce for everyone was exactly what I said, so people could look at it and see what went on that day." [Tweet] Chief of J6 committee claims members never saw security video. The chief of ex-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's partisan committee she assembled to "review" the Jan. 6, 2021, events at the U.S. Capitol, and "investigate," a committee that finished with a report that tried to blame President Trump for just about everything, claims committee members never saw Capitol security video from that day. It's an issue because Fox News' Tucker Carlson has been given access to that video by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, and it has revealed that many narratives pushed for the last two years by Democrats and other Trump opponents were false. A statement on social media explained that Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Democrat who chaired the committee for Pelosi, claimed that members didn't see the actual events of that day, from the videos. [Tweet] Lies, and Democrats. Why not release all the footage to the public — footage of a public building, with public cameras, funded by the public, and video of the public during an event in broad daylight? Why did the nation's socialist media, the Democrats, and the useless RINOs of the Republican Party insist on keeping all of this material from the people? Because it would be hard to push their revolving narrative game on Jan. 6, 2021 if the people could fully see what happened — ugly as it was. It was far easier to make all kinds of hyperbolic claims when they controlled what everyone could see. With it all released, they would have to fall back on "don't believe your lying eyes." The socialists can screech all they want about the release of the footage as a "threat to democracy" or whatever. And that Jan. 6, 2021 was the biggest battle near Washington since Bull Run, but everyone can see for himself that there was some bull involved, but not what they meant. They can complain all they want about an "armed" insurrection, coup, attack, or whatever descriptor comes up on the spinning word wheel for the week. But when it's boring footage of people just walking around, the lies start falling apart, and their new version of the Reichstag fire blows up in their smug faces. The Editor says... Did Tucker Hit a Nerve? Axios Wants to Move On From January 6. The Democrats' January 6 Select Committee was a study in propaganda, a one-sided hanging jury that jealously guarded its control over footage of the Capitol Riot and only released what it cherry-picked for the public to see. The committee did this to the extent it even withheld exculpatory video from the poor bastards in its crosshairs who now languish in federal cells, having been denied their right to due process. Once Republicans were barely able to wrest control of the U.S. House from the Democrats' ballot sow-n-reap operation, the new House speaker favored transparency and granted Fox News's Tucker Carlson access to the full range of video that had previously only been wielded by the Establishment-Left kangaroo court. Carlson went right to work, highlighting previously hidden footage that revealed the partisans on the J6 committee to be manipulative, lying propagandists. But he had only aired the first night of his exposé when Big Left began to squeal like a stuck pig. Turning A Blind Eye To Inconvenient Truths About Jan. 6. For more than two years, Democrats and the media have been completely and totally fixated on the events of Jan. 6, 2021, using carefully selected clips from more than 40,000 hours of surveillance footage to tell their story of a violent insurrection. But now that Fox News has gained access to the complete video record and is providing the public with a far more complete picture of what happened that day, we fully expect the left to suddenly decide that Jan. 6 isn't worth talking about any more. Shortly after Republicans took control of the House, Speaker Kevin McCarthy decided to make the complete set of surveillance videos available to Fox News' Tucker Carlson. You can debate McCarthy's choice of who got access all you want. But the result is that the public has, for the first time, seen surveillance footage Democrats didn't want Americans to see. Such as evidence of Capitol Police officers politely escorting peaceful demonstrators around the building. The newly available footage also made it clear that the police officer who the Trump mob supposedly killed, Brian Sicknick, was walking around unharmed after the "deadly" attack occurred. Other narratives are failing to hold up. Tucker Carlson now is a target for challenging the Democrat groupthink. In recent days, Tucker Carlson presented facts about occurrences on January 6th, 2021, in and around the Capitol building that debunked the spurious Democrat narrative of a "deadly insurrection" by Trump supporters. The "deadly insurrection" claim was and is being used to target civilians and subject them to draconian punishment when the severest penalty they actually deserved for their actions on January 6th was a small fine or community service. Biden's DOJ says over 1,000 people have been arrested for the "insurrection." Most of them were charged with entering or remaining in a restricted federal building. More than 300 were charged with assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers or employees. More than 100 were charged with using a deadly or dangerous weapon or causing serious bodily injury to a police officer. The federal authorities are hoping that these draconian punishments serve as a warning and deterrent against any further demonstrations or protests in favor of President Trump. This "insurrection" narrative is being used to brand other dissenting citizens as domestic terrorists or violent White nationalists and target them. The goal is to outlaw political opposition. Too bad to check: Did the J6 committee add sound effects to surveillance videos? Unlike some of my friends on the Right, I understand the criticism of Kevin McCarthy's decision to give Tucker Carlson exclusive access to the footage of January 6. Partisans can manipulate video, especially 41,000 hours of it, and even Tucker presumably wouldn't disagree that he's a partisan. It's easy to slice up video to serve the narrative you prefer, to enhance and manipulate it, and to add dramatic flourishes to increase its emotional impact. And we can understand that by discovering what the January 6 committee did with the video, which appears to include all of the above. I missed this over the weekend, but Miranda Devine reported that the early word from Carlson's review is how silent the source video was: [...] The use of a former ABC News exec to package the video was well known prior to McCarthy's grant of exclusive access to Carlson, but it was assumed that editing was limited to ensuring that the evidence fit the committee's conclusions. (It should be the other way around, but that's another issue.) Adding sound to silent surveillance video would be a bald-faced attempt at emotional manipulation, utterly dishonest, and would completely undercut the integrity of the committee. DOJ broke the law when prosecuting "Q-Anon Shaman". The lawyer for Jacob Chansley, the so-called "Q-Anon Shaman" whose image is indelibly linked to the January 6th capitol riot, is accusing the Department of Justice of withholding the video of Chansley wandering the Capitol building escorted by Capitol Police officers who helpfully showed him various parts of the capitol. The video, released by Tucker Carlson, stunned a lot of people because it shattered the narrative put forth by the federal government that Chansley was a leader of an insurrectionist mob, storming the capitol with violent intent. In the video, Chansley was seen wandering the capitol with no other protesters, escorted by Capitol Police officers. And then praising them in a prayer on the floor of the House of Representatives, thanking them for letting them in. You don't have to be a fan of Tucker Carlson or approve of the January 6th riot to see that the government's version of events is... not accurate? Perhaps less than truthful? Perhaps a fabrication? It sure looks that way. Biden Scolds Republicans Over Tucker Carlson Airing January 6 Tapes. President Joe Biden condemned House Republicans on Wednesday for allowing Fox News host Tucker Carlson to access and air previously unseen security footage of January 6 that showed police officers appearing to stand by passively as people poured into the U.S. Capitol. The rebuke from the president came in response to an internal memo from U.S. Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger which criticized "Tucker Carlson Tonight" for broadcasting some of the video and commentary he claimed was offensive and misleading. [...] Carlson and his team received exclusive access to more than 40,000 hours of security camera footage as part of a deal made with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), who said he opted for the disclosure for the sake of transparency and to counter the "politicization" he believes had been fostered by former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and the January 6 Committee. Some Republicans have been supportive of the speaker. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) thanked McCarthy for the disclosure as it may help some of the January 6 defendants in their cases. Did the "QAnon Shaman" Get Shafted on Sentencing? New Footage Raises Questions Over the Chansley Case. If there is one image from Jan. 6th that will remain indelible with the day, it is the "QAnon Shaman." Bare chested and wearing an animal headdress, horns and red-white-and-blue face paint, Jake Angeli Chansley is to the Capitol riot what Rosie the Riveter was to World War II. Howling and "chanting an unintelligible mantra" on the Senate floor, he is the embodiment of the unhinged rage that led to one of the most disgraceful attacks on our constitutional process in history. However, the newly released Fox footage from that day raises serious questions over the prosecution and punishment of Chansley. The videotapes aired on Tucker Carlson this week show Chansley being escorted by officers through the Capitol. Two officers appear to not only guide him to the floor but actually appear to be trying to open locked doors for him. At one point, Chansley is shown walking unimpeded through a large number of armed officers with his six-foot flag-draped spear and horned Viking helmet on his way to the Senate floor. The Five Biggest Lies Exposed by Tucker Carlson's Bombshell January 6th Surveillance Video Release. Tucker Carlson released portions of the January 6th surveillance footage at the Capitol which provided dramatic revelations previously concealed by the select committee investigating the riot. The Political Insider reported last week that Carlson was poised to release portions of the over 41,000 hours of Capitol surveillance footage from the riot very soon. "They are lying," he said. "And we know that because we've been looking at the tape." On Monday, the Fox News host released select segments of the video which seems to prove that yes, they were lying, as he and many other conservatives had predicted on a variety of matters. Here are some of the biggest takeaways from Carlson's bombshell report. [...] More reaction: Tucker Carlson debunks the Democrat hoax of the deadly insurrection — Part Deux. Just yesterday, Tucker Carlson aired the first of a series of shows, based on 40,000 hours of security camera footage from the Capitol Building from Jan. 6, 2021, which was provided to him by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. The episode debunked various Democrat hoaxes. Here are a few of them: Turns out Jacob Chansley (pejoratively branded by the left as the QAnon Shaman) wasn't violent or destructive. The footage shows the Capitol Police accompanying him as he ambled across the building. [Video clip] It also turns out that Sen. Josh Hawley wasn't fleeing from the building, petrified of a violent mob; he was the last among the lawmakers to be ushered out by Capitol Police. Police Officer Brian Sicknick was walking normally with a helmet on his head, disproving the phony claim that he was bludgeoned on the head by violent Trump supporters. Rep. Barry Loudermilk, (R-Ga.), wasn't conducting a "reconnaissance mission" for the 'insurrection,' but was instead offering a tour to constituents. Meanwhile, suspected FBI provocateur, Ray Epps, contrary to his sworn testimony in the House, was at the Capitol scene for at least 30 minutes past the time he told the committee that he had left. [Video clip] Secret Surveillance Video Dismantles January 6 Narrative. Fox News host Tucker Carlson aired the first set of previously-unseen surveillance video captured by Capitol police security cameras on January 6, 2021 that undermines several aspects of the reigning narrative about what happened that day. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) last month gave Carlson's team "unfettered" access to 41,000 hours of footage the government kept hidden from the American public and individuals charged in the Justice Department's unprecedented and ongoing investigation into the events of January 6. Capitol Police and the Justice Department designated the recordings as "highly sensitive" material in March 2021; the trove remains under tight protective orders and defendants must agree to strict rules before gaining access to clips entered as evidence against them. Capitol Police turned over to the FBI roughly 14,000 hours of video covering the hours of noon and 8:00 p.m. on January 6 but the full 24-hour reel has been in the hands of House Democrats for two years — reportedly the footage that Carlson's team was authorized to view. January 6 Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson Denies Deceptively Editing Footage. Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MI) has denied ever deceptively editing video while serving as chairman for the January 6 Select Committee. Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Monday released new, unseen footage from the Capitol Hill riot that unfolded on January 6, 2021, which appeared to portray a different picture than the one that former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) painted. Throughout his segment, footage showed scenes that ran contrary to some of the narratives put forth by the January 6 committee by claiming rioters had participated in an "insurrection." One particularly jarring piece of footage actually appeared to show Jacob Chansley, a.k.a. the "Qanon Shaman," being calmly escorted through the Capitol by police officers. Tucker Carlson Unloads on Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer for Demanding He Be Stopped from Releasing J6 Tapes. On Tuesday, the American public witnessed incredible meltdowns from Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell over the decision by Tucker Carlson to release the J6 Tapes. The Gateway Pundit has compiled a collection of stories over these men losing their minds over the brutal truth being exposed by Tucker. Chuck Schumer arguably had the worst meltdown, not only throwing a tantrum on the Senate floor demanding Tucker be censored but also calling McCarthy a traitor. He also repeated a number of lies debunked by Tucker. Tucker Carlson talks exclusively with key Capitol Police officer ignored by Jan. 6 panel amid footage release. Tucker Carlson sat down with a former Capitol Police officer who was ignored by the House Jan. 6 Select Committee despite the pivotal role he had that day. Tarik Johnson, a 22-year veteran on the Capitol Hill force, was tasked with securing the certification of the 2020 presidential election. "My voice is one of the first ones you hear on the audio transmission, so I did expect to get an interview sometime, but it didn't happen." Johnson told "Tucker Carlson Tonight" about the House Select Committee in an interview aired Tuesday. "I guess the focus was on Donald Trump." Despite pleas for help on Jan. 6, Johnson said he did not hear anything, not even from Capitol Police chief assistant Yogananda Pittman, who allegedly kept vital information about the protests from him. National Review plays defense for J6 Committee, attacks Tucker Carlson. I know, I know; National Review is still the outfit that published the infamous "Against Trump" issue as a last ditch effort to foil the successful 2016 candidacy that led to four years of peace, prosperity, low inflation, and disproportionate gains for the lower end of the income scale under President Trump. But still, it comes as a bit of a shock that the publication I must credit for opening my eyes to the virtues of conservativism seems to be throwing in with Adam Schiff, Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger and the rest of the J6 kangaroo court crowd that censored thousands of hours of Capitol surveillance footage in an online article titled, "Tucker Carlson's January 6 Revisionist History." The article, written by Noah Rothman, who recently joined NR after years at NeverTrump Commentary, summarizes Carlson's charges about what the footage reveals, only to summarily debunk it. The Democrats are Down to Begging Their Enemies to Keep Their False Jan 6 Narrative Alive. The Democrats have assumed quite a few different kinds of attitudes over the course of the last year and all surrounding one topic; the events of January 6. First, they were horrified and scared of being harmed, then they were righteously furious, then they were stoically pursuing justice. Their noble quest to bring the guilty to justice over an attempted "insurrection" was one of epic proportions and they would stop at nothing to right the wrongs and protect the country from the murderous and treasonous machinations of Trump and those who consider themselves MAGA fanatics. The January 6 videos touch a nerve because they threaten Dems' lies. Last night, we aired video from surveillance cameras on Capitol Hill. That video was recorded 26 months to the day before January 6, 2021, and for 26 months, that footage was held from the American public. The January 6 Committee made certain. Now, the Justice Department also kept a lid on that video footage and in fact, in some cases, DOJ did not share it with criminal defendants who had been charged on January 6 in violation of their constitutional rights. We felt it was a public service to bring what we could to you. There was no justification for keeping the secret any longer and a powerful argument to be made that sunlight is always and everywhere the best disinfectant and in fact, because it was video evidence, it is to some extent self-explanatory. Anyone could look at the tape and decide what he or she thinks of it. The tape we showed last night indicated very clearly that Capitol Hill police in some cases escorted protesters through the Capitol as if they were giving a tour. They did that with Jacob Chansley, the so-called QAnon Shaman. At one point, they even tried to open locked doors on Chansley's behalf. Reaction: Kevin McCarthy says he doesn't regret giving Tucker Carlson January 6 footage. Kevin McCarthy said that he doesn't regret giving Tucker Carlson footage from the January 6 Capitol attack as he repeatedly dodged questions about what the Fox News host decided to air. The House Speaker insisted while speaking with reports outside his office on Tuesday that he had not yet seen what Carlson put on his show Monday night and therefore would not comment. He also tore into Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell for criticizing Fox for airing the footage, claiming that he should also then denounce CNN for revealing the secure locations of lawmakers the day of the Capitol riot. Tucker Mocks Media Meltdown, Delivers Narrative-Busting Interview. Tucker Carlson is not wilting in the face of Democrats losing their mind over his Jan. 6 video coverage. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer even tried to go after him, by calling on Rupert Murdoch to stop the Jan. 6 coverage. Can we say panicked? It sure looks like it. But it doesn't look like Murdoch or Carlson are folding on the issue. Carlson was back with more coverage on Tuesday evening and not only wasn't he stopping, but he was also laughing at the panic of the Democrats and the media who were losing total control of the narrative. "What you're hearing is panic and fear," Carlson said. "A hurt dog barks. But it's still pretty funny." When you have Ken Burns' mania claiming Tucker was being both Nazi and Soviet, you know they're truly losing it. [Tweet] Capitol Police Served as 'Tour Guides' for QAnon Shaman on Jan. 6: Tucker Carlson. The face of the Jan. 6 incursion — the so-called "QAnon Shaman" Jacob Chansley — was peacefully escorted around the U.S. Capitol by police on Jan. 6, Fox News host Tucker Carlson alleged on March 6 in his first special based on exclusive access to 41,000 previously unseen hours of Capitol security video. Carlson showed CCTV security video of Chansley walking calmly through the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Not only did the police not try to stop Chansley, they escorted him, Carlson said. "Virtually every moment of his time inside the Capitol was caught on tape," Carlson told his national television audience. "The tape shows that Capitol Police never stopped Jacob Chansley. They helped him. They acted as his tour guides." Tucker blows up sham J6 committee with new bombshell footage: 'They are liars. That is conclusive.'. Fox News host Tucker Carlson was good to his word on Monday and released previously unseen footage of the Jan. 6 protest, claiming that those such as Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, and the rest of the sham House Select Committee conclusively lied about what really happened that day. "With that, here is the video. It doesn't answer every question from January 6, far from it, but it does prove beyond doubt that Democrats in Congress, assisted by Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney, lied about what happened that day. They are liars. That is conclusive, and that fact should prevent them from ever being taken seriously again," Carlson damningly said, laying blame on Kinzinger, Cheney, and the House Select Committee's inquisition for destroying many, many lives. "We're going to get inside with footage that shows you what was actually happening inside the Capitol. The footage does not show an insurrection or a riot in progress. Instead, it shows police escorting protesters through the building, including the now infamous 'QAnon Shaman,'" he told viewers. Tucker Carlson Begins Nuking False J6 Narrative From Orbit. When House Speaker Kevin McCarthy released 44,000 hours of previously unseen footage of the J6 insurrection that never was, the collective pants-wetting among the Democrats and their media vultures made it immediately clear that they feared what the American public might find out. They have, after all, been even more married to their J6 lies than their COVID-19 lies ever since President LOLEightyonemillion got into office. Tucker Carlson began slow-playing the rollout of some of the footage on Fox News last night. GOP Rep. Massie to Tucker Carlson: January 6 Tapes 'Changed My Perception' — 'And I Was There'. During an appearance on FNC's "Tucker Carlson Tonight," Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) reacted to recently unreleased footage from the January 6, 2021 riots at the U.S. Capitol that depicted a different picture than what had been previously portrayed by congressional Democrats and the media. Massie told host Tucker Carlson that the footage "changed" his perception of the events of that day and noted that he was there. Tucker Carlson's Expose Blew a Rather Large Hole in Dems 'Deadly Insurrection' Story. For over two years, Democrats have portrayed the Jan. 6 Capitol riot as a deadly insurrection staged by supporters of then-President Donald Trump and elevated the threat it posed to our "democracy" to the level of the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor and the 9/11 terrorist attacks. They did so by cherry-picking the surveillance footage the public was allowed to see and keeping the rest under wraps for "security reasons." On his Monday night show, Tucker Carlson shared some of the previously unseen footage and it told a remarkably different story than the one that has been force-fed to the American people by the highly partisan and duplicitous House Jan. 6 Committee. Tucker Carlson lands the first blow against the Jan 6 insurrection lie. Mr. Carlson takes care of anything that might seem like a "how we did it" or "editorial disclaimer" — but the main point is that no one in the government or in the mainstream media wanted this made public. That is why we need to watch and distribute this. [Video clip] The $3M, two-year January 6th committee was destroyed by a single devastating cable news segment. Over the course of two years, hundreds of witness interviews, and 10 highly choreographed public hearings, Democrats in Congress sought to create a carefully constructed story of the January 6th Capitol Hill riots. How fitting that such an extravagant outlay of government resources would be thrown on the trash heap by a single cable news segment. On Monday night, Fox News' Tucker Carlson played never-before-seen footage of the Capitol riot. The closed-circuit security tape appears to show the notorious, so-called QAnon Shaman (a.k.a. Jacob Chansley) being led through the halls of Congress by police. Garland Tells Whopper of a Lie, Proving Why Tucker's J6 Coverage Was So Important. We've been seeing quite a lot of panic in D.C. with all kinds of freakouts in reaction to Tucker Carlson's Jan. 6 video coverage. Adam Kinzinger has been melting down all day, even going on CNN, then getting schooled by former U.S. Ambassador to Germany Ric Grenell. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer lost his mind on the Senate floor and was flipping out so much, he's demanding that Fox head Rupert Murdoch stop Tucker Carlson from going on with more Jan. 6 coverage. Nothing says "saving democracy" by trying to stop the speech of your political opponents. Schumer out and out lied on the Senate floor — claiming that Carlson said Jan. 6 was not violent. Carlson said no such thing. He said that while there was violence, there were other protesters inside the Capitol who were not violent. Schumer is the one lying because he doesn't want that basic truth to be told. This isn't the first time that Schumer has gone after Fox and tried to suppress speech. Tucker Carlson Debunks the Democrat hoax of a deadly insurrection. Hours ago, Tucker Carlson aired perhaps one of the most important shows in his broadcasting career. The episode was based on 40,000 hours of security camera footage from Capitol Building from January 6th, 2021 provided to Carlson by Speaker Kevin McCarthy. McCarthy deserves to be commended for this; his tenure as Speaker is looking very promising so far. [Tweet] So, what was the key takeaway? We see Trump supporters peaceably touring the building like "sightseers" as Carlson called them. We see these people amble around, take photos and selfies and even pick up pamphlets like you would do in a museum. They were not armed. A vast majority of them did not engage in any kind of property destruction. Most importantly the police are seen guiding and escorting them around as if they were tourists visiting the location. [Tweet] We see Capitol Police officers escorting and giving a guided tour to Jacob Chansley, a Navy veteran who has been consistently portrayed by the mainstream media as the "QAnon Shaman" and the ringleader of the armed insurrection. We see around nine police officers in close proximity to Chansley and officers opening locked doors for Chansley. There were no attempts to restrain him, rightly causing him to have the impression that he wasn't breaking any laws. Most citizens look to law enforcement officers as reliable guides in matters of law. Capitol cops say they couldn't get physical with rioters as new 'QAnon Shaman' video reveals hands-off approach. US Capitol Police appeared to give Jacob Chansley, the so-called "QAnon Shaman," the run of the place during the Jan. 6, 2021 riot, trailing him in a bizarre escort as he walked the halls near the Senate chamber that day — and even opening the door to allow him inside, according to surveillance footage made public Monday night [3/6/2023]. The never-before-seen video aired on Fox News' "Tucker Carlson Tonight," part of more than 40,000 hours of closed circuit security footage that Carlson and his producers were given access to by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.). In contrast to the running battles between cops and pro-Trump rioters outside the Capitol building, clips aired Monday show Chansley — clad in his eye-catching horned fur headdress with red, white and blue face paint and holding an American flag and a bullhorn — leisurely strolling through the building, hardly being challenged or acknowledged by police. Jan. 6 footage shows Capitol cops escorting QAnon Shaman to Senate floor. Newly revealed surveillance footage from Jan. 6, 2021, shows two Capitol Police officers escorting Jacob Chansley, the behorned so-called "QAnon Shaman" who has come to symbolize the riot, through the halls of the Capitol and to the very door of the US Senate. The footage aired on Tucker Carlson's Fox News show Monday night shows the officers closely following Chansley as he wanders the corridors of the Capitol, bare-chested and wearing face paint and a luxuriant fur hat with Viking horns. "Virtually every moment of his time inside the Capitol was caught on tape," says Carlson, who was granted exclusive access by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to 40,000 hours of surveillance footage from that day inside and around the Capitol, which has never been seen before by the public. Tucker Carlson releases exclusive Jan. 6 footage, says politicians, media lied about Sicknick, 'QAnon Shaman'. Tucker Carlson released never-before-seen footage from the Jan. 6, 2021 riots at Capitol Hill that appear to dispel several narratives pushed by the Democrat-controlled House Select Committee and the legacy media. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy granted "Tucker Carlson Tonight" an exclusive first look to over 40,000 hours of security camera footage from the Capitol Building that were hidden from the public for over two years. On Monday, Carlson offered the first glimpses of footage involving key figures from that day. Carlson concluded the footage proves that lawmakers and the media were "lying" about the events that took place on Jan. 6. Tucker Releases Clips That Blow Up the Jan. 6 Narrative. Tucker Carlson released some of the promised Jan. 6 video footage on Monday and it dealt with a variety of subjects that he said showed that we hadn't been told the truth about what had happened on that day. The first video and contradiction concerned the people at the Capitol. While there were people who were hooligans who broke in, the majority didn't according to Carlson, coming in after the doors were opened and didn't do destructive things inside the Capitol, walking peacefully like tourists through the building. Carlson pointed to the "QAnon Shaman" — Jacob Chansley, who got four years for his involvement in the events on Jan. 6. Rep. Massie's Sharp Eye Picks up Big Question in Jan. 6 Footage. As we reported earlier, Tucker Carlson dropped some of the fascinating clips that they'd seen after reviewing some of the more than 40,000 hours of video footage of what happened at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Those clips tend to blow up some of the narratives that the Democrats have pushed about that day. After he released those clips, Tucker spoke with Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY). Massie said that he thought it was "poppycock" that Democrats didn't want the video footage released because of security. He said he's one of the people that's supposed to be protected and he doesn't have any problem with them being released and he thinks everyone should see them. [Tweet] Jan. 6 Footage Shows Officer Brian Sicknick Walking Uninjured in Capitol Around the Time Rioters 'Killed' Him Outside. Tucker Carlson blew up so many narratives tonight with the unaired footage of the so-called January 6th insurrection. The biggest one is the left's narrative that insurrectionists killed officer Brian Sicknick: CARLSON: "A deadly insurrection. Everything about that phrase is a lie. Very little about [January 6th] was organized or violent. Surveillance video from inside the Capitol shows mostly peaceful chaos. But the slogan worked. The term deadly carries enormous emotional power, which is why they used it. To prove the insurrection was deadly, propagandists pointed to the death of an officer called Brian sicknick. The mob killed Brian sicknick. That's what they said. He was the single most powerful indictment of the January 6th protesters and of Donald Trump and of Republican voters nationally. They repeated that claim for years. They are still repeating it. At first they told the country that officer sicknick was murdered with a fire extinguisher." Why Democrats are dreading a full Jan. 6 reveal. Democrats have been running around like decapitated chickens ever since news broke that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has given Tucker Carlson unfettered access to surveillance footage from inside the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot by supporters of President Donald Trump. The Fox News host will air five stories culled from the footage Monday and Tuesday nights, countering the overblown "insurrection" narrative the Democrats and their media toadies have been pushing since Day One. The characterization of conservative Republicans as an "ultra-MAGA semi-fascist" menace to democracy was pushed by the partisan J6 committee and was the Democrats' main sales pitch at the midterms last year. Dems don't have much else to run on in 2024, so Carlson's fact-finding mission is an existential threat to their electoral prospects. Judge denies Jan. 6 defendant access to Capitol security tapes made available by McCarthy. A federal judge denied a request from a Jan. 6 defendant to access additional Capitol surveillance tapes recently made available by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in an effort to delay her trial and gather more evidence. U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg denied the request from Jan. 6 defendant Sara Carpenter on Friday, ruling her legal team failed to explain how the supplemental footage of her actions inside the Capitol building would be necessary in her case. Carpenter faces a number of charges for her participation in the Capitol riot, including disorderly conduct and obstruction of an official proceeding. FBI politicized J6 cases, targeted pro-lifers, whistleblowers tell House panel on weaponization. The FBI has politicized cases regarding Jan. 6 defendants and pro-lifers while retaliating against internal whistleblowers, some of those whistleblowers testified last month to the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, according to portions of transcripts reviewed by Just the News. Retired FBI supervisory intelligence analyst George Hill, who retired last year from the bureau's Boston field office, testified that the Washington Field Office pressured other field offices to investigate citizens for activities protected by the First Amendment. Hill's own Boston Field Office, he said, pushed back against pressure from Washington to open cases on, first, seven individuals who came up in a sweep of bank records served up by the Bank of America, and then a larger group of 140 Americans guilty of nothing more than riding buses to D.C. to attend former President Trump's Stop the Steal rally on Jan. 6, 2021. FBI Shielded Identities Of Undercover Assets Who May Have Been Inside Capitol On Jan. 6, Whistleblower Says. The FBI's Washington Field Office (WFO) affirmed that there may have been "undercover officers" and "confidential human sources" inside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, according to whistleblower testimony obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The FBI's Washington Field Office requested the Boston Field Office open investigations into 140 individuals who took buses from Massachusetts to D.C. on Jan. 6., but denied the office's request to see video proving those individuals were inside the Capitol, FBI whistleblower George Hill said during a Feb. 10 interview with the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. The office claimed they needed to "protect" the identity of possible undercover agents, according to Hill. The Boston office initially opened cases on two individuals that "definitive evidence" showed were in restricted areas of the Capitol, Hill said. Because those individuals organized the buses to D.C., the WFO wanted cases opened on every individual on the bus. General Mike Flynn Goes Off on SCOTUS as America Loses Its Justice System to Tyrants. On Thursday, March 2 at 9:00 am Eastern we had the honor of hosting two of our favorite patriot heavyweights for the Political Prisoner Podcast. Jake Lang, joined us live from prison where he has been held for 774 days without trial. He was joined by General Michael Flynn who Jake interviewed for the Gateway Pundit Political Prisoner Podcast. Jake was nearly killed on January 6th when he was gassed and smothered by a huge pile of people on the steps of the US Capitol. The woman beside him, Rosanne Boyland, was killed that day. She was gassed, crushed and beaten by Capitol Police Officer Lila Morris several dozen times. Capitol Police Officer Lila Morris was filmed beating Rosanne with a stick after she passed out. While Jake was buried under the pile, Capitol police continued to push protesters on top of him. Jake also saw Philip Anderson's limp body laying next to Rosanne Boyland. Jake was able to pull Anderson to safety and saved his life that day. But Jake was not able to save Rosanne from the police. Rosanne Boyland was killed by police on the steps of the US Capitol. The mainstream media ignored the crime and instead lied about Rosanne following her death. Voters Suspect Federal Involvement in J6, Want Tapes Released. According to the results of a Rasmussen poll released Thursday morning, 80 percent of likely voters believe it's "very" or "somewhat" important for unseen portions of the massive trove to be viewed by the American people. That figure cuts across party lines: 78 percent of Democrats, 86 percent of Republicans, and 75 percent of independent voters concur with House Republicans' arguments that the recordings should be made public. Last month, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) gave Fox News host Tucker Carlson access to thousands of hours of surveillance video captured by Capitol security cameras throughout the Capitol campus on January 6. Capitol police, which technically owns the footage, claimed in a March 2021 court filing that 14,000 hours of video archived from the hours of noon and 8:00 p.m. had been turned over to the FBI for its sprawling investigation. Carlson announced his team had access to roughly 44,000 hours, presumably covering the entire 24-hour period. Trump can be sued for Jan 6, Justice Department says. Former President Donald Trump can be sued by injured Capitol Police officers and Democratic lawmakers over the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, the Justice Department said Thursday in a federal court case testing Trump's legal vulnerability for his speech before the riot. In court papers, the Justice Department told a federal appeals court in Washington that it should allow the lawsuits to move forward, rejecting Trump's argument that he is immune from the claims. GAO: FBI, Capitol Police failed to share information of threats before January 6 riot. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released its report on the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol. The non-partisan government watchdog found that the U.S. Capitol Police and the FBI properly identified credible threats to the Capitol in the lead-up to the January 6 protest that turned into a riot but did not share information about those threats. There were 10 federal agencies responsible for protecting the Capitol that day and none of them fully processed or shared critical information about threats to the Capitol with each other. These threats included those of militia groups who were arming themselves in preparation for that day. The report specifically points to the FBI as the agency that did not follow policies for processing tips, including tips that included information related to potential violence on January 6. This lack of properly following guidelines did not allow the information to be developed into reports shared with other agencies. The Editor says... Anatomy of a Cover-up: The January 6 Tapes. Tucker Carlson now has the equivalent of nearly five years of surveillance footage captured by U.S. Capitol Police security cameras on January 6, 2021. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) turned over the tapes to the Fox News host earlier this month, according to Axios. Carlson's producers and researchers are already distilling the footage; the first round of clips is expected to air in a few weeks. While some grumble that McCarthy did not fulfill his promise to publicly release the footage — arguably a valid complaint — Carlson's team undoubtedly will give the massive trove much-needed context and maximum impact. [...] Since early 2021, Carlson has used his nightly show to expose the cruel treatment of Trump supporters suffering pretrial detention orders; raised questions about the use of undercover assets including FBI informants and the mysterious role of Ray Epps; asked why the case of the January 5 "pipe bomber" remains unsolved; and demanded the release of the surveillance video as late as last month. Injustice of the Court. The January 6th political prisoners did nothing wrong, simply stood up with all of the righteous indignation of those who have been wronged and have been held as political prisoners since. What have they changed? What have they accomplished? Look at it from the other side, though. What damage has the FBI done to themselves by participating in the stolen election? By encouraging, even entrapping, those on January 6th? What has the CIA done to itself? What has the Supreme Court done to its own credibility by refusing to address these critical issues? A Partisan Judge's Parting Rampage. Defense lawyers call it "January 6 jurisprudence" — a unique set of rules and laws that only apply to those ensnared in the Justice Department's unstoppable push to punish individuals who do not believe Joe Biden is the legitimately elected president of the United States. So far, nearly 1,000 Americans have been arrested and charged, mostly on low-level misdemeanors, for their involvement in the Capitol protest as the regime circles its ultimate prize: Donald Trump. The fundamental "crime" that acts as the basis of January 6 jurisprudence is not necessarily the four-hour disturbance that temporarily delayed the certification process that day. No, the real crime — to hear regime apparatchiks, the media (but I repeat myself), and Democratic Party politicians (including Biden himself) tell it — is promoting the "Big Lie," the notion that the 2020 presidential election was rigged or stolen. Tucker Carlson and Staff Are NOT Allowed To Record or Remove Jan 6 Footage. If you're like most Americans, you were overjoyed to hear that Tucker Carlson, who is not afraid of exposing government corruption in either party, would be allowed to view all 44,000 hours of the Capitol surveillance tapes and were hoping finally, we would be allowed to discover what really happened on that day. The majority of Americans never trusted the partisan, Trump-hating Jan 6 Witch Hunt Committee to give an accurate picture of what happened on January 6th at our nation's Capitol. Those who want the truth exposed have been waiting for Tucker to begin showing surveillance footage on his show, believing that he would, once and for all, destroy the Left's narrative that the so-called "insurrection" was pre-planned by Trump and his supporters. We're now learning that Tucker Carlson's staff will NOT be allowed to freely record footage from January 6, but may request particular clips and that his staffers are not allowed to record or remove any videos from a specific screening area. Pelosi Congress Claims Sovereign Immunity in Federal Court to Keep Secret January 6 Videos and Emails. Judicial Watch announced that it filed an opposition to the U.S. Capitol Police's (USCP) effort to shut down Judicial Watch's federal lawsuit for January 6 videos and emails. Through its police department, Congress argues that the videos and emails are not public records, there is no public interest in their release, and that "sovereign immunity" prevents citizens from suing for their release. Obama Judge Unleashes FBI On GOP Rep. Scott Perry's Phone Records For More J6 Hounding. A federal judge opened the door for FBI bureaucrats under Attorney General Merrick Garland to comb through the protected communications of a sitting member of Congress as part of a politicized investigation. On Friday [2/24/2023], U.S. District Court Chief Judge Beryl Howell unsealed a Dec. 28 decision, giving the go-ahead for the FBI to review more than 2,000 messages stored on the cell phone of Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa. The device was confiscated as part of the FBI's partisan investigation into the 2020 election last summer while the conservative chairman of the House Freedom Caucus was traveling with his family. Perry, a six-term lawmaker who voted to delay President Joe Biden's electoral certification in 2021, claimed his phone records are protected under the Constitution's speech and debate clause, which gives lawmakers immunity from executive intimidation by politicized investigations. Perry argued his records were created by routine work of the legislative process to ensure election integrity related to the 2020 presidential contest. Judge Howell, who was first appointed to the federal bench by President Barack Obama in 2010, however, rejected Perry's claim as "astonishing." Washington Post Writer Opposes Public Seeing All January 6 Video Footage. Far-left Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank is openly admitting he doesn't want all the footage from the mostly peaceful January 6 protest at the U.S. Capitol to be released to the public. I applaud his honesty. Naturally, his motives are oh-so honorable and patriotic. He says the truth must be withheld from the American people for — wait for it, wait for it — national security reasons! [Tweet] With the J6 footage release, the mainstream media begin to panic. Practically within minutes of January 6, the Democrat establishment, both politicians and the media, had their narrative in place: It was a violent insurrection that justified the biggest FBI manhunt in history, saw Democrats conduct a kangaroo congressional hearing to cement the narrative, deprived hundreds of people of their constitutional rights, and cowed Biden's opponents into silence lest they too be accused of "insurrection." For those same two years, the Democrat establishment resisted making public 14,000 hours of video footage showing J6 events in and around the Capitol, claiming that to do so was too dangerous. Now, though, with Kevin McCarthy having made the footage exclusively available to Tucker Carlson, the media are singing a very different tune. Why J6 Transparency Frightens the Democrats. For two years, the Democrats have insisted that, on Jan. 6, 2021, the republic was shaken to its foundations by an "insurrection" mounted by wild-eyed MAGA extremists. They attempted to reinforce this claim with a series of hyper-partisan hearings, complete with video edited for dramatic effect by a professional television producer. This left most of the footage captured by Capitol surveillance cameras on the cutting room floor, and the Democrats refused to release any of the unused video to the public. Thus, after the midterms, Kevin McCarthy pledged to make it public if elected speaker of the House. He kept his word, and the Democrats are clearly alarmed. Indeed, their response to the news that McCarthy had allowed Fox News' Tucker Carlson access to the surveillance tapes was nearly as hysterical as their reaction to the Jan. 6 affray itself. Tucker Carlson and the January 6 Tapes. House speaker Kevin McCarthy is finally releasing all the official security tapes and other video evidence showing what really happened during the massive stolen election protest at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. This evidence had been commandeered and hidden by Nancy Pelosi and the Democrat party for the last two years. This material did not belong to Pelosi and the Democrats; it belongs to the American people. In fact, wannabe mob boss Nancy Pelosi and her reprehensible Democrat party had been trying to arrange, just before the new Congress came in, to have all this evidence locked away in the National Archives, where it wouldn't have been available to the public for fifty years. McCarthy's decision to release this purloined evidence to Fox News host Tucker Carlson has caused quite a panic. The hyperbolic reactions of people like Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer aren't at all surprising. These Democrat leaders know what really happened that day, and they've been knowingly lying to America all along. They never imagined that those tapes would see the light of day. Release of Jan. 6 video footage to Tucker Carlson is a five-alarm fire for Democrats. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy 's decision to hand over security footage from the Jan. 6 Capitol riot to Fox News host Tucker Carlson has Democrats up in arms. For two years, Democrats, citing "security concerns," have managed to withhold this critical footage from the public, likely fearing it would contradict their carefully constructed narrative that the riot had been "an insurrection" and "terrorist attack." Democrats are especially peeved with whom McCarthy chose to provide the material to. They consider it an attempt to curry favor with Carlson, who has been openly critical of the GOP leader in the past. And while that may very well be true, there's no question that Democrats' main problem with Carlson is that he has repeatedly questioned the decisions, actions, and motives of the Department of Justice, then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser, and the House Jan. 6 committee. New Footage From Jan 6th Shows Cops Calling Protesters Inside Capitol 'Pretty Cool'. Bodycam footage from Officer Luke Foskett on January 6th. Officer: "They've (protestors) been pretty cool once we encounter them, right?" Officer Luke Foskett: "That's their MO." As new footage is released, the case seems more and more solid that Jan 6th wasn't an insurrection but more like a tourist walkthrough. [Video clip] Former Trump Official Debunks The January 6th "Coup" Narrative Once And For All. It was one of the biggest mysteries of the Capitol Riots: How could former President Donald J. Trump have possibly be carrying out a "coup" on the capitol without the aid of the U.S. military and only with the help of a bunch of unarmed extremists? Former Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller recently joined podcaster Tim Pool and addressed this very topic. Christopher C. Miller served as the Acting Secretary of Defense from Nov. 9, 2020 until Jan. 20, 2021. His remarks are well worth reporting. [...] Media Demands Darkness, Not Sunlight, on January 6 Tapes. Guardians of the fourth estate long ago abandoned their self-proclaimed role as watchdog over those in power in exchange for the role of lapdog. But apparently the last ones to get the joke are reporters, editors, and cable news hosts themselves, who still operate under the delusion they maintain a vaunted place in the pecking order of American society rather than rank in popularity just below the toxic sludge smoldering in East Palestine, Ohio. Not long ago — or maybe it has been a long time? — journalists would salivate at the chance to report on the contents of a massive trove of footage related to what the government calls a terror attack, especially if the same government pulled every trick in the book to keep it under wraps. Compelled by slavish idolatry of the state and contempt for the common man, the media, for lack of a better term, is acting as if the release of unseen video recorded on January 6 is a crime in progress. New Video Proves Capital Police on January 6 Started Firing on the Innocent Crowd Without Warning. As we have reported all along, on January 6, 2021 the Capitol Hill Police began firing rubber bullets, gas canisters, flash grenades on the Trump supporters gathered around the US Capitol without warning. In the hundreds of conversations we have had with January 6 attendees, political prisoners, and police abuse victims, they all say the same thing. Innocent people were attacked by police without warning. This was an attack on the American people. Newly Released Footage From Jan 6th Shows Cop Claiming They Were Set Up. New body cam footage from cops on January 6 discussing how "they set us up"? "Let them take the [Capitol]" This is why they don't want more J6 footage released. The fingers will all point back at Pelosi & her staff secretly weakening security. [Video clip] Chuck Schumer [is] in True Panic Mode About [the] Release of Jan. 6 Footage. I've been writing about the panic that we're seeing from some of the Jan. 6 Committee over the thousands of hours of footage that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy allowed Tucker Carlson and his crew to view. Why would they be so upset about people viewing the footage or knowing more about what went on that day? Isn't that what they kept saying they wanted? Yet suddenly we're seeing them melting down and coming up with all kinds of reasons why more light on the subject is such a bad thing. During January 6 Hearing, Schiff Doctored Text Messages Between Mark Meadows And Rep. Jim Jordan. After leaking fake Donald Trump, Jr. emails, fabricating the transcript of a 2019 phone call between former President Donald Trump and Ukraine's president, and lying about his interactions with the so-called whistleblower behind House Democrats' first impeachment of Trump, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., is now running the same con against a fellow lawmaker. During a hearing Monday night on the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Adam Schiff claimed to have proof that a member of Congress texted former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to instruct former Vice President Mike Pence to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. Not only did Schiff misrepresent the substance of the text message and its source, he even doctored original text messages, which were obtained and reviewed by The Federalist in their entirety. Shocking Court Disclosure Shows Undercover Cops Urging Jan. 6 Protesters — Including Ashli Babbitt — To Enter Capitol Building. One would think that after over two years, thousands of hours of video, non-stop media coverage, and dozens of high-profile court cases that nothing new and surprising will be revealed about the January 6 mostly peaceful protests. Yet there are bombshells dropping fairly regularly lately and almost all of them point to the whole thing being a Deep State setup. The latest comes from a thread by Twitter user @FreeStateWill who posted information that as unearthed during a January 6 trial hearing last week. According to the new information, members of the Metropolitan Police Departments were in the January 6 crowd undercover and can be seen driving people to enter "our house." Jan. 6 lead investigator tells all, or at least too much. One of the arguments raised in opposition to the bona fides of Nancy Pelosi's Jan. 6 Select Committee (to end our two-party system) was its apparent lack of a legitimate legislative purpose. This argument is proved unpersuasive with federal judges caught up in the leftist narrative that the events of January 6, 2021 at the Capitol were the greatest assault on country since — Pearl Harbor, the Civil War, the burning of the White House in 1814 — name your particular horrible. Now along comes Timothy J. Heaphy, lead investigator of the Pelosi partisan panel, in colloquy with Luke Broadwater, New York Times print edition, February 20, to acknowledge: yes, the committee's proceedings were more akin to a sitting grand jury than a congressional hearing — and, later in the interview, apparently deciding to "kick over the traces" (in the marvelous phrase of the late Yale law constitutional scholar Alexander Bickel) to assert, "Hearing is not the right word for what we did. We called them hearings, but they were presentations more than hearings." For what purpose? Clearly not for the purpose of legitimate legislation. Clearly for the partisan purpose of preventing Donald J. Trump from seeking a second term — with the added aim of crushing the Republican Party. Schiff Panics Over Release of Jan. 6 Footage, Goes Into Conspiracy Overdrive. [Scroll down] How is the actual video footage that was shot a "dangerous conspiracy theory"? What Schiff is saying is he has a problem with the truth coming out, that the truth is "dangerous," and that he fears it, that's what he's saying here. That's why neither he nor Pelosi wanted this video out there, otherwise, he wouldn't be so desperate to try to attack the release now. If he cared about the truth, he'd welcome the release. But to Schiff, the truth is just something to lie about, to achieve his political aims. Schiff is so nervous about this, almost as if he thinks people will see things that he doesn't want them to see. Speaker McCarthy Gives Tucker Access to 41,000 Hours of J6 Surveillance Video. Axios is reporting that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has granted Fox News's Tucker Carlson exclusive access to 41,000 hours of Capitol videotape from Jan. 6, 2021, (aka J6). Tucker has long questioned whether J6 was an actual insurrection. The FBI stated in August 2021 they found little evidence that the crowd tried to topple the United States. A Harvard University survey released in August 2022 said the same thing. Democrats have fought to keep the tapes under wraps. That is understandable, as it's hard to cry "insurrection" when looking at videos of Capitol police letting protesters in the doors and fist-bumping them as they wander by, snapping selfies. [Tweet] Brace for Impact: Tucker Carlson Gets Thousands of Hours of January 6 Footage from McCarthy. Earlier this month, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy promised to release all the footage of the January 6 riot at the Capitol to the public. "I think the public should see what happened on that day," McCarthy said of the footage. "I watched what Nancy Pelosi did, where she politicized it. For the first time in the history — as a speaker — not allowing the minority to appoint to a committee. We watched the politicization of this. I think the American public should actually see what happened instead of a report that's written on a political basis." It would appear that McCarthy has handed thousands of hours of January 6 footage to Tucker Carlson and his team, but at this time, only Carlson seems to have access to it. According to Axios, a source, the Carlson team was given 14,000 hours of footage, though reporter Mike Allen reported he's been told there's far more content than that. 15 Facts on the Dozens of Federal Operatives Who Infiltrated the Trump Crowds on January 6th at the US Capitol. Dozens if not hundreds of government operatives infiltrated the protests at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. This is a list of government operatives we identified working inside the crowd at the US Capitol on January 6 was started in 2021. The Gateway Pundit continues to add to this list as we learn more. In July 2022 TGP contributor Cara Castronuova released whistleblower documents, text messages, and audio transcripts of FBI informant James Knowles's communications with his FBI handlers on January 6. The evidence exonerates Trump supporters and the Proud Boys of any conspiracy or planning to storm the US Capitol, to enter the US Capitol, or to overthrow official proceedings. The evidence reported by Cara at The Gateway Pundit was explosive. Undercover DC Police Officer Pushed Protesters Toward Capitol, Climbed Over Barricade: Court Filing. Three undercover Metropolitan Police Department officers joined the march of protesters up the northwest side of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 — including one who climbed over a barricade and pushed others toward the Capitol, and another who walked behind Ashli Babbitt and predicted that "someone will get shot," according to newly disclosed court documents. New court motions filed by Jan. 6 defendant William Pope of Topeka, Kansas, also show MPD bicycle officers stopping four armed men in plainclothes on Jan. 6. The men turned out to be federal agents. Video included with Pope's filings also shows uniformed MPD officers saying, "we were set up" to fail on Jan. 6. Information in the court papers will rekindle the debate about the role that undercover officers and agents played in the riots of Jan. 6 and why the U.S. Department of Justice and federal judges have kept the evidence under seal and away from public view. Gruesome Video Released of Trump Supporter Victoria White After DC Officer Jason Bagshaw Beat Her. Victoria White from Rochester, Minnesota attended the Stop the Steal rally in Washington DC on January 6th. She was nearly killed by DC police officers during the rally. Victoria was later arrested and charged with assault on the US Capitol. Victoria White was brutally beaten near death by the US Capitol Police. [...] Not once in the DOJ report do they describe the brutal pummeling she received at the hands of the Capitol Police officers. The fact that they ignored police brutality in their report is absolutely frightening. Nancy Pelosi's Filmmaker Daughter Alexandra Pelosi Caught on Tape Refuting J6 Narrative. Nancy Pelosi's daughter Alexandra Pelosi is producing an HBO documentary about the January 6, 2021, protests and riot in Washington DC. In October 2022, CNN released never-before-seen footage of Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell inside the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 — the two people who refused to call in the National Guard prior to that day and during the rioting. The footage was filmed by Nancy's daughter Alexandra. Nancy's son-in-law was outside during the protests filming the "insurrection." Did a Government Intel Asset Plant Key Evidence in Proud Boys Case? It's week five of the Justice Department's most high-profile — and high-stakes — criminal trial related to the events of January 6, 2021. Five members of the Proud Boys face the rare "seditious conspiracy" charge. Guilty verdicts — almost certain given the government's near-perfect conviction rate for January 6 defendants — would build legal momentum for a similar indictment against Donald Trump. (The trial is so crucial that Matthew Graves, the Biden-appointed U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia responsible for prosecuting every January 6 case, has shown up in the courtroom on at least three occasions.) Trump is a major figure in this trial, an unindicted coconspirator of sorts. Last week, Judge Timothy Kelly allowed prosecutors to play a clip of Trump's extemporaneous comment for the Proud Boys to "stand back and stand by" — a remark uttered during a presidential debate in September 2020 more than three months before the Capitol protest. The Justice Department wants to portray the comment as a call to arms, tying the alleged "militia" group to the former president. FBI whistleblower raises fresh concerns about bank record mining, undercover agents in J6 probe. A recently retired FBI supervisory intelligence analyst told Congress in a whistleblower disclosure that agents in Boston were improperly pressured by Washington to open criminal cases on 140 people who had simply taken a bus ride to the Jan. 6 rally in Washington. The agents refused because there was no evidence the attendees engaged in any criminality, the whistleblower said. George Hill's testimony to the House Judiciary Committee also raised new civil liberty concerns about the FBI's Jan. 6 probe, including whether the Bureau mined Americans' bank records without court authority and whether the agency possesses video footage it is refusing to release because it identifies undercover agents and human sources who were at the U.S. Capitol that fateful day. The American Legal System Is Becoming An Instrument Of Injustice. America once was a nation of laws, real laws that protected life, liberty, and property. Now, though, the laws are immoral in both purpose and effect. [...] The treatment of the J6 prisoners is legal abuse. The judges and prosecutors seek maximum punishments for minor crimes, and the reports of the treatment in jail are shocking. The treatment pushes the edge of permissibility, and many will say that the treatment is unconstitutional and illegal. Their lives have been plundered, while the friends of insiders who participated in riots in the summer of 2020 are mostly untouched. Ray Epps's Movements Went "Off-Grid" For Two Hours on January 5th — What Was He Doing? I love former War Room cohost Raheem Kassam. He's a very good, in-depth reporter, but he's also very witty. It's a great and very lethal combination. A while back he did a great piece on the Ray Epps testimony. He went through and read all of it, and then broke it all down, if you haven't read it, I highly suggest it. You can find the entire piece here. But, one thing that stood out to me, and something I thought was worth talking about, was the missing "two hours" in Ray Epps DC movements on January 5th — the day before the big "insurrection." According to the testimony, and record of text messages, Ray falls off the radar for a couple of hours, and of course, the clowns on the J6 Committee, did absolutely no digging to see what was [going] on, or whom Ray Epps could've been with. Special Counsel Crosses the Rubicon? That is what Andy McCarthy thinks. The Democrats desperately want to indict Donald Trump, for something — anything. They pretty clearly intended to charge him with mishandling classified documents, a chickenfeed offense under the circumstances, but that fizzled when it turned out that Joe Biden has much worse problems. So now they are back to the mostly-peaceful protest of January 6. McCarthy thinks that Special Counsel Jack Smith's subpoena of Mike Pence is highly significant: [...] As of January 6, Trump had a legal theory, which was supported by legal scholar John Eastman. Their theory was that Pence, as vice president, had constitutional authority over the certification of the presidential election that was not merely ministerial. Andy calls this theory "frivolous," while I would settle for weak. OK, very weak, although no weaker than the theory that the Constitution requires legal abortion or gay marriage. Judge Threatens J6 Defendant and Police Assault Victim Victoria White After She Spoke with GOP Lawmakers. Victoria White was abused by Capitol Police in one of the most violent and disturbing police beatings on an innocent political protester in modern American history. The police beat Victoria in the face with their fists and batons over 40 times after she was pushed into the Capitol Tunnel they were guarding. After her beating the police dragged Victoria through the US Capitol. Arrested her and then let her go in the freezing night with no shoes, phone or coat. The real coup d'etat. Voter suppression, "MAGA," Russian disinformation, and the specter of fascism are all supposed right wing threats to democracy. The 1/6 Capital riots were a violent uprising against an established government, an "insurrection"! No. In reality, the "insurrectionists" were there to defend our democracy — to protect it against what they saw as a rigged election. Their goal was to protect our system of government, not change it. Whistleblower Says FBI Mined Bank Records for the J6 Probe. George Hill is a military veteran and a former analyst for the NSA who has retired from the FBI's Boston field office. Hill recently talked to the House Judiciary Committee about the FBI's probe of the events surrounding the January 6 riot at the nation's Capitol. He also talked with Just the News Wednesday night about his concerns surrounding the agency's activities. According to Hill, agents at the Boston field office were pressured to open criminal cases against people who had done nothing wrong. Originally, agents were told to open cases against seven people who raised red flags during a sweep of records from the Bank of America. Then, the scope increased to include people who had merely taken a bus to the Trump rally. Hill said that the act of getting on a bus was not enough to merit criminal probes, and the Boston office refused to conduct the investigations. This greatly displeased the Washington field office. The issue moved up the chain of command in an effort to paint J6 participants as domestic terrorists, but the Boston office held its ground. Julie Kelly of American Greatness could just be our George Smiley. Joe Biden has numerous shortcomings as a political leader; apart from apparently being challenged by a severe shortness of brainpower, the commander-in-thief regards the people of MAGA not as fellow citizens to be respected, but as political foes to be destroyed. Applauding a charlatan's State of the Union address throughout, not just politely at start and end — as Speaker McCarthy did — assumes geniality and kinship. Such a speaker needs guidance in Political Reality/USA 101. The person to provide such guidance, I submit, is Julie Kelly; Ms. Kelly's exposés regularly blast openings in the media's Iron Curtain around Biden to keep Americans informed about the repressive conduct, particularly post-Jan. 6, of the Department of Justice, the FBI, the federal courts, and the maltreatment of detainees as if they were political prisoners in a ruthless dictatorship. Significantly, Ms. Kelly does not say, as did the Speaker, that the Capitol cop who shot the late Ashli Babbitt was "just doing his job." To the contrary, every member of Congress, not just the panel on un-American practices by the federal government, should read this very important disclosure by the one and only Kelly on Capitol Hill brutality: January 6 Was the Worst Incident of Police Brutality Since Civil Rights Era. America's Disarray Is A Stark Contrast To China's Unity. Listening carefully during the State of the Union, you could hear roaring laughter in Beijing when President Biden again said that J6 was the greatest threat to America since the Civil War. Biden is China's perfect stooge. China has a long-term mission to retaliate against the West, with a bullseye on America, for a Century of Humiliation (1839-1949). To succeed, China must have political and racial unity and opportunities to strike, like an American president driving political, racial, and military disunity and invested in the mythical J6 monster. [...] But what if none of this is ironic to Xi? What if the white spy balloon was a successful diversionary tactic while the CCP clandestinely works to facilitate divisions in America through the indoctrination of CRT and wokism? This would be an espionage masterstroke to advance the CCP's long-term mission to humiliate America and achieve global supremacy. This could be a bigger threat to America than the mythical J6 domestic-extremist monster, right? Victoria White, Beaten by Police With Metal Baton on Head on Jan. 6, to Decline Plea Deal. Victoria C. White, the Minnesota woman shown on security video being repeatedly beaten by police in the Lower West Terrace tunnel at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has decided to reject a plea offer from federal prosecutors after she met with several members of the GOP-controlled House of Representatives. U.S. District Judge John D. Bates has a plea hearing scheduled for 11:30 a.m. EST on Feb. 10 in the federal courthouse in Washington, D.C. "Well, things are changing," White, 41, told The Epoch Times in a text message on Feb. 7. Asked if she was going to decline the plea offer, White replied: "Yes. I honestly never wanted to take it in the first place." Missing Documents and Files in Ongoing J6 Cover-Ups. The public is gradually learning how, despite repeated denials and non-answers, top government officials were well aware of the potential for violence on January 6, 2021. A chief investigator on the January 6 select committee told NBC News last week that law enforcement was privy to a trove of intelligence indicating problems could arise during the election certification process but, for some unexplained reason, chose to ignore the warning signs. "The Intel in advance was pretty specific, and it was enough in our view for law enforcement to have done a better job operationalizing a secure perimeter." Tim Heaphy told NBC News reporter Ken Dilanian. "Law enforcement had a very direct role in contributing to surely the failures — the security failures that led to the violence." Criticism of law enforcement, as I noted here after the release of the committee's report, was buried in a relatively brief appendix in the 840-page document. Theater of the Absurd in J6 Courtrooms. The Department of Justice carefully crafted the dramatic moment in court. A federal prosecutor handed an enclosed paper bag to an FBI agent responsible for investigating members of the Proud Boys, now on trial for seditious conspiracy related to their participation in the events of January 6. The bag contained "evidence of the unlawful entry of the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021 and evidence of the disruption to the certification of the 2020 presidential election," FBI Special Agent Elizabeth D'Angelo told assistant U.S. Attorney Nadia Moore on Wednesday. D'Angelo cautiously pulled the evidence out of the bag to present to the jury. Spectators in D.C. District Court Judge Timothy Kelly's courtroom were on the edge of their seats. What would the mystery bag reveal? Would it disclose the group's intricate but failed plot to overthrow the government? A detailed list of weapons the "seditionists" planned to use in service of their dastardly deed? Names of targeted officials? A nervous hush fell over the room; sweat beads formed on furrowed brows. Finally, the big moment arrived. It was — a set of challenge coins. Americans deserve to see all of the police body camera footage from January 6, not just cherry-picked excerpts. Transparency and justice, to the extent it ever will ease his family's grief, came quickly for Tyre Nichols. That is not the situation for four Donald Trump supporters who died on January 6, either wholly or partially due to the actions of Capitol and D.C. Metropolitan police officers on duty that day. More than two years after the fact, body worn camera footage is only slowly being released at the criminal trials of January 6 defendants. (Only D.C. Metro police are required to wear body cameras.) And the Department of Justice, unlike the city of Memphis, is making it nearly impossible for the general public to access the very limited trove, which has been uploaded to a platform created to house all digital evidence for the department's "Capitol Siege" investigation. But the unedited video — the government has produced cherry-picked clips from otherwise protected recordings to bolster the regime's "insurrection" narrative in the media and in court — so far documents what I described last week as the worst incident of police brutality since the civil rights movement. Footage from just three D.C. Metro officers revealed how police wantonly and, in some cases, viciously attacked American citizens exercising their rights to protest at a government building. McCarthy still doesn't get it about Ashli Babbitt. Sadly, or rather, bizarrely, we are to infer from the Speaker's callous comment that it is the "job" of a Capitol Hill policeman to shoot to kill an unarmed American who is found protesting on Capitol Hill grounds. What makes the Speaker's despicable remark even more bizarre is that the House, on same day, passed House Resolution 9 called "Denouncing the horrors of socialism," sponsored by Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar of Florida, with the support of 109 Democrats, denouncing socialist dictatorships where persons daring to speak their political minds do so at the risk of being shot by police doing their jobs at the behest of socialist dictatorships. [...] Is it too much to ask House Judiciary chair Jim Jordan to put the Ashli Babbitt tragedy on the agenda of his Judiciary subcommittee that will hold hearings on the weaponization of government against the American people? It is deplorable that the new House Speaker cannot comprehend that the shooting of the unarmed 34-year old Ashli Babbitt was, quite literally, an expression of the "weaponization" of a thuggish governmental mindset that intends to transform our free Republic into an oppressive dictatorship. Kevin McCarthy Defends Cold-Blooded Killer Mike Byrd, Throws Ashli Babbit Under the Bus. Just when we were starting to really like Kevin McCarthy he defends the cold-blooded killer who shot Ashli Babbitt dead in the US Capitol. During questioning on Thursday, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was asked if he thought Ashli Babbitt was murdered by Officer Mike Byrd? McCarthy answered the reported, "I think the officer was doing his job." Apparently, shooting a 100-pound female Trump supporter in the neck without warning is "doing his job." Minor omission from Jan. 6 report: law enforcement knew it was coming and failed to stop it. Former federal prosecutor Tim Heaphy, who was the chief investigator for the House January 6th investigative committee we all knew was a biased show trial, shared with NBC News his own conclusions about the events that led up to the riot. It was easily preventable. The FBI and Capitol Police knew it was coming and didn't try to stop it. [...] The January 6th Committee decided not to release this part of the report, although [Former federal prosecutor Tim] Heaphy and his staff had prepared it. Why? You know why: the Sergeant at Arms is the Speaker's appointment, and the committee didn't want to point fingers at anybody but President Trump. Chief January 6th Investigator Makes Shocking Admissions, and Committee Members Covered Them Up. NBC News committed a random act of journalism on Tuesday, interviewing the chief investigator for the January 6th committee, and the revelations were astounding. Without trying to sound hyperbolic, what Tim Heaphy says to Lester Holt may be the most significant admission regarding January 6th since the attack took place. Previously, surveillance videos had revealed how complicated and confusing the situation was, but according to Heaphy, the attack was preventable before the first person stepped foot on the Capitol grounds. Further, according to Holt, committee members like Liz Cheney and Adam Schiff purposely suppressed that damning information in the final report in order to keep the focus solely on Donald Trump. In other words, the committee put politics above exposing the avoidable failures of federal law enforcement that occurred. Doctor Who Tried to Save Ashli Babbitt Slapped With Felonies, Other Charges for Participation in Capitol Riot. A California doctor who treated mortally wounded Ashli Babbitt after she was shot inside the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6, 2021, as she and others tried to gain access to the House Chamber, has been arrested by the FBI for his own alleged activity at the Capitol on that fateful day. As reported by the Daily Beast, Dr. Austin Harris, a board-certified cardiothoracic anesthesiologist from Southern California is facing both federal felony and misdemeanor charges related to the riot, an alleged attempt to stop the Electoral College certification of the 2020 presidential election results. Harris was arrested on Jan. 25 in Van Nuys, and charged in a federal criminal complaint with "knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds without authority", and "disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds" — both felonies with sentences of up to 10 years in prison — and two charges of "disorderly conduct, parading, demonstrating, or picketing in the Capitol building," both misdemeanors. Doctor Who Tried to Save Ashli Babbitt on Jan. 6 Charged With 4 Misdemeanors for Time at the US Capitol. A California doctor who treated the mortally wounded Ashli Babbitt after she was shot outside the House of Representatives on Jan. 6, 2021, was arrested by the FBI on four criminal charges stemming from his time at the U.S. Capitol. Dr. Austin Brendlen Harris, 42, of Granada Hills, California, was arrested Jan. 25 in Van Nuys, California. Harris was charged in a criminal complaint in Washington D.C. with knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds without authority, and disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds — both misdemeanors with sentences up to a year in jail. He was also charged with disorderly conduct, and parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building — both misdemeanors. Officer Lila Morris, Badge Number 5869, Beat a Protestor To Death on Steps of US Capitol on Jan 6. On Thursday's episode of Human Events Daily, host Jack Posobiec examines the circumstances surrounding the death of Roseanne Boyland, a Capitol Hill protestor that was beaten to death by an officer, breaking down the situation, and exposing the hypocrisy of the media and the narratives that they've created surrounding race. Posobiec argues that had the races been reversed, and even the genders, the attention surrounding the abuse would be greater, as was seen during the fallout after the death of George Floyd in 2020. "Her name was Rosanne Boyland," says Posobiec after playing video of the event "What you just heard was the beating death of Roseanne Boyland on January 6, 2021. Roseanne Boyland was a part of a crowd, climbed the steps of the United States Capitol. Capitol Police responded, attempting to shove them off and push them down, and hold them back." Jan. 6 rioter who admitted to spraying Officer Brian Sicknick sentenced to more than 6 years in prison. The New Jersey man who admitted to spraying U.S. Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick with pepper spray during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack was sentenced to 80 months in prison on Friday in a Washington, D.C. courtroom packed with Sicknick's colleagues and fellow officers. "I don't know what got into you," said federal Judge Thomas Hogan, as he imposed the yearslong prison sentence on Julian Khater, "somehow you got determined to push your way through the crowd." Hogan also fined Khater $10,000. January 6 Was the Worst Incident of Police Brutality Since Civil Rights Era. One might be inclined to apply Hanlon's razor — never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity — to the actions of law enforcement on January 6, 2021. One might even be inclined to replace "stupidity" with "incompetence" to explain why police behaved the way they did that afternoon. But a growing body of evidence suggests neither stupidity nor incompetence can justify what now appears to be the worst incident of police brutality against political protesters since the civil rights era. After two years of watching cherry-picked video clips produced by the Department of Justice and the news media to depict Trump supporters as the violent aggressors on January 6, the public now has an opportunity to see what really happened thanks to police body camera footage released at trial. It's ugly — and clearly malicious. Never-Before-Seen Leaked Video of Ray Epps Breach! Is the Government protecting Ray Epps during the Proud Boys Trial and possibly MANIPULATING FOOTAGE to incriminate the Proud Boys? [...] We have EVIDENCE to warrant an investigation into the matter! A protected source has released footage to the Gateway Pundit that was played in court during the Proud Boy's trial. This video is "confidential" and part of the 14,000 hours of footage THEY DON'T WANT US TO SEE! Below is never-before-seen video that we witnessed first-hand played by the prosecution at the Proud Boys trial to incriminate the men. It was then sent to us by our source so we could share with the public. The fuzzy "glitch" in the video literally covers RAY EPPS making the first breach through a black fence. This is the fence of Breach #2 that the prosecution is blaming the Proud Boys for breaching in their trial! You can't make this stuff up! The suspicious "glitch" begins right before Epps breaches the gate and ends a few seconds later once he is inside. Convenient! Twitter Report Shows Federal Courts Consistently Boast A 99% Conviction Rate Which Can Be Seen With J6 Defendants. As the nation watches extreme political oppression for Trump-supporting J6'ers who have languished in prison awaiting trial or been given extremely harsh sentences with high conviction rates, several people have looked into what standard conviction rates are in the Federal judicial system. Live Not By Lies Tweeted that the conviction rates for January six participants, while extreme, are in keeping with the norm. "Using 2018 numbers, less than 1% of criminal defendants in the federal system go to trial and are acquitted. 90% plead guilty. So the conviction rate of J6ers seems on par with the historic trends of federal criminal case outcomes." New Body-Worn Camera Footage from J6 Supports Calls for Release of All Video. Body-worn camera footage obtained by American Greatness of a D.C. Metropolitan police officer on duty on January 6, 2021, shows the chaos unfolding in real-time that day and how law enforcement's response to the protest led to rising tension and deadly violence. Officer Terrence Craig, an 11-year veteran of the force, testified last week in the criminal trial of Richard Barnett, the Arkansas man notoriously photographed with his feet on a desk in then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-Calif.) office on January 6, 2021. Nearly two-and-a-half hours of video was captured by Craig's body-worn camera, providing an uninterrupted and shocking view of what happened inside and outside the building. Retired Firefighter Richard Barnett Who Sat and Posed in Pelosi's Office for Reporters on Jan. 6 Convicted on All Charges in DC Kangaroo Court. Richard Barnett, the man who was photographed with his feet up on Speaker Pelosi's desk on January 6, 2021, was arrested in Arkansas two days after the protest. Richard Barnett's trial is being held last week and this week in a biased DC Court. We already learned from the trial that an FBI official admitted under oath that a group of "agitators" who were "highly trained" destroyed security barriers and fencing and lured people to Capitol grounds that day. This was before Trump supporters reached the US Capitol that day. It was a setup. And now the government is using billions of taxpayer dollars to round up Trump supporters, cage them like terrorists, and run them through kangaroo courts before they are sent to prison for several years. Many of the protesters arrested did not even enter the US Capitol on January 6. Jan. 6 rioter who put feet on desk in Pelosi's office is convicted on all counts. An Arkansas man who was photographed during the Jan. 6 riot with his feet on a desk in then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office, was found guilty on all counts Monday after brief jury deliberations. Richard Barnett faced eight charges stemming from the insurrection, including theft of government property. He said repeatedly in court last week that he regretted what transpired at the Capitol that day but did not consider his actions illegal. Four Oath Keepers convicted of seditious conspiracy in Jan. 6 attack. A jury on Monday convicted four members of the Oath Keepers of seditious conspiracy in the second batch of guilty verdicts related to the extremist group's efforts to block the certification of the 2020 presidential election. In addition to the seldom-used charge of seditious conspiracy, the four — Roberto Minuta, Joseph Hackett, David Moerschel and Edward Vallejo — were convicted of obstruction of an official proceeding and of conspiring to obstruct. Senate Republicans: Time to ditch Mitch. According to a poll released earlier this month by Morning Consult, and reported by a number of websites, including The Hill, Mitch McConnell, the senior senator from Kentucky and Senate Republican leader, is not very popular in his home state. His disapproval rating is 64%, and his approval rating is less than half that figure at 29%. [...] Does anybody recall McConnell demanding that Jan. 6 defendants be treated fairly, with the full protection of due process rights? How can we recall a non-event? Next question: Did McConnell speak out against the Jan. 6 kangaroo court? Here is the answer to that question from The New York Times: "McConnell Denounces R.N.C. Censure of Jan 6 Panel Members." What more evidence is needed that the Senate Republicans have as their leader a Deep State mole, with a brief to undermine conservative populism whenever it raises its liberty-enhancing head? Just What Kind Of A Republican Is Mitch McConnell? [Scroll down] The conclusion from reading Kelly's essay is that, yes, [Mitch] McConnell wanted a riot because it served his political goals. And really, one doesn't have to guess or infer. McConnell said it himself. On January 6, he spoke with Politico's Jonathan Martin about the day's events and admitted that "I feel exhilarated by the fact that this fellow finally, totally discredited himself." [...] Various videos show the Capitol security guards inviting demonstrators inside the halls of Congress and, later, FBI Director Wray refused to answer questions about agents/provocateurs planted in the crowd. The Revolver put together disturbing footage of Ray Epps seen on camera urging the crowd to move into the Capitol, as unknown people engaged in acts that were consistent with a planned "Fed-Surrection." In addition, texts have emerged from Epps to his nephew where he brags about orchestrating the riot. According to Revolver News, which is doing the work the mainstream media once did, Epps (and other FBI cohorts) make a living traveling around the country as a paid informant/provocateur for the FBI. The Manic Methods of Mad Democrats. The buffoonish protestors and rioters of January 6 were to be jailed for months without formal charges, put in solitary confinement, and often sentenced to the maximum punishment possible. But the rioters, shooters, and killers of 120 days of mayhem and violence during summer 2020 were calibrated as "summer of love" rowdies. Antifa and Black Lives Matter sort of, kind of got a little bit out of hand in torching a police precinct, a federal courthouse, and an iconic Washington, D.C. church, as well as trying to storm the White House grounds, sending the president into an underground bunker. That Antifa and BLM plotted much of their anarchy and violence on social media unimpeded was unremarked upon. That fact mattered not at all in comparison to the illegal paraders and rioters of January 6. Police who shoot unarmed protestors usually have their identities immediately revealed; yet when they lethally shoot the likes of an Ashli Babbitt, their identities are suppressed, and their questionable conduct lauded. MSNBC: Releasing January 6 Capitol Footage Is 'Dangerous'. One of the major wins of the McCarthy drama that gripped Congress last week was a pledge from the new Speaker to release all of the January 6 riot footage. [...] What possible rationale could there be, two-plus years later, for the government to continue to hide from the public the publicly-funded surveillance footage documenting the "greatest attack on democracy since the Civil War," as Democrats have branded it, in the people's house? Are we citizens or serfs? Judge finds Jan. 6 defendant who breached Senate chamber not guilty of obstruction. A federal judge on Friday [1/13/2023] ruled that a Jan. 6 defendant — who said he surged onto the Senate floor to "plead the blood of Jesus" and absolve the chamber of evil spirits — could not be convicted of obstruction of Congress' joint session, the most serious felony charge he faced. After a weeklong bench trial, U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled that Joshua Black had a "unique stew in his mind" that left her uncertain whether he was aware that his actions were unlawful. Black is the first Jan. 6 defendant who reached the Senate floor to be acquitted of the obstruction charge. Experts Believe GOP-Led House Has Constitutional Right to Set Innocent Jan 6 Victims Housed in the DC Gulag Free. On Jan 6 2021, four Americans died at the US Capitol. They were there protesting the stolen 2020 Presidential election. Ashli Babbitt was shot dead and the Capitol policeman who did it walks free. Rosanne Boyland was beaten while she was laying unconscious. Two innocent gentlemen were standing in the crowd when the Capitol police started firing flash bombs and they died. The Capitol police involved in these deaths walk free. [Tweet] Other main players walk free. One was a Capitol policeman who claimed he was the victim that day but the truth may show the opposite. He recently received an award from Joe Biden for his accusations. Another instigator in the crowd identified by The Gateway Pundit was Ray Epps. He instigated the riots at the Capitol that day and he walks free. Republicans, Don't Botch the Hearings. The old system of stuffy congressmen grandstanding for five minutes to make the local news while the witnesses run out the clock or repeatedly say "I can't recall" will just confirm that politics has no connection with daily American life. Democrats tried to make hearings interesting with their J6 kangaroo court, but the American public know a sham trial when they see one, and no one tuned in. Americans care about their financial futures, their families' health and safety, and their children's education, not persecution of innocent Americans who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Captain Mendoza Admits Violent, Unidentified, Trained Agitators Incited J6. Capitol Hill police Captain Carneysha Mendoza, who was at the Capitol on January 6, admitted under oath that there were trained, violent agitators coordinating with one another and who incited the crowd. No matter their political persuasion, these people need to be brought to justice. [...] Attorney Joseph McBride, who represented several J6 defendants, identified at least four agent provocateurs. One appeared to be law enforcement, interacting with other law enforcement. He passed out mace and other weapons like hammers and sledgehammers to the crowd. [Video clip] What the January 6 Videos Will Show. The jury trial of Richard Barnett, the man famously photographed with his feet on a desk in Nancy Pelosi's office on January 6, 2021, is underway in Washington, D.C. Nearly two years to the date of his arrest, Barnett finally had a chance to defend himself in court on multiple charges, including obstruction of an official proceeding. But it was not the fiery, outspoken Barnett who provided the most jaw-dropping testimony in the trial so far. To the contrary, one of the government's own witnesses confirmed under defense cross-examination that "agents provocateur" were heavily involved in instigating the events of January 6. Captain Carneysha Mendoza, a tactical commander for U.S. Capitol Police at the time, testified Wednesday how a group of agitators destroyed security barriers and lured people to Capitol grounds that afternoon: [...] The Lies About Jan 6th Have Been Relentless. Unlike the mainstream official narrative of the so-called January 6th "insurrection", the facts on the day shatter the official narrative of events, and dismantle the politicized persecution brought by the partisan DOJ and FBI — against countless US citizens — protestors and Conservatives who merely attending the protest. It appears that the vaunted January 6th Committee was created to cover-up politicians and federal agents' own role in staging the chaos on that fateful day. Fox News host Tucker Carlson reflects on the notorious January 6th Capitol protests two years after the fact, and exposes the outright lies repeated by Democrats, the Biden White House, and the mainstream media — about what actually happened. [Video clip] More Proof That Nancy Pelosi Was More Responsible for J6 Riot Than Trump. A little-noticed bill passed before Christmas shows that the U.S. Senate knows Nancy Pelosi had more to do with the U.S. Capitol breach on January 6, 2021, than anything President Trump did that day. Indeed, Nancy Pelosi could be crowned Queen of the Mob, since her actions led to the crashing of the perimeter fences, general dysfunction, and deaths of Trump supporters that day. Even after the one-sided January 6 Committee left Pelosi's role on the cutting room floor, there's one inescapable conclusion: If she'd done her job, there would have been no riot, no deaths of Trump supporters, no show trials, and no political prisoners sitting in solitary confinement in a D.C. gulag for two years awaiting trial. And there would have been no need for federal agents to "orchestrate" a riot. Pelosi was more responsible for the marauding mob at the Capitol that day than anything President Trump did to "incite" his huge crowd of supporters — which he provably did not. Journalist Paul Sperry Has More to Say, as Adam Schiff Starts Acting Nervous. Journalist Paul Sperry is not going quietly into the night — as we reported, he's been calling out the effort by Rep. Adam Schiff's office to silence him, to get him suspended from Twitter as well as to shut down his reporting about things that Schiff didn't want to be exposed. [...] Then Sperry laid out the timeline of events that led to his suspension and you can see how even though they initially said "no," he was banned shortly after the Schiff people demanded it, and after they upped the game using Jan. 6 and potential "violence" as some sort of justification. [Tweet] This is every danger to freedom of speech right there and this is how they were misusing Jan. 6 to shut down speech that exposed them. That alone is shameful, but as we see from what Schiff has done in the past, he has no shame. Sperry has indicated that he is looking into what legal options he has regarding what happened and against Schiff. As we noted, if he does that, he could get all kinds of things in discovery that could open up what Schiff's office had been doing. But Congress also should be taking action against Schiff for what he did and now that the Republicans have taken over, they can. Tucker destroys the Democrats' January 6 narrative. Tucker's pointed monologue focuses on the lies that Democrats have been telling about January 6 since January 6 itself. He even acknowledges what many of us have been thinking: The speed with which the media and political class coalesced around the insurrection narrative suggests that the narrative may have been in place before January 6. And since none of us believes that Democrats have the Nostradamus-like ability to see the future, maybe something else is going on. Journalist Tayler Hansen Reveals What He Witnessed with Ashli Babbitt on J6 and During Her Murder. You will never hear this covered by the corporate media and it will be ignored by even the most conservative news sites. But conservative journalist Tayler Hansen wrote a long thread today revealing what he witnessed on January 6th where he walked side by side with Ashli Babbitt. What you are about to read is a thorough destruction of the media and leftist narrative on January 6th along with a story of state-sanctioned murder. The January 6th Committee did not want to hear from Hansen because he knew the full truth. Jan 6 Political Prisoners and the Inversion of Justice in America. Two years after the events of January 6 at the Capitol, and the American people still don't have answers about what really happened that day and why. Most importantly, they don't know about the hundreds of political prisoners still languishing in the D.C. gulag despite no one being charged for staging an "insurrection." [Video clip] Where's The Outrage From Elected Leaders Over The Abuse Of January 6 Prisoners? Friday marked the two-year anniversary of the January 6 riot over the 2020 presidential results. If you were to ask the Democrats, the supposed threat to our democracy led by "Ultra MAGA Republicans" is still ongoing. That kind of rhetoric is blatantly untrue and deployed to smear millions of people who dare go against the Democratic agenda. Still, there is at least one overlooked continuous threat to American democracy stemming from that day — one that never seems to capture the attention of Legacy Media nor the representatives most outspoken about the Capitol riot. Over the past 24 months, dozens — if not hundreds — of Americans have been mistreated by the U.S. judicial legal system, according to attorneys and concerned citizens. This alleged abuse ranges from "cruel and unusual punishment" via unnecessary solitary confinement measures, other concerns over conditions in various jails, and worries over lack of due process. Remember: There Was No 'Insurrection' on January 6, 2021. Old Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and the rest of the Democrat establishment spent Friday commemorating what the Left would have us believe was a greater threat to "our democracy" than the Pearl Harbor attack or 9/11. In the face of this Big Lie that keeps getting bigger, it's important to remember: There was actually no "insurrection." There was no plan, no leader, no weapons, and no casualties except among those who entered the Capitol after the police opened the doors. President Trump, who was supposed to be the ringleader of the "insurrection," told the demonstrators to proceed "peacefully," and two years of relentless investigations have turned up no evidence, despite breathless media reports to the contrary, that he ever wanted anyone to overthrow the government and install him as some kind of president-for-life. Oopsie! J6 committee exposes nearly 2,000 Social Security numbers of Republicans, GOP governors, family members. At least no one can say that the January 6 committee didn't have an impact! Greg Abbott, Kristi Noem, Henry McMaster, and their families will have to guard against identity theft for the rest of their lives, thanks to the committee's work in exposing their Social Security numbers. How many numbers got exposed? "Around 1900" of them, according to the Washington Post, which came from White House visitor logs supplied to the committee. The J6 committee failed to redact those from a spreadsheet released to the public as part of its final report on the riot. Joe Biden Tells an Unbelievable Lie Amid Senility-Filled January 6th Speech. Did you know it's January 6th? No, I don't mean the date itself. I'd suspect most people know how to use a calendar, but did you remember that today is a day of remembrance supposedly on par with 9/11? [Advertisement] Yeah, me neither. As my colleague Susie Moore did, I completely forgot that today was that January 6th, and needless to say, Joe Biden's attempt to remind everyone did not go well. I mean it really, really did not go well. For instance, the president apparently doesn't know "January 6th" occurred on January 6th. Instead, Biden brought up "July 6th," a day that will apparently live in infamy. [Tweet] [...] The stupidity didn't stop there. Biden then repeated an unbelievable lie, and one Democrats have told before. Namely, the accusation that "insurrectionists" on January 6th killed William Evans, a now-deceased USCP officer. [Advertisement] [Tweet] Of course, Evans was not killed by insurrectionists. He also wasn't killed on January 6th. Rather, he was run down several months after the Capitol riot by a Nation of Islam supporter. Still, Biden included him in the supposed January 6th death toll. Biden Bungles Jan. 6 Speech: "What Happened on July 6th Had International Repercussions Beyond What I Think Any of You Can Fully Understand". Joe Biden on Friday marked the two-year anniversary of January 6 by granting the Presidential Citizens Medal to 12 law enforcement officers. January 6 is a sacred day for the Democrat-media complex. It's their Super Bowl. Many on the left absurdly claim January 6 was worse than 9/11. Mother of Ashli Babbitt Arrested by Capitol Police. The mother of Ashli Babbitt, Micki Witthoeft, was arrested by U.S. Capitol Police at a protest Friday afternoon in Washington, D.C. marking the second anniversary of her daughter's killing by Capitol Police officer Michael Byrd during the January 6th riot. Ashli Babbitt's Mom Arrested By Capitol Police For Blocking Road During Jan. 6 Anniversary March. Capital Policed arrested Ashli Babbitt's mother for allegedly violating two traffic regulations during the second anniversary of the Jan. 6 Anniversary March at the Capitol. Micki Witthoeft, Babbitt's mother, was charged with "blocking and obstructing roadways" and "obeying an order," according to a press release by the Capitol Police. Witthoeft was part of a group assembling to remember the events on Jan. 6 when Capitol police claimed she refused to move the march off the roadway on Independence Avenue near First Street. The group allegedly did not have a permit to march on Capitol grounds and were instructed to move out of the street or face arrest, according to the police. Doxxing: Remember Ashli Babbitt, Rosanne Boyland, and the Jan. 6 Political Prisoners. As Democrats continue their idiotic mantra that Jan. 6, 2021, was a "deadly" attack on "democracy," there are some victims about whom the Democrats would not like to talk. That would include the two Trump supporters who died in the riot, Ashli Babbitt and Rosanne Boyland, and the still-abused Jan. 6 political prisoners. Yes, there continue to be victims of Jan. 6, 2021, to this day — over 950 people charged for activities related (sometimes very loosely) to Jan. 6. As PJ Media's Robert Spencer reported in October, 34 of the Jan. 6 prisoners held in inhumane conditions petitioned to be transferred to Guantanamo Bay because they are being treated worse than terrorists. Nancy Pelosi calls House Democrats 'The greatest collection of intellect, integrity, and imagination assembled. Just when one thinks one has heard everything, one is proven wrong. Outgoing speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi recently wrote her last "Dear Colleague" letter to her Democrat co-conspirators/comrades. In this missive, she stated, "During the 117th Congress, President Biden and Congressional Democrats have put forth a shining vision of justice for all. Together, we have worked tirelessly to infuse this value into our legislative efforts. We can all take immense pride in our achievements toward that goal, which is making a real difference in the lives of the American people." Justice? For all? Tell that to all those still rotting in prison, without conviction or charge, for strolling through the People's House on January 6, 2021. Tell that to those who were snatched from their homes in the wee hours of the morning by armed feds when a simple summons to appear would have sufficed. Merrick Garland Links 5 Capitol Police Deaths to January 6 Riot. U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland honored the five Capitol Police officers on Thursday who, he said, died after defending the legislature from the January 6 riot in 2021 — though none were killed during the violence. In a statement on the second anniversary of the Capitol riot, Garland appeared to link the riot to the deaths: [...] Officer Sicknick, who lay in state in the Capitol after his death, was found to have died from natural causes. Garland's statement did not mention other deaths, including that of Ashli Babbitt, who was shot by a plainclothes officer as she tried to climb through a broken window in a door inside the Capitol during the riot. The now-closed January 6 Committee, which Democrats used to blame former President Donald Trump for the riot, falsely claimed during its highly orchestrated proceedings that police officers were killed during the riot. Biden to present Presidential Citizens Medal to election workers, officials in GA, AZ, MI, among others. Joe Biden will commemorate the events of January 6 on the second anniversary of that day on Friday, because, of course, he will. [...] It has been only recently that Joe Biden has begun to say the former president's name in public speeches. He refused to do so when he first came into office, referring only to the previous president or the previous administration. As the 2024 presidential primary race comes into play, look for Biden to get more aggressive about Trump's time in office. Biden is expected to declare his candidacy for re-election soon, having gone through the pretext of allegedly consulting with his family during their family Christmas vacation in the Caribbean. I will not be surprised if Biden name-checks Trump in his speech this year. A White House official (a.k.a. an anonymous leaker) confirmed that Biden will deliver remarks and honor twelve people for their contributions in the events surrounding the January protest and riot. Look for the word 'insurrection' to be the word of the day. Army Vet Christopher Alberts [was] Clubbed in the Back of the Head on Jan 6 — Then Feds Arrest Him, Lie to the Court, and Are Caught Hiding Video. Illegal arrest, officer perjury, and suppression of favorable evidence: The Jan 6 case against US Army veteran Christopher Alberts is flimsy at best. Unconstitutional charges based off an illegal arrest are being used to try to put Army combat veteran Christopher Alberts behind bars for more than 20 years for exercising his Constitutional right to protest on January 6th. Alberts did not cause any harm or property damage and was not suspected of committing any crime when he was illegally searched by a Metro Police officer on the evening of January 6th. When Alberts pledged to stand up to the unconstitutional charges he was arrested for, prosecutors retaliated with a superseding indictment that brought no new evidence but six additional charges against him, in a move defense attorneys are calling vindictive. Prosecute Ray Epps for 1/6. Just before Christmas, the Democrats' January 6th Committee released its final report. Predictably, that kangaroo court held Donald Trump responsible for inciting the so-called "insurrection" at the U.S. Capitol and recommended he be prosecuted. Given the holidays, it took some time, but eventually a remarkable revelation was discovered buried in the Committee's report. It was a text sent on January 6, 2021, by Ray Epps. He's the guy captured on video — both that day and the night before — hectoring Trump supporters to "go into the Capitol." At the rally on the 5th, the crowd suspected he was a provocateur and drowned him out, shouting "Fed, Fed, Fed." Epps' text reads: "I was in the front with a few others. I also orchestrated it." Unbelievably, he remains unindicted and at liberty. How Is The Uniparty Destroying America? Let Me Count The Ways. [Scroll down] But that's just one example of the elites pushing the country toward revolution. Another is the House January 6 Committee that was set up to "investigate" the "insurrection" following the November 2020 election. From start to finish, the Committee was an exercise in gaslighting half the American population, with the ultimate goal being to keep Donald Trump off the ballot in 2024. Lapdog Liz Chaney stated as much: "There's no question: A man as dangerous as Donald Trump can absolutely never be anywhere near the Oval Office ever again." The Committee laughably accused Donald Trump of inciting an insurrection; ignored proof that Nancy Pelosi is responsible for the chaos that took place; barely spoke to Ray Epps, one of the few, if not the only person caught on tape actually encouraging protesters to break into the Capitol; and it is hiding and refusing to release over 14,000 hours of video from the Capitol during said "insurrection". Ex-Capitol Police chief links Jan. 6 failures to Pelosi's influence, questions security today. The former Capitol Police chief forced to resign following Jan. 6 is set to release his side of the story in a new book warning nothing has been done to put the "agency into a better position" and that then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-Calif.) fault has remained unaddressed. The day after the Capitol was breached and the narrative of a failed insurrection was being circulated, then-Capitol Police chief Steven Sund was singled out by the speaker for the breakdown in security with a public call for his resignation. Tuesday, nearly two years later, Sund's account is slated for release in the book titled "Courage Under Fire" in which he recounts how his own preliminary requests for the National Guard to be put on standby were dismissed, seemingly to satisfy the whims of Pelosi. "Almost two years after the events of Jan. 6, the department is not in a better place or on a readier footing," The Washington Post reported Sund wrote after obtaining an advance copy of the book. "Few people in the department feel there is a visible plan to move the agency into a better position. Hundreds of officers have left the department since Jan. 6 and many feel it is only going to get worse." America's Persecuted Political Prisoners. Almost two years after the January 6, 2021, Washington D.C. protests that Democrats and the mainstream news media call an "insurrection," the Department of Justice (DOJ) is still asking for the public's help in identifying more people to arrest. Of the 964 individuals charged with crimes for their participation in the protests of January 6, 2021, "hundreds" are still in Washington D.C. prisons today. The conditions in these prisons are so horrific that 34 January 6th (J6) prisoners asked for a transfer to the military terrorist prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (Gitmo). In their letter pleading for a transfer, the J6 prisoners said that Gitmo would provide what they are lacking in their D.C. prison, namely "nutritional meals, sunlight exposure, top notch medical care," and respect for "religious requirements." The harsh treatment of the J6 prisoners is in sharp contrast to the rioters who burned and looted in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis, MN on May 25, 2020. These criminals destroyed over $2 billion worth of property, attacked countless police officers and participated in 574 violent riots throughout the country. The incredible weirdness of the Ray Epps saga. Ray Epps is a name that keeps cropping up in connection with January 6. There are myriad videos of him urging people to go into the Capitol. Now, it turns out that, on January 6, 2021, he sent a text to a family member boasting, "I also orchestrated it [the entry into the Capitol]." By rights, according to the standards the Democrats have set since January 6, Epps ought to be sitting in a D.C. jail without bail or a trial date like the rest of the January 6 defendants. Except that he isn't. What gives? [...] The videos of Ray Epps, a tall, gray-haired man urging people to the Capitol, that are posted at The Revolver will suffice to show that Epp's behavior was open and perfectly met the Democrats' own description of what constitutes an "insurrection." (I'm not agreeing with their definition, I'm just saying that Epps meets it.) What's truly bizarre is affirmative disinterest that the Democrats and the FBI (but I repeat myself) are showing in Epps. And by "affirmative," I meant that, despite the FBI having him on its radar, it erased him entirely from consideration, while the January 6 Committee called him a good guy. 2022, Perhaps the Apex Year for an Era of Pretending. In an era of great pretending, when you speak factual and pain truth, people thirsting will come for the sanity. Yes, there's only so much hypocritical nuttery that can possibly fit into the social fabric of a nation, and we're full. I see that dynamic starting to play out now. Mainstream media are openly mocked everywhere for being the Baghdad Bob's they are. The MSM credibility and influence essentially destroyed by the Potemkin villages and Eco-chambers they built around themselves. The congressional J6 committee is yet another example of a proclaimed thermonuclear ICBM missile that ended up delivering a contrasting reality. The fading whistle & pop akin to a dysfunctional bottle rocket. Adam Kinzinger Lies About Ray Epps Again, and We Should Probably Figure Out Why. The January 6 committee recently ended with a whimper after a year of pomp and circumstance. Despite much manipulation of information by its members, the committee's report garnered all of about eight hours of headline news before quickly burning out. Why? Because there was almost nothing revealed that we didn't already know in it, and no matter how much Liz Cheney, Adam Schiff, and the rest insisted otherwise, they themselves never produced an ounce of evidence that Donald Trump orchestrated and was responsible for the Capitol breach. Still, there was something interesting shown in the testimony of now-infamous Ray Epps, the man who was caught on video multiple times telling people to enter the Capitol Building on January 6th. Text and Email Evidence that Pelosi Staffers Secretly Decreased Security at US Capitol for Jan 6. Rogan O'Handley posted a text message from Nancy Pelosi's staff secretly editing the J6 security plan for the US Capitol and then telling the House Sergeant at Arms to "please act surprised" when the final draft was published. The House Sergeant at Arms responded, "I'm startled!" to the request showing his willingness to play along. This is more evidence that the January 6 disruptions were planned in advance. [Tweet] Mark Levin calls the Jan. 6 committee's investigation 'idiotic' and 'counterfeit'. Mark Levin revisited the January 6 committee's actions and explained why Congress is not authorized to conduct criminal investigations. Of course, not having authorization hasn't appeared to stop the committee from doling out opinions, interrogating Trump's allies, and raining down slanderous allegations on accused insurrectionists. [Video clip] Jan. 6 committee cancels Trump subpoena with panel set to disband: report. The House Jan. 6 committee on Wednesday withdrew a subpoena issued to former President Donald Trump as the panel prepares to disband, according to a report. Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) reportedly notified Trump's attorney on Wednesday that the panel's subpoena against the 76-year-old former president, issued in October, has been rescinded and that he no longer needs to comply with document requests, according to CNN. "In light of the imminent end of our investigation, the Select Committee can no longer pursue the specific information covered by the subpoena," Thompson wrote in a letter to Trump's attorney obtained by CNN. Stewart Rhodes warns Trump is next for politically motivated prosecution. Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the Oath Keepers militia who has been convicted of seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, said his case is a harbinger of what the Justice Department has in store for former President Donald Trump. The former Army paratrooper and Yale Law School graduate turned militia leader warned that his conviction on the rare Civil War-era charge has set an ominous precedent that should alarm conservatives. "Their success in my trial is paving the way for them to keep rolling through other people building up to Trump," Rhodes told The Washington Times. "It was a warmup for what they're going to do. That's what that was: a political show trial." What Will the FBI Not Do? To this day, the public has no idea what the FBI was doing on January 6, how many FBI informants and agents were among the rioters, and to what degree they knew in advance of the protests. The New York Times reporter most acquainted with the January 6 riot, Matthew Rosenberg, dismissed the buffoonish violence as "no big deal" and scoffed, "They were making this an organized thing that it wasn't." "There were a ton of FBI informants among the people who attacked the Capitol," Rosenberg noted. We have never been told anything about that "ton" — a topic of zero interest to the January 6 select committee. J6 Committee Member Jamie Raskin Attacks Bedrock of Constitution as 'Danger' to American People. Members of Congress swear to uphold the Constitution. As part of the Jan. 6 Committee, Democratic members of Congress called the riot an "attack on democracy" and sought to smear any Republicans who dared to raise questions about the 2020 election as also "attacking democracy." Now, of course, trying to smear Republicans who raised questions or objected to electors was ridiculous, given that is provided for within the Constitution. But it was beyond hypocritical given Committee members like Raskin had themselves objected to accepting electors in the past. Here he is objecting to accepting electors when President Donald Trump was elected. [Tweet] There Certainly Was an Insurrection, But Not by Trump. Beginning Jan. 6, 2021, the government-media deep state cabal sharply pivoted from accusing President Donald Trump of "colluding with the Russians to steal the 2016 presidential election" to "incitement of insurrection," a charge for which he was impeached a second time and now the farcical January 6 committee is recommending criminal charges. As for Trump's supposed role, in his January 6 speech, he promoted the First Amendment's protections of "freedom of speech and assembly" and "the right to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." Here are his exact words, "I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard." Trump went further tweeting, "I am asking for everyone at the U.S. Capitol to remain peaceful. No violence!" How exactly was this a call for a violent overthrow of the government? This was not a call for violence, revolt, or rebellion. In fact, President Trump authorized National Guard troops, but only Speaker Pelosi or D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser could order deployment. And neither did. The January 6 Commission ignored this. Capitol Police welcomed protesters inside the U.S. Capitol building, and the only death was at the hands of a Capitol Police officer, fatally shooting an unarmed female military veteran. Trump releases video rant branding January 6 Committee findings a 'monstrous lie'. Former President Donald Trump has released a five minute video in which he rambles on how the January 6 Committee findings were a 'monstrous lie'. The video, which was posted to his Truth Social platform on Friday night sees Trump refusing the reports findings that he was ultimately responsible for the 2021 Capitol insurrection. 'The unselect committee did not produce a single shred of evidence that I in anyway intended or wanted violence at our capitol,' Trump said. 'The evidence does not exist because the claim is baseless and a monstrous lie.' The Left Is Furious About J6 Report Take on Ginni Thomas. The Jan. 6 Committee has been a ridiculous farce. But to the folks on the left, they think it's finally the opportunity to get all the people on the right who they imagine were all somehow involved in some grand conspiracy to attack the Capitol — from Ginni Thomas to various Republican lawmakers — although nothing supports that any of these people were involved in any way with the riot. In their mind, Ginni Thomas is somehow some great mastermind because she dared to question the election. Thomas, of course, did nothing illegal; all she did was ask others to pursue legal means and challenges — something Democrats have been doing for years. But to folks in the "Ginni Coup" contingent, they don't understand that there's nothing illegal about that. Plus, they think this is their chance to potentially do in Clarence Thomas. In their mind, they think if they can nail her, they can somehow get him off the Supreme Court. It's nonsensical, but there you are. Was January 6 Pelosi's Fault? I haven't paid much attention to the January 6, 2021, demonstration in Washington because it was not one of the 50 worst U.S. riots in the 12 months that bracketed it. It wasn't even the most destructive riot, or the second most destructive, in Washington during that time. If you want to see a destructive riot, come to Minneapolis. But none of the Minneapolis rioters were arrested, held in solitary confinement for a year or more, and ultimately tried and sentenced for... not actually being violent. Because their riot was approved by the Democratic Party. What was really notable about the January 6 event was not that a few hundred partisans (plus an unknown number of FBI agents) were sufficiently exercised about the election to besiege the Capitol. What was notable was the astonishing failure of security that let them in. At one entrance, Capitol guards opened the doors and apparently welcomed a large number of protesters, who entered the building, staying between the velvet rope lines, taking selfies. Liz Cheney's Foreword in Jan. 6 Report Reminds Us There's More of This Nonsense. The January 6 select committee finally released their final report on Friday morning, as Leah highlighted earlier. With soon-to-be former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) serving as the vice chairwoman, she was allowed produce a foreword, which took up approximately four pages of the nearly 850-page-report. As brief as the foreword is, Cheney still looks to make her mark. There's reference to Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan, as Cheney has done in the past, when she had even compared herself to the first Republican president. [...] Cheney is also looking to remind readers once more how hellbent she is in preventing him from becoming president again. She herself may even run against Trump. Donald Trump Comes Out Swinging in Response to the January 6th Committee Report. The January 6th committee finally released its much-hyped report on Thursday to ecstatic fanfare from a press that has made it an obsession. With that report came multiple criminal referrals of former President Donald Trump. Early leaks previously revealed what the outline would be, and as expected, it was "orange man bad" on steroids. Despite Trump not being present at the Capitol on January 6th and never telling anyone to become violent, the report was almost singularly focused on his supposedly culpability, to the point of appearing parodic. They didn't even try to keep up the pretense that the committee was anything but a mission to get one man. Now, Trump has come out swinging in response. Rep. Thomas Massie Points out a Glaring Omission in Jan. 6 Committee Report. The Jan. 6 Committee dropped their final report Thursday night, and it went largely unnoticed. [...] But their failure was overshadowed by the House Republicans dropping their report first. The GOP report destroyed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's narrative that she wasn't involved in the security. It pointed out how Pelosi's staff was very involved in the security plan with House Sergeant at Arms Paul Irving and how requests for more security were ignored. The GOP report further detailed that the Capitol Police were underfunded, undertrained, and underequipped, which didn't help. Somehow the Democratic report failed to note Pelosi's failures. Funny that. But there was also something else missing. Even though the Jan. 6 Committee report runs more than 800 pages, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) noticed that there was at least one other big glaring omission. [Tweet] Massie said the Committee was adjourning without "fulfilling year old promise to release Epps transcript." "The one person on film telling people to go into the Capitol (multiple times) disappears from FBI list and is not even mentioned in the 845 page final report," Massie said. Back in Jan. 2022, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MI) — the Chair of the Jan. 6 Committee — said that they would eventually release a transcript of the interview that they did with Ray Epps. House Republicans Expose Pelosi's Culpability In Jan. 6 Riot. Democrat leaders who had condemned crackdowns on the violent Black Lives Matter riots of 2020 were too worried about "optics" to appropriately prepare for the massive protests at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, according to a lengthy new report about the security failures on that day. GOP lawmakers, who were prevented from collaborating on preparations for the joint session of Congress, found Capitol Police were left untrained to handle mass demonstrations while House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was personally involved in security decisions that left the complex vulnerable to unrest. The more than 140-page report, completed by an independent probe of GOP lawmakers who were barred access to material from Pelosi's Select Committee on Jan. 6, illustrated a Capitol police force left understaffed, ill-equipped, and unprepared to confront the horde of demonstrators who descended on the congressional campus. The real reason for the J6 committee is laid bare. The final report from the January 6th kangaroo court was released last night, causing a great wave of hoopla and hyperventilating from the liberal media. The broad overviews of the report describe some sort of apocalyptic nightmare wherein the foundations of the nation's democracy were shaken to their very core or something. While considerable space was devoted to the actual individuals who rioted on that day (along with the far larger number of people who basically trespassed in the Capitol building), the primary focus of the report was, of course, Donald J. Trump and his alleged evil machinations enacted in an effort to overturn the election. But the real coup de grace was picked up by the Washington Post and they ran with it as their headline. "Jan. 6 report recommends Congress ban Trump from running again." 'January 6th Was Pelosi's Fault': House Republicans' Investigative Report Unveils Counter Narrative Of U.S. Capitol Riot. Text messages and emails from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-CA) office reveal her staff held regular meetings discussing security detail, helped edit authorities' plans, and turned down several requests from federal law enforcement needed to protect the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021. Reps. Jim Banks (R-IN), Rodney Davis (R-IL), Troy Nehls (R-TX), Jim Jordan (R-OH), and Kelly Armstrong (R-ND) independently published a 141-page investigative report on Wednesday outlining what they describe as House Democratic leadership and Capitol authorities' failures that left the complex vulnerable. Such failures include Pelosi and Democrat leadership being closely involved in security decisions, which excluded Republican lawmakers from key meetings and conversations related to House security. The report further noted that Democratic leadership showed widespread concern about "optics" over the early deployment of protecting the grounds with the U.S. National Guard. Trump overkill. With great fanfare, the House Democrats' Jan. 6 committee sent to the Justice Department four criminal referrals targeting former President Donald Trump. Committee members, all picked for the job by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), want the Justice Department to investigate Trump for 1) obstruction of an official proceeding; 2) conspiracy to defraud the United States; 3) conspiracy to make a false statement; and 4) "incite," "assist," or "aid and comfort" an insurrection. The whole exercise is meaningless, of course. The Justice Department is already investigating allegations surrounding Trump's role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Prosecutors have no obligation to pay any attention to what the Jan. 6 committee says. Indeed, there is a school of thought that argues the committee's referrals might even harm the Justice Department's investigation. House GOP report faults Nancy Pelosi for Jan. 6 security failures. House Republicans issued a scathing report Wednesday exposing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's key role in the catastrophic security and intelligence failures that left the US Capitol vulnerable to a violent attack on January 6, 2021. Days after Pelosi's Jan. 6 select committee recommended insurrection charges against former president Donald Trump over the Capitol riot, Republicans have hit back with a counter-investigation apportioning blame for the internal security breakdown on Jan. 6 to Pelosi and a dysfunctional Capitol Police intelligence division. "Leadership and law enforcement failures within the U.S. Capitol left the complex vulnerable on January 6, 2021," says the report, which is based on a trove of texts and email messages, and testimony from Capitol Police leaders and rank-and-file officers. Liberal Writer Bodies Liz Cheney As January 6 Committee Ends. The House Select Committee on January 6 is ending. It'll be gone by the next Congress — and good riddance. The committee was probably slated to be the Democrats' 2022 attack vehicle funded by the taxpayer to paint Trump and the Republican Party as too extreme for America. It failed because a) no one cared anymore about that little riot, b) Americans knew hyperbole when they saw it, and c) the economy was collapsing. Most Americans don't care or have the time to worry about the trivial matters that consume rich white liberals with dread. With the economy in recession, the Left tried everything to put this committee's work front and center, even hosting primetime hearings that no one watched. Its slate of star witnesses were unreliable former Trump staffers who unsurprisingly vanished from the airwaves, their goal of landing a fat media contract shredded by their pervasive inconsistencies. This body was, however, a favorite pet project of Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), who tried to use it to re-establish herself as a dominant voice within the GOP. The Latest January 6 Development Puts FBI in Embarrassing Situation. I'm so sick of this story, and blessedly, it is ending. The House Select Committee on January 6, which proved to be Rep. Liz Cheney's (R-WY) swan song, issued its referrals which carry little to no legal weight. The Department of Justice, while corrupt and politicized, isn't going to charge former President Donald Trump on the slew of ludicrous allegations that have been lobbed against him by this anti-Trump political circus. It was a riot, but it wasn't an armed rebellion, an insurrection, or worse than the American Civil War, Pearl Harbor, or the 9/11 attacks. Everyone but bubble liberals have moved on with their lives, but since they keep bringing it up, let's take a gander at the latest development which makes the Democratic Party's most trusted ally — the Federal Bureau of Investigation — look grossly incompetent. Senate Democrats see risks to Trump prosecution. Senate Democrats are not calling on the Department of Justice to bring charges against former President Trump for his actions in the lead-up to and during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, despite a recommendation from the House panel investigating the unprecedented event. While members of the House Jan. 6 select committee are ramping up pressure on federal prosecutors to indict Trump, Senate Democrats are taking a more cautious approach, with some arguing there's a "high bar" for prosecuting a former president. Republicans' January 6 Probe Reveals Security Missteps, Finds Sergeant at Arms 'Succumbed' to Democrat 'Political Pressures'. The five Republicans initially set to serve on the January 6 select committee released a report Wednesday of findings from their investigation into the U.S. Capitol's security preparedness ahead of the 2021 riot. The Republicans' 141-page report explores at length the security measures taken leading up to the events of January 6, 2021, an issue they say the January 6 committee has "thus far ignored." Bloomberg, Axios: Jan. 6 Committee 'Star Witness' Story Collapsing at Final Report Time. One can get an idea of just how weak the summary report released by the January 6 Committee is when even Bloomberg and Axios are throwing shade on the "star witness" of the hearings, Cassidy Hutchinson. Here is Bloomberg's very downbeat view on Tuesday on the credibility of Hutchinson as sadly written by Billy House in "Mystery of Trump's Alleged Outburst on Jan. 6 Unsolved in Report." [...] So very weak second hand hearsay sauce from the "star witness" that runs counter to first hand testimony from two witnesses. You don't have to be a legal genius to figure out which account will have much more weight in court. Yet, the J6 Committee is still desperately clinging to the Hutchinson hearsay. The Jan. 6 Committee's Referral Is Unconstitutional. The Jan. 6 Committee has voted to refer former President Donald Trump to the Justice Department for possible criminal prosecution. This referral violates both the letter and spirit of the Constitution for at least two reasons. First, Article 1 of the Constitution grants Congress "all legislative powers" and only "legislative powers." Under our system of separation of powers, the power to prosecute lies exclusively with the executive branch through the justice department. Congress has no authority to refer specific individuals for prosecution. It is beyond the scope of its constitutional authority. Second, Congress is specifically denied the power to pass any "bill of attainder." Prior to America's independence, the British parliament enacted such bills that prosecuted named individuals. Our Constitution prohibited Congress from prosecuting named individuals. The power of Congress is limited to passing laws of general application that can be applied to specific individuals only by the justice department and a grand jury. A congressional committee officially voting to refer a named individual for prosecution violates the spirit of the explicit prohibition against congressional bills of attainder. January 6 Committee Could Hide Full Record for Decades. The full records of the closed-door testimonies and other information gathered by the January 6 Committee could remain hidden for decades, thanks to the its secretive nature and to laws protecting committee records. The committee, which was entirely one-sided against former President Donald Trump after Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) took the unprecedented step of blocking minority party nominees, followed the equally problematic practice of Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) in conducting his impeachment investigation into Trump in a restricted room of the House Intelligence Committee, thereby controlling the flow of information. Jan. 6 Committee Has Yet To Establish A Criminal Case Against Trump. The eighth and final scheduled hearing of the House Jan. 6 select committee is scheduled for Thursday, and its members reportedly will present a time line of events on that day, particularly the 187 minutes between the end of then-President Trump's speech on the Ellipse and his call for supporters to leave the Capitol. It will again replay moments from the horrific to the heroic. What it has not shown thus far, however, is what was promised at the outset: a clear criminal case against Trump. At the start of the hearings, committee members promised they had the long-sought smoking-gun evidence — new material that would close the circle on Trump. Committee member Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) indicated he thought there was now "credible evidence" to support a variety of criminal charges. His colleague, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), said the committee would show that Trump organized a "coup" on Jan. 6, 2021. No sooner had the hearings begun when many in the media declared that the criminal case had been conclusively proven — even though most of what was being presented was already generally known. What to Watch For In the January 6 Report. After several delays, the January 6 select committee will belatedly release the full findings of its 18-month "investigation" into the Capitol protest on Wednesday. Controversy over the contents of the final report led to infighting among staff. Strong-arming by lame duck Representative Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), who wanted to focus almost exclusively on the conduct of Donald Trump and omit criticism of law enforcement, prompted some investigators to quit the committee in protest. [...] The public, however, should brace for a blizzard of false accusations, cherry-picked quotes, uncorroborated testimony, and twisted interpretations of the law to substantiate the claim that Trump engineered an "insurrection" in a vain attempt to remain in office. And contrary to the first narrative that gripped regime mouthpieces — that the president incited the crowd with his speech at the Ellipse that afternoon — Trump's "attempted coup," as the committee describes the events of January 6, is now said to have been months in the making. Alan Dershowitz dismisses Jan. 6 committee's Trump referral: 'Worthless piece of paper'. Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz denounced the Jan. 6 committee as a "kangaroo court" that produced a worthless report that should be "thrown in the wastebasket." In an interview Monday evening on Newsmax TV, the eminent lawyer said that "not only is [the Justice Department] not obligated to do anything, it is obligated not to do anything" in response to the panel's recommendations Monday that former President Donald Trump be prosecuted. According to Mr. Dershowitz, the panel operated against the spirit of one of only two civil-liberties provisions in the original Constitution, before the Bill of Rights was added — a ban on "bills of attainder." The January 6 committee refers Trump for criminal prosecution. Thanks to Hunter Biden's verified hard drive, we have irrefutable proof that Joe Biden was part of myriad pay-for-play schemes. Add that to the endless footage showing Joe pawing children and Tara Reade's contemporaneously corroborated claim that Biden sexually assaulted her, and the result is a corrupt, even criminal man. Nevertheless, the Democrats just recommended that the DOJ file criminal charges against Donald Trump. They will stop at nothing to destroy the man who threatens their power. Since Nancy Pelosi convened the hyper-partisan January 6 Committee, it's been apparent that the Committee's purpose wasn't to determine what happened on January 6. Instead, it existed to generate criminal charges against Donald Trump. To that end, Pelosi refused to allow any Republicans on the committee who might have provided a counterbalance to the Democrats' fervent Trump hatred. That alone rendered the committee invalid. Former FBI Agent at Alaska Trial of Oath Keeper Disputes Assertion Group is Anti-Government. The Oath Keepers did not try to overthrow the U.S. government on Jan. 6 and are not a threat to national security because the group is anti-tyranny, not anti-government, a former FBI agent and Department of Defense analyst testified Dec. 15-16 in Alaska Superior Court. John Guandolo, who handled counter-terrorism and criminal investigations during nearly 13 years as an FBI special agent, said he found "absurd" the idea that Oath Keepers tried to overthrow the federal government. Guandolo was at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in a personal capacity. Some of the Oath Keepers might have broken federal laws on Jan. 6 for allegedly trying to delay the counting of Electoral College votes, Guandolo said, "but to conflate that to being the same as the entire organization wants to overthrow the U.S. government by violence ... that's absurd," Guandolo said. "And I think it's an unprofessional assessment." J6 Pretrial Detainee Slashed Across Face with Knife — Is Housed With Convicted Killers, Gangsters And Racists!. Living in a cage lined by rat droppings and gagged by the stench of urine, Barry Ramey has been focused more on surviving death threats from known gang members than preparing for his February 21st trial in front of a jury of Trump-deranged DC democrats. Ramey, a legally innocent pretrial detainee, was slashed with a knife across his face by a convicted criminal that he is housed with in the Northern Neck Regional Jail. Ramey has not been convicted of any crimes. Twitter Files — Part Five. Citing the Capitol riot, Twitter staffers were in an uproar and pushed for Trump to be banned from the site even though the company found no policy violations in any of the president's tweets. The platform's employees deliberately misconstrued one of his tweets to suggest that he incited violence when the plain language showed he did not. To their credit, lower-level monitors involved in content review resisted. They see nothing wrong with Trump's tweets. One wrote, "I think we'd have a hard time saying this is incitement." Another messaged, "Don't see the incitement angle here." Still another warned that "censorship can destroy the public conversation." Trump was banned anyway on January 8th. Chairman of Jan 6 Select (Witch Hunt) Committee Withdraws Subpeona Against Verizon For Mike Lindell's Phone Records. Benny Thompson, chairman of the Jan 6 (Witch Hunt) Committee, has officially withdrawn the subpoena request on behalf of the committee for Mike Lindell's phone records after he filed a lawsuit against the unpopular Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi. We spoke with Mike Lindell, who explained that he sued the "unselect committee" almost immediately after he received their subpoena. "Sorry, but you're not getting my records," Mike said, adding, "It's against the constitution, and I wasn't even there!" Mike was referring to the Capitol building, which he was nowhere near when it was breached. Fortunately, Mr. Lindell, who is despised by the mainstream media, was being interviewed by the media when the incident occurred. Twitter Files: Yet It's Still a 50/50 Country. [Scroll down] One more thing. If Twitter chappie Yoel Roth, Global Head of Trust & Safety, was meeting regularly with the FBI and DoJ & Co. then, at some point, the regime was going to need a reason why the FBI was needed to help censor the bad actors on Twitter. Hey, I know! Why not gussie up the January 6 riots into a full-blown insurrection! That would prove that the censors were right all along! Donald Trump and everyone that stood with him were dastardly insurrectionists who should molder away in durance vile — that's a fancy word for jail — pre and posttrial. Up to now the J6 Thingy has never really added up for me. After all, the Dems won in 2020. So why make such a big deal out of a bunch of peasants rioting? President Trump told his supporters to go to the Capitol; Dems encourage their supporters in mostly peaceful protesting. Fair is fair. But J6 starts to make sense if all the usual suspects feel they need a cover for using the FBI to get Trump. Just to be safe. Florida Court Finds Jeremy Brown Innocent on 4 of 10 Charges. The trial of January 6 protester Jeremy Brown took place at the Middle District Court in Tampa, FL this week. [...] Jeremy has been locked up since September 2021, for over 450 days, after FBI agents raided his home. Jeremy was approached to work as an operative for the FBI in December 2020 at the January 6 protests in Washington DC. He refused the FBI and spoke out about their proposal. So, seven months later the FBI arrested Jeremy at his home in Florida. The attorney for Jeremy Brown, Mr. Roger Futerman, alleged on Wednesday that the FBI "planted" evidence in this case during his opening statements. Leaked Details of January 6th Committee Report Fully Expose Liz Cheney and Her Cohorts. The January 6th committee is finally on the cusp of releasing its much-hyped "report" on the unrest that took place at the Capitol Building following the 2020 election. Or is it? I mean, yes, there's going to be a report released (and a separate release of criminal referrals), but if the first leaked details of what it will actually contain are any indication, it isn't actually going to be about the unrest at the Capitol Building at all. Rather, it's going to be just one big continuation of the committee's obsession with Donald Trump, who was not even present. The Removal of Donald Trump from Twitter. [Thread reader] The world knows much of the story of what happened between riots at the Capitol on January 6th, and the removal of President Donald Trump from Twitter on January 8th. We'll show you what hasn't been revealed: the erosion of standards within the company in months before J6, decisions by high-ranking executives to violate their own policies, and more, against the backdrop of ongoing, documented interaction with federal agencies. This first installment covers the period before the election through January 6th. Tomorrow, @ShellenbergerMD will detail the chaos inside Twitter on January 7th. On Sunday, @bariweiss will reveal the secret internal communications from the key date of January 8th. Whatever your opinion on the decision to remove Trump that day, the internal communications at Twitter between January 6th-January 8th have clear historical import. Even Twitter's employees understood in the moment it was a landmark moment in the annals of speech. Twitter files dump reveal frenzied conversations before Trump was banned after the Capitol riot. Newly released internal documents suggest that Twitter's former head of safety Yoel Roth was meeting weekly with the FBI and show instances of the FBI flagging tweets related to the 2020 election for deletion. Journalist Matt Taibbi shared the claims in a new Twitter thread on Friday night, one week after sharing the first tranche of so-called 'Twitter Files' turned over by the company's new owner Elon Musk. The new thread covered the months and weeks leading up to then-President Donald Trump's ban from Twitter following the Capitol riot, shedding light on the increasingly frenzied internal efforts within the social media site to moderate his baseless claims of election fraud. The Editor says... 'Twitter Files' part 3 details 'internal debate' over Trump's ban after Jan. 6 riot. Twitter executives decided to ban then-President Donald Trump from their social media platform after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, while maintaining regular check-ins with the FBI and other federal authorities as they decided what postings should be targeted for censorship, the latest report from new company CEO Elon Musk reveals. In one of a series of tweets Friday evening, independent journalist Matt Taibbi said internal company messages showed how Twitter's internal standards eroded during the months leading up to Jan. 6, with high-ranking executives violating their own policies while interacting with various federal agencies. Taibbi posted messages that he said "show Twitter executives getting a kick out of intensified relationships with federal agencies." In one, Yoel Roth, then Twitter's head of trust and safety, appears to describe how he struggled to disguise the purpose of weekly meetings with FBI and other government officials that helped guide the company's decisions on policing posts on its platform. Dr. Darren Beattie Reveals Government Sabotage of the J6 Pipe Bomber Investigation. "We've proved definitively that the FBI was withholding footage that would have shown the pipe bomber actually planting the bomb at the DNC," said Beattie Thursday. "[The official story] compounds discrepancy upon bizarre & almost unbelievable coincidence until there's so many piled on top of one another that it becomes simply unbelievable." [Video clip] Oath Keepers Verdict: A Dangerous Escalation in Criminalizing Dissent. One year after the events of January 6 — despite their best efforts — federal prosecutors still hadn't filed a single criminal charge that came anything close to resembling "insurrection" or domestic terrorism. Democrats and regime media were agitated: How could they continue promoting the four-hour disturbance as an attempted coup if the most prevalent offense charged by the Department of Justice a year later was the petty misdemeanor of "parading" in the Capitol? Even the chief judge for the D.C. district court overseeing each January 6 case had publicly expressed her frustration that the government wasn't producing harsher indictments against Trump supporters. So Matthew Graves, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, swooped in to save face. Eleven members of the Oath Keepers, an alleged militia group, were charged on January 12, 2022 with seditious conspiracy for their involvement in the Capitol protest. Elmer "Stewart" Rhodes and 10 others were accused of conspiring "to oppose by force the authority of the Government of the United States, and by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States." The law the Oath Keepers attempted to stop, Graves claimed, was the "peaceful transfer of power" vested in both the 12th and 20th amendments. A Corrupt, Evil Regime Intent on Imprisoning Trump. If there were anyone left in America who still didn't grasp that these people mean to destroy Donald Trump; his supporters; and anybody who dares to whisper, "Make America Great Again," they've gone out of their way to target Americans who question the legitimacy of the 2020 election farce with threats of criminal charges, job firings, professional sanctions, social "cancelation," forced psychiatric care (straight out of Stalin's Soviet playbook), and censorship. They've taken the unprecedented step of rewriting history by framing a million-American protest against election fraud on January 6 as a "domestic terrorist attack" and hostile "insurrection." They've used ethically challenged and politically partisan undercover agents, prosecutors, judges, and juries to turn simple acts of trespass, unlawful assembly, or criminal mischief (at most) into outrageously ludicrous charges of "sedition," "treason," and "conspiracy." They've used the sycophantic State-controlled press corps to spread the lie that Trump-supporters murdered police officers at the Capitol, when, in fact, four protesters alone lost their lives that day — at least two due to unconscionable State-sanctioned violence. They've spent two years conducting a J6 show trial in Congress (using concocted evidence, unsubstantiated testimony, and false accusations without even the pretense of providing for due process or adversarial counsel) intended to brainwash Americans into believing that President Trump was involved in an attempt to overthrow his own government. They've presided over an abject judicial circus pretending to be a serious legal "case." They've kept hundreds of J6 protesters in solitary confinement and under other forms of duress in an effort to force Americans who dared to exercise constitutional rights into accepting preposterously unjust plea deals and falsely admitting to guilt. House January 6 committee has decided to make criminal referrals, chairman says. The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol has decided to make criminal referrals to the Department of Justice, the panel's chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson, told reporters Tuesday [12/6/2022]. Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat, said the committee has not narrowed down the universe of individuals who may be referred. Asked whether Thompson believed any witnesses perjured themselves, he said, "that's part of the discussion." Trump Isn't The Nation's Greatest Threat To Democracy. His Exile Is. In February last year, Trump became the first and only president to undergo an impeachment trial in the Senate after he had already left office. One week before Joe Biden took the presidential oath, Trump was hit with a snap impeachment from House Democrats who sought to indict the outgoing president for the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. It didn't matter that the president had encouraged demonstrators to protest "peacefully" that day. It didn't matter that the riot erupted before Trump had even finished speaking more than a mile down Pennsylvania Avenue. What mattered was that Trump supporters flooded the Capitol, interrupted a joint session of Congress, and gave House Speaker Nancy Pelosi an opportunity to invent a new hoax in pursuit of the top item on the Democrats' policy agenda: the criminal conviction of President Donald Trump, and with it, a lifetime ban on running for office. On Saturday, conservative radio host Jesse Kelly wrote on Twitter, "the efforts to keep Donald Trump from being elected, remove him once he was elected, and prevent him from being elected again have done more to damage this country than anything in American history." The Media Undertakers Must be Getting Exhausted. [Scroll down] Blocking, banning, and shadow banning social media posters does not appear the end of it. As Julie Kelly reports in the context of the January 6 sound and light shows on the Hill and in the D.C. courtrooms, Attorney General Garland's minions in D.C. are now criminalizing speech with which they disagree, charging the Oath Keepers with "seditious conspiracy" although there were no weapons on them, they were military veterans "most suffering various degrees of service-related disabilities," and it's certainly hard to see how unarmed individuals "without a single firearm or explosive device" could possibly meet the law's test of conspiring "to oppose by force the authority of the Government of the United State, and by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States." What If MAGA Shrugged? MAGA voters came out in full force in 2020, sending President Trump's vote totals to new heights for a sitting president, and when lawless mail-in voting and suspicious ballot dumps flipped crucial battleground states days after the election, they chose to exercise their constitutional rights to petition their government for redress of grievances. How did the tyrants in D.C. respond? They farcically treated the whole January 6 affair as a terrorist attack orchestrated with intent to overthrow the Republic, even though none of the pro-Second Amendment protesters inside or outside of the Capitol brandished weapons or remotely sought to topple the United States. For nearly two years, hundreds of peaceful MAGA Americans have been imprisoned in a pre-trial purgatory, while the Antifa and Black Lives Matter rioters who orchestrated murder, mayhem, and the worst property damage in American history during the summer of 2020 were quickly released, if they were even arrested. FBI tracked Jan. 6 protesters' location even if phones were in airplane mode: report. Government entities can track individuals' smartphone geolocation data even when there's no cell service or if phones are in airplane mode, according to technology website Wired. The confirmation came in a report about the FBI's tactics to find participants in the riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. In a November 28 report, Wired investigative science and technology reporter Mark Harris highlighted evidence uncovered from January 6 court records. According to the filings, FBI officials served a bevy of so-called "geofence warrants" to Google to access smartphone location data belonging to individuals suspected of taking part in the riot. If Big Brother And Big Tech Can Team Up To Violate Political Opponents' Privacy Over J6, They Can Do The Same To You. Google gave the feds the personal data of nearly 1,500 individuals based on cell phone location data indicating their presence near the Capitol complex on Jan. 6, 2021. The Department of Justice sought substantially more information, as well, according to a recent court filing, including data on Jan. 6 cell phone users wholly outside the Capitol. These facts, coupled with Google's apparent disregard for the privacy rights of its customers, expose the potential for the government and Big Tech to collaboratively target political enemies. In response to the riot that erupted inside the Capitol on Jan. 6, following a rally at the National Mall and a peaceful protest outside the Capitol, the Department of Justice launched a massive investigation seeking to identify and prosecute the individuals who committed crimes that day. Just a week after the Jan. 6 riot, "the government sought and was granted a 'geofence' warrant for data held by Google." FBI Dragnet for Google Data Pertaining to Jan. 6 Should Concern Us All. We saw an unprecedented effort by the government to go after those who were at the Capitol on Jan. 6, with the FBI investigating hundreds of people and employing all kinds of tactics to arrest them. Not only did the FBI have informants who were involved, but they also employed some unusual methods. Among the tactics in their huge investigatory effort was the "biggest-ever haul of phones from controversial geofence warrants, court records show." According to a filing in one of the Jan. 6 cases, Google gave up information to the FBI on 5,723 devices that had been in or near the Capitol during the riot. Geofence warrants allowed them to get anyone in the area using digital services. There weren't that many people who were inside the Capitol. About 900 have been charged. So those warrants were grabbing people who had not been inside the building — they were potentially grabbing information on dissenters and/or random people who were just in the neighborhood. Google Gives Location Data of 5,000+ Phones to Feds for Unconstitutional Jan. 6 Patriot Crackdown. A new article from Wired has revealed that Google gave the location data of at least 5,000 phones to the federal government to help them crack down on patriots in their overreaching and unconstitutional probe over the Jan. 6 election fraud protest. A court filing has shown that Google identified 5,723 mobile devices for the feds in order to help them charge peaceful Capitol protesters at Jan. 6. Meanwhile, shady provocateurs caught on video inciting violence, such as Ray Epps, remain free. Jan. 6 was the Reichstag event needed for the feds to initiate war in the domestic home front against dissidents and patriots, and Big Tech is fully on board for these treasonous affronts against the people. A Peek Inside the FBI's Unprecedented January 6 Geofence Dragnet. The FBI's biggest-ever investigation included the biggest-ever haul of phones from controversial geofence warrants, court records show. A filing in the case of one of the January 6 suspects, David Rhine, shows that Google initially identified 5,723 devices as being in or near the US Capitol during the riot. Only around 900 people have so far been charged with offenses relating to the siege. The filing suggests that dozens of phones that were in airplane mode during the riot, or otherwise out of cell service, were caught up in the trawl. Nor could users erase their digital trails later. In fact, 37 people who attempted to delete their location data following the attacks were singled out by the FBI for greater scrutiny. Geofence search warrants are intended to locate anyone in a given area using digital services. Because Google's Location History system is both powerful and widely used, the company is served about 10,000 geofence warrants in the US each year. Location History leverages GPS, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth signals to pinpoint a phone within a few yards. Although the final location is still subject to some uncertainty, it is usually much more precise than triangulating signals from cell towers. Location History is turned off by default, but around a third of Google users switch it on, enabling services like real-time traffic prediction. Don't Shut Down the January 6 Committee — Supercharge It! The January 6 committee is a hyper-partisan gaggle of Trump-hating members of Congress, consisting of a Democrat chairman, 6 Democrat committee members including Reps Adam Schiff and Jamie Raskin, and two token Republicans, who loathe Donald Trump even more than their Democrat colleagues, Reps Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger. In a delicious twist of fate, neither Republican will be a member of the next Congress, Cheney shellacked in her GOP primary and Kinzinger wisely not seeking reelection, preferring to take his crocodile tears on left-wing cable news shows. Despite their stated goal of investigating the so-called "attack" on the US Capitol on January 6, the true goal is to tar and feather Donald Trump through endless media leaks, eventually turning their "evidence" over to the politicized Department of Justice, which will dutifully indict and prosecute their political opponent just like in a third world banana republic dictatorship. Tucker Highlights Sickening Treatment of January 6th "Political Prisoner". While many Americans have much to be thankful for this Thanksgiving season, even if Slow Joe Biden is still in charge and the costs of Thanksgiving have risen dramatically under him, there's one group that's probably in pretty dismal spirits. That would be the group of prisoners locked up in DC over the January 6th incident, a group that has allegedly been treated horribly in jail. While many have since forgotten about them, some haven't and are still willing to draw attention to their plight, with the Columbia Bugle and Tucker Carlson doing so by highlighting the sad case of Chris Worrell. [Tweet] From a Time When Communism Was Taught Right. We have seen social media platforms ban freedom of speech. We have seen certain journalists excluded from press conferences in Arizona and then watched the journalists be herded off government property by deputy sheriffs. Later, these same journalists were tracked by flying drones like what we have seen the Chinese Communist Party employ against its COVID-19 dissidents. The American news media frequently slant or omit the true news of the day. The American viewer has been fed a steady diet of propaganda. We have seen false stories about "Russia, Russia, Russia"; the "Big Lie"; and "J6." Peaceful American citizens, including many veterans who fought to protect our rights, are being held in the District of Columbia jail in terrible conditions and without being formally charged. Over two years have passed, and many still have not had a speedy trial. Garland Moves To Transform J6 Inquisition Into A Permanent Prosecution. Attorney General Merrick Garland launched a special counsel investigation into former President Donald Trump on Friday, the week before Thanksgiving, to ensure a permanent prosecution of public enemy number one on a third bid for the White House. The special counsel, Garland said, will take over the investigation of Trump's purported mishandling of presidential records and probe whether Trump can be held criminally liable for the events that unfolded on Jan. 6, 2021. The former is a desperate follow-up to the latter after the House Select Committee on Jan. 6 emerged empty-handed from an 18-month investigation. The 'Insurrection!' House of Cards Is Collapsing. Amid bombshell revelations that the FBI embedded numerous informants in two militia groups accused of plotting to overthrow the government on January 6, FBI Director Christopher Wray finally is facing some heat. During a House Homeland Security Committee hearing on Tuesday, Representative Clay Higgins (R-La.) angrily demanded to know more details about the use of FBI informants related to the Capitol protest. Higgins twice asked Wray whether FBI informants disguised as Trump supporters were planted inside the building even before protesters gained entry. When Wray offered his usual obfuscating tap dance about protecting sources and methods — "the suggestion that the FBI's confidential human sources or FBI employees in some way instigated or orchestrated January 6th, that's categorically false," he indignantly insisted — Higgins called his bluff. "It should be a no!" he yelled when Wray wouldn't give a straight answer. "We Get Maced, Beaten for Singing the National Anthem" — J6 Political Prisoner. Being detained in the DC gulag for nearly two years has taken a toll on J6 political prisoners William Chrestman's faith, family and mental health. In a recent letter to TGP, Chrestman describes the "inhumane" conditions he is subjected to while living in a "third-world hell." Yesterday's conspiracy theories are today's legacy media news reports. [Thread reader] NYT reports the #2 man in the Oath Keepers, Greg McWhirter, was actually an FBI informant, talking to them for months ahead of the Capitol attack. Oh the day he was supposed to testify in the Rhodes trial, McWhirter, 40, had a heart attack & couldn't. NYT also reports the FBI "had as many as eight informants inside" inside the Proud Boys, in the months before AND after the January 6 riot. Despite this, NYT asserts "no evidence has surfaced suggesting that the FBI played any role in the attack." Yet! Pence: 'Congress has no right to my testimony' about Jan. 6. Former Vice President Mike Pence said he was closing the door on appearing before the House Jan. 6 committee in a new interview, saying Congress "has no right" to his testimony. In an interview with CBS "Face the Nation" moderator Margaret Brennan, parts of which were aired on Wednesday, Pence said he was "concerned" about the members all being appointed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). "I am closing the door on that," Pence told Brennan of testifying before the panel. Court Docs: FBI Had Eight Informants in Proud Boys Prior to January 6. Recent court documents show the FBI had as many as eight [...] informants embedded with the "Proud Boys" group in the months leading up to the January 6 riot at the Capitol in 2021. The bombshell revelation comes via the New York Times and raises several alarms, among them being just how the eight informants and their presence within the group, and the information they gleaned from working with the group, didn't result in the FBI stopping the riot in the first place. It also raises the question with defense lawyers as to whether the group may have been, or to what degree they were, entrapped by the informants themselves. The New York Times reports that court filings for defense lawyers representing five members of the Proud Boys currently on trial for seditious conspiracy have unveiled the number of informants. Feds Had Informants In Proud Boys and Oath Keepers for J6. If Republicans eke out a win in the House of Representatives — which now seems likely — GOP leaders have promised to investigate numerous government scandals, including the irredeemably corrupt Federal Bureau of Investigation. One path of inquiry is how the bureau manufactures data to promote the phony narrative that "domestic violent extremists," i.e., supporters of Donald Trump, pose a security threat to the country. Whistleblowers recently disclosed how the FBI is "misrepresenting the scale of domestic violent extremism nationwide by categorizing January 6th-related investigations as organic cases stemming from local field offices, instead of all related to one single incident," according to a report by GOP members of the House Judiciary Committee. Shortly after the Capitol protest, FBI Director Christopher Wray designated the four-hour disturbance as an act of "domestic terror"; federal prosecutors routinely compare January 6 defendants to terrorists, enabling the government to seek — and receive — extended jail time for misdemeanors convictions and justify indefinite pretrial detention for nonviolent offenders. In Completely Unforeseeable Twist, January 6th 'Conspiracy Theory' Turns out to Be True. What's the current timeframe these days of "conspiracy theories" becoming fact? Whatever it is, it sure seems to be accelerating. [...] Despite well over a year of deflections and denials, it is now confirmed that no less than eight FBI agents were embedded in the Proud Boys organization during the period surrounding January 6th. [Tweet] [...] I'm sure you are totally shocked by this news. Who could have possibly guessed that Christopher Wray's FBI, which ran an entrapment scheme involving Gretchen Whitmer prior to the 2020 election, would end up having been intimately involved in the lead-up to January 6th? You have to admire the framing by the Times, though, pondering how much "federal investigators were able to learn from them about the violent mob attack." Yes, I'm sure that's a real mystery. Conversely, the FBI agents likely knew exactly what was being discussed the whole time, which would mean one of two things. One possibility is that the Proud Boys weren't planning an insurrection and that conservatives who have called it a spontaneous event have been right all along. J6 Political Prisoner Peter Stager Shares Experience in Jail Over 600 Days in Letter. The DC Department of Corrections continues to exploit the Covid pandemic as a means to discriminate against J6 defendants, Peter Stager, an Arkansas man who has been detained in the DC jail for over 600 days, explains in a letter provided exclusively to The Gateway Pundit. Stager was apprehended on January 14, 2021 for allegedly "striking a Capitol Police Officer with an American flag," the American Gulag reports. "The officer was belly down, and 'Police' was clearly visible on the back of the officer. Please keep in mind that in the United States, every citizen charged with a crime is presumed innocent until proven guilty." Correction officers are using Covid as an excuse to withhold political prisoners from access to basic necessities and bar inmates incarcerated for protesting the stolen 2020 election from visitation rights, Stager notes. Trump sues January 6 committee seeking to block subpoena for his testimony and documents. Former President Donald Trump has sued the House select committee investigating January 6, 2021, as a way to challenge its subpoena for documents and his testimony, according to filings in a federal court in Florida. Trump is challenging both the legitimacy of the committee — which multiple courts have upheld — and is claiming he should be immune from testimony about the time he was president. Trump's lawyers say they've communicated with the House over the past week and a half as the subpoena deadlines neared, offering to consider answering written questions while expressing "concerns and objections" about the bulk of the document requests. Never forget! The 3 times the radical left attacked the Capitol. For almost two years, the Democrats have railed about Jan. 6. They have lied about it, they have mischaracterized the former president and his supporters, they've conducted show trials over it, and they want to pin the whole thing on the former president — whom they hate for it. They fear most of all that he will soon announce a decision to run again — and win again. His party, this week, took the first step toward that by reclaiming power in the U.S. House and likely the Senate. It has not been a pleasant two years under the Democrats. They have used the full weaponized power of the state, the FBI, Attorney General Merrick Garland and the office of the "acting" president, not a very good one either, to turn the country into something resembling fascism — or as close as I ever thought possible in this nation. Save the January 6th Committee! Republicans say that the new U.S. House of Representatives majority, which they are likely to control, should immediately disband the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol. I wish to disagree in the strongest possible terms: the work of the committee remains incomplete, and must be allowed to continue, because the American people expect and deserve to know the full truth. The committee has yet to hear from outgoing Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who was in charge of security arrangements at the Capitol that day. She should be called to testify, and should be asked to hand over all of her documents, text messages, and phone records pertaining to the Capitol riot. She should be eager to comply, because she cares deeply about the truth, and protecting our democracy. The committee should also call Vice President Kamala Harris for her unique perspective on political violence. She participated in a Black Lives Matter event outside the White House in May 2020, just hours after rioters injured dozens of federal officers and forced the evacuation of the president to a bunker. About Those FBI Informants Concerning Jan. 6... While we've all been heavily focused on the election, the NY Times dropped an important story about Jan. 6 that many didn't notice. Remember when Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) grilled an FBI official about FBI or confidential human sources (informants) who may have been involved or had knowledge about Jan. 6? [Tweet] Turns out that one of the top people in the Oathkeepers — their vice president — was an FBI informant, according to the NY Times. FBI informant has heart attack on way to testify in Jan. 6th case for Oath Keepers founder. Lawyers for Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes have called an FBI informant to testify as a witness in Rhodes' defense against charges of seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot. Lawyers said that FBI informant was on his way to the trial when he suffered a heart attack. Greg McWhirter, who served as the Oath Keepers' vice president while informing on the group for the FBI, was set to testify as a defense witness in Rhodes' case on Tuesday, the New York Times reported. At an impromptu meeting on Tuesday, Rhodes' attorneys said McWhirter had boarded a plane to come testify for the trial but had to be taken off and hospitalized over a heart attack. Biden Makes It Official: Grand Theft Election II is On. As previously highlighted on these pages, the January 6 show trials on Capitol Hill and before hanging judges in D.C. courts bundled hyperbole and one-sided testimony into a fabulist storyline: that an infuriated President Trump and disparate collaborators executed a massive and unlawful conspiracy, including ordering an assault on Congress, to steal back an election already purloined by the Democrats. In Mr. Biden's recounting, "(T)he consequence of lies told for power and profit, lies of conspiracy and malice, lies repeated over and over that generate a cycle of anger, hate, vitriol, and even violence" was not just an "enraged mob" on January 6, "whipped up into a frenzy by a president repeating over and over again the Big Lie that the election of 2020 had been stolen," but also "menacing calls, physical threats, even threats to (the) very lives" of election officials. Further revealed in our earlier analysis was the purpose of this five-star fabrication: to inoculate Democrats regarding efforts to rig elections in 2022 and beyond. Anyone attempting to call out future voting irregularities favoring that party would now be lumped with "Big Liar" Trump and his "insurrectionists." The Democrats' Insurrection Flop. If there is a poster child for the Democrats' humiliating failure to make the events surrounding January 6, 2021 a winning issue in the midterm elections, it is U.S. Representative Elaine Luria (D-Va.). [...] No doubt anticipating a tough reelection for Luria, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) appointed her to the January 6 select committee — an exercise sold to the American people as a way to investigate what happened that day and prevent future "insurrections." Primetime televised coverage promised to make Luria a national star, a defender of "democracy," and a voice of reason in a country purportedly under siege by domestic terrorists — i.e., Trump voters. "We must leave behind any veil of partisanship at the door because the American people deserve answers on what happened on that day and how we can ensure this does not happen again," Luria said in July 2021, before the committee's first public hearing. But that, of course, didn't happen. Patty Murray makes an anguished face. [Scroll down] Then, of course, there's the troubling matter of our democracy being in crisis and at risk of failing, as witnessed by the events of January 6, 2021. To hear [five-term Democratic senator Patty] Murray describe it, the incident was like 9/11, Pearl Harbor and the Civil War rolled into one. She was right there, too, as she frequently reminds us. "I heard noises," Murray harrowingly told PBS NewsHour. "People were in the hallway outside my door... I was inches away, along with my husband. And we were really frightened. We were lying on the floor, and people were in the hall. They were marching and yelling." There's always a tone of calamity in Murray's voice. She's the one pluckily pressing her shoulder to a door being battered by the maniacs on the other side, with their Viking helmets and shocking tendency to vote for political candidates not backed by George Soros. Government Testimony Raises More Questions Than Answers in Oathkeepers Trial. The Oath Keepers Trial continues this week in Washington DC[.] Government witness Graydon Young admitted to not conspiring with individuals to commit a crime on Jan. 6, following a cross-examination by defense attorneys this week. Young pleaded guilty to conspiracy and obstruction of Congress this June. The government put him on the witness stand to testify against Oathkeepers Stewart Rhodes, Kelly Meggs, Kenneth Harrelson, Jessica Watkins, and Thomas Caldwell. It appeared Young was following instructions in his plea deal to tell the government's side of the story. He announced his remorse and embarrassment. However, when the defense cross-examined him, Young admitted he did not conspire with anyone verbally outside of the Capitol. He felt what he was doing was "common sense" given the circumstances. J-6 Political Prisoner Jake Lang Put in Isolation in Maximum Security Prison. American Political Prisoner Jake Lang has been in prison since January 16, 2021, almost 23 months now. Jake Lang witnessed Roseann Boyland's death on January 6th, something the media has almost completely ignored. Jake was on the ground with Rosanne when she died. Jake Lang witnessed police viciously pushing Roseanne Boyland and the crowd. The police beat her, and doused her and others with pepper spray and tear gas. Jake saw Phillip Anderson, unconscious and crushed by the police and crowd, right next to Boyland. He lifted Anderson and dragged him out of the pile and, with others, Jake carried Phillip away from the scene, saving his life. This story has been confirmed by Anderson, who credits Jake Lang with rescuing him that day[.] Former Capitol cop who messaged Jan. 6 rioter guilty in obstruction case. A former Capitol Police officer who warned a Jan. 6 defendant about a post that said he was inside the Capitol building was found guilty on one count of felony obstruction of justice by a jury on Friday. Michael Riley was indicted in October 2021 on two counts of obstruction of justice and resigned from the Capitol Police force shortly thereafter. At his trial this month, federal prosecutors argued that Riley "betrayed" his oath by sending Jan. 6 defendant Jacob Hiles a Facebook message, warning that the FBI and law enforcement were planning to charge everyone who entered the building. Supreme Court Justice Kagan Temporarily Blocks Jan. 6 Committee Subpoena for Phone Records of Arizona GOP Chair. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan has temporarily blocked the Jan. 6 Committee's subpoena seeking phone records belonging to Arizona Republican Party chairwoman Kelli Ward, while the high court considers her emergency appeal. The Jan. 6 committee's subpoena had asked Ward's phone carrier, T-Mobile, to produce call and text message records from November 2020 to January 2021. Kagan's decision on Wednesday is granting an emergency application that Ward and her husband filed earlier in the day seeking to prevent their phone records from being turned over to the Jan. 6 committee, after a lower appeals court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, voted 2-1 to deny her request. Pelosi Cover Up: Now we know why Democrats lied about Trump's National Guard Offer. Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Select Committee investigating the January 6th riot, which took place at the US Capitol nearly two years ago, held its last public hearing nearly two weeks go. The committee is exclusively made up of anti-Republican members appointed by the leader of the Democratic Party. In our entire 233 year history operating under the US Constitution, this mono-partisan makeup and appointment has never happened. No serious lover of law, in either its making or adjudication, would dream up a process of getting to objective facts without an adversarial process in the calling and questioning of documents and witnesses. However, that's exactly what Pelosi, Chairman Bennie Thompson, and Liz Cheney (who has been expelled by voters) have schemed up at great detriment to the republic. Now, the entire premise of this specially-empowered committee was to "investigate the facts, circumstances, and causes relating to the domestic terrorist attack on the Capitol" and draft legislative recommendations to prevent a future collpase in security. Curious then that most of the committee's effort has been spent violating the civil rights of countless conservative activists, Republican consultants, and probing the Trump administration in a shocking break from precedent with Joe Biden waiving executive privilege on behalf of the Trump administration. Race-Baiting Celebrity J6 Cop [was] Once Involved in Race-Related Lawsuit. Michael Fanone, the former D.C. Metropolitan police officer using his presence at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 as a pathway to fame and fortune, is on a major publicity blitz. Along with his Pulitzer-prize finalist co-author, Fanone managed to turn his 30-minute struggle that afternoon into a 256-page book: Hold the Line: The Insurrection and One Cop's Battle for America's Soul is an "urgent warning about the growing threat to our democracy from a twenty-year police veteran and former Trump supporter who nearly lost his life during the insurrection of January 6th. Never mind that Fanone was well enough on the evening of January 6 to call CNN and complain about its news coverage or that he sat for a lengthy interview with a Washington Post reporter a few days later. Fanone is part of a quartet of celebrity cops juicing every second of their involvement in the four-hour disturbance nearly two years ago, earning lucrative book deals, congressional awards, and cable news gigs in the process. After the Jan. 6 Committee finishes, maybe a GOP Congress can probe some actual 'threats to democracy'. Congressional Democrats have nearly wrapped up the political circus generally known as the Jan. 6 Committee. That panel was supposed to look into the allegedly democracy-shaking events of Jan. 6, 2021. Though this has been called an "insurrection," it was closer to a campus mob occupying the dean's office than a coup d'etat. The actual violence that day pales in comparison to the bloody and fiery riots that raged across American cities in 2020, with approval, tacit and otherwise, from Democratic politicians and media (who described those riots as "fiery but mostly peaceful"). Now Americans are more concerned with skyrocketing prices, economic stagnation and the threat of a nuclear war in Europe, after some unwise comments by President Joseph Biden gave Vladmir Putin an apparent green light to invade Ukraine. Steve Bannon sentenced to 4 months in jail for contempt of Congress. Former top Trump White House advisor Steve Bannon was sentenced Friday to four months in jail for defying a subpoena from the congressional probe of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. A U.S. District judge also fined Bannon $6,500. But he ruled that Bannon will not have to serve the sentence until an expected appeal plays out. Both the jail term and fine came in below the punishments recommended by federal prosecutors. The proceeding makes Bannon one of the highest-profile figures to be sentenced to jail on charges related to the insurrection. Prosecutors wanted the court to sentence Bannon to six months in jail — the top end of the federal sentencing guidelines range — and the maximum fine of $200,000. Former PJTV Filmmaker Investigated by FBI as Domestic Terrorist for J6 Documentary. "He said that they had a call in to the terrorist threat center that I was a terrorist because I had made the movie Capitol Punishment and they had orders from DC I needed to be investigated." In November 2021, acclaimed filmmaker and former PJTV contributor Chris Burgard released a documentary showing what he witnessed when he went to the rally at the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. He used footage he shot himself outside the building, along with cell video taken by those who went into the Capitol, to show a new perspective. This perspective seems to have been ignored by a weaponized Department of Justice under Attorney General Merrick Garland. The film included several deeply impactful interviews with folks who participated and subsequently found themselves targeted for pre-dawn raids by the FBI. Despite never having entered the Capitol building himself, the FBI has now come to Burgard's ranch in Texas to interrogate him. January 6 Committee Can't Issue Trump's Subpoena Because It Can't Identify Trump's Lawyer. The U.S. House committee investigating the January 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol made a big show of voting to subpoena former President Donald Trump last week — but it has not actually issued the subpoena, because it cannot actually identify Trump's attorney. [...] As Breitbart News noted, the committee voted unanimously to subpoena Trump, after failing — despite weeks of hearings, months of closed-door depositions, and testimony from over 1,000 witnesses — to produce any evidence linking him directly to the Capitol riot. Trump responded in a letter in which he expressed his outrage that the committee had not addressed his basic claim that the 2020 presidential election had been fraudulent. In theory, he has said he is willing to testify. However, there is no actual subpoena. Jan. 6 Prisoner Alfredo Luna Tells His Story of Outlandish Government Overreach and FBI Corruption. Alfredo Luna enlisted in the United States Marine Corps shortly after he watched in shock and anger the tragic events of 9/11. Not only did he enlist, he chose to enlist as an 0311, or a "rifleman/infantryman", a job with all but guaranteed combat implications given that dreadful September morning. When Luna left the Marines, he became a cop where he continued to serve his community valiantly in Southern California for 14 years. He earned the Medal of Valor during this time. The Medal of Valor is the nation's highest award given to public service officers. On January 15, 2021 sometime around 5 am, dozens of FBI agents and local law enforcement officers in full tactical gear rode up to Luna's house on the side rails of two pick up trucks and an up-armored vehicle reminiscent of Luna's time in Iraq. They cordoned off the neighborhood. One agent deployed a flashbang outside of his house. There is absolutely no tactical application for a flashbang deployment outside of a house when the "suspects" are inside other than to intimidate them. Or perhaps trigger his PTSD in hopes Luna would do something reckless? The Broken Promises of the January 6 Committee. The Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol conducted its final televised performance on Thursday afternoon, an event dutifully carried live by every cable and broadcast news station. [...] Since its inception, the select committee has wielded its unchecked authority not to fulfill the stated mission of finding out exactly what happened on January 6 — a four-hour disturbance the enabling legislation refers to as a "domestic terror attack" — but as a vehicle to harass, intimidate, prosecute, and destroy the careers of Donald Trump, his aides, and his supporters. Former federal prosecutors for months have interrogated Trump White House officials behind closed doors to produce cherry-picked clips to bolster the regime's narrative that Trump incited the "insurrection" by refusing to accept the 2020 presidential election as legitimate — a view still shared by the overwhelming majority of Republican voters. FBI Whistleblower: Bureau Taking Steps to Ensure that 'Process is the Punishment'. According to Just The News, FBI Special Agent Steve Friend, who is based out of Florida, said that his security clearance was recently suspended as a result of his whistleblowing efforts, thus leaving him without any pay. In his formal whistleblower complaint filed to Congress, the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, and the Inspector General of the Department of Justice (DOJ), Friend claims that the FBI is systematically violating the 6th and 8th Amendment rights of all the prisoners who have been arrested for peacefully protesting at the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, 2021. He also accused the bureau of deliberately inflating the number of alleged acts of "domestic extremism" in the country, in order to make right-wing terrorism seem like a greater threat than it actually is. DOJ Recommending Steve Bannon Be Sentenced to Six Months in Prison. The Department of Justice is recommending that former Trump advisor and War Room host Steve Bannon be sentenced to six months in prison and a $200,000 fine for defying the January 6 Committee. Bannon was convicted of contempt of Congress in July for refusing to comply with a subpoena from the committee. In the recommendation, the DOJ claimed that Bannon "has pursued a bad-faith strategy of defiance and contempt." The DOJ also stated that Bannon "flouted the Committee's authority and ignored the subpoena's demands." [...] Part of the committee's reason for subpoenaing Bannon was that he had predicted on his podcast that "All Hell is going to break loose tomorrow" — something almost everyone was saying at the time. Leave No Stone Unturned and No Person Unstoned. Two more people have pleaded guilty in the narcissistic soap opera that is January 6, this time a Utah father and his son. Salt Lake City's Fox affiliate, KSTU is reporting that Eagle Mountain, Utah, resident Bradley Bokoski and his son, Matthew R. Bokoski, of Chicago, both pled guilty to the misdemeanor of, and I quote: "parading, demonstrating or picketing on the Capitol grounds." Sentencing is set for January 17. Parading? Is that really a thing? Are the navel-gazers in the Rotunda so hard up for convictions that they are tapping people for the misdemeanor of "parading?" According to the report, the pair admitted to walking into the Capitol building, and the cameras show them there. But since they did not commit any acts of violence, they will likely receive probation, which has been the ruling in similar J6 situations. Calling January 6 a 'siege' is utterly absurd. [Scroll down] Evidently the authors, who are highly educated people, didn't bother to check the dictionary before referring to the January 6 incident as a "siege." There was no "military blockade" on that day; demonstrators were not armed; they did not "storm the ramparts," they were let in by the police, who were armed and killed one of the demonstrators, Ashli Babbitt. The demonstrators had no interest in "compelling" members of Congress to "surrender." Do what to them after they surrendered? Confiscate their parking passes? On the other hand, it could be that Amman & Meloy simply didn't think they were obliged to follow the ordinary meaning of a term as defined in the dictionary. There are people who think language is "fluid" and can be used as one sees fit. Humpty Dumpty told us that "when I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less." There are also people who think our Constitution is a "living document," in which can be found rights the Framers never even imagined. Wyoming J6 man gets 30 days for "parading". We saw the latest sentencing of a January 6 defendant on Wednesday of this week, but this person wound up with a significantly shorter sentence than many of his predecessors. 34-year-old Andrew Galloway of Wyoming appeared in federal court in Washington and was sentenced to 30 days in jail along with $1,500 in fines for "parading, demonstrating or picketing" inside the Capitol on January 6 of last year. Compared to others who engaged in completely non-destructive actions during the riot but who will be spending up to five years or more behind bars, Mr. Galloway should probably be thanking his lucky stars, along with his attorney. The Narcissism of the Left. Have you been following the January 6 hearings? Me neither. I'm leaving that up to someone else to cover. While I understand that the incident was at one time headline news, it has been dragged out, worked over, and put on display so many times that I am just not interested anymore. That is even considering the fact that Democrats and the media seem to think we should all be twisted up in knots, even with their move to subpoena Trump. Frankly, I'm surprised it was picked up for another season. It would appear that congressional democrats can't understand that Americans are not as petty or self-absorbed as they are and are not obsessing over the same things they continue to deem so important. My internet provider offered live streaming of this sad sitcom. But had I deigned to turn on my TV, it would not have been to watch that narcissistic quasi-reality series. I think there may be a documentary on quilting or bedbugs that may prove to be more entertaining and informative. So Pelosi Just Happened to Have a Film Crew In Her Office on January 6? House Speaker Nancy Pelosi threatened to punch former President Trump on Jan. 6 2021, according to video obtained exclusively by CNN. [...] In the video, Trump says, "We're going walk down to the Capitol" to protest election certification. An aide to Pelosi states that she's learned the Secret Service has dissuaded Trump from appearing at the Capitol because of safety concerns. "They told him they don't have the resources to protect him here," the aide says. "So at the moment, he is not coming. But that could change." "I hope he comes," the Speaker says. "I want to punch him out." "Oh wow, I would pay to see that," the aide says. "I've been waiting for this," Pelosi continues. "For trespassing on the Capitol grounds. I'm gonna punch him out, and I'm gonna go to jail, and I'm gonna be happy." So a few takeaways from this report: First of all it's a federal felony to threaten a president. And since she made the threat on video[,] it should be a slam dunk case for the Justice Department. [...] And does anyone else find it strange that Pelosi had a film crew in her office — on January 6? I've watched the video and it's all very odd. As if the speaker is rehearsing bad dialogue from a Steven Segal action movie. As if the entire episode was — oh what's the word I'm looking for — scripted. One more insult to add on to the Jan. 6 junk pile. Pelosi's rogue Jan. 6 panel has added to its previous illegitimate actions, violating the terms of the House resolution establishing the committee, by issuing a subpoena to former president Trump. If this wayward action by this rabid, partisan committee is upheld by the courts, we shall have an unconstitutional amendment to the Constitution providing for parliamentary government, with the president answerable to Congress. Erased by congressional fiat, supported by the Judiciary, will be the important concept of separation of powers established by the Founding Fathers. Clearly, the courts must act with prudential speed to put a halt to Pelosi's assault on the Constitution — if the Judiciary is to honor its oath to support, uphold, and defend the Constitution of the United States. And the Republican members of House and Senate must rise in solidarity to declare their opposition to the rogue nature of Pelosi's puppet panel, comprising its violation of the terms of House Res. 503, the committee's organizing resolution, as well as the blatant disregard of the principle of separation of powers, a key building block of the Constitution. Systemic hatred of Donald J. Trump is no excuse for tearing down the Constitution and erecting a Potemkin governmental compact in its place, a compact that varies with the whims and prejudices of the leaders of the Democrat party. Election denial or Election Fraud Denial? The January 6th committee is focused on what happened when the Republicans questioned the results of the 2020 election. The Republicans did so in accordance with the Electoral Count Act of 1887. Which is exactly what the Democrats did in every Presidential election they lost beginning in 2000. The 1887 law was written after the controversial election of 1876 when Rutherford B. Hayes prevailed over Democrat Samuel J. Tilden. Hayes was elected, after much negotiating, by one electoral vote. The negotiations resulted in the removal of Union troops from the southern states. Other concessions demanded by the Southern Democrats paved the way for the Jim Crow laws that were in place until the 1960s. The voter turnout in 2020 was the highest since that same 1876 election. The 1876 election was disputed because of suspected voter fraud. Is the highest voter turnout in 1876 and 2020 a reality, or could it be that in both elections, fraudulent votes were the cause of the inflated numbers? It seems a definite possibility. Washington Post Admits Roger Stone Did Nothing Wrong. The far-left Washington Post has admitted that Roger Stone did nothing wrong on January 6th, 2021 when he attended the historic Capitol Hill protests against election fraud and the certification of reported election results in fraud-ridden states. This flies in the face of nearly two years of Democrat and corporate media propaganda placing Stone and 45th President Trump at the center of an elaborate plot to overthrow the government. The Washington Post admitted that Roger Stone did nothing wrong in a story bemoaning the lack of actual evidence that Nancy Pelosi and her J6 "witch hunt" Committee has to implicate the close Trump advisor in any sort of plot to overthrow the U.S. government. Fbi Is Hiding Critical Footage of the DNC Pipe Bomber. [Video clip only.] FBI arrests Ohio pastor on Jan. 6 charges. A pastor who was present near the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was arrested by the FBI on Wednesday. The Justice Department announced the arrest, saying he helped push against a police line. William Dunfee, 57, of Frazeysburg, Ohio, faces felony charges of interfering with a law enforcement officer during a civil disorder and obstruction of an official proceeding, according to a criminal complaint filed in Washington, D.C. He was also charged with five misdemeanor offenses. Though Dunfee was identifiable because he wore a jacket with the name of his company to the riot, the FBI also received tips about him, including a screenshot of comments made on the Facebook group "Here We Go with Jeremy Herrell" about being at the Capitol on Jan. 6, according to an FBI affidavit. Dunfee apparently did not enter the building. Scary Neighbors in the Age of Democratic Totalitarianism. [Scroll down] Democrats and Republicans in Congress have nightmares about January 6th 2021. Those terrifying MAGA Republicans stormed the Capitol building intending to overthrow the government with no weaponry or plan. Hypnotized to participate in a revolution on the spur of the moment by the oratorical skills of Donald Trump, who incited insurrection by telling people to protest peacefully. It was clever to use the Democrat propogandist's definition of mostly peaceful when riling up the base. All of Congress was efficiently removed without coming into contact with the insurrectionists who were busy making videos with their phones for social media. Breaking into the speaker's office must have been proof positive the overthrow of the United States government was imminent. Who knows what rifling through Nancy Pelosi's papers would have led to if the perpetrators hadn't been arrested and consigned to the endless hell of facing their accusers without an advocate. Victoria White Describes Unbelievable Bare-Fisted Beating by DC Police on Jan 6th and the Nightmare that Followed. We had the honor and pleasure to speak with and interview Victoria White on Sunday. We hope you take the time to watch this riveting interview. Victoria is a wonderful American, a committed mother, a victim of unbelievable police violence, and a beautiful person. Victoria White from Rochester, Minnesota attended the Stop the Steal rally in Washington DC on January 6th. Like many Americans that day it was her first time she ever visited Washington DC. She was excited to attend the rally and stand with President Trump at the Ellipse. What started as a wonderful trip with family and friends turned into a bloody nightmare. Victoria White was nearly killed by DC police officers during the rally. The police officers beat her in the face and shoulders nearly 40 times with sticks and their fists. Then they dragged her through the US Capitol shoeless and forced her to wait outside without a phone, a coat, or a ride after they released her hours later. At least 919 people have been charged in the Capitol insurrection so far. Since supporters of then-President Donald Trump swarmed the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 — forcing Congress to go into lockdown and damaging the halls of government — at least 919 people have been arrested and charged with crimes. The FBI is seeking the public's help to identify people who took part in one of the most documented crimes in US history. But since most rioters were allowed to walk free that day, it's taking some time to track them down. This table includes the names, charges, links to court documents, and links to additional stories of all the people charged so far. Supreme Court to Consider Electoral Argument Targeted by DOJ, January 6 Committee as 'Insurrection'. The argument that state legislatures have sole power to interpret their election laws, and the process for selecting presidential electors, is set to be heard by the Supreme Court — even as those on one side of the argument are being targeted by investigators. In recent weeks, the Department of Justice has served subpoenas and search warrants on dozens of individuals who have argued that presidential electors can legally be rejected by the Vice President and sent back to state legislatures for further reconsideration. The subpoenas have been part of a so-called "fake electors" inquiry into alternate slates of electors prepared by Trump supporters after the 2020 election. They were prepared as a remedy in the event that courts ruled state legislatures could decide electoral slates. Ginny Thomas Ruins J-6 Committee's Plan to Destroy Her. The big January 6 Committee extravaganza was set to begin again on Wednesday, and in the eye of their manmade storm was Ginny Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. "Getting" Ginny Thomas and their real target, Justice Thomas, has been at the center of the Left's nocturnal fantasies for years, and no doubt the Committee was eager to dirty her up for them as much as possible. But, alas, Hurricane Ian intervened, and the Committee temporarily postponed the "Fall Season" of the hearings so as not to share the news cycle with an act of God. No big announcements about Ginny Thomas would be forthcoming under the Klieg lights by politically wounded Liz Cheney. Thomas sat down with Committee members on Thursday, and by all accounts, she acquitted herself well — to normal people, that is. FBI Whistleblower Comes Forward, Says Bureau Violating Policies in Jan. 6 Investigation. An FBI whistleblower has come forward to say the bureau is violating policies in its investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol breach. The whistleblower raising concerns about how the bureau is handling the Jan. 6 investigation has identified himself as special agent Steve Friend. Friend, based out of Florida since June 2021, said in a declaration made public on Sept. 26 that he was told that child sexual abuse material investigations were "no longer an FBI priority" and should be referred to local officials. He says he was also told that he would be focusing on domestic terrorism investigations. Friend says he observed that FBI policies on case assignments were being violated because the Washington Field Office was enabling field offices around the country to lead investigations on crimes that allegedly took place in Washington on or around Jan. 6, but officials in Washington are actually directing the probes. The situation resulted in active criminal investigations in which Friend is listed as the case agent, but has done no investigative work, according to the declaration. Why Ray Epps Matters. For those who do not know who Ray Epps is and why he matters — and this includes most Democrats and many journalists — U.S. Representative Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) served up a handy reference guide last week. Gosar did this in the form of a resolution of inquiry (ROI) directing Attorney General Merrick Garland to hand over all documents relevant to the Epps case within 14 days. "Multiple videos show Ray Epps repeatedly urging crowds of people in Washington, D.C. on January 5 and January 6, 2021, to go to the United States Capitol and breach the building," Gosar explained. "Epps is the one person seen on video directing people towards the Capitol seconds before violence broke out, yet he has never been arrested or charged with any crime while more than 800 others have and countless more remained jailed." [...] Later in July 2021, however, the FBI quietly removed Epps from its most-wanted list. He was not arrested and never spent a night in jail. The failure of the FBI to arrest the most conspicuous ringleader of the Capitol breach has naturally heightened suspicions that Epps — and likely others — were either federal agents or assets. Why the final hearing of the Jan. 6 Committee show trial got postponed. Just yesterday, the House Jan. 6 committee announced that it is postponing its ninth and final public hearing, originally scheduled to be held and televised on September 28 at 1 P.M. E.T. Surprisingly or perhaps unsurprisingly, the website for the Committee had no information about the reason for postponement. [...] There are two main reasons for this postponement. The first reason is that the media and the nation will soon be totally focused on the hurricane in Florida — i.e., their hearings will receive no media traction. This is a media trial, and if the media are unable to cover it and amplify its misinformation, it is meaningless. The second reason is that it gives them an excuse to hold their hearing just before the midterms in November. They hope the claims are fresh in the minds of voters to inflict maximum damage on the GOP. Jan. 6 Prisoner Beaten til He Lost an Eye, Later He Was Tied to Chair for 12 Hours, Now He Has Blood Clots. Ryan Samsel was arrested in January 2021. He was blinded by DC prison guards in one of his many beatings since his arrest. Ryan Samsel attended the January 6, 2021, protests in Washington DC. Samsel pushed the flimsy bike racks and stormed the US Capitol after Ray Epps was seen whispering in his ear. Samsel allegedly injured a female police officer. Oath Keepers Forced to Go to Trial on Bogus Seditious Conspiracy Charges. A group of Oath Keepers, including leader Stewart Rhodes, will be forced to go to trial prematurely this week after numerous attempts by their attorneys to push their trial until January and outside of Washington DC. The presiding Judge Amit Mehta denied their motions for Change of Venue and Continuance. This is what they have been waiting for — a seditious conspiracy conviction to "prove" January 6th was an "insurrection" and tie it all to Trump — to prevent him from running again and even to possible use to arrest him. Fair Trials Are Impossible for January 6 Defendants. Odds are jurors in Douglas Austin Jensen's trial took longer to fill out the verdict forms than they took to decide his fate. After only a few hours of deliberations on Friday, 12 residents of the nation's capital found Jensen guilty on seven counts related to his involvement in the Capitol protest on January 6, 2021. Jensen, an alleged QAnon follower, infamously confronted Capitol police officer Eugene Goodman inside the building that afternoon; he potentially faces decades in prison for convictions on impeding law enforcement officers and obstruction of an official proceeding, a dubious nonviolent felony punishable by up to 20 years in jail. NBC News reporter Ryan Reilly, who covers all things January 6, noted in a tweet that "An ongoing issue with these Jan. 6 jury trials is that you barely have time to write the story on closing arguments before the jury returns their guilty verdicts." Reilly then swooned over the Department of Justice's "flawless" track record before D.C. juries. Democrats move to criminalize opposition. A hallmark of banana republics is that those who lose power are apt to wind up in prison, or on the wrong end of a firing squad. Even more advanced countries, like Israel, sometimes have a regrettable tendency to prosecute former political leaders. It is hard to think of anything more destructive to a democracy, and yet the Democrats are going down that path. It seems clear that they intend to bring criminal charges against President Trump over his keeping some White House documents at Mar-a-Lago — a trivial offense, as far as anyone knows. And that's not all. The Department of Justice has issued subpoenas to a large number of people who were associated in some way with the Trump campaign or administration. They generally seek information about efforts to challenge the reported election results in several states. [...] Nearly all of the documents relate to activities that are plainly lawful. Alleging or denying the existence of fraud in the 2020 election, offering evidence of such fraud or the absence of such fraud, planning to have someone serve as a Trump elector, arguing that the vice president has important constitutional powers in the context of certifying a presidential election, discussing strategies whereby Donald Trump might be found, legally, to have won the 2020 election — these are all legal activities that have long been engaged in by members of both parties. There are also requests relating to the funding of efforts to contest the 2020 election and for the rally that occurred on January 6, 2021. These, too, were perfectly legal activities. House Democrat Lies About January 6th, Gets Eviscerated in Response. On any given day, House members are sparring in committee hearings, much of which we never see because it's just not all that newsworthy. An exception emerged on Wednesday as an exchange about January 6th took place between Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-NY) and Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC). Jones, a particularly unimpressive left-wing hack, decided to claim that Officer Brian Sicknick died by being "bludgeoned to death." That's a lie that has been repeated over and over the last year and a half despite it being widely debunked. Still, it remains a staple of the Democrat narrative about January 6th, serving as "proof" that the riot was uniquely deadly. Fortunately, Bishop was having none of it. He interjected, asking Jones to show his work. What happened next was a masterclass in how to beclown one's self. [Video clip] January 6 Will One Day Be A National Holiday — It Will Be America's Bastille Day. The storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6 by Trump supporters has been characterized by liberals in the usual hysterical — if not psychotic — overtones that is one of the characteristics of fanatics. And we are most definitely in the midst of a totalitarian movement. Jan. 6 has been likened to the War of 1812, the American Civil War, to the present war in Ukraine, to 9/11, and (need you ask?) to the Holocaust. CNN's Anderson Cooper, with a straight face, even referred it as the equivalent of the Bosnian and Rwandan genocides. How many tens of thousands, how many millions were killed during the storming of the Capitol? One person. One. Ashli Babbitt, 35, of San Diego and an Air Force veteran and Trump supporter, was murdered on the day of the riot when shot point blank in the face by a Capitol Police officer who weeks afterward put on a show of being afraid for his life (he was uninjured). The overall incident has continually been referred to by the leftist politicians and the propagandistic media hivemind as an "armed insurrection." Federal appeals court reverses ruling on Jan. 6 subpoena to RNC, dismisses case. A federal appeals court has reversed a lower court ruling ordering the Republican National Committee to comply with a subpoena from the House Jan. 6 committee, poking the Democrat-led investigation for vacillating on key issues and acknowledging there were "important and unsettled constitutional questions" about whether the panel is lawfully constituted. The U.S. Circuit Court for Appeals or the District of Columbia said it was dismissing the case because the Jan. 6 committee withdrew the subpoena to the RNC seeking records of its dealings with a digital fund-raising vendor Salesforce. "The RNC's appeal has become moot," the appeals court ruled in dismissing the case. Child Sex-Abuse Cases No Longer 'Priority' for FBI amid January 6 Investigation, Whistleblower Claims. The FBI is sidelining investigations into child sexual abuse in order to pursue January 6 probes and is inflating the number of "domestic extremism" cases across the country, Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee claimed in a letter Monday, citing whistleblowers. The committee's letter was spearheaded by ranking member Jim Jordan, and was addressed to FBI Director Christopher A. Wray. It comes on the heels of another committee letter that cited whistleblowers claiming the FBI was "pressuring agents" to label cases as "domestic violent extremism" even when they didn't meet the criteria for the definition. One whistleblower cited in the letter was "told that child sexual abuse material investigations were no longer an FBI priority and should be referred to local law enforcement agencies," due to the bureau's focus on January 6, the letter claimed. [Tweet] Whistleblower Alleges FBI Schemed to Distort January 6 Cases into Nationwide 'Domestic Violent Extremism' Epidemic. A whistleblower has accused the FBI's Washington Field Office of using cases related to the January 6 U.S. Capitol riot to "overstate" the threat of "domestic violent extremism" in America, according to Judiciary Committee ranking member Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH). The whistleblower alleged the FBI office did not follow standard investigative practices for the January 6 cases when it moved the cases to various local field offices around the country based on where the case subjects were from, Jordan revealed in a letter addressed to FBI Director Christopher Wray on Monday [7/19/2022]. Equal Justice, They Said. What tradition of Western jurisprudence allows violent criminals in America's largest cities to be released upon booking? What law states they are instantly free to commit more crimes without worry of incarceration or punishment, while those accused of illegally parading sit in jail for years awaiting charges? Is it a greater crime in this republic to walk peacefully through an open door into the Capitol, as at least some who were charged as a result of January 6 did, or to beat to near death an innocent bystander as many do who are released after arrest? As far as that reprehensible, buffoonish January 6 riot, compare the treatment accorded to those hundreds — many guilty of "illegally parading or "demonstrating in the Capitol" — with some 14,000 who were arrested in 120 days of rioting, looting, arson, assault, and murder during the spring and summer 2020 riots. Did the FBI spend over a year tracking down the names of those known from videos who torched federal buildings, murdered those in the street, sought to storm the White House grounds, and set up no-go zones in downtowns? Worst October 'Surprise' Ever: January 6 Committee to Resume Before Midterms. The House January 6 Committee is planning to hold at least one more hearing and release an early report into its "findings" before the 2020 midterm elections, in what is probably the least surprising "October surprise" in American political history. [...] Contrary to Axios's acceptance of the presumption that the committee never meant to look partisan or political, the committee was the first in American history to reject the minority party's nominees to serve on the panel, creating a one-sided show trial. Popular TikTok Lawyer Says Soros-Backed Foundation Offered Money for Anti-Trump 'Propaganda Post'. An attorney with a popular TikTok account says the Good Information Foundation, a nonprofit focused on fighting disinformation, offered to pay him $400 to make an "anti-Donald Trump propaganda post related to the January 6 investigation that is completely not true." This article reeks with left-wing bias. The Coming Outlawing of the Republican Party. [Scroll down] Biden's speech was the tip of a much more dangerous iceberg. After Biden took over, Democrat activist groups began a push to disqualify Republicans who had participated in the Jan 6 protests from elected office based on the 14th Amendment. Adopted after the Civil War, it's mostly notable for abolishing slavery. But Section 3 also banned anyone from holding elected office if they have "engaged in insurrection or rebellion" or "given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof." Aimed at Confederates, most would have considered this a dead letter, but the Left excels at digging up obscure legal fossils and making use of them. The insurrection lawsuits have targeted members of congress, Senator Ron Johnson and local officials. But by defining anyone who questioned the 2020 presidential election results as an "insurrectionist" or having provided "aid and comfort", the scope could be vastly larger. A New York Times article lists "147 Republicans who voted to overturn election results". Lists like this are proliferating in time for the midterms and they are meant to be actionable. Democrat-Aligned Org. Caught Paying TikTok Influencers to Spread Lies About Jan. 6. If you needed any more evidence that the left is desperately worried about the upcoming congressional elections, this should satisfy you. Preston Moore, an attorney and TikTok influencer who discusses news related to legal issues, posted a video explaining how a nonprofit organization called the Good Information Foundation offered him cash to cut a video in which he would perpetuate disinformation related to the riot at the U.S. Capitol Building on Jan. 6, 2021. [...] Moore ended up refusing to work with the Good Information Foundation, likely because he's not a dishonest hack. But the fact that such an organization would pay influencers to peddle narratives that are demonstrably false not only indicates that they are essentially frauds, but that they are terrified about the thought of Democrats losing big in November and having the Orange Man What Is Bad™ back in the White House after 2024. J6 rioter gets five years for "celebrating". As long as Joe Biden's Justice Department keeps pushing these prosecutions, we'll keep shining some sunlight on them. The latest January 6 rioter to be sentenced was 47-year-old Anthony Robert Williams of Michigan. Williams was definitely inside the Capitol Building on January 6, as proven by multiple social media posts published by himself and others showing him at various locations along with the rest of the crowd. He was found guilty of one count of intentional disruption of government business. He was also convicted of four misdemeanors related to the same activity. As with so many of the other riot participants, the descriptions of Williams' specific crimes are almost laughable, but the sentence he received was not. Williams was sentenced to serve five years in prison and three years of supervised release after that, along with thousands of dollars in fines and fees. Biden's Reichstag Fire. I've always detested people who make facile comparisons of anything that goes on in the U.S. to the manifold horrors of Nazi Germany. [...] To my mind, drawing parallels between them is a cheap, insulting, and wholly illegitimate way of gaining quick attention. However, the MAGA+FASCIST= JANUARY 6th phony equation now emanating from Joe Biden and his party — even going to the obscene length of enlisting the recent solemn remembrance of the 9/11 nightmare — oblige me to ask the reader's indulgence while I tread upon my own rule. The Dems comparisons of January 6th to 9/11 would be merely preposterous if it were not so morally disgusting; their strained attempts to make the D.C. riot of January 6, 2021 and the resulting trespasses upon the Capitol building into a seminal, earth-shaking event require them to take mendacity to new depths. In fact, there is an historical event that's somewhat closer to the mark, but it's one that every Democrat would be loath to recognize: for purely naked political purposes Biden and many Democrats are trying to make January 6th into some poor facsimile of the Reichstag Fire. The Biden Administration Isn't Interested In Governing But In Criminalizing The Opposition. If Biden and the Democrats do not have much interest in actually governing, they have a keen interest in using force against their political opponents. [...] The DOJ has now charged more than 870 people in connection with the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, and it is becoming obvious, in the wake of the Mar-a-Lago raid, that Attorney General Merrick Garland would like very much to indict Trump himself ahead of the November midterms on charges vaguely connected to Jan. 6. He might not be able to now that a federal judge, at Trump's request, has appointed a special master in the case. The appointment of a special master to review the material seized by the FBI from Trump's residence — a shocking 11,000 documents and 1,800 other items, including what the judge called "personal effects without evidentiary value" — means Garland might not be able to indict Trump before the November midterms, given the time it will take to go through all this material. But that is a risk Garland ran when he sent the FBI on what was clearly a fishing expedition. Who was Behind the January 6 Events? The current anti-Trump and anti-MAGA witch-hunt is not about 2024. The Democrat DoJ is safe for two more years. It is about January 6, 2021. The target is not so much Trump as the idea that electoral votes could be legally contested on the joint session of Congress. Obviously, the DoJ violates core freedom of speech. It also ignores the clear letter and spirit of the law regarding the joint session for Presidential elections. 3 U.S. Code § 15 — Counting electoral votes in Congress clearly provides for raising and debating objections against "all the certificates and papers purporting to be certificates of the electoral votes." In the session that commenced on January 6, Trump had a significant chance to be certified as the winner of the 2020 election. Further, it was his only chance. Neither Trump nor any group of Trump supporters wanted a violent disruption of this session. For this reason, such a disruption was in the interests of the Democrat Party. The narrative that Trump supporters stormed and breached the Capitol appeared in the media in the first minutes of the violence. It was sustained by multiple lies fabricated on that day and on the following days. Since then, many of those lies have been exposed, and previously hidden facts have been uncovered. The Regime's 'Operation MAGA Fascist' Gains Ground. After nearly two years of lies related to the events of January 6, 2021, the regime finally has admitted the truth: The widening legal dragnet to scoop up Donald Trump, his associates, and his voters has nothing to do with the four-hour disturbance on Capitol Hill that afternoon. It is, rather, a thus-far successful crusade to criminalize wrongthink about the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. A barrage of subpoenas issued recently by the Department of Justice — U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Matthew Graves' office specifically — against Trump aides is not seeking information about the Capitol protest but personal communications discussing what happened with the election and plans to fight the results. [...] Of course, this is what the January 6 hysteria has always been about. As the chaos unfolded on January 6, Joe Biden and his apparatchiks immediately denounced believers of the so-called "Big Lie" — the claim the election had been rigged, if not stolen, by powerful interests who wanted nothing more than to defeat Trump — and vowed revenge would come swiftly. January 6 Pipe Bombs Get Curiouser and Curiouser. Pipe bombs were planted on the night of January 5, at the Republican National Committee (RNC) and the Democratic National Committee (DNC), according to the FBI. Or were they? As evidence this occurred, the FBI released surveillance videos showing a suspect, a man wearing a hoodie, carrying a backpack, walking by the RNC bomb site and sitting on a bench next to the DNC, between 7:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. the night of January 5. The pipe bombs had 60-minute kitchen timers, which means had they been armed and viable they would have detonated before 9:30 p.m. on January 5. But they didn't. Both could have been duds. Or they could have been constructed for other purposes. Lindsey Graham, GOP Senators Say Nothing About Protesters In Prison For Over A Year Without Trial. At some point, these horrible RINOs will notice there is no one standing behind them. RINO Senators Lindsey Graham, Mike Rounds, Kevin Kramer slammed Trump and said "pardons for January 6 protesters was a bad idea." These same senators have SAID NOTHING about the men and women imprisoned today without trial following the January 6 protests. Don't fool yourself, they don't care if ANY Trump supporter rots in prison. Enough Already: Release the J6 Political Prisoners. [Scroll down] Several members of the community recently focused my attention on the plight of J6 political prisoner Jonathan Mellis, who has already spent nineteen months in the American Gulag for the "crime" of protesting against his government. Mellis is one of hundreds who have endured the wrath of a wayward Washington politburo that has thrown Americans' Bill of Rights and founding principles right out the window. Dennis Prager actually managed to secure a fifteen-minute interview with the incarcerated Mellis on December 22, 2021, and has replayed the disturbing audio for his listeners several times. I encourage anyone who has not already come across it to find a few minutes to concentrate on their conversation. The thirty-five-year-old Mellis, whom Prager identifies as a native Tennessean, although he was arrested in Virginia, sounds remarkably calm and composed, considering that he had already endured nearly a full year in jail (with no end yet in sight) and was obviously communicating with Prager from behind enemy lines. The Political Party That's Built On Lies. Though much of the truth regarding the events at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, contradict the narrative, the lying about that day has never ceased. Both the Democrats and the media have dared call it insurrection. But if insurrection it was, who, more than 20 months later, has been charged with the federal crime of insurrection, or any crime that is comparable? New Mexico judge bans Cowboys for Trump co-founder from holding public office for life. A New Mexico state district court judge has banned Cowboys for Trump co-founder Couy Griffin from holding public office for life following his conviction for trespassing on Jan. 6 at the US Capitol. State District Court Judge Francis Mathew issued the ruling on Tuesday asserting that Griffin had engaged in insurrection and violated the 14th Amendment, according to the Daily Mail. The determination prohibits Griffin from holding or seeking local or federal office and is the first ruling of its kind. The constitutionality of such a ruling will almost certainly be challenged. Latest J6 rioter gets nearly five years for "encountering". As long as the Justice Department keeps serving up these January 6 riot convictions, we'll keep trying to knock them out of the park. The next defendant to face the music for his heinous crimes was Joshua Pruitt, a 40-year-old Maryland man who entered the Capitol Building during the course of the riot. Pruitt received very special attention from both the Department of Justice and the press because of his alleged "affiliation" with the Proud Boys. He also holds the distinction of being the only rioter to come within visual distance of a Senator, specifically Chuck Schumer. While nothing actually happened during that "encounter" (as the Associated Press puts it), he was given 55 months in prison and three years of supervised release. Lawyer: January 6 Clients Are Being Tortured. A lawyer for several of the January 6 political prisoners says his clients are being "tortured" by a system of "anarcho-tyranny" that considers them to be a "subhuman, sub-constitutional class of people." In an interview this week, Joseph D. McBride said he is building a case to sue the federal government for millions of dollars over the abuses his clients have suffered. The devout Catholic told the Blaze's Daniel Horowitz on his "Conservative Review" podcast Monday that he has witnessed the "deepest part of evil" while representing the political prisoners. "They are gaslighting the entire American public," McBride said. "They are calling these people extremists and terrorists, but the extremism and the terrorism lies with them!" Where Is Steven D'Antuono? A few days after the Capitol protest on January 6, 2021, a tough-talking FBI chief with a Boston accent promised the American people that the bureau would spare no resource in hunting down everyone and anyone involved in the four-hour disturbance that day. [...] More than 850 Americans since then have been investigated, arrested, and charged for mostly nonviolent offenses related to the January 6 protest. Armed FBI agents have conducted early morning raids at homes across the country, using military style vehicles to batter in front doors while traumatizing families, children, and neighbors in the process. It is a crusade of fear and terror meant to reinforce D'Antuono's threats that those who dared to demonstrate against the fraudulent election of Joe Biden that day will pay a hefty price. Nearly 20 months later, D'Antuono's office continues to announce new arrests. Jan. 6 Mystery: Filmmaker Posts Detail He Just Noticed in Footage — This Doesn't Feel Right at All. One bizarre story that has emerged from the events of Jan. 6, 2021, features a now-suspended U.S. Capitol Police officer who was caught on camera wearing a Make America Great Again hat and leading his fellow officers out of the Capitol and through the protesters. Adding to the mystery is a man dressed in plain clothes who was helping the officer had flashed a badge or credentials of some type to him. Documentary filmmaker Ford Fischer tweeted Thursday, "After a fresh, close look at my January 6 footage, I discovered something in the chaos I didn't know I captured: On the Capitol East side, Capitol Police Lieutenant Tarik Khalid Johnson is in my footage wearing a MAGA hat and shouting into a bullhorn." [Tweet] Fischer also shared footage of Johnson in the MAGA cap entering the Capitol with the help of some men the documentarian identified as Oath Keepers. [Tweet] Another Piece Of Evidence Raises Serious Questions About Ray Epps. Is Ray Epps an F.B.I. informant? Many would say yes and I don't think his particular set of circumstances is helping his case at all — if he isn't an F.B.I. informant then he may just be the luckiest 'insurrectionist' in America. Epps has been documented in numerous videos trying to get people to storm the Capitol, and to my knowledge, he is the only one with such an extensive presence in the January 6th saga. Epps' behavior was so suspect that at one point he was shouted down as a 'fed' by an enormous crowd surrounding him. Other sources also claim that Epps was on an FBI most wanted database but that his name has since been quietly removed. Now we are seeing reports surface that Epps instructed his son on how to use a tourniquet ahead of the January 6th protests. These sources claim that Epps advised his son on this because of the danger posed by a potential bomb exploding in or near the Capitol. How can this guy be innocent of any charges while others, who have a much lighter or ambiguous role in the protests, languish in prison? Surprise! Jan. 6 Committee investigator 'has huge conflict of interest'. Brian Young is a senior financial investigator at the consultancy Polar Solutions Inc and a contractor for the Jan. 6 Committee, according to his LinkedIn profile and an internal congressional document obtained by the DCNF. But he is also married to House Deputy Sergeant-at-Arms (SAA) Kim E. Campbell, the second most senior official in the SAA, which like the U.S. Capitol Police is being probed by the committee for security failures in connection to the Capitol riot. The relationship could pose "a huge conflict of interest" if Young's work involves reviewing the performance of the SAA or Capitol Police, according to Tom Jones, executive director of the watchdog American Accountability Foundation. Think the FBI Deserves the Benefit of the Doubt? The Jan. 6 saga has become the sequel in Democrats' efforts to indict Trump, before FBI agents hatched a plot to go after the former president over supposed espionage. In October, the bureau refused to offer House Republicans conducting their own independent investigation of the Capitol riot the same material given to congressional Democrats. The FBI's refusal, the agency claimed, was because officials were already working with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Select Committee on Jan. 6. Pelosi's committee, however, was established in violation of House rules. Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., the minority appointment as ranking member, is entitled to the documents presented to Democrats. Senior FBI officials have also refused lawmakers' questions about how many informants were present at the Capitol on Jan. 6 and stonewalled inquiries surrounding Ray Epps, the mysterious figure who disappeared from the most-wanted list after he encouraged rioters to swarm the Capitol. At an Aug. 4 Senate hearing, FBI Director Christopher Wray sought to downplay agency negligence, claiming "we did not have any credible intelligence that pointed to thousands of people breaching the Capitol." But according to Newsweek, the agency deployed commandos with "shoot to kill authority," and even Capitol Hill parking attendants knew there were going to be mass protests. The FBI has also been less than forthcoming about a pair of pipe bombs planted at the RNC and DNC headquarters. Dual system of silence? Garland, Wray clam up on Trump search after blabbing about Jan. 6 probe. Stoic like a judge delivering a verdict from the bench, Attorney General Merrick Garland declared Thursday he was playing things by the book and wouldn't talk about the raid and ongoing investigation of former President Donald Trump. "The Department of Justice will speak through its court filings and its work," he said, declining to answer any of the multitude of questions Americans have, except that he approved the Monday raid on the 45th president's home and doesn't object to releasing the search warrant. Garland, however, was hardly as tight-lipped about the other major ongoing investigation that has consumed his department: the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Three January 6 Red Pills for Your Friends and Family. Want to know if candidate X or pundit Y is someone you can trust in a time of crisis? Or a fair-weather friend? Curious if this is person would be faithful in a foxhole, or might wave the white flag and betray you? Here's how to know the answer. What stance does he take on the events of January 6, 2021? Anybody who uses the word "insurrection," or "treason" or other such hysterical swear-words deserves to be crossed off your list forever. Don't trust that person with your houseplants, much less your country. He has already proven himself the willing dupe and rattling echo chamber of the worst people in power, bad actors scheming right now to strip your basic freedoms. Is he lazy enough at this point, with all we know now, to go on parroting such rhetoric? Then he's sleazy enough to sell you and your treasured causes out to our enemies. Forget him. Lose his phone number. Stop listening to his piffle. The Scandal of the Secret Service's Deleted Texts. Before and during Donald Trump's time in the White House, powerful federal agencies aligned to sabotage his candidacy and then his presidency. Once-trusted entities such as the FBI, the intelligence community, and even parts of the U.S. military have burned their credibility by abandoning their missions to instead try to end Trump's political career. Does this include the Secret Service? Unfortunately, the scandal over deleted texts related to January 6 demands the question. Last month, the inspector general for the Department of Homeland Security, the agency that houses the Secret Service, officially informed Congress that text messages the office sought as part of its investigation into the Capitol protest were gone. After the FBI's Trump Raid, Don't Take the Bait. [Scroll down] There is nothing the Biden administration and the left at large want more than another January 6th moment before the mid-terms. They long for it, and they are willing to do anything to try to manipulate a reaction out of the right to feed into their narrative. Why? Because they believe it can save them from certain destruction in November. Further, the FBI specifically wants justification to fight its war on "domestic terrorism." They want to crush you and anyone who thinks like you. All they need is some on the right to lash out to enact their plan, and they have the entirety of the country's institutions, including the press, supporting them. The FBI And DOJ Criminalizing Opposition To The Regime Is How The Republic Ends. This is the core danger of the administrative state: Its now open propensity to go rogue. It is apparently hellbent now on turning the United States into a banana republic. Democrats called Donald Trump a fascist, authoritarian, and wannabe dictator for chants at his rallies of "Lock her up," referring to his opponent Hillary Clinton. At the time, leftists pointed out that imprisoning, interrogating, investigating, and otherwise using government resources to harass and prosecute one's political opponents was the mark of tyrannical regimes such as Vladimir Putin's and Adolf Hitler. "Democracies don't lock up political opponents," the Washington Post editorial board told us in 2016. That is still true when the ones pushing the interrogations, investigations, entrapments into committing felonies, show trials in unusual venues with no cross-examination or due process, early morning home raids, excessive detainment, and asymmetrical punishments are Democrats. Democrats are trashing republican institutions, expectations, and guarantees for political purposes, most visibly now in their Jan. 6 effort to destroy the lives of protestors largely charged with misdemeanors and to expand Spygate tactics more broadly. Rep. Gohmert Cites US Code that May Force Capitol Police to Release Remaining Jan. 6 Surveillance Footage. As the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol continues its effort to prove allegations of insurrection against former President Donald Trump and his supporters, Capitol Police and House Democrats continue to block all efforts to force the release of all surveillance video footage and emails, which could possibly exonerate those being accused of wrongdoing. Now, Rep. Louis Gohmert (R-Texas) is citing a United States Code that could legally force the release of that evidence. In a July 29, 2022 letter to Capitol Police Board Chair William J. Walker, obtained by The Epoch Times, Gohmert — backed by the signatures of 23 additional GOP lawmakers — demanded the release of footage captured on Capitol Hill security cameras on Jan. 6, 2021, currently being withheld under "sovereign immunity." Huge Cover Up! FBI is Hiding Video Footage of the Supposed 'Jan 6th Pipe Bomber'. This video shows that the FBI is blatantly hiding information that may reveal the identity of the person who supposedly planted several pipe bombs around government buildings on Jan 6th. Could it be that the individual is yet another corrupt FBI member who helped orchestrate what many are calling the biggest scandal in US history? We now know with 100% certainty that the story the FBI claimed is completely untrue. We now know that their own agents were behind several plots to make Trump supporters look bad, including Jan 6th and the Gov. Whitmer kidnapping plot that was apparently entirely crafted by the FBI. Jonathan Turley Takes Apart Liz Cheney Claim J6 Committee Has 'Much More' to Come. The January 6 Committee has promised since the start of their hearings that they would produce the evidence to nail President Donald Trump. But as anyone can tell you, all they've produced is bad television that people have been avoiding like the plague because they know it's a biased witch hunt. But after nine hearings, they have not produced evidence to support criminal charges, according to George Washington law school professor Jonathan Turley. As he notes, even former prosecutor (and Senator) Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) thought it would be "very tough" to get an indictment legally. Instead, what we've gotten is a witch hunt "show trial" with a controlled Democratic effort, with only Democratic-appointed Trump-hating people on the Committee, with no ability to present anything to rebut the carefully crafted narrative about Trump. Yet, still, they haven't produced evidence of crimes. Release the Tape: Revolver Has Definitive Proof FBI Is Hiding Critical Footage of Jan 6 "Pipe Bomber". An exclusive analysis by Revolver News can prove that the FBI is in possession of, but has refused to release, security camera footage of the January 6 pipe bomber planting the pipe bomb at the DNC building at 7:52 p.m. on January 5th. This extraordinary revelation should be the immediate subject of Congressional inquiry as to why the FBI has stonewalled release of the footage. [Video clip] Coordination Between J6 Committee and Politically Motivated DOJ is Intended to Break Attorney-Client Firewalls in Trump Targeting Effort. The long-term motives and plans of the J6 committee and their coordination with the DOJ are starting to come into increased clarity as the mid-term elections draw near. A key indicator of the strategy from within the J6/DOJ effort surfaced when the quasi-constitutional "committee" sent a subpoena to former President Trump legal counsel Pat Cipollone, then leaked the subpoena, then leaked the testimony, then shaped, edited and broadcast the testimony during their prime-time broadcast. After the J6 broadcast, attorney Cipollene was then subpoenaed by the DOJ and recent reports indicate he is being called to testify before a grand jury. Never Forget the Government's J6 Political Prisoners. Of all the Leviathan's fiendish and reprehensible acts these last ten years (the IRS and DOJ's targeting of conservatives, the Hillary-Obama-FBI Russia collusion hoax designed to take down a sitting president, the Pentagon's forced experimental "vaccination" of servicemembers against their religious and conscientious objections, etc.), its no-holds-barred onslaught of malicious prosecutions and vengeful incarcerations against January 6 political protesters takes the cake. The government's wildly inappropriate use of the FBI and courts to stamp out certain political speech and intimidate Americans into silence and compliance is such a blatantly un-American miscarriage of justice that it leaves me seething with anger. It can't happen here? It has happened here. And the federal government's vindictive and authoritarian response to January 6 only adds to the voluminously accumulating proof that Washington is filled to the brim with sadistic tyrants who would have felt right at home in Stalin's Soviet Union. Son Brags to CNN about Turning in His Father for 7-Year Prison Sentence Over Jan. 6. Jackson Reffitt, whose father Guy Reffitt was sentenced to seven years in prison, says his father "absolutely" deserves it for participating in the Jan. 6 demonstration on the Capitol. Jackson spoke out to CNN where he said he said he does not regret his decision to rat out his father. "I mean, I'm not happy at all. I haven't been happy to this whole situation. No one in my family has either, but to say I'm surprised would be a lie," Jackson said to CNN's Brianna Keilar on "New Day" Tuesday after his father was sentenced. "I mean, everything my dad did, he's his own person. And his action has consequences. But I'm not happy at all." Also posted under Snitch on your neighbor. Guy Reffitt sentenced to 7 years despite not entering Capitol Building. Texas resident Guy Reffitt is sentenced to seven years for his part in the US Capitol protest on January 6, which is the longest sentence for a defendant yet. He was sentenced to multiple years behind bars, despite never once entering the Capitol Building. Back in March, he was convicted of carrying a gun on US Capitol grounds. Prosecutors demanded a 15-year sentence and to designate Reffitt as a terrorist, but the judge refused while citing he never unholstered his firearm. Reffitt's wife, Nicole, said that she wasn't surprised and asserted that her husband is just the start of political persecution. Texas man gets longest J6 sentence for parading with a holstered weapon. As the days go by, more and more Capitol Hill rioters are completing their trials and being sentenced. The latest example comes to us from Texas, where Guy Reffitt, a member of the Texas Three Percenters militia, was previously found guilty of "obstructing Congress," and "interfering with police officers," along with threatening his children. Reffitt received the longest sentence handed down to any J6 rioter thus far. He was given 87 months in prison on top of the 19 months he has already spent behind bars while his trial played out. As with previous sentencing hearings we've covered here, we will review precisely what Reffitt did to deserve more than seven years in prison. It's a particularly pertinent question in this case because it's unclear if Guy Reffitt even did anything that would qualify as "rioting." Harvard Study Wrecks Insurrection Narrative of Capitol Riot. Democrats and the media claim the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021, was an insurrection, and they've pushed that narrative relentlessly. But last week, the Harvard Kennedy School's Shorenstein Center published a study that debunked their claim. According to the analysis, most of the rioters were motivated by loyalty to President Trump. And yet, you probably never heard about that. "In the most comprehensive study to date of what motivated the Trump supporters to attack the Capitol, Shorenstein Center researchers found that 20.6 percent of the rioters, a plurality, were motivated to take part in the riot because they supported Trump," reports The Harvard Crimson. "Another 20.6 percent of the rioters cited Trump's fraudulent claims that the 2020 presidential election was rigged as their primary reason for participating in the Jan. 6 riot." This was clearly not the outcome the authors of the study anticipated. Harvard Study: Only 8% of Capitol Rioters Wanted 'Insurrection'. A comprehensive study by Harvard University of the motivations of those who participated in the January 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol found that only 8% wanted to start an insurrection or civil war — contrary to claims by the January 6 Committee. [...] As constitutional law scholar Jonathan Turley has pointed out, the study suggests that many of the participants in the riot believed — rightly or wrongly — that they were defending democracy, not trying to overthrow it. Man Who Brought Gun to D.C. on January 6 Receives Toughest Capitol-Riot Sentence Yet. A federal judge on Monday sentenced a Texas man, who brought a gun to the January 6 Capitol riot, to 7.25 years in prison. Guy Reffit, a recruiter for the far-right militia group the Texas Three Percenters, received the punishment, the longest sentence for any individual involved in January 6 to date, after the judge denied the Justice Department's request for a "terrorism enhancement" that would have yielded more prison time. In March, Reffitt was found guilty of five criminal counts, including obstructing the certification of the 2020 election results for Joe Biden and transporting a firearm to stir civil unrest. He did not inflict physical violence that day and did not gain entrance into the Capitol building. In November 2021, Jacob Chansley, the so-called QAnon Shaman, was sentenced to nearly three-and-a-half years in federal prison after he was convicted of corruptly obstructing an official proceeding. They Can't Let Him Back In. The people who really run the United States of America have made it clear that they can't, and won't, if they can help it, allow Donald Trump to be president again. In fact, they made this clear in 2020, in a series of public statements. Simply for quoting their words in an essay for The American Mind, I was mercilessly mocked and attacked. But they were quite clear. Trump won't be president at noon, Jan. 20, 2021, even if we have to use the military to drag him out of there. If the regime felt that strongly back then, imagine how they feel now. But you don't have to imagine. They tell you every day. Liz Cheney, Trump's personal Javert, has said that the 45th president is literally the greatest threat facing America today — greater than China, than our crashing economy, than our unraveling civil society. Justice Department Says Militia Group Cannot Blame Donald Trump for Entering Capitol on January 6. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is arguing the founder and members of the Oath Keepers militia group who entered the U.S. Capitol on January 6 cannot blame former President Donald Trump for their actions. DOJ lawyers argued Trump lacked the authority to authorize an attack on the Capitol, which should prevent Oath Keepers' lawyers from blaming the former President. [...] Federal prosecutors also want the judge to prohibit the defendants "from arguing that any failure to act by law enforcement rendered their conduct legal." Accused rioters often argue they were effectively let into the Capitol by members of the Capitol police. Turns out it's not just the Secret Service's text messages from January 6 that have gone missing. The further this story develops, the more suspicious the actions of DHS's own inspector general get. The IG is supposed to be the "internal affairs" wing of a federal agency, charged with investigating possible malfeasance by department personnel — like, say, the mysterious deletion of text messages before and during the attack on the Capitol despite multiple warnings that those records should be preserved. The IG investigating the Secret Service's missing text messages is Joseph Cuffari, who serves under Biden but was appointed by Trump. Last week news broke that his office knew back in February that the Secret Service had purged certain agents' text messages from January 5 and 6, 2021, supposedly due to a mix-up when the agents' old phones were replaced with new ones. But Cuffari didn't tell Congress until earlier this month. Nor did he follow through on issuing a public warning last fall that the Service was delaying production of the records despite having considered it at the time.
Another J6 rioter goes to trial for "shoving" and "yelling". Michael Eckerman, of Wichita, Kansas was allegedly one of the people who participated in the Capitol Hill riot on January 6 of last year. (We have to say "allegedly" even though there is photographic evidence to bear out the accusation.) This week, a federal judge ruled that Eckerman will stand trial on November 28th on felony charges of "civil disorder" as well as "assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers." If the claims about Eckerman's actions are accurate, he clearly took part in the riot. We do not support rioting here no matter who engages in it and I continue to believe that those who riot should be held accountable. But everyone who breaks the law should be treated equally and their punishment should reflect the severity of their crimes. Today we'll take a look at Mr. Eckerman's activities and try to guess what sort of sentence he will receive if he is convicted. Former Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf Slams The Washington Post Over Report On Missing Text Messages. Former acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf slammed The Washington Post over a report that it published Thursday evening that alleged that his text messages went missing for a key period leading up to the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. The report claimed that acting Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli's text messages also went missing and that the department notified its inspector general that the messages were lost in a "reset" of their government-issued phones when they departed from their positions as Democrat President Joe Biden took over. The report was largely speculative, claiming for example that the text messages "could have shed considerable light on Trump's actions and plans." "It is extremely troubling that the issue of deleted text messages related to the January 6 attack on the Capitol is not limited to the Secret Service, but also includes Chad Wolf and Ken Cuccinelli, who were running DHS at the time," Democrat House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie G. Thompson claimed in a statement. "It appears the DHS Inspector General has known about these deleted texts for months but failed to notify Congress." Disinfo Campaign Launched to Discredit Key Questions Concerning Ray Epps and January 6th. The regime has kicked into overdrive to prevent Americans from asking legitimate questions regarding Ray Epps' behavior on January 5th and 6th. Ray Epps, who is the only individual caught on camera repeatedly urging people to go into the Capitol as early as January 5th, just happens to be the only January 6 riot participant about whom the New York Times felt the need to write a highly sympathetic (and indeed highly bizarre) puff piece. Revolver responded in scathing detail to the New York Times piece in question, pointing out the obvious and central questions the piece would have explored regarding Epps if it were a genuine piece of journalism rather than a janitorial mop up job designed to cover up the smoking gun of the January 6 Fedsurrection. Force Reports Expose Brutality of Unprovoked Attacks Against Jan. 6 Protesters. A 104-page report issued three months after the events at the Capitol Building on Jan. 6, 2021, said the Capitol Police's Civil Disturbance Unit (CDU) was ordered by supervisors not to use "heavier, less-lethal weapons," like flash bangs. However, video evidence — along with Capitol Police Use of Force Reports obtained exclusively by The Epoch Times — exposes conflicts in timelines, the brutality of the unprovoked attacks against Jan. 6 protesters, and how leadership ordered the deployment of munitions on a peaceful crowd. Pelosi's January 6th Committee and the Death of American Justice. In 2020, American cities and towns were ravaged by marauding mobs of crazed leftists. Dozens of lives were lost and damages amounted to billions. Hundreds of businesses, the product of years of struggle and sacrifice, were utterly destroyed. Buildings were looted and burned. Statues were torn down. Innocent people were beaten and murdered. With the complicity of Democratic mayors and governors, police in 2020 were told to stand down and allow the violence to continue. As a consequence, beautiful cities like New York and San Francisco will never be the same. [...] The Democratic Party, clearly responsible for the breakdown of law and order in 2020, is distracting the public's attention by playing up the January 6, 2021, storming of the US Capitol as "the most dangerous threat to American democracy." Pretending that the 2020 riots never occurred, the Democrats are blaming the Capitol assault on a "white nationalist insurrection." The intent of this fiction is to convince the gullible public that extremism is coming from the Right and that we should fear an "insurrection" by white supremacists, which is really a euphemism for Republicans. "The ruling elite are pushing the notion of rampant right-wing domestic terrorists," said cultural critic Michael McCaffrey, "in an attempt to conceal their crimes and stifle dissent." [The] Jan. 6 Committee [is] Hiding Evidence That Absolves Trump. The key narrative of the Jan. 6 Committee is that Donald Trump wanted to incite the violence that took place that day. To do this, they've hidden and manipulated evidence. As we've previously reported, they presented a doctored video of Trump's speech, interwoven with violent images and audio, while not including the portion of President Trump's speech in which he told his supporters to "peacefully and patriotically" make their voices heard. Not once did he call for any violence or for them to break into the building. But the committee has done even more to undermine the truth. Prior to his rally, Trump informed various military leaders that the event would draw a "large number of protestors," and instructed his then-acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller and Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to ensure it was "safe" by having troops available. This evidence, not presented (nor denied) by the Jan. 6 Committee, is found in a Pentagon Inspector General report. Was the Pentagon involved in planning for January 6? The Posse Comitatus Act holds that federal military personnel may not be used to enforce domestic policies within the United States. The National Guard is an exception to that rule and then only if the state's governor or the D.C. Mayor requests it. Nevertheless, there are indications that the Pentagon worked with the Department of Justice and the FBI in the lead-up to President Trump's January 6 rally that ended with Antifa activists and other agitators enticing people into the Capitol. That's a big no-no, if true. Julie Kelly, who has been following the events of January 6 with the dogged determination of a bloodhound, sent out a few tweets raising the possibility that the Department of Defense was involved in law enforcement activities leading up to events on January 6. What got Kelly's superb bloodhound nose twitching was something she caught in mid-July — namely, that Adam Schiff tucked into the National Defense Authorization Act a bizarre little amendment hiding evidence the collection of which violated the Posse Comitatus Act. Adam Schiff admits Clarence Thomas is main target for Jan 6 committee, vows to use wife to get him. Democrats inched closer to impeaching Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, a man who has been the focal point of their unhinged wrath since the nation's highest court closed out its latest term with a series of rulings that were devastating to the political left's extremist agenda. Thomas, an appointee of President George H.W. Bush and the court's longest-serving justice has received the brunt of the fury because of what he is, a successful black conservative, something that is absolutely despised by a Democratic Party that is arguably among the most racist entities in America today. On Sunday morning, two of the highest profile members of the January 6 select committee went on television to send a message to Thomas that they were coming for him, one of whom was Rep. Adam Schiff, a man utterly devoid of principles and a top hatchet man for Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Ashli Babbitt Was Murdered Under the Color of Authority on January 6: Use-of-Force Expert. Ashli Babbitt, the 35-year-old Air Force veteran shot outside the U.S. Capitol Speaker's Lobby by Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd on January 6, 2021, was "murdered ... under the color of authority," a use-of-force expert concludes after reviewing video footage of the incident. Just prior to 2:45 p.m. on January 6, Ashli Babbitt began climbing through the side window leading into the Speaker's Lobby and was shot in the left anterior shoulder by Byrd. She was pronounced dead a half-hour later at MedStar Washington Hospital Center. Stan Kephart, who has testified in court more than 350 times as an expert witness on policing issues, reviewed the shooting in the new Epoch TV documentary, "The Real Story of Jan. 6." Media and Select Committee Continue to Lie About Sicknick. Sandra Garza is something of a fixture at January 6 Select Committee hearings. Routinely described as the "life partner" of the late Brian Sicknick — even though she admitted the couple had taken a "break" from their 11-year relationship several months before the Capitol protest — Garza nonetheless acts the grieving widow of Sicknick, the Capitol Police officer who died on January 7, 2021 after suffering two strokes caused by a blood clot. She has given numerous interviews since Sicknick's tragic and untimely death at the age of 42, blaming Donald Trump and Republicans for her ex-boyfriend's fatal strokes. Garza traveled to Capitol Hill in May 2021 to demand the creation of the special committee to investigate the events of January 6; [...] No doubt Garza remains heartbroken by the sudden and shocking loss of a beloved friend. But that does not mean her falsehoods or egregious politicization of Sicknick's passing can go unchecked. Former SecDef lays to waste Cheney's claim Trump did not offer to call up National Guard before Jan. 6. Liz Cheney asserts former President Trump is lying about offering to call up 20,000 National Guardsmen two days before the Jan. 6 riot but comments by former Secretary of Defense Chris Miller and his Chief of Staff Kash Patel claim otherwise. The Wyoming representative told Fox News host Bret Baier that former Defense Secretary Chris Miller rejected Trump's claim that he offered to call up the Guard and said he never requested the additional National Guard be deployed to protect the Capitol. "Several witnesses who say they met with President Trump on Jan. 4th and he offered some 20,000 National Guardsmen to protect the Capitol building on Jan. 6th but the offer was rejected. Is that true? Do you know that to be true?" Baier asked Cheney. Schiff Claims Jan. 6 Committee Will Be Presenting New Evidence "This Fall". Serial liar Adam Schiff on Sunday said the January 6 Committee will presenting "new information" linking Trump White House officials to the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers "this fall." Just in time for the midterms. The Democrats have nothing to run on this November so they are using the January 6 show trials as part of their reelection efforts. Americans are suffering because of record high inflation rates and soaring gas prices thanks to Joe Biden and a Democrat-controlled Congress. The Distinction between Hyperventilation and Actual Evidence. The January 6th Committee, aided by the ABC television producer helping them put on a good show, and compromised by a plethora of problems in its composition and behavior, is doing the latest reincarnation of the Democrat-media complex's uninterrupted chant since Donald Trump and Melania came down the escalator in 2016: "The walls are closing in." Pelosi's committee of hand-picked Trump-haters, including two Republican Trump-haters to make it look good, promised to show that Trump had engaged in some criminal behavior. However, although the members of the Committee, like many of their propagandists in what passes for our news media, have done an excellent job of hyperventilating, they have not established that Trump committed any crimes. Pentagon Memo Blows the Lid off Jan. 6 Committee's Claims Trump Supported 'Insurrection'. The partisan January 6 committee has utterly failed to show that former President Donald Trump was in any responsible for the massive security failure that led to protesters overwhelming the Capitol building during the convening of the Electoral College. In the Inspector General's report on the Department of Defense's response to the Capitol riots, there is a passage that fundamentally undercuts everything the partisan January 6 committee has been claiming about Donald Trump's role in the purported 'insurrection.' "Mr. Miller and GEN Milley met with the President at the White House at 5:30 p.m," the IG report states. "The primary topic they discussed was unrelated to the scheduled rally. GEN Milley told us that at the end of the meeting, the President told Mr. Miller that there would be a large number of protestors on January 6, 2021, and Mr. Miller should ensure sufficient National Guard or Soldiers would be there to make sure it was a safe event. Gen Milley told us that Mr. Miller responded, 'We've got a plan and we've got it covered'." Some Lessons from January 6 Committee Finale. Well, first, the Democrats of both parties are interested only in convincing people not to vote for Trump again. They're not so much interested in improving security at the Capitol or improving communications or lines of cooperation among security agencies involved. Even the handling of the six permits issued by the U.S. Capitol could be improved, but that's not interesting. The Left and the Swamp of both parties hate Trump with the heat of a thousand suns because they feel the sting of the voters' rejection from 2016. They spent their lives studying government and politics (getting everything wrong and making a mess of things) and yet the voters chose him over them. Trump asks why the Secret Service 'chokehold' story hasn't been confirmed in rant at 'kangaroo court' January 6 panel. Former President Donald Trump went on a rant on his Truth Social social media network in the aftermath of Thursday's primetime January 6 hearing. 'Why haven't the Unselects asked for Secret Service corroboration of the so-called "choke hold?"' asked Trump. 'Because they know the answer, and don't like it. A Kangaroo Court!' The former president was referring to testimony from ex-Mark Meadows aide Cassidy Hutchinson, who said during a hearing last month that she heard Trump had tried to grab the steering wheel when his detail refused to take him to the Capitol Building on January 6. Jan. 6 Committee Just Keeps Digging That Hole Deeper With Latest Testimony. I have to hand it to the Jan. 6 Committee. They've already proven what hacks they are, yet they just keep digging that hole deeper for themselves and in so doing, they keep revealing how empty their case is. Let's be frank — the whole point of the Jan. 6 effort is to try to do all they can to take down Donald Trump, because they're afraid he'll run again and win in 2024. So, if they wanted to be honest about it, what they're doing is an effort to "interfere" in the 2024 election ahead of time. But the testimony of the "witnesses" they had on Thursday revealed just how empty their quiver is. Once again, they played this "let's push hearsay about what the Secret Service agents said" game. Jury finds Bannon guilty on both contempt of Congress charges. A jury in a federal court in Washington, D.C., on Friday found former Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon guilty on both counts in his contempt of Congress trial. The 12-member jury found him guilty on both counts of contempt for failing to comply with two subpoenas issued by the Democrat-led House committee investigation the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot. "I stand with Trump and the Constitution, and I will never back down," Bannon told reporters afterward, outside of the courthouse. "I only have one disappointment: The Jan. 6 committee members didn't have the guts to come down here and testify." Steve Bannon Unleashes Monster Video Ahead Of Jury Deliberations, Prime Time J6 Hearings. Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon had his executive privilege waived by Donald Trump ahead of his trial amidst the Soviet show trials in Washington, only to have Chairman Bennie Thompson, vaccinated and boosted four times over, conveniently come down with a case of the sniffles. As Bannon fights for his freedom and reputation against vile partisan attacks and flame throwing, he didn't have the patience for Thompson's sudden bailout from the Committee's next prime time kangaroo court session. In a dramatic editing from the War Room, Bannon drops one truth bomb after another on Covid, the vaccines, his own trial, and the entire J6 narrative. Wait, the IG is part of the Secret Service's "deleted January 6 texts" cover-up? A week ago, Joseph Cuffari, the inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security, notified Congress that texts sent by some Secret Service agents on January 5 and 6, 2021, had been deleted. And not only had they been deleted, they were supposedly deleted *after* the IG had requested them, which pointed to deliberate destruction of evidence rather than a sloppy failure to back up records to a server. Yesterday we learned that Congress itself had twice warned the Service to preserve and produce documents related to January 6 before those records were lost during the Service's transition to new phones in late January 2021. Today brings a twist in the mystery of the missing texts. According to two whistleblowers, Cuffari's office knew many months ago that the Secret Service had purged its texts from January 5 and 6 but kept that information to itself until last week. Why? Secret Service provided just one text message after request for month's worth. The Secret Service provided only a single text exchange to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol in response to a request seeking a month's worth of records. The single text in response to the inspector general's subpoena from last year has been handed over to the Jan. 6 committee. The lack of messages raised concerns among officials in the Department of Homeland Security, who accused the Secret Service of failing to maintain records crucial for the committee's investigation. Why Democrats Are Desperate to Charge Trump With Anything. If you were to tell me that someone in politics is corrupt, criminally corrupt, I'd be open to believing you, but I wouldn't join you in calling for their head without a little something called evidence. Not your thoughts, not your conclusions, your women's intuition, or your Spidey sense tingling, I'd need proof. While there is no lack of haters of former President Donald Trump screaming at the top of their lungs about the former, the latter is where they lose not only me but should lose everyone. These bogus made-for-TV January 6th Committee hearings are a prime example of how an unthinking group of people can be led down whatever path politicians want to prance them down. Update: The Editor says... Stephen Colbert's The Late Show staff who were arrested for 'unlawful entry' into the Capitol last month will NOT be prosecuted. Fox News' Jesse Watters has led the charge of conservatives criticizing the decision to drop charges against The Late Show staff who were arrested for 'unlawfully' being at the Capitol last month — while at least 876 people have been charged for the January 6 riot. The group, which included the comedian Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, had been invited to the Capitol by congressional aides to record interviews for a comedy segment for The Late Show on June 16. But they were arrested by Capitol Police after they were found — without their escort — filming stand-up and skits in halls following their final authorized and pre-arranged interviews of the day. Justice Department Designates Obstruction as an Act of Terror. To hear federal prosecutors tell it, Guy Wesley Reffitt almost single-handedly organized and led a bloodthirsty mob to overtake Congress on January 6, 2021. One of the first protesters arrested in the Justice Department's "shock and awe" dragnet of Donald Trump supporters, Reffitt was immediately indicted on numerous offenses. He spent more than a year in the D.C. gulag set aside for Americans who protested Joe Biden's election under pretrial detention orders sought by the Justice Department — and he was the first January 6 defendant to stand trial in a city that voted nearly 93 percent for Biden in 2020. In a matter of a few hours in March, 12 residents of the nation's capital — not only one of the most lopsidedly Democratic cities in the country but one whose residents view the events of January 6 as an intrusion of their private fiefdom — found Reffitt guilty on all charges: two counts of civil disorder, two counts of obstruction, and one count of carrying a handgun on restricted grounds. Steve Bannon dismisses January 6 committee hearings as a 'show trial'. Donald Trump's infamous former adviser Steve Bannon laid into the House January 6 committee on Monday upon conclusion of the first day of his criminal trial for contempt of Congress. Bannon was indicted by a grand jury late last year for failing to comply with the January 6 committee's subpoena as it investigates why and how a pro-Trump mob was able to breach the US Capitol last year as Joe Biden's 2020 victory was being certified. The 'War Room' podcast host recently made an about-face and requested to cooperate with lawmakers, though he's insisted through attorneys that it was Trump's executive privilege claim that kept him from speaking with investigators in the first place. The ex-president waived that protection this month. Kinzinger: January 6 Probe 'Is Not Winding Down'. Representative Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) said Sunday [7/17/2022] on CBS's "Face the Nation" that the House Select Committee investigating the January 6, 2021 riot is not winding down, and more hearings are possible. Ridiculous overkill in raid of retired Texas couple outside Capitol on January 6. An account was published Sunday in the San Marcos Record of a massive late June raid on a couple in rural Hays County, Texas that resulted in no arrest. The scale of forces deployed and the tactics used seem designed to intimidate and punish, especially considering the fact that the couple never entered the US Capitol on June 6, and were guilty only of being Trump supporters who were peacefully demonstrating. The J6 Motive — The Political Surveillance of American Citizens. After 9/11/01 the electronic surveillance system that was originally created to monitor threats from abroad was retooled to monitor threats inside our country. That is when all of our electronic 'metadata' came under federal surveillance. That inflection point, and the process that followed, was exactly what Edward Snowden tried to point out. What Barack Obama and Eric Holder did with that new construct was refine the internal targeting mechanisms so that only their political opposition became the target of this new national security system. The problems we face now as a country are directly an outcome of two very distinct points that were merged by Barack Obama. (1)\ The post 9/11 monitoring of electronic communication of American citizens; and (2) Obama's team creating a fine-tuning knob that it focused on the politics of the targets. The Larger Motive of the J6 Committee. There are two defensive operations currently underway in Washington DC to protect the biggest issue that few people talk about. The first is the objective of Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, the former Obama White House senior national security advisor and legal liaison from the executive branch. The second objective is the J6 committee trying to stop Donald Trump from ever holding political office again. Lisa Monaco is in place to protect the former Obama White House from legal and/or political responsibility in their weaponizing of domestic law enforcement operations inside the U.S. Dept of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation. Monaco's undiscussed job is to target any entity who might reveal what Obama did, and what systems currently exist. Regime Propaganda, Ray Epps, and the New York Times. Is the New York Times playing four-dimensional chess? Or is it only tic-tac-toe with a three-year-old? I ask because I cannot quite fathom the Times' latest intervention into the January 6 miniseries, its aromatic aria bewailing the fate of Ray Epps. Who is Ray Epps? We don't really know — not yet. In the immediate aftermath of the January 6 jamboree, he was on the Stasi's — er, the FBI's — list of most wanted "domestic extremists," "insurrectionists," etc. He was also a star of several videos, a right-out-of-central-casting, MAGA-hat-wearing Trump nut telling anyone who would listen on the evening of January 5 that the next day they had to go "into the Capitol, into the Capitol." Into the Capitol, not "to" the Capitol. You see the difference. [...] Moreover, with every passing week, evidence that the entire January 6 protest was planned and abetted not by Donald Trump and his nefarious agents but rather by elements of the anti-Trump regime has been piling up. The Hidden Agenda Behind the New York Times' Desperate Puff Piece on Ray Epps. The New York Times just released a puff piece on Ray Epps that is hugely important. Ray Epps, the only person caught on camera repeatedly directing people into the Capitol, is the only January 6 rioter for whom the New York Times has written a highly sympathetic puff piece: [Screen shot] To get acquainted with Epps, watch the following video compilation: [Video clip] Again, this is the one Jan. 6 rioter the New York Times has managed to write a puff piece for. [...] Getting back to the Times piece, it's also important to note that the piece contains no explicit denial by Epps of association with military intelligence, DHS, JTTF, or any cutouts or intermediaries. We have references to "lies" and Epps' wish that "the truth come out," in addition to denial of association with law enforcement. I wonder if the author of the New York Times piece, Alan Feuer, could clarify for the record: did he ask Epps if he had any association with any intelligence agencies or cutouts of such agencies? If so, what did he say? If not, why not? Tucker Carlson: The Curious Case Of Ray Epps And The January 6 Committee. [Scroll down] That man's name is Ray Epps. Now the New York Times noted that Epps was videotaped on both January 5th and January 6th, urging protesters to storm the Capitol. [...] A lot of ways that's the strangest video to emerge from January six. We played it several times this quote, we need to go into the capitol, into the capitol, Ray Epps tells the crowd. He says it repeatedly. He's so emphatic about it, encouraging other people to commit a crime that the crowd around him decides he must be a federal agent. They began chanting, as you just heard, fed, fed. So shortly after that video surfaced, the FBI placed reps on a list of people wanted Ford questioning. They released it to the public and you can understand why they did that, according to the Justice Department, what Ray did on that, video is a federal crime, in fact. But administration has charged several people with seditious conspiracy for doing precisely what you just saw Ray Epps do, urging others to enter the Capitol complex on January six. Jan. 6 committee subpoenas Secret Service over deleted text messages. The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot subpoenaed the Secret Service on Friday night after a government watchdog said agents deleted text messages exchanged around the time of the insurrection. Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss) said in a statement the committee is demanding the Secret Service hand over the "erased" messages and a slew of other documents by Tuesday. "The USSS erased text messages from January 5 and 6, 2021, as part of a 'device-replacement program,'" Thompson said late Friday. He said the panel "seeks the relevant text messages, as well as any after action reports that have been issued in any and all divisions of the USSS pertaining or relating in any way to the events of January 6, 2021." The subpoena comes hours after the investigative panel received a closed-door briefing from the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the Secret Service. In Effort to Weave 'Witness Tampering' Narrative, J6 Panel Says Trump Tried to Call White House Support Staff. It is now clear that the January 6 Committee is attempting to weave a 'witness tampering' narrative in an effort to indict Trump. RINO Liz Cheney on Tuesday revealed the January 6 panel notified the Justice Department that Trump called one of its witnesses who has not testified yet. According to Cheney, the witness did not take Trump's call and instead told their lawyer about Trump's attempt to speak with them. "After our last hearing. President Trump tried to call a witness in our investigation. A witness you have not yet seen in these hearings," Cheney said on Tuesday. Angry AOC Admits Capitol Police Held the Doors Wide Open on January 6. Earlier Thursday, The Gateway Pundit reported that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) had an epic meltdown after she was heckled by comedian Alex Stein on the Capitol steps. Ocasio-Cortez wrote that she wanted to "deck" Stein. Later she spoke to a reporter and posted a streaming video about the incident where she accused Capitol Police officers of conspiring with the January 6th rioters. Ocasio-Cortez argued to Wu, saying police rousted Stein after pressure from her and House (Democrat) leadership, "FYI we had to escalate to House leadership to get them to stop him and run his info. They did not until members intervened and pressed them to." [Tweets] Ocasio-Cortez spoke to a liberal reporter about the incident, accusing Capitol Police of working with the January 6th rioters. In the video, AOC just made a confession saying that the Capitol Police opened the door wide on January 6. The New York Times puff piece on Ray Epps is hugely important. [Thread reader] Ray Epps, the only person caught on repeatedly directing people into the Capitol is the only January 6 rioter the New York Times has written a puff piece for[.] They know Epps is the smoking gun. And this likely is the beginning of a monumental damage control campaign[.] To get acquainted with Epps, watch the video compilation: again, this is the ONE Jan 6 rioter the New York Times has managed to write a puff piece for[.] [Video clip] [...] Feuer's NYT piece describes Epps as a Trump supporter. He says "Trump traveled to Washington to back Mr. Trump" ... and that he "took a last minute trip to Washington for Trump's speech about election fraud." The only problem is Epps didnt go to Trump's speech[.] That's right, this alleged Trump supporter travelled all the way from Arizona to DC, and didn't even attend Trump's speech. Instead, he spent the evening of January 5th and the morning of the 6th telling people to go into the Capitol[.] [Video clip] A Proud Boy Challenges the Jan. 6 Committee. A previously unnoticed Proud Boys member, Robert Fussell, has shredded conspiracy theories about January 6 pushed by the House January 6 Select Committee and federal prosecutors[.] Journalist Carter Walker of Pennsylvania's Lancaster Online newspaper punches far above the paper's fighting weight. Walker reported on July 7 that Robert Fussell revealed himself to be the third Proud Boys member that the federal prosecutors were trying to find in their conspiracy theory of a "seditious conspiracy." That means that Seattle's Fussell volunteered to be indicted for seditious conspiracy. Why would he do that? To prove that the Democrats and prosecutors are lying about January 6, 2021, Fussell is willing to risk prosecution for two 20-year felonies. What a convenient coincidence. The Editor says... Secret Service deleted texts from Jan 5 and Jan 6, Homeland Security's Inspector General reveals amid its internal probe. The Secret Service has admitted to deleting texts from January 5 and 6 but claimed it was part of a 'pre-planned, three-month system migration'. The Department of Homeland Security agency shot back at the Inspector General saying it had 'maliciously' erased messages from 2021. A spokesman argued staff had been 'fully cooperating' with Joseph Cuffari with 'interviews, documents, emails, or texts'. This is only believable if you've never heard of a server. Text messages don't reside in your phone after they're sent. Also posted under Liberals think you're stupid. What is Adam Schiff Hiding? Jeffrey Rosen had a secret on January 6, 2021. The then-acting attorney general — Rosen was appointed on December 24, 2020 to replace departing Attorney General William Barr — had assembled a team of elite and highly skilled government agents at Quantico, a nexus point between the FBI and U.S. military, the weekend before Congress met to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election. At the same time he was rejecting President Donald Trump's last-minute appeals to investigate election fraud, Rosen was managing a hush-hush operation in advance of planned rallies and protests in Washington on January 6. "Rosen made a unilateral decision to take the preparatory steps to deploy Justice Department and so-called 'national' forces," Newsweek reporter William M. Arkin disclosed in a bombshell report earlier this year. "There was no formal request from the U.S. Capitol Police, the Secret Service, or the Metropolitan Police Department — in fact, no external request from any agency. The leadership in Justice and the FBI anticipated the worst and decided to act independently, the special operations forces lurking behind the scenes." J6 committee: Made-for-TV propaganda. [Scroll down] Where are our political leaders? On Sunday, they were on news shows hyping the Jan. 6 "hearings" airing this week. They want you to believe that they're uncovering the truth about Jan. 6, 2021, in order to safeguard democracy. But, again, they're playing us for stupid. The first seven episodes in their miniseries, including Tuesday's, were scripted to tell a predetermined story. The "witnesses" were interviewed behind closed doors and videotaped. Then the committee took only snippets of testimony that support its propaganda and allowed you to hear it. On Monday, a committee aide was anonymously quoted in the Washington Post, saying, "We will show how some of these right-wing extremist groups who came to D.C. and led the attack on the Capitol had ties to Trump associates." But Tuesday's hearing didn't show that because the witnesses were not cross-examined. Politico Poll Shows No One [is] Listening to [the] Rigged January 6 Committee. In October 2021, 67 percent of Republicans said Donald Trump "should run" for president again in 2024. Today, 66 percent say the same. Put another way: the Rigged Kangaroo Court Known As The January 6 Committee, is a total flop. 69-Yr-Old Grandma, Drug Counselor, and Cancer Patient Joins Greg Kelly Before She Is Sent to Prison on Tuesday for Walking Inside US Capitol. Pam Hemphill is a former drug and alcohol counselor who has been sober for 42 years and helped thousands of addicts find sobriety. Pam Hemphill is a 69-year-old grandma. Pam Hemphill is a cancer patient. And Pam Hemphill is going to prison for 60 days for walking into the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 and taking video. They say she was trespassing. A misdemeanor. The government wants to make sure Pam suffers for opposing the regime. Jan. 6 Committee Is Using Innocent Americans' Assertion Of Their Constitutional Rights As Proof Of Guilt. The Jan. 6 Committee is abusing its power by asking inappropriate questions about their fellow Americans' beliefs and associates, and publicly portraying witnesses who exercise their Fifth Amendment rights as guilty — all to put on a show trial. Later on Tuesday, the Jan. 6 Committee will hold yet another public hearing, this one purportedly to focus "on the role of extremists" in the attack on the Capitol. While the precise script for the afternoon's proceedings remains unknown, last week Democrat Rep. Jamie Raskin previewed the committee's plans, telling The New York Times that when public hearings resumed in July, "he intends to lead a presentation that will focus on the roles far-right groups like the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers and 1st Amendment Praetorian played in the Capitol attack." According to the Times, "Mr. Raskin has also promised to explore the connections between those groups and the people in Mr. Trump's orbit." Highly Sensitive DOJ Jan 6 Documents Leaked to The Gateway Pundit. [Scroll down] These transcripts contain hundreds of pages of FBI agents interviewing their informant, who reports to them over and over again that the Proud Boys did not conspire to go inside the Capitol. There are interesting details that make the Proud Boys endearing- like a story about the group returning a woman's bag to her that was lost. There are pages upon pages of vindicating statements. [Exhibit] The only thing it seems the informant thought the group was guilty of was falling subject to "herd mentality" and following the rest of the crowd in- he said some even hesitated to go inside. The informant stressed the group was NOT at the front of the crowd like the Unselect Committee has led people to believe. [...] We wonder if the defense attorneys for the six prosecuted individuals have this discovery in their possession. If they do not, it is certainly an atrocious violation of Brady disclosure laws. We do know this evidence was certainly not presented to the Grand Jury, or they surely would have not indicted these people. Jan. 6 Committee Cancels Thursday Hearing After Steve Bannon Says He Will Only Testify Live and In Person. The sham House January 6 Committee changed its anticipated schedule of "high-impact hearings" amid a series of maneuvers by potential witnesses and Steve Bannon's indication he is willing to testify on his own terms. According to The Daily Mail the panel had planned to hold a Thursday hearing in prime time that would be its second televised evening event. But that all changed when Steve Bannon announced over the weekend that he would testify live and in person before the committee. 7 whoppers peddled by House Democrats' Jan. 6 committee. House Democrats' Jan. 6 committee has showcased numerous false allegations over the course of its hearings and investigations that have since been debunked and, in some cases, withdrawn. The committee, which is made up of Democrats and two anti-Trump Republicans handpicked by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, has promoted inaccuracies and falsehoods regarding people and events in weaving its narrative about the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, even refusing to back down from some of its allegations despite contradictory evidence. Trust the American People, Not the Jan. 6 Committee. As I wrote in my last column, I was stunned when Susan Ferrechio of The Washington Times reported that the Jan. 6 House Select Committee "has interviewed more than 1,000 witnesses and obtained more than 25,000 documents related to last year's riot at the U.S. Capitol — yet most of the evidence remains a secret." I described the committee as a show trial in the Soviet tradition wherein the outcome was decided, and the spectacle was meant to educate the public on the authority's version of truth. I just hadn't realized how arrogant and open they were about stacking the deck and rigging the game. The Jan. 6 Committee provides a perfect example of the growing totalitarian pressures I describe in my new book "Defeating Big Government Socialism." According to Gallup's most recent Confidence in Institutions survey, 57 percent of Americans have very little or no confidence in Congress. That makes it the least trusted of all 15 institutions Gallup asked about this year. The news media are close behind, followed by the presidency. Report: January 6 Committee Avoids Asking Cipollone Questions That Could Implicate Hutchinson in Perjury. The January 6 Committee avoided asking former White House counsel Pat Cipollone questions about what star witness Cassidy Hutchinson said last month that she heard him say during the Capitol riot, the New York Times has reported. By failing to ask Cipollone to confirm or deny the sensational statements attributed to him — such as that Trump officials could be "charged with every crime imaginable" by going to the Capitol during the riot — they avoided contradicting her. Not only "unprovable," but easily disproven. This is the real person most responsible for the abuses of the Jan 6 Committee. The hearings began with a June 9 televised hearing on prime-time TV that was carried by virtually every major network in the United States. Holding them when television viewership is at its highest for the day was obviously no accident, as an audience of at least 20 million Americans tuned in to watch, according to Nielsen. The initial hearing included, among other things, a dramatic performance from Wyoming congresswoman Liz Cheney. She attempted to sell the American people on a Trump-designed and initiated "seven-part plan" to overturn the results of the 2020 election and tried to tie the actions of pro-Trump groups like the Proud Boys at the Capitol directly to the then-sitting president. Over the next few weeks, the committee would grasp at straws. [...] The fact is, these hearings have been as one-sided as a Harlem Globetrotters-Washington Generals game. Especially as the question of potential perjury by [Cassidy] Hutchinson is considered, it raises the question: where is the pushback by the House GOP leadership to these theatrics? Leadership at the very top of the party — namely, House minority leader Kevin McCarthy — has been largely absent. Monmouth Poll Compiles Top 22 Priorities of American People, Ukraine v Russia and J6 Committee Outcome Does Not Appear on List. Monmouth University conducted another political poll of U.S respondents. In addition to the plummeting approval of Joe Biden, the worst yet approval at 36% according to the survey, the respondents were asked to list their top concerns (Question #7). The responses were recorded but did not come from a list presented by Monmouth. They just compiled the results. As stated, "what is the biggest concern facing your family right now?" The results show the top priorities of Americans and the disconnect between the priorities of congress and the American people are stark. Another January 6 Lie: No 'Armed Mob'. Last week's testimony by Cassidy Hutchinson, the junior White House aide who made a number of dubious claims under oath, has been accepted as fact by most of the corporate news media and NeverTrump pundits including McCarthy, as I explained here. In response to leading questions by Representative Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), Hutchinson claimed both the president and chief of staff Mark Meadows knew by mid-morning that the crowd was filled with "armed" supporters but Trump nonetheless urged those alleged self-styled soldiers to head to Capitol Hill as the joint session of Congress was underway. In a clip of her closed-door testimony to the committee — the loquacious aide met three times with committee investigators talking for roughly 20 hours relying at times on a thick folder of notes — Hutchinson ticked off a list of weapons allegedly confiscated by 10 a.m. as rally-goers passed through security screeners known as magnetometers. Reading from a page in her binder, Hutchinson recalled a conversation with deputy White House chief of staff Tony Ornato, who described the cache to Meadows and her. "I remember Tony mentioning knives, guns in the form of pistols and rifles, um, bear spray, body armor, spears, and flagpoles," she said. Here's What The Jan. 6 Show Trials Are Really After. The Jan. 6 Committee's Stalinist show trial serves many purposes, but truth is not one of them. On Wednesday, the House committee holding hearings on the violence that broke out at the capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, issued a subpoena to former White House counsel Pat Cipollone. Cipollone, who had voluntarily participated in a closed-door interview in April, "decline[d] to cooperate" further with the committee, according to the letter subpoenaing him to testify before the committee on July 6. It is unclear whether Cipollone will comply with the subpoena, but from the committee's perspective, it doesn't matter. The Democrat-stacked committee seeks to score political points, not secure the truth, and subpoenaing Trump's former White House counsel serves that objective: If Cipollone refuses to testify, his assertion of executive privilege provides the committee a fresh opportunity to condemn Donald Trump while the committee provides the public its own version of the events the former White House counsel supposedly observed. Internal Memo Reveals Capitol Police Were Warned BLM from Baltimore Was Bussing in Rioters Disguised as Trump Supporters on Jan. 6. It was all a setup. Trump supporters were framed by FBI and government operatives and BLM and Antifa terrorists. A leaked internal memo revealed that the US Capitol Police intel unit warned that BLM from Baltimore was bussing in rioters for January 6th protests. According to the memo the rioters were going to blend in. [...] According to a former FBI agent on the ground at the US Capitol, at least one bus load of Antifa goons infiltrated the Trump rally as part of a false flag operation. Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) on Tuesday entered into the record explosive testimony of eyewitness accounts from Michael Waller detailing how he saw "agents-provocateurs" at the Capitol. Liz Cheney says Justice Department 'doesn't have to wait' for the January 6 committee to refer Trump for criminal charges. Rep. Liz Cheney publicly nudged the Justice Department on Sunday [7/3/2022] to move against Donald Trump, warning that not holding the former president accountable for January 6 is a 'graver Constitutional threat' to American democracy than letting him off the hook. Cheney — one of two Republicans on the Democrat-led Capitol riot committee — also shared a warning for her own party, which has largely ostracized her for her role on the panel. 'I think that that he can't be the party nominee' in the 2024 presidential race, the Wyoming lawmaker told ABC News of Trump. 'I don't think the party would survive that.' Another 'Cassidy Blasey Ford' Claim Appears Headed to the January 6 Committee Dumpster. The January 6 Committee appears to have stepped in another political cow pattie. The committee announced a stop-the-presses, Category-5, DEFCON-level-1 emergency hearing which would feature a witness with such explosive evidence, it would destroy, annihilate, utterly eradicate, and really, really hurt Donald Trump in a way that tales of peeing hookers at the Moscow Ritz Carlton could only hope to do. Enter Cassidy Blasey Ford. Her real name, of course, is Cassidy Hutchinson, which, come to think of it, may be among the few accurate words she uttered when she took the oath to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. [...] The previously unscheduled, emergency! televised hearing starring the brave 25-year-old former aide to former Donald Trump chief-of-staff Mark Meadows was caught in so many, ah, inconsistencies in her story that one could only conclude the committee wanted the inconsistencies to become the official record of what happened at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. NeverTrumper and Leader of 'Unselect Committee' Liz Cheney Hugged Star Witness Cassidy Hutchinson After Hearing. Liz Cheney hugs her star witness and fraud Cassidy Hutchinson after her ridiculous testimony that was riddled with lies. A photo of Cheney hugging her star witness 'Hearsay Hutchinson', who immediately was caught in numerous lies following her testimony is going viral. Why would Cheney hug a witness if she was supposedly fair and unbiased? Apparently, Liz was impressed. Trump Is the Greatest Man Alive. Trump aide testified that the president tried to grab the steering wheel of the presidential limo so he could go to the Capitol on January 6, 2021. After the aide's testimony, Representative Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) embraced her, as though expressing solidarity with someone who has just been through a tremendous ordeal. You could say that Washington and Hollywood have finally converged, turning into a single giant Oscars ceremony that no one is watching. Trump supporters (myself included) are not in a particularly receptive mood for further intimidation, so what is the establishment trying to achieve with their January 6 circus? Steve Bannon and The War Room Call for Criminal Referrals Against Cassidy Hutchinson for Numerous Lies During Congressional Testimony. On Tuesday, Liz Cheney and the sham Jan. 6 committee brought in Mark Meadows staffer Cassidy Hutchinson as a "surprise witness." Young Cassidy told several lies while under oath before the committee. Here a few of Cassidy's whoppers: 1.) Cassidy Hutchinson said President Trump attempted to grab the steering wheel of "the beast" and wrestly [sic] control from the Secret Service on January 6th. Truth: President Trump was not in "the beast" on January 6th. Truth: Secret Service agents willing to testify against this ridiculous lie by young Cassidy. It never happened. 2.) Cassiday Hutchinson said President Trump grabbed the neck are of Secret Service agent Bobby Engel. Truth: Bobby Engel willing to testify this was a lie. [...] Donald Trump questions why Jan. 6 witness Hutchinson isn't prosecuted for lying under oath. Former President Donald Trump on Thursday questioned why Jan. 6 committee witness Cassidy Hutchinson is not being prosecuted for lying under oath about her experiences in the White House while serving as an aide to then-chief of staff Mark Meadows. The former president and his White House officials have disputed much of Hutchinson's testimony to the House Jan. 6 Capitol riot committee. Trump continued defending himself on Thursday through posts on his platform, Truth Social. "Social Climber Hutchinson lied about my attack on our great Secret Service, lied about her writing the White House note, lied about my throwing food at a wall in the Oval Office, & lied about my wanting to be surrounded by 'people with guns' during my "Go Peacefully and Patriotically" speech (how crazy is that?), yet no guns were found in the Capitol. These lies, among others, were made UNDER OATH. What is the Justice Department going to do about this? Do we have a two tiered system of Justice?" Trump wrote. Other sources have substantiated Trump's accusations about Hutchinson's testimony. Report: Cassidy Hutchinson Fabricated Testimony About Conversation with Former White House Counsel Pat Cipollone. Cassidy Hutchinson, a former White House aide who was the January 6 committee's star witness during a surprise hearing held on Tuesday, reportedly fabricated pieces of her testimony about conversations she had with former White House counsel Pat Cipollone. During her testimony, Hutchinson claimed that Cipollone told her to tell her boss, Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, that former President Donald Trump should not go to the Capitol on January 6. Hutchinson testified that Cipollone said, "We're going to get charged with every crime imaginable," if Trump went to the Capitol. Steve Bannon asks to delay his contempt of Congress trial because of the 'media blitz' by the January 6 committee that 'have a lot in common with scripted TV'. Steve Bannon claims that the 'media blitz' created by the January 6 select committee hearings are grounds for his contempt of Congress trial to be delayed. The request to reschedule the trial for after October 15, 2022 was filed Wednesday and claims at this time it would be 'impossible to guarantee' fair proceedings during the public January 6 hearings. 'It would be impossible to guarantee Mr. Bannon a fair trial in the middle of much-publicized Select Committee hearings which purport to broadcast investigative 'findings' on topics that are referenced in the Indictment,' the filing states. DOJ Has VA Suspend All Benefits of Jan. 6 Prisoner. Just when the wife of one incarcerated Jan. 6 prisoner believed things couldn't get worse, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) informed her they are going to suspend all of her husband's benefits. According to United States Representative Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), "this is what you have when vindictive leftists get in charge of major parts of the government." In an unsigned letter from the VA — dated June 13 and appearing to originate from the "Director Regional Office," — Angel and Kenneth Harrelson were notified that the administration "received information from the United States Department of Justice" that Kenneth had been "indicted and charged with Seditious Conspiracy (18 U.S.C 2384)." West Virginia Republican Lawmaker to Spend 90 Days in Prison for Walking In US Capitol on Jan. 6th and Fist-Bumping Cop. West Virginia lawmaker Derrick Evans was sentenced to 90 days in prison for walking into the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 and fist-bumping a police officer at the door who let him in. Miller filmed himself in the building, did not commit any violence and left the building without causing any damage. Here are the original charges against him: Knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority (1) violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol Grounds. (2) Now he will spend 90 days in prison. Cassidy Hutchinson's 'Bombshell' Testimony Takes Another Body Blow. We are quickly reaching the point where it's more apt to ask exactly what was true about Cassidy Hutchinson's "bombshell" testimony before the January 6th committee on Wednesday. As RedState has chronicled, multiple claims made by the former White House aide have been challenged by eye-witnesses. That includes two Secret Service agents who are offering to testify that Donald Trump did not, in fact, karate chop them in the throat and attempt to grab the wheel of a presidential vehicle. A White House lawyer also disputed Hutchinson's claim that she wrote a note regarding Donald Trump's response to January 6th, noting that his and others' prior testimony confirms he wrote it. Now Hutchinson's story is crumbling further. J6 committee Dem dismisses, belittles Secret Service agents who dispute star 'witness' testimony. The select committee on the events of January 6, 2021 was already plagued by disinterest and perceptions of illegitimacy before star witness Cassidy Hutchinson's account on what went down in the presidential limo was rebutted by the Secret Service, blowing a smoking hole in its credibility and sending Democrats into damage control mode. On Wednesday, Rep. Jamie Raskin who like several other committee members is a veteran of the failed impeachments of President Donald J. Trump sought to put out the fire after Hutchinson's claims — that the ex-POTUS went berserk, lunged for the wheel of the SUV he was traveling in and attempted to strangle a member of his security detail — was reportedly denied by the two men who were actually inside the vehicle. CNN Peddles Debunked Cassidy Hutchinson's Narrative as 'a Bombshell'. The debunked Cassidy Hutchinson testimony, spun before the partisan January 6 Committee on Tuesday, continued to be peddled by CNN on Wednesday as "a bombshell" revelation. Aides to former President Donald Trump were left speechless amid the first half of Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony on Tuesday, acknowledging to CNN that her testimony was 'a bombshell' with potentially huge repercussions for Trump," Gabby Orr and Pamela Brown reported for CNN. But the credibility of Hutchinson's testimony imploded just hours after the lead Secret Service agent in charge of former President Trump's security detail offered to contradict Hutchinson's testimony under oath. Fox News *Still* Hasn't Updated Hoax Story About Trump Assaulting Secret Service. The on-its-face ludicrous tale of former President Trump lunging at a steering wheel and assaulting a Secret Service agent remains on Fox News without an update about its debunking. If Fox tries to sneak in and stealth-edit it, here's a saved screenshot from late last night, hours and hours after the story was shown to be false. So what we have here is Fox News continuing to spread an OBVIOUS hoax even AFTER it's been debunked. Fox is deliberately endorsing a blatant lie that was glaringly false from the moment it was spoken. Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Urged Congress to Investigate 'Professional Agitators' Before His Untimely Death. In the late Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Michael Stenger's final testimony before Congress, one of the key officials charged with securing the Capitol building on January 6 urged lawmakers to investigate 'professional agitators." [Video clip] "There is an opportunity to learn lessons from the events of January 6th,' Stenger said in his opening statement to Congress on February 23, 2021. "Investigations should be considered as to funding and travel of what appears to be professional agitators." [...] It is unclear what Stenger meant by "professional agitators," whether it be members of far-right groups, or members of Antifa, such as self-proclaimed 'revolutionary' John Sullivan, who captured the point blank killing of Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt on video, incited the crowd by shouting 'burn it down,' and was charged with a total of eight criminal counts, including weapons charges, related to the riot. The J6 Committee Went Full Jussie Smollett Today and It is Hilarious. Either J6 committee witness Cassidy Hutchinson is currently working for Donald Trump in a weird effort to make the J6 committee look absolutely silly, or Cassidy Hutchinson is the latest Jussie Smollett or Christine Blasey-Ford. Ms. Hutchinson's testimony was so outlandish only the most intellectually deficient left-wing loons could or would believe it. Ms. Hutchinson claimed she heard a story from some unknown person that President Trump was so insistent on traveling to the Capitol building on January 6, 2021, that he assaulted his secret service detail and grabbed the steering wheel on the presidential limousine. She heard it from someone, who heard it from someone, and so Ms. Hutchinson was pushed in front of the J6 cameras to proclaim it. The claim is so silly, it was impossible to believe. Yet the congressional committee media ran with it, and the media promoted the story, because Trump. New J6 Narrative About Trump And Secret Service Collapses Hours After Tuesday Hearing. House Democrats ginned up another round of blockbuster anticipation Monday night when the Select Committee on Jan. 6 announced a last-minute hearing with a surprise witness. On Tuesday, the nine-member panel brought forward a key aide to former Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, Cassidy Hutchinson, who supposedly possessed intimate knowledge of the administration's conduct on Jan. 6. The topic of the afternoon hearing remained under seal until Hutchinson took the stand to offer new bombshell evidence allegedly incriminating the former Republican president. "Up until now, our hearings have each been organized to address specific elements of President Trump's plan to overturn the 2020 election," Committee Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., said at the onset of the panel's latest show trial. "Today we are departing somewhat from that model because Ms. Hutchinson's testimony touches on several important and cross-cutting topics, topics that are relevant to each of our future hearings." L.A. Times' 8 'Bombshells' from Hutchinson Testimony Are All Duds. The establishment media treated the testimony Tuesday of former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson at the January 6 Committee as if it were damning for Trump — before her claims began to fall apart. The fact that Hutchinson was seen actually hugging members of the January 6 Committee, as if they were partners in some joint enterprise rather than investigators seeking the truth, ought to have raised red flags — but did not, until it was too late. The Los Angeles Times, among others — including Fox News — set aside the basic rules of journalism, accepting as fact the sudden claims made by a witness whose testimony was based entirely on hearsay and who was never subject to cross-examination. The Times published a list of what it called eight "bombshells" — some of which were soon debunked, some of which remain dubious, and some of which were just a repetition of things that were already common knowledge or that other witnesses had already told the investigation. Trump lawyer Eric Herschmann brands 'phony' aide Cassidy Hutchinson's January 6 testimony lies as he insists HE wrote handwritten. Former President Donald Trump's ex-lawyer Eric Herschmann said he penned the note that Cassidy Hutchinson said she wrote on January 6, which was shown as evidence during Tuesday's explosive hearing. 'The handwritten note that Cassidy Hutchinson testified was written by her was in fact written by Eric Herschmann on January 6, 2021,' a spokesperson for Herschmann told ABC News late Tuesday. 'All sources with direct knowledge and law enforcement have and will confirm that it was written by Mr. Herschmann.' Herschmann reportedly previously told the House select committee on January 6 committee that he had scrawled the note in question. January 6th 'Emergency' Hearing Delivers Laughably Absurd 'Bombshells'. In case you were too busy caring about things that actually matter to notice, the January 6th committee is back in session. That came after its members announced an "emergency" hearing for Tuesday, including [...] a "surprise" witness. [...] Tuesday's hearing was another ridiculous parade of absurdity, full of hearsay and no hard evidence of essentially anything. Yet, one claim by a woman named Cassidy Hutchinson, a former Mark Meadows aide, truly took the cake. The committee strapped on its skis and did a double backflip over the shark by claiming that protesters on January 6th had AR-15s. [Tweets] Rep. Liz Cheney backed the claim during the hearing, quoting what appeared to be completely mistaken police transmissions, and I'm just left wondering how stupid they think the American people are. A Jan 6 witness ludicrously claims Trump tried to choke his Secret Service agent. The headlines were ominous and the leftist gloating on Facebook was disturbing: It seemed as if the January 6 Committee finally had its smoking gun in the form of an attractive, mid-20s woman named Cassidy Hutchinson. The big excitement came when she recounted a wild tale about President Trump, desperate to get to the Capitol, trying to choke his Secret Service agent as they wrestled for control of Trump's car. Outside of the kangaroo court, though, actual facts indicate that nothing she said actually happened. The media was in a frenzy of excitement over Hutchinson's testimony. [...] What all these leftists (in the media and out) forgot is that a kangaroo court doesn't get to the truth. It is, instead, a forum for promoting lies. After all, in a court of law, Hutchinson would never have been allowed to get away with quoting Guiliani and other unnamed people in the office or recounting the narrative about a frenzied Trump fighting for control of his armored car. Every bit of it (and most of the other things she testified to) is hearsay and inadmissible. January 6 Committee Credibility Implodes After Hutchinson Testimony. The January 6 Committee's credibility suffered a serious blow on Tuesday when reports surfaced that the lead Secret Service agent in charge of former President Trump's security detail that day would contradict testimony delivered from star witness Cassidy Hutchinson. On Tuesday, former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified that former President Trump literally tried to commandeer the presidential suburban [sic] during the January 6 riot and became borderline violent when Bobby Engel tried to stop him. Hutchinson said she learned of the story from Tony Ornato, the then-White House deputy chief of staff. Hours later, Peter Alexander of NBC News said that a source close to the Secret Service indicated that agent Bobby Engel will testify "under oath that neither man was assaulted and that Mr. Trump never lunged for the steering wheel." Cassidy Hutchinson also Lied about Handwritten Note in Testimony. Was anything she said true? On Tuesday, Liz Cheney and the sham Jan. 6 committee brought in Mark Meadows' former staffer Cassidy Hutchinson as a "surprise witness." Young Cassidy testified that "she was told" that as then-President Donald Trump was being driven back to the White House after the Jan. 6 rally that he demanded to be taken to the Capitol and tried to grab the steering wheel from a Secret Service agent. Hutchinson said Trump got into "the beast" after his speech at the Ellipse on January 6 with the belief that he would be driven to the Capitol. According to Hutchinson, who received this information from Tony Ornato, the Assistant Director for the Secret Service, Trump grew angry after he was informed that he was being driven back to the West Wing. The fake news media and Liz Cheney ran with Cassidy's explosive testimony. Surprise NBC News Report Blows Apart January 6th Committee Claim That Trump Assaulted Secret Service Agents. The anti-Trump coalition spent most of Tuesday gloating about the January 6th committee testimony of Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide inside the White House, calling it game-changing and suggesting the walls are closing in on former President Donald Trump. In reality, her testimony was more of the same, i.e. loaded with hearsay that wouldn't amount to much of anything — even if everything said was true. What the latest "emergency" hearing reiterated is that January 6th committee doesn't exist to actually provide evidence of its claims. Rather, it exists to throw as much garbage against the wall as possible in hopes the sheer amount of claims leads people to an unsupported conclusion. Jan. 6 panel effort to blame Trump for violence ignores pointed warnings Congress got much earlier. With the help of a former junior White House aide, House Democrats on the Jan. 6 committee tried Tuesday to convince the public that former President Donald Trump and his team were aware of the potential for violence among armed protesters the day of the Capitol riot and ignored the security risks. Their presentation, using the hearsay testimony of 25-year-old former presidential aide Cassidy Hutchison, for sure excited the news media. But it could not obscure one stubborn fact that glaringly was ignored at the televised hearing: long before Hutchison overheard concerns inside the White House on Jan. 2 and Jan. 6, 2021, about guns and violence, the Capitol Police that reported to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi repeatedly received intelligence warnings about such possibilities and failed to increase security adequately or accept the Trump Pentagon's offer for 10,000 or more National Guard troops. J6 Committee Just Kneecapped Themselves Over Evidence in Cassidy Hutchinson's Testimony. We reported earlier on the testimony of Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. As we noted, she claimed that President Donald Trump somehow managed to grab the wheel of The Beast to try to go to the Capitol, when Secret Service agents told him they wouldn't be going there, and that he then lunged at the agent who told him that. [Tweet] Now, there were several problems with this story, as we noted, including that she didn't see any of this herself; this is what she supposedly heard from an agent. So basically, she was repeating gossip, even if you assume she was telling the truth. But it was hearsay, and it was odd that they were having her testify to it and not the agents. The story was unbelievable on its face, as we noted, that 74-year-old Trump, whom Democrats have mocked and tried to claim can't walk down a ramp, is now unbelievably strong and able to get past agents to grab the wheel of a moving, presidential limo. Michael Stenger, Senate security chief on Jan. 6, dies before hearing. The former Senate sergeant-at-arms who oversaw security during last year's Capitol insurrection has died — one day before Tuesday's hearing to present new evidence. Michael Stenger, who resigned a day after pro-Trump rioters easily stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, died Monday morning, Politico reported. The Marine Corps veteran, 71, spent 35 years in the Secret Service before joining the Senate sergeant-at-arms team in 2011. He was later appointed to the post in 2018. Former colleagues were notified of his death Monday afternoon, Politico reported. A woman who answered the phone early Tuesday at Stenger's home in Falls Church, Virginia, declined to comment when reached by The [New York] Post. Now We Get the First Reported Cause of Death for Former Senate Sergeant-At-Arms Michael Stenger. The death of former Senate Sergeant-At-Arms one day before a 'surprise' January 6 commitee hearing drew immense interest from initial reports. The news was first reported on Monday by Politico's K. Tully-McManus, and was confirmed by Fox News' Chad Pergram. Both reports on Tuesday lacked details. [...] The Washington Post has now reported that Stenger died of "natural causes," based on anonymous sources. "Stenger died Monday of natural causes, according to two people familiar with the matter. One of the people said he had been diagnosed with cancer and had been ill. The people would not discuss details of his condition publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity." Media Inflation Surrounding the January 6 Committee Distracts Americans From Democrats' Failures. The other day I ran smack dab into an impromptu press conference just off of the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. In the middle of the reporters was Rep. Adam Kinzinger (?-Ill.) of the House un-American January 6 Committee. I heard him say something like this, "I can't tell you now, but it will be a big surprise." That statement to those people sums up the entirety of the January 6 gang of fabricators. The members of the committee keep promising something spectacular. But, after 5 hearings, they've released nothing new, and relied on their co-fabricators in the media to hype their selectively edited "evidence." Each witness is lionized by a hyperventilating press corps that desires to demonize President Donald J. Trump. Where possible the media types join the House un-American J6 Committee (HUAJ6C) to try and wreck the lives and reputations of anyone associated with or supportive of Trump's America First agenda. Former White House Staffer Confirms Jan. 6 Committee Lied About DOJ Attorney. Over the weekend, former Department of Justice lawyer Ken Klukowski called on the Jan. 6 Committee to release the full transcript of his deposition testimony to correct the lies they told about him to the American public. Now The Federalist has exclusively obtained a statement from a former White House staffer confirming Klukowski's claims. Last Thursday, the Jan. 6, 2021 show trial continued, with the Democrat-stacked committee presenting testimony concerning a draft letter Jeff Clark, a former assistant attorney general in the Department of Justice, proposed sending to the Georgia legislature. Why The J6 Committee's Attacks On Ginni Thomas's Free Speech Are A Totalitarian Attack On Every American. The left has expressed a special hatred for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas for decades. Thomas stands for everything our elites hate: free speech, due process, fair elections, and every individual right in the Constitution's Bill of Rights. Paradoxically, the left seems to find this especially galling because he is the descendant of slaves. But for all these decades, they haven't been able to get him. Cue House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's show trial masquerading as an investigation of a three-hour protest at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. It was a protest that got out of hand when the Capitol Police took the most peculiar step of opening the Capitol doors wide to the protesters. Newly Released Video Hidden from Public! — DOJ Tried to Hide This Evidence! An incredible new video has emerged that exonerates the members of the Proud Boy fraternity from the ridiculous seditious conspiracy charges that the Biden Regime launched against them in their War On Trump and his supporters. This Proud Boy leadership meeting was recorded back on December 30th, 2020 — one week before the January 6th protest. This video unquestionably proves that the Proud Boys never planned on going inside the Capitol on January 6th, let alone commit "seditious conspiracy". Former Trump Legal Adviser John Eastman Alleges Feds Seized his Phone as Part of January 6 Investigation. John Eastman, former President Donald Trump's election attorney, accused the federal government of unlawfully seizing and searching his phone, according to a new court filing Monday. Eastman alleged in a motion to recover property from the government that FBI agents seized his phone on June 22 while he was leaving a restaurant and refused to provide him with a copy of the search warrant they claimed they had. He further alleged the FBI agents "forced" him to unlock his phone. FBI Ambushes Trump Election Lawyer John Eastman as He's Exiting Restaurant with His Wife, Seizes His Phone. The January 6 Committee sent the feds after Trump lawyer John Eastman because he dared to take action against the Democrats and their massive election fraud operation in 2020. Trump's election lawyer John Eastman said the FBI searched and seized his phone last week, according to a new court filing. Eastman filed a federal lawsuit in New Mexico on Monday and asked a judge to order the feds to return his property and block the January 6 investigators from accessing his phone. According to the court filing, John Eastman was exiting a restaurant with his wife and friend last week when FBI agents ambushed him and "forced" him to unlock his phone. Josh Hawley Responds Accordingly After Becerra Hints HHS Might Violate Federal Law Over Abortion Ruling. For the last 18 months or so since the Capitol riot, Republicans have been treated to a chorus of hypocritical lectures from Democrats, their NeverTrump allies, and the mainstream media about how it is unconscionable and un-American to "disrespect our sacred institutions" and "undermine our democracy" by doing things Democrats have done in the past like question election results. Not surprisingly, those "rules" magically fly right out the window when these same Democrats are hit with election results they don't like or a judicial ruling on which they don't agree, something we've seen play out on a national level in a dangerous way since the Friday Supreme Court ruling where a majority of Justices agreed that Roe v Wade must be overturned. Report: Man Who Was in Charge of Security During Capitol Riot Dies, Cause Not Announced. There were multiple reports on Monday about the death of Michael Stenger, the Senate sergeant-at-arms who was responsible for security in the Senate during the Capitol riot. According to Fox News' Chad Pergram, Stenger died Monday morning. The Washington Examiner also reported on it, saying that the cause of his death was "not immediately clear." Stenger stepped down in the wake of the Jan. 6 riot, after then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell asked for his resignation. He had been the Sergeant-at-Arms for the Senate between 2018 and 2021. Previously, he had served in the Secret Service. Senate sergeant at arms during Capitol riot dies. Michael Stenger, the Senate sergeant-at-arms who oversaw security in the upper chamber during the Capitol riot, died Monday morning, according to multiple reports. The cause of his death was not immediately clear, but reporters from Fox News and Politico shared news of his passing. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) also tweeted about it. Stenger held the post from 2018 to 2021 and stepped down the day after the Jan. 6 attack. Michael Stenger's Death Before Jan. 6 Hearing Sparks Conspiracy Theories. Unsubstantiated speculation and conspiracy theories have been spread online following reports that Michael Stenger, the former Senate sergeant-at-arms who oversaw security on January 6, 2021, has died. Details on the circumstances around Stenger's death aged 71 are still unknown. Reports that Stenger had died on Monday were revealed by Politico's correspondent Katherine Tully-McManus and Fox News' Chad Pergram. "Fox confirms that Michael Stenger, the Senate Sergeant at Arms who was in charge of Senate security the day of the Capitol riot, has died," Pergram tweeted. Move Over J6 Protesters, the Left Is Back Outdoing You With Violence. A year and a half later, the Democrats are still plodding through weeks of public hearings addressing the protest at the U.S. Capitol on one night, Jan. 6, 2021, as if the violence was so dangerous it was going to destroy the country. The hearings haven't gotten anywhere because with the exception of a couple of turncoat GOP lawmakers, Republicans aren't participating since they view it as a witch hunt. Now, the House Select Committee investigating Jan. 6 looks sillier than ever, as just one night of violence after the Supreme Court's decision reversing Roe v. Wade was issued on June 24 easily eclipsed the violence on Jan. 6. Rabid pro-abortion supporters held lawmakers hostage in the Arizona State Capitol building while they violently pushed on the doors to get in. A Colorado crisis pregnancy center was set on fire and vandalized by graffiti. In Portland, Oregon, protesters broke windows and left graffiti. Ten people in Oregon were arrested, some for throwing rocks, smoke bombs and water bottles at police, as well as resisting arrest, and six were arrested in South Carolina, including for resisting arrest. Who Is Cassidy Hutchinson? Mark Meadows Aide To Testify To Jan. 6 Panel. Cassidy Hutchinson, a former top aide to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, is reported to be the key witness who will give live testimony to the January 6 committee's latest hearing on Tuesday [6/28/2022]. The panel announced on Monday that there will be a surprise presentation on June 28 in order to present "recently obtained evidence and receive witness testimony" after it was previously thought the next hearing would not take place until July. As reported by CNN, Politico and other news outlets, Hutchinson, a former special assistant to Meadows, will speak live at the surprise hearing. Hutchinson would be the first White House employee to testify publicly before the committee. Feds Raid the Home of Former Trump DOJ Official Who Wanted to Investigate Allegations of Voter Fraud. In a pre-dawn raid Wednesday, armed federal law enforcement agents searched the home of Jeffrey Clark, a former Trump Justice Department official who has emerged as a central figure in the partisan House Select Committee's investigation into the January 6 riot. Clark's name was expected to come up in the Jan. 6 Committee hearing on Thursday. He served as acting assistant attorney general for the Civil Division during President Trump's final months in office, where he was the only official willing to investigate credible allegations of fraud. In a tweet back in March, Clark explained why he has been targeted by the regime. "I'm a former Trump DOJ official who (like you) was concerned about the 2020 election," he explained. "Now I'm one of the top targets of the politically motivated J6 Committee." Who Is Rachel Powell? She Used an Ice Axe and Battering Ram To Break Capitol Windows on Jan 6. Rachel Powell is a 41-yr-old Pennsylvania resident and single mother of 8 children. The FBI asked for help to find Rachel after she was caught on film breaking windows at the Capitol on January 6th. Rachel turned herself in to the FBI in early February 2021. She was charged with obstruction, depredation of government property, entering a restricted building, entering a restricted building with a dangerous weapon, and violent entry. Rachel is currently residing at her PA home and is on house arrest. There are several red flags surrounding Rachel's case, beginning with her arrest, short-lived imprisonment in PA, her release from prison, and subsequent 475-day house arrest in the comfort of her home, while so many men who committed lesser crimes are still serving pre-trial time in solitary confinement and living in deplorable conditions. January 6 committee schedules surprise hearing tomorrow to unveil 'recently obtained evidence'. The January 6 committee will hold a surprise hearing on Tuesday afternoon to present 'recently obtained evidence,' the panel announced on Monday [6/27/2022]. Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson said last week that the final hearing of the month would be on June 23, with the remaining presentations delayed until July. The last-minute announcement came roughly 24 hours before the hearing is scheduled to commence at 1 p.m. Eastern Time. The Editor says... FBI Raids Home of Retired Texas Couple Who Attended Jan. 6 Capitol Rally. A retired Texas couple said FBI agents on June 22 broke through the gate of their rural home, threw flash-bangs, handcuffed them, and trained lasers on them before searching their home for evidence connected to the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the Capitol. Lora DeWolfe and Darrel Kennemer, who live on seven acres near San Marcos, Texas, told The Epoch Times they attended the Jan. 6 rally at the Capitol but did nothing wrong. They believe the FBI mistakenly identified Kennemer as someone else. The FBI didn't arrest them, they said. Agents eventually produced a search warrant saying Kennemer was suspected of "assaulting, resisting or impeding" officers and "entering restricted building or grounds." Both said they went no farther than the Capitol steps on Jan. 6 and didn't harm anyone or damage anything. Gaslighting Committee Attempts Launch of Banana Republic. This week, Adam Schiff and his friends on the Jan. 6 Select Committee have been pushing a new "Big Lie" on America, that President Trump conspired with state GOP leaders to present "fake Trump electors" on January 6, 2021, whose votes would be substituted for the "real" Biden electors during the ceremonial public count of the votes by the vice president in the Capitol. According to the breathless committee script, it was a classic switcheroo, conducted in top secret, all by word of mouth or by encrypted text messages, please. In Michigan, electors were said to have hid out in the Capitol building overnight so they could cast their ballots legally in the morning without being detected. Schiff presented these claims in an eight-minute Sixty Minutes style video, narrated by the committee's investigative counsel, Cosey Lucier, who drove the theme home, presenting snippets of a "secret" meeting of the Arizona "fake electors" presided by state GOP chairwoman Kelli Ward and "fake electors" themselves. This is how propaganda works. You present one side of the story, you label it, and then you repeat repeat repeat. Ray Epps Was Worried Fast-Moving January 6 Crowd Might Interfere With 'The Plan,' Kentucky Man Claims. Ray Epps, the former Arizona Oath Keepers leader who was famously captured on camera a day before the Jan. 6, 2021, protests urging protesters to go into the U.S. Capitol, allegedly directed a group of individuals who removed "siege weapons" including a long piece of 2-by-4 lumber, from a utility hatch on Capitol grounds after telling a witness they needed to slow down the crowd lest it "[expletive] up the plan," a Kentucky man claims. Eric Clark, 45, says he encountered Epps on the west side of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, but did not realize who he was until seeing news reports about Epps earlier this year. Behavior and statements Clark said he witnessed took on new meaning after he read news reports about Epps's possible role as a provocateur at the Capitol. "I didn't know who Ray Epps was," Clark told The Epoch Times. "I just knew a tall mountain of a man who said something to me, and I saw some things occur. "It was almost literally, probably right at a year later, when I saw a [news] post with Ray Epps in it, and I was able to put a name to a face," Clark said. Finding our Way Through a Wilderness of Mirrors. We are passing through a time when the elite of our society call right, wrong and wrong, right, and when evil is called good and good is called evil. Before we consider what can be done, let's take a walk through the current upside-down priorities of the various agencies of our government: [...] Protestors who expressed their First Amendment rights to petition government about election irregularities have been locked up in Washington, D.C. for nearly seventeen months, many held without being informed of charges and the nature and cause of accusation — violations of their First, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments. Meanwhile members of the elite class in Washington turn January 6 into a politically motivated show trial. Trump DOJ official Jeffrey Clark tells Tucker Carlson that FBI raid on his house over efforts to overturn 2020 election was 'Stasi-like'. Former Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Bossert Clark, who tried to help President Donald Trump overturn his 2020 election loss, had his house searched by U.S. law enforcement agents on Wednesday, an experience which he has described as 'Stasi-like.' In an interview with Tucker Carlson on Fox News, Clark shared his dismay at what he had been subjected to as he was forced to stand outside his home in his pajamas while a search by armed federal agents took place. He said: 'There was loud banging outside my door. I quickly figured out there were agents there. I asked for the courtesy to put some pants on and was told 'no'. 'They swept the house. Twelve agents and two police Fairfax County Police Officers searched it for more than three hours. Feds search home of former Trump DOJ official Jeffrey Clark, sources say. Federal authorities searched the home of Jeffrey Clark, a former Justice Department official with President Donald Trump's administration, federal sources told Fox News. An official with the U.S. Attorney's Office in DC confirmed to Fox News that there was law enforcement activity in the vicinity of Clark's Lorton, Virginia, residence on Wednesday, but would not say more. Clark's name is expected to come up in hearings with the House Select Committee investigating Jan. 6. The U.S. Attorney's Office DC has no comment regarding the nature of that activity or any particular individuals. The Question Nobody's Asking: Why Would Pelosi Welcome an Attack on the Capitol on January 6? This question has plagued me for some time. Snippets of information are coming out like the peel off of an onion. Here is my analysis of how these snippets indicate a diabolical plot. What was happening on this fateful day? Trump was addressing a hundred thousand plus supporters who knew the election had been stolen by fraud. Like me, they had witnessed it first-hand. I saw too many ballots come to my home. I heard a friend, a Democrat, confess to voting multiple times. I heard Bill Hemmer exclaim in disbelief on election night, They are stopping the counting! He also said, "How can it be?" when he saw vote totals changing in impossible ways. Trump knew the counting of the electoral college was taking place right after his speech ended. He knew that something unprecedented was going to take place. A few brave senators were going to object to certain swing states where the fraud was rampant. At noon at the Capitol, the senate convened to count the electoral votes and determine the next President of the United States. If you recall, Arizona had been called by Pence, and a brave senator stood up to object to counting Arizona's electors. They needed two to object. They had two. I believe one was Ted Cruz. Afterward, he was accused of treason. Leading Jan. 6 committee investigator departing from post early. A top investigator for the House Jan. 6 committee is reportedly departing from his role this week, earlier than anticipated. John Wood, a senior investigative counsel on the committee, confirmed his departure to CNN, but he declined to elaborate on why he was moving on from the role as rumors swirl that he has been encouraged to run for the open Senate seat in Missouri. Wood's exit comes as the committee is in the thick of public hearings about the Capitol riot and the coinciding efforts to challenge the 2020 election results. The panel held its fourth public hearing on Tuesday, focusing on how former President Donald Trump and his allies pressured state and local officials amid their gambit to challenge the election results. Riding on a flat tire: Politico reporter: Two Democratic lawmakers told me 'nobody gives a bleep about January 6'. Politico correspondent Betsy Woodruff Swan said Wednesday that two Democratic lawmakers spoke candidly about how the electorate does not care about Jan. 6. During a panel discussion on "Meet the Press NOW," NBC anchor Chuck Todd cited a Quinnipiac poll that asked Americans if they thought former President Donald Trump "truly believed there was voter fraud" in the 2020 presidential election or that he has "deliberately spread false information." Forty-three percent say they think Trump believes the claims, while 48% say the former president knowingly promotes falsehoods. Investigators: Pelosi Responsible For Jan. 6 Security Breakdown At U.S. Capitol. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi shoulders much of the blame for the security breakdown at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, a preliminary report from Republican investigators Reps. Jim Banks and Rodney Davis determined. The Capitol Police (USCP) were half-staffed on Jan. 6, Pelosi's House Sergeant at Arms denied multiple requests for National Guard assistance from the Pentagon and the USCP Chief in the days leading up to Jan. 6, officers were poorly equipped and had insufficient riot shields and helmets, and they were never trained to handle a riot even after the riots of 2020, the investigation shows, according to Banks. Levin: 'In Many Ways, We Live in a Post-Constitutional America' — Says 1/6 Committee 'Major Participant' in Demise. Sunday, conservative talker Mark Levin blamed the January 6 House Select Committee for what he declared to be the "demise" of the country, which he said was an effort to get an indictment against former President Donald Trump. Levin deemed the effort evidence of a post-constitutional America. [Video clip] Fox Raises Important Questions about Jan. 6th Prisoners Being Treated Differently than Captured Colbert Staffers. Over the past weekend, Stephen Colbert staffers were caught trying to break into the US Capitol, with Fox News Channel's Chad Pergram confirming the news in a Twitter thread, saying: "Fox confirms that group of persons associated with The Late Show Stephen Colbert were arrested last night and charged with illegal entry to House office buildings after hours. Fox is told the people were arrested in the Longworth House Office Building." Well, one Fox News Channel co-host, Jeanine Pirro, sounded off on how those Colbert staffers are being treated in comparison with the January 6th protesters that have been locked up for months, many of them in solitary confinement, saying during a recent episode of "The Five": "This was the same charge levied against the vast majority of those arrested on January 6th. A lot of those people have been in solitary confinement for months. A lot of those people have lost money trying to pay for a lawyer to answer the discovery that you need to in defending yourself. "These people have to be treated the same way. [...]" To the J6 Committee: Please, Spare Me Your 'Insurrection' Hysteria. It has been over a week now. The Democrat Party and their allies in the mainstream media have tried to distract, deflect, and abstain from truthfully reporting the national disaster that is the Biden administration. Their primetime hearing about the January 6, 2021, breach, trespassing, and riot at the U.S. Capitol has been a crass political maneuver and a distraction. The double standards are glaringly obvious. The editing of video and testimony to hide exculpatory evidence, and the one-sided, Stalinist hearings will not improve our lives or solve the myriad problems the Biden regime has created. Please y'all, just spare me. If there was sufficient evidence of criminality to indict the former president, it would have been done already. Your kangaroo court and political theater are not going to alter anyone's opinion. A plurality of media punditry is predictably on your side of the issue but the majority of the American people oppose the manufactured drama. Police Report Proves Plainclothes Electronic Surveillance Unit Members Were Embedded Among Jan. 6 Protesters. While there is growing speculation that federal agents and Capitol Police were involved in instigating acts of violence during the Jan. 6, 2021 protests and recording responses for the purposes of entrapment, evidence now proves that "plainclothes" members of a special Electronic Surveillance Unit (ESU) were embedded among the protesters for the purposes of conducting video surveillance. Evidence also points to a day of security deficiencies and police provocation for the purpose of entrapment. According to a report — First Amendment Demonstrations, issued Jan. 3, 2021, by Chief of Police Robert Contee of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), Homeland Security Bureau, Special Operations Division, obtained exclusively by The Epoch Times — the MPD began to activate Civil Disturbance Unit (CDU) platoons on Jan 4, 2021. Full activation of 28 platoons was scheduled to occur on the following two days. Five Bombshells the J6 Committee Forgot to Mention. When our Founders designed the US Constitution, the January 6 investigation and promotional extravaganza was exactly the type of heresy they intended to outlaw. Lies and propaganda are despots' preferred tender. But, with the legacy media acting as the committee's promotional arm it's hard to discover truth. These highlights from an interview with one of the select committee's witnesses reveals facts it seems the committee would rather forget. Ron Johnson Says Democrats Are Using Jan. 6 Hearings To Distract From Policy Failures. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) said Tuesday that the ongoing January 6 committee hearings were designed by Democrats to distract from the "disastrous result of their policies." Johnson, who is seeking a third term as senator, said that the hearings were a "partisan exercise", and pointed to high inflation, President Biden's border policies, and rising crime as consequences of Democratic policies. "It's obvious that the Democrats set this thing up to be a political exercise, obviously designed to distract the public from the major problems occurring because of their agenda, their ideology. They can't talk about the disastrous result of their policies, so this is really the only thing they can talk about," Johnson told The Daily Wire in a phone interview. Democrat congressman's staffer caught defacing posters in Capitol complex, but DOJ won't prosecute. apitol Police caught Massachusetts Democrat Rep. Jake Auchincloss's chief of staff defacing posters outside the Capitol complex office of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and referred him for criminal charges, but the same U.S. Attorney's office that pursued the Jan. 6 defendants declined to approve an arrest warrant, according to police documents and interviews. Police and Auchincloss also confirmed Monday that the congressman's office was involved in allowing comedian Steven Colbert's production team into the Capitol complex last week in an incident that led to security concerns and the arrest of seven members of Colbert's team. Rep. Adam Schiff Won't Rule Out House Committee on January 6 Subpoenaing Mike Pence. Rep. Adam Schiff refused to rule out that the House Committee Investigating January 6 may subpoena former Vice President Mike Pence to testify. Schiff discussed the possibility during an appearance on Sunday's episode of CNN's "State of the Union." "We're not excluding anyone or anything at this point," Schiff said. "We're not taking anything off the table in terms of witnesses who have not yet testified. We would still, I think, like to have several high-profile people come before our committee," he continued. The Editor says... Why Both Republicans And Democrats Are Wrong About Bill Barr. Last week, the Jan. 6 "Committee" featured video clips from former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr during its hearing on the violence that erupted at the capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. For the few Americans following the show trial, Barr's testimony seemed a denial by former President Donald Trump's top law enforcement officer of any legitimate basis to challenge the outcome of the November 2020 election. To Democrats, this proved Trump sought to steal the White House from Biden via a coup. To Republicans, Barr revealed himself as a traitor uninterested in investigating voter fraud. Neither view is correct. House January 6 Committee Is Failing but Doesn't Know Why. It is widely seen that the U.S. House Select Committee about January 6 is falling flat. See, e.g., Breitbart's article, "January 6 Committee's Third Hearing So Boring NBC Cut to Golf Instead." (For golf to be more interesting, it's bad.) What's more amazing is that no clue has penetrated the fog of Democrats, establishment Republicans, the news media, or far-left activists about why. Our political class is so out of touch that it could not see this collective yawn coming. And no, this is not about interviewing that one magic witness. It is the fundamental concept of their entire effort that the American people see through like a windowpane. There are no additional witnesses or documents that can save an enterprise doomed from the start. First, the Committee is convincing us that this is only a political disagreement. Trump and his leadership team and MAGA voters are "guilty" of having incorrect political views and committing "wrongthink." The Spin on Real Aim of J6 Committee Begins. The Jan. 6 Committee has nothing to do with the truth or "justice." It's about trying to do all they can to hurt the Republican position before the midterms, and deflect from the horrible results of the policies of Joe Biden and the Democrats. Just as importantly, it's about doing whatever they can to block out President Donald Trump from ever becoming president again, so they can hold onto their power. They don't get that the more they throw down on this exercise, the more it antagonizes most of the American people, who are concerned with the here and the now of the struggle the Democrats have made it to deal with the present. A country its leaders do not live in. Congress now has had more prime time committee hearings on the January 6th protest than it did on 9/11. I am not sure just what the purpose of the January 6th hearings are. [...] Food inflation is in the double-digits. It costs $100 now to fill up a pickup truck. Baby formula and tampons are in short supply. The stock market is tanking. Poverty is just around the corner. Miles of homeless people in pup tents line the streets along the West Coast. Drug overdose deaths now top 100,000 a year. Millions of terrorists, gangbangers and other illegal aliens have flooded in under Biden. But Congress hired a former ABC executive to put together a TV extravaganza on J6 featuring some guy in a buffalo hat grinning inside the Capitol. He looked like Randy Quaid in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation film. Resistance Twitter reacts when Sotomayor stands by 'friend' Clarence Thomas amid left's calls to resign. With leftists clamoring for the J6 select committee to complete the "high tech lynching" of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas by railroading his wife Ginni Thomas for her alleged role in the so-called "insurrection" leading to demands for his resignation, the longest serving justice on the nation's highest court was defended by Justice Sonya Sotomayor. The far-left Barack Obama appointee took up for her fellow justice, praising the conservative Thomas as a "friend" who deeply cares about the integrity of the SCOTUS, remarks that didn't go over well with the mob that's demanding his head on a pike. Jan 6th Panel Not Swaying Swing-State Republicans. The Jan 6th panel is backfiring on Democrats and RINOs. NBC News traveled to Nevada to discuss the Jan 6th panel and their hearings with Republican voters. What they found was that not only was the panel not changing voters' minds — but it was pushing them even more towards Trump. [Tweet] GOP Accuses Schiff of Allowing Colbert Staffers Into the Capitol. [Scroll down] Poking fun at the Jan. 6 Committee is a good way to show how trivial some of their accusations are. For example, a professional law enforcement agency — the Capitol Police Department — investigated charges that one GOP member of Congress, Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.), led a tour of the Capitol where several Jan. 6 rioters were allegedly present. Democrats allege — with no evidence — that Loudermilk was conducting a "reconnaissance tour" for the rioters. The Capitol Police determined there was nothing to the accusation. But the Jan. 6 Committee decided to "investigate" anyway because they have a video of a man taking pictures in a hallway who attended the rally the next day. There's no evidence the man breached the Capitol, but he did make threats against Democratic lawmakers. How can anyone claim it was a "reconnaissance tour" if Loudermilk didn't even know the guy and was certainly unaware of any plans he might have had for action the following day? As far as Loudermilk was concerned, it was just another Capitol tour. A Cretinous Beltway Reproduction of a Stalinist Show Trial. [Scroll down] Regarding the motivation behind the committee, one is to damage Donald Trump's prospects in 2024, which the committee is in fact abetting by driving his base to rally around him. (Of course, this could well be the Democrats' covert hope, as many of them, rightly or wrongly, consider him the most beatable GOP nominee.) Another motive is to deflect public attention from Joe Biden and the Democrats' disastrous economy. (Good luck with that). Yet, in conjunction with current developments in an ongoing criminal investigation and upon further reflection following this cretinous Beltway reproduction of a Stalinist show trial, these Democrats' hearings have a far more subversive motive: namely, concealing and preventing the detection of their own party's weaponization of the federal government's police and surveillance powers against its opponents, most notably in the instance of "Russiagate." What the January 6 Committee Might Have Been. The current committee is not bipartisan. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., forbade Republican nominees traditionally selected by the House minority leader to serve on the committee. No speaker had ever before rejected the minority party's nominees to a select House committee. Pelosi's own cynical criteria for Republican participation was twofold: Any willing minority Republican members had to have voted to impeach former President Donald Trump while having no realistic chance of being reelected in 2022. Of some 210 Republican House members, that left just Representatives Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., and Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., who were willing and able to fit Pelosi's profile. A real investigation would have ignited argumentation, cross-examination, and disagreements — the sort of give-and-take for which congressional committees are famous. In contrast, the January 6 show trial features no dissenting views. Its subtext was right out of the Soviet minister of Internal Affairs Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria's credo: "Show me the man and I'll show you the crime." Democrats' Selective Outrage Over 'Insurrections'. For Democrats, the aim of the Jan. 6 Select Committee's "propagandist exhibition" is twofold: First, to attempt (in vain) to distract a besieged citizenry from the myriad problems now tearing asunder the country, under their leadership, in this midterm election year; and second, to lay the foundation for a Justice Department indictment against the 45th president that could hamstring his efforts to seek a second term come 2024. To anyone paying even a modicum of attention — and I'd recommend no more than that — to the committee's theatrics, it is obvious that the game is rigged. Consider as but one data point how Cheney, who will be looking for a new job come January, deliberately edited Donald Trump's "Stop the Steal" exhortation from that fateful rally so as to omit the fact that he urged his supporters to make their way to the Capitol "peacefully and patriotically." Or how about the fact that the committee has thus far made no effort to subpoena the families of the roughly 800 people who have been arrested — and sometimes placed in solitary confinement, per columnist Julie Kelly's exceptional reporting — for wandering in and traipsing around the Capitol, often shepherded right in by Capitol Police? Curious, that. A legitimate committee interested in investigation and arriving at the truth would surely want to call some of those families as witnesses. House Republicans accuse Rep. Adam Schiff of allowing Colbert staff into Capitol. A camera crew for Stephen Colbert's "Late Show" was given unlawful access to the Congressional offices by longtime California Democrat Adam Schiff, House Republicans claim. "Adam Schiff's cronies snuck in Stephen Colbert's staff to the US Capitol and facilitated unauthorized reconnaissance tours of GOP offices," said an official account for the House Judiciary Committee Republicans. "On the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in, @RepAdamSchiff's cronies sneak in Stephen Colbert's staffers and provide unauthorized reconnaissance tours of Republican offices throughout Capitol Hill," they added in a follow-up message, which included an embedded Fox News segment on the arrests by host Jesse Watters. Insurrectiony Colbert Show Bigwigs Arrested Trespassing in Capitol Building. Where are the Sedition Charges? Seven people involved in the production of the late-night anti-Trump "comedy" show The Late Show with Stephen Colbert were arrested Thursday [6/16/2022] by U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) in the Longworth House Office Building. They had been in another building in the afternoon trying to interview members of the Jan. 6 Committee. They were told to leave earlier and were escorted out during the day but took it upon themselves to return to the building. They had help getting back in. We are still not sure how many members of the USCP have cried over this seditious attack against American democracy. Nine Stephen Colbert crewmembers [were] arrested at the House of Representatives for unlawful entry. Multiple people who work on 'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert' were detained Thursday night on charges of illegal entry to the House of Representatives. A total of nine people were initially detained over the incident, according to Fox News. Among the arrestees are Robert Smigel, best known for his character Triumph the Insult Comic Dog. Smigel, 62, is a frequent guest on Colbert's CBS show. Also arrested were one of Colbert's producers, Allison Martinez, and writer, Josh Comers, reports Fox News. According to Fox News' Chad Pergram, the group was attempting to film and take pictures around the offices House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Rep. Lauren Boebert. It is unclear why, but the visit may be linked to the ongoing January 6 riot hearings — with Democrat Representative Adam Schiff reportedly letting the posse in. What NBC Did During Jan. 6 Hearing Shows Just How Much Dems Have Lost Americans. We've seen that the Jan. 6 hearings haven't been going very well. The ratings were a train wreck for the first night which was in primetime. The Jan. 6 Committee has been deceptive in their presentations, trying to smear President Donald Trump and other Republicans — the primary purpose of the hearings in the run-up to the midterms. It isn't about the truth, it's pure politics. People know it, and aren't interested in sticking around for the manipulated floor show. Justice Department ups pressure on Jan. 6 committee to release transcripts of witness interviews. The Justice Department renewed its request for transcripts of witness interviews from the House Jan. 6 Select Committee this week, arguing that the committee's "failure" to release the transcripts is complicating their efforts to prosecute defendants. The request came as part of a motion to continue filed by two alleged members of the Proud Boys, who requested that their trial on seditious conspiracy charges be moved from August to December. Prosecutors agreed with the motion, writing that the defendants could face "prejudice" if the transcripts are released after the trial begins. Dr. Simone Gold Sentenced to Prison For Speaking with Megaphone Inside US Capitol on January 6. Dr. Simone Gold on Thursday was sentenced to two months in prison for speaking with a megaphone inside of the US Capitol on January 6. In March Dr. Simone Gold pleaded guilty to a class A misdemeanor count, "entering and remaining in a restricted building charge." [...] Dr. Simone Gold was in Washington DC on January 5th and 6th and spoke on the 5th at Freedom Plaza. Dr. Simone later entered the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 and delivered her same medical speech with a bullhorn from inside the U.S. Capitol. Dr. Simone committed no acts of violence. She only wanted to push her medical opinion on the coronavirus. For this Dr. Gold was placed in the front row of the FBI's most wanted release. Capitol Police first warned about violence two weeks before Jan. 6 riots, memos show. Capitol Police received alerts from both U.S. Homeland Security and District of Columbia authorities about potential violence at the Capitol more than two weeks before the Jan. 6 riots, a pre-Christmas warning that flagged online chatter about waging a "bloody war," concealing guns, and burning down the Supreme Court, according to internal memos obtained by Just the News that reveal much earlier and persistent red flags about the tragedy. "Right-wing extremists are talking about tunnels below the Capitol Complex and the allegiances of USCP officers," Capitol Police intelligence expert John T. Nugent Jr. wrote in an e-mail Dec. 21, 2020 sent to a distribution list of the department's Intelligence and Interagency Coordination Division. Nugent's email forwarded information from the District of Columbia's intelligence analyst that stated a social post "had garnered quite a bit of interest online" about Jan. 6 because it included a map of the Capitol grounds. Democrats' Jan. 6 Fiasco Is Just Another Example of Conservatives Being Treated as Second-Class Citizens. This week's Jan. 6 carnival barkers never mentioned the name of Ashli Babbitt, a Donald Trump supporter killed by a Capitol Police officer during the Jan. 6 riots. The Jan. 6 carnival barkers also ignore that many Jan. 6 defendants are being denied the Sixth Amendment guarantee of a speedy and fair trial. Both omissions by the Jan. 6 barkers are just the latest examples of a flagrant, two-tiered justice system that treats conservatives — especially anyone supporting Trump — as second-class citizens. Jan. 6 committee video: Who were the "tourists" filming inside the Capitol complex the day before the insurrection? If you were given a tour of the Capitol complex by your congressman, what would you record? The rotunda, the statues, the House chamber, maybe? Or would you record stairways and corridors? Points of access? There's a strong-form accusation and a weak-form accusation here, and they date all the way back to the first days after the insurrection in January 2021. The weak-form accusation is that insurrectionists posed as tourists on January 5 and got tours of the Capitol complex in order to case the place ahead of what they were preparing to do. Those tours were given by unsuspecting Republican members of Congress, who had no idea what the "tourists" were up to. The strong-form accusation is that the Republicans knew exactly what the "tourists" were up to and used the tours as cover to let the insurrectionists surveil the Capitol and the attached executive office buildings, where many members of Congress have their offices. The Capitol complex was supposed to be closed to the general public at the time due to COVID. What were "tourists" doing there? January 6th Committee Goes Full BlueAnon in Slanderous Attack on GOP Congressman. The January 6th committee continues to promise filet mignon. They keep delivering beef bottom round. As RedState has chronicled, with the first two hearings in the book, including a two-hour primetime special, there has been no evidence provided that Donald Trump organized and coordinated an "insurrection" to stop the peaceful transfer of power following the 2020 election. Instead, we've gotten yet more innuendo, weak narrative building, and attempts to connect dots that are miles apart. We've gotten USCP officers emoting as if the only riot to have ever occurred happened at the Capitol, but nothing to justify the stated basis of the committee, which was to prove a conspiracy involving the former president. In short, the January 6th committee has nothing, they know they have nothing, and now they are lashing out with wild conspiracy theories previously only found on BlueAnon Twitter. Liar Liar, Narrative on Fire: Schiff and Cheney Get Clown-slapped for J6 Whopper. The January 6 Panel, which is made up of beltway dung beetles, including political shape-shifters Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Liz Cheney (Rino-WY), was called out for vomitously spewing another load of bull scramble. Adam "Pinocchio" Schiff, the genius who squawked on CNN that he had seen evidence of Trump/Russia collusion but then sheepishly testified under oath that he had not, was blasted along with his skullduggery comrades for their latest lie by none other than the Capitol Police Chief. The January 6 Committee lied when it "suggested" Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) brought J6 protestors on a "reconnaissance" tour of the Capitol on Jan. 5, and that the visitors were hoping to learn the layout of the Capitol in preparation for the mostly peaceful protest the following day. January 6 committee abruptly postpones hearing scheduled for Wednesday. The House committee investigating Jan. 6 announced early Tuesday that it will postpone its public hearing scheduled for Wednesday morning. The third hearing in their series was expected to focus on the Justice Department in the aftermath of the November 2020 election, and former President Trump's plan to replace former acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen. Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren (Calif.), who sits on the panel, told the press that the hearing was rescheduled due to "technical issues" and that it is "not a big deal." Capitol Police debunk Liz Cheney, Jan 6 committee claim. Less than a week into its heavily hyped televised hearings, the House select committee on the events of January 6, 2021, is reeling after the big primetime rollout was a ratings bomb and now, one of the sinister conspiracy theories put forth by star member Liz Cheney has been exposed as a completely dishonest piece of narrative engineering to implicate GOP lawmakers in a plot to overthrow the government. On Tuesday, Capitol Police Chief J. Thomas Manger shot down the false claim by Cheney and committee chairman Bennie Thompson that Rep. Barry Loudermilk personally led a group of rioters on a January 5 reconnaissance walk-through of the Capitol complex — an accusation that has been vehemently denied by the Georgia Republican — a major blow to the efforts of the kangaroo court which is off to a rough start. In a letter to Rep. Rodney Davis, the ranking member of the House Administration Committee, Manger advised the Georgia Republican that the malicious Cheney's claim was pure hogwash and that no evidence exists that proves the embattled Wyoming congresswoman's sensational accusation of a Loudermilk-led recon patrol on the day before the so-called "insurrection" at the Capitol. Jan 6 committee flouts the rules of Congress, delivers propaganda. The Jan. 6 House Select Committee has been marred by officials acting in an arbitrary and capricious manner. The journalistic result is propaganda not fairly and honestly informing the American people on the conduct of this committee and its threat to democratic government. For example, ["]it is well established that, when a congressional committee seeks to use the implied authority to compel testimony, it must respect the Separation of Powers; it must do so only in pursuit of a valid legislative purpose (and not for the purpose of generating publicity or pursuing law enforcement) and it must follow the rules associated with the delegation on which its claimed subpoena authority relies.["] This quote appears at page 4 of the Introduction to the reply brief (Case 1:21-cv-03217-CJN Document 38 Filed 06/06/22) filed by former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows in his lawsuit against Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Jan. 6 committee. Team of Fools: Biden's Cabinet Picks Prove He is Unfit to Lead. [Scroll down] Attorney General Merrick Garland is Biden's henchman for the administration's 1984 agenda. Garland has made it clear that parents protesting the woke indoctrination of their children are domestic terrorists. He has directed the FBI and U.S. attorney offices to crack down on parents by characterizing their protests, which are completely legal, as crimes. "Attorney General Garland is weaponizing the DOJ," said Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, "by using the FBI to pursue concerned parents and silence them through intimidation." Garland has referred to January 6th as an "invasion." He said it was the most dangerous threat to American democracy ever. According to Steve McCann in American Thinker, Garland identified the protestors as "domestic extremists," which has become a euphemism for Republicans. "He wants you to believe and wants history to record," said Tucker Carlson, "that January 6th was an attempted insurrection by white supremacist revolutionaries bent on taking over this country. Because of January 6th, we must now use law enforcement and military force to arrest, imprison, and otherwise crush anyone who leads opposition to Joe Biden's government. That's their position," said Carlson. "They say it out loud." Senator Ted Cruz Confronts FBI Official Point Blank About Feds' Role in January 6. As the national media turns its attention to the partisan January 6 committee hearings amid rising energy costs, soaring inflation, and the risk of war overseas, it behooves us to bear in mind there are questions that the Democratic Party and the FBI refuse to answer about the Capitol Riots. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) in scathing cross-examination of the FBI's Executive Assistant Director Jill Sanborn on January 11th asked her about the Feds' involvement in the Capitol building events. Her responses were downright chilling to watch: [Video clip] "I want to turn to the FBI," Cruz said. "How many FBI agents or confidential informants actively participated in the events of January 6th?" "Sir? I'm sure you can appreciate that I can't go into the specifics of sources and methods," Sanborn replied. Never Forget — FBI Admitted to Running Operatives in the Crowd at the US Capitol — It was a Setup. The FBI admitted in September 2021 to The New York Times that they had informants and operatives inside groups attending the January 6 rallies in Washington DC. This never made it into the January 6 Committee's public show trial of President Trump and his MAGA movement last Thursday night. The FBI finally admitted they infiltrated the Jan. 6 rallies with informants. In fact, one of the first "protesters" inside the US Capitol was an FBI informant. Trump responds to second day of January 6 hearings with 12-page statement where he blasts 'SHAM' investigation. Two days into the public January 6 committee hearings, former President Donald Trump delivered a 12-page statement accusing Democrats of seeking to distract from the Biden administration's failings with a 'kangaroo court.' Earlier the House committee had played testimony of Trump officials and aides describing how they had told Trump he lost the 2020 election and that there was not enough voter fraud to overturn the result. He dismissed its efforts on Monday as a 'sham.' Those much-vaunted Jan. 6 hearings are bombing with the public. Rep. Liz Cheney, who will likely be booted from office in November, has put on quite a swan song amounting to her signature achievement, which is her "Get Trump" Jan. 6 hearings. Just one problem: the public isn't buying it. [...] Republicans want the lack of the Capitol Police looked into, the role of Antifa investigated, the role of social media probed, the FBI's lack of intelligence, the death (and cover-up, I'll add) of Ashli Babbitt investigated, the role of other agitators, and all of the above, in that order. The committee is ignoring these issues. "Why Can't We Kill Trump?": J6 Hearings Lead To Leftists Asking Why Traitors Can't Be "Executed". It would be difficult to blame someone for assuming that the phenomenon known as Trump Derangement Syndrome had calmed down. It was a bizarre affliction to begin with, after all, with leftists losing their minds every time candidate and former President Donald Trump offered a conflicting opinion or mildly offensive tweet. [...] Yet, such an assumption would be incorrect; wildly incorrect, in fact. The infatuation with Mr. Trump continues on Capitol Hill, as evidenced by the ongoing House Select Committee on January 6th, but then again, no one has been watching those hearings. Leftwing media outlets continue with their anti-Trump obsession, and as evidence, we could cite the fact that as of yesterday afternoon, five of the top stories on CNN's homepage were focused on the former president, including their top story. But again, Americans have turned off CNN in droves as well. The J6 Committee in Context. The United States government illegally intercepts the private electronic communication of every American including emails, text messages, phone calls and social media content postings and comments. The NSA unlawfully secures that library of data in order to maintain an electronic record uniquely identifying every American in a searchable database. The government unlawfully allows the database to be searched for domestic threats as defined by the U.S. Dept of Homeland Security, the Dept of Justice and the FBI. By mutually beneficial arrangement, access portals to search the NSA/FBI database are included as workspaces inside the law offices of Perkins Coie, the legal firm representing the Democrat National Committee... And the J6 Committee wants us to worry about something they call "a threat to our democracy." Additionally, do you really think the Republican wing of the DC apparatus want to be responsible to voters for dismantling the national surveillance state? January 6 for Non-Dummies. During another public hearing on Monday, the January 6 select committee featured a witness so irrelevant that his appearance should prompt even the most ardent defender of Nancy Pelosi's illegitimate inquisition to question the committee's real purpose. Former Fox News talking head Chris Stirewalt, fired by the network shortly after the Capitol protest for calling the state of Arizona for Joe Biden early on election night, told his sob story to a presumably slim viewing audience. The washed-up commentator, however, is the last person with any insight into the events of January 6, 2021. Stirewalt's performance — similar to the overwrought speechifying by committee members last Thursday — is another headfake designed to turn attention away from the truth about what happened that day and in the months leading up to the brief disturbance that resulted in the deaths of four Trump supporters. A well-oiled fog machine operated by the Department of Justice, congressional Democrats, NeverTrumpers, and the national news media is once again pumping lie after lie into the body politic in a last-gasp attempt to destroy Trump and the powerful political movement he created. Steve Bannon dares Merrick Garland to pursue charges against Trump over U.S. Capitol riot. Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon says GOP lawmakers would impeach Attorney General Merrick Garland if the Justice Department pursues charges against former President Donald Trump over the House Jan. 6 committee's findings. In his "War Room: Pandemic" podcast on Friday, Mr. Bannon said Americans are unmoved by the committee's findings unveiled during a prime-time hearing Thursday, reiterating claims that the 2020 election was stolen. "Trump won the presidency," Mr. Bannon said. "And he is the legitimate president of the United States and your guy is illegitimate, and the American People are awakening to that." Them: 'You Must Care!' Us: 'No.' We refuse to care about stupid Democrat obsessions. [...] And we don't care about a minor tussle — punctuated by an unpunished government murder of an unarmed trespasser — from over a year and a half ago, except to the extent that the political persecutions that followed must be remedied and avenged. Every non-narc victim of this Stasi witch hunt should be pardoned and the next GOP administration should settle their civil rights suits for the outrageous violation inflicted upon them by a politicized DOJ for huge sums. The guy who shot Ashli Babbitt should be prosecuted — there's no statute of limitations on murder — and the GOP, once it takes Congress back in November, should investigate the federal agents on the scene, the systemic denial of rights, and the selective prosecutions that followed. That would make for an interesting set of primetime hearings, as opposed to the tedious political onanism of the current kangaroo kommittee. We don't care about any of it. And that is important. The left can only impose its will when it convinces us to choose to let them do so. Day 2 of January 6 Committee Public Hearings Attack Trump for Doubting Election. The second day of public hearings of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol was held Monday, and focused on attacking then-President Donald Trump for questioning the 2020 election results. The goal was a to argue that Trump inspired those who stormed the Capitol by convincing them that the election had been "stolen" and that they had to prevent an illegitimate president from being installed by stopping the certification of the result. Jim Jordan accuses Jan 6 committee of altering evidence and lying to present a 'one-sided, choregraphed' show. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) shredded the House January 6 Committee for allegedly altering evidence and lying to the American people over what happened that day in what he called a "choreographed" presentation. Jordan appeared on "Sunday Morning Futures" with Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo to discuss what Republicans are doing, plan to do following the midterms, and how they are reacting to the Jan. 6 Democratic inquisition. "I want to see all the depositions," Jordan stated, referencing an altered text message exchange between him and former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. In December, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), who is a member of the Jan. 6 committee, presented a graphic showing an altered text message between Jordan and Meadows. Jordan admitted he sent the message to Meadows but stressed that it was only a part of a message he "forwarded" from an attorney named Joseph Schmitz, who was positing a legal theory about overturning the results of the 2020 election. January 6th Committee Ratings: The Democrats Threw A Party, And Nobody Came. On Thursday night, only hours before the Dow Jones Industrial Average was sent plummeting by 880 points due to Friday's devastating report showing that inflation remains at a 40-year high, the leadership of the Democratic Party staged what they hoped would save their electoral chances in November. Not only were the hearings being held in primetime, but they were also being broadcast live by their chums in the media, which is to say every major news network except for Fox News. This maneuver would change the tide of the election, the Democrats thought. Americans would see how terrible Donald Trump and Republicans are, they hoped. For some reason, Democrats were banking on voters turning on their favorite leftwing news channel to witness the farcical proceedings while simultaneously forgetting about the calamitous governance of Joe Biden. It didn't work, and the viewership ratings for Thursday night show just how mistaken the Democrats were. January 6th Committee Previews Another Dud in the Second Hearing. The January 6th committee will hold its second major hearing on Monday. That followed a primetime production for the first one back on Thursday evening. What was actually learned during their big opener? The answer remains not much. They gave speeches, showed videos we've already seen, and once again brought a USCP officer in to give an emotional account of the violence that occurred. [...] We already know Liz Cheney thinks the orange man is bad and morally responsible for the unrest. But did he actively plan and coordinate it? That's the charge. Where's the evidence? If such evidence existed, you'd have expected the committee to use its two hours of primetime to lay it out. That didn't happen, and it looks as if the second hearing will be more of the same. FNC's Turley: Dems 'Trying to Convict Donald Trump of Being a Terrible Person'. Constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley on Monday [6/13/2022] sounded off about the House Select Committee's primetime hearings over the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. Turley, a Fox News contributor, said on "Outnumbered" that House Democrats, in their investigation into the riot, were trying to convict former President Donald Trump of being a terrible person." "[T]his is a signature move by Speaker Pelosi," Turley explained. "I was highly critical during the impeachment hearings. When in the hearing I testified on with Trump, the House leadership decided to forgo any investigation in the Judiciary Committee, the calling of essential witnesses. And then, in the second impeachment, she did one better — did a snap impeachment with no hearings at all. And this is a fairly common process by the speaker. She muscles through to make sure that she gets the conclusion she wants." January 6th Committee Chair Says No Criminal Referrals Will Be Made. On Sunday, multiple members of the January 6th Committee proclaimed that they had enough evidence to support a criminal indictment of Donald Trump. That sent the media into a frenzy as another "the walls are closing in" moment unfolded. Their dream of seeing the former president perp-walked was at hand. That was... until Monday evening arrived. In a sudden turn of events, Rep. Bennie Thompson, who chairs the January 6th committee, is now saying that the committee will not make any criminal referrals at all, not just of Trump, but of anyone. Show Trial Mistrial: January 6 Chair Says No Criminal Referral of Trump, After All. Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), chair of the January 6 Committee, said Monday evening there would be no criminal referrals of former President Donald Trump or anyone else to the Department of Justice (DOJ) — and Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) promptly disagreed in public. [Numerous tweets] The committee has voted to recommend that several former Trump aides be held in contempt of Congress, and the full U.S. House has voted for several contempt referrals, two of which have led to prosecutions, contrary to DOJ's custom of declining such referrals. Democrats and many in the establishment media have been pressing the committee to provide a basis for the DOJ to charge Trump as well. The absence of a criminal referral does not mean the DOJ will not prosecute Trump or his aides: the DOJ is reportedly using transcripts from the committee's behind-closed-doors depositions in criminal investigations. J6 Committee's Own Witness Debunks Claim Of Coordinated Insurrection. Last week, the Select Committee on Jan. 6 brought forward a pair of witnesses to testify in the panel's first prime-time hearing to depict the Capitol riot as a coordinated "insurrection." Among them was a documentary filmmaker named Nick Quested, who was embedded with the far-right group the "Proud Boys" on the day of the turmoil. Quested gave the committee an eyewitness account of the riot as he followed the Proud Boys throughout the day. [...] The leader of a group plotting a coordinated insurrection would normally be hard-pressed to allow a documentarian to film it, let alone be receptive to an embed. Even if the Jan. 6 riot was coordinated, contrary to the FBI finding "scant evidence" of an "organized plot," a coordinated attack would undermine the committee's central claim of former President Donald Trump's culpability. The Show Trial Is Back. Coordinating with their ideological buddies, the media have worked overtime on this. Since they own the movie house or the circus tent, it's playing in the top slot with all the free publicity you could want. (Did you count how many times during the nightly news the big 8 o'clock show was breathlessly announced? I didn't bother counting.) This is what passes for political discourse nowadays. At least Obama could give a good imitation of a philosopher king. But suiting the spirit of the age — entertainment by algorithm — this was just one more try at what has been the response to Trump for six-plus years — accuse him of anything at all and manufacture plausibility. The pursuit of truth this is not. That takes twists and turns, being open to the surprise of what nature has kept under wraps, and the shedding of every prejudice. Here, there was no doubt of the charge or what the verdict would be. Predictable. The Beria principle in action — the man is decided upon in advance, the only novelty is which charge will get the most traction. That Was The Best Hearing Democrats Had To Offer? I watched that joke of a "hearing" on Thursday, the one about January 6th and the "threat to democracy" created by angry people with no focus or objective, some of whom chanted mean things. Needless to say, I was unmoved. Only 2 members spoke, Chair Bennie Thompson and Liz Cheney, and neither of them really "spoke" at all, they read. Their eyes were glued to the teleprompter the way someone who can't swim is glued to a raft in the deep end of a pool. There is more convicing line delivery in a 1970s porn movie than those 2 gave Thursday night. [... The] made for TV event was not a real hearing, nor was it much of an event. You'd think with the former president of ABC News running the show it would've felt like a movie of the week, but it was more like a public access zoning board meeting. It is time to admit that the American left is malevolent. A show trial committee airs a television production of a fake, partisan "hearing" meant to malign the former President with selective editing and omissions that prove the opposite of the truth. The hearings are so scripted that every member of the committee reads from a teleprompter. Adam Schiff again altered texts between Jim Jordan and Mark Meadows to make them seem criminal. [...] Any Republican who votes for more gun restrictions is a squishy RINO. Not one of them has stood up for the J6 prisoners who are being denied due process, let alone basic necessities. Shame on every Republican who has ignored the thoroughly unconstitutional plight of these people. Those Republicans who have kept silent about this issue are enablers, as those imprisoned are innocent victims of a corrupt government. Latest J6 Committee Revelations Are Likely to Do in the Dems. As we reported, the Jan. 6 Committee isn't getting the audience that they hoped they would be getting. If the whole point of the exercise was to try to convince people that Republicans were evil and to vote for the Democrats in the midterms, the problem that they're facing is that while people may not have liked the riot, they for sure don't like how the Democrats and Joe Biden have destroyed the country over the past year-and-a-half since and they don't like the political games being played by the Committee. One of those games was calling as a "surprise" witness former Trump campaign manager, Bill Stepien. But he's currently advising the opponent of Rep. Liz Cheney (RINO-WY), Harriet Hageman, in the Wyoming primary that will be held in August. Cheney knows she's in deep trouble in her primary and then suddenly she calls her opponent's adviser to have him grilled before the Committee? Can we scream conflict and politics here? Where's Ray Epps? Since 1987, some of us have spent leisure time asking, "Where's Waldo?" looking for him in crowded cartoons clad in his red and white striped shirt. It passes the time and stimulates the mind. Since January 6, 2021, others have asked, "Where's Ray Epps?" Asking, "Where's Waldo?" is harmless enough. Asking, "Where's Ray Epps?" might get you the kind of attention no one wants in this post-911 emerging police-state we still call America. Still, lots of questions are popping up about Ray Epps. [...] In one video of Ray Epps taken on the evening of January 5, 2021, Ray is seen wearing a red MAGA baseball cap and exhorting protestors to "Go into the Capitol." During the span of Jan 5-6, 2021, Epps can be seen in several locations between the White House and the Capitol, urging people to enter the People's House. Like the imaginary Waldo, Ray Epps shows up doing his old man impersonation of Ethan Hunt on a Mission Impossible episode. Like the fictional Ethan Hunt, the Agency (FBI and DOJ) has disavowed any knowledge or connection with Ray Epps. For some time, a picture of Epps appeared on an FBI website soliciting information about those who entered the Capitol on January 6th. That picture went up in a puff of smoke and, now, the FBI refuses to answer questions about him. The J6 Committee's Real Target Is You. All I heard from the Democrats' prime-time telecast of their J6 Soviet show trial was blah, blah, blah, Americans are racist, Trump's a terrorist, and Congress must tear up more of the Constitution to save "democracy." Lights, camera, distraction! The way-off-Broadway tragicomedy produced by State media at once radiated the cheap emotionalism of a soap opera while leaving the ludicrous impression that our exalted leaders are nothing but ventriloquist dummies seeking refuge from a bad vaudeville routine. It was difficult not to laugh at the parade of dour faces glaring intently into the cameras with their punishing nursemaid scowls imploring the audience to take them seriously. Even watched on a phone screen, the staged spectacle reeked of sweat, desperation, and community theater amateurishness. Like a third-rate Vegas show performed by mediocre magicians, there was no surprise or suspense. Listening to the players read from their corny scripts, I thought they would have been better off just breaking into incantations or hypnotic chants: abracadabra, pay no attention to obscene gas prices or the imploding economy; forget about Hillary's Russia collusion hoax; never mind that more evidence of a fraudulent 2020 election emerges daily; it is imperative that we take away more of your rights! Liz Cheney Uses January 6 Committee for Political Retaliation, Subpoenas Primary Opponent's Campaign Adviser. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) appears to have used the January 6 committee as a political weapon against her primary opponent. It is no secret that Liz Cheney's political career as an establishment Republican took a nosedive into oblivion when she sided with the Democrats in their January 6 witch hunt. Since then, her primary opponent, Harriet Hageman, has been trouncing Cheney in the polls and now leads by a whopping 30 points. After a dismal first hearing for the January 6 committee that pulled in just 19 million viewers across the United States, Liz Cheney has now subpoenaed former Donald Trump campaign manager William Stepien, who also just so happens to be Hageman's campaign adviser. Jim Jordan blasts Jan. 6 committee: Investigators 'altered evidence and lied'. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) raised trust issues with the House committee investigating the Capitol riot after it held its first prime-time hearing last week. During an interview on Sunday, the congressman insisted the Thursday hearing showed nothing new and cast the Jan. 6 committee itself as a "one-sided" endeavor that has demonstrated it cannot be outright trusted. He reminded viewers that last year, the panel admitted to altering a text message between Jordan and former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows. "This committee has altered evidence and lied to the American people about it, so much so that they had to issue a statement which says, 'We regret the error,' which is government speak for, 'We got caught lying,'" Jordan told Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures. [Video clip] January 6 Committee Admits It Doctored Text Message Between Meadows And Jordan. Following reporting by The Federalist that Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and his staff doctored a text message between Rep. Jim Jordan and former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, the House Jan. 6 committee admitted over email that it did, in fact, doctor the text message. As The Federalist reported on Wednesday morning, on Jan. 5, 2021, Jordan forwarded to Meadows a three-paragraph legal summary from attorney Joseph Schmitz, summarizing a four-page legal memorandum Schmitz had written regarding congressional certification of the 2020 presidential electoral vote count. In a statement provided to The Federalist via email, a Democrat spokesman for the Jan. 6 committee confessed that the committee doctored the text message. 'Surprise Witness' Called by J6 Committee Reveals Big Conflict for Liz Cheney. There are a lot of problems with the Jan. 6 Committee, not the least of which it is a compromised, biased group that has only been appointed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). You're not talking about an independent investigation looking for the truth. I'm not even sure we have objective law enforcement doing that anymore in this case. This is a political show trial meant to do what it can to help the Democrats' chances in the midterms. [...] But they've released a list of some of the witnesses that they're going to call on Monday [6/13/2022], and it has at least one witness who should set off all kinds of conflict red flags. It also says a lot about how they operate. January 6 committee members claim they have enough evidence for the DOJ to begin investigating a criminal indictment for Trump. Members of the House committee investigating the Capitol riot said Sunday they have uncovered enough evidence for the Justice Department to consider a criminal indictment against Donald Trump for seeking to overturn his 2020 election defeat. 'I would like to see the Justice Department investigate any credible allegation of criminal activity on the part of Donald Trump or anyone else,' said committee member Rep. Adam Schiff. He later added: 'They need to be investigated if there's credible evidence, which I think there is.' January 6 House Committee repeats Trump 'Stand by, Proud Boys' myth. On June 9, the "Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol" of the U.S. House of Representatives held a rare evening hearing. As predicted in the run up news leaks, the Committee repeated the myth that Donald Trump told Proud Boys to "stand by." That is, Trump critics have claimed for years that Trump asked the Proud Boys to stand ready to pounce. Prosecutors in indictments and court motions and also the civil lawsuits repeat this same lie. In reality, this comes from the September 29, 2020, presidential debate in Columbus, Ohio. Joe Biden — not Donald Trump — mentioned the Proud Boys. Pipe bomber remains unidentified as Democrat-led Capitol riot committee begins public hearings. As the Democrat-led committee investigating the events of Jan. 6 begins its public hearings, the person who planted pipe bombs the night before outside both the Republican and Democratic national committee headquarters in Washington remains unknown and at large. Now, almost a year and a half since the incident, the Washington Examiner learned that a top FBI official said last month that the bureau could not provide any information about the possible use of confidential human sources to solve the case. The FBI official said the bureau had carried out over 1,000 interviews, compiled just under 40,000 videos, and analyzed roughly 450 tips. The bureau also said solving the mystery continues to be a top priority for the FBI, as well as for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department, and the Capitol Police. The Editor says... I am going to post a note here I received this morning from a January Sixther. [Thread reader] I am a husband and father who has zero criminal history... And I am looking at years in prison AFTER I took a plea. You may ask why would people take a plea if they are innocent? Innocent has nothing to do with this as my lawyer has told over and over again. This is payback. There are only a handful of representatives in DC that care about us. The vast majority couldn't care less. They secretly despise Trump and anyone on the 6th as well. The DOJ knows this. There will be no reform of this government. There will be no going back. All there is now is the path ahead. But that path will never lead back to the country we once were. I watched for 4 years as our government that I pay taxes for, try to impeach and even oust our president with sheer impunity. Hillary's smearing stunt morphed into a coup that lasted Trumps entire term. Then I watched the election get stolen from the American people. So I went to DC to support the way I thought best. I wasn't violent, I didn't break anything, I didn't steal anything and that doesn't matter. I lost my 6 figure income, friends, and my family is a wreck. I had the FBI in my home, I was brought before a judge in shackles. And I am a lucky one. I got to remain free till sentencing. So this is the country that I now live in. Where the powerful few can attack an elected president attempting to removing him for 4 years and where elections no longer matter. January 6th Committee Doctored Footage to Spin a False Narrative. The January 6th committee is something out of a dystopian nightmare. The extreme overreach they consistently display, coupled with their criminal prosecution of unlawfully subpoenaed witnesses is bad enough, but they lie and spin a false narrative at every turn as well. Nothing which the committee does is ethically or legally sound, yet they are treated as though they are beyond reproach. The committee in their farcical display Thursday night even went so far as to spin a narrative of violence where there was none, doctoring footage from Nickquested on Twitter to cut out the parts where protestors attempted to save the life of Roseanne Boyland, and where they condemned the Capitol Police for the coldblooded murder of Ashli Babbitt. The Show Trials Begin. Thursday evening's [6/9/2022] disgraceful spectacle concocted by congressional Democrats and the media will go down in history — but not in the way they intended. Far from shocking Americans with "new" testimony from a visibly terrified Ivanka Trump or a know-nothing Capitol police officer who described the Jan. 6 confrontations as "a war scene," which it most certainly was not, Thursday's spectacle only reinforced the national divide between Trump supporters and the Democrats and the media elites. Even Democrat strategists and media commentators admit that the hearings are not aimed at changing public opinion. "Instead, the committee's work is most clearly aimed at the top brass at the Department of Justice who will decide whether to bring charges against Trump and members of his inner circle," Jonathan Allen wrote in a commentary for NBC News. Top Schumer Aide Received Jan. 6 Warning that Frontline Officers Never Saw. In the latest revelation regarding the Democrats' mishandling of security and intelligence ahead of January 6th, a staffer for Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) received warnings about the possible events of that day, even though Capitol Police leadership and frontline officers were never given the same information. According to Just The News, new documents show that top Schumer aide Kelly Fado was emailed by Capitol Police Deputy Chief Sean Gallagher on January 5th, 2021. In the email sent at 9:40 PM, Gallagher said he wanted to "provide you visibility" with intelligence that had been received by the FBI's threat analysis center. The information sent to Fado — who is now the Senate's Deputy Sergeant at Arms — allegedly warned of a plan by protesters to block Democratic members of Congress from entering the Capitol building, using the underground tunnel system to block possible points of entry and exit. [...] Yet, despite the contents of Gallagher's email, Fado never forwarded the information to then-Capitol Police Chief Steve Sund, or any other leaders or frontline officers in the Capitol Police. Trainwreck: Ratings Are in for Jan. 6 Committee Production. The numbers are in for the Jan. 6 Committee production. If we looked at how people were tuning out, it stood to reason it wasn't going to go well. As anticipated, it didn't. [...] Most people aren't interested in seeing a political show. They blame Biden and the Democrats for the failures that are happening now. They know that Democrats are throwing this out as their last gasp before the midterms. Jan. 6 Committee Liars Edited Out Footage of Ashli Babbitt and Rosanne Boyland's Death from From Key Witness Testimony. Treacherous treasonous criminals!! The UNSELECT January 6th Committee disgraced themselves and the nation on Primetime TV last night. They brought British filmmaker Nick Quested onto the stand as one of their key witnesses and presented his footage to the public EDITED in the most manipulated fashion possible to leave out the most compelling content he shot that day — The bodies of United States Veteran Ashli Babbitt and Rosanne Boyland!! Do they think Americans are stupid!?!!! A more complete version of Quested's footage was released by a source to the public this morning. It contains never-before-seen footage of Rosanne Boyland and Ashli's Babbitt's bodies. [Video clip] New Video Proves Jan. 6 House Committee Lied to Public on June 9. New video evidence proves that Democrats misled the public on June 9 in the January 6 Select Committee to investigate the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol presentation. The new video evidence can be seen [on YouTube]. On June 9, British filmmaker Nick Quested repeated his claim that Enrique Tarrio, Chairman of the Proud Boys, had a "meeting" with Stewart Rhodes, President of the Oath Keepers, in a D.C. parking garage on Jan. 5, 2021. Quested testified that he could not hear what was being said during the chance encounter in a D.C. parking garage near the Phoenix Hotel. But in fact, Quested's video clearly includes the full conversation. There is no mention of the Capitol. The audio proves that Stewart Rhodes and Enrique Tarrio had never met before. The "Greeting Not a Meeting" was their first introduction. Then Rhodes turned his back on Tarrio and walked away so that Tarrio could talk privately to attorneys about Tarrio finding a defense attorney for Tarrio. Rhodes spent the next minute or two scanning outward for any security threats. Then the group disbanded after a total of 2 minutes. Likely Next House Admin Panel Chair Delivers J6 Committee Document Preservation Demand. Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.), who is likely to become chairman of the House Administration Committee in 2023 if Republicans regain the majority in the chamber in November, demanded in a letter on June 9 to Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), the chairman of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th breach of the U.S. Capitol, that the panel preserve all its records. The letter from Davis, the current ranking GOP member of the Administration Committee, came just hours before the Jan. 6 panel's first primetime hearing. An unnamed aide reportedly told journalists earlier in the day that evidence would be presented showing that then-President Donald Trump was "at the center" of an effort to prevent the transfer of power from him to incoming President Joe Biden. In an unusually detailed and lengthy preservation demand, Davis told Thompson: "I write today to demand your cooperation in preserving all records produced by or in the possession of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol (Select Committee). OOPS: Rachel Madcow Admits The Trump Rally and the Capitol Breach Were Not Related. Sometimes, the truth just slips out. Whether it's Hillary openly admitting that she despises anyone in the country that doesn't think like and vote for her or Joe Biden admitting they had the best election fraud team ever to guarantee the results of 2020, the truth always sneaks out. Such was the case with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, who inspires barbers around the world to say "Make Hair Long Again!", when she emphatically reminded her fellow panelists and audience that Donald Trump's rally was not — repeat, not — the starting point of the so-called January 6th Insurrection. Joe Biden Admits He Was Too 'Busy' to Watch January 6 Hearings. President Joe Biden tried to emphasize the importance of the January 6 Committee hearings on Capitol Hill on Friday but admitted he was too "busy" to watch them himself. "It's important the American people understand what truly happened and to understand that the same forces that led to Jan. 6 remain at work today," Biden said. Democrats aired the first public hearing of the select committee to investigate the January 6 protests on Thursday night in prime time to generate the maximum coverage and audience. Democrat Star Jan 6 Witness: 'Someone in Authority Left the Door Open' at Capitol, 'Mob Walked In''. Nick Quested, the Democrat's star witness for the January 6 Committee's first primetime public hearing, claimed that "someone in authority left the door open" at the U.S. Capitol. Quested is a British filmmaker who followed the Proud Boys in the days leading up to and on January 6, 2021. Quested confirmed reports that the January 6 Committee would call him to testify as a witness during the committee's first of six primetime televised hearings. However, in a since-deleted Instagram post, Quested speculated that someone "in authority" opened the door for the protesters to come inside in a "deliberate act." Heavily Hyped Primetime Jan 6 Committee Hearing Lands with a Thud. The first public hearing of the Select Committee investigating the January 6 Capitol protests concluded Thursday night, and it utterly failed to live up to the hype. The primetime hearing, broadcast live on every major network except for Fox News Channel (which instead ran the hearing on Fox Business), had been promised to "blow the roof off the House." All current reports indicate that the roof is still there. Remember in the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings when Kamala Harris glared at Kavanaugh, asked a question, and then threateningly said, "Be sure about your answer, sir"? Whoa! I thought to myself, she's got something big on him. What did she have? Absolutely nothing. This hearing felt like an hour-long version of that moment. After much fanfare, the hearing added little in the way of new information and failed to prove that Donald Trump caused the violence. She knows a criminal conspiracy when she sees one. The Editor says... Tucker Carlson unloads on Jan. 6 hearing. Fox News host Tucker Carlson tore into the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot for dredging up the past while the United States has "never in its history been closer to a nuclear war." "In the 18 months since January 6, gas prices have doubled, drug [overdoses] have reached their highest point ever, U.S. economy is now [heading for a] devastating recession," he told his listeners during his opening monologue Thursday. "And scariest and least noted of all, this country has never in its history been closer to a nuclear war. Yet the other networks couldn't be bothered to cover any of that tonight." State-Run Television: Rep. Benni Thompson Kicks Off Sham J6 Hearing By Comparing Republicans To The Ku Klux Klan. After a year-long investigation, the sham House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th began its first hearing Thursday night [6/9/2022]. The unprecedently partisan and unconstitutional committee is debuting never-before-seen recordings and documentation from closed-door depositions with Trump officials on primetime. Rep. Bennie Thompson kicked off the proceedings by playing the race card and deflecting the Democrat Party's Ku Klux Klan legacy onto the GOP. "I'm from a part of the country where people justify the actions of slavery, the Ku Klux Klan and lynching. I'm reminded of that thought in history as I hear voices today try to justify the actions of the insurrectionists on January 6, 2021," Thompson lamented. Reactions to Jan. 6 Presentation Indicate Committee Failed Miserably. If the Democrats thought that the reaction to the Jan. 6 Committee was going to be riveting, the reaction so far from a variety of quarters says not so much. CNN's Chris Wallace expressed skepticism that the Committee was going to produce anything of worth. [...] Then there was Frank Luntz who had a group of students with him watching the production. Luntz said they tuned out quickly. [Tweets] If they're not tuning in at all (which is most people) or even after 35 minutes, you've lost most people. More people were likely watching Fox, the one network that wasn't covering the show trial live. Tucker Carlson probably summed it up for everyone with how much they're trying to deflect from all the Biden and Democratic failures with this. Democrat hysteria undermines Jan 6 hearing. Despite bombshell claims in the Left-leaning media that Trump 'was at the center' and to be blamed for the Jan 6 'carnage', last night's 'first hearing' of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack proved disappointingly flat. The event was treated like a blockbuster film, with blanket coverage on all major networks. This was the first of at least six hearings scheduled just for the month of June, and it was heralded by Democrats with the promise of "unseen" footage and Hollywood-style production values that would excite and enliven what is, by now, somewhat old news. Pelosi's big J6 sham opens with slavery, KKK, and lynching. After all of the overwrought media buildup, the Nancy Pelosi production of the January 6th Select Committee hearings opened on national television on Thursday night and it didn't take long for the race card to be whipped out. During his opening statement, Mississippi Democrat Rep. Bennie Thompson who was picked by Madame Speaker to head up the grotesque spectacle, linked the protest at the U.S. Capitol which went badly awry, to lynching and slavery, despicable practices of a bygone era in history that cynical Democrats have shamelessly resurrected for political advantage in a modern America only six years removed from a black president who was not only elected but re-elected. In the opening strains of a staged event that has been meticulously choreographed to the point where House Democrats hired a former ABC News executive to assist in crafting the Soviet-style show trial for maximum emotional impact, Thompson went for the jugular right off the bat. "I'm from a part of the country where people justify the actions of slavery, the Ku Klux Klan, and lynching," Thompson said. Hilarious: Jan. 6 Committee Now Trying to 'Temper Expectations' as Cheney and Schiff Spin Like Crazy. Joe Biden and the Democrats don't want to have to talk about policies or any of the real issues afflicting the country right now. Because if they did, the focus would be on all their failures. That's why they want the focus now to be on the Jan. 6 Committee and the show trial that they want to sell you. Not only is it a show trial, it even has a producer, as my colleague Jeff Charles reported, like any TV drama — according to Axios, "James Goldston — former president of ABC News, and a documentary storyteller who ran 'Good Morning America' and 'Nightline' — has joined the committee as an unannounced adviser." [...] But even though they're engaging in all this effort and they've spent a ton of money on the Committee (yes, we're paying for the Democrats to try to make a political hit on Republicans), what's hilarious is they're scaling back expectations. Ashli Babbitt's Husband Responds to Sham Jan. 6 Hearings. Despite the federal government's attempt to withhold evidence surrounding the cold-blooded murder of Ashli Babbitt and the corporate media's effort to demonize the slain Air Force veteran, her family vows to never stop fighting for her until justice prevails. Before the partisan and unconstitutional public hearing started, Aaron Babbitt, a US Marine veteran and husband of the late Ashli Babbitt, joined Greg Kelly on Thursday night [6/9/2022]. Did Democrats Deliberately Leave [the U.S.] Capitol Defenseless on Jan. 6? In the first of six made-for-TV specials airing Thursday, the House's partisan Jan. 6 Committee was expected to float the idea of a seditious conspiracy between members of pro-Trump groups like the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers with political insiders who helped them gain access to the US Capitol. There is substantial video evidence suggesting that someone inside the Capitol opened a door that was locked from the inside, allowing people to enter into the Capitol Rotunda. However, conservatives have long pointed out that the ease of access to the public building supports arguments that there was no "insurrection," since they were welcomed freely into the seat of government in accordance with their constitutional rights. Was Jan. 6 Organized by the FBI? As the liberal media obsesses over President Trump for so-called "inciting" the peaceful crowds to enter the Capitol on January 6 to protest, Republicans are standing up and defending their party. While meeting with conservative activists at a Phoenix IHOP, Senate candidate Blake Masters (R-AZ.) questioned whether Jan. 6 was just one big set up by the FBI. According to audio of the meeting obtained by CNN, the Trump-endorsed candidate was asked if he would support an investigation into the U.S. Intelligence operations to reveal the government's motives in the protests, to which he replied "absolutely." "Don't we suspect that, like, one-third of the people outside of the Capitol complex on Jan. 6 were actual FBI agents hanging out... what did people know? And when did they know it? We got to get to the bottom of this." The Serious Questions Left Unanswered by the January 6 Committee. Despite conjecture to the contrary, there remains no actual proof sufficient to tie President Donald Trump to any crimes committed at the Capitol on January 6. He gave no order, and he took no action, to cause any single person to break into the Capitol or otherwise commit a crime. Shrill statements to the contrary from utterly discredited Democratic leaders such as Representative Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) ring hollow. The charge of Trump-induced insurrection is legally incompetent. The legally relevant facts simply are not there. Serious questions unaddressed by the January 6 committee concern why Pelosi, to whom the House Sergeant-at-Arms Paul Irving reported, gave no order to have the National Guard defend the Capitol building before breach of the Capitol barricades (despite Capitol Police intelligence indicating a possible riot weeks before January 6). Serious questions, not adequately explored by the January 6 committee, concern whether Lt. Michael Byrd violated the Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights of the unarmed Ashli Babbitt when he shot and killed her outside the glass doors leading to the lobby of Pelosi's office. Other serious questions remain concerning the extent to which FBI plants infiltrated protest groups and aided or incited criminal activity ahead of January 6. Eight Key Questions the January 6 Committee Will Not Answer and One Nancy Pelosi Can't Avoid. Officially, the congressional body convening the special primetime hearing tonight is known as the "Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the Congress of the United States," chaired by Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.). Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.), chairman of the Republican Study Committee (RSC), views the J6 panel quite differently. During a news conference earlier this week, Banks called it a "fraud" because "Democrats aren't investigating January 6, that is already abundantly clear ... they are trying to use this select committee as a Trojan Horse to abolish the Electoral College, to intimidate President Trump's aides, to block him from ever appearing on the ballot again, and to prevent his supporters from participating in American democracy." Judicial Watch Lawsuit Forces Release of DOJ Memo Declining Criminal Prosecution for Ashli Babbitt's Shooter. Judicial Watch announced that it received productions of new records totaling 102 pages from the Department of Justice (DOJ) related to the shooting of January 6 protestor Ashli Babbitt that include a memo recommending "that the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia decline for criminal prosecution the fatal shooting of Ashli McEntee [Babbitt]," also noting that the shooter, U.S. Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd, "did not create a police report or documents" related to the shooting of Babbitt. The documents also reveal that in the press release announcing the decision not to prosecute Byrd for the killing of Babbitt, the DOJ replaced the words "group" and "crowd" with the word "mob" several times. The unarmed Babbitt was shot and killed as she climbed through a broken interior window in the United States Capitol. She was a 14-year Air Force veteran. The identity of the shooter was kept secret by Congress, the Justice Department, and DC police for eight months until Byrd went public to try to defend his killing of Babbitt. Trump Pentagon first offered National Guard to Capitol four days before Jan. 6 riots, memo shows. The Pentagon first raised the possibility of sending National Guard troops to the U.S. Capitol four days before the Jan. 6 riots, setting in motion a series of rejections by Capitol Police and Democrats that left Congress vulnerable as threats of violence were rising, according to government memos that validate Trump administration officials' long-held claims. An official timeline of the Jan. 6 tragedy assembled by Capitol Police shows that a Defense Department official reached out to a Capitol Police deputy chief, Sean Gallagher, on Jan. 2, 2021 to see if a request for troops was forthcoming, but the offer was quickly rejected after a consultation with then-Chief Steve Sund. "Carol Corbin (DOD) texts USCP Deputy Chief Sean Gallagher, Protective Service Bureau, to determine whether USCP is considering a request for National Guard soldiers for January 6, 2021 event," the timeline reads in the lone entry listed for Saturday, Jan. 2, 2021. Hey, Democrats, No One [Cares] About Your Hearing. Ever watch 2020 on a Friday night? Or Dateline? What once used to be serious "news magazine" shows have devolved, like everything else in journalism, to a complete waste of time that exists only to manipulate your emotions and keep you watching. Every week, they're reality murder mysteries where half way through you're convinced (because producers manipulated you into believing) the killer is someone it's not. By the end, the truth is revealed in a way that leaves you in shock. It's as predictable as the setting sun. And so are Democrats. When word came out this week that the January 6th committee — Nancy Pelosi's inner circle of flying monkeys eager to do as much damage to Republicans as possible — had hired the former head of ABC News to "produce" their big prime time hearing tonight, I knew the only thing missing would be the melodramatic Keith Morrison voiceover. Jan. 6 Committee's Alleged Hiring of Former ABC News President May Violate Rules: House GOP. A group of House Republicans on Wednesday requested confirmation that the former president of ABC News, James Goldston, is working for the committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 breach of the U.S. Capitol, and questioned whether his alleged hiring violated House rules. In a letter to the Jan. 6 Committee Chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and Committee on House Administration Chairperson Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), GOP lawmakers asked for confirmation that Goldston has been hired as an employee of the committee, and not as a consultant or in an "unofficial capacity." The letter was signed by Committee on House Administration Ranking Member Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.), Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.), and others. It comes after Axios first reported Monday that the former network news executive had joined the committee as an "unannounced adviser" and is "busily producing Thursday's 8 p.m. ET hearing as if it were a blockbuster investigative special." An Illegitimate Court Gets Ready To Convene. Yes, congressional committees do have the power to investigate. Yet, they can only do so in pursuit of a "legislative function," e.g., to enact new rules, regulations, or policies. What settled law explicitly rules out is the pursuit of a "judicial function" in which a congressional committee seeks to act as judge, jury, and executioner. That clearly violates the separation of powers — punishment is reserved exclusively for the judicial branch. In this case, Nancy Pelosi's Democrat-controlled House passed H. Res. 503 on May 21, 2021 to establish the committee; and the legislative activity of all seven of the committee's Democrats reveal their clear intent to unconstitutionally punish Trump and his most senior advisors by subjecting us to the shame, humiliation, ostracization, banishment, denial of public office, and possible imprisonment that comes with being falsely accused of being insurrectionists seeking to overturn a fair election. The Jan. 6 Show Trial Won't Play in Peoria. The claim that Republicans pose a threat to democracy is impossible to take seriously while the Democrats control both chambers of Congress and the White House. This line is a hard sell to voters who recall that, prior to Democratic dominance, inflation was below 2 percent, gasoline cost half what it does today, and the possibility of a baby food shortage was unimaginable to the generation whose children are now going hungry. Moreover, the latest Wall Street Journal-NORC poll suggests that no amount of insurrection theater will distract Americans from very real and immediate economic problems. The second civil war is already underway. The sham January 6 hearing being televised Thursday night is another battle in the war where the Democrats are doing everything they can not just to delegitimize Trump, the Republican Party, and its supporters, but to criminalize them as well. January 6 itself is actually part of the broader civil war taking place. The right were protesting what they saw, rightly so: a sham election. It clearly got out of control and crossed a line by a crowd entering the Capitol en masse, but it was definitely not an insurrection or an attempt to overturn the election. And how was it, then, at all different when you had, the year before, mass rioting and looting, where there were few to no arrests made, during the BLM riots across the country? And why were there no arrests after the fact, as there were for January 6 participants, many of whom are still sitting in jail in clear violation of their civil rights and the Constitution? Both the January 6 and the George Floyd riots were just more battles in the civil war currently taking place, where one side is trying to overturn the existing order, and the other side is trying to preserve it since the way it was structured at the founding of the country. If You're Reading This Message, You're Ready to Resist Tyranny. [Scroll down] Congress's January 6 Committee and the Department of Justice's persecution of Trump supporters for their political beliefs is a classic attempt by government to control society not at all different than the Soviets' use of gulags or the Nazis' use of concentration camps. The purpose is to silence certain people in society, so that their thoughts are kept from "spreading" to others. If people were to actually hear the message of those protesters at the U.S. Capitol — that the 2020 presidential election was a total fraud and an extension of the Deep State's four-year running-coup against President Trump — the American people might actually demand new elections. Even more dangerously, publicly voiced inputs of information questioning the legitimacy of the federal bureaucracy's permanent power over the American people might lead more and more Americans to demand revolutionary changes to an inherently corrupt system. If D.C. throws the righteous in prison, silences their voices, and defames their good names, then fewer Americans will hear their message or learn from it. The sham and scam of prime-time TV hearings on 'insurrection'. The Democrats get a special prime-time to tell all their lies about the Jan. 6 "insurrection" at the Capitol, for as long as it takes. Great propaganda, oozing with the feel of Watergate — except no meaningful dissent, no explanation of human-rights violations involving locking people up without a key, no discussion of the speedy-trial guarantee under the Constitution. There will be no truth about the coercion used against innocent Americans. There will be no mention of Nancy Pelosi's responsibility in setting up this charade. It will be a show trial — a first for America. The January 6th Committee Kindly Asks You to Ignore the FBI. The FBI found no evidence President Trump, or his allies coordinated any part of the Capitol riots. The January 6th Committee would like for you to ignore that. Pelosi's stacked commission has proven exceptionally effective with at least one thing: ignoring any piece of evidence that does not align itself with the committee's predetermined outcome. Peddling emotion-filled accounts of January 6th, with undisguised partisan vitriol, is far more effective in furthering the left's messaging strategy than conducting a balanced fact-finding investigation. If you were to take a step away from the noise and examine the facts in an unbiased fashion, you would discover a wildly different version of events than what the unselect committee would have you believe. Reports emerged in August of 2021 confirming the FBIdid not have any sort of evidence connecting President Trump or his allies to an organized effort to enter the Capitol or overturn the 2020 election results. In fact, they could find no evidence of a plot to overturn the election at all. But key members of the committee have ignored that evidence, choosing instead to flock around television cameras and present a darker, inaccurate version of events. Karma Will Not Be Kind to the J6 Kangaroo Court Commies. With a generous assist from two turncoat Republicans whose reputations have been swirling in the toilet for a long time, the House Soviet Select Committee on Daddy Issues is taking its kangaroo court to television this week. The purpose? To exact revenge for Donald Trump upsetting their coronation plans for Granny Maojackets in 2016. That's how it all began, anyway. Democrats being who they are, they're always finding ways to repurpose their frequent attempts to weaponize the federal government. Steve Bannon Subpoenas Nancy Pelosi and members of the January 6 committee. Steve Bannon has subpoenaed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the nine members of the select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol as he prepares to go on criminal trial next month for defying a congressional subpoena. Bannon, who was Trump's chief strategist, faces two charges of contempt of Congress for refusing to testify or produce documents. He has pleaded not guilty and his trial is due to start on July 18. Jim Jordan shares allegations of FBI 'purge' over Jan. 6. Multiple former FBI officials are coming forward with information suggesting the bureau is "purging" employees with conservative viewpoints, according to House Judiciary Committee Republicans. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), the ranking member of the panel, sent a letter to Director Christopher Wray on Tuesday [6/7/2022] outlining new allegations that relate to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. "In one such example, the FBI targeted and suspended the security clearance of a retired war servicemember who had disclosed personal views that the FBI was not being entirely forthcoming about the events of January 6. The FBI questioned the whistleblower's allegiance to the United States despite the fact that the whistleblower honorably served in the United States military for several years — including deployments in Kuwait and Iraq — valiantly earning multiple military commendation medals," a press release for the letter states. J6 Committee Members Claim They Have Evidence of Incitement. They Don't. Here's How We Know. The radical left has been falsely accusing Trump of inciting the Capitol riot for over a year now, and their upcoming televised hearings later this week prove that their main objective is to keep the riot in people's minds even though Americans have long since moved on. But the Democrats and RINOs on the committee are still hoping they can exploit the riot and get people to blame Trump and the Republicans. In the year the committee has been active, they've failed to produce any evidence of Trump's culpability in the riot, but that's not stopping them from claiming otherwise. In fact, one committee member is even saying they "found evidence" of incitement. [...] But, aside from that, the January 6 Committee has a credibility problem that cannot be ignored here. First of all, various text messages released by the committee have actually exonerated Trump, but have been falsely characterized as incriminating. In fact, they even doctored text messages to make them look incriminating when they weren't. Nancy Pelosi and the Dems' Jan. 6 dog & baloney show. With inflation at gas pumps and supermarkets forcing Americans to pinch pennies, rising violent crime spreading fear and public schools pushing racial and sexual indoctrination, most voters say it's time for a change in Washington. The Democrats holding power have run out of excuses and even stopped making promises of quick progress. But they do have plans to entertain you in hopes you'll forget your worries — and stick with the party that's bringing you all those problems. Lights, camera, propaganda! That's what they are offering, starting Thursday with a primetime House hearing on the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. It's been more than 500 days since that awful event and while most people have moved on, Democrats refuse to. And they're going to make it hard for you to refuse to watch their performance because all their media handmaidens have signed on to provide live coverage. Judicial Watch Forces Release of DOJ Memo Declining Criminal Prosecution For Ashli Babbitt Killer Michael Byrd: Babbitt Shooting Evidence Missing!. Judicial Watch on Tuesday forced the release of a DOJ memo declining the criminal prosecution for Ashli Babbitt's killer Michael Byrd. Ashli Babbitt, a 14-year veteran from San Diego who served 4 tours with the US Air Force as a high-level security officer was shot and killed by Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd on January 6, 2021. Ashli Babbitt was shot through a window on a closed door by an officer. Babbitt appeared to be standing behind a group of people who were attempting to gain entry into the chamber. Police had barricaded the doors and were attempting to keep the patriot protesters out — and then drew their weapons. GOP leader Kevin McCarthy slams Democrats for hiring ex-ABC president to make the January 6 primetime hearings more dramatic. Kevin McCarthy tore into the January 6 select committee for hiring former ABC News Executive James Goldston to run their primetime hearings starting this week after he spiked a story at his former outlet the leader claims enabled sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. 'The Democrats have turned to the former ABC News exec, under whose leadership ABC spiked a story on Jeffrey Epstein, to choreograph their Jan 6 political theatre,' McCarthy tweeted on Monday [6/6/2022]. He also reupped an old post of his from November 2019 claiming that the then-President of ABC News was operating the network in a way that helped 'bury the truth' about sex offender Epstein, who died in jail in August of that year. January 6 committee has hired a former ABC News executive to produce Thursday's 8pm hearing as if it is a blockbuster documentary, report claims. A former news executive has been recruited by the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol to produce the Democrat-led panel's upcoming primetime hearing, a Monday [6/6/2022] report claims. James Goldston is a former president of ABC News. Before that he ran the mammoth-sized operations at Good Morning America and Nightline as executive producer. And he's now an adviser to the group of lawmakers who are set to present their case that Donald Trump's efforts to undermine democracy culminated in the deadly events of January 6, according to Axios. Proud Boys charged with 'seditious conspiracy' related to Capitol riot. The Justice Department announced on Monday [6/6/2022] that five members of the right-wing Proud Boys group were charged by the Justice Department with "seditious conspiracy" related to their alleged roles in the Capitol riot of Jan. 6, 2021. The Justice Department says that more than 800 defendants have been arrested related to the Capitol riot, including over 250 defendants charged with assaulting or impeding law enforcement officers. "A federal grand jury in the District of Columbia returned a superseding indictment today charging five members of the Proud Boys, including the group's former national chairman, with seditious conspiracy and other charges for their actions before and during the breach of the U.S. Capitol," the DOJ said Monday. "Their actions disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the presidential election." MSNBC Guest Thinks You Should Care More About Jan 6 Than Inflation. You can't afford to buy groceries for your family, or pay to fill up your tank to get to and from work but don't worry, MSNBC thinks you should care more about the upcoming partisan Democrat congressional committee hearings on the January 6 riot at the United States Capitol that happened a year and a half ago. During MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Reports On Monday [6/6/2022], anchor Andrea Mitchell and NBC Washington correspondent Yamiche Alcindor were previewing the upcoming January 6 hearings. After reading a tweet from Never-Trump Congresswoman Liz Cheney, about the importance of the Republican Party focusing on the Capitol riots, Mitchell turned to Alcindor and whined that "she and Jamie Raskin and others are saying this hearing has to tell people why this is so important." PBS's Alcindor: January 6 Probe More Important than Gas Prices, Inflation, Baby Formula Shortage, Abortion, Shootings. PBS "Washington Week" host Yamiche Alcindor on Monday [6/6/2022] emphasized the importance of the investigation into the Capitol Hill riot from January 6, 2021. According to Alcindor, getting to the bottom of the January 6 riot should matter more to the American people than the record-high gas prices and inflation, the baby formula shortage, abortion and the recent mass shootings. Internal Slap-Fighting on the January 6th Committee Begins. The January 6th Committee is set to begin public hearings on Monday, marking the next iteration of the sham body that is seeking to prove a vast right-wing conspiracy to breach the Capitol Building and "overturn" the 2020 election. Their chief target is, of course, former-President Donald Trump. What evidence does the committee have? There doesn't appear to be any at all, as every past "bombshell" has turned out to be nothingness. Still, the hype is real as its members proclaim that they've got the goods and have just been holding them in reserve. Given how leaky the committee has been, though, it seems improbable that they'd have been able to keep something significant under lock and key. Jonathan Turley: Dems May Be Ensuring Their Own Destruction With Latest Moves by Jan. 6 Committee. Democrats know that they're about to get wiped big time come the midterms, and they're desperately searching for something that will turn the tide, whether it's maximizing the leftist reaction to the leak from SCOTUS about the abortion case or trying to demonize Republicans over gun control. But none of that has changed the basic trend toward Republicans sweeping the field in November. The only thing they have left is the thing they've been planning for a while: using the Jan. 6 Committee hearings to smear the Republicans. The committee has no Republican appointees on it, so it's already compromised. But they have been trying to go scorched earth, demanding people testify and give up their private communications in the hopes they will find something in their desperate fishing expedition. 'Anonymous' Gets Dropped by Secret Service After Spreading January 6th Claim. Maggie Haberman of The New York Times dropped a "scoop" on Friday that captured the mainstream media's imagination. The report centered on a "warning," supposedly from January 5th, 2021, that Donald Trump was going to "turn" on Mike Pence, putting the latter's life in danger the next day. Haberman also claimed via her sources that the danger was grave enough that it was reported to the Secret Service by Pence's staff. [Tweet] When I first saw this, my reaction was "who cares?" It's currently June 2022. January 6th is simply not a thing anymore to anyone outside the beltway. Speaking to the issue of Trump turning on Pence, that was hardly a secret in the days leading up to the Capitol breach, and it's not really noteworthy now — given the crises currently plaguing the country. Haberman's report does nothing to move the ball forward on January 6th, simply serving as another moment for the press to go "wow," instead of focusing on Joe Biden's failures. Department of Justice Declines to Prosecute Meadows, Scavino, Dealing Blow to January 6 Committee. The Department of Justice will not prosecute two of former President Donald Trump's top White House officials, Mark Meadows and Dan Scavino, after the Democrat-led January 6 Committee pursued contempt of Congress charges against them. "Based on the individual facts and circumstances of their alleged contempt, my office will not be initiating prosecutions for criminal contempt as requested in the referral against Messrs. Meadows and Scavino," U.S. attorney for D.C. Matthew Graves wrote, according to a letter obtained by the New York Times. Former Trump Sr. Advisor Dr. Peter Navarro Arrested By FBI At Airport Only One Day After Mocking the "Kangaroo" J6 Committee. Yesterday, Harvard-educated Economist and former Sr. Trump Advisor Dr. Peter Navarro went toe-to-toe with the snarky MSNBC activist Ari Melber over his decision to thumb his nose at the "kangaroo" Jan 6 Committee's request to appear before them. In the interview, Navarro explained to the sniveling MSNBC host that even though he didn't believe in these make-believe congressional gangs who are acting as "judge, jury, and prosecutor," he would use the same tactics against Democrats on the "kangaroo" committee when Republicans take back Congress and the White House. "You can bet your ass that I will lead the charge" to subpoena Democrats if Republicans return to power in Washington," he said. "We'll start with the impeachment of Biden for Ukraine, the southern border, all manner of things he is guilty of, and we'll subpoena his senior staff," Navarro told Melber. Jan. 6 committee cuts back number of planned public hearings for June. The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot is scaling down the number of planned public hearings for June, from eight down to six. Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-MS) is not ruling out the prospect of further public hearings after June and noted that the panel has been mulling through the logistics of when the other hearings will take place. "If there is something we think that's of value that a hearing could amplify, we are absolutely open to doing it," he said in an interview with Insider published Friday. "It's our democracy that stands to lose if we don't get it right." Prior reporting indicated that the committee planned to hold eight hearings in June, but that was not announced by the panel, whose members will work over the weekend planning for the public inquisitions, Thompson added. Jan. 6 committee is a kangaroo committee. One of the great tragedies in the age of former President Donald Trump has been the Democrats' weaponization of Congress' investigatory powers. This assault began barely after Mr. Trump was elected in 2016 with a now thoroughly discredited Russia hoax. It proceeded through two partisan impeachment trials and numerous and frivolous House Resolutions aimed at removing Mr. Trump from office. Now comes, most dangerously, the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack. This week, I filed a lawsuit to make sure that this kangaroo committee neither puts me in prison nor confiscates my property. Yet, my pro se suit is much more about resolving several critical legal controversies demanding the Supreme Court's attention. Controversy No. 1: Can a congressional committee neither duly authorized nor properly constituted issue legal and enforceable subpoenas? In this case, it's not just that the kangaroo committee features the wrong number of members (9 not 13), a packed 7-2 Democrat-Republican supermajority, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's refusal to seat any Republicans proposed by Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. Most egregiously, the committee lacks a ranking minority member for the Committee Chair Bennie Thompson to consult with before issuing any subpoenas. Former Trump Aide Navarro Indicted for Contempt of Congress over Refusal to Cooperate with January 6 Investigation. A federal grand jury has indicted Peter Navarro, a former Trump White House adviser, on criminal contempt of Congress charges over his refusal to cooperate in the House investigation of the January 6th attack. The indictment comes after the House voted in April to refer Navarro to the Justice Department for failing to comply with a February subpoena from the House Select Committee on the January 6 Capitol riot. Navarro was charged with one contempt count for his refusal to appear for a deposition, and another for his refusal to produce documents requested by the committee, despite the subpoena from the January 6 committee, the Justice Department said Friday. Brandon Straka: Jan. 6 Confession Was Made Under Pressure of Facing Charges With Long Prison Term. Brandon Straka, a conservative activist, was confronted with a choice between pleading guilty to a crime he did not commit and facing serious charges with a long prison term related to the Jan. 6 Capitol rally. He chose to accept the plea deal because he felt he would not get a fair trial. On Jan. 6, 2021, after then-President Donald Trump addressed the rally at the Ellipse, a park near the White House, Straka walked to U.S. Capitol where he was supposed to give a speech at an event planned to take place on the east side of the building, Straka recollected of that day. Movie 'Capitol Punishment' Tells Stories You Won't Hear From Jan. 6 Committee. During the month of June, lawmakers in Washington, D.C., plan to hold six public hearings on the events that took place on Jan. 6. Two of them are even scheduled during primetime TV in an effort by Democrats to maximize their attempt to frame what happened that day at the U.S. Capitol. But there's another side to the story that you won't hear from the likes of Reps. Bennie Thompson, Adam Schiff, Liz Cheney, or other members of the House select committee. They determined long ago who to blame and what narrative to tell. Now, thanks to a new documentary called "Capitol Punishment," Americans are able to hear stories from the people who were there on Jan. 6 — in their own words and the ordeals they've faced since that day. [Podcast] Rep. Andy Biggs raises concerns with Jan. 6 subpoena, requests rationale before cooperating. Rep. Andy Biggs is the latest GOP lawmaker to signal he won't cooperate with the Jan. 6 committee's subpoena request, unless the panel justifies its reasoning behind the move. Mr. Biggs' legal team raised concerns about the lack of information provided in the subpoena request, as well as the constitutional basis for issuing it to the Arizona Republican. "We write to lodge objections to what we believe are certain facial and substantive deficiencies afflicting the subpoena, as well as to seek additional information concerning the rationale for the subpoena and the scope of the committee's proposed deposition of Congressman Biggs," Mr. Biggs' lawyers wrote to Rep. Bennie Thompson, chairman of the Democratic-led committee. Biden Claims Trump Supporters Killed Police Officers on Jan. 6 During His Commencement Speech at University of Delaware. Joe Biden spoke at the University of Delaware commencement on Saturday. The failed president claimed January 6 protesters killed police officers on January 6 — a complete lie. [...] The Truth: Four Trump supporters were killed on Jan. 6th. However, two female Trump supporters were killed by police and it was all caught on video. One female Trump supporter was shot dead in cold blood. One police officer later died the next day from a stroke. No police were killed that day. But Democrats and their media continue to tell this lie. Joe Biden continues to tell this lie. They killed four Trump protesters. And they tried to killed another one. Another January 6 Lie: No 'Recon' Tours on January 5. In the aftermath of the four-hour disturbance at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, Democrats scrambled to prepare articles of impeachment against departing President Donald Trump for the second time. Trump — according to Democrats, the news media, and most of the GOP political establishment — had incited the violence with claims of a stolen election, and by encouraging his supporters to march to Capitol Hill following his speech near the White House that afternoon. But it wasn't enough to just denounce Trump. After all, he would be leaving Washington on January 20 to build his post-presidency political machine. So House Democrats upped the blame and shame game by accusing their Republican colleagues of organizing tours of the Capitol complex on January 5 so the alleged coup-plotters could map out the next day's "insurrection." Report: DOJ Approaches January 6 Committee to Use Transcripts in Prosecutions. The Department of Justice (DOJ) has reportedly approached the House Select Committee to Investigate January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol, asking for transcripts of interviews that it can use in prosecutions, the New York Times reported Tuesday [5/17/2022]. The committee is barred by the Constitution's separation of powers from exercising law enforcement powers. Congress can convene investigative committees, but they must have some relation to a legislative purpose, or to an impeachment purpose. Joe Biden Connects Buffalo Mass Shooting to January 6. President Joe Biden connected the racist mass shooting in Buffalo on Saturday to the protests of Trump supporters on January 6. The president cited January 6th riots after calling all Americans to "reject white supremacy" because they were making the country look bad. "We can't allow them to distort America. The real America," Biden said, referring to the white supremacists. "We can't allow them to destroy the soul of the nation." Biden then immediately referred to January 6th. "As president of the United States, I travel the world all the time. And other nations ask me, heads of state in other countries ask me, what's going on? What [...] happened on January 6th? What happened in Buffalo," Biden said. The Editor says... The optics of the stale Jan. 6 hearings and pro-abortion protests. What a bizarre spectacle it's going to be the week of June 9 when the illegitimate Jan. 6 select committee finally kicks off its ultra-partisan public hearings at the U.S. Capitol as left-wing civic unrest is occurring simultaneously across the street at the U.S. Supreme Court. After foolishly raising expectations and delaying hearings for months, the infamous committee of desperate leakers and liars will finally let America look behind the curtain to see what they came up with. The hearings will be the culmination of Congress' latest taxpayer-funded anti-Trump witch hunt that has interviewed nearly 1,000 witnesses, reviewed over 100,000 documents and come up with absolutely nothing new. After all, this is all about politics — and Trump Derangement Syndrome. The anticlimactic hearings will likely focus on leaked documents and testimony that were first in the news months ago — with the biased mainstream media doing its part to make it appear fresh and interesting — but the American people know better. House Republican 5 should defy the Jan. 6 committee subpoenas. The following assertion appeared in a Politico article on unprecedented action by the "Jan. 6" inquisitorial cabal issuing subpoenas to members of Congress: "The panel believes that these five GOP lawmakers have insight into Donald Trump's effort to overturn the 2020 election, an effort they say amounts to a coup attempt." Note the accusation by the inquisitorial panel that President Trump made "a coup attempt." This, of course, is an example of projection of the left of its own mindset and conduct onto its political targets. What was the conduct of the left — ranging from false accusations that Donald Trump was a Putin puppet, including the base and baseless Steele dossier to vows of resistance, including an aberrant impeachment trial in 2019, and culminating in an impeachment farce post-Trump presidency in 2021 — if not a series of coup attempts? House Counsel Who Subpoenaed McCarthy For Jan. 6 Under Fire For Conflicts Of Interest. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy was officially subpoenaed by the Select Committee on Jan. 6 along with four other Republican members of the lower chamber in an unprecedented step on Thursday [5/12/2022]. Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio, Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, Andy Biggs of Arizona, and Mo Brooks of Alabama are each demanded to offer testimony to the witch-hunt probe established by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi under threat of contempt charges that have been levied on those who've refused to comply. "The illegitimate January 6th Committee had already turned Congress's investigative authority into a political weapon; now they've turned that weapon on their own colleagues," said GOP Indiana Rep. Jim Banks, who was appointed as ranking member of the committee but was barred by Speaker Pelosi from serving his minority duty. "If anyone deserves a subpoena, it's the Speaker, the only person in Congress who is covering up key documents related to January 6th." The Media Let January 6 Committee Skate. [Scroll down] Notice anything curious here? Or should I say curiously missing? That would be serious media coverage of the January 6 Committee members themselves, what they did or did not do on January 6 and in the run-up to that day, not to mention their role afterwards in the establishment of the Stalin-esque show trial Committee itself. Note well that the Committee has already issued subpoenas to AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile and any other company that might have the texts, e-mails and phone records of Trump family and staff members, conservative members of the media (think: Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham.) In fact, predictably, the Committee has leaked the private correspondence of various of these people to, but of course, the media. But what about the media investigating the Committee itself? Where are they? Where are the media demands to make public the texts, e-mails and phone records of the nine Committee members — 7 Democrats plus Republican Never Trumpers Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger? Where are the demands for all of the same communications from the Committee staff members? Arizona Supreme Court Rejects Junk Lawsuits To Remove Andy Biggs, Paul Gosar, Mark Finchem From 2022 Ballot. The Arizona Supreme Court has rejected an attempt by the radical left to remove three conservative legislators from the 2022 ballot for attending the protest at the U.S. Capitol on January 6. This is a losing issue for the Democrats, so they're weaponizing the courts to suppress conservative speech all across the country. [...] The American people know that the 2020 election was stolen, and a majority of Republican voters say the January 6 protest was a patriotic event. On Monday, the court ruled that Representative Andy Biggs, Representative Paul Gosar, and State Rep. Mark Finchem are qualified to remain on the 2022 Primary ballot, affirming the superior court's judgment. Reps Biggs and Gosar are seeking reelection to the U.S. House, and Mark Finchem is running for Arizona Secretary of State to secure elections in Arizona. J6 Committee Issues Subpoenas to Five House Republican Members. The entire premise of the J6 committee is a farce. The overwhelming majority of Americans fully understand it is a political exercise between Democrats in congress and their hired Lawfare allies. The goal is to label their political opposition as extremists, block and/or tarnish President Trump and manufacture a false premise to advance the Democrat 2022 election goals. Despite this reality the effort continues in order to fuel their far-left base and media allies. Today, the House committee triggered subpoenas against House republican members. The subpoenas were sent to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (U-DC), Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.), Rep Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) and Mo Brooks (R-Ala.). All five of the house members had previously rejected investigators' requests for voluntarily testimony. The subpoena authority is likely, hopefully, to be challenged in court. The premise of a House committee issuing subpoena's to the political opposition of the same House membership appears to violate the function of government on many levels. January 6 Committee Subpoenas McCarthy, Fellow House Republicans in Rare Escalation. The House Select Committee on the January 6 Capitol has issued subpoenas to House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy and four other House Republicans who have declined the panel's requests to voluntarily cooperate. The group also subpoenaed Representatives Jim Jordan of Ohio, Mo Brooks of Alabama, Andy Biggs of Arizona and Scott Perry of Pennsylvania. The round of subpoenas, which the committee announced on Thursday [5/12/2022], is the first time the panel has issued subpoenas to sitting members of Congress. It is extraordinarily rare for a Congressional committee to do so. Biden DOJ Is Threatening Jan. 6 Defendants With Life in Prison after Walking Inside US Capitol and Taking Pictures. On January 6, 2021, several members of the Oath Keepers marched up the US Capitol steps, stood in a line, and sang the National Anthem with the tens of thousands of patriots outside the building. Several members of the Oath Keepers, who were in Washington DC only to provide protection to speakers at the several organized protests that week, walked into the US Capitol. They were seen taking pictures inside the building. Now the Biden Department of Justice, under the direction of Matthew Graves, the US Attorney for the District of Columbia, are threatening those same men with life in prison. Video of Oath Keepers Rescuing 16 Police Officers Deflates Jan. 6 Sedition Narrative, Attorneys Say. A video widely circulated in 2021 that showed a Capitol Police lieutenant asking members of the Oath Keepers for rescue help at the U.S. Capitol blows a hole in the seditious conspiracy charges brought against the group by federal prosecutors, two defense attorneys say. In the video, Lt. Tarik Khalid Johnson asks a group of men to help him get more than a dozen trapped Capitol Police officers out of the Capitol and through a tightly packed crowd of protesters on the building's east steps. It was widely reported in January 2021 that Johnson wore a red Make America Great Again cap on Jan. 6 as a ruse to "trick" supporters of President Donald J. Trump into helping him rescue fellow officers from the Capitol. He was later suspended for wearing the MAGA cap. Johnson is a registered Democrat, according to online records. Pelosi's Jan. 6 panel abandons effort to obtain 14K pages of documents from Trump lawyer. The suspected fishing expedition by the "bipartisan" January 6 investigative committee will reportedly have to make do without about 14,000 pages of documents that it sought to access. The House committee says it has decided against insisting on the release of the mostly emailed messages from legal scholar and former Chapman University professor John Eastman, who had reportedly provided advice to the Trump team about challenging the 2020 election results. Eastman, who spoke at the January 6 "Stop the Steal" rally, has reportedly submitted thousands of pages of material to the committee. Justice Department Threatens Oath Keepers with Life in Prison. In a letter obtained by American Greatness, the U.S. Department of Justice is threatening defendants charged with seditious conspiracy in the sprawling Oath Keepers case to accept plea deals or face life in prison. Matthew Graves, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia handling every prosecution related to the events of January 6, 2021, imposed a May 6 deadline for the remaining defendants to accept plea deals. Three men have pleaded guilty to seditious conspiracy; nine others, including Oath Keepers' founder Stewart Rhodes, have rejected government attempts to reach a plea. "We write to advise you of applicable penalties that could apply upon conviction at trial," Graves' chief prosecutor in the case, Kathyrn Rakoczy, wrote to defense attorneys in a letter dated May 2. (Every January 6 defendant who has faced a jury trial in Washington, D.C. has been found guilty on all charges by jurors following brief deliberations.) Judge Amit Mehta's Kangaroo Court. Judge Amit Mehta sounded perturbed, to say the least. The D.C. District Court judge handling numerous January 6 legal matters, including the Justice Department's high-profile prosecution of the Oath Keepers, flatly dismissed concerns by defense attorneys that the first trial in the case will coincide with public hearings held by the January 6 Select Committee later this year. "Even if Congress is on the steps of the courthouse reading the [final] report, I am not moving the September trial," Mehta warned during a status hearing last week for nine Oath Keepers accused of seditious conspiracy among other charges. Mehta's outburst was telling. In any other jurisdiction in the country, a political stunt by a handful of partisan lawmakers would be widely criticized as an unfair hurdle for defendants facing trial on the same issue at the same time — especially for an exceedingly rare crime, akin to treason, for which the government is seeking life in prison. 80 'Suspicious Actors' and 'Material Witnesses' Under Scrutiny by Jan. 6 Defense Attorneys. Defense attorneys are seeking to identify and investigate 80 suspicious actors and material witnesses, some of whom allegedly ran an entrapment operation against the Oath Keepers on January 6, 2021, and committed crimes including the removal of security fencing, breaching police lines, attacking officers, and inciting crowds to storm into the Capitol. In a motion and supplement filed after 11 p.m. on May 5 in federal court in Washington, attorney Brad Geyer listed 80 people, some of whom he said could be government agents or provocateurs. The people are seen on video operating in a coordinated fashion across the Capitol grounds on January 6, the attorney alleged. Geyer's suggestion of an entrapment scheme will resonate with dozens of January 6 defense attorneys, coming shortly after two men were acquitted of an alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D). There was a hung jury on charges against two other defendants. The jury in that case was allowed to consider FBI entrapment as a defense. Bid to erase Marjorie Taylor Greene from ballot fails. An effort to keep Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) off the ballot this year over accusations that she was involved in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot has been defeated. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who had final jurisdiction on the congresswoman's eligibility, accepted the ruling of a judge Friday that will allow Greene to seek reelection. A group of voters in her district made the case that she could not run again for office under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, a Civil War-era clause that bars from public office anyone who has aided in an insurrection or rebellion. Administrative Law Judge Charles Beaudrot made the recommendation that she remain on the ballot Friday afternoon, and Raffensperger confirmed that decision shortly after. Giuliani backs out of January 6 panel interview. Former President Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani has decided not to participate in a scheduled interview Friday [5/6/2022] with the House's Jan. 6 committee over an apparent disagreement on whether he could record it. "Mr. Giuliani had agreed to participate in a transcribed interview with the select committee. Today, he informed committee investigators that he wouldn't show up unless he was permitted to record the interview, which was never an agreed-upon condition," committee spokesman Tim Mulvey said Thursday. Ray Epps called FBI tip line two days after Capitol riot: Report. Ray Epps, a man some suspect was a federal informant goading the crowd ahead of the Capitol riot despite his denials, reportedly called the FBI tip line two days after the violence upon seeing himself on a list of Jan. 6 suspects. Investigators were told by Epps that an exchange captured on video showing him whispering into the ear of another man, identified as Ryan Samsel, was Epps attempting to calm Samsel, telling him police outside the Capitol were just doing their jobs before Samsel charged the barricades, people familiar with the call told the New York Times. Sham Jan. 6 Committee Lacks Transparency. Former New York City Mayor and Trump Attorney Rudy Giuliani is scheduled to "testify" before the House Jan. 6 Committee on Friday [5/6/2022]. A source close to Giuliani told The Gateway Pundit that Rudy agreed to testify as long as it is recorded or broadcast live. As the Gateway Pundit previously reported, the radicals on the January 6 Committee issued subpoenas to Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis, Sidney Powell, and Boris Epshteyn last January and claimed they "publicly promoted unsupported claims about the 2020 election and participated in attempts to disrupt or delay the certification of election results." A judge vindicated Rudy of any involvement in violence on Jan 6 by a district judge appointed by Obama. DOJ inspector general mulls probe into FBI retaliation against agents at Jan. 6 protest. Department of Justice's Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz told the House Judiciary Committee that he would consider a probe of alleged FBI retaliation against agents who participated in demonstrations on Jan. 6, 2021, but did not enter the U.S. Capitol. Citing whistleblower claims, Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, the top Republican on the committee, urged Mr. Horowitz last month to investigate allegations the FBI was effectively suspending employees indefinitely by suspending their security clearances for attending the protests. Mr. Jordan said the agents were being punished "for their participation in protected First Amendment activity on January 6, 2021." MSNBC analyst claims Democrats are saviors of the American people. [Scroll down] FBI plants and Capitol Police officers aided and abetted the walk-through of the Capitol Building by a few hundred misguided, but unarmed, folks upset at the direction of the county and the lack of input they had in the supposedly Democratic process. And yes, like many, they believed the election was essentially stolen from them. Possibly because it was. Speaking of crime, a number of them are still imprisoned in crappy conditions against their will and without charge or bail. The Department of "Justice" was weaponized and perverted by the Obama-Biden administration just as the FBI and CIA were. 'Insurrection' Trends After Hysterical Democrats at Long Last Get Hoist by Their Own Petard. Ever since the Capitol riot, Democrats, the media, and of course ankle-biting Never Trumpers desperate for a perma-gig on MSNBC have tried to portray what happened on Jan. 6th, 2021 as an "insurrection" coordinated and signed off on at the highest echelons of power in America. There is no evidence to support such sensational claims, not about it being an "insurrection," not about it being planned by powerful Republicans, none of it. In fact, what we know so far suggests a ragtag bunch that unfortunately took advantage of an opportunity to storm the Capitol building on the same day then-President Trump held a rally urging supporters to "peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard" regarding their concerns about the presidential election results. Nevertheless, the accusations continue to be made as the farcical Capitol riot "investigation" by the Jan. 6th Committee continues to play out despite the fact that it has not been the political election-year game-changer Democrats had planned for it to be. Second Oath Keeper pleads guilty to seditious conspiracy charges in Capitol riot. A second member of the Oath Keepers has pleaded guilty to conspiracy and obstruction charges in connection with the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Brian Ulrich, 44, pleaded guilty on Friday to seditious conspiracy and obstruction of an official proceeding for his actions leading up to, during, and after the Capitol riot as part of a plea agreement to cooperate with the Justice Department's ongoing investigation. As part of his plea, Ulrich, a member of the Georgia Oath Keepers chapter, admitted to conspiring with other members of the group to use force to prevent the transfer of presidential power from November 2020 through January 2021. New Jan. 6 Bodycam Videos Show DC Police Officer Assaulting Unconscious Protester. A District of Columbia police officer used a large wooden stick to strike the body and head of protester Rosanne Boyland three times as she lay motionless on the ground on Jan. 6, 2021, according to bodycam footage from several officers obtained by The Epoch Times. Use-of-force expert Stanley Kephart, upon reviewing the previously unreleased footage, concluded that the three full-force blows by D.C. police officer Lila Morris constituted a felony assault with intent to cause great bodily harm. Kephart called Morris's use of force "indefensible" and the internal-affairs investigation of Boyland's death a "clear and convincing coverup." "I think that the first thing that occurred is an assault under the color of authority by Morris," Kephart told The Epoch Times. "That is a crime, an arrestable offense." Did Sen. Mitch McConnell want a riot on January 6? It's possible that, without Julie Kelly's dogged journalistic efforts, almost no one would remember the January 6 martyrs, immured in dirty, cruelly-managed D.C. prisons for the sin of entering the Capitol last January. For 15 months, Kelly has lived and breathed the story, ferreting out every bit of information that the government isn't hiding from defendants and journalists alike. That knowledge, combined with a book revealing Sen. Mitch McConnell's feelings about Trump, lead her to suggest that McConnell encouraged the breakdown on January 6 to avoid protest votes against Biden's assuming the presidency. McConnell's 'Exhilarating' Insurrection. A dirty little secret about January 6 — one of many — is that Democrats and establishment Republicans, not Trump supporters, wanted to shut down the official proceedings of that day. Just as the first wave of protesters breached the building shortly after 2 p.m., congressional Republicans were poised to present evidence of rampant voting fraud in the 2020 presidential election. Ten incumbent and four newly-elected Republican senators planned to work with their House colleagues to demand the formation of an audit commission to investigate election "irregularities" in the 2020 election. Absent an audit, the group of senators, including Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) pledged to reject the Electoral College results from the disputed states. The Hail Mary effort was doomed to fail; yet the American people would have heard hours of debate related to provable election fraud over the course of the day. And no one opposed the effort more than ex-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). A Life Destroyed for 'Parading' at the Capitol. After Robert Reeder was arrested in February and charged with four misdemeanors for his involvement in the Capitol protest on January 6, he lost his job as a truck driver for FedEx. "As a result of his arrest in this matter, he has been placed on administrative leave/has been terminated," Reeder's attorney wrote in court filing. "He has not been able to secure steady employment since being charged in this matter." Reeder, like many Americans who attended Donald Trump's speech then walked to Capitol Hill, went alone. He is a registered Democrat but supported some of Trump's policies. The Maryland resident decided to travel to Washington on the morning of January 6, a "spur of the moment" decision, according to his attorney. After suffering the effects of tear gas and sting balls launched by police officers outside the building — a reality the news media still refuses to cover — Reeder went inside the building to look for water to rinse his eyes. From all accounts, he was allowed into the building. The terrible unintended consequences of the Biden presidency (unless they were intended). The rally that took place on January 6 was transformed into an "insurrection" by the left, most likely instigated by FBI operatives in the midst. The FBI has refused to admit they had agents dispersed throughout the crowd whose job it may have been to incite some violence. Pelosi firmly rejected Trump's offer of 10,000 National Guard troops; the Dem plan was to foment exactly what occurred that day. What has been done to those who were present and may have walked into the open doors to the Capitol is equivalent to an American Abu Ghraib. That Republicans in Congress have allowed those people to be so badly treated is worse than a disgrace; it is truly evil. Judge rules against efforts to disqualify Arizona GOP Reps. Biggs, Gosar over 'insurrection' claim. An Arizona judge has ruled against efforts to keep two Republican congressmen and a state representative off the November ballot on the argument they committed "insurrection" in connection to the Jan. 6, 2020, Capitol riot. Superior Court Judge Christopher Coury said in his ruling Friday that because GOP Reps. Paul Gosar and Andy Biggs and state Republican Rep. Mark Finchem are elected officials removing them from the ballot over the 14th Amendment's Disqualification Clause requires congressional action — not a suit brought by private citizens in a state court, according to the Epoch Times. "The express language of the United States Constitution controls this issue," Coury said. The ruling could foreshadow the outcome of a similar case against GOP Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene, who on Friday testified in a Georgia court on the issue. There's a reason Democrats are desperate to stop Marjorie Taylor Greene. On Saturday [4/23/2022], Monica Showalter wrote about the lawsuit that a Democrat special interest group has filed against Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and that an Obama-nominated judge (and sister to leftist "journalist" Nina Totenberg) has allowed to proceed. Considering that the left constantly characterizes Greene as a nutcase, a reasonable person might ask why Democrats need a lawsuit. The answer lies in a Twitter thread Greene posted last week. The lawsuit against Greene riffs off the ridiculous claim that what happened on January 6 was an "insurrection" that triggers the "Disqualification Clause" in the 14th Amendment, a clause that Congress nullified via the 1878 Amnesty Act. You can read more here about why that Act is manifestly inapplicable to events on January 6. Similar suits, all of which are the brainchild of Clinton fixer and attorney Marc Elias of Perkins Coie, have already failed against Madison Cawthorn, and against Paul Gosar, Andy Biggs, and Mark Finchem. Effort to Block GOP Reps From Running Because of Jan. 6 Goes Down to Withering Defeat. Democrats are up a creek without a paddle as we head toward the midterms. They know that they are quite likely to get slaughtered badly. But it's well deserved because of the horrible policies they've put forth, and the terrible job that Joe Biden has done. So, they don't have too many options. They're trying the redistricting game in the hopes that they can steal some seats that way. They're going to try to play the Jan. 6 committee for all its worth, in the hopes that they find things to hurt Republicans with, like the tape of Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). They're also trying the gambit of trying to block out some Republicans by accusing them of being "insurrectionists" and filing cases to keep them off the ballot. The irony of that is that they're claiming that the Republicans were behind efforts to overcome the election. Yet, it's Democrats who are pre-emptively trying to keep Republicans off the ballot so the voters can't vote for them. Talk about losing the plot. Top Democrat: January 6th Investigation Revelations 'Blow the Roof off the House'. Democrats are making loud noises about January 6th again, claiming that coming revelations will "blow the roof" off the House of Representatives. Jamie Raskin, who serves on the January 6th Committee, recently claimed while speaking at Georgetown University that he and his colleagues will present "evidence" that Donald Trump coordinated with white nationalist and fascist groups "in order to support the coup." [...] This is such nonsense, and we've heard it all before. Why should anyone believe this time is different? There have been numerous leaks by the January 6th committee up to this point. All of them have been massive duds that don't begin to prove the committee's assertions. The idea that they'd have the discipline to hold back stunning, game-changing revelations until the open hearings is farcical. AOC says January 6 riot was a 'trial run' and claims 'they're going to come back' if Republicans retake the House. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has said that the US Capitol riot last January was a 'trial run' and that Congress could come under attack again if Republicans regain a majority. 'If we lose the House, this is no joke — January 6 was a trial run and a lot of people don't seem to understand that,' the New York Democrat said at a town hall in Queens on Wednesday [4/20/2022]. 'It was a trial run, and they're going to come back if they win the House,' she continued. 'The only reason it wasn't worse is because Democrats had the House, and they didn't have the votes.' The Editor says... Judge rules lawsuit trying to block Marjorie Taylor Greene from the Georgia ballot because of her 'support' for Capitol rioters can proceed. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) failed to kill a lawsuit looking to stop her from running for Congress again, with a federal judge ruling the legal challenge can proceed on Monday [4/18/2022]. A group of Georgia voters is trying to block what would be Greene's first re-election bid over her 'support' for the January 6 Capitol riot. In a legal challenge filed with the Georgia Secretary of State, voters claimed Greene violated a provision of the U.S. Constitution passed after the Civil War known as the 'Insurrectionist Disqualification Clause.' The Editor says... Court Documents Show At Least 20 FBI, ATF Agents Were Embedded In The January 6th Crowd. This is no longer a theory with circumstantial evidence. Now the court of law has proven the FBI was involved in a plot to frame Trump supporters. [Video clip] The judge in a January 6 case should be disbarred. The Gateway Pundit looks at what happened to Dustin Thompson in court, leading to his conviction on one felony and several misdemeanors, all revolving around his having entered the Capitol and walked out with a coatrack and bulletproof vest. (And do keep in mind that, across Democrat-run America, including D.C., the criminal justice system doesn't even bother with non-violent theft unless it's in the six figures or higher.) The Gateway Pundit diagnosed a few major problems. First, Thompson was massively depressed and incapable of connecting emotionally with the jury. He just sat there. He couldn't even describe what led to his actions on January 6 and no one came to support him at his trial. Thompson's defense attorney was also a travesty, calling his own client a "rioter" and "insurrectionist," failing to introduce any pro-defense witnesses, asking Thompson "How does it feel to commit a crime?", and showing excessive social warmth to the prosecutors, whom he treated as his buddies. Talk about incompetent counsel, something which is also a ground for a retrial. Democrats are campaigning on Jan. 6 hypocrisy. As BLM-Antifa thugs ramp up activities ahead of the midterms, the hypocrisy and mammoth overreach of the Justice Department's investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, riot is coming into focus. The first acquittal of a Jan. 6 defendant who was "waved" into the Capitol by cops is the latest sign that the so-called "armed insurrection" is not living up to the Democrats' hype. After the biggest probe in FBI history, not one charge of insurrection has been brought against any Trump supporter at the Capitol. We are reminded with sickening regularity of the double standard of justice applied to BLM — Antifa's insurrectionists, who tore up cities and attacked cops and federal property in the run-up to the 2020 election and have suffered few consequences. In fact, they are more likely to be rewarded. Here's What Happened Yesterday When J6 Defendant Dustin Thompson Was Found Guilty in a DC Court. January 6 protester Dustin Thompson was found guilty on Thursday [4/14/2022] of a felony and several misdemeanors. After Dustin Thompson's guilty verdict was read, he was removed from the courtroom in shackles, with little objection from his attorney. It wasn't expected that he'd be ordered detained like this before sentencing. As two older security guards removed his belt, ring, and personal items from his pockets, Judge Reggie Walton said in a harsh tone that Thompson was "weak-minded." Will J6 Be Remembered More Like the Boston Massacre? I get so ticked off whenever our contemptible congresscritters or their praetorian propagandists in the press call J6 an "insurrection." Did the world really witness a bunch of rowdy Americans try to overthrow the U.S. government on January 6, 2021? Would some of the country's strongest defenders of the right to bear arms really show up for battle bearing none? Did anybody in that crowd — many of whom were retirees welcomed into the Capitol Building by Capitol Police — actually believe that an "insurrection" was taking place? The answer to all three questions is a demonstrable, "No!" But to a federal government addicted to lying about absolutely anything, the "violent attack" on the Capitol was every bit as bad as 9/11, Pearl Harbor, and the Civil War. I don't know what's worse — that our government engages in such blatant propaganda against its citizens or that it can no longer be shamed into retracting its propaganda once its lies get called out. Judge Napolitano on the DOJ's and Court's Actions with January 6ers. Judge Napolitano was on The Joe Hoft Show at the Real Talk radio network today. He discussed the Jan 6 incident and the horrors of the abuse taking place in DC. The judge shared the following about those being held in the DC jail due to their actions on Jan 6. [Video clip] DOJ Advertises for 80 More Attorneys to Assist with Jan 6 Political Showtrials. The Deep State and crooks running the regime are not letting up. They continue to destroy America's laws, freedoms, and legal system. Not only are the radical Washington DC judges totally corrupt, but the US Justice Department is as corrupt as ever. This corruption took off under Obama and now is raging. These two entities which were once protectors of the citizens of this country from tyranny and injustice have become the monsters that American founders feared. DC Judges like Amy Berman Jackson or Reggie Walton don't enforce the Constitution, they enforce their political wills. And they're not even shy about it. Legal Filing Sets Internet Ablaze With Reference to FBI/ATF 'Assets' 'Embedded' on Jan. 6. There has been a question hanging out there concerning the Capitol riot now for some time. Just exactly how many FBI/other federal agents/confidential informants were there and embedded with the crowd on Jan. 6 during the riot? Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and others have tried to get to the bottom of that question. Cruz questioned Jill Sanborn, executive assistant director of the FBI's National Security Branch when she testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in January, but she wouldn't give him a straight answer. [...] Now there's an interesting court filing from defense attorney David Fischer in one of the Jan. 6 cases, which the folks at The Epoch Times found. Fischer claims in a footnote that "[a]t least 20 FBI and ATF assets were embedded around the Capitol on J6," according to the filing. Where did that come from? The footnote said that they "combed through a mountain of discovery" that included FBI 302 reports (interviews). The footnote also notes that the Oath Keepers were being monitored and recorded "prior to J6." 20 Federal 'Assets' Embedded at Capitol on Jan. 6, Court Filing Says. At least 20 FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives "assets" were embedded around the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, a defense attorney wrote in a court filing on April 12. The disclosure was made in a motion seeking to dismiss seditious conspiracy and obstruction charges against 10 Oath Keepers defendants in one of the most prominent Jan. 6 criminal cases. David W. Fischer, attorney for Thomas E. Caldwell of Berryville, Virginia, filed a 41-page motion to dismiss four counts on behalf of all Oath Keepers case defendants before U.S. District Judge Amit P. Mehta in Washington, D.C. Caldwell is charged in the indictment, but is not a member of the Oath Keepers, he told The Epoch Times in March. Video: Capitol Police Allow[ed] Protesters to Enter Side Door — Will Be Used in Court. New professionally edited video has emerged of police officers allowing protesters into the Upper West Terrace Doors of the United States Capitol on January 6th, 2021. A trusted source exclusively released the video below to The Gateway Pundit. Tightly edited with markers and commentary narration, it is meant to be presented in court to defend Brady Knowlton and Patrick Montgomery. Both men are facing felony charges for "Obstruction of an Official Proceeding" on January 6th. This new video will indisputably exonerate Brady Knowlton, Patrick Montgomery and all the rally-goers seen entering these doors by any reasonable jury or fair judge. Attorney For Pro Bono Criminal Defense Project Eyeing January 6 Cases. A defense attorney who has represented defendants in the January 6 Capitol riot is offering her services pro bono to conservatives and has already helped clear a Virginia dad accused of slander for saying a Left-wing activist was "grooming" children. Marina Medvin, who started RightDefense.org earlier this year with help from the nonprofit Coolidge Reagan Foundation (CRF), is offering the free services in Washington, D.C., and Virginia. The project was inspired by what she said was widespread skepticism that conservatives could find lawyers they could rely on. "As I am sure everyone noticed in the January 6 Capitol arrests, conservatives were scrambling to find lawyers they could trust to represent their interests in criminal court," Medvin told The Daily Wire. "Our goal is to prevent this scramble in the future." Jan. 6 Political Prisoner Was Going to See His Family for 1st Time on His Birthday [but] Then Biden Regime Moved Him. American political prisoner Edward Jake Lang is serving time without trial for his actions on Jan. 6, 2021. Jake has been in prison, abused by guards, placed in isolation for days at a time, without any basic human rights for over a year now. Islamic terrorists who murdered Americans had more rights than Trump supporter Jake Lang. And Islamic terrorists who targeted Americans were represented for free by radicals like Ketanji Brown Jackson. Jake Lang is not so lucky. He loves his country and was attacked by police on January 6, 2021. He fought back and saved two people's lives. He tried to save another, Rosanne Boyland, but it was too late. Jake Lang was trampled when Capitol Police pushed Trump supporters down the stairs outside the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. He was nearly killed. The woman next to him was killed by police when they gassed her, knocked her down and then pushed dozens of people on top of her. Her name was Rosanne Boyland. Jake Lang was next to Rosanne when she died. Alan Dershowitz Speaks Out in Defense of J6er He Is Representing who Was Waved in to US Capitol. A vast majority of the more than 800 January 6 political prisoners who were arrested following the protests in January 2021 were accused of walking into the US Capitol — something they had no idea was against the law especially since the police officers were waving them in. Cara Castronuova posted video earlier Tuesday on The Gateway Pundit of nearly 250 patriotic Americans peacefully walking into the US Capitol on January 6th. The video shows they were waved in by police. It is clear no violence or crime was committed by the people in this video. The January 6th committee is hoaxing again. [Scroll down] My guess is that the committee knows that its days are counted. They know that the GOP will take over the House and this partisan committee will cease to exist. They will use the next seven months to squeeze whatever juice is left and give Democrats a distraction from inflation and everything else. Perhaps in 2023, we can then have a real investigation of what happened on that day. For example, who made the decision to keep the US Capitol unprotected with thousands on the streets? Who did that? After the November elections... Capitol Riot Overkill: Case That Should Never Have Been Brought Ends in Acquittal. "You understand that police officers died?" That was a question that federal prosecutor Michael Romano put to defendant Matthew Martin, who was being tried for his nonviolent protest on January 6 at the Capitol — when and where, in fact, no police officers died. Bad things happen to prosecutions when assistant United States attorneys make mendaciously prejudicial claims that they cannot back up with solid evidence. Good prosecutors win the judge's confidence by playing it straight: Give your facts honestly, keep the rhetoric understated, let the proof sing for itself, and most of the close calls will go your way. If, to the contrary, the attorney for the United States engages in hyperbole, judges get concerned that the government's claims may not be trustworthy and that its allegations may be overblown. That's what happened in the case against Martin — a case that should never have been brought. That doesn't necessarily mean Martin was innocent. In many cases, a defendant may be technically guilty, but the Justice Department prudently exercises its discretion not to charge. Justice Has Been and Will Be a Long Time Coming. We do not yet know the full extent of government involvement in the January 6 jamboree, but I would not be at all surprised to learn that it was premeditated, extensive, and criminal. Scores of people have been moldering in the Washington, D.C. jail that the columnist John Zmirak calls "Gitmo on the Potomac," most of them for trespassing, "obstructing an official proceeding," or (the most common offense) "parading" at the Capitol. Julie Kelly has been on that case, too, and her book January 6: How Democrats Used the Capitol Protest to Launch a War on Terror Against the Political Right goes a long way in connecting the dots. History 101: The Left Is Awakening a 'Sleeping Giant'. Conservatives are held to and hold ourselves to a higher standard. Unlike liberals, wholesale riots are not our game. "But what about the 'insurrection' on Jan. 6?!?!?" If you still believe that 300,000 Americans, many of them well over 50 years old, showed up without guns to take over the United States, I'd like to sell you a unicorn [...]. Jan. 6 was a reaction to what people thought was a stolen election. Patriots of every age and race showed up to listen to Trump speak. Then the mostly peaceful crowd walked to the Capitol. Yes, there was some rioting. But if 300,000 people showed up and a mere handful were arrested, that would be the true definition of "mostly peaceful," as opposed to the CNN definition. If the crowd wanted to take the Capitol, they would have done it. That was never the plan. Another January 6 Narrative Goes Boom. How does a mob "illegally storm" the Capitol building when police let them in? That is the latest narrative-shifting question the media wants desperately to avoid after a federal judge on Wednesday found a January 6 defendant not guilty for his conduct during the protest at the Capitol that day. Matthew Martin was arrested in Santa Fe, New Mexico on April 22, 2021; he later was charged with the four most common misdemeanors related to the Justice Department's prosecution of Capitol protesters: entering a restricted building, disorderly conduct, violent entry, and parading in the Capitol building. Those petty offenses comprise the overwhelming majority of criminal charges against the nearly 800 or so January 6 defendants. More than 150 people have pleaded guilty to the "parading" charge — many have been sentenced to a few months in prison. But those defendants might regret accepting the plea deal offered by the government after D.C. District Court Judge Trevor McFadden not only acquitted Martin on all counts but agreed with Martin's assertion that he was "waved" in by Capitol Police officers. Nancy Pelosi's Jan. 6 Committee Is Following The Same Pattern As The Evil John Doe Investigation. Fifteen months after Congress certified the 2020 election, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's hand-picked Jan. 6 commission is still forging ahead with partisan theater. The committee has seized bank records of peaceful protesters, routinely made up evidence to tarnish Republican leaders, spied on federal lawmakers' phone records, threatened press freedom, and is now admittedly trying to criminalize GOP's fundraising on the issue of election security, as The Federalist's Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway reported last month. The unserious committee has been exploiting the Capitol riot for political ends since it happened, but as time passes, Democrats' abuses of power become more brazen — and they call to mind some of the most egregious instances of neglect of the rule of law and civil liberties in our country's recent history. Ex-Trump aides Peter Navarro and Dan Scavino held in contempt of Congress. The House voted largely along party lines to hold former senior Trump aides Peter Navarro and Dan Scavino in criminal contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with the Jan. 6 select committee's subpoenas on Wednesday. The referral will now move to the Department of Justice for potential prosecution. Judge issues first outright acquittal of Jan. 6 riot defendant. A judge has issued the first outright acquittal of a defendant charged in the Capitol riot. Following a two-day bench trial in U.S. District Court in Washington, New Mexico engineer Matthew Martin was acquitted Wednesday on four misdemeanor charges by U.S. District Court Judge Trevor McFadden. Martin claimed that he thought the police had allowed him into an entrance near the Capitol Rotunda on Jan. 6, 2021. McFadden said that, based on video of the scene, that assertion was at least "plausible" and that prosecutors failed to prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt. New Verdict in Capitol Riot Case Throws a Wrench Into Political Narrative. A federal defense contractor who had been charged with four misdemeanors for walking into the Capitol on Jan. 6, fought the charges and was acquitted on all counts today by Judge Trevor McFadden. Matthew Martin was charged with: entering and remaining in a restricted building, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building, violent entry and disorderly conduct in a Capitol building, as well as parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building. But Martin didn't commit any violence or break into the building. He argued that he believed that the Capitol Police had allowed him into the building, and he just walked in. The Sham Jan 6 Committee Grilled Ivanka Trump for Eight Hours Tuesday Looking for Any Angle to Prevent President Trump from Running in 2024. The Jan 6 committee is a sham and a lie. The committee was created outside its own mandate. Corrupt Speaker Pelosi created the committee but when Republicans like Jim Jordan were selected to be on the committee by Republicans, Pelosi changed the makeup and only allowed two 'Republicans' on the committee — Trump haters and anger management candidates Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger. The committee has ignored the Feds and other infiltrators present on Jan 6 at the Capitol. Antifa was there as well along with individuals like Ray Epps. The American public still doesn't know who paid Ray Epps. We don't know what interactions he and others like him had with Democrats and the Deep State before Jan 6. Ivanka Trump Testifies Before US Capitol Attack Committee. Former President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka testified for about eight hours on Tuesday to the U.S. House of Representatives committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, siege on the U.S. Capitol. "She's answering questions. I mean, you know, not in a broad, chatty term, but she's answering questions," Rep. Bennie Thompson, the panel's Democratic chairman, told reporters at the Capitol. Her testimony began Tuesday morning and ended around 6 p.m., about eight hours later, a source familiar with the testimony told Reuters. This article was published 10/31/2021, but I've just recently discovered it: Jan. 6 Witch Hunt Committee Wants Garland to Hunt Trump. To the Americans who have managed to stay sane amid the prevailing madness, Attorney General Merrick Garland is a hyper-partisan authoritarian who has sicced the FBI on parents who are concerned about their children, exaggerating imaginary threats for political purposes while ignoring real terrorists. But to the even more rabid members of the House Jan. 6 committee, Garland is a big lovable marshmallow who has been far too easy on the traitor Trump and his white supremacist followers. They want him to act, to contain the Trump threat, preferably before the "insurrectionists" score big gains in the 2022 midterm elections. The Associated Press, which can always be relied upon to amplify the concerns of the Leftists in the corridors of power in Washington, reported Saturday that "lawmakers investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol are increasingly going public with critical statements, court filings and more to deliver a blunt message to Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Department of Justice." Leftist Infiltration of the Police Will Lead To Tyranny. [Scroll down] America already had a good look at completely lawless policing at the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021. Led by a supervisor, D.C. Metro Police officers sadistically beat unarmed protesters, including two women trapped in the lower west terrace tunnel. Police officers have been sent to prison for less, but this outrageous criminal assault has been covered up and buried by Democratic D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and Metro Police Chief Robert Contee. Inside the Capitol building, U.S. Capitol Police Lieutenant Michael Byrd fired from ambush and killed Ashli Babbitt — a five-foot-two, 110-pound, unarmed woman who posed no threat to him or anyone else. Byrd clearly violated every basic deadly force law and policy. In a different department with a different victim, Byrd's malfeasance would have resulted in a murder charge. Instead, a bad shooting was covered up and whitewashed by the leftist Capitol Police, the Justice Department, and the national press. With Byrd's unjustified and illegal killing of Babbitt, there is bad news, and there is good news. The bad news is, obtaining justice for Ashli Babbitt and her family will take a long time. Nothing can happen until Democrats are no longer a majority in Congress and Biden is evicted from the White House. The good news is murder has no statute of limitations. [...] Videos of police violence on January 6 abound (and not just January 6). These are not examples of merely "excessive force" — they are straight-up crimes. There is no legitimate police purpose — no arrests are even being attempted. These beatings of non-resisting, defenseless people are thuggery, torture, and sadism. Federal Judge Blasts Double Standards in J6 Sentences. A federal judge blasted U.S. prosecutors seeking excessive sentences for some nonviolent participants in the Capitol riot, pointing to the treatment of BLM rioters as an example of a clear double standard. "I know that the government believes that the January 6th cases are sui generis [one of a kind] and therefore can't be compared to other cases. But I don't agree," said U.S. District Judge Trevor N. McFadden. "It does feel like the government has had two standards here, and I can't abide by that," he added, noting that before January 6, he couldn't remember an instance where a nonviolent, first-time offender was "sentenced to serious jail time ... regardless of their race, gender or political affiliation." Why demands for Justice Thomas to recuse himself on Jan. 6 cases don't meet the laugh test. The demands that Justice Thomas recuse himself from a case involving the January 6 incident because of his wife's activities are silly. Similar demands for recusal of a prominent member of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals because of his wife's related activities were dismissed out of hand, to the approval of the media, the legal establishment, and academia. What Happens When a GOP Majority Can Investigate the Jan. 6 Committee? When Republicans, as predicted, regain control of the House and Senate this November, they will be expected to fulfill a dual mandate. Americans want Republicans to energetically pursue a centrist commonsense America First agenda by supporting legislation that reduces inflation and crime, protects America's borders, improves educational curricula, and restores U.S. energy independence. Voters are also demanding that Congress immediately launch investigations into a plethora of wrongdoings engaged in by Joe and Hunter Biden, Nancy Pelosi and Eric Swalwell, progressive governors and mayors, their allies in the Intelligence Community, members of the Jan. 6 Select Committee, Anthony Fauci, Big Tech and Big Pharma CEOs, and legacy media. According to Florida congressman Matt Gaetz, to meet those demands, the GOP will "turn every committee in the Congress into an oversight Congressional committee." And thanks to precedents set by Pelosi's January 6 Select Committee, these Republican-led committees will possess extraordinary new powers to gather evidence, compel witnesses to testify, and refer for criminal investigation potentially guilty parties. Even Republican Presidents Would Seem to Have a Right to Free Speech. It seems to me that the point of the super partisan congressional January 6 Commission is to tar former president Donald Trump with inciting a riot ("insurrection" for the hyperbolic), an issue they raised and lost in the second impeachment battle. Perhaps they hope to persuade the Department of Justice to institute some cooked-up criminal charges against him for his comments on January 6. If I'm right about their objective, this week the Supreme Court in a unanimous opinion seems to have dealt them a setback. [...] The short form precis of this decision is that elected officials are free to criticize each other under the Constitution. Blackman argues, and the Wilson case supports his contention, that while the First Amendment does not preclude some restraints on the free speech rights of civil servants, the same kind of restraints are simply inapplicable to elected officials. This strikes me as self-evident. US Capitol riot suspect Evan Neumann granted asylum in Belarus. A California man wanted by the FBI for allegedly assaulting police officers during the US Capitol riot has been granted asylum in Belarus, officials said Wednesday [3/23/2022]. Evan Neumann, 49 — who fled his homeland after being charged with 14 counts linked to the attack — was given permission by the country to stay there "indefinitely," according to the The Belarusian Telegraph Agency. To get the refugee status, Neumann told Interior Ministry officials in Belarus — which is closely allied with Russia and President Vladimir Putin — that he faced "political persecution" in the US, according to the state-run news agency. "I feel safe in Belarus," Neumann said. "I have mixed feelings today. I am glad because Belarus has taken care of me. I am upset because I found myself in such a situation that there were problems in my native country." Official Couy Griffin found guilty of illegally entering Capitol grounds Jan. 6. A federal judge on Tuesday convicted an elected official from New Mexico of illegally entering restricted US Capitol grounds but acquitted him of engaging in disorderly conduct during the riot that disrupted Congress from certifying Joe Biden's presidential election victory. US District Judge Trevor McFadden heard one day of testimony without a jury on Monday before handing down a verdict in the misdemeanor case against Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin, a 48-year-old former rodeo rider who helped found a group called Cowboys for Trump. [...] But the case against Griffin is unlike most Jan. 6 cases and may not be a bellwether for defendants who are charged with storming the Capitol. Griffin is one of the few riot defendants who wasn't accused of entering the Capitol building or engaging in any violent or destructive behavior. His lawyers argued that he was selectively prosecuted for his political views. Griffin was charged with two misdemeanors: entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds and disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds. Man Told by an Officer That He Could Enter the Capitol on Jan. 6 Now Faces 20 Years in Prison. On Jan. 6, 2021, a protestor, 40-year-old Brady Knowlton, says that an officer at the Capitol told "You can go in, as long as you don't break anything." At 2:35 p.m., Knowlton did, entering through the Upper West Terrace doors. He looked around inside the building, walked through the Rotunda, lobby, and Senate chamber gallery, obeyed the officer's injunction not to break anything, and left the building at 2:53 p.m. For that, Knowlton now faces twenty years in prison in Old Joe Biden's vengeful banana republic. A Trump-Hating Backer of Biden's Supreme Court Nominee Is Married to the Top J6 Prosecutor. Confirmation hearings for D.C. Circuit Court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, Joe Biden's first U.S. Supreme Court nominee, began Monday [3/21/2022] before the Senate Judiciary Committee. During an event in Washington, D.C. on Monday morning, activists gathered to rally on behalf of the nominee who could be the first black woman seated on the nation's highest court. "It's also, for so many of us, a moment that is personal," Fatima Goss Graves, president and CEO of the National Women's Law Center, told the crowd. "It is personal if you have ever been the only person sitting in a room. It is personal if you have ever wondered, 'Is that for me?'" Over the past several weeks, Graves, a graduate of Yale Law school, has given dozens of interviews in support of Jackson's nomination. In a January column for CNN, Graves denounced "the current homogeneity of the legal profession and judicial system" and claimed "the perspective of White men has been treated as the default" in court proceedings. Conspirators in Their Own Words. Most Americans concluded that January 6 was a buffoonish riot, in which hundreds of deluded protesters broke into the capitol, vandalized the premises, and disrupted the government. The public saw it as an embarrassment and believed the perpetrators deserved to be punished. But not the Left. They saw "conspiracy" in this keystone bunch. Soon they were screaming about an "insurrection" aspiring to a "coup d'etat," and demanding over 20,000 soldiers to prevent a second wave. Very quickly, however, discrepancies in the left-wing narrative arose. "Five killed" proved to be one person "killed," conservative protestor Ashli Babbitt, an unarmed military veteran lethally shot by a capitol officer with a checkered record, whose identity was mysteriously concealed from the public for months. The other four died from either natural causes or the press of the crowd. Officer Brian Sicknick was not murdered by insurrectionists as alleged. In truth, he died the next day of natural causes. Anyone who complained that the government suppressed communications concerning its preparations for the demonstration, thousands of hours of videos, and widespread use of FBI informants among the protestors was dubbed a nut, or perhaps an alt-Right traitor himself. Hundreds were arrested on trumped-up charges. Many sat in solitary confinement without charges filed for months. Democrats Admit Jan. 6 Committee Is All About Midterms. House Democrats prosecuting political dissidents in the form of the Select Committee on Jan. 6 admitted this week the show trial investigation is all about the November midterms. On Friday [3/18/2022], The Washington Post chronicled the committee's next steps in a feature headlined "Jan. 6 committee faces a thorny challenge: Persuading the public to care" as Americans lose enthusiasm for severe retribution against those involved with a constitutionally protected rally 14 months ago, who are the true target of the committee's work as opposed to perpetrators of the Capitol riot. One lawmaker, the Post wrote, "added that even some of their Democratic constituents have lost interest in the committee's work because of more pressing issues, like inflation and the coronavirus pandemic." Americans are now coping with gas prices eclipsing their record peak and compounded by an inflation rate running at a four-decade high. The Jan. 6 probe, however, is dominating lawmakers' priorities, including Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney who is one of two Republicans appointed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to serve on the panel. Jan. 6 Committee Will Hire a Writer to Create a 'Compelling Narrative'. It's really a shame that the master propagandists of the mid-20th century in Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia missed the 21st-century revolution in imaging. Think what Goebbels and his Nazi cohorts could have done with modern CGI. Or what Stalin could have done with deep fakes. Democrats on the Jan. 6 Committee are not similarly handicapped. They are beginning to prepare a multimedia presentation that will be available online when their final report is released (probably about six weeks out from the midterms). And they plan to hire a writer as "part of its effort to turn its largely secretive work into a compelling narrative, multiple sources tell CNN." Question: Will there be scary background music to augment and enhance the "compelling narrative"? The Editor says... Jan. 6 Suicide Victim Was Told 'He Would Not Receive a Fair Trial in This Town'. The 14-month ordeal battling charges from his time at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, had put so much stress on Matthew L. Perna that he began throwing up blood. When the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) asked to delay his sentencing and announced that it would seek more prison time, it was a bridge too far. Perna took his own life on Feb. 25 in Sharon, Pennsylvania. He was 37. "Worry, anxiety, stress had worn him down," Geri Perna, his aunt, said at a Capitol Hill news conference on March 17. "He suffered constant nightmares and began throwing up blood. He was no longer comfortable leaving his home. "One setback after another took its toll on him. And he just wanted it to be over. His attorney encouraged him to plead guilty by telling him that he would not receive a fair trial in this town." Perna stood in driving rain near the steps of the Capitol, alongside three members of Congress, to decry the treatment of Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol breach defendants by the DOJ, much of society, and influencers on social media. Secret Service Agent Must Answer Questions About Location of Pence on Jan. 6: Judge. A Secret Service agent will have to answer questions about the location of then-Vice President Mike Pence on Jan. 6, 2021, during questioning in an upcoming trial of a defendant, a judge ruled on March 18. U.S. prosecutors moved in January to bar lawyers for Couy Griffin, the defendant, from asking questions about Pence's location, arguing that the information isn't relevant to the case. Lawyers for Griffin asserted the questions should be allowed because the government's earlier claims that Vice President Kamala Harris was in the U.S. Capitol when Griffin entered the building on Jan. 6 were false and because it's not clear where exactly Pence went after being evacuated from the Senate chamber that day. U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden, a Trump appointee, sided with the defendant. The latest version of the charges say Griffin entered and remained in a restricted building and grounds, or the Capitol and the surrounding area, where Pence was. The January 6 Committee Is Pushing Another Scandal That Isn't. A recent court filing by the January 6 special select committee is giving us our first indication that Donald Trump and his lawyer may be guilty of criminal behavior. We know this is serious because it's being reported by the New York Times — America's paper of record. You know, those bastions of accuracy that received a Pulitzer Prize for 3 years of false reporting about the Russian collusion conspiracy. The Times is even reporting that the evidence will likely result in a criminal referral. The paper was probably tipped off by one of their reliable sources — like ahem ... Adam Schiff. This whole episode was triggered when one of the lawyers for the Donald Trump campaign, John Eastman, had the gall to suggest that the committee had no right to see confidential communications between himself and his client. When he was served a subpoena for emails between himself and his clients, he obstructed justice (in the committee's opinion) by challenging the subpoena in court. The committee countered Eastman's court filing by informing the court that attorney-client privilege does not apply when being used to commit a crime. Donald Trump had obviously committed a crime by speaking out against the election — see recent DHS advisory identifying such people as "threat actors." Aaron Babbitt Interview. Despite the federal government's attempt to withhold evidence surrounding the cold-blooded murder of Ashli Babbitt and the corporate media's effort to demonize the slain Air Force veteran, her family vows to never stop fighting for her until justice prevails. There are no statutes of limitation on murder and the Capitol Hill Police officer who murdered Ashli as she protested the fraudulent 2020 presidential election will ultimately be brought to justice, Ashli's mother, Micki Witthoeft, and husband, Aaron Babbitt, explained in an exclusive interview with the Gateway Pundit. Biden's Banana Republic. Imagine a country that imprisons peaceful protestors on false charges of participating in an attempt to overthrow the government, as part of efforts to discredit and ultimately criminalize all opposition to the ruling party's agenda. People who entered a public building when police held the door open for them are being held in solitary confinement and given draconian punishments far out of proportion to what they actually did. This is the sort of thing that happens in Third World countries, right? This is the sort of thing tinpot dictators do in banana republics, where the rulers gained power by underhanded means and have no respect for due process, the rule of law, or the rights of their citizens — right? Maybe so, but all this and worse is happening right now in the land of the free and the home of the brave, where up until quite recently, it all would have been unthinkable. Take, for example, the case of Matthew Perna, who traveled from his home in Pennsylvania to Washington on January 6, 2021, to protest the widely reported election irregularities, which only now are being confirmed by investigators. He pleaded guilty on December 9 to entering the Capitol and committed suicide on February 25, while awaiting sentencing. How Long a Jan. 6 Defendant Has Been Detained With No Indictment. This sounds like something out of North Korea, Hussein's Iraq, or Castro's Cuba. We have a person detained for nearly 90 days without an indictment. Why? Well, this person was around the Capitol Building during the January 6 riot. Leslie McAdoo Gordon of Redstate, who served as a special agent for the Department of Defense Investigative Service and is now an attorney, detailed this sordid tale of prosecutorial misconduct. Being an attorney who has gone through the motions involving cases at the federal level, Gordon details how the government botched this arrest and detention from the beginning starting with the fact that there was no preliminary hearing. [...] It's an infuriating legal saga, but also a terrifying story about how the government can trample your rights. Obviously, this isn't the first time the government has gone off the rails. It doesn't make it any less disturbing. Ginni Thomas Wants To Set the Record Straight on January 6. Virginia "Ginni" Thomas wants to clear up a few things about January 6. She did not help organize the White House rally that preceded the riot at the Capitol. She did attend the rally, but got cold and left early. And most importantly, in her view, her involvement with the event has no bearing on the work of her husband, Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas. A veteran conservative operator, critics have for decades charged that her political activity poses an ethics conundrum for the justice. She was keen to dispel misperceptions and shared fresh details about her professional life. J6 Fishing Expedition and 2022 Election Goals Could Reveal Why Pelosi Opened Satellite DC Police Offices in Key States. Anyone who has followed politics for any amount of time knows the Nancy Pelosi "January 6th Committee" is an opposition research effort under the guise of a House investigation. The goal is to frame an extremist narrative favorable for the Democrats in the 2022 mid-term election. That is the entire goal. What the Mueller probe was to President Trump, the J6 Committee is to the MAGA movement. Everyone, and I do mean e.v.e.r.y.o.n.e in Washington DC knew Robert Mueller was appointed as special counsel for one reason, to target President Trump, weaken his administration and ultimately remove him from office. Not a single entity in DC did not know that was the goal. The same is true here. Everyone in DC knows Nancy Pelosi's J6 Committee is intended to target Democrat political opposition. That is the goal. That is ONLY the goal. Not a single entity in DC does not know that is the goal. The Republican House members who voted to authorize the J6 Committee know the goal is to target Republicans. Please repeat that as many times as you need in order to dispatch your battered conservative status. The Republican House members who voted to authorize the J6 Committee are OUR ENEMY every bit as much as the Democrats. Whistleblower: FBI Is Just Now Asking Basic Questions About Jan. 6 Pipe Bombs — A Year Into Its Investigation. A senior FBI special agent has sounded the alarm on the bureau's investigation into the pipe bombs that were placed outside the Democratic National Committee and Republican National Committee buildings the night before the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol, suggesting that the investigation has been a low priority and made no real progress. According to a letter sent on Wednesday from Rep. Jim Jordan, ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, to FBI Director Christopher Wray, the FBI agent filed a whistleblower disclosure about the pipe bomb investigation — an investigation the Associated Press had characterized as "one of the highest-priority investigations for the FBI and the Justice Department." The agent alleged that on Feb. 7, 2022, more than a year after the bombs were planted, the bureau's Washington Field Office asked its other field offices "to canvass all confidential human sources nationwide for information about the individual and the crime." FBI [is] Not Answering GOP Committee Members on Jan. 5 Pipe-bomb Probe. Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio, the ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, has asked the FBI to provide an immediate briefing regarding the agency's investigation into the pipe bombs left at the headquarters of the Democrat and Republican parties on January 5 last year. The would-be bomber left the devices in front of the two buildings between 7:30 and 8:30 p.m. It was the night before the mostly peaceful protest that Democrats and their leftist Media Information Ministry falsely claim was an "insurrection" against the government. An "insurrection" the protest wasn't. And the pipe bombs, thankfully, did not explode. A year later, as January 6 protesters suffer in gulag-like conditions in D.C. jails, the would-be bomber remains at large. The FBI is, in a word, clueless. A whistleblower contacted the committee to say the agency was up to some "unusual" activities. NYT Reporter Ridicules, Exposes Colleagues Overreaction to January 6, Claims 'Ton of FBI Informants'. Project Veritas' best videos are the ones where they catch reporters saying what we all assume they say, but on video. It's remarkable how many liberal journalists are quick to spill their guts on a few Tinder dates. Today's video gives us Matthew Rosenberg. He's a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter. Over the course of the past year, you may have found yourself mocking the media's coverage of the January 6 trespassing incident. How it was a literal "insurrection," literally, and reporters were "traumatized" by it. You may even think the media has been exaggerating what happened for political reasons. Do you know who agrees with you? Matthew Rosenberg. A Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter who covered January 6. [Video clip] Jim Jordan seeks FBI briefing after 'whistleblower disclosure' on DC pipe bomb investigation. A top House Republican is asking the FBI for a briefing after a special agent came forward with a disclosure about the bureau's investigation into a pair of pipe bombs planted outside the GOP's and Democratic Party's headquarters in Washington, D.C., the night before the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Rep. Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican and ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, sent a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray on Wednesday saying this "whistleblower disclosure" revealed that the FBI's Washington Field Office asked FBI field offices last month to canvass all confidential human sources nationwide for relevant information. Republican National Committee sues Jan. 6 panel over Salesforce subpoena. The Republican National Committee on Wednesday sued the House panel investigating last year's attack on the Capitol, arguing the congressional committee is seeking potentially confidential information about RNC members. The lawsuit takes aim at a February subpoena to Salesforce, which the Jan. 6 committee said focuses on emails from the RNC in the weeks before the attack on the Capitol that say the 2020 election was stolen. The RNC called the subpoena a "fishing expedition" that could expose its strategies and personal information of its members and donors. The suit names House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and members of the congressional committee as defendants. FBI Quietly Drops Charges Against J6 Defendant Who Committed Suicide. January 6 defendant Matthew Perna was looking at some serious jail time for a peaceful walk through the Capitol. Killers have gotten way less severe sentences, like this fine lad, who punched and killed an elderly man who allegedly called him a bad name: [Tweet] Perna didn't punch an elderly man, causing his death. Nor was he looking at two years of house arrest. Perna was looking at 51 months in federal prison for entering the Capitol for five to ten minutes, snapping selfies, and chanting "USA" in an apparently seditious way. He also tapped a window with a pole but didn't break it or anything else. He didn't hit a cop. The FBI magnanimously decided to drop their charges against Perna on Wednesday [3/9/2022]. Pulitzer Prize Winning New York Times Reporter: January 6 Media Coverage 'Overreaction,' FBI Involved, Event Was Not Organized Despite Ongoing Narrative. Project Veritas published a bombshell video on Tuesday showing Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times correspondent, Matthew Rosenberg, speaking about the events of January 6, 2021, in a way that contradicts his own reporting. Rosenberg, who covers national security matters for the Times says on the undercover video that "there were a ton of FBI informants among the people who attacked the Capitol." This revelation is a break from Rosenberg's reporting on the matter where he characterized such a notion of FBI informants in the crowd as a "reimagining of Jan. 6." This was not the only time Rosenberg's commentary to Project Veritas' undercover reporter directly contradicted his own published words. Despite telling a Veritas journalist that January 6 was "no big deal," his article says that downplaying the events of that day was "the next big lie." Guy Reffitt, first Jan. 6 rioter to go to trial, found guilty on all counts. The first Jan. 6 defendant to take his case to trial was found guilty Tuesday of all charges related to his role in the attack on the U.S. Capitol. Guy Reffitt, a Texas man who attempted to storm the U.S. Capitol while armed with a gun and zip ties, was convicted of all five counts against him, including transport of a firearm in support of civil disorder and obstruction of an official proceeding. Jurors began deliberating Tuesday morning after a weeklong trial in which they heard testimony from Reffitt's teenage son, Jackson Reffitt, who tipped off the FBI about his father before the Jan. 6 attack. Proud Boys leader charged in connection with Jan. 6 Capitol attack. The leader of the Proud Boys, Enrique Tarrio, has been charged with conspiracy related to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, as part of the FBI's ongoing investigation into the attack. According to an indictment unsealed in federal court on Tuesday, Tarrio — though he wasn't present at the Capitol on Jan. 6 — was instrumental in planning the riot. Tarrio was arrested and released two days before the attack on separate charges stemming from an incident in November 2020, and was ordered to stay out of Washington, D.C., during the time frame surrounding the riot. The FBI Goes on Trial in the Whitmer Case. Jury selection begins in a Grand Rapids courtroom Tuesday morning [3/8/2022] in the federal trial of four men accused of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020. [...] Timing of the trial could not be worse for the scandal-plagued agency quickly losing the trust of the American people. Top FBI officials refuse to account for its role in the events of January 6, 2021, raising concerns even among some in Congress that FBI assets acted improperly before and during that day. The first trials of January 6 defendants start this month but the Justice Department has yet to make hundreds of thousands of FBI files available to defense attorneys. January 6 Defendant Being Illegally Detained — Locked up More Than 80 Days With No Indictment. You don't see this very often in federal court, but one of the January 6 (J6) Defendants, Lucas Denney, is being held illegally. He was arrested in Texas on December 13, 2021, and brought before a federal magistrate, who ordered him detained without bond on a criminal Complaint. It then took six weeks to transfer him to DC, where he is currently being held. He has not appeared before a federal judge in DC since his arrival, although that will change Monday afternoon [3/7/2022] as a result of his lawyer seeking his release. Denney's case involves two distinct, major screwups. The first is that he was not afforded a Preliminary Hearing, to which he is entitled under the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure and the Constitution. The second is that he has not been indicted by a grand jury within 30 days of his arrest, as required by the federal Speedy Trial Act. Shocking Statement by January 6th Daughter Called by DOJ Prosecution. The Department of Justice prosecutors manipulatively walked back their decision to subpoena another child of January 6th defendant Guy Reffitt to the stand after using his teenage son against him this past Friday as a witness. The DOJ had planned to also use Reffitt's minor daughter as a prosecution witness before realizing their diabolical plan was going to backfire at the last minute. We reported yesterday that the Biden Regime had coaxed a teenage boy (Jackson Reffitt) to record his father in the family home for eight days before turning him over to the FBI. The DOJ also intended to call his younger 17 year old sister Peyton to the stand today but got spooked and threw her off their elite roster. (That A-List included an abundance of Capitol Police Officers, FBI Special Agents and Reffitt's fellow militia member turned snitch Rocky Hardie who traded his testimony for his own immunity.) "I never felt threatened by my Father," Peyton Reffitt (the teen daughter of the defendant) told us outside the courthouse in Washington DC. Son testifies against father charged with storming the Capitol on January 6. The teenage son of a Texas man charged with storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 testified Thursday that he had secretly recorded his father describing his participation in the incident and given the file to the FBI after his father threatened him and his sister. The son, Jackson Reffitt, testified in the trial of his father, Guy Reffitt. He is charged with bringing a gun onto Capitol grounds and interfering with the law enforcement officers guarding the building. He has additionally been charged with obstruction of justice for making threats against his children. Reffitt was not one of the protesters who entered the Capitol building, he retreated after being pepper sprayed by an officer. FBI Uses Son Of J6 Defendant As Main Informant Against Him. The Biden regime has shown a complete disregard for human rights and due process in the trials of January 6th defendants. Last year, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said that J6 detainees were being treated worse than terrorists are Guantanamo Bay. Other J6 prisoners have been detained for months and have yet to see any evidence against them, or what specific crime they are even being accused of. Today, a story broke that January 6th defendant Guy Reffitt's own son was induced by the FBI to collect evidence against him and testify against him in court. The FBI reached out to him to be an informant against his own father, and his son, Jackson Reffitt, complied and recorded their private conversations as well as sending the FBI pictures of their home, including his father's gun safe. The great weasel-word gaslight: Jan. 6 commission finds nothing on Trump. Liz Cheney's Jan. 6 commission is starting to look stupid. Like the clown's outfit that tried to pin impeachment articles on President Trump over utterly nothing, as well as the grotesque fabulists of the Steele dossier who invented and peddled outright lies to manipulate U.S. law enforcement into taking action against Trump, there's no there there, zero substance, and as the truth gets out, they once again look like an awfully sorry bunch. They've been trying for years to "prove" that Trump is guilty of something, and this current Jan. 6 effort is once again demonstrating their capacity for pratfalls. 'Fact Checkers' Silent as Lyin' Joe Biden Perpetuates Disgusting Capitol Riot Whopper. In the immediate aftermath of the Capitol riot, it became very clear that the mainstream media and Democrats were going to milk the incident for all it was worth. Initial reports talked of Capitol police officers being "murdered" by Trump-supporting rioters as they broke through glass doorways and breached the Capitol building. It was those early false stories that were in part used by Democrats to make their impeachment "case" against then-President Donald Trump. Within a few days, that narrative along with others began to implode. But it took a few weeks before we saw the first major signs that the media was trying to correct itself. Biden blames Jan. 6 for Putin's invasion and other whoppers of the Ukraine war. [Scroll down] We've seen plenty of bad takes on Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but this one from the ostensible leader of the free world might be the most preposterous. The Russian strongman, who started grabbing Ukrainian territory in 2014, decided to attack again because of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot? Biden is also lying: Five cops weren't killed by crowds that day — none was. One officer died of natural causes the next day, and four killed themselves in the weeks and months after. Biden suggests Putin tried to divide the West after witnessing January 6. President Joe Biden suggested the Capitol riot inspired Putin to invade Ukraine and divide the West and then falsely claimed rioters killed five cops on January 6. 'Vladimir Putin was counting on being able to split up the United States,' Biden said in a speech in Superior, Wisconsin. 'Look, how would you feel if you saw crowds storm and break down the doors of the British Parliament and kill five cops, injure 145? Or the German Bundestag or the Italian Parliament?' he asked. One Capitol cop died of a stroke a day after January 6 and four killed themselves in the aftermath of the riot. January 6 Committee says it believes Trump engaged in criminal conduct in his bid to overturn the 2020 election. The committee in the US House of Representatives investigation the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021 said in a court filing Wednesday [3/2/2022] it believes that former President Donald Trump violated 'multiple laws' in his attempt to overturn the 2020 Presidential Election. Everything Is Fine. Some Americans may look north and worry, but they should be reassured. That can and will never happen here... and it isn't even that bad up there. Order must be maintained, after all. No one has a right to block the streets or disrupt traffic. [...] Similarly, only a cop-hater would worry that the remolding of the Capitol Police since January 6 into Nancy Pelosi's pretorian guard foretells much harsher crackdowns on protesters. But only on the dangerous kind. BLM could set the Capitol ablaze tomorrow and not even be arrested — for the same reason that they could fill downtowns in 2020 without possibly catching COVID, while you couldn't even go to the grocery store. A truck blocking D Street, on the other hand, threatens to overturn the entire Constitutional order. Many Capitol riot cases could hinge on first trial's outcome. The first trial for one of the hundreds of Capitol riot prosecutions begins this week, with jury selection starting Monday [2/28/2022] in the case against Guy Wesley Reffitt. The Texas man is charged with bringing a gun onto Capitol grounds, interfering with police officers guarding the building, and threatening his teenage children if they reported him to authorities. Jurors could hear attorneys' opening statements as soon as Tuesday. Reffitt's trial may be a bellwether for many other Capitol riot cases. A conviction would give prosecutors more leverage in plea talks with rioters facing the most serious charges. An acquittal may lead others to wait for their own day in court. Jan. 6 Defendant Takes His Own Life, Died of 'Broken Heart,' Family Says. Matthew L. Perna, a Pennsylvania man prosecuted for his 20-minute walk through the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, took his own life on Feb. 25 due to "a broken heart" and a justice system that "killed his spirit and his zest for life," his family said. Perna, 37, of Sharpsville, was due to be sentenced on April 1 in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., in a plea agreement on charges of obstruction of an official proceeding, aiding and abetting, entering, and remaining in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, and disorderly conduct in a Capitol building. One charge is a felony and the others are misdemeanors. Perna learned that prosecutors would seek an even longer jail sentence based on "domestic terrorism deterrence," Julie Kelly of American Greatness wrote on Twitter on Feb. 27. Man who 'broke the internet' when he posed with Pelosi's podium on Jan 6 sentenced to 75 days. The Florida man who "broke the internet" after he grabbed Speaker Nancy Pelosi's podium during the chaos at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, has been sentenced to more than two months in prison for his role in the so-called "insurrection," a stunt that he admits he now regrets. On Friday [2/25/2022], Adam Johnson received a punishment of 75 days behind bars along with one year of supervised release from U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton who also ordered him to pay a $5,000 fine along with 200 hours of community service, a steep price for his fleeting moment of fame. Roger Stone sues to block Jan. 6 committee access to phone records. Former Donald Trump adviser Roger Stone filed a lawsuit Thursday in an attempt to stop the Jan. 6 committee from accessing his phone records. The lawsuit, which Stone filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Thursday [2/24/2022], hopes to stop AT&T from turning his phone records over to the committee and is the latest case of a former Trump administration official attempting to stonewall the committee's efforts to obtain phone records. The subpoena of Stone's phone records, from Nov. 1, 2020, to Jan. 31, 2021, is overly broad and in violation of his First and Fourth Amendment rights, his lawyers argue. Freedom truckers in DC would be asking for trouble. According to reports, a copycat trucker convoy intends to visit Washington, D.C. I suggest they rethink their plans. The participants will be incurring great risk for minimal, if any, potential benefit. First, the risk. The police, prosecutors, judges, and indeed the jury pool in the District of Columbia are so partisan that Republicans and constitutional conservatives can be arrested, prosecuted, convicted, and jailed without having committed any crime. Indeed, it appears from the example of the January 6 prisoners that they can be jailed indefinitely without the legal system even bothering about prosecution or conviction. We Can't All Be Traitors, Can We? It's amazing how easy it is to become an "enemy of the State" these days. Showing up in D.C. on January 6 to protest the multifarious yet unexamined instances of vote fraud in the 2020 election has been propagandistically framed by the national security deep state as an "insurrection" intent on overthrowing the government. Attending local school board meetings to voice disapproval of district mask mandates, pornographic library materials, or Critical Race Theory indoctrination has been sufficient evidence for the Department of Justice to label parents as "domestic terrorists." Hillary consigliere Marc Elias has spent the last several months attempting to kick Republican incumbents off midterm congressional ballots by invoking part of the 14th Amendment's Civil War-related language barring from office those who have engaged in "insurrection or rebellion" against the United States. How did the Republican congressmen engage in war against America? By exercising their free speech and addressing hundreds of thousands of Trump-supporters on January 6, of course. Doubting election legitimacy and saying so out loud is now equivalent to taking up arms against the country! The Treason of the Ruling Class. The true believers within the American ruling class, fearful of a populist uprising, convinced the rest of their alliance to go along with casting the January 6, 2021 protest as an "insurrection." They have imprisoned many without bail or trial including those charged with misdemeanor trespassing. They have choreographed public displays of arresting those who legally entered the Capitol and some who did not enter the building. Their allies in the financial community have arbitrarily closed people's bank accounts and businesses. They have recruited the social media conglomerates to censor speech. They have stereotyped of all who voted for Donald Trump as "domestic terrorists." Why the Jan 6 Event Must be Labelled an Insurrection — Only that Will Bar Trump from 2024. [Scroll down] This January 6 investigation is determined to declare that this was a "violent insurrection" as now Mitch McConnell is doing to prevent Trump from running in 2024. These people are playing with fire, for this will only result in the total collapse of any faith in Congress whatsoever for this is all about protecting their own deep pockets. Even criminally charging Trump does not prevent him from running for office any more than it stopped Nelson Mandella in South Africa. A felon can run for office. He could even run from inside prison. There is no bar from that since so many criminal prosecutions are for political agendas. Anyone can also run for Speaker of the House — they need not be a Representative. The Power of the Powerless Is Real. Does anyone think the perverse and heavy-handed responses by the American government to the January 6 election protesters is a sign of strength? [...] Western governments are terrified of their people today. They are terrified of what their people believe, or else they wouldn't feel compelled to criminalize thoughts as "hateful." They are scared to death of what their people might say to each other, or else they wouldn't engage in mass surveillance and blatant censorship. They are fearful of free and fair elections, or else they wouldn't work so hard to manipulate and undermine them. And they are absolutely petrified of a future where cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies free their citizens from the consolidated control imposed by central banks and spendthrift treasuries. Location of Harris, Pence on Jan. 6 Becomes Key Part of Efforts to Fight Prosecution. Pinpointing the whereabouts of Vice President Kamala Harris and former Vice President Mike Pence have become a key part of efforts by multiple Jan. 6 defendants in fighting against prosecution. Harris was the vice president elect and Pence still the vice president when rioters entered the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Many charges say both Harris and Pence were inside the building when a defendant went into the Capitol or was on Capitol grounds. But the government is now admitting Harris left before the clock struck noon, well before the Capitol was breached. And fresh questions are being raised about where Pence went when Congress split up to consider objections to electoral votes before the breach. Prosecutors have leveled the charge of entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds against over 200 defendants, asserting the charge was warranted because people "did unlawfully and knowingly enter and remain in a restricted building and founds ... where the vice president and vice president-elect were temporarily visiting, without lawful authority to do so." Why Can't We See the Other 14,000 Hours of J6 Video Footage? The feds have been very picky about which videos from the January 6 Capitol protest we can and cannot see. Why is that? If those hundreds of thousands of filthy Trumpers tried to take over the United States, as Don Lemon told us, and the feds have it on tape, show us who the seditionary monsters are so loyal townsfolk can identify them and help put them into the stockades. We've only seen the same worn-out, edited clips of protestors clashing with the police. The Department of Justice (DOJ) also released a three-hour video showing people fighting with Capitol police in a tunnel. What they are refusing to release is about 14,000 hours of surveillance, police body-cam, and phone video footage that might show another side of January 6. 'A Political Prisoner of the Democratic Party'. Three months after Ashli Babbitt, an unarmed veteran and Trump supporter, was killed by a Capitol police officer on January 6, 2021, the Justice Department's Civil Rights division closed its investigation into the fatal shooting. Omitting the name of Lieutenant Michael Byrd — the media, law enforcement officials, and congressional leaders concealed his identity for months — the Justice Department concluded Byrd did not violate 18 U.S.C., section 242, a federal criminal civil rights statute, when he shot Babbitt at point-blank range without warning, barely missing her face, around 2:45 p.m. that day. "The investigation revealed no evidence to establish beyond a reasonable doubt that the officer willfully committed a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 242," the Justice Department said in an April 2021 statement. Reports later revealed that Byrd had refused to participate in any substantive probe of his conduct on January 6. Not only did Byrd escape criminal charges or any internal reprimand, he is still employed as head of security for the House of Representatives and heralded as a hero in many quarters, including the national news media. Sen. Johnson asks Secret Service how agents missed pipe bomb outside of DNC on Jan. 6. Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) on Wednesday asked the U.S. Secret Service director why agents did not find a suspicious pipe bomb reportedly placed outside of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters during a sweep of the area before Vice President-elect Kamala Harris arrived there on Jan. 6, 2021. "Given that Secret Service reportedly swept the areas in and around the DNC headquarters prior to Harris' arrival on January 6, 2021, it seems odd that agents did not immediately discover the pipe bomb that was reportedly located next to a park bench at that location," Johnson wrote to Secret Service Director James Murray. Judge rejects effort by Trump to toss Jan. 6 lawsuits. A federal judge on Friday [2/18/2022] rejected efforts by former President Donald Trump to toss out conspiracy lawsuits filed by lawmakers and two Capitol police officers, saying in his ruling that the former president's words "plausibly" led to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta said in his ruling that Trump's words during a rally before the violent storming of the U.S. Capitol were likely "words of incitement not protected by the First Amendment." D.C. Jail Ignores House Judiciary Member's Query About January 6 Inmates. Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) has yet to hear from the D.C. Department of Corrections, whose director he queried in July of 2021, about the status of the men and women who remain in the agency's custody for charges related to the January 6 riot at the Capitol. Steube is on the House Judiciary Committee, which has oversight of the nation's federal prisons and jails in the District of Columbia. Unaddressed issues corrode America like battery acid. These days, when it comes to news reports about issues that matter, a lot falls through the cracks. [...] How can it be that American citizens who behaved badly on January 6th (yet killed no one and burned nothing down) are still in jail (and sometimes solitary) a year after their arrest? On what basis do you hold average-Joe citizens for such a long period without trial? In the USA moreover? Aside from Representatives Gaetz, Greene. and Gohmert, where is the outcry from Republicans? Does anyone in authority care about these people and their families? The January 6 Pipe Bombs Look Like Another FBI Hoax. In the 15-minute time span before the joint session of Congress convened at 1:00 p.m. on January 6, 2021, two incidents that set the stage for the day's ensuing chaos happened simultaneously. First, a man named Ryan Samsel, after taking some sort of direction from Ray Epps, overran a thin line of police and metal racks in what would be the first official breach of Capitol grounds around 12:50 p.m. (Samsel was charged and has been incarcerated for more than a year; Epps faces no charges.) Joining Samsel were members of the Proud Boys and a still-unknown number of FBI informants. Around the same time, a woman named Karlin Younger who just happened to be walking to a laundry facility near the Republican National Committee headquarters just happened to look down and see what she believed was a pipe bomb nestled between a dumpster and a fence right next to the building. How Mike Pence Fell Short on January 6. It's easy to imagine that most Republican voters approved of former Vice President Mike Pence. They must have appreciated his loyalty to a president very different than himself. At times, Mike seemed the perfect V.P. But when it came to what was his most important responsibility as President of the Senate, Pence did not rise to the occasion, which was the certification of the 2020 presidential election on January 6, 2021. [...] Pence is correct; he had no "right" conferred to him by the Constitution to "overturn" the 2020 election. And if Donald Trump contended that he did, then Trump was indeed wrong. But none of that makes any difference, as Pence could still have nullified the "election." (Scare quotes were used there because the 2020 "election" was riddled with so many illegalities, problems, and government failures that it can't really qualify as an election.) However, when Pence claims that "the presidency belongs to the American people and the American people alone," he seems to be forgetting that it is the Electoral College that determines who the president is; that's what Jan. 6 was all about. Arizona GOP Chair Kelli Ward Sues to Block Democrats' January 6 House Committee from Subpoenaing Her Phone Records. The Democratic-controlled House Select Committee investigating the January 6, 2021 protest at the U.S. Capitol subpoenaed numerous Republicans close to former President Donald Trump, including three months of phone records from Arizona Republican Party Chair Kelli Ward despite not participating in the rally that day. Several of the Republicans subpoenaed are fighting back against the aggressive posturing, including Ward, who filed a lawsuit in Arizona federal district court on Tuesday [2/8/2022] along with her husband against the House Select Committee and its chair Rep. Bennie Thompson (R-MS-02) in order to stop T-Mobile from turning over the records. Ward alleges that the subpoena was issued as retaliation for her and her husband being one of 11 Arizona Republican electors that selected Donald Trump for president shortly after the 2020 presidential election, while the litigation over the election was still ongoing. She said the subpoena "fails to provide a valid legislative purpose" since she wasn't present at the January 6 protest. How could this door be found wide open? [Video clip] Bodycam Footage Shows Capitol Police Striking Unconscious Trump Supporter Who Died on Jan. 6. Heavily redacted bodycam videos from the West Terrace tunnel on Jan. 6, 2021, provide a glimpse into conditions at the time Rosanne Boyland lay unconscious — including the sound of her being beaten with a large wooden stick by police. Several bodycam videos obtained by The Epoch Times have much of the screen blurred out by authorities, but key audio and video clues back up witness statements and other videos previously released by the U.S. Department of Justice. A 39-second video clip from the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department shows the gloved hand of Officer Lila Morris picking up a long stick that was lying alongside an unconscious Rosanne Boyland, and then striking the prone woman multiple times. The sound of the stick making contact with Boyland's body is clearly audible. Kasich: 'January 6 Is One of the Darkest Moments in Our History'. Former Gov. John Kasich (R-OH) said Thursday [2/10/2022] on CNN's "The Situation Room" that the House Select Committee investigating the riot on January 6, 2021 at the U.S. Capitol was important because it is getting to the bottom of "one of the darkest moments in our history." Guest-host Jim Acosta said, "As you know, the top-secret designation means if those documents were released, it could cause grave damage to national security, so what's your reaction to this report? Can you imagine removing top-secret documents from the White House?" D.C.'s Met police exonerate their own for beating an unconscious woman to death. Last year, without even bothering to interview him, the Capitol Police instantly exonerated Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd, the man who shot an unarmed Ashli Babbitt in cold blood. Now we've learned that the Washington, D.C. police force's Bureau of Internal Affairs has exonerated a police officer who beat an unconscious woman to death. You know, as I do, that if the two dead women had been Black leftists, instead of White Trump supporters, the outcome of these two investigations would have been very different. Judge scolds DOJ for lying about VP's whereabouts on Jan. 6. In a case against a Jan. 6 defendant, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Thursday rebuked Justice Department prosecutors for misleading a grand jury and the court about the whereabouts of then Vice President-elect Kamala Harris during the rioting at the U.S. Capitol. Last week, CNN reported that contrary to the Justice Department's indictments, Harris was at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington when the riot began. It was Harris' security detail, in fact, that found one of the two pipe bombs that were widely reported on Jan. 6. But until last week, it wasn't known that Harris was within yards of a pipe bomb before it was discovered. Raising further questions is the fact that the pipe bomb suspect, despite surveillance camera footage and physical evidence, has not been identified. If DC Fears Trump, He Deserves Four More Years. I do try not to get angry when government actors confirm my belief that they are lowly human beings not worthy of respect. [...] Still, there are things that boil my blood faster than I can tend to my passions and mediate my hatred. And one of those instances came this week, when Mitch McConnell pushed the D.C. Leviathan's lie that January 6 was a "violent insurrection" in his clear attempt to set the stage for a time in the near future when the power-mad monsters of Washington declare to the country that President Donald Trump will not be "permitted" to run for election in 2024. I could write an avalanche of essays explaining how important I believe Trump's presidency has been for this country. But that seems secondary to the need to roll up six years of government-orchestrated hoaxes, crimes, and propaganda used to undermine the 2016 (and, in my opinion, 2020) election(s) and shove all of Washington's corruption right down its collective throat. Capitol Police Dept. Rules Brutal Beating of Trump Supporter Rosanne Boyland Was "Objectionably Reasonable". Last July, Trump supporter and activist, Philip Anderson confirmed to The Gateway Pundit that Capitol Police killed Trump protester Rosanne Boyland on January 6. Philip knows this because he was next to her when she died. He was holding her hand. And Philip nearly died himself. Activist Philip Anderson spoke with The Gateway Pundit about the Jan. 6 protests at the US Capitol and how the Capitol police murdered Rosanne Boyland and nearly took his life too. The January 6 Commission will NEVER call in Philip Anderson to testify. It would blow up their narrative. Deputy Virginia AG resigns after social media posts surface where she praised Capitol rioters as 'patriots'. A deputy Virginia attorney general resigned on Thursday after social media posts surfaced in which she praised the Capitol rioters as 'patriots,' falsely claimed Donald Trump won the 2020 election and repeated conspiracy theories about voter fraud. A spokeswoman for Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares confirmed Monique Miles' resignation and said that her posts, first reported by The Washington Post, had been unknown to the office before Thursday morning [2/10/2022]. 'The Attorney General has been very clear — Joe Biden won the election and he has condemned the January 6th attack,' spokeswoman Victoria LaCivita said in a statement. On the one-year anniversary of Jan. 6: Here's what the media did not report!. On Nov. 14, 2020 — after courts across the country had used technicalities to refuse to hear cases on voter fraud — thousands of Trump supporters converged in D.C. They held rallies at the Supreme Court, the U.S. Capitol, and in Freedom Square. On Dec. 12, 2020 rally goers again flocked to D.C. at the Capitol and the Supreme Court. [...] On both of those days, the Capitol and Supreme Court buildings were surrounded by police and barricaded. Nobody could get close without risking immediate arrest. [...] But on January 6, it was just the opposite. Security was non-existent. That day, when people came to hear President Trump at the Ellipse and then rally at the Capitol, there were no barricades around the building, no police cars, and almost no police in the area at all. In fact (as has been well-documented), doors leading into the Capitol building were mysteriously unlocked and in some cases security police held them open for people to enter. #WalkAway campaign founder: 'Feds tried to destroy me over Jan. 6'. On Jan. 6, 2021, social media influencer Brandon Straka ran a thriving nonprofit organization with a massive following, had a game plan for red-pilling Democratic minorities, and was personally invited by President Donald Trump to attend a rally. It all came crashing down when Straka was seen standing on the East Lawn of the Capitol filming people, out of view from the violence and chaos seen around the world. Straka unwittingly became one of the event's most famous defendants when he was arrested two weeks later by a SWAT team that he says treated him as a terrorist. He is now confined to his home, claims he has been placed on a terror watchlist, and is on federal probation for the next three years. Straka says the experience has left him shaken. Cops clear officer who beat Jan. 6 protester with stick, baton as she died. Police in Washington, D.C., have investigated the apparently violent beating of a Jan. 6 protester who already was on the ground by an officer with a stick and a baton, and have reported that violence was "objectively reasonable," according to a report by Just the News. The investigation conclusion comes from the city's Metropolitan Police Department's Bureau of Internal Affairs. The review revealed D.C. Officer Lila Morris beat Rosanne Boyland with a steel baton and "what appeared to be a wooden walking stick." This was after the victim, of Kennesaw, Georgia, already was unconscious and on the ground on the day rioting erupted at the U.S. Capitol. Now Kevin McCarthy calls January 6 a 'violent insurrection'. House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy has conceded that January 6th was a 'violent insurrection,' saying he agreed with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's description of that day. 'No one would disagree with that,' McCarthy told reporters on Capitol Hill on Wednesday [2/9/2022]. His clarification comes after McCarthy was mocked by Democrats for walking away from an ABC News reporter who was asking him about the Republican National Committee censure of Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney for serving on the committee investigating the insurrection. The Latest Democrat/RINO Plan to Prevent Trump From Running Again in 2024. Why did Mitch McConnell break ranks with the Republican National Committee and insist, contrary to a growing mountain of evidence, that the Jan. 6 incident was "a violent insurrection for the purpose of trying to prevent a peaceful transfer of power after a legitimately certified election from one administration to the next"? [...] If it was an insurrection, then Trump, who has grown increasingly critical and contemptuous of McConnell, can be barred from running in 2024. The initiative to do this is gathering steam. [...] The Fourteenth Amendment, Section 3 [...] was designed to keep unrepentant Confederates out of public office after the Civil War (although many did hold office, as more often than not Congress did vote to waive the prohibition). As PJM's Rick Moran noted Wednesday [2/9/2022], it's already being used against America-First Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.), although he is fighting back hard. It's likely to be used against others who are associated with the Jan. 6 non-insurrection as well. But Cawthorn and the rest would just be a dry run. The great white whale these Captain Ahabs are hunting is Donald Trump, and they hope that in the 14th Amendment, they have found their harpoon. The Capitol Police have been fully weaponized against Republicans. On January 6, [2021,] the Capitol police failed to protect the Capitol. We know this because Capitol police chief Steven Sund, after being fired on January 7, 2021, explained that he requested backup from the National Guard, which never arrived, and that his people just weren't ready. Trump stated that he requested that 10,000 National Guard troops be deployed to the Capitol before January 6 to provide protection for his rally. According to him, congressional leaders said no. What really happened remains a mystery despite the "investigation" by the January 6 Committee. You'd think they would have figured that one out. Also bizarrely, on January 6, someone (the Capitol police?) opened from the inside the Capitol's 20,000-pound doors, which are secured by powerful magnetic locks. We then saw footage of the same Capitol police graciously welcoming people inside, which led many innocents to believe that they had the perfect right to be inside the People's House. For those of us (like me), who think that January 6 was an entrapment scheme, it would appear that the Capitol police were part of the plan. McConnell States the People Can Never Be Permitted a Voice in Politics, and January 6th Was a Terrorist Attack. Mitch McConnell and his team of UniParty leaders made a strong statement today against anyone who would ever have the audacity to stand in opposition to the upper elite within the United States government. The timing of McConnell to align with Joe Biden is not coincidental. First, to the status of the January 6th protestors, DeceptiCon party leader Mitch McConnel affirms the united DC position that all J6 protestors were violent domestic terrorists, carrying out an insurrection attempt, intent on destroying the carefully constructed democracy the DC elites are providing to the people. Stunningly, the second point was McConnell admonishing the RNC for rejecting Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger as members of the Republican Party platform. McConnell now states the Republican Party should have no input in determining who is supported by the Republican membership. What the Jan. 6 Capitol Incursion Really Was. The Capitol incursion was the work of a small minority of the Trump supporters who gathered in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 6. They focused on the Capitol and the Capitol alone. But they didn't attack private property or other public buildings. They didn't loot businesses or assault bystanders. They didn't occupy other public spaces. They caused damage estimated at $1.5 million, compared to the BLM/Antifa riot total of over $1 billion. The only person to die from the application of force was a rioter shot, likely without justification, by a police officer. And while the 2011 leftist occupation of the Wisconsin State Capitol lasted over two weeks, the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol incursion was over in about four hours. Many of those arrested were typical trouble-makers. But many were otherwise-respectable community leaders: a police officer, "teachers, multiple firefighters, a company CEO, and numerous elected officials." Unlike leftist demonstrators, they didn't envision themselves as overturning the Constitution, but protecting it. McConnell breaks with RNC: Jan. 6 'violent insurrection'. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) criticized the Republican National Committee (RNC) for its censure of Reps. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) and Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and broke with their language on the Jan. 6, 2021 riot, calling it a "violent insurrection." "It was a violent insurrection with the purpose of trying to prevent a peaceful transfer of power after a legitimately certified election. ... That's what it was," McConnell said. The RNC sparked fierce backlash after it described Jan. 6, when a mob of former President Trump's followers breached the Capitol, as "legitimate political discourse" in a resolution censuring Kinzinger and Cheney. 'Breadcrumbs Lead to Speaker's Office,' Rep. Jim Banks Warns. Rep. Jim Banks heavily criticized House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for her failure to hand over key documents related to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, saying in a Monday interview that Republican lawmakers believe the severity of the riot was due to a "systemic breakdown and failure at the highest levels of the Capitol Police." The Indiana Republican, who is on a panel of GOP lawmakers that is unofficially investigating the riot, spoke with The Daily Signal following an Axios report headlined "GOP's shadow Jan. 6 committee targets Capitol Police 'negligence.'" Banks criticized the article and strongly disputed any implication that Republicans are focusing negative attention on Capitol Police officers themselves, noting that Republicans believe it is the leadership of the police force that was at fault. Capitol Police Caught Spying in Republican Congressional Office, Investigation Launched. In late January, news broke of multiple instances of the Capitol Police appearing to spy on Republican congressional members. Those actions followed the rank politicization of the force that took place after January 6th, including the expansion of its intelligence-gathering mission in areas that are, at best, questionable. [...] While vetting of contacts is not necessarily nefarious, it is supposed to be done out in the open and in conjunction with lawmakers. Instead, the Capitol Police have instituted a system that remains in shadows, conveniently only seeming to target Republicans. Another disturbing example of that has emerged via The Federalist, this time involving Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX). According to a police report filed by a USCP officer, Nehls' office was entered without permission and his work materials were photographed because they appeared "suspicious." Inspector General Opens Investigation Into U.S. Capitol Police Following Allegations Of Spying On Members Of Congress, Staff. The inspector general for the U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) has opened a formal investigation into whether the law enforcement agency tasked with securing the Capitol has been inappropriately surveilling elected members of Congress, their staff, and visitors to their offices, The Federalist has learned. The opening of the investigation follows news reports and accusations from lawmakers that USCP has overstepped its bounds as it tries to recover from the January 6 riots that tarnished both the Capitol and the reputation of the law enforcement agency that was supposed to keep it safe. USCP Chief J. Thomas Manger confirmed the opening of the inspector general investigation in his response to congressional inquiries about USCP police tactics, reported in a January 24 article published by Politico, including surveilling and compiling intelligence dossiers on members of Congress, their staff, and visitors. Pelosi's Capitol Cops Tried to Sneak Into GOP Congressman's Office Dressed as Construction Workers, Illegally Took Photos of Legislative Documents. Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Capitol Police are alleged to have illegally entered the office of Congressman Troy Nehls (R-TX), photographing confidential legislative products and grilling staff, according to reports. The police — now under formal investigation — stand accused of dressing up as construction workers and attempting another entry just two days later. The stunning, Watergate-style scandal comes after almost a year of warnings that Speaker Pelosi and Democrats in Congress were politicizing the Capitol Police, using them as a Stasi-style enforcement unit against GOP opponents. Reports suggest Capitol Police have built intelligence dossiers on those illegally investigated. The documents photographed, says Nehls, are "protected by the Speech and Debate clause enshrined in the Constitution, Article 1 Section 6". Judicial Watch Battles Pelosi Congress for January 6 Videos. How can there be any doubt that Nancy Pelosi's January 6 committee is a McCarthy-esque political tool? Rather than seeking the truth, it tries to cover it up. Witness its attempts to block our inquiries. Here's the latest. We filed an opposition to the U.S. Capitol Police's (USCP) effort to shut down our lawsuit for January 6 videos and emails. Through its police department, Congress argues that the videos and emails are not public records, there is no public interest in their release, and that "sovereign immunity" prevents citizens from suing for their release. What the Media Isn't Telling You About Jan. 6. The events of Jan. 6, 2021, are often portrayed by Democrats and their friends in the media as an insurrection. It's a loaded word meant to imply that protesters were mounting an organized rebellion against the U.S. government. That description might fit the left's narrative of what happened on that day in Washington, but it's a far stretch from the truth, according to Julie Kelly, author of a new book, "January 6: How Democrats Used the Capitol Protest to Launch a War on Terror Against the Political Right." [Video clip] NY Times Warns: Republicans Can Use January 6 Committee's Precedent to Pursue Democrats After Midterm Elections. The New York Times warned Saturday that Democrats are setting a dangerous precedent with the January 6 Committee, exceeding the constitutional powers of Congress in a way that Republicans can use when they take back the majority. The Times' Michael S. Schmidt — who shared a Pulitzer Prize for the discredited Russia "collusion" story — and Luke Broadwater — reported that the committee "is borrowing techniques from federal prosecutions, employing aggressive tactics typically used against mobsters and terrorists ... [to] develop evidence that could prompt a criminal case" against former President Donald Trump, even though it has "has no authority to pursue criminal charges." J6 Defendant Talks About Police Brutality at the Hands of Capitol Police on January 6. 28-year old Air Force Veteran Alan Fischer III, also known as AJ Fischer, was arrested in Florida last month and denied bond in the Pinellas County Jail in Clearwater. He was charged with assaulting, resisting, or impeding an officer, violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, and civil disorder, among other offenses, Insider reported. Fischer's mother reached out to The Gateway Pundit to share his letter to discuss what happened on January 6. It Sure Seems Like the January 6th Committee Was Colluding With Jeff Zucker. In case you haven't heard, CNN's Jeff Zucker is out of a job. [...] During his stint, Zucker essentially ran CNN into the ground, with a viewership drop of 80 percent residing on his record. Still, the hand-wringing at his departure was extensive. Examples began to surface of CNN hosts and staffers expressing outrage. How could they possibly replace someone who had failed so spectacularly? That angst starts to make more sense, though, when you think of things in terms of preferred narratives. It wasn't that Zucker was doing a good job by the numbers. The network was and is collapsing, after all. Rather, it was that he was protecting the right people, within the network and outside the network. And when it comes to the latter group, it sure seems like the January 6th Committee was colluding with Zucker. What's my evidence for such speculation? How about members of the committee asserting that Zucker's departure represents a threat to "democracy"? RNC Censures Cheney, Kinzinger for Their Role on Jan. 6 Committee. The Republican National Committee (RNC) advanced a resolution on Thursday [2/3/2022] that would censure Reps. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) and Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) for their roles on the controversial House Jan. 6 Committee. The resolution would officially strip Cheney and Kinzinger of the support of the GOP and would take away their recognition as members of the Republican Party by the RNC. "The primary mission of the Republican Party is to elect Republicans who support the United States Constitution and share our values," the RNC resolution said. "The Conference must not be sabotaged by Representatives Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger who have demonstrated, with actions and words, that they support Democrat efforts to destroy President [Donald] Trump more than they support winning back a Republican majority in 2022," it said further down. FBI boss Christopher Wray denies Capitol riot taken more seriously than 2020 riots. FBI Director Christopher Wray claimed the FBI is working just as hard to punish participants in the 2020 George Floyd riots as those involved in the Capitol riot, though neither the numbers nor his own boss's words seem to back him up. Wray made the improbable claim in response to questions during an appearance earlier this week at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. [...] Republicans have raised concerns the Justice Department has not put the same effort into prosecutions tied to the violent, racially charged riots of 2020 as the storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The GOP points to nationwide rioting and attacks on federal courthouses and police in the wake of George Floyd's death at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer. Mitch McConnell says January 6 defendants should not have their sentences shortened. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell countered former President Donald Trump on Tuesday saying those charged with crimes for the January 6 Capitol attack shouldn't have their sentences shortened. 'What we saw here on January the 6th was an effort to prevent the peaceful transfer of power from one administration to the other, which had never happened before in our country,' McConnell said at a press conference with GOP leaders. 'My view is I would not be in favor of shortening any of the sentences for any of the people who pleaded guilty to crimes.' At his Texas rally on Saturday, Trump dangled pardons for January 6 defendants. 'If I run, and if I win, we will treat those people from January 6 fairly. We will treat them fairly,' he told the crowd. Raskin previews upcoming Jan 6 hearings, when he'll parade 'Trump entourage' in front of cameras. Start popping your popcorn, because the House Select Committee Investigation on the biggest thing to happen in America since the Civil War will soon be going public. For more than a year now, "January 6" has been the date on everyone's mind, as the House Select Committee Investigating the riots at the Capitol continues in its attempts to frame the event as a dangerous insurrection. While the schedule for the primetime hearings has not yet been released, Rep. Jamie Raskin, a member of the committee, sat down with SiriusXM host Dean Obeidallah on Friday to give listeners a preview of what we can expect, starting with when the show may start and a list of potential witnesses who may be testifying for the cameras. A
Monty Python Insurrection? [Scroll down] Here are just a few of my concerns about what these charges may, and in all probability
will, mean for those fellow American citizens who are (more and more just theoretically) protected by the Constitution and Bill of Rights:
Desperate Jan. 6 prisoner goes on hunger strike, demands Capitol Police be investigated. As the U.S. House Select Committee charged with "investigating" the January 6 riot at the Capitol gleefully prepares for its primetime debut, a desperate political prisoner is going on a hunger strike until a real investigation is conducted. Edward Jacob Lang, who goes by "Jake," has issued a statement from his cell in what many refer to as "D.C.'s Gitmo," declaring he will go on a "prolonged hunger strike" until his demands are met. Our Representatives, Not J6 Protesters, Defile the 'Sacred' U.S. Capitol. When politics is your religion and government is your God, a public building is your church. The four-hour disturbance at the U.S. Capitol building on January 6, according to Beltway aristocracy and the media, wasn't a legitimate protest that turned violent in some areas — it was a sacrilege. Never mind that the building itself sustained minimal damage — early reports estimated $30 million for repairs but the actual figure is around $1 million — the real vandalism occurred when thousands of Americans wearing MAGA hats invaded the cathedral of government power occupied by America's political deity. And the alleged apostates are paying a dear price. Since January 6, lawmakers, judges, and federal prosecutors have routinely described the Capitol building as holy ground. Lindsey Graham and Susan Collins Buck Trump, Vow to Persecute Jan-6ers. President Trump held another packed rally in Conroe, Texas on Saturday night [1/29/2022]. An estimated 50,000 supporters turned out to see President Trump in Texas. President Trump also promised to release the persecuted January 6 Political Prisoners at the DC Gulag! These poor men and women are held in isolation without any basic human rights. Truly this is a dark stain on America and our judicial system. This morning on the Sunday talk shows dangerous Lindsey Graham and RINO Susan Collins bucked Trump and vowed to persecute the January 6 prisoners. These are not good people. 'Someone Opened the Doors From the Inside,' Jan. 6 Defense Attorney Says. Kelly Meggs and other members of the Oath Keepers could not have done one of the major things of which they are accused by federal prosecutors: force their way into the U.S. Capitol Rotunda on Jan. 6, 2021, through the famous Columbus Doors, a defense attorney says. The two sets of historic doors that lead into the Rotunda were opened by someone on the inside, and not his client, says defense attorney Jonathon Moseley. Department of Justice video widely circulated on Twitter this week shows a man trying to open the inner doors by leaning against them, before turning around as if listening to someone, then returning to the entrance and opening the left door for protesters. New Video Shows War Vet, Ashli Babbitt, Was Trying to Get to Safety on Jan 6th, 2021. Now we have even more evidence that Ashli Babbitt was in fear for her life and was trying to escape to safety by jumping in the window she was executed in by Capitol Police who watched the entire thing happen. Michael Byrd needs to be arrested ASAP for murder. He saw exactly what Ashli did and still killed her. "'As we keep seeing these videos and it's all coming into play and it's literally laying out everything I've said from day one, that she's a good person, that she loved this country, she was law enforcement, pro-law enforcement, wasn't breaking anything, didn't hurt anybody — we're seeing it now,' Babbitt told The Epoch Times." Aaron Babbitt even called this video the missing piece of the puzzle and declared that "we will get to the bottom of" this horrific incident. [Video clip] Dershowitz: Jan. 6 Committee similar to McCarthyism witch-hunt. A Harvard Law professor compared the January 6 Committee to a tactic used in the 1950s to oust accused communists who had no actual ties to the party. Legal scholar Alan Dershowitz said the panel is not a valid congressional body and it's actually in violation of legislative rules. "It reminds me a little bit of McCarthyism, where you had committees like the House Un-American Activities Committee, which didn't have an appropriate legislative purpose," he explained. "They were just trying to subpoena people for political and ideological purposes." In a recent interview with Breitbart, Dershowitz said the panel is being used by Democrats to target political opponents similar to the witch-hunts of 1950s McCarthyism era. New Footage Shows Ashli Babbitt Punched Violent Rioter Who Was Breaking Windows. On Tuesday, The Epoch Times released never before seen footage of Ashli Babbitt that provides even more insight into what happened before she was shot and killed by Capitol Hill Police Officer Mike Byrd. Once again, the latest video directly contradicts the fabricated narrative that Babbitt had been acting as a violent insurrectionist, and even supports the evidence that was released last week that showed she was attempting to stop two violent instigators from smashing the windows leading into the Speaker's lobby. Two More Witnesses at Ashli Babbitt Shooting Identified. Two men sought by the family of Ashli Babbitt as witnesses to her shooting death at the U.S. Capitol have been identified as previously arrested by the FBI and indicted on federal charges from the Jan. 6 riots. The owner of a Texas winery is the "Gadsden Flag Man" who was in the center of the Speaker's Lobby hallway just feet away when Ashli Babbitt was shot to death at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. A man from Mount Washington, Kentucky, indicted in March 2021 is the man seen on video in the orange-red jacket and gray cap who allegedly smashed a window in the Speaker's Lobby door with the end of a flagpole. The family of Ashli Babbitt, 35, has been seeking to identify key participants in the hallway unrest that afternoon. The identification of Christopher Ray Grider and Chad Barrett Jones reduces by two the number of "unknowns" who witnessed the riotous behavior at the entry to the Speaker's Lobby. The Capitol Police Are Spying on Members of Congress, and the Details Are Incredibly Disturbing. The events of January 6th have been used as a pretense by partisans for all kinds of insanity over the last year. From playing fortification theater with the Capitol Building to the government constantly pretending "domestic extremists" are the nation's biggest threat, the game is simple: To make Republicans who had nothing to do with that day feel political pain. Another move that caused concern when it occurred was Nancy Pelosi's elevation of the United States Capitol Police to some kind of personal, partisan defense force, including funding offices all over the country used to gather data on those that just so happen to be political opponents. Now, we are learning just how far that operation goes, and the details are incredibly disturbing. Did the Justice Department Lie About Pence and Harris' Location on January 6? Of the more than 725 Americans arrested so far for various crimes related to the Capitol protest on January 6, 2021, nearly every defendant faces the same two misdemeanor charges: "entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds" and "disorderly conduct in a restricted building or grounds." The basis for the offenses is not, as the American people repeatedly have been told, that the building was closed to the public that day. After all, hundreds of people were allowed inside as Capitol police stood by; no signage or official announcements alerted the public that the building was off-limits. Instead, the Justice Department has argued that the presence of both Vice President Michael Pence and incoming Vice President Kamala Harris rendered entry into the Capitol on January 6 a federal crime under 18 U.S. Code section 1752. "Select Committee on January 6th" Is Above the Law and Beyond Review. [Scroll down] Americans assume that if the government wants something from you in your home a search warrant will issue after a judge has reviewed and approved it. Or, if the government wants your records through a third party via subpoena, the government will issue that subpoena to a third party and the citizen will get a copy. Only under exigent circumstance (imminent threat) will the person not be notified. Usually, a citizen may then object via judicial review. But the J6 committee it has declared that there is no authority above it, that it is beyond judicial scrutiny. In short, it has the power of an inquisition and its members are inquisitors. Take the case of Taylor Budowich. He was connected to Trump's reelection campaign. He held no government position. He submitted to the committee's questions and produced requested documents. He thought, he had nothing to hide. He was not involved in the J6 riot. He appeared before the committee lawyers and gave testimony. At the same time and without his knowledge the committee had subpoenaed his JP Morgan bank records. He wasn't informed until it was too late and JP Morgan, with counsel from Loretta Lynch (yes that Loretta Lynch) told Budowich it was producing his documents notwithstanding his objections. The production date was clearly a set-up — December 24th, a date that the court was closed. Capitol Police examines backgrounds, social media feeds of some who meet with lawmakers. After the Jan. 6 insurrection, the Capitol Police's intelligence unit quietly started scrutinizing the backgrounds of people who meet with lawmakers, according to three people familiar with the matter. Politico also viewed written communications describing the new approach, part of a host of changes that the department implemented after the Capitol attack. Examining the social media feeds of people who aren't suspected of crimes, however, is a controversial move for law enforcement and intelligence officials given the civil liberties concerns it raises. Among those who have been subject to new Capitol Police scrutiny are Hill staffers, the three people said. Will the Arrogance of the FBI Ever End? At a recent Judiciary Committee hearing Sen. Ted Cruz put the FBI Executive Assistant Director of the National Security Branch, Jill Sandborn, on the spot when he cross-examined her on how many FBI informants, agents and assets participated in the January 6, 2021 riots on Capitol Hill. She refused to answer question after question, claiming that she could not disclose "specifics of sources and methods." She even refused to answer the question, "Did any FBI agents or confidential informants commit crimes of violence on January 6th?" Senator Cruz had every reason to ask those questions after the news hit that about half of the participants in the alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer were FBI informants. They reportedly pushed the kidnaping plot while the FBI provided funding for it. The FBI agent in charge of the "investigation" was promoted to the Washington, D.C. field office, perhaps just in time to supervise a similar operation on January 6th. Defense lawyers have asked the federal judge presiding over the case in Michigan to order the Justice Department to provide "use immunity" to FBI agents and informants they want to cross-examine at trial. The 'Mystery Man' Ray Epps Indeed Has a Proven Link to the FBI — It's Just Not What Everybody Thought. Ray Epps, the "mystery man" who is implicated in the very launch of the Capitol riots, has denied being an FBI informant or agent before the partisan House committee on January 6. As far as the mainstream media is concerned, they would just as soon wash their hands of the matter. [...] But for unknown reasons, Ray Epps is a free man. He is not only walking free while MAGA grandmas sit languishing in jail, awaiting trial on relatively minor charges, but he has inexplicably found defenders in the leftist press. These are rabid Democrats who never met a Trump supporter they didn't despise and wish evil upon simply for committing the thought crime of disagreeing with them. [...] But it turns out that Epps has his defenders, even among those with long track records in the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Indeed, none other than his own attorney. [...] This is quite the fascinating nugget. Why would an FBI-connected lawyer be representing Ray Epps, who is one of the pivotal provocateurs of the January 6 riots? The 1/6 Select Committee Witch Hunt. For quite some time, Congress has ceded its constitutional power to legislate to the unelected administrative state — at least when Democrats are both the congressional majority and hold the White House. Now, having ignored its true function, it seeks to expand its mandate to judicial powers. The Select Committee set up by Speaker Nancy Pelosi to investigate the January 6 riot has obviously determined that its mandate does not require a legislative purpose: It will act as a judicial branch, albeit one with no constitutional limits whatsoever. You won't see much about this in the corporate media. A purported 'Patriot Front' video has all the hallmarks of a false flag. One of the unpleasant realities that became patently clear during 2021 is that leftist operatives, whether inside or outside of the government, have a new tactic to discredit conservativism: They pretend to be conservatives, either to entrap conservatives or to falsely expose them as bad people. [...] There's also good reason to believe that government operatives were involved on January 6. The Revolver has put together some interesting information about Ray Epps, who actively encouraged and seemed to be in command of people breaching the Capitol but in whom the FBI has no interest. The same article notes that militarized men were all over the Capitol grounds and inside the Capitol, making sure to remove fences and signs that would have warned people off the property, smashing windows, and ordering people into the building — and again, the FBI and DOJ just aren't interested. Congress's 1/6 Committee Claims Absolute Power as it Investigates Citizens With No Judicial Limits. In its ongoing attempt to investigate and gather information about private U.S. citizens, the Congressional 1/6 Committee is claiming virtually absolute powers that not even the FBI or other law enforcement agencies enjoy. Indeed, lawyers for the committee have been explicitly arguing that nothing proscribes or limits their authority to obtain data regarding whichever citizens they target and, even more radically, that the checks imposed on the FBI (such as the requirement to obtain judicial authorization for secret subpoenas) do not apply to the committee. As we have previously reported and as civil liberties groups have warned, there are serious constitutional doubts about the existence of the committee itself. Under the Constitution and McCarthy-era Supreme Court cases interpreting it, the power to investigate crimes lies with the executive branch, supervised by the judiciary, and not with Congress. Congress does have the power to conduct investigations, but that power is limited to two narrow categories: 1) when doing so is designed to assist in its law-making duties (e.g., directing executives of oil companies to testify when considering new environmental laws) and 2) in order to exert oversight over the executive branch. What Congress is barred from doing, as two McCarthy-era Supreme Court cases ruled, is exactly what the 1/6 committee is now doing: conducting a separate, parallel criminal investigation in order to uncover political crimes committed by private citizens. [...] This abuse of power is not merely abstract. The Congressional 1/6 Committee has been secretly obtaining private information about American citizens en masse: telephone records, email logs, internet and browsing history, and banking transactions. And it has done so without any limitations or safeguards: no judicial oversight, no need for warrants, no legal limitations of any kind. NPR Publishes Hit Piece On Advocates Seeking Due Process For J6 Detainees. ational Propaganda Radio (otherwise known as the state-funded media outfit NPR) ran a hit-piece Thursday on a charity collecting donations for political prisoners held under the Biden regime over charges related to Jan. 6. "Experts see 'red flags' at nonprofit raising big money for Capitol riot defendants," NPR Investigations headlined, smearing the Patriot Freedom Project (PFP) as a shadow charity whose board is run by supervisors plagued with financial headaches of their own. The article centers on the charity's founder, Cynthia Hughes, who launched the group to support Jan. 6 defendants held now more than a year in reportedly inhumane conditions, and their coping families. Hughes' own "adoptive nephew" is among those in jail. The Pathetic and Political Sedition Case Against the Oath Keepers. Facing intensifying criticism from Democratic lawmakers, journalists, and even some federal judges for not seeking harsher punishment against January 6 protesters, Attorney General Merrick Garland finally produced charges to appease his detractors. Last week, more than a year after the so-called insurrection, Garland charged 11 members of the Oath Keepers with seditious conspiracy. The star of the new indictment, handed down by a grand jury on January 12, is Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the alleged militia group. (His co-defendants were charged with several other offenses months ago.) Rhodes, described only as "person one" for nearly a year in numerous criminal indictments related to his organization, has been a free man since January 6, 2021, raising plausible suspicions that he may have been a government informant at the time. After all, the FBI has a longstanding pattern of infiltrating fringe groups such as the Oath Keepers and moving them to commit indictable crimes. By the Numbers, a Failing President. If the left believed that draping the Capitol riot of Jan. 6, 2021, around the neck of former President Donald Trump and the party that refused to repudiate him would sink the GOP, it appears to have miscalculated. [...] Democrat and media obsession with Jan. 6, their vast exaggeration of what happened, and the campaign to indict the GOP as a mortal threat to "American democracy" has failed as a strategy. And Biden's presidency is seen by the people he leads as a failing presidency. If the election of 2022 were held next Tuesday, Democrats would be swept from power in both houses of Congress, and a Republican Congress would face a lame-duck President Joe Biden for the next two years. Republicans focus on Jan. 6 inmate treatment during House hearing. Republican interest in the treatment of people charged in connection to the Capitol riot detained in Washington, D.C., jails is not just limited to firebrand Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, as House Republicans made it a top priority during a congressional hearing Friday [1/21/2022]. Julie Kelly, a senior writer at American Greatness and self-described "Jan. 6 truth seeker," was a witness selected by Republicans on Friday at a House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security hearing that aimed to examine the First Step Act, prison responses to the coronavirus pandemic, and "compassionate release." Another Twist in Ray Epps Saga Raises More Questions About That Jan. 6 Committee Interview. You may recall the story about Ray Epps, that guy who was very much in evidence outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and even the night before, talking about going into the Capitol. Many raised questions about his role that day, especially after he was removed from a page on which the FBI has asked for information on various people they want to question about Jan. 6. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) even raised questions about Epps when Cruz was grilling an FBI official about whether the FBI had any agents or informants involved on Jan. 6. Then we were told by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's partisan Jan. 6 Committee that they had interviewed Epps and he told them he wasn't an FBI agent or informant. Committee member Rep. Adam Kinzinger (RINO-IL) even sprang to the defense, saying, "Ray Epps has cooperated with the Jan 6 committee and we thank him on the broader issue," and claimed that "Ray" was no informant or "fed." In so doing, Kinzinger essentially blew up the Jan. 6 effort to demonize Republicans. This is the guy who has gone after Republicans and President Donald Trump, blaming them for what happened even though there's no video of any of them urging people to go into the Capitol like there is with Ray Epps. Only 10 Percent Of J6 Committee Subpoenas Relate To The Capitol Riot. The House Select Committee established to probe the Capitol riot is not interested in probing the Capitol riot. According to a Federalist analysis of the 84 subpoenas publicly issued by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Select Committee on Jan. 6, only 8 have targeted individuals or groups with any connection to the Capitol riot. The rest have taken aim at former government officials and private citizens in a smear campaign for exercising their constitutional right to protest. The 84 subpoenas do not include the more than 100 seeking the telephone records of individuals whose identities remain under seal, both from the public and from those whose privacy the committee seeks to violate. The January 6 Narrative is Starting to Unravel. The Democrats and the propaganda ministry have tried to portray the events of January 6 as the greatest assault on democracy... in like, forever. But it seems like that narrative is starting to unravel. The unraveling began when many people began to suspect that the whole thing was a setup and started looking into it. It wasn't law enforcement or MSM journalists investigating — they could be controlled. It was amateur citizen investigators using the power of the internet. Ah... the internet — allowing average citizens to cross reference and collate a limitless sea of information. Our Founders would approve. Citizen investigators began to identify individuals who were clearly involved in inciting the riot on January 6. But a curious number of them had not been arrested by the FBI, even though their identity was well known. One such individual is Ray Epps. Epps is seen on video urging the crowd to enter the Capitol building. He lives in Arizona on a ranch and hasn't been arrested. There are numerous others, just like him. The question became unavoidable: Did the federal government have involvement in January 6? We don't know the answer to that question — and that's a problem for a constitutional republic. Supreme Court rules 8-1 to allow January 6 committee access to Trump's White House documents. In a rebuff to former President Donald Trump, the Supreme Court is allowing the release of presidential documents sought by the congressional committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack. Shortly after the ruling on Wednesday evening, the January 6 select committee said that they already started to receive records previously 'hidden' from them by Trump. 'The Supreme Court's action tonight is a victory for the rule of law & American democracy,' the committee wrote in a tweet. 'The Select Committee has already begun to receive records that the former President had hoped to keep hidden & we look forward to additional productions regarding this important information,' it added. The 'Civil War' Psy-Op. Regime propaganda is so ubiquitous that even if, like me, you make no effort to seek it out and even take steps to avoid it, you can't help but notice that our masters have fastened onto a new narrative: the coming "civil war." This was the crux of all the maudlin, dishonest January 6 retrospectives, of several "think pieces," and at least three new books: America is facing a second civil war and it will be started by the Right. Really? With what? In one of his more lucid moments, Joe Biden himself noted that the disaffected on the Right have no chance of taking on the United States government without F-15s and nukes. Like the blind squirrel finding a nut, the old man was onto something. The government's overwhelming advantages in technology, firepower, manpower, money, transportation, supply networks, surveillance tools and much else would be so lopsided as to make the military buzzword "asymmetric" a grim joke. Think, instead, Bambi versus Godzilla. To fight a civil war, you have to organize. But organizing is all but impossible for those who genuinely dream of taking on the state. More Trouble for the FBI in the Whitmer Kidnapping Case. [Scroll down] The kidnapping narrative shares many similarities with their preferred telling of January 6, not the least of which is that alleged militias incited by Trump attempted to carry out a domestic terror attack. Despite wall-to-wall coverage after the charges in the Michigan case were announced right before Election Day, the corporate media has almost completely memory-holed the abduction caper. Stewart Rhodes is a household name; Stephen Robeson, a convicted felon and the chief FBI informant in the Whitmer case accused of all sorts of malfeasance, is not. The reason, of course, is that exposing how the FBI set a trap to lure down-on-their-luck men — one of the codefendants referred to Adam Fox, the alleged plot leader, as "Captain Autism" — into their kidnapping ruse would run afoul of the media's insistence that the government had nothing to do with the events of January 6, despite plenty of proof that hundreds of FBI agents and informants were involved before and during the Capitol protest. (A top FBI official recently refused under oath to say whether FBI agents or assets engaged in or incited violent criminal behavior on January 6.) Ray Epps' Atty: FBI Scrubbed His Face From Suspect List Because He Was No Longer Unidentified. According to the attorney for Ray Epps, a former Arizona Oath Keeper whose presence at the January 6, 2021 events at Capitol Hill has drawn scrutiny all across social media, the reason the FBI removed Epps' face from a January 6 suspect list six months later was partially because he was not an unidentified suspect any longer. John Blischak told Politico that Epps contacted the FBI on January 8, 2021, and "explained his position" after a relative informed him news reports had featured him. "The list contains images and videos of rioters who were caught on camera in the crowd but who have not been identified or tracked by the bureau," Politico added. Blischak admitted he was unaware why Epps' face was not scrubbed from the website for months. Mary McCord, a former acting assistant attorney general for national security, echoed, "The FBI no longer needs help identifying him. It also seems from his attorney that he has been cooperative, so the FBI isn't looking for him and has a way to reach him through counsel," as The Washington Post reported. January 6 committee subpoenas the phone records of Eric Trump and Don Jr.'s fiancée Kimberley Guilfoyle. The congressional investigation into the January 6 attack has reportedly obtained records of phone numbers associated with one of former President Trump's sons, Eric Trump, and Kimberly Guilfoyle, who is engaged to Donald Trump Jr. It represents a fresh escalation into probe as the select committee for the first time targeted a member of Trump's family. The phone records were subpoenaed from communication companies, multiple sources told CNN. The details reportedly include logs that show incoming and outgoing calls, as well as text messages, but not the substance or content of the messages. Babbitt Tried to Stop Attack on Capitol Speaker's Lobby, Video Shows. Ashli Babbitt desperately tried to prevent rioters from vandalizing the doors leading to the Speaker's Lobby at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, even stepping between one troublemaker and police officers guarding the doors, a video analysis shows. Frame-by-frame video evidence analyzed by The Epoch Times paints a vastly different picture of Babbitt's actions than that portrayed in media accounts over the past year. News media regularly painted Babbitt as "violent," a "rioter," or an "insurrectionist" who was angrily trying to breach the Speaker's Lobby. Video clips appear to show she tried to prevent the attack, not join it. Video shot by John Sullivan, also known as Jayden X, shows that Babbitt tried to stop the violence against the Speaker's Lobby at least four times before she climbed into a broken window and was shot by U.S. Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd. At one point, she was so distressed at the violence, she was jumping up and down in frustration. Babbitt Tried to Stop Attack on Capitol Speaker's Lobby, Video Shows. Ashli Babbitt, who was fatally shot by a police officer at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, desperately tried to prevent rioters from vandalizing the doors leading to the Speaker's Lobby at the Capitol that day, even stepping between one troublemaker and officers guarding the doors, a video footage analysis shows. Frame-by-frame video evidence analyzed by The Epoch Times paints a vastly different picture of Babbitt's actions than that portrayed in media accounts over the past year. News media regularly painted Babbitt as "violent," a "rioter," or an "insurrectionist" who was angrily trying to breach the Speaker's Lobby. Video clips appear to show she tried to prevent the attack, not join it. New Photos Show Ashli Babbitt Tried to Stop Protesters from Entering Pelosi's Lobby. New footage by investigative reporter Tayler Hansen reveals Ashli Babbitt attempted to stop protesters from violently entering the Speaker's Lobby on January 6, 2021. She was shot dead moments later in cold blood by Lt. Mike Byrd. Byrd was pardoned by investigators and was never even called in to testify by DC Police. FBI 'Mystery Man' Ray Epps is Now Set to Testify Before Pelosi's Partisan Jan. 6 Committee. FBI 'mystery man' Ray Epps, who was seen on video provoking people to storm the capitol, will provide a transcribed interview on Friday. The development was reported by Politico. "Ray Epps, a former Arizona Oath Keeper at the center of pro-Trump conspiracy theories related to Jan. 6., intends to sit for a transcribed interview with the select committee investigating the attack on the Capitol," Politico reported. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, a Republican representative who is on his way out of Congress due to redistricting, confirmed the news that Epps plans to sit for a transcribed interview. "I know this will break some hearts," Kinzinger said on Twitter. "For a few months, people like Tucker Carlson, MTG, Gaetz, and now Cruz have been 'just asking questions' about a man named Ray Epps." Ray Epps to sit for transcribed interview with Jan. 6 committee. Ray Epps, the Arizona man at the center of claims that FBI informants provoked the Capitol riot, is scheduled to sit down for a transcribed interview with the Jan. 6 House select committee Friday. The select committee disclosed last Tuesday that Epps told them during an interview in November that he had no involvement with the FBI or any other law enforcement agency before, during, or after the Capitol riot. Epps's lawyer, John Blischak, told Politico that the meeting was merely a precursor for the more formal transcribed interview scheduled to take place Friday. The Political Timing of the End of the Pandemic. With the abject failure — so far — of his massive wokedream spending package and the egregious attempt to federalize all elections, the Biden administration needs a very big win before November, and what could be simpler and easier than simply declaring one? Democrat hopes that the January 6 "insurrection" would provide one seem to be coming up short, despite someone, desperately in need of a talking point, recently shaking Attorney General Merrick Garland by the lapels to get him to finally file the first and only "sedition" related charges. (It should be noted here that people who engage in treason tend not to leave their guns at home to comply with local law, or call a few days later to ask if they accidentally left their coat behind, or make sure that the whole thing is wrapped up in time for dinner... but I digress.) Conspiracies as Realities, Realities as Conspiracies. The January 6 riot was disgraceful. But it was a one-day spontaneous, chaotic, illegal entrance in and desecration of the Capitol by assorted buffoons. We now know that even according to the FBI investigation — that was and is eager to prove a coup — January 6 was not a carefully planned putsch as Joe Biden so blatantly lied recently. New insurrectionist indictments — by Attorney General Merrick Garland in response to left-wing pressures — targeted a disorganized and psychodramatic group of self-important Oath Keepers wannabes and poseurs. [...] The [January 6] committee members are not interested in reopening the investigation of the officer who shot Ashli Babbitt, a man who may not have ever been sufficiently interrogated by investigators. They seem indifferent to the likely presence and use of FBI informants. They care not a whit about the treatment of some uncharged suspects in solitary confinement or detained in primitive jail conditions. Nor are they concerned about the asymmetrical and weaponized federal reaction to January 6 when compared to general government indifference about the summer 2020 planned riots. Kash Patel Calls Out Lies About January 6th. Former Department of Defense Chief of Staff Kash Patel dives deep into all things January 6th... and says he has proof! [Video clip] Rep. Clyburn Describes Trump, Some People Who "Showed Up" on Jan. 6th as "Domestic Enemies". Ronald Reagan once said "Remember, we have no enemies, only opponents," referring to the once-cherished idea that in America it's possible to disagree with one political side or another without that disagreement escalating to the point of enmity. In other words, the parties compete, they don't wage war. Rep. Clyburn, however, the House Majority Whip and a Democrat from South Carolina, apparently doesn't share that sentiment. In fact, he views Trump and everyone else who "showed up" on January 6th as a "domestic enemy." At least, that's what he said when he appeared Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union" program and described those groups as such. Is Ray Epps the Key? Is Ray Epps the key to uncovering a deep state conspiracy that many of us have suspected for years? With what we have witnessed with Midyear Exam, Crossfire Hurricane, the Whitmer Kidnapping, the 2020 election, and now the January 6 "insurrection," it has become obvious that our government is not that of a healthy functioning democratic republic. But the depths of the corruption, and how far bad actors are willing to go in corrupting our society, has largely remained hidden. But there are encouraging signs. [...] On January 11, Senator Cruz questioned Jill Sanborn, the Executive Assistant Director of the FBI's National Security Branch. He questioned her about Ray Epps. Does the FBI know Epps? Does the FBI have a working relationship with Epps? Is the FBI pursuing Epps in relation to the events on January 6? What he got was obfuscation and a total lack of eye contact. Can't comment on an ongoing investigation — blah, blah, blah. The same excuse the DoJ has used to avoid questions about every scandal from Fast and Furious to Crossfire Hurricane. And then, the Democrat body politic yelped. New Report Raises More Questions About Ashli Babbitt Shooting. There have been a lot of questions about the shooting of Ashli Babbitt on January 6 during the Capitol riot. A finding by the Department of Justice that they would not be pursuing action against Lt. Michael Byrd — the officer who shot her — did not quell those questions. There is now a new report that is likely to spark even more concerns. According to a report from Real Clear Investigations, no one ever interviewed Byrd before the decision was made not to pursue any charges against him, the attorney for the Babbitt family, Terry Roberts said. Nick Searcy Blows the Lid Off the Jan 6. Narrative With 'Capitol Punishment'. Nick Searcy was at the huge Trump rally on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C., and was so unnerved and shaken by what he saw that day that he made a movie about it. The actor/producer/director's movie, Capitol Punishment, is the most complete story about that day and its aftermath that anyone has attempted to date. It's a must-watch, even if you think you know all there is to know about that day. We Are All Domestic Terrorists Now. Paul Hodgkins, according to Joe Biden's Justice Department, is a domestic terrorist. A working-class man from Tampa, Hodgkins committed what Democrats and the media consider a murderous crime comparable to flying a packed jetliner into a skyscraper or detonating a truck filled with explosives under a crowded federal building. Paul Hodgkins entered the Capitol building on January 6, 2021. What exactly did Hodgkins do on that day of infamy? He followed a group of like-minded Donald Trump supporters into the hallowed halls and chambers of the U.S. Senate. In that sacred space, where people far more important and educated than poor Hodgkins, according to those very important and very educated senators, make speeches and whatnot. Hodgkins, a crane operator, traveled alone by bus from central Florida to Washington — he was not chauffeured into the nation's capital in a black SUV and detail team in the way that very important senators roll into town. When he entered the sacred Senate chambers, Hodgkins carried with him a weapon so offensive that the mere sight of the device prompted the judge in his case to question Hodgkin's loyalty to his own country. That weapon was a flag bearing the words "Trump 2020." Ray Epps's Attorney Responds to Claims His Client Is an FBI Informant. The attorney for Capitol Hill protest participant Ray Epps, former FBI agent John Blischak, told The Epoch Times on Jan. 12 that his client has been interviewed by federal law enforcers and "unequivocally, he is not an FBI informant." Speculation about Epps has gradually built for months, coming to a head when top federal law enforcement officials refused to answer questions about his alleged connections to law enforcement during a Jan. 11 Senate hearing on domestic terrorism. The Democratic-led House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol released a statement following the hearing, claiming to have interviewed Epps and that he's not a "fed" — but this prompted further questions and criticism. While The Epoch Times was initially unable to reach Epps for comment, he responded to a text message later on the night of Jan. 11. "Please refer any questions to our attorney John Blischak," Epps wrote. "He will be happy to answer your questions, as I've been advised not to talk to anyone at this time." Yale law graduate founder of far-right Oath Keepers group is charged — along with ten others — with seditious conspiracy. The founder of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group has been arrested and charged with seditious conspiracy for allegedly organizing the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, during which he entered a restricted area and allegedly commanded those inside. Stewart Rhodes, 56, the leader of the anti-government group, was taken into custody by federal officials in Little Elm, Texas, on Thursday, after a grand jury returned indictments against him and a core group of 10 Oath Keeper members. They are accused of planning and carrying out the insurrection to stop the certification of President Joe Biden's election victory. The seditious conspiracy charge carries a sentence of up to 20 years in prison. Oath Keepers leader, 10 others charged in seditious plot to breach U.S. Capitol during January 6 insurrection. Federal authorities on Thursday charged Stewart Rhodes, the leader and founder of the extremist far-right Oath Keepers militia, and 10 other people with seditious conspiracy and other crimes for their alleged roles in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. An indictment alleges that after the November 2020 presidential election, Rhodes and others conspired to oppose by force the transfer of presidential power from then-President Donald Trump to Joe Biden, which included plans to breach and try to take control of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The conspiracy allegedly involved the amassing of firearms on the outskirts of Washington, D.C, and distribution to so-called quick reaction force teams to support the effort to keep Trump in office, according to the indictment, issued by a grand jury in DC federal court. The FBI's Broken Relationship with Us. All large organizations suffer from the occasional presence of bad actors. The FBI is no exception. But it managed to retain a good relationship with the public in spite of its flaws, because it was still solving rather than creating crimes. [...] Then came the "January 6 insurrection" investigation and the mystery of the missing provocateurs. A number of individuals are seen on video inciting the riot. Yet none of them is among the hundreds who have been arrested. One such individual, Ray Epps, is clearly seen on video encouraging the crowd to enter the Capitol. Epps was included on the FBI's "most wanted" list — that is, until internet sleuths identified and located Epps. Was he summarily arrested? Nope, he was removed from the "most wanted" list and is a free man to this day. Again, we have to ask — was January 6 a set-up? Mark Meadows, Jim Jordan step forward to fight Pelosi's Jan. 6 witch hunt. Mark Meadows, former chief of staff to President Trump, filed an amicus curiae brief in the Supreme Court, January 7, in support of the former president's claim that his official papers should be covered by executive privilege and not released to the Jan. 6 House Select Committee. The matter is now on appeal before the Supreme Court as a result of the ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upholding the decision by President Biden that executive privilege is not justified to keep the Trump papers from the Select Committee. The appellate ruling from Judge Patricia Millett included the curious assertion, at the top, of "multiple" deaths at the Capitol, January 6, 2021, with the added contention that the Trump-supporting "mob" came armed with "weapons." The only violent death was that of Trump-supporter Ashli Babbitt, shot and killed by a Capitol cop. There were no reports of demonstrators carrying arms, to my knowledge. A comment in the amicus brief goes to the heart of this matter. "For Executive Privilege to fulfill its intended purpose of allowing full and free communication among Presidential advisors, it must be able to survive a party change in the Presidency and a hostile Congress." Kevin McCarthy says he won't cooperate with January 6 committee, claiming it's not 'conducting a legitimate investigation'. House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy announced on Wednesday night that he will not cooperate with the January 6th committee, saying it was not 'conducting a legitimate investigation.' McCarthy said that since Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected his nominees to the panel, it was 'illegitimate' and noted he's made several public statements about the insurrection the panel could examine. 'This committee is not conducting a legitimate investigation as Speaker Pelosi took the unprecedented action of rejecting the Republican members I named to serve on the committee. It is not serving any legislative purpose,' he said in a statement. Adam Kinzinger Blows up the Jan. 6 Game Against the GOP With His Ray Epps Defense. Today, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) grilled the executive assistant director of the FBI's National Security Branch Jill Sanborn about whether the FBI had employees or informants participate in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Sanborn's responses were not comforting. She did not deny that the FBI could have had people involved. She just said repeatedly that she couldn't answer those questions. Cruz also brought up the question of Ray Epps, noting that he'd encouraged people to enter the Capitol. Many people have speculated on why — when the FBI has gone after anyone within spitting distance of the Capitol — that they haven't gone after him, and why he was initially on the FBI list but was then removed, despite no charges. Sanborn would not say when Cruz asked if Epps was a "fed." FBI Does Not Deny They Orchestrated January 6th. The documents and evidence have been piling up that the federal government 'deliberately encouraged illegal conduct on January 6th', which includes Nancy Pelosi issuing stand down orders to capitol police, DC's Dem. Mayor issuing a stand down order to DC police, and other agencies being told make sure the supporters were able to enter the Capitol building. Every cop that has tried to speak out has suddenly died by 'suicide'. Every politician that has tried to speak out has been blacklisted and attacked relentlessly. This was all staged, AOC herself admitted a week+ before the events of Jan 6th she was warned by fellow politicians to watch out for the event. The evidence has been exposed already, the FBI basically just put the nail in their own coffin, they were in fact behind the entire January 6th Reichstag event. [Video clip] DOJ evades questions on Capitol riot informants as Ray Epps denies working with FBI. The House committee investigating the Capitol riot said Ray Epps, who some Republicans suggest may have been an FBI informant, denies ever working with the bureau, even as the Justice Department evades questions about any informants or agents present in the crowd on Jan. 6, 2021. Epps, on video in the hours leading up to the riot encouraging the crowd to enter the Capitol, had been on the FBI's Capitol Violence most wanted list before he was removed without explanation after nearly six months. With speculation swirling, Republicans have been clamoring for more clarity on Epps, but Justice Department and FBI officials have repeatedly declined to provide answers about the provocateur as well as any FBI informants or agents who may have been embedded within the pro-Trump crowd as people stormed the Capitol and disrupted the certification of now-President Joe Biden's win in the 2020 election. The Jan. 6 committee made the first move Tuesday, saying House investigators interviewed Epps, but did not offer any insight into whether he was under oath when he denied being an FBI informant. The Big Club Temporarily Modifies Ted Cruz Marionette Strings So He Can Regain Attention of His Audience. Earlier today [1/11/2022], Senator Ted Cruz attempted to regain his J6 credibility with questions to the DOJ and FBI about the day's events. The Senate Judiciary Committee hearing provided the backdrop for an urgently needed modification to the marionette strings. Capitalizing on the opportunity, Senator Ted Cruz (U-DC) asked Jill Sanborn, Executive Assistant Director, National Security Branch at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, about any law enforcement participation in the events of Jan. 6. Questions were asked, grand protestations were proclaimed, theater lights dimmed to provide the dramatic context, and Ms. Sanborn noted she could not answer the questions. Curiously (or not) there was no follow-up as to "why the FBI was unable to answer". [Video clip] Ashli Babbitt's murderer exonerated in disgraceful official investigation. American cities burned when a career criminal named George Floyd died in police custody while on a lethal dose of fentanyl. But Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt was shot to death by a senior Capitol Police officer — a lieutenant — with a troubling history and was exonerated by an official investigation without even being interviewed. Because Ms. Babbitt was the wrong race and of the wrong political persuasion, there are no fanning the flames of resentment, no riots, and no justice for Ashli Babbitt and her family. The FBI refuses to deny any involvement in events on January 6. On Tuesday, Sen. Ted Cruz reminded people why they've appreciated his contributions to the conservative cause. Jill Sanborn, the executive assistant director for the FBI's national security branch, appeared before the Senate to answer questions about the FBI's role in events on January 6. Cruz grilled her with a series of questions to determine whether the FBI played a part in the events of the day, including questions about Ray Epps, a very visible presence on the day. Sanborn, instead of giving a full-throated denial, refused to answer any questions, leaving the strong impression that the FBI was behind the whole thing. The questions Ted Cruz asked are of pivotal importance. Internet sleuths have examined whatever publicly available footage they could obtain of events in and around the Capitol on January 6. Even without the 14,000 hours that the Capitol Police, under Nancy Pelosi's control, refuse to produce, the known footage has raised some serious questions. The three most disturbing questions involve Ray Epps, the missing "restricted area" signs and fences, and the Scaffold Commander. US Marshals Identify 'Deficiencies' in DC Jail Holding Jan. 6 Defendants. U.S. Marshals conducting an examination of the Washington jail that holds Jan. 6 defendants found "deficiencies" there, a new court filing revealed. Many people charged with crimes in connection with the Jan. 6 breach of the U.S. Capitol are being held in the Central Treatment Facility (CTF), including Robert Gieswein. The Marshals conducted a surprise inspection of the jail in the fall of 2021. Acting U.S. Marshal for the District of Columbia Lamont Ruffin said at the time officers found "evidence of systemic failures," including evidence water was shut off to inmates as punishment, in another part of the jail, the Central Detention Facility. He also said conditions at the CTF "were observed to be largely appropriate and consistent with federal prisoner detention standards." The Editor says... The January 6th Committee Releases an Incredibly Odd Statement After Ted Cruz Asks About Ray Epps. The FBI, DOJ, and now the January 6th committee really don't want to talk about Ray Epps. Today, Ted Cruz caused great triggering by asking some FBI flack named Jill Sanborn about Epps during today's Senate hearing. Cruz attempted to get answers on exactly what the suspicious man's role was regarding the Capitol breach, and why he was never charged with anything. What he got was a mix of non-denials and obfuscations in the form of claiming she couldn't answer the question. The interest in Epps stems from two things. One, he was caught on video inciting people to riot and break into the Capitol Building. He was also on the Capitol grounds that day. Two, Epps was suddenly removed from the FBI's most-wanted list, and to this day, no explanation at all for that move has been given. The implication there is obvious, i.e. that Epps was an informant and had used his position to actively encourage violence for the FBI. FBI Refuses To Say How Many Informants Were Involved In Jan. 6 Violence. The FBI refused to answer questions about the agency's possible provocative involvement with the Jan. 6 Capitol riots during a Tuesday hearing on Capitol Hill. "How many FBI agents or confidential informants actively participated in the events of Jan. 6?" Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz asked the Executive Assistant Director for the FBI's National Security Branch Jill Sanborn. "I can't go into the specifics of sources and methods," Sanborn said. "Did any FBI agents or confidential informants actively participate in the events of Jan. 6, yes or no?" Cruz pressed. "I can't answer that," Sanborn said, despite The New York Times revealing in September the presence of federal agents within the crowd that stormed the Capitol. Who is Ray Epps? Tucker Carlson Exposes January 6th Protests were a FED Backed Operation — Numerous 'Leaders' Ignored by FBI. The entire January 6th protest that Democrats continue to call an insurrection, was nothing more than another operation taken by anti-American globalists who are working with the FBI or other deep state outfits. Watch as Tucker Carlson breaks down two of the most confusing parts about this entire story, two of the people who are the easiest to spot, easiest to arrest, easiest to link to people encouraging the destruction of windows and flipping desks, it's these two. Yet the FBI doesn't care, not only do they not care, they actually helped one of the gentlemen and removed him from the most wanted list after he helped stir the chaos. Obviously a deep state operation to get Trump and his supporters. [Video clip] Jan. 6 committee at crossroads as Republican members refuse to aid inquiry. The House select committee formed to investigate the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol faces a decision on how far it will go in handling Republican lawmakers who refuse to voluntarily speak to the panel or provide it with information. Both Reps. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania and Jim Jordan of Ohio, the two sitting members of Congress from whom the committee has requested further information so far, have said they will not comply. While the committee has been quick to subpoena former members of President Donald Trump's administration, vote to hold them in contempt of Congress, and refer them for criminal prosecution if they refuse to comply, taking such a route with sitting lawmakers would break congressional norms and likely prompt a legal battle. FBI Official Repeatedly Refuses to Say If FBI Agents/Informants Encouraged Violent, Criminal Behavior on January 6. Who is Ray Epps, the man caught on videotape urging a crowd of Trump supporters to break into the Capitol? Did any FBI agents or FBI informants actively encourage and incite crimes of violence on January 6? "I can't answer that," the FBI's Jill Sanborn said repeatedly in response to questions put to her by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) at a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday [1/11/2022]. Sanborn is the executive assistant director of the FBI's National Security Branch. Cruz pressed her and pressed her to no avail. 'Who Is Ray Epps?' Cruz Grills FBI on Involvement in Jan. 6; Their Answers Raise More Questions. We're having a lot of fun testimony in Congress today that's very informative. We saw Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) ending Dr. Anthony Fauci, finishing him off with a picture for the ages which he, Fauci, provided. Then there was Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) who is also a doctor like Paul, who grilled Fauci over the DARPA report and the gain of function lie. Fauci had another huge meltdown and, again, had to be rescued by Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), who claimed she wasn't going to allow "personal attacks." Getting at the truth is now a "personal attack" to Democrats — when it might expose things. But the Biden team had another big problem today; it wasn't just Fauci being exposed. Jill Sanborn, executive assistant director of the FBI's National Security Branch was testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee. That's when Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) asked some very good questions to which she didn't have a response. Cruz asked about FBI involvement/informants in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. The Sinking Ship of the Democratic-Media Alliance. Almost no one seems to grasp the colossal irony of the current American political condition. The uniquequality of it is that the country is divided between two political forces which, in the tedious hyperbole of contemporary political jargon, view each other as an "existential threat to democracy." The Democrats can't sell the bunk that January 6 was an "insurrection;" they can't wish away concerns about the integrity of the 2020 election. All they have is the tired claim that Trump is a threat to democracy, and in their advocacy of that falsehood, they have made themselves the threat to democracy. The Loathsome Ruling Class and the January 6th Protestors. On January 6, 2022, the governing and corporate media wing of the ruling class put on a sophomoric production commemorating the first anniversary of a contrived "insurrection." Self-righteous preening and blatant propagandizing amid a sea of lies were the hallmarks of the ceremony. Over the past twelve months, unable to hide their unbridled disdain for the unwashed masses, unfounded accusations of domestic terrorism and insurrection have been directed at the legions of everyday Americans who attended the rally on January 6, 2021. They are willing to blindly persecute and marginalize a sizable percentage of the citizenry — Americans whom these elitists do not know nor care to meet — in order to permanently rid themselves of their nemesis, Donald Trump. Who are these execrable rally participants that were set up to be malevolently denigrated, politically prosecuted, and falsely vilified? Associated Press = Associated Propaganda. [Scroll down] Look: We all know if Ashli Babbitt had been black and had been shot and killed at a Defund the Police rally, the AP (which I've long said stands for Associated Propaganda) would be ramming the martyr narrative down our throats instead of debunking it. But because Babbitt and countless thousands like her were white Trump supporters, we've been bombarded with agitprop about how every single Jan. 6 protester was engaged in "riot," "siege" or "insurrection" and whose "underlying grievance" about election integrity — to borrow AP's own simp words for BLM and antifa's agendas — is relentlessly framed as a dangerous "conspiracy theory" and "misinformation" instead of a legitimate concern. I remind you that it was the AP that issued "stylebook" guidelines four months after BLM and antifa set America on fire after the George Floyd incident ordering its journalists not to use the term "riot" to describe the mayhem because it "suggests uncontrolled chaos and pandemonium" instead of focusing on the "underlying grievance" of black protesters against the system. The AP pooh-bahs advised their minions to employ the kinder, gentler euphemism "unrest" to describe "a condition of angry discontent and protest verging on revolt." 11 North Carolina voters filed a challenge to block Madison Cawthorn from running for reelection, saying his Jan. 6 actions are disqualifying. Eleven North Carolina voters filed a challenge to block GOP Rep. Madison Cawthorn from running for reelection in 2024, saying his actions on January 6, 2021, disqualified him from occupying the role. Cawthorn, who represents North Carolina's 11th congressional district, made baseless claims about the 2020 election at the "Save America Rally," which preceded the Capitol riot. In a challenge submitted to the North Carolina State Board of Elections on Monday, lawyers representing the 11 voters argued that Cawthorn's actions before and on January 6, 2021, violated the 14th Amendment. The amendment, which was adopted in 1869, says that no one "who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress ... shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof." Democrats plan to copy Obama's tactics to win in November. In North Carolina, a group of voters is suing to keep U.S. rep. Madison Cawthorn off the ballot. They allege that, because he attended the January 6 rally, he violated the 14th Amendment's prohibition against allowing anyone to run for office if he "engaged in insurrection or rebellion against" the Constitution. This is a trial run for an attack Democrats intend to make against Donald Trump and myriad Republicans whose congressional seats Democrats crave. It's also the Obama tactic: get your opponents off the ballot before the election. Saul Alinsky 101: So-called insurrection is clear cover for political persecution. The deceitful portrayal of the January 6 protest as an insurrection is a tactic to divide the nation and impose a dictatorship. With big-tech censorship and regime-media manipulation, the false narrative has garnered momentum and is paving the way for further erosion of the electoral and judicial systems. The January 6 event could not have been an insurrection. It had zero chance of overthrowing the government, which was not even the intent of the protest. They wanted to restore electoral integrity and transparency. Those who assert otherwise are boldfaced liars or blind followers of the liars. [...] Some pundits say Democrats are hypocrites for condemning the January 6 event as an insurrection while viewing the violence between June and August of 2020 in many cities as peaceful. Totalitarians go beyond hypocrisy and double standards. They have only one standard: getting what they want by any means. The Justice Department gives a pass to Democrat violent demonstrators while persecuting January 6 participants. The Supreme Court and Congress Humiliate Themselves. Not far from the hallowed halls of the Supreme Court, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her pals are trying yet again to make more of the January 6 riot than facts would warrant. [...] Not many are buying this nonsense, though. A recent survey indicates that the majority of us think that it was not an insurrection (something the government hasn't even charged) but a three-hour riot that got out of hand. Perhaps if the Democrats had some winning policies, they could stop concentrating on Donald J. Trump, whose popular support today far surpasses that of the President, Vice-President and Nancy Pelosi. What actually happened on January 6, 2021? [Scroll down] Rather than seriously addressing the question of what Congress could or should do to deal with the various disputes, particularly in the six battleground states of Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Nevada, they merely announced that the count was interrupted by a terrifying emergency, then completed later, in a hurry, by thoroughly spooked members of Congress and their staffs. There are important questions... but for a solid year, the courts dismissed challenges on technicalities, and the press has condescendingly dismissed allegations as "disproven" when in fact the charges have never been given a chance to be proven or disproven. [...] Unarmed and unorganized, the idea of calling this demonstration an "insurrection" is absurd. But enough people entered the building — enough of them forcefully, enough of them loudly — to give the congressional leadership cover, to do exactly what they wanted to do: declare an emergency, interrupt the proceedings, and then race through the Electoral College counting process, shutting down any attempt to question the six disputed states, in an artfully designed atmosphere of fear and commotion. That's what everyone has spent a year obsessing over. Liberal Elites Want Us to Care About Jan. 6, But They Don't Care When Our Cities Burn. I remember the call from my husband on May 31. It was our anniversary, and he was out running errands before he came home — not because we had plans, but because there was a curfew in place in Minneapolis. He called to tell me he had to drive to a nearby suburb to pick up a medical prescription. "Our Walgreens on Hennepin Avenue isn't there anymore," he said. "It was burned to the ground." Over the spring and summer of 2020, thousands of businesses were looted, damaged, or totally destroyed during the George Floyd protests — especially here, where Floyd was killed. Every day we read heartbreaking stories of business owners begging and pleading with rioters to spare their livelihoods, many of them uninsured, pleas that went unheeded. There was over $2 billion in property damage. One year later, no one [has been] charged with sedition in [the] Capitol riot, despite initial DOJ hype. One year after the Capitol riot, no one has been charged with sedition or insurrection, despite initial Justice Department claims that such charges were likely and former President Donald Trump being impeached for allegedly inciting an insurrection. Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a Wednesday [1/5/2022] speech ahead of the riot's anniversary that more than 725 defendants have been arrested. However, none of the charges have been for sedition or insurrection. The Democrats' January 6 observances were like a bad Academy Awards show. Yesterday [1/6/2022], Democrats in D.C. and the mainstream media, gave themselves over completely to a look back at January 2021 and the extraordinary horrors of a riot that lasted a few hours, involved people with no weapons, had no looting, fires, community destruction, or police deaths, and saw only one death (at police hands). The whole event was like the Academy Awards. [...] At the Academy Awards, there's always a moment to honor the dead, which includes listing people no one has ever heard of. In the House's version, Nancy honored several policemen, none of whom died on January 6: [Tweet] Sicknick died of an unrelated stroke, Liebengood and Smith committed suicide, and a Farrakhan-loving Black Nationalist killed Billy Evans in April. Democrats also mentioned two other police officers — Gunther Hashida and Kyle DeFreytag, who both committed suicide in July. The suicides are tragic but there's no reason to believe that the mêlée on January 6 alone triggered them, after a year of lockdowns, violent D.C. riots and, for Hashida and DeFreytag, more lockdowns in 2021. Ashli Babbitt went unmentioned. The Ratings Are in for CNN's January 6th Obsession — and Hoo Boy. The network played out a full day of hand-wringing and tortured analysis, culminating in a two-hour event live from Statutory Hall inside the Capitol Building. All the stops were pulled out, including a headlining interview with Nancy Pelosi. The obvious goal was to stimulate a repeat of last year's blockbuster, January 6th ratings, where CNN led all other networks in viewership as the events unfolded. In a phrase, that didn't happen. In fact, the liberal network got absolutely trounced by Fox News. 8 Times Left-Wing Protesters Broke Into Government Buildings And Assaulted Democracy. Self-absorbed congressional Democrats held a group therapy session on Capitol Hill on Thursday as they work tirelessly to immortalize Jan. 6 as an annual day of doom, but the rest of us are old enough to remember a few more times when riots and protests overwhelmed government buildings with no such theatrical response. More than a few times, actually. The 2020 summer of rage was more or less "incited" by these same top Democrats, who race-baited as if their lives depended on it, and even our vice president, who helped bail violent rioters out of jail. It featured a number of these attacks on the government (which strangely weren't called attacks on democracy at the time). Not all of these demonstrations were allegedly a response to the Minnesota death of George Floyd, however. Left-wing demonstrators have long made a habit of attacking, infiltrating, and occupying government buildings. It started long before Jan. 6, 2021, and continued long after. The Myth of January 6. Shattered mirrors, chandeliers, and furniture littered the halls of the Capitol on a day when a group that "openly advocates the overthrow of the U.S. Government through armed struggle and the use of violence" according to the FBI struck at the heart of our democracy. This was not January 6, 2021 but November 7, 1983, the day that the May 19 Communist Coalition detonated a bomb that blasted a hole in the wall outside the Senate chamber. But the 1983 incident — the day that a group with the goal of violently overthrowing the government bombed the Senate building — has been effectively wiped from memory. Susan Rosenberg, a May 19 member, was initially charged with a role in the 1983 Capitol bombing and two others, but the charges were dropped as part of a plea deal. In 1984, she was arrested in possession of 750 pounds of explosives and firearms, including automatic weapons, and a jury convicted her the following year. But 16 years into Rosenberg's 58-year sentence, President Bill Clinton commuted it on his last day in office. By 2020, Rosenberg, a convicted terrorist, was sitting on the board of Thousand Currents, which handles donations made to Black Lives Matter. The erasure of the 1983 bombing is all the more poignant amid a hysterical, week-long commemoration of the January 6 riot in which supporters of President Trump stormed the Capitol. The Democrats' desperate Jan. 6 spin. Joe Biden is a drowning man who proved Thursday that he will grab hold of anything that remotely resembles a life raft. His attempt to use last Jan. 6 as a savior for his misbegotten presidency reveals more about his party's predicament than it does about the unsettling events a year ago. After making several valid points about former President Donald Trump's continuing refusal to accept the outcome of the 2020 election, Biden promptly undercut his own argument by going too far. Sounding like a late-night TV pitchman selling cheap garden hoses with the promise of two for the price of one, he began promoting his party's bid to override state laws to federalize elections as the only logical response. Stefanik Torches Pelosi Over J6: Speaker 'Bears Responsibility' for Capitol Incident. New York GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik is torching House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on the one-year anniversary of the incident at the U.S. Capitol on January 6. In a scathing press release, Stefanik said that Pelosi shared blame for the riot that occurred on January 6, 2021. Stefanik, who serves as House GOP Conference chair, thanked law enforcement for their work to control the chaos last year. She also condemned Pelosi for ultimately being the one "responsible" for leaving the Capitol prone to attack. 'What is she hiding?' Top Republican accuses Pelosi of coverup by withholding Jan. 6 documents. The top Republican on the House committee that oversees U.S. Capitol security is blasting Speaker Nancy Pelosi for refusing to release key evidence showing the security planning prior to the Jan. 6 riots and is warning that the police force that protects lawmakers has not reformed itself enough to avoid another tragedy. "We know there were intelligence analysis failures at the Capitol Police," Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.) told the John Solomon Reports podcast during an interview Thursday on the one-year anniversary of the Capitol riots. And frankly, John, I don't think those have been corrected yet. "Our job is to protect the Capitol, and they're making the same bad decisions," he said. Videos Shed Light on Death of Rosanne Boyland at US Capitol on Jan. 6. Newly released video from the West Terrace tunnel of the U.S. Capitol provides more details on the collapse, beating, and death of Rosanne Boyland on Jan. 6, 2021. A three-hour video unsealed in late December in a Jan. 6 federal criminal case shows the 34-year-old President Donald Trump supporter entered the tunnel, was pushed back out, fell, and was struck by police before her lifeless body was dragged into the Capitol. Boyland's sister and a New York attorney question the District of Columbia medical examiner's finding that Boyland died of an overdose of a prescription medication she took for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. Boyland, from Kennesaw, Ga., traveled to Washington D.C. for the Save America rally at the Ellipse on Jan. 6. She is seen on video entering the Capitol tunnel, walking next to conservative activist Philip Anderson. Bystanders continue filing in toward the double doors leading into the Capitol. American Oligarchy. The lead-up to the one-year January 6 anniversary was endlessly promoted by our insular and self-congratulatory Washington press corps as something akin to the one-year anniversary of September 11, 2001. The imbecilic and senile dolt who is our commander-in-chief dedicated his January 6, 2022, remarks to excoriating his predecessor for that predecessor's alleged incitement of an "insurrection." Defying parody, a candlelight vigil was held at the National Mall — "in remembrance of the attack on our democracy that occurred on January 6, 2021." In fairness, it is true that modern America no longer meets a threshold definition of "democracy." But the Left is wrong as to why. America in the year 2022 is not a nation bedeviled by a great scourge of right-wing political violence, but it is a nation bedeviled by a monolithic and intellectually homogenous oligarchy that seeks to subjugate dissenting "deplorables" by any means necessary. The Histrionics and Melodrama Around 1/6 Are Laughable, but They Serve Several Key Purposes. The number of people killed by pro-Trump supporters at the January 6 Capitol riot is equal to the number of pro-Trump supporters who brandished guns or knives inside the Capitol. That is the same number as the total of Americans who — after a full year of a Democrat-led DOJ conducting what is heralded as "the most expansive federal law enforcement investigation in US history" — have been charged with inciting insurrection, sedition, treason or conspiracy to overthrow the government as a result of that riot one year ago. [...] That number is zero. But just as these rather crucial facts do not prevent the dominant wing of the U.S. corporate media and Democratic Party leaders from continuing to insist that Donald Trump's 2016 election victory was illegitimate due to his collusion with the Kremlin, it also does not prevent January 6 from being widely described in those same circles as an Insurrection, an attempted coup, an event as traumatizing as Pearl Harbor (2,403 dead) or the 9/11 attack (2,977 dead), and as the gravest attack on American democracy since the mid-19th Century Civil War (750,000 dead). The Smithsonian goes all-in for January 6 propaganda. The Smithsonian is going big on a date that Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, CNN, and Chuck Schumer want to live in infamy because they want to take permanent control of all of our elections, but the rest of America has mostly gotten past January 6. The once prestigious museum is collecting "artifacts" from the day a mob got into, mostly walked into, and many were invited into by the Capitol Police, the U.S. Capitol building. Remember — the day a Capitol Police officer shot an unarmed American veteran woman dead, it was captured on video, and the shooter was never brought to justice? Remember — the day a bunch of orange-hatted FBI agents instigated a riot and then blamed it on all Republicans and conservatives? Yeah, that day. Harris was inside DNC headquarters on Jan. 6 when pipe bomb was found outside. Then-Vice President-elect Kamala Harris was inside the Democratic National Committee headquarters during last year's Capitol riot when a pipe bomb planted by a still-at-large suspect was discovered outside the building, it was revealed on Thursday [1/6/2022]. The explosive was first investigated by Capitol Police at 1:07 p.m. last Jan. 6, according to a timeline of events obtained by Politico, and seven minutes later the Secret Service evacuated then-Sen. Harris from the building. The shocking development came to light as authorities seem no closer to naming the suspect who also placed a pipe bomb outside the Republican National Committee headquarters. Both bomb threats were neutralized by authorities later that afternoon, the report said. Six more important issues than Jan. 6th. [#3] Lower and More Fair Taxes: As opposed to Soviet-era price controls, spending controls will help lower inflation. That will help drive down costs and let them keep Americans more of their own hard-earned money. So would lower taxes. Joe Biden and other liberals continue to push for a "fairer system" with higher taxes on people making more than $400,000 per year. Others talk about making billionaires pay higher taxes. History has shown that the middle class will get stuck with much of the bill. A flat tax is a better alternative. If you make ten times more than someone else, you pay ten times more in taxes. No loopholes. No gimmicks. Everyone pays their fair share. Lower and more fair taxes are rightfully popular. Lindsey Graham criticizes Biden for his 'brazen politicization' of January 6. GOP Senator Lindsey Graham accused President Joe Biden of 'brazenly' politicizing the Capitol riot on Thursday after he delivered a speech directly blaming his predecessor for the deadly events of January 6, 2021. The 79-year-old Democrat alongside Vice President Kamala Harris made a rare Capitol Hill address on Thursday morning [1/6/2022] to mark one year since Donald Trump's supporters stormed the Capitol complex to stop lawmakers from certifying Biden's 2020 electoral victory. 'The former president and his supporters are trying to rewrite history. They want you to see Election Day as the day of insurrection and the riot that took place here on January 6th as the true expression of the will of the people,' Biden said in his most severe condemnation of Trump while in office. Ted Cruz admits his comment calling the January 6 riot a 'violent terrorist attack' was 'dumb and sloppy'. Texas Senator Ted Cruz gave a mea culpa to Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson Thursday after Carlson criticized Cruz Wednesday [1/5/2022] for comments he made last week branding the Capitol riot 'a violent terrorist attack.' Cruz, introduced by Carlson as 'smarter than me,' called his own comments 'dumb and sloppy' and said he texted Carlson shortly after and asked to go on the show. Carlson didn't believe it, continuing his line of criticism from Wednesday night, where he said: 'He doesn't use a single word by accident. Every word Ted Cruz uses is used intentionally. He's a lawyer.' The Editor says... Patriots Speak Out from the Inside of DC "GITMO" — One Year After January 6. One year after January 6th, we remember the American citizens who marched on the Capitol in peaceful protest only to be brutally attacked by the Capitol and Metro Police, entrapped by federal operatives, and smeared across the nation. These protestors were peaceful until police mercilessly threw flash bombs, tear gas, and other crowd-control munitions into the crowd, killing at least four Trump supporters. Some came to defend old people, women, and children who were being violently assaulted by police that day. One year later, at least 50 are rotting in jail in illegal pretrial incarceration. They have been denied due process and are being treated inhumanely, systematically held in months-long solitary confinement breaking international standards for cruel and unusual punishment. Meanwhile, the mainstream magnates pervert and suppress evidence and defend police brutality in order to maintain their twisted narrative. Nancy Pelosi is Again Confronted on Not Giving Americans 'Full Story' of Jan. 6. Speaker Nancy Pelosi may have been the mastermind of the partisan Jan. 6 committee, which is comprised of anti-Trump Democrats and fledgling Republicans. But far from seeking to give Americans the "whole truth and nothing but the truth" about what happened during the Capitol riots on that date one year ago, she and her committee appear to be acting as "gatekeepers" who release only the information that conforms to a pre-existing narrative of events. Mike Lindell Sues Jan 6th Panel. While the establishment would like nothing more than for Mike Lindell to shut up and sit down, he's a fighter that's more than willing to ignore the elites in the D.C. Swamp and stand up for what he believes in. Now, his refusal to go silently into that good night is back in the news. Rather than complying with the Pelosi-dominated Jan. 6th panel and submitting his phone records and other personal data to the partisan hacks on it, he's counterattacking and suing the Jan. 6th commission over the subpoena for his phone records. That counterattack was launched Wednesday, the deadline for filing any legal action in the court. The MyPillow CEO is using the suit to block the panel and keep his personal phone records private by invalidating the commission's subpoena, which would require Verizon to turn over his phone records for November 2020-January 2021. Rep. Biggs: Democrats' 'Misleading' Jan. 6 Narrative 'More Detrimental to Our Republic than the Day Itself'. On the first anniversary of the January 6 Capitol protests, Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) blasted the Democrats' "one-sided and misleading narrative" of the event, deeming it "more detrimental to our republic than the day itself." In a statement released on Thursday, Arizona Republican Congressman Andy Biggs condemned political violence while blasting the false narrative put forward by Democrats concerning what took place. Jan. 6: Seven Democrat Lies. It was hardly a surprise that the Democrats shamelessly exploited the first anniversary of last January's Capitol riot to resuscitate their stalled political agenda. Nor was it difficult to predict that various news outlets would attempt to bolster their sagging ratings with sensationalized coverage of the mayhem that occurred that afternoon. Nonetheless, the mendacity that permeated the speeches of the politicians and the coverage of the media was truly startling even by Beltway standards. It is impossible to debunk every lie that was told yesterday in a single article, but here are the most egregious falsehoods: Lie # 1: The events of Jan. 6, 2021, constituted an armed insurrection. President Joe Biden repeated this nonsense shortly after 9 a.m. yesterday during his remarks about the riot: "This wasn't a group of tourists. This was an armed insurrection." [...] Lie # 2: President Donald Trump purposely incited the alleged insurrection. Biden also leveled this preposterous charge at his predecessor during his Thursday morning remarks, saying the former president had "rallied the mob to attack." Peaceful Demands For Secure Elections Do Not Constitute 'Insurrection'. On the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, the corporate media is working overtime to convince the American public that Republicans as a whole stormed the nation's beacon of democracy at the beginning of 2021 and have waged a war on all that is good and decent. While lunatics and fools did invade the Capitol last January, tens of thousands of Americans peacefully assembled to demand answers from the government about what they believed to be the sloppiest election in which they've ever voted. Political violence should always be condemned, but a majority of the people present in Washington, D.C., and on the Capitol grounds on Jan. 6 weren't violent. Yes, hundreds of people stormed the U.S. Capitol in a riot, but tens of thousands of people of all ages, races, backgrounds, and lifestyles gathered together that day at the Save America Rally to protest the Democrats' sleazy election manipulation and hear from President Donald Trump. Stefanik Torches Pelosi on Eve of January 6 Anniversary: Speaker 'Bears Responsibility' for Capitol Riot. Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) asserted on Wednesday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) shared blame for the riot that occurred on January 6 at the U.S. Capitol. Stefanik, who serves as House GOP Conference chair, released a statement on the eve of the Capitol breach's anniversary, thanking law enforcement for their work to control the riotous behavior but condemning Pelosi for ultimately being the one "responsible" for leaving the Capitol prone to attack. The New York Republican called it "unacceptable" that despite Pelosi's nine-person investigatory committee — comprising seven Democrats and two of the most outspoken Never Trump Republicans in Congress, Reps. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) — persisting with its probe into the riot, "one year later the American people still do not have answers as to why the Capitol was left so vulnerable." Is The FBI Ever Going To Get Around To Finding The Jan. 6 Pipe Bomber, Or Nah? One year after a mysterious hooded figure placed two explosives outside the Republican and Democrat national headquarters, federal investigators, corporate media, and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's Jan. 6 commission are mum about the premeditated act of violence. [...] Leftists and their cronies in the corporate media have scrambled to pin the violence from last year on former President Donald Trump and conservatives concerned about election integrity. They claim that Republican officials and Fox News hosts worked together to plan an "insurrection" against the government. Yet the lone example of a very clearly premeditated attempt at violence on Jan. 6 has been nearly completely wiped from the memory of the American public. The pipe bombs discovered at the RNC and DNC aren't mentioned in the press's "remembrance" coverage of the day, and the federal government has hardly offered any updates on the investigation since releasing footage of the suspect, who was covered head to toe in dark clothing. Even the Jan. 6 commission, which has gone to great lengths to obtain the phone records of private citizens, doesn't seem interested in pursuing the person behind the explosives. Democrat J6 Vigil Organized By Left-Wing Activist Behind Violent Disruptions Of Trump Inauguration. The woman organizing a vigil on the National Mall to remember "the attack on democracy that occurred on Jan. 6, 2021," is the same Antifa-affiliated woman who planned disruptions for the inaugurations of both President George W. Bush and President Donald Trump. She also co-founded and organized the group that terrorized Sen. Josh Hawley's wife and newborn baby last year over the Republican's objections to the 2020 election results. Liz Butler is a "partner" with Movement Catalyst, the organization hosting the official Jan. 6 vigil in Washington, D.C., just one year after the infamous Capitol riot. The event is part of an entire day of Democrat programming hoping to smear Republicans as the destroyers of democracy. Ted Cruz May Have Just Destroyed His Entire Political Career With One Bonehead Move. Ted Cruz, who ingratiated himself back into the MAGA movement, after behaving like the sorest loser in town, has just found himself on the outs again after he made a big bonehead move. While speaking about January 6th, Ted Cruz adopted the same exact tone and narrative the left has been pushing, complete with calling the folks who were at the Capitol "terrorists." What on earth was Ted thinking? Nobody at the Capitol was charged with terrorism. Think Jan. 6 Was A Big Deal? Here Are 30 Far More Significant Events On That Day In History. The rest of the nation may have moved on, but Democrats are determined to squeeze the events of a year ago for every ounce of political juice they can from the events that happened at the U.S. Capitol. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she wants to mark the day as "an observance of reflection, remembrance, and recommitment." President Joe Biden plans to speak on the Capitol steps. The press is providing saturation coverage. Not only does the public not care, but polls show that voters are currently more inclined to vote for Donald Trump — the supposed instigator of the "insurrection" — than Biden. They know the only reason Democrats want to keep the focus on Jan. 6 is because they think it will help them politically. Never Trumpers want to keep Jan. 6 alive because they hope it will keep him from ever holding elective office again. Federal authorities won't say why armed Capitol rioters disappeared from FBI's most wanted list. Federal authorities won't explain why three men who participated in the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, have mysteriously disappeared from the FBI's Capitol Violence Most Wanted list. One unidentified man wore an earpiece during the riot and was filmed carrying what appeared to be a concealed handgun on his left hip. The man was pictured on the FBI's most wanted list for over five months until he was removed without explanation on the same day the New York Times reported an FBI informant was at the Capitol on Jan. 6. A second unidentified man was filmed beating police officers with a baton during the riot. The FBI said the man was wanted for assaulting a federal law enforcement officer, but the agency removed the man from its most wanted list without explanation in late February, just weeks after his debut. The third man, Ray Epps of Arizona, was filmed in the hours leading up to the riot urging Trump supporters to enter the Capitol to stop the certification of President Joe Biden's election victory. The Democrats' Exploitation of January 6 Gives Away Their Game. [Scroll down] Now, you might ask yourself just why Jan. 6 merits such outsized attention. One need not downplay the events — the horrifying image of rioters bashing police officers with metal poles, storming through the halls of Congress shouting for then-Vice President Mike Pence — in order to recognize Jan. 6 for what it was: an ugly but not pivotal moment in American history. The event resulted in one direct death — rioter Ashli Babbitt was shot by a Capitol Police officer — and some $1.5 million in property damage to the Capitol building. The Capitol was cleared within hours of the riot, and Pence and then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell promptly presided over the certification of the 2020 election. Those who broke into the Capitol or even trespassed have ended up in jail. Meanwhile, by contrast, the Black Lives Matter riots of 2020 resulted in some $2 billion in insured property damage (and likely billions more in uninsured property damage), two dozen people died, and the resultant political movement against the police led to an unprecedented nationwide spike in homicides in major cities.
The Editor says... January 6 Protester is Being Starved to Death in Jail. As the January 6 anniversary approaches, it's time to look at what's happening to those people whose lives were ruined on that day. When the protests and riots spun out of control, the left began creating a narrative that conservatives were violent traitors who tried to overthrow the government. They then used that to go after everyone who breached the Capitol; these people got tracked down in "laser-like" style, as former FBI director John Brennan put it. The BLM and Antifa folks who burned the country down in the summer of 2020 were allowed to walk free. However, Trump supporters who took selfies in the Capitol suddenly had their faces splashed across the FBI's top watchlists. Many of these individuals were caught and are now languishing in jail. One of them is a man called Christopher Quaglin. His family says he's now being starved to death. Jan 6 protestor: I've been dehumanized, treated as a 'scapegoat'. Jenna Ryan, a realtor and self-professed life coach in Texas, decried the public response to her after participating in the events of January 6th and subsequently pleading guilty to a misdemeanor count of parading on Capitol grounds, saying her experience has been similar to that of those who suffered in Nazi Germany. Five days before she reported to a federal prison in Texas on Dec. 21, Ryan spoke with NBC News in an interview in which she doubled down on her stance that she has been a victim in the aftermath of being charged for entering the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 attack, contending she has been used as a "scapegoat" in personal attacks. "They're making fun of my skin color. They're calling me an 'insurrection Barbie,'" she said in the interview that aired on "NBC Nightly News" Tuesday. Politico Revels in Democrat Plan to Politicize January 6 Anniversary to Federalize Elections. The media is already being flooded with stories this week about the solemnity of the January 6 anniversary. And yet we also have Politico reveling that the Democrats are attempting to use the occasion to engage in flat out partisanship by federalizing the elections at the state level so as to favor that party. AG Garland: DOJ has 'no higher priority' than charging, prosecuting Jan. 6 rioters. Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday defended the Justice Department's efforts to prosecute those responsible for the Jan. 6 Capitol riot last year. In a prepared speech on the eve of the anniversary of the attack, Mr. Garland said "there is no higher priority" for the department. "The Justice Department remains committed to holding all Jan. 6 perpetrators, at any level, accountable under law — whether they were present that day or were otherwise criminally responsible for the assault on our democracy," he said. "We will follow the facts wherever they lead." What happened to Ted Cruz? I know from the volume of email I've received on it that Ted Cruz's comments on January 6, 2021, calling it "a violent terrorist attack on the Capitol" have outraged many conservatives. Ted was once the darling of intellectually inclined conservatives, but I think the bloom is now off that rose. Tucker Carlson used video of Cruz's comments as the keystone of a segment on how Republicans are being cowardly and granting Democrats their false premises on the riot at the Capitol being an insurrection or even a "terrorist attack." As Tucker put it, he was delivering talking points for Merrick Garland. There Was No Insurrection But There Was A Coup. Coup d'états differ from revolutions in that they're generally orchestrated by or include people within government who seize power — often by narrowly using or just threatening violence — resulting in a rapid transition of power. Revolutions are often longer affairs that include much of a country's population and exponentially more bloodshed. Most coups try to keep much of the society and government apparatus intact, merely changing who's in charge. This illusion of continuity is intended to gain the population's acquiescence by avoiding the appearance of a bloody civil war. And that's exactly what we got. While Donald Trump does not lie in a bloody toga on the floor of the Senate, America witnessed a coup d'état equally as vicious. Many will deny one took place because their guy won but, make no mistake, virtually every American knows one did, even if only 56% admit it. Ranking GOP Member Exposes Pelosi's Obstruction to Jan 6 Security Records. Ranking Member for the House Administration Committee Rodney Davis (R-IL) has unveiled new evidence that Pelosi is obstructing access to records relating to the security preparedness of the Capitol on that infamous day. Davis wrote a letter to speaker Pelosi on January 3, 2022 laying out the timeline as proof for his accusations against Pelosi's obstruction: "In the immediate aftermath of January 6th, Republicans began an examination of the Capitol's security vulnerabilities. On January 13, 2021, as the Ranking Republican Member of the House Administration Committee, I sent letters to the Acting House Sergeant-at-Arms, the House Chief Administrative Officer, and the Acting Chief of the U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) asking them to preserve all records relating to January 6th" the letter states. Pelosi Owns The J6 Commission, And That's Why It Failed. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's January 6 Commission was supposed to help Democrats hold onto their slim majority during tough 2022 midterm elections. Instead, it stumbled out of the gate, failed to gain legitimacy among the public, and has been plagued with serious legal and ethical problems. Pelosi's decision to politically exploit the riot at the Capitol was a no-brainer. Democrats nearly lost the chamber in 2020 when Democrats took control of the Senate and presidency. The president's party almost always loses significant numbers of House seats during midterm elections. The only time that didn't happen in recent history was 2002, following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Pelosi understandably felt her best bet to preserve power was, with a massive assist from left-wing media, to somehow turn disgruntled Donald Trump supporters' riot at the Capitol into the next 9/11. Seven Hours in January Was Not Seven Days in May. In a proper insurrection or coup, one of the key elements is control of the media. If this were a legitimate attempt to overthrow the government, the planners, in theory, would have made sure that only evil Fox News was left on the air, that it had changed its logo to incorporate buffalo horns, and that all other media — including social — was broadcasting or retweeting or posting reruns of "Welcome Back, Kotter." The fact that Fox News personnel were real-time texting government officials imploring them to quell the Capitol situation immediately is pretty much the exact opposite of that. The Real Insurrection: The BLM Riots-The corrupt January 6 Committee ignores it. Riots? What riots? Insurrection in American cities in 2020? Nothing to see here, folks. Move along. Thus it is with the Stalinesque show trial that is the January 6 Committee. As my colleague Melissa Mackenzie illustrated yesterday, "the Democrats are running their committee like a criminal trial." It is indeed blatantly unconstitutional and no one is attempting to stop them. Why? What is particularly telling about the hysteria over January 6 is that infinitely worse riots took place across America in 2020 — a series of genuine and decidedly violent insurrections in the name of Black Lives Matter — and there is nary an investigation in sight. So as January 6 of 2022 is upon us, let's do a little compare and contrast as the hysteria about January 6, 2021, is whipped up in the liberal media. Corporate Media's Jan. 6 Anniversary Coverage Is All About Silencing Republicans. A lengthy New York Times editorial over the weekend has set the stage for this week's Jan. 6 anniversary coverage. "Every Day Is Jan. 6 Now," declare the Times editors, warning that Republican lawmakers in 41 states "have been trying to advance the goals of the Jan. 6 rioters — not by breaking laws but by making them." The argument itself, that tweaking state election law is somehow a subversion of democracy, is absurd and incredibly lazy. But it's important to note, if only because it will serve as the baseline narrative for the entire corporate media's Jan. 6 coverage this week. Their message — they will all have more or less the same message — is simple: all Republicans are insurrectionists, the GOP is the enemy of the people, and the only way to preserve American democracy is to ensure that only Democrats can win elections. The Big Lie and the Elastic Truth: How to Invent a Coup. As we approach the anniversary of the Jan. 6 "insurrection," the unspoken truth is that Donald Trump had nothing to gain and everything to lose by the violent assault on the Capitol that day. The only chance of keeping Trump in the White House was not by invading the Capitol, but by keeping it secure while our representatives debated the validity of the election using the entirely constitutional process taking place inside the halls of Congress. The electoral votes of at least five states were being challenged — not in a coup, but in a lawful manner also used by Democrats in earlier elections, following the procedures mandated by the Electoral Count Act of 1887. Republican senators and House members had lined up to make the case to the public and their fellow constitutional officers that something was rotten in the states of Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan, and that the election was therefore tainted. But the violence outside resulted in a sharply truncated debate inside that was virtually ignored, if not outright mocked or shamed, by the mainstream media. The riot instantly doomed any chance Trump had of prevailing in his argument that the election was stolen. So ask yourself who benefited from the supposed coup at the Capitol. Not Trump. Pelosi [is] accused of hiding info on her role in security breakdown on Jan. 6. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is concealing information about her culpability in the security breakdown during the Jan. 6 riot, according to Republican lawmakers who have been pursuing those documents since immediately after the attack on the U.S. Capitol. Rep. Rodney Davis of Illinois said Mrs. Pelosi is stonewalling. He is the top Republican on the House Administration Committee, which oversees the management of the Capitol complex. "The Sergeant at Arms, at the direction of the speaker has refused to provide us their communications surrounding Jan. 6. I believe those records will show there was a lot of communications and coordination between the speaker's office and law enforcement officials leading up to and on Jan. 6," Mr. Davis wrote in a statement Tuesday to The Washington Times. Stewart Rhodes, Ray Epps, John Sullivan Subpoenaed to Testify in 1/6 Oath Keepers Case. The leader of the Oath Keepers and two of the men captured on video urging people to enter or proceed into the U.S. Capitol on January 6 have been subpoenaed by the defense to testify in the government's case against Kelly Meggs, an Oath Keeper accused of conspiring to storm the Capitol. Stewart Rhodes, Ray Epps, and John Sullivan have been subpoenaed to testify at Meggs' trial in a move defense attorney Jon Moseley told National File he believes will prove his client's innocence, and will prove the entire prosecution to be politically motivated. Rhodes' presence in Washington, D.C. has been the subject of much skepticism, with Darren Beattie's Revolver News publishing a series of investigative reports suggesting he may be working with the federal government, or its intelligence agencies, in some capacity. Media Begins Their Week Long J6 Attack on Democracy Narrative Engineering Effort. Despite the predictability and transparency of the propaganda effort, the media and democrats are going all-in. All the broadcast Sunday Talk shows were filled with the "democracy in danger" talking points using the January 6, 2021, Capitol Hill protests to drive the agenda. [...] You might have heard that congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green (MTG) was permanently removed from Twitter today under the auspices of breaking the approved speech rules for the Rona. However, it seems more likely — or at least more convenient — that her voice was removed due to the forward operational needs of the J6 engineering team. It's not going out on a limb to say the New York Times, Washington Post and Politico most likely have their J6 supportive articles written and in the queue for sequentially planned distribution all week. Certainly, they will launch the first round of articles, based on J6 committee leaks, starting tomorrow. Secret commandos with the authority to 'shoot-to-kill' were at the Capitol on January 6 under Trump's orders, report claims. Elite commando teams with the authority to shoot-to-kill were deployed in Washington, DC on January 6th last year to protect ex-Vice President Mike Pence and members of Congress gathering to certify the 2020 election results, a new report claimed on Monday [1/3/2022]. A year ago today, senior leaders of multiple federal special forces teams met to discuss contingency plans and possible threats ahead of the Joint Session of Congress where President Joe Biden's electoral victory was sealed, Newsweek reported. Ex-Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, who ran Donald Trump's Justice Department at the time of the Capitol riot, reportedly acted alone in deciding to activate the elite units. Jan. 6 Is the USA's Own Tiananmen Square. Two symbolic events in the struggle for human freedom over oppressive government transpired last month with barely any notice from the American media. The first was the thirty-year anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union. The second was the Chinese Communist Party's removal of monuments commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre that occupied sacred ground on Hong Kong university campuses, including a replica of the famed "Goddess of Democracy" statue that was erected in the square just before Chinese military forces killed, kidnapped, or crippled thousands of students and workers pleading for individual liberty. It is a sad testament to how far the United States has fallen as a nation once synonymous with freedom that neither event caused much of a stir among the pampered princelings of D.C. I suppose it seemed disjointed to the creatures of our swamp leviathan to celebrate victory in the Cold War over an evil empire that stifled speech, micromanaged economic relations, and disappeared its political enemies into the bowels of gulag hell when it is now also perversely engaged in shutting down free speech, squeezing domestic markets into political compliance through mandates and regulations, and tossing election protesters into dungeons where complaints of physical and psychological torture are rife and constitutional due process looks beaten if not dead. Sunday Shows Were Hyperfocused on Reminding Everyone About January 6. As the anniversary of the Capitol Hill riot from January 6 approaches, the media have ramped up their efforts to remind us about that day. Every Sunday show featured someone involved with the U.S. Capitol. While "Fox News Sunday" spoke with chief of U.S. Capitol Police, Thomas Manger, who took on such a role in July. The other shows featured members from the select committee on January 6, including Reps. Adam Schiff (D-CA), Liz Cheney (R-WY), and Bennie Thompson (D-MS). NBC's "Meet the Press" had a "special edition" episode on "January 6: One Year Later." During that "special edition" episode, host Chuck Todd spoke to the select committee's chair, Rep. Thompson. Rep. Thompson offered insight as how their "goal is to produce a report" of their findings, and the select committee believes members of Congress may have "assisted" the January 6 rioters. J6 Committee Is Pelosi's Vehicle For 2022 Midterms. Federalist Western Correspondent Tristan Justice branded House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Select Committee on Jan. 6 as the Democrats' vehicle for midterms in the absence of any successes under a unified government. "This has really become the vehicle ... House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is using in the 2022 midterms to try to brand Republicans as complicit in political violence after Democrats spent an entire year justifying political violence themselves because it came in the name of social justice," Justice said on Newsmax. D.C. Jail Cuts J6 Prisoners' Communications After Newsmax Interview. Jacob Lang has been awaiting trial without bail in the D.C. jail for his involvement in the January 6 riot at the Capitol for almost a year, along with many others who have been charged with crimes connected to that day. With no trial date in sight, he and his fellow inmates languish in a jail they say is inhumane. The J6 prisoners' complaints about filthy conditions and inhumane treatment resulted in a surprise inspection that found everything they were saying was true. As a result, over 400 prisoners were moved to different facilities — none of them J6 prisoners. Lang has been in contact with PJ Media and several other media sources and was recently giving an interview on Newsmax TV when the jail cut off his phone access. Afterward, Lang reported to PJ Media that the jail took away all access to the internet and cut off phone privileges for all the detainees. They are now on lockdown and Lang says he's not even able to call his lawyer. Trump legal team says Thompson's comments reveal real reason behind Jan. 6 committee. Former President Donald Trump is banking on a Washington Post interview with the chairman of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol to back a key claim in his case before the Supreme Court. In an interview published last week, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson, Mississippi Democrat, told The Post that the committee's findings into Mr. Trump's inaction as a mob of his supporters stormed the Capitol could lead to a criminal referral to the Department of Justice. "That dereliction of duty causes us real concern," Mr. Thompson told The Post. "And one of those concerns is that whether or not it was intentional, and whether or not that lack of attention for that longer period of time, would warrant a referral." The Media's January 6th Obsession Is About to Get a Lot Weirder. We are still about a week out from January 6th, 2022, but members of the press are already salivating at the opportunity to pump up the supposed "insurrection" that wasn't earlier this year. USA Today has already put out a piece lamenting the rise of "domestic terrorism," plugging the coming "anniversary" as a monumental event. [Tweet] The problem remains that there was precious little domestic terrorism on January 6th. No deadly weapons were used, there was no actual plan, and most of the people that entered the open doors of the Capitol that day were as confused as anyone else. Surveillance footage that the government attempted to keep hidden has given us an eye into what actually happened that day. That doesn't mean no one did anything objectionable that day. Of course, some people crossed legal lines, just as lines were crossed during the 2020 George Floyd riots. That doesn't mean it qualifies as a "coup," though. Liz Cheney Lashes Out at Trump after J-6 Panel is Forced to Stand Down on Request for Some Trump Records. January 6 committee vice chairwoman Liz Cheney hit back after it was reported the panel stood down on requests for some Trump documents. In a December 16 letter released Tuesday, Biden's White House Deputy Counsel Jonathan C. Su said some of the records requested by the sham panel could concern executive privilege. The January 6 panel agreed to back down and said it would "defer" its request for the documents. Why Pelosi Just Can't Quit Jan. 6. Pelosi's Stage 4 Trump Derangement Syndrome affliction has raged for at least five years, everybody knows that. But at least when the Russian "collusion" nonsense finally and conclusively proved to be a hoax, she mostly let it go. At least, publicly. But Jan 6. occupies a different twisted crevasse of Pelosi's Trump-riddled brain. Or does it? Might she simply be using Jan. 6 to try to deflect from Biden's disastrous presidency? I report, you decide. Either way, Pelosi's Jan. 6 band plays on. Nancy Pelosi Announces Day's Events to Mark Anniversary of January 6. With the anniversary of the January 6 riot on Capitol Hill one week away, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has released a list of events for the day as highlighted in a "Dear Colleague" letter. The letter notes that while Congress will not be in session that day, "a full program of events is being planned, based on Member input." Events will be live-streamed, "so that Members can watch and participate from their districts." Agenda items include a "House Pro Forma Session;" a "Historic Perspective," which includes Jon Meacham who spoke at the DNC in August 2020; "Members' Testimonials;" and a "Prayer Vigil." Pelosi's letter attempts to exude a sense of coming together, with "patriotism" being mentioned more than once throughout the letter. The Editor says... Joe Biden's Top 25 Worst Moments of 2021. [#9] Joe Biden Claims January 6th Rioters a Bigger Threat to Democracy than Confederates in Civil War: In July, Biden claimed the January 6h protesters of the 2020 election were more dangerous to the United States than the confederates in the Civil War. "We're facing the most significant test of our democracy since the Civil War. It's not hyperbole — since the Civil War," Biden said in an interview. "Confederates, back then, never breached the Capitol as insurrectionists did on January 6." Biden repeatedly shared this questionable talking point throughout 2021 as he tried to smear his political opponents as "insurrectionists" who tried to overthrow democracy itself. "I'm not saying this to alarm you. I'm saying this because you should be alarmed," Biden said. During his address to Congress, Biden called the protests the "worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War," ignoring the attack on Pearl Harbor, assassinations of presidents, and previous attacks on the Capitol building. Why isn't Michael Byrd on trial? I ask an uncomfortable question. Why isn't Michael Byrd on trial? He shot and killed Ashli Babbitt during a mostly peaceful protest inside the Capitol on January 6. Three trials this year beg this question. [...] As a casual observer, I think jurors got all three verdicts right. Which brings me to Byrd. Why should he not face a jury of his peers to determine whether his killing of Babbitt was murder? [...] Let's go to the tape. Let's let a jury decide whether shooting an unarmed woman who seemed to pose no physical threat to anyone was a justifiable homicide. We all know why Byrd won't stand trial. It's the same reason Hillary didn't and Hunter won't. They are part of the protected class. They are above the law. A Washington that blew millions on an investigation into a conspiracy theory about Russia that everyone knew was a lie won't spend 10 cents on real justice in these three cases. I am not saying convict Byrd. I am saying try him, if only for the peace of mind of a nation that no longer can trust its federal government. Six Political Predictions For 2022. [Scroll down] Similarly, as I write this news is breaking everyday about the potential bombshells that could destroy the elite-driven narrative of an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol Building as well as the idea that the 2020 elections were the most secure in American history. The most secure ever? That's exactly like saying vaccines are safe and effective. The blatant lies, often hyperbolic and absolute, are coming apart. In terms of January 6th, Revolver just blew the door wide open by revealing some big-time players who appeared to be leading the movement on cameras and have yet to be charged. Meanwhile, innocent bystanders who did nothing more than follow the crowd have been imprisoned for almost a year. Among the countless other crimes (the murder of Ashli Babbit and the beating of women by the CP), the lie about Brian Sicknick, and a host of other anomalies, we could be in for some clarity on this Reichstag fire. The outlet Revolver has been reporting on this for months, and has revealed the FBI was involved and nothing by regular people was pre-planned (but likely was by FBI and others). So much for an insurrection. Somewhat related: Pelosi's Jan. 6 witch hunt. Historically, business is conducted in the U.S. House of Representatives based on the people's will, and therefore committees are organized according to the size of the caucus of the majority party. In the current 117th Congress, the Democrats hold a razor-thin 222-213 majority. That five-seat majority corresponds directly to the Democrat to Republican ratios on committees. So, the Jan. 6 committee, in reality, should have five Democrats and four Republicans, not seven fire-breathing partisan Democrats and two never-Trump RINOs. At its core, this bogus committee doesn't reflect the will of the American people, which makes it fatally flawed. But it doesn't end there. This illegal select committee has absolute power, no minority rights, no opposition and no check and balance. For example, a congressional deposition without minority counsel or staff present is not a serious legislative proceeding; it's a sleazy sideshow. This committee is undemocratic and un-American on its face, and it ought to be shuttered before it causes even more damage to the trusted traditions of our republic. Three Hours Of U.S. Capitol Surveillance Video at the Tunnel from Jan. 6, 2021. [Video clip] FBI director says Capitol riot was 'domestic terrorism'. FBI Director Christopher A. Wray called the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol an act of "domestic terrorism" and defended the bureau's handling of intelligence in the days before a pro-Trump mob stormed past police and threatened the lives of lawmakers. "I was appalled that you, our country's elected leaders, were victimized right here in these very halls," he told senators Tuesday. "That attack, that siege, was criminal behavior. It is behavior that we, the FBI, view as domestic terrorism." Wray faced questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee in a hearing that delved into the bureau's handling of threats posed by domestic terrorists and right-wing extremists before the Capitol siege. Please — stop the coup porn. In a recent Washington Post op-ed, three retired generals, Paul Eaton, Antonio Taguba, and Steven Anderson warn of a supposedly impending coup should Donald Trump be elected in 2024. The column seemed strangely timed to coincide with a storm of recent Democratic talking points that a re-elected Trump, or even a Republican sweep of the 2022 midterms, would spell a virtual end of democracy. Ironies abound. [...] The three retired generals shrilly write of the dangers of insurrection and coups. Yet the FBI found no such insurrection or conspiracy in the buffoonish riot on January 6. Only serial media misinformation and lies turned a ragtag band of misfits into an existential threat to the nation. Almost every media talking point turned out to be untrue. No Capitol police officer died at the hands of the mob. (Early reports that Officer Brian Sicknick had been beaten into a coma by protesters were incorrect. The Washington, D.C., medical examiner ruled Sicknick died the next day of a stroke.) The media all but ignored the lethal police shooting of a military veteran and unarmed petite female trespasser, for the apparent crime of trying to enter Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office through a broken window. There were no gun-toting "insurrectionists" arrested inside the Capitol. Here There Be Monsters. On January 6, none of the protestors was armed, nobody burned down a building, and the only violence was against the protestors, committed by the D.C. police. The sole fatality was an unarmed protestor at the hands of a capitol security officer. Instigators and provocateurs abounded in the crowd, but none was subsequently charged. In fact, their names were thereafter purged from public records. Elected officials blocks away from the event stated they were in fear of their lives. The anti-gun Speaker of the House's request of the military to set up crew-served machine guns was declined. Biden called it the most serious threat to American democracy since the Civil War, a characterization repeated daily by the Left. Over 400 protestors were arrested, and most remain detained without bail in deplorable conditions. Those few who have been charged were not charged with insurrection or anything like it. Another protest occurred in D.C. since then, in which a protestor attacked a U.S. senator's door with an ax. The Antifa protestor was out on bail without delay despite committing worse violations than the January 6 protestors, ultimately received probation, and his ax was returned to him. Trump Supporter Victoria White gets Repeatedly Cracked in the Skull with a Baton while Pinned by DC Police on Jan 6th. According to attorney Joseph McBride: "She is hit approximately thirty-five times over the course of 4 minutes and 30 seconds, while appearing to be begging for mercy the entire time. She is hit with the baton while facing away. She is hit with the baton while facing forward. She is speared and poked with the baton about the face so as to inflict maximum pain. She collapses more than once and is stood up by the officers only to be maced and beaten again. At some point, White-shirt puts away his baton, not because he is showing mercy because he has a clear avenue to her face. As such, he unloads on the defenseless woman punching her five times in five seconds, directly in the face, with all of his might." [Video clip] A paragraph that puts to shame the January 6 Select Committee of the House of Representatives. Lt. General Michael Flynn has filed a complaint against Speaker Pelosi and her Select Committee along the lines of the complaint already filed by former White House Counsel Mark Meadows, but with an important difference. Like the Meadows complaint, Gen. Flynn points out that the committee was not organized in accordance with the provision of the authorizing resolution, H. Res. 503. Where the resolution called for 13 members, the Pelosi panel has only 9 members. Where the resolution called for five members of the minority appointed in consultation with the minority leader, the committee has two members of the minority, selected by the Speaker without consultation with the minority leader. The authorizing resolution called for a ranking member; the committee has no ranking member. And as the Meadows complaint alleges, the Flynn complaint alleges that the subpoenas issued by the committee serve no valid legislative purpose. Three 'What Ifs' We're Not Supposed to Ask. [Scroll down] Had a white Capitol Police officer shot and killed an unarmed Black Lives Matter protester on January 6, instead of a black officer having shot an unarmed white Ashli Babbitt for protesting the numerous irregularities surrounding the 2020 election, would the officer have been treated as a hero and celebrated by corporate news? Would Congress and the White House have applauded law enforcement's killing of an unarmed black woman waving an American flag? Would a congressional committee have been formed to torment the families of those killed and those imprisoned to hype the incident as somehow far worse than the U.S. Civil War that took nearly a million lives? Would courts have gone out of their way to punish black Americans for trespassing in the "people's house" because judges believed that it was important to intimidate them into compliance? Would military generals have written editorials encouraging the Pentagon to purge all Black Lives Matter — supporters from the armed forces because they represented an inherent threat to the national security of the United States? Would the FBI have called Black Lives Matter members the single greatest threat to the country? January 6 Committee Wants to Interrogate Jim Jordan — After Rejecting Him as a Member. The United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack wrote Wednesday to Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) asking him to testify about phone calls with then-president Donald Trump — after rejecting him as a member of the committee. In a letter, the committee says that it believes Jordan spoke with Trump on January 6, and wants him to describe those calls, as well as any meetings he had with Trump and others to discuss strategies for "overturning" the January 6 election results[.] Gen. Michael Flynn Files Restraining Order Against Nancy Pelosi. Gen. Michael Flynn, who knows a thing or two about witch hunts, is taking action to stop the latest one. Naming all the members of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol as defendants, he has filed a complaint intended to stop a subpoena from that committee. At the same time, according to the Western Journal, Flynn "filed a motion for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction specifically" against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Smirnoff). It is always refreshing, and far too rare, to see someone fighting back against this latter-day American version of the Stalinist show trials. Was the FBI's Whitmer Chicanery a Warm-up for January 6? As questions mount about the government's animating role in the Capitol protest on January 6, the criminal case against the men charged with conspiring to "kidnap" Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020 continues to collapse. Defense attorneys in the Whitmer case are carefully compiling evidence that depicts an elaborate tale of FBI entrapment; at least a dozen FBI informants were involved in the failed plot — equaling one FBI asset per defendant. FBI agents handling the informants directed every move. They funded training and reconnaissance trips, and even organized a "national militia" conference in Ohio in June 2020 to lure potential accomplices. Several men were arrested in October 2020 when the lead informant drove them to meet an undercover FBI agent to purchase munitions, the six month-long scheme's dramatic conclusion. News of the shocking plot made national headlines as early voting was underway in Michigan: Joe Biden, Whitmer, and the media blamed Donald Trump for inciting an attempted domestic terror attack. (Sound familiar?) Michael Flynn sues Nancy Pelosi and Jan. 6 committee. Former national security adviser Michael Flynn filed a lawsuit requesting a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction against the Jan. 6 committee and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday [12/21/2021]. Flynn's filing with the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida seeking declaratory and injunctive relief argues the committee has engaged in "outrageous intrusion" by issuing extensive subpoenas to Flynn and his family, as well as "secret seizure of his and his family's personal information from their telecommunications and/or electronic mail service providers." The onetime national security adviser denied involvement in the Jan. 6 Capitol Hill riot that precipitated the congressional committee. It wasn't just uncharged Ray Epps leading the Capitol breach. He had helpers. The House's Soviet-style January 6 committee continues its unsuccessful efforts to tie Donald Trump, people in his administration, Republican congresspeople, and Fox News personalities to the events on that day. What they're ignoring as they try to destroy their political enemies is those people caught on tape actively encouraging the crowd to breach the Capitol. The most notable of these people is one Ray Epps but he's not the only one. [...] Footage also shows unindicted, businesslike men who seemed to have no connection whatsoever to Trump carefully removing all indications that the Capitol grounds — normally open — had been closed off. Again, this meant that the people who were arrested for trespassing had no way of knowing that they were doing so. All of this happened before the Proud Boys first appeared on the scene, which kills the narrative that they were the insurrectionists. There were also people standing on a tall scaffold encouraging people to enter the Capitol. The main man doing the directing, who's easy to spot with his dad glasses, mask, baseball cap, and megaphone, is also missing from the FBI's and DOJ's "most wanted" list or any official descriptions of the events on January 6. America Is Much More than Its Government. [Scroll down] I know for a fact that D.C.'s propagandists invented an "insurrection" out of thin air earlier this year because (1) the Capitol protesters were armed with nothing more than American flags; (2) only unarmed Capitol protesters were killed by Capitol Police; and (3) you can't overthrow the American government by merely prancing around half-naked and taking selfies in Nancy Pelosi's desk chair. If the American government is, in fact, considered "overthrown" after the equivalent of a college streak through the quad, why should the Russians ever need tanks or fighter jets to conquer America? Apparently, sending in the crew from Animal House and letting them rain crazy hijinks down on Congress is sufficient for the U.S. government's full surrender. Who knew? The Elite's obsession with January 6:
Why do the Elite harbor this fevered obsession with Jan 6? [...] It reflects their habitual projection of their own evil onto the seething mass of deplorables.
Precisely what is this evil they are projecting? In a word: treason. The US Constitution defines treason in Article III, Section 3,
Clause 1 this way: "Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them
Aid and Comfort." Are the Elite guilty of treason? Let me count the ways[:]
The 'Trump Did Nothing for 187 Minutes on January 6' Narrative Just Got Shredded. It's déjà vu all over again. There's the big bombshell that turns out to be total nonsense — a nothing burger. But even this story comes without the bun. There's no meat. There's no bun. There's nothing. The January 6 Select Committee was established by Democrats to get Trump. Everyone else has gotten over this riot. We have much more important things to worry about, but Mark Meadows, Trump's former chief of staff, turned over text messages. Fox News hosts and family members were included. It's a gross invasion of privacy, but you know how far the anti-Trump wing of America, which includes some Republicans, will go to attack this man. The texts were not a smoking gun. In fact, it proved exactly the opposite of what the left wanted to prove, which is that this was a pre-planned insurrection. It wasn't. PolitiFact's lie of the year is just a liberal talking point all dressed up for prom. PolitiFact, a fact-checking site that purports to be an unbiased source of information, has chosen its 2021 "Lie of the Year" and it's a doozy. The organization picked the one topic that could be found on every Democratic talking points sheet from January until December: The Capitol Hill riot. Specifically, they decided to select all of the claims and statements "downplaying the realities and significance of the Capitol insurrection." That sounds more like they are attacking anyone with a difference in opinion on just how "historical" the event was, rather than actually picking a concrete lie that can be disproven by facts. The Soviet-style conditions in which January 6 arrestees molder. Every totalitarian regime has foul prisons in which they confine people who dared to oppose the regime. Sadly, in the Age of Biden, it turns out that America is no different. George Parry has written about the conditions at the D.C. jail in which those arrested for the January 6 riots are confined, and what he writes should horrify every person who believes in the Constitution and Due Process of Law. New Details Emerge Exposing Massive Web Of Unindicted Operators At The Heart Of January 6. Six weeks ago, Revolver News published a blockbuster investigative report on Ray Epps — a man who, more than any other individual, appears to be the key unlocking the question of active federal involvement in the so-called "Capitol Siege" of January 6th. Out of all of the thousands of January 6's protesters, and the thousands of hours of publicly available footage from that fateful day, Ray Epps has turned out to be perhaps the only person nailed dead to rights confessing on camera to plotting a pre-planned attack on the Capitol. On both January 5 and January 6, Epps announced multiple times, at multiple locations, his upcoming plot to breach the US Capitol. He then spent hours attempting to recruit hundreds of others to join him. On top of it all, Epps was seen leading key people and managing key aspects of the initial breach of the Capitol grounds himself. Liz Cheney's Jan. 6 committee: What kind of mendacious operation is this? [Scroll down] What we see here is dishonesty after dishonesty coming from this committee, rendering its credibility absolutely nil. Honesty is not that hard for normal people. But Cheney and her new Democrat pals have a lot of problems with it. Facts that don't fit their narrative that President Trump orchestrated the Jan. 6 incident, which was really a failure of crowd control, not a bona fide coup attempt, is driving them in their rage to make up, alter, and fabricate "evidence." [...] And yeah, it's all about ambition, short- and long term. Short term, Cheney wants to get Trump arrested. Roger Stone pleads Fifth to each question in Jan. 6 committee deposition. Roger Stone, a longtime ally and adviser to former President Donald Trump, appeared before the House Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 Attack on Friday and asserted his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in response to every question asked. In an email from his legal defense fund asking for donations to help with his legal expenses, Stone said he took the Fifth Amendment "not because I have done anything wrong — but because I recognize the whole thing as an elaborate trap." "Considering that I was not present on the Ellipse, did not march to the Capitol and was not at the Capitol and know nothing whatsoever about the illegal events that day it is obvious that this is just another transparent attempt by Trump hating lunatic Adam Schiff to frame me in some transparent process crime by twisting my words and leaking a distorted version of whatever I might say under oath," Stone wrote. Photographer Sues House Jan. 6 Committee Over 'Invasive' Subpoena. A freelance photojournalist is suing the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 breach of the U.S. Capitol, saying the panel issued "an invasive and sweeping subpoena" of her phone records that violates the First Amendment. Amy Harris, a photographer who has worked with outlets including The Washington Post, The New York Times, and Time magazine, filed a lawsuit on Wednesday afternoon in federal court in Washington. Her 23-page suit seeks to block a subpoena issued by the Jan. 6 panel, arguing that demanding her phone records violates her right not to reveal confidential sources. The subpoena would compel her phone carrier, Verizon, to hand over her phone records dated from Nov. 1, 2020 through Jan. 31, 2021. Harris had documented the Proud Boys and its leader, Henry "Enrique" Tarrio, in the days before the Jan. 6 breach and on the day itself. Federal judge finds DC jail warden in contempt, demands DOJ civil rights probe of Jan. 6 detainees. A federal judge has found the warden of a D.C. jail and the director of the D.C. Department of Corrections in contempt of court Wednesday and called for an investigation by the Department of Justice to determine whether the jail has violated the civil rights of Jan. 6 defendants. "For the reasons stated in open court, it is adjudged that the Warden of the D.C. jail Wanda Patten and Director of the D.C. Department of Corrections Quincy Booth are in civil contempt of court," U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth of Washington ruled Wednesday. "The Clerk of the Court is ordered to transmit a copy of this order to the Attorney General of the United States for appropriate inquiry into potential civil rights violations of Jan. 6 defendants, as exemplified in this case." Nancy Pelosi Is Collecting the Phone Records of the Conservative Movement. Yesterday [12/14/2021], former Rep. Mark Meadows was held in contempt by the same House he once served in before his appointment as former President Donald J. Trump's last chief of staff. Meadows had been complying with Nancy Pelosi's appointed select committee tasked with looking into January 6 until it went too far. Meadows is now suing Pelosi and the select committee. In retaliation, the committee read out texts, and doctored texts, on Monday between Meadows and Fox News hosts and the president's son. It was lost on Democrats and the media that the text messages actually prove there was no attempted coup from within the Trump administration or his family. Meadows' lawsuit is serious but will D.C.'s political judges allow it to be heard on its merits or the politics of post-January 6? The One Thread That Shuts Down the Whole Circus Over These January 6 Texts. We have text messages. The January 6 Select Committee got a trove of communications, thanks to Mark Meadows — Trump's former chief of staff. Fox News hosts are featured. Trump's son, Don Jr, is on there. The bombshell was here — and it was a total dud. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), the GOP's Judas, read off the communications as if this was some smoking gun. It wasn't anything. It was a classic nothing burger. The Federalist's Mollie Hemingway had an epic thread on Twitter that shut this circus down. Our friends at Twitchy covered it as well. In all, all the texts showed was that there was no conspiracy. These people demanded Trump condemn the violence that erupted from this riot, which he did. Former Bush spokesperson Ari Fleischer also noted that the texts showed that the GOP was against the riot, as they were against all riots all summer during the 2020 election. Liberal America was very much the opposite and the fact that this couldn't shake that narrative really got under their skin. Nancy Pelosi Is the Elephant in the Room of the January 6 Riot. [Former White House Chief of Staff Mark] Meadows, who is also a former member of the House of Representatives, initially cooperated with the select panel, turning over more than 6,900 requested documents, including those now infamous emails he received during the riot from Fox News stars Sean Hannity, Brian Kilmeade, and Laura Ingraham. But then the panel demanded Meadows show up for a deposition in which he would have to answer under oath and all questions put to him. Doing that would have inevitably required him to violate presidential executive privilege because he was certain to be asked multiple questions about how he advised Trump on the riot and what Trump said in response, as well as how other aides did so. Executive privilege is not absolute, but it is essential, according to the Supreme Court in its U.S. v Nixon decision that blew Watergate wide open. Please Democrats, Keep Up Your Lunatic Jan. 6 Obsession. Nancy Pelosi's pathetic revenge-porn January 6 show trial has been chugging along with its alt-reality addiction to all things Donald Trump. Bless their hearts, they think it's going well. Anyone with an IQ over 14 knows that there was no insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021. Fortunately for Pelosi, the sub-14 IQ demographic is heavily populated with Democrats in Congress, as well as CNN and MSNBC viewers. So they're still talking about an insurrection that never happened. The best part is that they think it's going well for them. During January 6 Hearing, Schiff Doctored Text Messages Between Mark Meadows And Rep. Jim Jordan. After leaking fake Donald Trump, Jr. emails, fabricating the transcript of a 2019 phone call between former President Donald Trump and Ukraine's president, and lying about his interactions with the so-called whistleblower behind House Democrats' first impeachment of Trump, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., is now running the same con against a fellow lawmaker. During a hearing Monday night on the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Adam Schiff claimed to have proof that a member of Congress texted former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to instruct former Vice President Mike Pence to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. Not only did Schiff misrepresent the substance of the text message and its source, he even doctored original text messages, which were obtained and reviewed by The Federalist in their entirety. Rep. Adam Schiff doctored a Rep. Jim Jordan text message. At law, fraud is a very specific act requiring that the person charged with fraud knowingly makes a false statement intending that people rely on it. The fraud becomes actionable if people do rely on it to their detriment. The falsehood can be from commission (telling an affirmative lie) or omission (suppressing a critical fact). From the moment Trump entered the White House, chipmunk-cheeked Rep. Adam Schiff (D. Hollyweird), has been defrauding the American people with one lie after another. Schiff's latest fraudulent act as part of his role on the Soviet-style show trial that is the January 6 committee was to doctor a text message from Rep. Jim Jordan to Mark Meadows, Trump's chief of staff. Schiff made it appear that Jordan was ordering Pence to refuse to certify the election. However, on Wednesday, Sean Davis, at The Federalist, broke the news about Schiff's intentional fraud against the American people. January 6 Committee Admits It Doctored Republican Text Message in Adam Schiff's Presentation. The United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack admitted Wednesday that it had doctored a text message cited by Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) in his push Monday to hold former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows in contempt. The Federalist's Sean Davis first reported Wednesday morning [12/15/2021] that Schiff had manipulated the text message, cutting out the full context and adding punctuation into it, which he falsely implied was authored by a Republican lawmaker. Liz Cheney is lying to you about Jan. 6. The Jan. 6 committee has somehow awarded itself the power to seize the personal communications of its political enemies and then make them public. The arguments really simple: Turn over your text messages or we're going to send you to jail. Let's not lie about this. The point of this exercise is not to uncover crimes. The January 6 committee hasn't found any crimes, and at this point will not find any crimes. The point is to harm and humiliate the people you disagree with politically, and that's what they're doing. So yesterday, in case you missed it, Liz Cheney found herself with a list of text messages to and from Mark Meadows. Meadows was Donald Trump's last White House chief of staff. Now, those texts showed no evidence of any crime whatsoever. But since she had them, Liz Cheney thought they might be embarrassing to conservatives, so she read them on television. Jan 6 committee votes 9-0 to hold Mark Meadows in contempt of Congress for refusing to testify. Donald Trump Jr. and Fox News hosts sent frantic texts to Mark Meadows during the January 6 riot urging the president to 'condemn this sh*t' as it 'got out of hand', a House Committee has revealed. The House Select Committee unanimously voted 9-0 on Monday night to recommend contempt charges against former White House chief of staff Meadows. Rep. Liz Cheney, the select committee's vice chair, read a number of text messages from political and journalistic heavyweights which 'leave no doubt that the White House knew exactly what was happening here at the Capitol.' As the January 6 Commission Stumbles, Who Has It Worse — The Democrats, or the Media? Today across the media landscape, the journalists were all alight; they finally had the goods on Fox News! As we detailed last night, Liz Cheney released a series of text messages from the records subpoenaed from Mark Meadows, showing communications on January 6 by a list of prominent conservative figures — including Donald Trump Jr. and a number of Fox News names. They were imploring Meadows to convince Trump to issue statements to help end the attack on the Capitol, and Meadows responded to them how he was at the moment already engaged with the President to formulate that very type of announcement. In other words, they were all calling for an end to the violence as it transpired, the very opposite of colluding with the attackers and plotting a coup. Biden will commemorate Jan. 6 Capitol attack, White House says. President Biden plans to mark the first anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, said White House press secretary Jen Psaki. She said more details would be revealed closer to the end of the year about how that day will be remembered. "To the president, Jan. 6 was one of the darkest days in our democracy. It was a day that our Capitol, our nation's Capitol, was under attack and I think there's no question you'll see us commemorate that day," she said at a White House press briefing on Monday. Cheney hints: We're building a case that Trump committed a federal crime on January 6. Everyone's understandably focused today on how Cheney embarrassed Trump Jr and the Fox News gang by reading their texts to Trump on January 6. Ed has a nice write-up about it here. But don't miss the forest for the trees. The point Cheney was making isn't that Fox News hosts are hypocrites, although they are. The point is that the president's own family and allies were pleading with him while the riot was unfolding to do something, yet he did nothing — for hours. Everyone around him treated it like an emergency. Not him. Was that a crime? Justice Department Moves to Conceal Police Misconduct on January 6. After months of foot-dragging, Joe Biden's Justice Department is preparing for the first set of trials related to its sprawling prosecution of January 6 defendants: Robert Gieswein, who turned himself in and was arrested on January 19 for his involvement in the Capitol protest, is scheduled to stand trial in February. A week after his arrest, Gieswein, 24 at the time, was indicted by a federal grand jury on six counts including "assaulting, resisting, or impeding" law enforcement with a dangerous weapon that day. He has been behind bars ever since, denied bail while Judge Emmet Sullivan delayed his trial on numerous occasions. Gieswein is among 40 or so January 6 defendants held in a part of the D.C. jail system solely used to detain Capitol protesters. Meadows hits back after Jan. 6 committee recommends criminal charges. Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows is speaking out in response to the House Jan. 6 Select Committee's vote to recommend criminal charges against him for contempt of Congress after he refused to cave to their demands. "It's disappointing, but not surprising," Meadows told Sean Hannity on his Fox News show Monday. "Let's be clear about this, this is not about me, holding me in contempt. It's not even about making the Capitol safer. We've seen that by the selective leaks that are going on right now. This is about Donald Trump and about actually going after him once again." Seven Democrats and two Republicans who might as well be Democrats, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), are conducting what many contend is a sham investigation of the Jan. 6 riot that already has a predetermined outcome. The Whitewashing of Black Crime. On January 6th, no sooner had the pepper spray fog lifted from Capitol Hill, leaving all to lick their wounds, than NPR had already leveled blame for the melee on majority-white Trump voters, Trump supporters, and an assortment of right-wing fringe groups. Subsequent testimonial evidence of the involvement of Antifa decked out in full black bloc, along with credible reports of federal provocateurs acting as crowd agitators, none of whom have been arrested or handed House commission subpoenas, has drawn little interest from liberal commentators still exulting over the prolonged and isolated imprisonment of protesters charged with low-level crimes. Liz Cheney Publicizes Donald Trump Jr. Text Messages, Manages to Kneecap Her January 6th Conspiracy Narrative. The January 6th Committee has begun to dig through Mark Meadows' text messages. The former Chief of Staff for Donald Trump received numerous texts the day of the Capitol breach from various figures urging Meadows to have the then-president speak out about what was happening. One such message came from none other than Donald Trump Jr. himself. But while Liz Cheney, who revealed the message during a hearing, appears to think it bolsters her and her colleagues' fevered conspiracy theory about January 6th, the reality is that it kneecaps it. Progressive lawmakers offer unwitting path for Jan. 6 prisoners to sue federal government. Some of the most progressive Democrats in Congress are supporting new legislation that could help an unexpected group: those who were arrested and imprisoned without trial for playing a role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Democratic Reps. Hank Johnson (Ga.) and Jamie Raskin (Md.) on Wednesday reintroduced the Bivens Act, which would allow citizens to recover damages for constitutional violations committed against them by federal law enforcement officials. The bill, which the lawmakers first introduced last year, seeks "to provide a civil remedy for an individual whose rights have been violated by a person acting under federal authority." It would do this by adding five words — "of the United States or" — to a longstanding provision enacted in 1871, known as Section 1983, which gives individuals the right to sue state or local officials who violate their civil and constitutional rights. The additional words would include federal officials in the statute. Deputy Warden at DC Gulag Where Pro-Trump Political Prisoners Are Violently Beaten and Abused Deletes Twitter Page. There are currently dozens of Trump supporters indefinitely detained without trial at the DC Gulag in Washington DC. The corrupt DC judges will not allow these men to post bail and many are beaten and regularly abused by the DC prison guards. The J-6 protesters have been beaten by the Trump-hating guards to within an inch of their lives. This is part of the Biden legacy — Where America surrenders and then arms the enemy and where Americans are held indefinitely in prison [without] trial. 1/6 DC Jail Deputy Warden Deletes Twitter After Vulgar, Anti-Trump Tweets Exposed. Kathleen Landerkin, the current Correctional Training Facility (CTF) Deputy Warden at the Department of Corrections in the District of Columbia, assists in overseeing day to day operations, inmate transportation, and case management. Though she holds a position of power of January 6 inmates, Landerkin continued to spout anti-Trump and anti-Republican rhetoric on her Twitter until she deleted her account earlier today. Two positive developments pertaining to January 6. More than eleven months have elapsed since the events at the Capitol, January 6, 2021 — and many people arrested in connection with that physical intrusion into the Capitol building are still held in pre-trial confinement. Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has published a report on her visit to the D.C. jail, with Rep. Louis Gohmert (R-Texas) on November 4. The Greene Report points out that the tour was hastily arranged by the office of the mayor after previous attempts by the representatives to visit the January 6 detainees — held for months without trial — had been denied. [...] The following is taken from the Conclusion to the Greene Report: "pre-trial inmates related to January 6 are treated more harshly than other inmates in the D.C. jail, even though they have yet to be convicted of any crime." Another Lawsuit Holds The Key To Trump's Best Defense Against The Jan. 6 Committee. Yesterday [12/9/2021], the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected former President Donald Trump's claim of executive privilege, holding that the archivist of the United States could provide a tranche of Trump's presidential records to the House's "Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol." In a unanimous ruling, the federal appellate court concluded that President Biden's conclusion that "an assertion of executive privilege is not in the best interests of the United States" controlled and that the archivist, therefore, must hand over the first of three sets of documents requested. The court added, however, that it would await an assessment from the Biden administration before determining whether other sets of documents must likewise be handed over. Appeals Court panel rules against Trump in his bid to keep Jan. 6 Committee from getting his White House records. A federal appeals court panel has ruled against former President Donald Trump as he tries to keep the National Archives from handing over his White House records being sought by the House Jan. 6th Committee. The panel of three federal judges — two appointed by Barack Obama and one by Biden on the powerful U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia — unanimously upheld a lower court's ruling denying Trump a preliminary injunction to stop the release of records. A separate administrative injunction pending the court fight is to dissolve within 14 days under the ruling, unless the U.S. Supreme Court agrees to take the case. January 6 Police Beating Victim Speaks: 'I Could Have Died'. he first time Victoria White visited the nation's capital was on January 6, 2021. Listening to President Trump's speech — with her teen daughter and three friends alongside her — would be a once-in-a-lifetime experience, White thought. Instead, the day turned into a personal nightmare with real-time flashbacks to her years as a victim of domestic abuse. White, a mother of four, recounted to me this week by phone in horrifying and heartbreaking detail how at least two D.C. Metropolitan police officers viciously assaulted her inside a tunnel on the lower west terrace of the Capitol building on January 6. Fierce battles between police and protesters took place inside the tunnel, which leads to a set of doors that allows access to the building. It is the location where Rosanne Boyland, a 34-year-old Trump supporter from Georgia, died. Attorney asks court to unmask Jan. 6 footage of suspected undercover agents. An attorney to several people charged in connection to the Capitol on Jan. 6 wants the U.S. government to release videos that he says will reveal the "truth" of that day. Joseph McBride told Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Monday that he had filed a motion in court "asking for the unmasking of these videos." He said the motion was "joined by The New York Times and a 16-point press conglomerate." McBride said "they signed on" because they "want to see the truth about what happened as well." The motion was filed Dec. 1 in the Capitol riot case of Ryan Nichols , a 30-year-old former Marine from Texas who claims footage deemed sensitive by the Justice Department could exonerate him and other Jan. 6 defendants, according to the Epoch Times. Appeals court rules against Trump in fight over Jan. 6 committee documents request. A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that former President Donald Trump cannot prevent the House Jan. 6 committee from getting hundreds of documents created when he was in the White House. A three-judge panel at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that although Trump retained some authority to claim executive privilege, it was not strong enough to overcome President Joe Biden's decision that Congress has a legitimate need for the material. "The executive privilege for presidential communications is a qualified one that Mr. Trump agrees must give way when necessary to protect overriding interests. The president and the legislative branch have shown a national interest in and pressing deed for the prompt disclosure of these documents," wrote Judge Patricia Millett for the court. Reps. Greene and Gohmert Finally Met the J6 Political Prisoners: What They Saw Isn't Pretty. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene today released "Unusually Cruel- An Eyewitness Report From Inside The DC Jail," her report about what she saw when she was finally allowed to meet the January 6 political prisoners. Reps. Greene, Gohmert, Gaetz, and Gosar tried, unsuccessfully, to visit the January 6 political prisoners twice earlier this year. They were turned back for no stated reasons. They sent a congressional letter and forced a confrontation with the D.C. mayor's office and the Washington D.C. Department of Corrections (DOC) staff just so they could inspect a jail that "they have the right, prerogative, and duty as of Members of Congress to inquire and inspect." Greene and Gohmert (and their respective staffs) finally got to tour the D.C. jail where the J6 inmates are held, though the jail staff DID try to end the tour of the jail before the reps got to meet the political prisoners. Marjorie Taylor Greene says Jan. 6th defendants are being 'abused' and treated 'worse than we treat terrorists at Gitmo' and with some being 'force-fed gluten food'. Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene claimed at a Capitol press conference that Jan. 6th defendants are being treated 'worse' than terrorists while they await trial. 'They have been beaten by the guards. They are called white supremacist. They are denied religious services, haircuts, shaving, the ability to trim their fingernails,' she said at an event along with Reps. Rep. Louis Gohmert of Texas, Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz and Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar. She said Jan. 6th prisoners were being 'mistreated and abused worse than we treat terrorists at Gitmo,' in reference to the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Mark Meadows sues Nancy Pelosi and Capitol riot panel members. Mark Meadows is suing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and members of the House select committee tasked with investigating the Jan. 6 riot on Capitol Hill. The lawsuit, filed in D.C. federal court Wednesday, comes after the panel said it had "no choice" but to move forward with recommending criminal contempt of Congress proceedings against the subpoenaed former Trump White House chief of staff after he changed course and said he would no longer cooperate with its investigation. Mark Meadows Sues Pelosi, January 6 Committee. Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows sued House speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) and the members of the House Select Committee on the January 6 Capitol riot on Wednesday [12/8/2021]. The suit asks the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to block enforcement of a committee subpoena for Meadows as well as a subpoena for Verizon to obtain Meadows's phone records. The nine-member committee is investigating the lead-up to the riot, during which supporters of former president Trump breached the Capitol during the certification of the Electoral College results. Capitol riot committee is 'moving forward' with contempt charges for Mark Meadows after he fails to show for deposition. The House committee investigating Jan. 6 will move forward with recommending contempt charges for Donald Trump's ex-Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, Chairman Bennie Thompson revealed in a new letter. The committee threatened to do so on Tuesday if he did not show up for his scheduled deposition this morning at 10 am. 'The Select Committee is left with no choice but to advance contempt proceedings and recommend that the body in which Mr. Meadows once served refer him for criminal prosecution,' Thompson wrote on Tuesday. Lt. Mike Byrd Raises $122,000 on GoFundMe After Killing Unarmed US Veteran Ashli Babbitt in Cold Blood. In July, The Gateway Pundit confirmed that Lt. Mike Byrd was Ashli Babbit's shooter. Lt. Byrd killed Ashli Babbitt in cold blood on Jan. 6 in the US Capitol. Ashli Babbitt, a Trump-supporting US veteran, was gunned down in cold blood inside the US Capitol. She was unarmed and posed no threat to the police or anyone. There were several police officers surrounding her when she was shot dead without warning. Her killer Lt. Mike Byrd then fled down the hall after he shot her dead without warning. The Gateway Pundit confirmed that Lt. Mike Byrd was Ashli Babbitt's killer. In August, Lt. Mike Byrd was exonerated for killing Ashli Babbitt in cold blood. He gave no warning, he ran from the scene of the crime, he shot an unarmed woman dead who posed no threat. The Demonization of Rosanne Boyland Begins. Yet another lie animating the phony narrative about the events at the Capitol complex on January 6 is about to be exposed: the falsehood that Rosanne Boyland, a Trump supporter from Georgia, died of an accidental drug overdose that day. As American Greatness has reported for months, incriminating video footage and firsthand witness accounts instead support numerous allegations that D.C. Metro and Capitol police contributed to, if they did not directly cause, Boyland's death in the late afternoon of January 6. Boyland's family reportedly has hired an attorney to investigate the circumstances of her death at the age of 34; the D.C Medical Examiner's Office issued a report in April disclosing the cause of death of four Trump supporters who died on January 6 during what the coroner called "an unprecedented incident of civil insurrection." It determined Boyland had succumbed to "acute amphetamine intoxication." How to help J6 defendants. My husband, Thomas Caldwell ("Tom"), quite surprisingly to me, is now known as a 'January 6er or J6er' criminal defendant. This term is applied to people who went to Washington D.C. on January 6th, 2021 to hear President Trump speak, to march to the U.S. Capitol, and to peacefully protest there. That is what more than 500,000 January 6th attendees did that day — including me. Unfortunately, many were arrested for simply exercising their First Amendment rights. My husband is one of those. He never entered the U.S. Capitol, did not commit any violence against anyone or anything, and did not plan or participate in any kind of attack on the Capitol. Yet, he was wrongly scooped up and thrown in jail for 53 days. Most of his jail time was spent in solitary confinement. At the time of his arrest, Tom was 66 years old. He is a retired Navy officer and a disabled veteran who lives with chronic pain, debilitating spinal conditions, and other ailments, mostly due to his selfless service to our country. He has no criminal history and has been an upstanding citizen for half a century. 'Absolute liars': Ex-D.C. Guard official says generals lied to Congress about Jan. 6. A former D.C. National Guard official is accusing two senior Army leaders of lying to Congress and participating in a secret attempt to rewrite the history of the military's response to the Capitol riot. In a 36-page memo, Col. Earl Matthews, who held high-level National Security Council and Pentagon roles during the Trump administration, slams the Pentagon's inspector general for what he calls an error-riddled report that protects a top Army official who argued against sending the National Guard to the Capitol on Jan. 6, delaying the insurrection response for hours. Matthews' memo, sent to the Jan. 6 select committee this month and obtained by POLITICO, includes detailed recollections of the insurrection response as it calls two Army generals — Gen. Charles Flynn, who served as deputy chief of staff for operations on Jan. 6, and Lt. Gen. Walter Piatt, the director of Army staff — "absolute and unmitigated liars" for their characterization of the events of that day. Matthews has never publicly discussed the chaos of the Capitol siege. Republicans quietly conduct counterinvestigation into Jan. 6 and promise to release report. As the select committee formed to investigate the Jan. 6 riot continues to interview witnesses and issue subpoenas, House Republicans who were originally submitted to sit on the panel are quietly working on their own counterinvestigation and plan to release a report on their findings. "Republicans, at the direction of Leader McCarthy, are conducting our own investigation," Indiana Rep. Jim Banks said on Wednesday [12/2/2021]. "I can't go into many of the specifics of what we've done or what we are doing," Banks said. "But I will tell you that we will be releasing our findings publicly in the future." Liz Cheney reads prepared statement concerning Trump that sounds a lot like a threat. Reading from a prepared statement that presumably was handed to her by a staffer on the Democrat-controlled J6 U.S. House investigation committee, self-righteous anti-Trump Congresswoman Liz Cheney (R - Wyo.) seemed to be threatening POTUS 45 with perjury charges. [President Trump] "has recently suggested that he wants to debate members of this committee. This committee's investigation into the violent assault on our Capitol on January 6 is not a game," she declared during a committee hearing. Will the Public Finally See What Happened in the Capitol Tunnel? or months, Merrick Garland's Department of Justice has tried every trick in the law books to conceal from Americans a massive trove of video evidence that captured all the activity at the Capitol complex on January 6. Federal judges have played along, approving hundreds of protective orders to keep video clips — particularly footage recorded by the Capitol Police's extensive closed-circuit television system — out of the public eye. Time, however, is running out for the government. Despite numerous discovery delays, Garland's prosecutors are gradually turning over video evidence to defense attorneys as they prepare for trial. All surveillance video from the Capitol's security system is designated "highly sensitive" government material; strict rules apply to the handling of every slice of footage. There's a reason why. As we have reported at American Greatness for months, one of the most scandalous untold stories about January 6 is egregious police misconduct that, in some instances, amounted to brutality by D.C. Metro and U.S. Capitol police. Did Federal Agents Instigate J6? Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene takes a deep dive with Darren Beattie into January 6 by breaking down Revolver News' in-depth reporting on the possible involvement of federal agents in the planning and execution of the riot at the Capitol. [Video clip] Corrupt Politicians
Overseeing Jan 6 Committee Are Afraid of the Truth — Bannon's Subpoenas Scare Them to Death. Americans
deserve to know what actions Congress took before, during, and after the January 6th protest at the Capitol.
DOJ Prosecutors Using Grand Jury to Subpoena Financial Records of 2020 Election Audit Groups. The Washington Post is writing a story today [11/30/2021] about federal prosecutors using grand juries to subpoena the financial records of individuals and groups who were associated with the 2020 election audit efforts. The motives here are very predictable. [...] The specifics of this first report surround attorney Sidney Powell and her 'Defend The Republic' organization, one of several individuals and groups who were raising money to support 2020 election audits. The Sidney Powell, Mike Flynn, and Patrick Byrne network are under review. As you review the article it is important to note few key elements: (1) The subpoena document's were leaked to the Washington Post by someone inside the investigation; that speaks toward the larger motive of the DOJ/FBI effort itself. (2) The specific DOJ prosecutors are the same ones working hand-in-glove with the J6 committee. Steve Bannon's bid to lift the DOJ's order in his contempt of Congress case. A coalition of major media companies has filed a legal brief in support of former Trump chief White House strategist Steven Bannon as he fights a proposed protective order in court that would keep him from publicizing Jan. 6th documents and information. The media group — which includes CNN, ABC, NBC, plus the Washington Post, the New York Times, and the parent company of the Wall Street Journal — filed a motion to intervene as Bannon's fights the government's proposed order as part of his contempt of Congress case. The order would severely limit what Bannon can do with the trove of information that the feds must share as part of the normal discovery process and have already begun handing over. According to a prior government filing, this includes more than 1,000 pages of witness testimony, grand jury material, and even emails from staff for the House Jan. 6th Committee investigating the Capitol riot. Capitol Punishment — The film every American must see. The inimitable actor Nick Searcy was present in DC on January 6. He has just released a film about what he saw that day, Capitol Punishment. For all Americans who find it hard to believe that our FBI and DOJ are now very dangerous enemies of the people, this film will be a shock. Those two law enforcement institutions are most assuredly now enemies of all law-abiding citizens. The phenomenon of January 6th was no insurrection; it was a carefully calculated set-up. The powers that be, some cabal of Trump haters within our government, successfully manipulated those present to escalate the situation with the help of an unknown number of FBI operatives and some Antifa and BLM activists. The so-called members of alleged militia groups like the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers were very likely FBI operatives as well. How can that be? Because they were there, have been identified and can be seen inciting people to breach the Capitol but have never been arrested or charged. In the meantime, hundreds of thoroughly innocent people have been literally assaulted by the FBI, without warning, without warrants. They've been thrown in jails, denied attorneys and due process. Yes, you're right: The Department of Justice has a double standard. The surest sign that you're living in a corrupt country is that people are not treated equally under the law. Those who are politically disfavored are denied justice while those whom the government favors walk away from their crimes. America is now a corrupt country if the legal treatment accorded January 6 protesters is compared to those on the left. This was made perfectly clear when comparing the sentence given to Jacob Chansley (the "QAnon Shaman"), who dared to walk through Congress, and Thomas Alexander Starks, who attacked a senator's office with an axe. Adam Schiff Outlines the Democrat 2022 Strategy Using the J6 Committee. In this interview the insufferable House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff appears on CNN to discuss the House efforts to weaponize the J6 Committee for maximum political benefit. The key point to take away from this interview can only be found if you ignore the political manipulation, a shell game, around labeling the opposition as domestic extremists. The intent to use the J6 committee as a political narrative engineering effort is obvious; everyone will talk about that aspect. Instead, listen to how many times Schiff notes the committee will provide the DOJ with information they gather. The DOJ role is where everyone should be paying attention; and by DOJ we mean DOJ and FBI. The Biggest Liar in Congress. There's a lot of competition for the title of "the biggest liar in Congress," as you might imagine, but there's really only one winner. It's not Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, or any other member of the Goon Squad — they are dumb and oftentimes lie, but their general stupidity tends to be the driving force behind them. On the other hand, Adam Schiff knows what he's doing and does it deliberately, freely, and without concern for anyone finding out the facts are to the contrary of what he's saying. Adam Schiff says the Capitol riot committee will decide 'this week' whether to refer Mark Meadows for criminal charges. The House committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot will likely decide this week whether to refer Donald Trump's ex-chief of staff for criminal charges, Democrat Rep. Adam Schiff said on Sunday [11/28/2021]. Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows defied a subpoena compelling him to testify before the Democrat-led panel earlier this month. 'I think we will probably make a decision this week on our course of conduct with that particular witness and maybe others,' Schiff said on CNN, referring to Meadows. Bannon Just Made Huge Move To Take Down Pelosi's J6. Former Trump White House adviser Stephen Bannon is reportedly pushing for documents to be released in his court case on contempt-of-Congress charges, with lawyers indicating he wants to use them in his defense. Bannon has moved to oppose a standard protective order for discovery instated by a district court judge, which prohibits either side in his case of releasing documents publicly, The Washington Post reported Thursday. "Members of the public should make their own independent judgment as to whether the U.S. Department of Justice is committed to a just result based upon all the facts," a statement on behalf of Bannon and given to the Post read, according to the newspaper. "In the opposition filed today, Mr. Bannon asked the judge to follow the normal process and allow unfettered access to and use of the documents," it continued. Bannon pleaded not guilty to contempt of Congress charges after he refused to comply with a subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. The January 6 commission gets it badly wrong again. Just as the now completely disproven Russia Hoax was built upon one lie after another, the story about January 6 is falling apart. Tucker Carlson's Patriot Purge documentary and Julie Kelly's relentless reporting have both exposed the media's and Democrats' many falsehoods. The latest lie comes from the House's openly biased January 6 commission. Just the News's report concerns a January 6 commission subpoena to Bernard Kerik, the former New York police commissioner. [...] I'd like to add two further examples of the kind of garbage that passes for news about January 6. The first comes from Yahoo News, a hard-left propaganda organization that masquerades as a news site. [...] House Jan. 6 Inquisition Admits False Accusation Against Former NYPD Commissioner Bernard Kerik. The House January 6th Inquisition acknowledged Tuesday that it made an error in a subpoena that falsely accused the former New York police Commissioner of attending a secret meeting in Washington to discuss the 2020 election results. As previously reported by Human Events News, earlier this month, the House January 6th Inquisition issued a subpoena claiming lawmakers had "credible evidence" that the day before the riot, former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik attended a meeting at the Willard Hotel in D.C. where Trump advisers discussed how to overturn the election. The subpoena cited a book by Bob Woodward as its source. Select Committee Covering Up Police Brutality on January 6. The family of Rosanne Boyland, one of two female Trump supporters who died at the Capitol on January 6, just announced they have hired a lawyer to investigate the suspicious circumstances of her untimely death. Boyland, 34, traveled with her friend Justin Winchell from Georgia to Washington to hear President Trump's speech. The pair then walked from the Ellipse to Capitol Hill; a photo published in a local Georgia newspaper shows Boyland smiling, wearing Old Glory sunglasses and carrying a "Don't Tread on Me" flag that day. A few hours later, she was dead. In April, the D.C. Medical Examiner's office claimed Boyland died of "accidental acute amphetamine intoxication." Boyland reportedly used Adderall, a drug commonly used to treat attention deficit disorders that contains amphetamines. Fatal Adderall overdoses are rare; Boyland would have had to ingest roughly 25 times her standard dose to die from it. Aside from the unlikelihood Boyland overdosed on her daily medicine while actively participating in a day-long political rally, recently released footage and firsthand accounts contradict the coroner's report. Jan. 6 Panel Admits Subpoena Contained Misinformation, but Hasn't Updated Public. An investigator with the House of Representatives' select committee investigating the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol breach has admitted privately that the panel erroneously asserted a former New York City police commissioner was in Washington on Jan. 5, but the assertion remains on the committee's website. Bernard Kerik, the former commissioner, was subpoenaed earlier this month by the panel, formally known as the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol. In announcing the subpoena, the panel, which is primarily comprised of Democrats after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) rejected several Republican picks, claimed that Kerik "reportedly participated" in a Jan. 5 meeting at the Willard Hotel in Washington. In the subpoena itself, the panel cited three sources for its claim: the book "Peril," penned by two Washington Post reporters, and two articles published by the paper. Alex Jones, Roger Stone Among Those Subpoenaed By Jan. 6 Committee. Infowars founder and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone were among five individuals slapped with subpoenas Monday by the House select committee investigating the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the US Capitol. In letters to Jones and Stone, committee chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) called on them to produce relevant documents by Dec. 6. Stone was also informed he would be asked to give a deposition Dec. 17, while Jones would be asked to do the same the following day. "The Select Committee is seeking information about the rallies and subsequent march to the Capitol that escalated into a violent mob attacking the Capitol and threatening our democracy," Thompson said in a statement. "We need to know who organized, planned, paid for, and received funds related to those events, as well as what communications organizers had with officials in the White House and Congress." Evidence Suggests Jan. 6 Victim Roseanne Boyland [was] Beaten to Death by Police. [Ryan] Nichols has been held without bond in a Washington, D.C. prison since being transferred from Texas in late January. Joseph McBride, Nichols' attorney, told Kelly that he had "viewed three hours of surveillance video captured by Capitol security camera" and discovered that "for reasons that no fair minded or decent human being will ever understand" a Capitol Police officer "begins to pulverize" a woman "about 10 minutes before the lifeless body of Rosanne Boyland was seen lying on the ground, just outside the tunnel." According to Kelly, "body-worn camera footage released by the courts ... show Boyland on her side not moving as her friend, Justin Winchell, begged for help. 'She's gonna die!' Winchell tries to scream while holding on to Boyland. He turns to the crowd. 'I need somebody, anybody,' he pleads. 'She's dead! She's dead!'" Did Capitol Police murder someone other than Ashli Babbitt? After January 6, although the media initially reported that MAGA protesters had trampled Rosanne Boyland to death but, the D.C. coroner attributed it to a drug overdose. Now, though, footage has emerged showing a Capitol Police Officer brutally beating a woman in the Capitol tunnel — a woman who may have been Rosanne Boyland. Julie Kelly has written about a motion for the release of a January 6 prisoner, Ryan Nichols. Nichols, a former Marine with a career as a volunteer search-and-rescuer, was arrested on January 18 and has been rotting in D.C.'s fetid jail ever since. Nichols has described how he witnessed inside and near the entrance of a tunnel on the Capitol's lower west side. His arrest, he says, came about because he waded into that area to rescue people the Capitol Police were brutally beating, shooting with rubber bullets and tear gas, and targeting with explosive devices. Pentagon didn't delay sending Guardsmen to Capitol on Jan. 6, report conflicts with Pelosi narrative. The Pentagon responded appropriately and in a timely fashion to urgent requests for National Guard assistance on the day of the Jan. 6 Capitol breach, according to a Defense Department inspector general report released Wednesday [11/17/2021]. "We also determined that DoD officials did not delay or obstruct the DoD's response," reads the report. The report runs counter to the narrative that was spun, in large part, by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who repeatedly claimed that the Pentagon delayed the dispatch of National Guard troops. Former acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller told the John Solomon Reports podcast in an exclusive interview, after the report was released, that it "broke my heart" to see the military, which "responded really with alacrity and professionalism" just "get thrown under the bus by the politicians." Jan 6 Commission Chairman Bennie Thompson Backed Extremist, Secessionist Group Seeking Violent U.S. Takeover.. Rep. Bennie Thompson, the January 6th Commission Chairman, threw his support behind a secessionist group called the Republic of New Afrika (RNA), an unearthed video has revealed. According to Just The News, Thompson uttered support for the guerilla warfare secessionist group who attempted to take control of several U.S. states in exchange for peace with law enforcement throughout the 20th century. Thompson's advocacy on behalf of the RNA has been well documented in newspaper clippings, video footage, FBI and local law-enforcement archives. From this evidence, Thompson has been found to blame law enforcement for instigating violence that led to the murder of police officers and brutal attacks on an FBI agent while in contact with RNA group members. The RNA has threatened guerilla warfare in the United States since its founding in 1968. January 6 prisoners [were] evacuated on stretchers after guards gas them. On Friday, the attorney for Kelly Meggs, one of the prisoners being held without bail for events on January 6, filed a notice informing the United States District Court for the District of Columbia of a report that guards had negligently or intentionally disbursed a toxic substance in such a way that prisoners were inundated with it, resulting in several being evacuated on stretchers. Meggs's lawyer also mentioned the dire conditions in the jail and requested, that the court release on bail those arrested in connection with events on January 6. Here, in its entirety, is what Meggs told his family about the gas incident in the jail, all because one of the detainees didn't want to wear a mask (which they're forced to wear 24/7, even when in solitary): [...] This is un-American in the extreme: It's cruel and unusual punishment and the denial of the right to a speedy trial, not to mention overcharging political prisoners. New Footage of Ashli Babbitt Shooting Released Showing Capitol Police Officers Doing Absolutely Nothing to Stop It. Newly released footage of the Ashli Babbitt shooting has been obtained and released by Judicial Watch. The footage is part of the 14,000 hours of documented surveillance video that the FBI and Capitol Police have refused to release to the public. The footage is striking in that it shows Capitol Police officers gathered behind the protesters while they suspiciously orchestrate a break-in of a corridor to the Senate chambers. [Video clip] AG Merrick Garland Weaponizes DOJ With Political Indictment of Steve Bannon for Contempt of Congress. Eric Holder was held in contempt of congress for refusing to produce documents and testimony in the Fast-n-Furious investigation, and the DOJ did nothing. IRS official Lois Lerner was held in contempt of congress for failure to produce documents and give testimony in the IRS investigation, and the DOJ did nothing. Steve Bannon is held in contempt of congress for failing to provide documents and give testimony to the J6 committee, and the DOJ issues an indictment. Today, AG Merrick Garland is using a fully weaponized Justice Department to purposefully, intentionally and willfully target the political opposition of the Biden administration. Worse still, the entire media apparatus knows this purpose and yet denies it. DOJ Stand Down. [Scroll down] And now we have just heard that the Department of Justice has indicted Steve Bannon, known Democratic Party Hate Object, for contempt of Congress. He failed to heed a subpoena from the January 6 Commission. I'd lost count of how many criminal referrals Republicans had sent to the Obama Administration DOJ for precisely the same violation. They even held Attorney General Eric Holder himself in contempt. Nothing ever happens when Republicans send these referrals to DOJ. But now this Limburger-stinky Political Witch Hunt subpoena suddenly draws an indictment. This needs looking into. There is a pattern here, and it fairly screams "politically partisan law enforcement." Will that be denied? Of course. Whoever would do such a thing would surely lie about it. Regardless, it is time to put an end to it. Liz Cheney Threatens Criminal Contempt Charges on Mark Meadows After He Fails to Appear Before Sham January 6 Committee. Reps Liz Cheney (RINO-WY) and Bennie Thompson (D-MS) are seeking criminal charges on Trump's former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows after he failed to appear before their sham January 6 Committee. The Marxists on the January 6 Committee issued Meadows a subpoena because he was with Trump on January 6. Meadows, like Bannon, defied the subpoena and was instructed by Trump to "respect long-standing principles of executive privilege." "Mr. Meadows's actions today — choosing to defy the law — will force the Select Committee to consider pursuing contempt or other proceedings to enforce the subpoena," Thompson and Cheney, vice chair of the sham panel, said in a statement Friday. The January 6 Insurrection Hoax. Notwithstanding all the hysterical rhetoric surrounding the events of January 6, 2021, two critical things stand out. The first is that what happened was much more hoax than insurrection. In fact, in my judgment, it wasn't an insurrection at all. An "insurrection," as the dictionary will tell you, is a violent uprising against a government or other established authority. Unlike the violent riots that swept the country in the summer of 2020 — riots that caused some $2 billion in property damage and claimed more than 20 lives — the January 6 protest at the Capitol building in Washington, D.C. lasted a few hours, caused minimal damage, and the only person directly killed was an unarmed female Trump supporter who was shot by a Capitol Police officer. It was, as Tucker Carlson said shortly after the event, a political protest that "got out of hand." At the rally preceding the events in question, Donald Trump had suggested that people march to the Capitol "peacefully and patriotically" — these were his exact words — in order to make their voices heard. He did not incite a riot; he stirred up a crowd. Was that, given the circumstances, imprudent? Probably. Was it an effort to overthrow the government? Hardly. J6 Committee Misleading Witnesses About Republican Staff Presence. Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney ran to CNN a few weeks ago to accuse conservative stalwart Rep. Jim Banks of falsely presenting himself as the Jan. 6 commission's ranking member. Banks is, in fact, congressional Republicans' choice to be their top investigator on the committee, but he has been prevented from fulfilling his duties by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. However, it's Cheney who appears to be misrepresenting herself as the ranking member — that is, the top Republican — on the committee. January 6 Select Committee staff have been falsely telling witnesses that Republican staff will be present for interviews, according to multiple eyewitness sources and documents. In fact, not a single Republican-appointed member of Congress nor a single staff member representing the Republican conference is part of the controversial committee. [...] Cheney was appointed to the committee in early July by Pelosi herself. "John Wood works for the Democrat Party, just like Liz Cheney, who was appointed by Pelosi and is not the Ranking Member of the Select Committee. She is misleading witnesses, before they testify under penalty of law, about the motives and the position of the person questioning them," said Banks, who has continued leading Republicans' investigation of the federal government's handling of the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. Steve Bannon indicted by federal grand jury. A federal grand jury has indicted Steve Bannon, the one-time White House adviser to former President Trump, after he failed to comply with a subpoena from the committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Bannon now faces two charges of contempt of Congress, one for failing to appear for an Oct. 14 deposition before the panel and another for refusal to provide documents. "Since my first day in office, I have promised Justice Department employees that together we would show the American people by word and deed that the department adheres to the rule of law, follows the facts and the law and pursues equal justice under the law," Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement announcing the indictment. Appeals court blocks National Archives from giving Trump records to Capitol riot committee on Friday. A federal appeals court granted a hold sought by former President Donald Trump to block the National Archives from handing over documents to the Jan. 6 House committee. The order is a victory for Trump, who sued the House and the National Archives and claimed executive privilege over more than 700 records related to the Capitol riot. A federal judge rejected attempts by Trump earlier this week to stop the delivery of the first batch of documents, which was slated to happen on Friday, after which his team appealed. Cheney accused of lying to witnesses in Jan 6 probe. Is the U.S. House committee that purports to be investigating the January 6 riot at the Capitol even more of a kangaroo court than many in the MAGA contingent already believe it is? According to tireless journalist Mollie Hemingway who is an astute observer of Democrat machinations, the "uni-party" committee may be violating somewhat arcane but important House procedures when it interviews or deposes witnesses, a process which requires a majority and minority staff participation. Reacting to this scenario, U.S. Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) wrote on Twitter that "The sham Select Committee is lying to witnesses before they testify under oath. This is dangerous." What Is an America that Holds Prisoners Indefinitely without Charging Them? The U.S. is facing a serious constitutional crisis over the handling of the cases of defendants in the Jan. 6 so-called "insurrection" in Washington, D.C. to protest the presidential election modus operandi and the results. Those being held for many months without a trial are being denied their habeas corpus rights under the U.S. Constitution and even dating back to English law hundreds of years before our Constitution was implemented. Not only are they being incarcerated without having had a trial, but there is some evidence that they are being mistreated or are being held 23 hours a day in solitary confinement, which is a punishment accorded only the most dangerous criminals, such as serial killers and terrorists. What are habeas corpus rights? According to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), "[h]abeas corpus is a fundamental right in the Constitution that protects against unlawful and indefinite imprisonment. Translated from Latin it means 'show me the body.' Habeas corpus has historically been an important instrument to safeguard individual freedom against arbitrary executive power." A citizen must be charged and cannot be held indefinitely. A charge requires a trial, and, if found guilty in a trial, there is a sentence for a specific amount of time. Where Are the Neon-Hatted Proud Boys? Asteady drip of information continues to reveal that the Federal Bureau of Investigation played a much larger — perhaps central — role before and during the Capitol protest than initially believed. And unanswered questions as to why certain co-conspirators or alleged instigators have not yet been charged while others who played a far lesser role face serious charges are fueling mounting suspicions that January 6 was an inside job rather than an "insurrection" incited by President Donald Trump. After months of speculation about the use of FBI assets, first raised by Darren Beattie at Revolver News, the New York Times confirmed in September that at least two informants embedded with the Proud Boys were in close contact with their FBI handlers that day. Kinzinger says he considered firing weapon on Jan. 6. Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) revealed in a new interview that he considered firing his weapon on Jan. 6 as pro-Trump supporters were storming the Capitol. During an interview with CNN political commentator S.E. Cupp for Rolling Stone that was published Monday, Kinzinger said he was "hunkered down" in his office for six hours "with my gun out, prepared to defend against my own party" when the rioters were making their way through the Capitol. Pressed by Cupp about whether he considered the possibility that he would need to use his firearm against American citizens, Kinzinger said, "Yeah, I thought about it." Time for Republicans to take a stand against Pelosi's Jan. 6 circus. When will the House Republican Conference (minus two members who should no longer be in the conference: turncoats Cheney and Kinzinger) rise up as one to denounce the Pelosi Select the Heretics Committee as unconstitutional — as have Representatives Banks and Taylor Greene — and the panel's subpoenas as invalid as the fruit of an unconstitutional tree? This panel was selected only by Pelosi, contrary to normal House procedures that the minority party selects its members on House committees. The subpoenas issuing forth from this invalid committee are disdainful of the First Amendment, as the drafts suggest that it is unlawful to hold a different view of election results from that held by the "winning" party. The Democrats have made a fetish over their insistence that to disagree with the leftist view is to assert a false, and what is more, an unlawful, claim. Capitol riot committee subpoenas Michael Flynn and five other Trump allies. The House Jan. 6 committee issued six fresh subpoenas to six allies of former President Donald Trump. Former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn, Bill Stepien, Jason Miller, Angela McCallum, John Eastman, and Bernard Kerik were named as the subpoena targets in a press release from the panel on Monday, which said they were "involved in efforts to promote false claims of election fraud or overturn the results of the 2020 election." The subpoenas seek documents and testimony "from witnesses including staff members of the former President's campaign and individuals associated with the so-called 'war room' that drove efforts to halt the counting of electoral votes in the runup to the violence of January 6th," the press release added. With help from the DOJ, the National Archives enters the political fray. The Select Committee investigating the events on January 6, when Donald Trump was still president, is asking the White House to produce documents relating to that day. Trump has filed a motion asking the court to issue a preliminary injunction on the ground that these documents are both private and privileged and should not be produced. Then, on October 30, 2021, something peculiar happened: the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), acting through the DOJ, filed a brief opposing Trump's motion. NARA should never have done this, and the court should rightfully ignore it. "Non-partisan" government entities should not be writing and submitting opposition briefs in politically fraught lawsuits. Doing so only leads to the further politicization of every aspect of our government. [...] To clarify, NARA has one job: to be the custodian of records. Simply put, the statute does not give it any other function. Details demanded on banks that reported customers to FBI after Jan. 6. Government watchdog Judicial Watch is in court seeking communications between the FBI and various banking institutions that apparently have been reporting their customers to the law-enforcement agency. Judicial Watch said it filed a response to the Department of Justice's opposition to the Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. The issue is what the banks told the FBI about the customers' transactions around the Jan. 6 events in Washington, D.C. Judicial Watch spokesman Tom Fitton said, "This Judicial Watch lawsuit shows how the FBI is corruptly trying to hide that it used the January 6 incident as an excuse to conduct unlawful surveillance of the American people's bank transactions." Everyone Should Watch Tucker Carlson's 'Patriot Purge'. Tucker has lots of video footage of the events of January 6. After the Trump rally, thousands walked down the Mall to the Capitol. They thought they were exercising their Constitutional right to demonstrate in favor of Trump. Many thought that Mike Pence had the power to invalidate electoral votes from questionable states as a result of fraudulent voting and throw the Presidential contest into the House Of Representatives to be resolved. They thought that, by being near the Capitol, they could stiffen Pence's backbone. There was no plan to enter the Capitol. When the crowd arrived at the Capitol there were people with bullhorns urging the crowd to enter the Capitol and express their views. It is highly unlikely that these were Trump supporters. If not, who were they representing? Could they have been FBI, BLM, or ANTIFA, or any of a host of other organizations that wanted to frame Trump? It is interesting to view the videos that Tucker puts up. On the one hand, a few very strong people were scaling the walls as though there was an assault in progress ala Pont du Hoc in Normandy. At the same time, everybody else was being ushered into the Capitol by merely walking up the steps, where the Capitol Police ushered them in. The Political Class Is Working To Make Americans Expendable. The Expendables isn't just a movie anymore. It is fast becoming the American way of life under the most callous and dictatorial Presidential administration this nation has ever seen. On Wednesday, November 3, US House Representatives Marjorie Taylor-Greene and Luis Gohmert attempted a welfare check on the January 6 prisoners in the D.C. jail in which they are being held. They were turned away. The US Marshals, however, when they conducted a surprise inspection of the jail in which the 1/6 prisoners were being held, were able to obtain admission. They found the conditions so deplorable that 400 pretrial detainees were transferred to another facility. The January 6 prisoners were not among them. They continue to languish under brutal conditions. Why weren't they moved with the other detainees? To ask the question is to answer it. Conspiracy Theory or Conspiracy In Fact? Last week, Fox Nation aired "Patriot Purge," Tucker Carlson's three-part series on the January 6 protest in Washington, D.C. No sooner had the program been announced than the regime media went nuts. [...] Carlson disputes the accepted narrative according to which the protest at the Capitol was an "insurrection" aimed at undermining "our democracy." Ergo Carlson must be wrong. Cue the heated rhetoric and wheel out that all-purpose epithet "conspiracy theorist." As a side note, I have always wondered why people of a certain ilk believe that uttering the phrase "conspiracy theory" or charging someone with being a "conspiracy theorist" disposes of any argument. [...] Carlson's thesis in "Patriot Purge" is that the extraordinary law-enforcement and intelligence apparatus that had been assembled and deployed to battle terrorism in the wake of 9/11 had not been dismantled after Osama bin Laden was killed. On the contrary, it has been maintained intact and is now being deployed against American citizens who have the temerity to challenge the dominant narrative about the perfidy of Donald Trump and the nature of the January 6 protest. Ten Months Later: The Washington Post finally reveals sketchy details on "pipe bombs." everal storylines related to the events of January 6 have crumbled under closer scrutiny over the past 10 months: the "fire extinguisher" murder of Officer Brian Sicknick; the notion it was an "armed" insurrection and a grand "conspiracy" concocted by right-wing militias; claims that the building sustained $30 million in damages, and so on. In the meantime, the Biden regime has attempted to cover up key aspects of that day, including the name of the officer who shot and killed Ashli Babbitt, which was only recently revealed. Justice Department lawyers continue to resist the release of 14,000 hours of surveillance video and the U.S. Capitol Police refuse to publish an 800-page internal investigation on officer misconduct as well as internal communications before and after the Capitol breach. But a deep dive by the Washington Post, published last weekend, raises new questions about the alleged "pipe bombs" discovered just before Congress met on January 6 to certify the results of the 2020 Electoral College vote. Like so many supporting scenes, the veracity of the pipe bomb tale is in doubt after the Post revealed eyebrow-raising details about those involved. Tucker Carlson says Capitol Rioters in jail awaiting trial are 'American prisoners of war' and claims they are being TORTURED by prison guards. Fox's Tucker Carlson claimed those imprisoned for their involvement in the January 6 riot on Capitol Hill are being tortured while waiting for trial. In the latest episode of his new series, Patriot Purge, Carlson called the rioters 'American prisoners of war' and said the US has moved away from arresting foreign terrorist to focus on the ones at home. 'Suddenly America has political prisoners, American citizens. Some of whom committed no violence whatsoever on January 6, remain rotting in pre-trial detention in one of the worst jails in the country,' Carlson said in episode three of his documentary on Fox Nation. Marjorie Taylor Greene gets into J6 jail, inmates sing national anthem. After months of trying, conservative Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was given access last night to the jail housing up to 120 alleged Jan. 6 rioters and watched as they sang the national anthem, a nightly ritual. In a statement, Greene said that D.C. Corrections Department officials allowed her in to check on the conditions which some of the inmates complained about. She dubbed it the "Patriot Wing." In a series of tweets, she showed the pretrial defendants dressed in orange while singing the anthem. Marjorie Taylor Greene Exposes The Torture That J6 Prisoners Are Suffering Under The Biden Regime. On Friday [11/5/2021], GOP House Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene tweeted about her visit to the DC jail. What she reported was nothing short of devastating. During a 6-tweet thread, MTG said she had "never seen human suffering" like this in her life. The Biden regime apparently loves punishing their political prisoners. The Georgia rep went on to say that she and her staff are working on a full report to detail the horror that these patriots are suffering through. "Last night we toured the DC jail. My staff and I are writing a full report this morning on our 3+ hour long tour. I've never seen human suffering like I witnessed last night. While some were shown to us in seemingly beneficial programs, others were in tortuous lockdown," she tweeted. Judge Orders Release Of January 6 Defendant After Inspection Shows 'Mistreatment Of Detainees'. Following an impromptu inspection of the D.C. jail, a federal judge has ordered the release of January 6 defendant, Christopher Worrell, over the mistreatment of detainees. The surprise inspection of the jail by U.S. Marshals took place last month, but the report from the inspection was not made public until Wednesday [1/3/2021]. Due to the findings, U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth said he has "'zero confidence that the D.C. jail' will provide the treatment correctly and not retaliate against Worrell," who has cancer, CNN reported Wednesday. Lamberth called the jail conditions "deplorable" and "beyond belief," ordering Worrell transferred immediately to another jail and then released home to start cancer treatment, the report outlined. Tucker Carlson Begins Series on How Jan 6 Was Instigated by Left-Wing 'Agent Provocateur's'. It's never too late to tell the truth. Tucker Carlson is reporting this week on the January 6 protests in a FOX Nation Special. Carlson argues that there were 'agent provocateurs' embedded with the Trump supporters that day. [...] We reported on John Sullivan on January 14th, nearly 10 months ago. Sullivan bragged about his actions and preplanning on January 6th. [...] Sullivan also was with a photojournalist that day who cheered, "We did it," during the protests at the US Capitol. Who is the "we" he was talking about? Was it the Antifa rioters he is connected to or was it the Feds and intel operatives who were operating that day in the massive Trump crowds D.C. Jail Transfers Out 400 Prisoners for Disgusting, Inhumane Conditions — But Not a Single J6 Detainee. One of the political prisoners being held in jail for participating in the Capitol riot, Nathan DeGrave, sent a letter that was released on Twitter alleging horrific conditions in the D.C. jail for January 6 prisoners. DeGrave's letter alleged "extreme medical neglect," mental and physical abuse, "unlivable conditions," dirty water, and starvation. His allegations resulted in a surprise inspection to back up his claims. [Tweet] According to the Washington Post, "the unannounced inspection, from Oct. 18 to Oct. 23, began five days after a federal judge in Washington found the jail warden, Wanda Patten, and D.C. Corrections Director Quincy Booth in contempt of court in a case involving the alleged mistreatment of a detainee charged in the Capitol riot." Trump aide Peter Navarro says the President and Bannon were the last ones who wanted Jan. 6 violence because it undermined bid to overturn election. Mike Pence is the 'Brutus' figure in an internecine 'war' among advisors over former President Donald Trump's election overturn effort, writes former top trade advisor Peter Navarro in his new memoir. Navarro, who helped design Trump's China tariffs, writes of battling factions inside the White House and the Trump campaign between 'Swamp creatures' who wanted to concede defeat and those who rallied behind a plan to rely on Republican support in the House to try to delay the counting of electoral votes. Trump was an 'American Caesar,' Navarro told DialyMail.com in an interview, while Pence, 'his erstwhile most loyal person in the White House winds up sticking him in the back.' Teacher Who Quit After January 6 Photo Emerged Gets Elected to School's Board. A teacher who resigned after a photo emerged of him at the January 6 riot at the Capitol has won a seat on a school committee in Massachusetts. Matthew Lynch, 35, won one of three seats on the Braintree school board committee after getting 2,319 votes, according to unofficial results. Lynch taught at Braintree High School for more than 10 years before leaving in February after images of him standing in front of the Capitol building on January 6 were posted on social media. Did Provocateurs Spark The January 6 Protest At The Capitol? I've read the entire Revolver News exposé about January 6, 2021, over the past several months, and what follows is the Reader's Digest version of the dust-up that occurred at the Stop the Steel rally on that day, as reconstructed by Revolver News. Long story short, J6 was an organized protest that was meant to be a peaceful but vociferous rejection of the stolen presidential election in 2020. The investigative reporters from Revolver News have looked at all the data released by the federal government since the J6 protests at the Capitol, including the FBI's website of the J6 Most Wanted List of "domestic terrorists" and the indictments against those J6 "terrorists." That research found some very curious anomalies. It appears that some key players in the organization and execution of the January 6 terrorist "Insurrection" may have been Deep-State operatives working for the FBI or various other US intelligence agencies that day. Among these men were Stewart Rhodes, who founded the patriot group Oath Keepers, and Ray Epps, president of the Arizona chapter. DEA agent charged in MAGA riot tells Tucker Carlson an FBI informant urged him to break into the Capitol. A former Drug Enforcement Agency official faces up to 15 years in prison over the January 6 riot at the US Capitol, despite his insistence that he never entered the building. Mark Ibrahim, an Army veteran who was fired from the DEA over his participation in the events of January 6, spoke out in Tuesday's episode of Fox News host Tucker Carlson's series on the fallout from the riot. Ibrahim made the explosive claim that he was invited to attend Donald Trump's 'Stop The Steal' rally by an FBI informant he knew from his military service, who subsequently urged him to join the mob breaking into the Capitol, which he refused. Lindsey Graham Reportedly Called for Law Enforcement to Shoot Jan. 6 Rioters During the Attack: 'You've Got Guns. Use Them.'. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) reportedly called for law enforcement to gun down the rioters who broke into Congress during the storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6th. The Washington Post has released a new retrospective article on the riot Donald Trump's supporters carried out in their violent attempt to overturn the former president's 2020 election defeat. The piece offers a massive reconstruction of January 6th, and amid all the shocking content that turned up during the Post's investigation, the paper presents a detailed timeline of how the situation on Capitol Hill plunged into chaos. In the Post's second chapter — titled Bloodshed — the report goes in-depth on how Vice President Mike Pence and members of Congress were evacuated or sheltered in place after rioters breached the Capitol. One anecdote describes Graham's reaction to fleeing the Senate chamber, including him urging the Senate's sergeant-at-arms to use guns against the mob. An Alarming Letter From January 6 Protester Nathan DeGrave, From His Jail Cell in Washington DC. A twitter thread shared by Brad Geyer relays a letter presented by a jailed J6 detainee held inside the Washington DC Department of Corrections. The content of the letter written by a detainee named Nathan DeGrave is very disturbing. The allegations within the letter are alarming; however, they are supported by other detainees who have described similar conditions. Congressman Jim Jordan Gives His Perspective on the J6 Committee. Despite the transparently obvious motive of Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats to use the January 6 special committee as a tool to assist their reelection and political targeting efforts, there were still 35 House republicans who voted to support the creation of the committee. In this interview, Jim Jordan gives his inside perspective on what the J6 Special Committee is intent on doing. [Video clip] The Modern Weaponization of Our National Security System Is The Lasting Legacy of Barack Obama and Eric Holder. In anticipation of the Tucker Carlson documentary "The Patriot Purge: The True Story Behind 1/6", I have been requested to repost some lengthy research we presented about the Fourth Branch of Government. There is a distinct connection and similarity between how 9/11/01 was used and how the January 6th DC event is being used. That similarity is not accidental. In many ways what we are seeing is a replay by the same DC elements only they are two decades apart. Barack Obama and Eric Holder did not create a weaponized DOJ and FBI; instead, what they did was take the preexisting system and retool it so the weapons only targeted one side of the political continuum. This point is where many people understandably get confused. 'Domestic Terrorism' and the Bad Faith of the Democrats. This weekend, Tucker Carlson has a documentary scheduled for release on what really happened Jan. 6. The political world has a pretty good idea what'll be in it, and they're not happy. One thing which is fairly clear about Carlson is he doesn't accept the approved narratives of the corporate media and the Washington elite. That Carlson grew up in those circles and knows how they work makes it especially infuriating to them that he is so disdainful of the things they tell themselves and the world at large. And what they've told us about the Jan. 6 protests was identifiable from the beginning as a dangerous, destructive, and self-serving lie. Based on its trailer, Carlson's documentary is almost assuredly going to make that case, and probably convincingly. The Freak-Out Over Tucker's January 6 Documentary Begins. Unfortunately, most Americans are unaware that the Biden regime, with a big assist from the news media, is indeed conducting a domestic war on terror aimed at the political Right. Democrats do not want the public to hear the details of Ashli Babbitt's shooting death at the hands of Capitol Police, or the likely role of the FBI in what happened that day, or how armed federal agents have raided Trump supporters' homes at dawn, in front of their terrified children and horrified neighbors, and dragged out in handcuffs to face various trespassing misdemeanors. Democrats do not want the public to know about an inhumane jail in the nation's capital used exclusively to punish Trump supporters, who have been denied any chance at bail by ruthless government prosecutors and hostile Beltway judges. Abusive conduct by Capitol and D.C. Metro Police officers, which included attacking the crowd with flashbangs, rubber bullets, and copious amounts of mace and other chemicals, must be kept under wraps. So, too, must at least 14,000 hours of surveillance footage captured by security cameras on January 6. January 6th Detainee's Tell All Letter to the American Public from DC Gitmo. Gateway Pundit has been closely monitoring of the conditions inside DC Jail and were the first to actively report on the situation. Nathaniel DeGrave, a non violent prisoner who walked into the open doors of the Capitol to document the event for a podcast, composed a letter to the American public pleading for help. Biden FBI Joins Pelosi In Blocking GOP From Investigating January 6. The leading Republican tasked with his party's investigation into the preparedness and response of the U.S. Capitol Police and other law enforcement agencies to the Capitol riot on January 6 is being blocked by President Joseph Biden's FBI from gathering information, a new document reveals. The FBI told Indiana Republican Rep. Jim Banks it would not provide Republicans the same information provided to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's hand-picked committee consisting only of Democrat-appointed members. "We respectfully refer you to the Select Committee regarding issues of access to records and information," the agency wrote in response to a Republican request for information, referring to the official House panel established by the speaker. Going Full Soviet: Judge releases Jan. 6 defendant on bond after he renounces Trump. The jailing of the Jan. 6 riot defendants is not just an obvious miscarriage of justice, given the length of time they've spent in detention without trial. It's also turning into something that's full Soviet. Here's the latest from one Judge Amy B. Jackson, who, after denying release at least once to one guy, went ahead and let him out. He's a Buffalo, New York-based defendant named Thomas Sibnick, who's recanted: [...] The reason he got out while the others stayed in? His groveling letter denouncing President Trump, which was so self-abasing that it would make Nikolai Bukharin blush: [...] That didn't seem to be his point of view back on Jan. 6, when he was allegedly assaulting a police officer and stealing his badge, according to the charges. He certainly was some kind of nut and probably had more legal problems than the other defendants, who were simply in the wrong place or who were pushed into the Capitol, possibly by the FBI's paid agents provocateurs, or who were invited in by Capitol cops and waved the flag. He probably ought to be punished. 'Fed-Protected' Man Identified as Mystery Instigator of J6 Capitol Breach. [Scroll down] The story of the mystery man, Ray Epps, featured in Rep. Massie's video above is in fact far more shocking than even the good Congressman implies in the hearing. It's a story so strange, and so scandalous at every turn, that it threatens to shatter the entire official narrative of the "Capitol Breach" and expose yet another dimension of proactive federal involvement in the so-called "insurrection" of January 6th. If Revolver News's previous reporting points to a proactive role of the federal government in relation to the conspiracy cases against Oath Keepers and Proud Boys, the Ray Epps story that follows suggests a similar, yet more egregious, explicit, direct and immediate degree of federal involvement in the breach of the Capitol itself. The 'Mystery Man' AG Garland Won't Deny Was a Fed Inciting Jan. 6 Rioters Was Scrubbed from FBI 'Most Wanted' List. Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie at a House hearing on Thursday grilled Attorney General Merrick Garland about a 'mystery man' named Ray Epps, who is suspected of inciting far-right extremists and Trump supporters to storm the Capitol building on January 6. On January 5, in a video that has been widely viewed on Twitter, Epps can be heard saying: "I don't even like to say it because I'll be arrested. I'll say it. We need to go into the Capitol." Ray Epps told The Arizona Republic in a brief telephone interview following the riots that he had traveled to the capitol, but he had been advised by an attorney not to speak about it. Meet Ray Epps: The Fed-Protected Provocateur Who Appears To Have Led The Very First 1/6 Attack On The U.S. Capitol. In a House hearing on Thursday [10/21/2021], Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) questioned AG Merrick Garland about a mysterious man, Ray Epps, instructing protesters to enter the US Capitol building on January 5, and who later shepherded crowds towards the Capitol on January 6. [Tweet with video clip] The story of the mystery man, Ray Epps, featured in Rep. Massie's video above is in fact far more shocking than even the good Congressman implies in the hearing. It's a story so strange, and so scandalous at every turn, that it threatens to shatter the entire official narrative of the "Capitol Breach" and expose yet another dimension of proactive federal involvement in the so-called "insurrection" of January 6th. If Revolver News's previous reporting points to a proactive role of the federal government in relation to the conspiracy cases against Oath Keepers and Proud Boys, the Ray Epps story that follows suggests a similar, yet more egregious, explicit, direct and immediate degree of federal involvement in the breach of the Capitol itself. Did Congressman Massie Expose An FBI Agent Telling Jan 6th Protesters To Storm Into The Capitol This Week? GOP Rep. Thomas Massie questioned Attorney General Merrick Garland on the Jan. 6 siege on Capitol Hill, asking him if federal agents, assets, or provocateurs had infiltrated the protest and incited a riot. During a House hearing on Thursday, Massie showed several videos of an individual who was inciting violence at the Jan. 6 riot as he grilled Garland. The man in the video has not been charged and the Republican congressman bluntly asked the attorney general if he was a federal provocateur. When Garland informed Massie that he couldn't "see the video at all," Massie responded, "You have the images there," referring to pictures Garland had in front of him. [Video clip] It Sure Seems Like the DOJ Is Covering Up FBI Instigation of January 6th. One of the more hotly debated issues surrounding the events of January 6th centers on just how deep the FBI's involvement was. We've already had an admission that there were informants present. But past that, there are a series of unanswered questions that the DOJ steadfastly refuses to answer. For example, multiple surveillance videos show masked men opening up the doors to the U.S. Capitol Building to allow protesters to enter. In fact, one video shows them entering while Capitol Police officers simply stand around. Yet, we have no idea who those men are. This is the same FBI that can track down 400+ people who entered the Capitol, including grandmas who took selfies and guys who put their feet on Nancy Pelosi's desk, but we are to believe they have no idea who the men who opened the doors in the first place are. Meanwhile, prosecutors refuse to release the rest of the tapes that haven't been forced out by a judge, because they claim it poses a national security risk. The entire thing just doesn't pass muster. What are they protecting? Feeding the Liberal Flock: The Real Reasons for the Congressional 1/6 Committee. Underlying so much of the anger and resentment surrounding 1/6 is the complete dissonance between the narrative fed to the citizenry by Democrats and their media allies on the one hand, and the legal realities on the other. It must be infuriating and baffling to a large sector of the population to have been convinced that what happened on January 6 was an unprecedentedly dangerous insurrection perpetrated by an organized group of seditious traitors who had plotted to kidnap and murder elected officials, only for the Biden DOJ to have charged exactly nobody with any criminal charges remotely suggesting any of those melodramatic claims. Louis Gohmert's Explosive Question About FBI's Potential Role in Jan. 6 Leaves Attorney General Garland Stammering. House Rep. Louis Gohmert had Attorney General Merrick Garland stammering in short order at Thursday's judiciary committee hearing. Gohmert appeared to have Garland rattled with his rapid-fire questioning, beginning with his threatening memo about parents opposed to Critical Race Theory being taught in schools and proceeding to grill him about what really happened on January 6. "You said a moment ago you couldn't imagine a parent being labeled a 'domestic terrorist'," Gohmert said at the hearing. "But parents all over the country believe that is exactly what you labeled them by your memo indicating you were going to get involved in board meetings, school board meetings, because of the threat of domestic terrorism." "So, if you can't imagine a parent being labeled a 'domestic terrorist,' I would encourage you to redo your memo so it's not so perceived as being so threatening to people concerned about their kid's education," he said. 'Really Not At Liberty To Discuss': AG Garland Plays Dumb When Pressed On Whether Feds Were Involved In 1/6. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) showed Attorney General Merrick Garland videos taken on January 5 and 6 showing a man, who many believe to be undercover federal law enforcement, urging those in Washington, D.C. to attend various protests to physically enter the Capitol building, persisting in his call even amid boos. Garland, with his voice shaking at times, refused to comment. Biden administration Attorney General Merrick Garland was pressed multiple times by Members of Congress over the issue of potential undercover federal involvement, orchestration, or sabotage relating to the events of January 6. Robert Mueller Investigated For Staging Alleged Militia Hoax Now Used To Prosecute Jan 6 Defendant. The FBI under former director Robert Mueller stands accused of staging a hoax in Madisonville, Tennessee in 2010 to falsely entrap a man on a rare gun charge — and that case is now used as precedent to prosecute a January 6 protester on the same rare gun charge. Evidence provided to National File suggests that Mueller's FBI completely invented the details of a supposed militia attempt to take over a courthouse, framing a man named Darren Wesley Huff. One of Mueller's top deputies is alleged to have provided a false statement that contradicts numerous other sworn statements and evidence in the case. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) opened an investigation into Mueller's conduct, according to documented evidence presented below and in audio recordings obtained by National File in which a witness in the case speaks to TBI investigators. Mueller's FBI coordinated on the takedown of Huff with the left-wing "Fogbow" activist organization led by a leftist named PJ Foggy, who wears a hammer and sickle hat, according to PJ Foggy's admissions. All Democrats and 9 Republicans vote to hold Steve Bannon in contempt of Congress for defying January 6 subpoena. The House voted 229-202 on Thursday to hold Steve Bannon in contempt of Congress after refusing to comply with a subpoena to testify before the select committee probing the January 6 Capitol attack. Nine Republicans joined all 220 Democrats in the lower chamber to pass the measure, which was brought to the floor after the 1/6 commission and House Rules Committee voted earlier this week to bring the matter to the full body. Along with GOP panel members Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, the seven other Republicans who voted for the measure are Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania; Anthony Gonzalez of Ohio; Herrera Beutler of Washington; John Katko of New York; Nancy Mace of South Carolina; and Peter Meijer and Fred Upton of Michigan. January 6 committee votes to hold Steve Bannon in contempt for refusing to testify before panel. The January 6 committee voted on Tuesday evening [10/19/2021] to hold Steve Bannon in contempt for refusing to testify before the select panel. Earlier on Tuesday, the panel probing the attack on the Capitol by Trump supporters rejected an attempt by Bannon to refrain from testifying. This vote now paves the way for the entire House to vote on whether to recommend contempt charges. A source familiar with the schedule said that the vote was planned for Thursday. If the House approves the referral, the Justice Department will decide whether to pursue a criminal case, which could lead to jail time. President Trump's Statement on the Unconstitutional Actions of the Jan 6 Committee. Yesterday President Trump released a statement regarding the unconstitutional actions by the Jan 6 Congressional Committee that is acting like communist prosecutors. Their actions are atrocious. Here is the statement in its entirety. [...] Cheney begs GOP colleagues at Jan. 6 hearing: Tell our voters the truth, that the election wasn't rigged. There's a cohort of hardcore populists within the House GOP whose loyalty to Trump is such that they'll eagerly parrot any conspiracy theory he likes but most GOP reps who are asked about this tend to mumble something noncommittal about "election integrity" and "unanswered questions" before changing the subject. But that was Cheney's point at last night's January 6 committee hearing on whether to recommend holding Steve Bannon in contempt for defying a committee subpoena. It's not that House Republicans are aggressively amplifying Trump's "stop the steal" claims. It's that hardly any of them are willing to contradict them. That's true within conservative media too. If you're not a true believer but you're afraid of the backlash from true believers if you call the lie a lie, the only way to avoid failing the new party litmus test is to avoid the subject. Which means Cheney knew her plea would fall on deaf ears. Newly Released Video Shows Jan. 6 Political Prisoner Jeremy Brown Saving a Female Trump Supporter Who Was Trampled by Capitol Police. On Thursday afternoon, September 30th, at 3:45 PM Eastern the FBI raided Jeremy Brown's home and arrested Jeremy. The charge is trespassing. We were notified this morning by his family and an attorney. The FBI searched his house, RV, and trailer. Then they arrested Jeremy and took him away. Jeremy's family contacted The Gateway Pundit the following morning. [...] Jeremy Brown NEVER entered the US Capitol on January 6. His crime was in reality refusing to be an FBI informant as we describe below. [...] House Jan. 6 Panel Votes To Recommend Contempt For Trump Ally Steve Bannon. The House select committee investigating the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the US Capitol voted Tuesday night to recommend that former White House strategist Steve Bannon be held in contempt of Congress after he declined to respond to a subpoena from the panel. The nine-member committee unanimously adopted its report recommending that Bannon be found in contempt. The full House of Representatives is expected to vote on the matter Thursday. If the report is approved, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) will certify it and refer it to federal prosecutors in Washington for a potential grand jury presentation. "It's a shame that Mr. Bannon has put us in this position, but we won't take no for an answer," committee chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) said in remarks prior to the vote. Bannon 'not required to respond' to subpoena in Jan. 6 probe, lawyer says. Steve Bannon is "not required to respond" to a subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol because former President Donald Trump says their communications are protected by executive privilege, his lawyer claimed in a letter Wednesday [10/20/2021]. The move led select committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) to announce Thursday that lawmakers would "move forward" next week to seek to have Bannon prosecuted for "criminal contempt." Trump then blasted the committee in a statement that accused its members of "using prosecutors and prosecutions to destroy more than half of this Country and the people are not going to stand for it!" The DOJ has finally disgorged some exculpatory evidence about January 6. For a very long time, based on a few short snippets of random videos that people outside and inside of the Capitol shot on January 6, conservatives have been arguing that significant numbers of the people who entered the Capitol that day did so because the Capitol Police let them in. Their presence there wasn't an insurrection or even an unauthorized trespass — they had a right to be there once the "guardians" of the Capitol opened the door. Now, the official video from the Capitol confirms that those snippets were accurate. January 6 defendants and conservative media outlets have been demanding for ten months that the Department of Justice release the 14,000 hours of footage it has showing what happened at the Capitol on that day. An administration dedicated to truth and a prosecution abiding by the principle that the government must make exculpatory material available to the defense would have long ago complied with those requests. But the Biden DOJ is made of sterner, and possibly more corrupt, stuff. It took a court order to make the DOJ disgorge just some of the footage it has. President Trump Sues the Corrupt Capitol Riot Committee and the National Archives — The Anti-American Democrats and RINOs are Out of Control. President Trump today [10/18/2021] sued the corrupt US House Capital Riot Committee and the National Archives[.] President Trump sued the biased and corrupt US House Capital Riot Committee and the National Archives Committee that is currently harassing the President with a corrupt one-sided investigation. This committee is not focused on the stolen November 3, 2020 Election, rather it focuses on the Deep State instigated Capitol protests on January 6th. On January 6th numerous bad individuals, including Antifa, attacked the US Capitol and broke a few windows. But BLM and Antifa are protected by the Biden/Obama government while good Americans are jailed. Of course, after the event, BLM and Antifa goons were bragging about their efforts on January 6th. Civil Liberties Are Being Trampled by Exploiting "Insurrection" Fears. Congress's 1/6 Committee May Be the Worst Abuse Yet. For many liberals and Democrats in the U.S., 1/6 is the equivalent of 9/11. One need not speculate about that. Many have said this explicitly. Some prominent Democrats in politics and media have even insisted that 1/6 was worse than 9/11. Joe Biden's speechwriters, when preparing his script for his April address to the Joint Session of Congress, called the three-hour riot "the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War." Liberal icon Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), whose father's legacy was cemented by years of casting 9/11 as the most barbaric attack ever seen, now serves as Vice Chair of the 1/6 Committee; in that role, she proclaimed that the forces behind 1/6 represent "a threat America has never seen before." The enabling resolution that created the Select Committee calls 1/6 "one of the darkest days of our democracy." USA Today's editor David Mastio published an op-ed whose sole point was a defense of the hysterical thesis from MSNBC analysts that 1/6 is at least as bad as 9/11 if not worse. S.V. Date, the White House correspondent for America's most nakedly partisan "news" outlet, The Huffington Post, published a series of tweets arguing that 1/6 was worse than 9/11 and that those behind it are more dangerous than Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda ever were. Biden Calls for the Prosecution of Anyone Refusing Subpoenas in the Jan. 6th Riot Investigation. We recently discussed the troubling declaration of guilt made by President Joe Biden at the start of the investigation into border agents allegedly whipping or "strapping" undocumented Haitians trying to enter the country. The statement shattered the integrity of the investigation as well as the reputation of the federal agents. Now, President Biden has called for the Select Committee looking into the Jan. 6th riot to hold those who refuse subpoenas in contempt and for his Department of Justice to prosecute them. During the Trump Administration, many of us criticized the President for commenting on pending investigations and crossing the line on seeking to influence the Justice Department. A chorus of legal experts declared such public comments to be an attack on the rule of law and the integrity of the Justice Department. Those voices have been largely silent on Biden's own comments. DOJ Hits Back At Biden, Declares It's [sic] Independence. President Joe Biden's own Department of Justice just laid the smackdown on him after he urged the January 6 House Select Committee to prosecute those who do not comply with a Congressional subpoena. As he was outside the White House on Friday [10/15/2021] a CNN reporter asked him if those people, like former White House chief strategist Bannon, should be prosecuted. "Mr. President, what's your message to people who defy Congressional subpoenas on the January 6 committee?" the reporter said. "I hope that the committee goes after them and holds them accountable criminally," he said. "Should they be prosecuted by the Justice Department?" the reporter pressed. "I do, yes," the president said. The Department of Justice was not thrilled with the president's statement and DOJ spokesperson Anthony Coley made it known that the department will not be told what to do. Psaki, DOJ in damage control mode after Biden says subpoena defiers should be prosecuted. The Department of Justice (DOJ) and White House press secretary Jen Psaki are doing damage control after President Biden told reporters Friday evening that anyone who defies a congressional subpoena should be prosecuted. The remarks by the president come as the Jan. 6 select commission is ramping up issuing subpoenas for former President Trump administration officials and others who may have information on Trump's efforts to investigate claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election. Biden told reporters in a South Lawn gaggle outside of Air Force One, "I hope the committee goes after them and holds accountable." He was referring to individuals who refuse to comply with a congressional subpoena. QAnon hairdresser is sentenced to 14 days in jail. A QAnon-loving hairdresser who called the January 6 attack on the US Capitol the 'best [...] day ever' after briefly breaching the Capitol building will be forced to serve 14 days in jail after Indiana prosecutors asked a judge to throw her behind bars because she is an 'avid consumer of conspiracy theories.' Dona Sue Bissey, 53, was sentenced on Tuesday to 14 days in jail, 60 hours of community service and given a $500 fine for her part in the January 6 riots, of which she and a friend, Anna Morgan-Lloyd, were among the first 50 rioters to breach the Capitol building, according to Bissey's Facebook post. Bissey commented on the post saying 'best [...] day ever!! I'll never forget. We got into the Capitol Building.' Was January 6 Part of the FBI's 'Operation Cold Snap'? [I]n June 2020, days after the nation was roiled by Black Lives Matter looting and rioting, a man from Wisconsin named Stephen Robeson sponsored a "National Militia Conference" at a Dublin hotel. (Yes, that was the real name of the event.) According to BuzzFeed's exceptional July 2021 investigative report on the FBI-led plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020, Robeson "helped organize the national meeting, and he was enthusiastically pushing people he knew to attend." The purpose of the conference was to recruit people who ultimately would stoke "political violence" against governors who refused to reopen their states after lockdowns supposedly necessitated by COVID. Some participants said Robeson, known as "Robey," relentlessly pestered them until they agreed to show up; people came from as far as Maryland and Kansas City, BuzzFeed's Ken Bensinger and Jessica Garrison reported. One member of the Three Percenters, an alleged militia group on the FBI's naughty list, observed people taking photos from discreet locations in the hotel. "The feds are everywhere," he thought to himself. Indeed. One of the feds was Robeson himself. At least five Capitol 'rioters' have represented themselves. At least five people charged with storming the U.S. Capitol have refused defense lawyers and are electing to represent themselves, undeterred by their lack of legal training or repeated warnings from judges. That choice already has led to some curious legal maneuvers and awkward exchanges in court. Among the five who've opted to go it alone are cop-turned-yoga teacher Alan Hostetter, 57, who believes the official inquiry into the riot is fixed. Report shows Babbitt not a deadly threat. A DC Metropolitan Police Report on the Ashli Babbitt shooting was obtained by Judicial Watch. It shows one thing clearly. There was no legitimate justification for Lt. Michael Byrd to shoot and kill Ashli Babbitt. The standard requirement for use of deadly force was in effect which requires an imminent threat of death or serious bodily injury. None of the statements by officers at the scene show that standard was met. [...] All of them agree that no one saw Ashli Babbitt with a weapon of any kind and the only possible threat she posed was simply climbing through a window. Officers present stated she had not made any threats or shown any violent action toward them. One officer advanced the rationale that since Byrd was threatening to shoot them, it would have emboldened the crowd if he had not then actually shot her. That is an absurd line of reasoning. Another said that if Byrd had not killed Ashli Babbitt the protesters could have taken his gun and used it against them. Yet Babbitt was nowhere near Byrd and had shown no violent actions. It's as if she was chosen at random to teach the protesters a lesson or to serve as an example. This is noted in the statement of one of the other officer's present. Will Liz Cheney, House Democrats Investigate Insurrectionist Takeover Of Interior Department? Security personnel at the U.S. Department of the Interior sustained "multiple injuries," according to spokeswoman Melissa Schwartz in the Washington Post, after left-wing protesters held the agency headquarters under siege on Thursday [10/14/2021]. Fifty-five protesters were arrested in the turmoil, the demonstration group People vs. Fossil Fuels said in a statement to the Post, concluding five days of activism in the nation's capital by a coalition known as Build Back Fossil Free. Many were protesting the completion of Minnesota's Line 3 Pipeline carrying Canadian tar sands oil to Lake Superior. Begun in 2017, the project was ordered by the federal government to replace an old, corroding line. Democrat Dog and Pony Shows Come up Short. Not waiting for the partisan paint to dry, Nancy Pelosi established the J6 commission to investigate the January 6 insurrection further harass Trump supporters. But beyond the obligated political testimonies of the Capitol police, some of whose feelings were hurt on J6, Nancy has had a difficult time getting others to testify — for good reasons. Nancy's congressional subpoenas appear to have fallen on deaf ears for those she's targeting with her dog and pony show. In a combination of fishing expedition and bankruptcy by legal fees, she subpoenaed the records of Steve Bannon in an attempt to take the mudslinging to a new level. This strategy is unlikely to work if she continues to pursue it, for several reasons. Capitol Police officer charged with obstruction of justice. Capitol Police officer Michael Riley was arrested Friday on two obstruction of justice charges after allegedly telling someone to delete footage showing him at the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol. Riley, a 25-year veteran of the police force, also told the contact to remove footage from all social media accounts, according to Friday's indictment. While he did not know the contact personally, they were part of the same Facebook group in which he located the footage and identified himself before warning the man of the mass investigation into those inside the building, the indictment added. Jan. 6 Panel Refers Steve Bannon for Criminal Contempt; Adam Schiff Imagines Bannon in Jail. The Democrat-dominated House of Representatives committee investigating the Capitol riot of January 6 decided to refer Stephen K. Bannon for criminal contempt prosecution after he defied the committee's subpoena to testify on Thursday [10/14/2021]. Bannon was CEO of President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign and a senior White House aide until leaving in August 2017. It is not clear what, if any, connection he had with the January 6 event, three-and-a-half years later. When is an insurrection not an insurrection? During the Kavanaugh hearings, hundreds of hysterical leftist activists stormed the Capitol and even managed to break into the Senate chamber. They were arrested and that was the end of it. On January 6, crowds of pro-Trump people, along with undoubted provocateurs and, almost certainly, FBI agents, entered the Capitol. Once in, they wandered around reverently and left — except for Ashli Babbitt, whom a Capitol Police Officer killed in cold blood. January 6 was called an "insurrection," and Biden's DOJ is using it as an excuse to hold political prisoners and terrorize into silence those who oppose Trump. And no, it's not just a new, stricter standard, as Thursday's "climate justice" riot showed. Admittedly, the climate fanatics didn't head for the Capitol. Instead, they besieged the Department of the Interior. Lieutenant Byrd was 'shaking, nervous and teary-eyed' [after] he shot dead Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt in Jan 6 Capitol riots, secret report reveals. Lieutenant Michael Byrd, the Capitol cop who shot rioter Ashli Babbitt dead on January 6, was 'nervous, teary-eyed, and appeared very upset' after gunning down the Air Force veteran, a secret report has revealed. More than 500 pages of internal DC Metropolitan Police documents on the fatal shooting reveal witnesses said Babbitt was not carrying a weapon at the time and describe how Lt Byrd was shaken by the event. Babbitt was a fervent Trump supporter who was killed when she was at the front of a mob trying to climb through a shattered glass door to the Speaker's Lobby during the riots. Congress' Access to Individuals' Private Communications: The Jan. 6 Committee's Troubling Precedent. In late August, the special House committee charged with investigating the Jan. 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol took the first steps toward subpoenaing the communications records of private citizens involved in rallies to protest certification of the election, as well as Republican lawmakers whose role in the events of Jan. 6th has come into question. The committee asked the companies to preserve these records for now. House minority leader Kevin McCarthy reacted with outrage, tweeting: "If these companies comply with the Democrat order to turn over private information, they are in violation of federal law and subject to losing their ability to operate in the United States." He warned ominously that "a Republican majority will not forget." Progressive commentators were quick to point out that McCarthy himself, by threatening reprisal against companies that cooperate with the requests, might be violating the law against obstructing congressional investigations. But underlying McCarthy's shameful attempt to bully the companies into noncompliance is a legitimate question about the scope of Congress's authority to obtain private information. Secret Police Docs Reveal There Was 'No Good Reason' to Shoot Ashli Babbitt: Judicial Watch Report. A new report seems to confirm what we all already knew about the Ashli Babbitt case: She was shot unjustifiably. For those who may not remember, Babbitt was shot and killed by a Capitol Police officer while trying to open a door that led to the House chamber during the Jan. 6 incursion. Judicial Watch reported on Wednesday [10/13/2021] that it had obtained 532 pages of documents from the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police, all regarding Babbitt's death. Witness testimonies indicated Babbitt was not holding a weapon at the time of the shooting and that the officer involved, Michael Byrd, looked "upset" after shooting her. A Capitol Police sergeant testified that he didn't know why Byrd shot Babbitt. Federal Judge Finds DC Jail Officials in Contempt, Demands Civil Rights Inquiry. In a major rebuke of the Justice Department and D.C. Department of Corrections, District Court Judge Royce Lamberth today found the jail's warden and director of the Department of Corrections in contempt of court for refusing to turn over records related to the care of Christopher Worrell, a January 6 detainee who suffers from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and a broken hand. He has been incarcerated under a pre-trial detention order sought by Joe Biden's Justice Department and approved by the court's chief judge since his arrest in March; Worrell has been in the D.C. jail used specifically to house January 6 defendants since April. Lamberth scheduled the hearing on Tuesday [10/12/2021] after D.C. Jail Warden Wanda Patten and DOC Director Quincy Booth failed to comply with his October 8 order to submit the evaluation by an orthopedic surgeon, who determined in June that Worrell needed surgery for a broken hand he suffered in May, and also to submit Worrell's medical requests related to needed cancer treatments. Jail officials and attorneys representing the department claimed the screw-up was a miscommunication but Lamberth rejected their argument. "I don't accept that explanation," Lamberth said. "No one noticed in jail that he's sitting there in pain all the time? Does no one care?" Babbitt shooting internal police docs reveal 'no good reason for shooting,' according to Judicial Watch. More than 500 pages of internal documents from DC Metropolitan Police concerning the fatal shooting of Ashli Babbitt in the Capitol on Jan. 6 reveal witness accounts stating she was not holding a weapon at the time of her death and how "upset" the officer was after shooting her. "These previously secret records show there was no good reason to shoot and kill Ashli Babbitt," stated Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, which obtained the documents through a May 2021 FOIA lawsuit. "The Biden-Garland Justice Department and the Pelosi Congress have much to answer for the over the mishandling and cover-up of this scandalous killing of an American citizen by the U.S. Capitol Police." Judge says civil rights of Jan 6 detainees are being violated, slaps warden with contempt. U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth is holding D.C. Jail Warden Wanda Patten and D.C. Department of Correction Director Quincy Booth in contempt of court, accusing them of 'inexcusable' delays in providing medical treatment to prisoner Chris Worrell, who is accused of partaking in the January 6 Capitol Hill riot. 'American Greatness' writer Julie Kelly live-tweeted the hearing and the resulting action by the judge. "Judge Lamberth just found the DC Jail Warden and DC DOC Director in contempt of court for refusing to turn over requested documents related to care for cancer-stricken J6 detainee," she wrote. "Says civil rights are being violated at the jail, will refer to Attorney General office. FINALLY!!" New Docs Show That Ashli Babbitt was Shot for 'No Good Reason'. It wasn't our best day as a nation. It also wasn't the worst. We have clowns in the liberal press saying that the January 6 riot was worse than the 9/11 attacks. We have comparisons that this was worse than the American Civil War. False on all accounts, but they need to exaggerate this incident because they want to ensnare Donald Trump again. If this was such a horrific event, why haven't they released the hours of security camera footage? It's possibly because it's boring [...] — just hundreds of people walking around the US Capitol. These people didn't murder anyone as well. No cops were killed. Officer Brian Sicknick, who the liberal media tried to weaponize against conservatives, died of natural causes. The only person who was killed inside the Capitol building was Ashli Babbitt who was shot by police. This has been a topic of discussion for some, as people wondered if the use of force was necessary. Look, in this situation, everyone inside should have known that these situations could turn deadly. That's not to say she deserved it, and new documents from Judicial Watch further feeds the narrative that this was a cover-up. Was Jan. 6 an 'armed insurrection'? It has become common in some circles to call the Jan. 6 Capitol riot an "armed insurrection." That leads to a few questions: How many rioters were armed? And what weapons did they have? What were the arms in the "armed insurrection"? The Justice Department maintains a website listing the defendants and the federal charges against them in the sprawling Capitol riot investigation. At this moment, about 670 people have been charged, many of them with misdemeanors like "Parading, Demonstrating or Picketing in a Capitol Building." Of the 670, I counted 82 who face weapons-related charges. That's about 12% of the total. [...] For each charge, prosecutors have specified the weapon the defendant is accused of using. Here is a representative list of those weapons: A helmet. A baton. A crutch. A walking stick. Handgun. Pepper spray. Flagpole. Knife. Baseball bat. Crowd control barrier. Police shield. Hockey stick. Axe. Metal sign. Desk drawer. Arrest of Green Beret Oath Keeper Threatens to Expose FBI's Darkest 1/6 Secrets. The Oath Keepers are the highest-profile and most extensively prosecuted militia group associated with the events of January 6. So far, the government has charged a total of 18 Oath Keepers with conspiring to obstruct Congress's certification of the 2020 Presidential Election. This is a serious conspiracy charge that could potentially lead to decades of prison time. Oddly enough, Oath Keepers founder and leader Stewart Rhodes himself has not been charged with anything, despite the fact that the government cites Rhodes's own statements and actions as largely constitutive of the conspiracy for which so many of his underlings face charges. [...] Apart from any charges of conspiracy, there is no doubt that, based on his actions on January 6, Stewart Rhodes could technically be prosecuted for trespassing on US Capitol grounds. Just last Thursday, in fact, approximately 20 FBI vehicles swooped in on the home of Oath Keepers associate Jeremy Brown, searched his belongings for five and a half hours, and took all of his phones and electronics. The feds justified their entire raid on Brown on a minor alleged "trespassing" offense. Julie Kelly and Tucker Carlson Discuss the Many Questions Remaining About January 6. American Greatness Senior Contributor Julie Kelly joined Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Tuesday [10/5/2021] to discuss the many unresolved questions surrounding the January 6 Capitol Hill melee, including the identity of the officer who shot the protester, Ashli Babbitt and why there remains so many hours of unreleased footage of the incident. [Video clip] Our Representatives, Not J6 Protesters, Defile the 'Sacred' U.S. Capitol. When politics is your religion and government is your God, a public building is your church. The four-hour disturbance at the U.S. Capitol building on January 6, according to Beltway aristocracy and the media, wasn't a legitimate protest that turned violent in some areas — it was a sacrilege. Never mind that the building itself sustained minimal damage — early reports estimated $30 million for repairs but the actual figure is around $1 million — the real vandalism occurred when thousands of Americans wearing MAGA hats invaded the cathedral of government power occupied by America's political deity. And the alleged apostates are paying a dear price. Since January 6, lawmakers, judges, and federal prosecutors have routinely described the Capitol building as holy ground. "To those who engaged in the gleeful desecration of this, our temple of democracy, American democracy, justice will be done," Pelosi said after the breach. Representative Mario Díaz-Balart (R-Fla.) tweeted on January 6 that "the Capitol building is the center and sacred symbol of democracy." The Left Got What It Wanted — So Now What? Of the January 6 debacle, we were not told that it was a riot involving lawbreakers who would be punished. Instead, we were lied to that it was an "armed insurrection," a "coup," and "a rebellion" of massive proportions. Our esteemed retired military and civil libertarians who had damned the mere thought of using federal troops to quell the prior four summer months of continuous rioting were suddenly happy to see 25,000 federal soldiers patrol Washington to hound out fantasy second-wave insurrectionists. In Animal Farm fashion, there were now to be good federal troops deterring mythical violent domestic extremists, but bad federal troops who should never stop real, ongoing mayhem in the streets. It mattered nothing that "armed" in the case of January 6 meant that no firearms were used or even found among the protestors. No one was charged with conspiracy, insurrection, or racketeering. But many were placed in solitary confinement without specific charges being filed — to the utter delight of liberal groups like the ACLU and human rights organizations. [...] Videos surrounding the entire melee still have been repressed. They likely will never be released. Capitol Police whistleblower delivers scathing rebuke to two of its senior leaders on Jan. 6. A former high-ranking Capitol Police official with knowledge of the department's response to the Jan. 6 attack has sent congressional leaders a scathing letter accusing two of its senior leaders of mishandling intelligence and failing to respond properly during the riot. The whistleblower, who requested anonymity for privacy reasons and left the force months after the attack, sent the 16-page letter late last month to the top members of both parties in the House and Senate. His missive makes scorching allegations against Sean Gallagher, the Capitol Police's acting chief of uniformed operations, and Yogananda Pittman, its assistant chief of police for protective and intelligence operations — who also served as its former acting chief. The whistleblower accuses Gallagher and Pittman of deliberately choosing not to help officers under attack on Jan. 6 and alleges that Pittman lied to Congress about an intelligence report Capitol Police received before that day's riot. After a lengthy career in the department, the whistleblower was a senior official on duty on Jan. 6. 'I formally exert executive privilege': Trump sends letter to National Archivist warning him NOT to release 45 documents from January 6. President Joe Biden has decided not to assert executive privilege to hold back a trove of documents that the Jan. 6th select committee is seeking as part of its probe — concluding it is not in the country's 'best interests' after the Capitol riot. The move, telegraphed in advance by the White House, drew an immediate and angry response from former President Donald Trump, who suggested he might sue and attacked Democrats as 'drunk on power.' 'The Democrats are drunk on power, but this dangerous assault on our Constitution and important legal precedent will not work. This Committee's fake investigation is not about January 6th any more than the Russia Hoax was about Russia. Instead, this is about using the power of the government to silence "Trump" and our Make America Great Again movement, the greatest such achievement of all time,' Trump said in a Friday afternoon statement. Never Trumper Livid That '1/6 Commission is Dead Already' as Aides Defy Subpoenas. Donald Trump, 45th President of the United States, has instructed four top aides to defy sweeping subpoenas issued by the partisan January 6 commission. The act of defiance is provoking desperation among 'Never Trump' operatives and partisan leftists who believe that the House committee lacks the political will to enforce the subpoenas. "Former President Donald Trump is directing a group of his former aides to ignore a subpoena from the House committee probing the Jan. 6 Capitol attack and signaling he will go to court to block their testimony to the investigators," Politico reported on Thursday [10/7/2021]. "The committee has subpoenaed documents and testimony from four Trump administration alumni: former social media czar Dan Scavino, former Defense Department official Kash Patel, former chief of staff Mark Meadows, and former White House adviser Steve Bannon. The four men were ordered to turn over documents related to Jan. 6 by Thursday and to sit for interviews with investigators next week," the report added. Biden White House Will Provide Trump Records to January 6 Committee. The Biden White House has agreed to release Trump-era presidential records to the House committee investigating the January 6th riot on Capitol Hill, even as former President Donald Trump reportedly moves to assert executive privilege over the documents. During her Friday afternoon [10/8/2021] press briefing, White House press secretary Jen Psaki confirmed that the White House supports the panel's request for the documents. Donald Trump Has a Message About What Former Aides Should Do with January 6 Subpoenas. Former President Donald Trump has told former advisers of his who were subpoenaed by the January 6 select committee to defy the subpoenas, according to Betsy Woodruff Swan reported for POLITICO. The former advisers, as Townhall reported at the time, include Mark Meadows, chief of staff at the time; Dan Scavino, the White House deputy chief of staff for communications and the White House director of social media at the time; Steve Bannon; and Kash Patel, chief of staff to then Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller. Trump Is Not the Cause of the Crimes Threatening America. [Scroll down] Trump, in fact, has been quite moderate in response to the questionable 2020 result and to what is now being unearthed as the politicization in 2016 of the national intelligence agencies and the FBI as they unconstitutionally assisted the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign in trying to cheat Trump out of the 2016 election. [...] Apart from calling for a large peaceful protest, Trump had nothing to do with the events of January 6 and certainly nothing to do with any law-breaking at the U.S. Capitol. The attempt to defame Trump as a putschist and hype January 6 as a traumatizing event on the scale of 9/11 or Pearl Harbor is a total failure. FBI confirms absence of weapons on Jan 6, so media wants you to know that they left their guns at home. The FBI has previously stated that no firearms were found in connection to the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol, but despite that contention, the media is now breathlessly reporting that authorities have found guns in the homes of protesters. "Numerous people arrested in connection with January 6 have also had weapons in their homes, including this latest case just today — 3 pistols and an AR-15," Mother Jones explosively tweeted in reference to an NBC report. "Some January 6 defendants, including additional Oath Keeper members charged with conspiracy, have lied to investigators and went to significant lengths to destroy evidence of their communications related to the insurrection, according to court documents. Others have kept weapons in their homes in violation of pretrial orders. And some defendants have threatened future attacks," they reported. Federal Judge Raises an Important Point About Treatment of January 6 Defendants. A federal judge made a key point about the treatment of January 6 Capitol riot defendants while sentencing one of them on Friday [10/1/2021], Danielle Doyle. District Judge Trevor McFadden, who was appointed by President Donald Trump, made headlines for admonishing the U.S. Attorney's Office for not being more "even-handed," pointing out that it's affecting their credibility. [...] Rather than two months of house arrest, as prosecutors had recommended, District Judge Trevor McFadden gave Doyle a $3,000 fine and ordered her to pay $500 for damages to the Capitol complex. "The fine was the heftiest financial penalty that a judge has levied so far against an insurrection defendant," [Marshall] Cohen mentioned [on CNN]. "Fadden himself has already rejected one attempt by a January 6 defendant to argue that the charges should be dropped because they were politically motivated," Cohen also wrote. Now That He Has Been Exonerated Over Jan. 6, Trump is Filing Lawsuits Against Social Media Giants — Beginning with Twitter. Donald Trump has been effectively exonerated in the January 6 investigation, despite the partisan efforts of the House of Representatives' committee and although the FBI will never formall[y] admit it. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been unable to find any central plot to overturn the results of the election or engage in a coup, let alone one masterminded by the former President of the United States. "The FBI has found scant evidence that the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was the result of an organized plot to overturn the presidential election result, according to four current and former law enforcement officials," Reuters earlier reported. Judge Hands Down Probation In Capitol Case, Questions Prosecutors' "Credibility" Over Leniency Toward BLM. An Oklahoma judge has just reminded Americans that there's at least one judge in on the US District Court in Washington (which is handling the bulk of the Jan. 6 cases) who isn't a Democrat. Judge Trevor McFadden admonished prosecutors this week after handing down a more-lenient-than-expected sentence to Danielle Doyle, 37, who was given two months of probation on Friday for her involvement in the Jan. 6 demonstrations. Prosecutors had asked the judge to sentence Doyle to home confinement. Doyle pleaded guilty in July to illegally demonstrating inside the Capitol, which she admitted to entering through a broken window. She spent a total of 24 minutes in the building and there's no evidence she committed any acts of violence or property damage. Judge asks prosecutors why Jan 6 protesters are being treated worse than BLM rioters. A federal judge appointed to his post in 2017 by then-President Donald Trump reportedly dropped a stunning truth bomb about the Jan. 6th rioters during a sentencing hearing Friday for convicted Jan. 6th rioter Danielle Doyle. U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden noted that prosecutors have been treating the Jan. 6th rioters who'd rioted for a single day significantly harsher than the Black Lives Matter and Antifa rioters who'd rioted for an entire summer and longer. The judge specifically "questioned why federal prosecutors had not brought more cases against those accused in 2020 summertime protests, reading out statistics on riot cases in the nation's capital that were not prosecuted," according to the Associated Press. And now, here's Joe's non sequitur of the week: A 'news' report that encapsulates what's wrong with today's media. [Scroll down] The article refers to the police report and the House Committee on Ethics statement about Crenshaw's wrongdoing. It then explains how the extra security was necessary "following the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 during which five people were killed." Wait! What? Insurrection? Five people killed? Well, not quite, Ms. Biased "Journalist." All the evidence, including admissions from the FBI, is that there was no planned insurrection, that the FBI was involved well in advance and may have been encouraging events, that the Capitol police invited people into the building, and that those who entered treated the People's place of law with respect. And as for those "five people killed," implying that the insurrectionists were murderers, only one person was killed when a Capitol police officer cold-bloodedly shot a woman who was manifestly neither a threat to him nor anyone else. No other Capitol police officers even drew their weapons (some insurrection!). The other people died either of natural causes (including a police officer) or, in the cases of one person, from an apparent drug overdose. FBI Arrests Retired Green Beret Jeremy Brown for Attending Jan. 6 Protests and Standing Outside Capitol — After He Refused To Be Their Informant. Jeremy Brown is a Green Beret and former Republican candidate for Congress in Florida's 14th Congressional District. Brown served in the United States Army from 1992 to 2012 and reached the rank of Special Forces Master Sergeant. Jeremy also attended the Stop the Steal protests in Washington DC on January 6. Jeremy joined the Oath Keepers in November and went to Washington DC to provide security at the many protests and rallies that week. Last March, Jeremy Brown started speaking out about how the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) contacted him and attempted to recruit him to spy on patriots and everyday Americans. FBI Planned The Capitol Break-In. The worst FBI in history who framed President Trump is busted framing Americans at the Capitol. This is right out of Hitler's playbook, that is not a joke. [Video clip] New Video From Jan 6 Shows Capitol Police Allowing In Protesters, Walking Beside Them. As Nancy Pelosi and her clown show of a committee featuring war whore, Liz Cheney, more and more information and videos from Jan 6th seem to blow up their narratives. In this video, a large group of protesters are peacefully let in by Capitol police without any aggression or violence. After the barriers are moved, the protestors walk slowly with the officers walking beside them. [Video clip] Jan. 6 committee unleashes second wave of subpoenas. The House committee investigating the Capitol riot on Jan. 6 issued its second wave of subpoenas, honing in on organizers of the "Stop the Steal" rally that happened near the White House that same day. Eleven people were sent letters on Wednesday [9/29/2021], including Katrina Pierson, a spokeswoman for former President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, and Maggie Mulvaney, a niece of former acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney. The subpoenas seek documents and deposition testimony. In particular, the committee took aim at individuals associated with the Women for America First-sponsored public event, at which Trump delivered one of the final public addresses of his presidency on Jan. 6. It also targeted earlier rallies and nationwide bus tours, according to a statement outlining the subpoenas. Mark Meadows on FBI informant in Capitol riot crowd: 'There is a whole lot that needs to come out'. The public does not know the full story about the Capitol riot, according to a top confidant of former President Donald Trump. Mark Meadows, former White House chief of staff when a throng of Trump supporters stormed their way into the U.S. Capitol complex on Jan. 6, made the comment responding to a new report about the presence of an FBI informant in the crowd. "I can tell you that there is a whole lot that needs to come out," he told Newsmax host Steve Cortes on Tuesday. Meadows declined to get into more specifics, acknowledging he has been subpoenaed , along with three other Trump administration aides, by the select House committee investigating the Capitol siege. FBI Narrative About the Jan. 6th Capitol 'Insurrection' Is Imploding. An explosive report over the weekend claims to show that two alleged Capitol riot participants were actually government informants. The New York Times reported Saturday [9/25/2021] that "records, and information from two people familiar with the matter, suggest that federal law enforcement had a far greater visibility into the assault on the Capitol, even as it was taking place, than was previously known." The revelations in the Times reveal that there was no conspiracy on the part of the Proud Boys to storm the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6, 2021, as alleged by the Department of Justice. It's already known that the Proud Boys leader, Enrique Tarrio, had been an FBI informant. The Times report concentrates on yet another FBI informant in the right-leaning group who reportedly warned his handler in real-time that some bad stuff was going on at the Capitol. The FBI Admits to Having Informants at January 6th Protest. Over the weekend, a judge forced federal prosecutors to release surveillance footage of the happenings on January 6th, and despite claiming the video would endanger national security, what was shown was far from an "insurrection." Instead, unidentified men in black systematically entered and opened the doors for perplexed protesters to walk through, at which point they mingled and took pictures. The video did not show a violent rush as part of an organized attempt to overthrow the government. It was another blow to the predominant narrative that January 6th was "worse than 9/11" and the "worst attack" on our country since the Civil War. It also illustrated how far the federal government has been willing to go to push false perceptions. Why hide that footage in the first place? And why do we not know who the men in black are, but we know who every other random grandma is who took a selfie at the Capitol that day? FBI Undercover Agent on January 6 Received Text That Confirms No Trump-Led Plot to Overturn 2020 Election. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been outed in a New York Times piece for having undercover agents working the Capitol riot on January 6. Furthermore, the FBI agent was collaborating with a Proud Boys informant who confirmed there was no centralized plot to overturn the 2020 election results on Donald Trump's behalf. As has been oft-repeated, the pro-Trump attendees were not part of any 'pre-planned attack'. [...] The NY Times piece corroborates what was only recently labeled a "far-right conrpiracy theory": The FBI had undercover agents working the January 6 faux-insurrection who essentially did nothing to stop extremist groups from turning the Electoral College into an utterly chaotic mess. Proud Boy FBI informant texting his handler during January 6 riot said storming Capitol was not pre-planned. An FBI informant said to have been among those rioting at the January 6 riot at the US Capitol, passed on real-time updates to his handler as the mob stormed the building. The informant, who is said to be a member of the far-right Proud Boys militia, was part of thousands taking part in the deadly riot and who continued to text an FBI agent throughout the course of the day. The informant, who was a foot soldier in the group rather than a leader was not aware that there would attempt to break into the US Capitol, where lawmakers were busy certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election. January 6th Committee Sends Fishing Subpoenas to Trump Administration Officials Looking for Information to Create 2022 Democrat Campaign Narrative. As we have been saying since the outset, the January 6th Committee is only in place for one reason — to create an extremist narrative, undermine and smear their political opposition in advance of the 2022 mid-term election. What the Mueller Investigation was to 2018, the J6 Investigation is to 2022. Same/Same. Both based on a fraudulent political premise. To support the leftist objective, the committee now sends subpoenas to Trump administration officials, aides and allies fishing for any communication information they can use to create their smears. The committee is seeking documents and depositions from Dan Scavino, President Trump's social media assistance and senior White House aide; former chief of staff Mark Meadows, political activist Steve Bannon and Kash Patel, who was the chief of staff for the acting defense secretary on Jan. 6th. Candace Owens: New Jan. 6th footage proves it 'was a grandma selfie party'. Political commentator Candace Owens raved about the newest footage coming from the Capitol on January 6th, calling it "a grandma selfie party." As a result of the released footage, Owens says the Department of Justice appears to be lying about the insurrection. Owens appeared on Tucker Carlson to comment on the revelation. "And I want to say this, looking beyond this entire situation, the most embarrassing thing is they're not thinking about internationally how embarrassing this looks to the American people," Owens said. "We no longer have the moral high ground in the international community because of this, because they have made an absolute mockery in terms of January 6th. And we have locked up political dissidents. And the political dissidents are Trump supporters." New York Times Reveals FBI Role in January 6. The New York Times often acts as the spin cycle for the Democrats' dirty laundry. For years, Times reporters have helped get ahead of damning news, especially when it's related to the Russian collusion hoax, in an attempt to establish the narrative early. A recent example is the Times article downplaying the pending indictment against Michael Sussman, the Clinton campaign lawyer who acted in cahoots with the FBI to seed the collusion tale before the 2016 election. The article was published the day before Sussman pleaded guilty of lying to the FBI. On Saturday [9/25/2021], the Times published a carefully constructed bombshell intended to soften the blow of an explosive scandal in the making: the FBI had at least one informant among the group of Proud Boys who marched on the Capitol on January 6. The informant, according to "confidential documents" furnished to the paper, started working with the FBI in July 2020 and was in close contact with his FBI handler before, during, and after the Capitol protest. Tucker Carlson Goes There on Released January 6th Surveillance Video. [Scroll down] Then there's the issue of the black-clad men who opened the doors in what looked like a very organized, planned-out fashion. As Tucker Carlson pointed out last night, it's rather convenient that 500+ people have been arrested but that we don't know who those men are. [Video clip] Carlson hits the nail on the head. We know who random grandmas who took selfies are, but we are to believe the feds just have no idea who the men are who opened the doors? Why are they not dressed like everyone else? Why do they seem to know exactly where to go and what to do? Why are they not stopped by the people already in the Capitol, who I assume are USCP officers? When the doors are opened, the people walking in almost seem surprised and confused. There was clearly no grand plan here by insurrectionists. Rather, it certainly looks like those who opened the doors were separate from the protest. And while the narrative for a long time on the right was that these were Antifa operatives, that was always the wrong assumption, in my opinion. It always made much more sense that the men in black were federal agents, FBI or otherwise. White House: Biden Already Turning Over Trump Information on January 6th for Congressional Investigation. President Joe Biden is working with Democrat members of Congress to turn over information related to former President Donald Trump and the January 6th riots on Capitol Hill, the White House confirmed Thursday. [...] Taylor Budowich, a spokesman for former President Trump denounced the "highly partisan, Communist-style 'select committee'" for pursuing extensive records in the investigation in his comments to the Washington Post. "Executive privilege will be defended, not just on behalf of President Trump and his administration, but also on behalf of the Office of the President of the United States and the future of our nation," he added. Jan. 6 House panel subpoenas Trump allies Bannon, Meadows, 2 more. The House select committee investigating the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the US Capitol issued subpoenas to four key allies of former President Donald Trump Thursday, with the committee's chairman instructing them to sit for depositions next month. Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) announced that former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, former chief strategist Steve Bannon, former Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications Dan Scavino and former Pentagon official Kash Patel had been subpoenaed because they all were working in or had communicated with the White House either in the days leading up to the riot or on the day itself. In letters to all four men, Thompson said that the committee is investigating "the facts, circumstances, and causes" of the riot, which led to the deaths of five people. Heartbreaking Letter from Jan. 6 Prisoner in Solitary Confinement! DC Gitmo Violates International Codes on Torture. Jonathan Mellis, a detainee from January 6th, wrote us from solitary confinement last week. Mellis has been detained without bond since his arrest in February. In May, U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan denied his request to be released from custody for a week so he could attend his father's funeral. Here is the direct letter from Jonathan Mellis addressing the American people: [...] Now We Know Why Prosecutors Wanted to Keep Jan. 6 Videos Away from the Public. Prosecutors lost a battle to keep some of the 14,000 hours of January 6 surveillance video that was accumulated by the FBI out of the public view. And much to anti-Trump Democrats' chagrin, social media is already having a field day with it. Buzzfeed's Zoe Tillman who broke the tough news: [...] When some of this video made its way into the hands of the public, everyone could see exactly why the prosecution didn't want it to get out: It doesn't fit the narrative of the 'deadly insurrection' that the fake news media has been propagating. Prosecutors Lost A Fight To Keep A Set Of Jan. 6 Capitol Surveillance Videos Under Seal. Federal prosecutors on Tuesday released a new collection of Capitol surveillance videos from Jan. 6 after a judge ordered them to do so, rejecting the government's argument that making the clips public could threaten the security of the complex. The disclosure marks a setback for the US Capitol Police and the US attorney's office in their efforts to control how much footage from the Capitol's closed-circuit video (CCV) system gets out. In the latest case, prosecutors argued that revealing the location and vantage points of more cameras could help "bad actors" trying to plan some future assault on the building. A judge concluded that argument was too speculative, however, and that the public had a strong interest in seeing videos that formed the basis for a recent plea deal. US District Chief Judge Beryl Howell ordered the videos released in response to a request from a media coalition (including BuzzFeed News) that is petitioning judges on a rolling basis for videos that prosecutors have relied on in Jan. 6 cases. The Feds Are Forced to Release January 6th Surveillance Footage and Narratives Crumble. Why has the federal government been trying so hard to keep surveillance footage of January 6th under wraps? [...] I'm not trying to suggest that January 6th wasn't dumb. I think the short-sighted idiots who perpetrated it did real damage to Trump and his movement. Yet, I also like to live in reality, and what these videos show is not a nation-shaking insurrection organized by some higher authority. Rather, it shows individuals who made a stupid choice. But trespassing is not a justification to keep people locked up indefinitely, and it's not an excuse for the government to withhold evidence from the public simply because they think it'll be embarrassing to their narrative. There are thousands more hours of footage that should be released at this point. Let the evidence or lack thereof speak for itself. The idea that any of this is endangering national security is a joke, and I'm glad this judge saw through that farce. Decision By January 6th Commission to Ignore Oath Keeper Stewart Rhodes Just Unmasked Their Entire Investigation. The January 6 commission expanded its fishing expedition still further last week with its request of phone records from President Trump's former Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows. [...] With this request, the Commission added Meadows to the never-ending list of individuals the Commission wants to investigate in its increasingly desperate attempt to preserve its flailing collusion narrative — namely, that senior White House officials and/or Trump-aligned members of congress were somehow complicit in the events of January 6. The ever-expanding list already includes Republican Reps. Matt Gaetz, Jim Jordan, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs, Paul Gosar, Mo Brooks, Louie Gohmert and many others. The commission, led by Bennie Thompson, a high-ranking Mississippi Democrat, has demonstrated no compunction over wielding its subpoena powers against hapless civilians with threadbare connections to January 6. What If the FBI Threw an Insurrection and Nobody Came? Saturday, Sept. 18 was the date for the "J6 Rally," organized by a political advocacy group called Look Ahead America. [...] Anyone with half a brain could see that this was another FBI entrapment scheme, to justify more arrests and more prisoners in solitary confinement awaiting trial for walking benignly through the U.S. Capitol. Social media was full of warnings to stay away from the trap. Even President Trump warned that it was "a setup." And as usual, Trump was right. The Daily Mail reported, "Protesters outnumbered by police... as just a handful of demonstrators turn up." One of only a few arrests was a comical scene of Feds, dressed like Star Wars storm troopers arresting one of their own, an undercover cop. The Big Scary January 6 Solidarity Protest Was Entirely Media Concocted. I hold no love for the people who were at the Capitol on January 6, and I know I've made that clear. But I also have repeatedly said the media and the Democrats are far too focused on that day because they have nothing of actual political substance to run on in 2022. Their legislative agenda is completely tanked. Their leader is a bumbling old man, shuffling off stage so he can't take questions. Their Vice President is nowhere to be seen. And one of the most visible legislators in their party screams about class inequity when she's not photographed and videoed in high-profile high society events. In the run-up to Saturday's non-event, the national press gave the demonstrators with threatening auras so much coverage you would think al Qaeda was planning a civic demonstration. Law enforcement didn't help, either, with a planned massive presence, a fence, and undercover agents preparing to infiltrate the crowd. Protesters Call for Due Process for Capitol Attack Detainees. Despite reports of potential violence and beefed up security, including the National Guard and fencing, Saturday's "Justice for J6" rally attracted a few hundred demonstrators and ended without major incidence. Photos and video taken around the Capitol show media and police, many heavily armed and in riot gear, vastly outnumbered protesters, who were gathered in support of defendants detained in connection with the January 6 Capitol attack. Family of January 6 Protesters Claim Deplorable D.C. Jail Conditions. Family members of January 6 protesters who are or have been incarcerated at the Washington, DC, jail shared disturbing accounts of alleged mistreatment by authorities during Saturday's "Justice for J6" rally. "Last night for dinner, they were served four pieces of white bread, a cookie, and a packet of tartar sauce," claimed a woman who went by "Kelly." Kelly is reportedly the girlfriend of Jonathan Mellis, who was among the protesters who entered the Capitol building on January 6. She claimed Mellis, who has been in jail for months, is being held in solitary confinement. "I think America needs to become very well versed in the treatment of these men. It's human rights that we are talking about, and it's completely non-partisan," she said, speaking to a crowd of a few hundred people. Cops and protesters gather at US Capitol for 'Justice for J6' rally. A massive police response [...] mobilized outside a fenced-off US Capitol Saturday as right-wing protesters denounced what they called the "inhumane treatment" of dozens of Jan. 6 rioters who remain jailed while awaiting trials. Fewer than 500 people, many of them journalists, gathered at the "Justice for J6" rally on the grassy expanse of Union Square, near the reflecting pool. Rally organizer Matt Braynard, of the group Look Ahead America, made light of the huge show of force. Justice for J6 protesters outnumbered by media cameras, police. A "highly anticipated" #JusticeForJ6 rally Saturday at the U.S. Capitol on behalf of the Jan. 6th rioters reportedly turned up more "journalists" than actual rallygoers, despite weeks of "wall-to-wall fear porn" by the mainstream establishment press. Following the protest's conclusion, U.S. Capitol Police reported on Twitter that "approximately 400 to 450" people wound up attending. [Tweet] But of the "400 to 450," only a relative few were actual rallygoers: "[R]ally attendees were vastly outnumbered by police, media, a few dozen counterprotesters, and curious onlookers," BuzzFeed News confirmed. The Photo That Sums Up the 'Far-Right' Rally That Terrified DC and Liberal America. Did anyone really show up for that super scary far-right rally on Saturday? The "Justice for J6" rally was supposed to be 'insurrection part II: endgame.' The barricades were set up again around the US Capitol. The police were everywhere; they were decked out in full-blown riot gear. They were prepared this time. They were prepared... for the media? Yeah, typical elite media whiff here. There were more media members than actual protesters. The threat was exaggerated. The liberal media may not know this yet, but even prior to January 6 — the far right in America is... not big. There are probably more people watching a WNBA game than there are members of the far-right that the liberal media thinks are on the cusp of taking over everything in America. At any rate, the rally was a dud. Overzealous DC Stormtroopers Accidentally Target Undercover Fed Dressed Like Antifa Then Had to Pretend Like They Were Arresting Him. Today, the feds planted undercover operatives all over the DC mall in an effort to manipulate the crowd and set-up another "insurrection narrative." However, in a hilarious turn of events no one showed up to play. As a result, there were more media looking for stories than actual protestors, and the DC riot police looked like knuckleheads on a scavenger hunt for Easter eggs. Dummies. Amid the over-the-top nonsense, the DC police did notice a suspicious man dressed in Antifa garb wearing a concealed firearm. However, when they moved in to question him, the doofus had to admit he was an undercover federal agent and showed his badge. That's when things really got funny because the cops, now with a case of the sads, had to pretend like they were arresting him in order to retain appearances. Today's "Justice for J6" rally consisted mostly of reporters, cops & FBI agents. [Thread reader] But in the last few days, the corporate press fearmongered constantly about it. Will they follow up now that it, unsurprisingly, amounted to nothing? Perhaps the worst of it came from CNN, who pushed nonsense for days leading up to the event. "Renewed fears of political violence grip Capitol Hill" actually turned into "more press than protestors." Will CNN tell that story now? A Hinge Moment of History. This first year of the new weirdness ended with the United States government pretending that its principal threat is a domestic terrorism movement that does not exist. This is the characterization of the so-called insurrection on January 6th. We were told two weeks later that there were going to be mass insurrections, not only in Washington but in every state capital. Montpelier, Vermont, for example, the smallest state capital in the Union, went into lockdown. There was no such insurrection at any of these state capitals. Then they said, "No, there is going to be an insurrection on March 4th," because that was Benjamin Harrison's Inauguration Day back in the old days and people apparently attach such great significance to that, that there was going to be a mass insurrection. There was no such thing on March 4th. [...] We used to be told back after 9/11, there was a cliché after 9/11, "If we don't maintain our normal life, if we don't carry on shopping, if we don't carry on going to sports features, then the terrorists will have won!" Now, it is the complete opposite with this new alleged domestic terrorism movement, and everything we do has to be changed. We have to have a permanently armed capital city in Washington. Because of this so-called domestic terrorism movement, we have to have a border wall around the US Capitol. We are living in a blizzard of lies. Is the Republic dead? Can it be saved? People who wield absolute power can never relax for a moment while the possibility of another Spartacus lurks beneath the surface. The Second Amendment is the loose end that, momentarily, has introduced uncertainty among the schemers, for whom certainty is the ultimate goal — the certainty bequeathed by permanent, absolute power. What most discomfits those in authority is that the very purpose of the Second Amendment, is to enable the common man to overthrow them when they abuse their power — and abuse it they have. The fear of this is real. It is why so many of those arrested on January 6, 2021, are being held in solitary confinement, denied access to their lawyers or the press, and subjected to cruel punishment. Armed Person Detained at J6 Rally is Undercover Agent, Pulls Out Badge. There was a heavy police presence at the US Capitol on Saturday in anticipation of a rally in support of the January 6 political prisoners. Demonstrators will show support for the January 6 political prisoners on Saturday [9/18/2021]. Hundreds of non-violent Trump supporters are currently in jail awaiting trial for walking through the Capitol on January 6. But it was all a set up. There were more police, reporters and undercover intelligence agents than protesters in Washington DC. The only armed person arrested on Saturday was an undercover agent. While the Rally for January 6 prisoners was a bust, it still mattered a lot. On Saturday, there was a rally in D.C. to bring attention to the plight of those people arrested on January 6 and still held in solitary confinement in D.C. jails. President Trump warned people in advance that the rally was a no-win situation and he was right. It was poorly attended and it seems that many of those who did appear — perhaps intending to act as provocateurs — were law enforcement agents trying to "blend in with the crowd." Most importantly, though, this failed rally revealed that non-leftists in America are losing their First Amendment right to protest. Eight Months After January 6, Prosecutors Make Aggressive Maneuvers As [a] Defendant Attempts Suicide [and] Another [is] Beaten In Jail. Some sixty people are still behind bars eight months after the January 6 disturbance at the U.S. Capitol. A Daily Wire review of court records shows unusually aggressive prosecutorial maneuvers, which sometimes brought rebukes by judges. For example, Jose Padilla has been detained since February. "Padilla is 40 years old and has lived in Tennessee for most of his life. He previously served in the U.S. Army during the Iraq War. After he returned home, he was diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder ('PTSD') and began receiving disability benefits. Prior to his arrest, he was a stay-at-home dad who managed his family's household affairs and cared for his three sons during the day while his wife worked as a librarian. He has no criminal history or history of substance abuse. He also has no known ties to extremist groups," Judge John D. Bates summarized. Prosecutors argued that his being a stay-at-home dad and veteran were reasons to hold him in jail. Trump Warns Supporters to Stay Away From 'J6' Protest in DC: 'It's A Setup'. Former President Donald Trump warned supporters to avoid going to the "Justice for J6" rally to be held Saturday [9/18/2021] in Washington, D.C., claiming that it is essentially a no-win situation for them and Republicans in general. "On Saturday, that's a setup," Trump said, referring to the rally in an interview with The Federalist. "If people don't show up they'll say, 'Oh, it's a lack of spirit.' And if people do show up they'll be harassed," the 45th president added. In Exclusive Interview, Trump Calls Sept. 18 Rally A 'Setup,' Says GOP Senate Should Fire 'Disaster' McConnell. In an exclusive interview with The Federalist on Thursday, former President Donald Trump called for Senate Republicans to fire Mitch McConnell and elect a new leader, unloaded on "radicalized" left-wing Democrats, blasted former President George W. Bush as "one of the worst presidents ever," and criticized current President Joe Biden's "grossly incompetent" handling of America's withdrawal from Afghanistan. Trump also called the planned Sept. 18 rally at the U.S. Capitol a "setup" and said media would use it as an excuse to bash Republicans regardless of its outcome. "Afghanistan is one of the worst things I think I've ever seen for our country," Trump said. "To lose the young people [killed in the bomb blast] is so horrible. It's a horrible situation." Law enforcement ramped up for Sept. 18 'Justice for J6' Capitol rally. Law enforcement officials have ramped up security measures in the days leading up to Saturday's [9/18/2021] "Justice for J6" rally at the Capitol, taking strides to prevent similar instances of violence that were seen during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, when pro-Trump protesters stormed the building in an attempt to disrupt the certification of the 2020 election results. The Department of Homeland Security and the Capitol Police recently issued warnings of online threats of violence related to the event in support of rioters that remain in prison for their involvement in the attack at the Capitol. Former Trump campaign staffer Matt Braynard — the organizer of the event, who has labeled the incarcerated individuals as "political prisoners" — stated he believes roughly 700 individuals will attend. Donald Trump Releases Statement in Solidarity with January 6 'Political Prisoners'. Former President Donald Trump has released a statement in solidarity with those being detained without speedy trial in connection with the January 6 riot. ["]Our hearts and minds are with the people being persecuted so unfairly relating to the January 6th protest concerning the Rigged Presidential Election," Trump said in his statement. What did Trump do during Capitol riots? Jan. 6 committee telecom requests aim to recreate minute-by-minute account. Requests sent to telecom and social media companies, and to federal agencies, from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol reveal pieces of the puzzle that lawmakers hope to assemble for a minute-by-minute picture of what happened that day. The goal is to fill in gaps that remain missing, despite all the video and court records that have been released so far. Questions remain about how rioters coordinated their attack to occupy the historic Capitol. Federal Judge: Capitol Hill Rioters' Charges Might Be Unconstitutional. There's going to be a rally in Washington DC this weekend. It's why the fencing is going back up around the US Capitol Building. There have been over 400 arrests stemming from the January 6 riot that has incorrectly been dubbed an armed insurrection. It was not worse than 9/11. It was not worse than Pearl Harbor and it sure wasn't as bad as the Civil War. That's the narrative in newsrooms. Everyone else has moved [...] on with their lives. NO ONE cares. MSNBC and CNN don't count. It was not our nation's best day. It was dark for sure — but it was a riot. Nothing more. And at the end of the day, what occurred were many instances of trespassing on federal property. Only one person died inside the building. Her name was Ashli Babbitt, and she was killed by Capitol Police. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who the liberal media erroneously said was killed by the rioters, died of natural causes. And what [...] happened to the guy who planted pipe bombs at the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic Parties? FL Dem hysterically claims Jan 6 was FAR worse than 3,000 dead on 9/11. Former Florida Democrat congressional candidate Pam Keith outrageously claimed that 9/11 was not the worst attack to ever hit the United States in her lifetime, it was the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. "On 1/6/2021, 9/11/2001 ceased being the worst thing that happened to America in my lifetime. It's really weird and painful to process and say that. But it's the truth. And quite frankly... it's not even close," the current executive director of Fight 4 Florida's Future tweeted on the 20th anniversary of 9/11. "Today makes 20 years since one of the most impactful events of my life. I was in DC, completely freaked out, in a daze of horror & rage. Little did I know that the damage of that day would pale SO MUCH in comparison to the ongoing horror visited upon our nation on 11/8/2016," she also tweeted concerning the election of former President Trump. MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart calls Trump supporters 'more worrisome' than the Taliban or ISIS. On the eve of the 20th anniversary of 9/11, MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart announced that he believed that Trump supporters are more of a threat than the Taliban or ISIS. Capehart called out 'MAGA and the domestic threat', which he said was far 'more worrisome than any foreign threat', during an appearance at PBS NewsHour on Friday [9/10/2021]. The Washington Post columnist and news host went on to describe the last several years as 'one giant step forward, and then two giant steps back.' Left-wing ideologues on 20th anniversary of 9/11: The Capitol riot was worse. Give it a rest, just for one day. Saturday marked the 20th anniversary of the day Islamic terrorists brutally murdered nearly 3,000 Americans, some of whom were crushed by the collapsing World Trade Center towers while others fell to their deaths or were burned alive. It was a somber occasion, leaving many as angry as they were sad. However, not everyone treated the anniversary with the gravity it deserved. Indeed, rather than pause their partisan activism for even 24 hours to mourn the dead, or at least allow the victims of the attacks to grieve in peace, certain left-wing activists continued this weekend to attack their conservative neighbors. Some even saw the 20th anniversary as a perfect opportunity to draw a straight line between the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and 9/11. Also posted under Emotional outbursts displace reasonable thought. Capitol riot worse for America than 9/11, says failed Florida Democratic congressional candidate. Pam Keith, a former Democratic candidate for Congress, reflected on the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks by saying the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol has replaced it as the worst day in recent U.S. history. "On 1/6/2021," Ms. Keith posted Saturday on the social media service Twitter, "9/11/2001 ceased being the worst thing that happened to America in my lifetime." Ms. Keith, 51, added that it felt "really weird and painful to process and say that" before concluding: "But it's the truth. And quite frankly... it's not even close." Judges question constitutionality of felony charge against Jan. 6 defendants. If Code Pink demonstrators start screaming during a congressional hearing, should they be charged with a felony and sentenced to 20 years in prison? They have not been, and as much as I dislike Code Pink, they should not be. Thirty days in the hole seems like a sufficient sentence. But the federal statute that criminalizes "obstructing an official proceeding" of Congress makes such obstruction a felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison. And according to the Washington Post, federal prosecutors are applying that statute to the protesters — at least 235 of them — who entered the Capitol in January of this year. A few judges have noticed the disconnect. U.S. District Judge Amit P. Mehta recently asked how federal prosecutors distinguish felony conduct qualifying as "obstructing an official proceeding" of Congress from misdemeanor offenses the government has brought against those who interrupt congressional hearings. RealClearInvestigations' Jan. 6-BLM Side-by-Side Comparison. Many in the political and media establishment consider the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot to be one of America's darkest episodes. Others say the nationwide protests last summer over George Floyd's murder were worse. With polling indicating Americans see two sides to the story — and major media dwelling on only one — RealClearInvestigations has developed the database below allowing readers to draw their own conclusions. GOP congressman pledges to use subpoenas with 'fairness' against Democrats investigating Capitol riots. Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona, one of the most conservative Republicans in Congress, said his party will in the future use the same investigative and subpoena powers that Democrats are using for the Jan. 6 committee, but will do so with fairness and transparency. Biggs, the chairman of the right-wing Freedom Caucus, said holding Democrats who have "engaged in inappropriate conduct" accountable through investigations and subpoenas will be a top priority for Republicans if they take back the House in 2022. One of former President Donald Trump's strongest allies, Biggs said that the GOP would use due process in getting back at Democrats who are treating Republicans unfairly in the investigation of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. "I think we would follow the law and be very transparent. We'd give them, the respective individuals, an opportunity to turn over records, those types of things," Biggs told the Washington Examiner. Fitton: Pelosi's Capitol Police is the most secretive force in America. [Video clip] [The] Capitol Fence [is] Going Up Again Before [a] Rally for Jailed January 6 Protesters. Police are reportedly planning to reinstall the fence that surrounded the U.S. Capitol for months after the January 6 protest in response to a rally on September 18 demanding "justice" for jailed Capitol protesters. According to the Associated Press, which cited an anonymous source, a security plan "is being finalized" to put fencing outside the inner perimeter of the Capitol building and the Supreme Court. "The fence had been a stark symbol of the fear many in the Capitol felt after the mob pushed its way past overwhelmed police officers, broke through windows and doors and ransacked the Capitol as Congress was voting to certify Joe Biden's electoral win," according to the report, which repeatedly called the January 6 protest an "insurrection," despite contradictory FBI evidence. FBI Releases New Video That Sheds Light on One of the Biggest Mysteries of Jan. 6. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is now finally acting like it has a vested interested in finding the mysterious suspect who allegedly planted pipe bombs at the Democratic National Committee and Republican National Committee headquarters at the nation's capitol ahead of the January 6 riots. On Wednesday [9/8/2021], the FBI released new CCTV video of the suspected bomber. NBC News featured the video in a report. [...] "They say they don't know who this person was and that's why they keep releasing these videos, hoping that somebody will see something that will strike them familiar and they'll call in a tip," NBC News justice correspondent Pete Williams said. [...] The fascinating thing about the RNC and DNC pipe bomb attempts is the FBI's seeming lack of interest in actually apprehending whomever staged them. The FBI sat on this video of the suspect for months before finally releasing it on Wednesday. CNN Host, PBS Star Agree 1/6 Is As Big as the Civil War, World War 2. As we have all learned from Joe Biden's presidency, the phoniest/baloney-est claim from liberals is that they have a deep desire for national unity. There is no unity in compromise, only in surrender to the Left. At the end of Sunday's [9/5/2021] Reliable Sources, fill-in host John Avlon interviewed the PBS gasbag Ken Burns, asking him about national unity, and he's as phony as Biden. This is CNN, so Avlon demands unity in exaggerating the January 6 riot: [Video clip] [...] How does anyone compare the January 6 riot to World War II or the Civil War? It's like comparing Hiroshima to the Portland riots. Liberals love to pose that they are against "partisan echo chambers." They actually say this with a straight face on CNN... and on PBS. Registered
Democrat Caught Storming US Capitol, Attacking Police Pleads with Court for Light Sentence Because He Is Not Trump
Supporter. Robert Maurice Reeder was arrested after he was caught inside the US Capitol on January 6th.
Robert Maurice Reeder: Biden and the Left-wing Standard of Attacking Presidents. [Scroll down] Trump's second impeachment was even flimsier. He was accused of "incitement of insurrection" concerning disturbances on January 6 that supposedly led to the violent death of Officer Brian Sicknick, the fatal shooting of an unarmed Ashli Babbitt, and the entire fable of an "armed insurrection." Post-impeachment, we would learn that Sicknick died of natural causes. Strangely, for months no information about the shooter of Ashli Babbitt or the inquiry into that fatal act was ever fully released to the public. No one was charged with armed insurrection, largely because none of the buffoonish rioters were found either to have carried or used a firearm that day or were exposed as master plotters with plans to destroy the U.S. government. They may well have been guilty of felonies, but armed insurrectionary conspiracy was not one of them. Here's What to Do if the FBI's 'Sedition Hunters' Show Up at Your Door. There have been multiple reports that the FBI is showing up on the doorsteps of Republican voters in order to hunt down "extremists." The AP reported that the FBI is using citizen snitch groups to hunt down January 6 protest participants. [...] Never mind that people who were at the January 6 event who did not engage in any violence and are guilty of nothing more than trespassing are facing major jail time. One is comedian and political commentator Tim Gionet, aka "Baked Alaska." Gionet live-streamed his walk through the Capitol and interviewed many of the protesters there. He did not appear to engage in any violence but he is facing twenty years in federal prison. Gionet sat down for an interview with Milo Yiannopoulos on YouTube — which is now unavailable because YouTube deleted Milo's account last week. Gionet shared the brutal treatment he received at the hands of the FBI, including threats to lock him up for twenty years if he did not give up the identities of some of the people in the Capitol with him. Hunt for Capitol attackers still on 6 months after Jan. 6. The first waves of arrests in the deadly siege at the U.S. Capitol focused on the easy targets. Dozens in the pro-Trump mob openly bragged about their actions on Jan. 6 on social media and were captured in shocking footage broadcast live by national news outlets. But six months after the insurrection, the Justice Department is still hunting for scores of rioters, even as the first of more than 500 people already arrested have pleaded guilty. The struggle reflects the massive scale of the investigation and the grueling work still ahead for authorities in the face of an increasing effort by some Republican lawmakers to rewrite what happened that day. Democrats promote Republican Liz Cheney to vice chair of the January 6 committee. House Democrats leading the investigation into the January 6th riot on Capitol Hill named Republican Rep. Liz Cheney the vice chair of their panel, elevating her profile when she's under attack from members of her own party. The announcement of Cheney's new position came as the conservative House Freedom Caucus tries to remove Cheney and Rep. Adam Kinzinger from the Republican Party for their roles on the January 6th select committee, calling them 'spies' for the Democrats. Cheney and Kinzinger have been vocal critics of Donald Trump's lies that he won the 2020 election. Both were among the 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Trump over his role inciting the mob that attacked the Capitol (Trump was acquitted by the Senate). Democrats' Jan. 6 subpoena-palooza sets dangerous precedent. "We have quite an exhaustive list of people. I won't tell you who they are." With those words, House Select Committee Chair Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) confirmed that a subpoena storm was about to be unleashed in the investigation of the Jan. 6 riot in Congress. The targets would include Republican members, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), who have already been told to preserve their phone records to be surrendered to the committee. The Democrats are reportedly trying to prove their prior claims that Republicans conspired or assisted "insurrectionists," even though the FBI reportedly found no evidence of a planned insurrection. The Democrats' move to investigate members of the opposing party is a dangerous precedent in an institution that has always protected the privacy and confidentiality of phone and office records. 17 Defendants From Jan. 6 Breach Now 'Effectively Without Counsel': DOJ. The Justice Department notified judges Monday that at least 17 defendants from the January 6 Capitol Breach are now "effectively without counsel," citing the absence of high-profile lawyer John Pierce, who says he's sick with Covid-19. Instead of Pierce showing up to court, he's tapped an associate, Ryan Marshall, who is notably not a licensed attorney and facing two felony charges. "The Department of Justice (DOJ) says in a new filing it appears (John Pierce's) 17 #CapitolRiot defendants are 'effectively without counsel,' and notes Ryan Marshall, who has been appearing in Pierce's place, is not a licensed attorney," reported WUSA9 investigative reporter Jordan Fischer on Monday [8/30/2021]. According to the WUSA9 report, Pierce has been "out of contact" and "missed multiple court hearings" since August 23. Why Did Michael Byrd Fire Just A Single Shot? Now, I am sure there are counterexamples of a police officer needing just a single bullet to clear the area or subdue an immediate danger. I haven't seen one, though, or come across a scenario that reached the national news cycle. That is, until Michael Byrd defended both elected officials and democracy itself when he fired a single, fatal round into Ashli Babbit. In the course of firing a single shot, he never exhibits the need to fire again at Babbit or the other insurrectionists in the area. [...] I am trying to understand his thought process: With a single shot, somehow the entire marauding band would be defeated? What if his shot had only injured or slowed down, Babbitt? If he felt the need to shoot, shouldn't he have been shooting until he confirmed the entire threat was eliminated? To those that would reply that Byrd watched his victim fall back and thus eliminating the immediate threat, I would only ask why that specific entry way was the deciding line. Not the outer barricades? Not the Rotuna? Not previous hallways? What about that particular moment demanded deadly force? Even behind the door, we can clearly see other doors that could just as well become a new line. Jonathan Turley: Statements By Capitol Police Officer Who Killed Ashli Babbitt 'Demolish the Two Official Reviews That Cleared Him'. Numerous aspects of what unfolded during the Capitol riot have been hotly debated in the months since it happened, but few have been as contentious and emotional as the debate over the officer-involved shooting death of Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt. The 35-year-old Air Force veteran was shot and killed by Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd on January 6th after she tried to climb through a glass-paneled door after parts of it had been shattered by another rioter, identified as Zachary Jordan Alam. Babbitt, who reportedly had been standing next to Alam, was shot. In April, the Biden Department of Justice announced they had closed the investigation into the fatal shooting and would not be pursuing criminal charges against Byrd, citing "insufficient evidence to support a criminal prosecution." [...] On the heels of the USCP exonerating Byrd, he did an interview with NBC News anchor Lester Holt, identifying himself publicly for the first time. Instead of clearing things up, the interview only intensified the debate over his actions and whether they were justified. Democrats on January 6 committee demand phone records of all Trump family members and Republican lawmakers who attended the January 6 'Stop the Steal' rally. Democrats on the House Select Committee investigating the Capitol riot are planning to request that telecommunications companies preserve the phone records of Trump family members and Trump-aligned lawmakers who attended the 'Stop the Steal' rally on Jan. 6, it was revealed on Monday [8/30/2021]. The records request could determine who the committee plans to call forth as a witness. It's not clear how the committee plans to ensure compliance from telecommunications companies with its request. The committee does have subpoena power but obtaining the records of members of Congress could set off contentious legal battles. Bad Words and Desperation: Democrats Flail to Keep January 6 Relevant. As Joe Biden fubars his way through the Afghanistan evacuation, mumbling through press briefings like a drunken stroke victim, leftists are trying ever more desperately to steer America's attention to something other than Biden wetting himself at the presidential podium. Invariably, that "something else" is January 6. Pelosi found a BLM-loving Capitol cop who was willing to testify about January 6 and squirt tears when recalling how Trumpsters "called him racists names." A few weeks later, bootlicker Lester Holt gave a softball interview to Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd, who vaingloriously claimed he "saved countless lives" when he fired his gun through a barricaded door and killed an unarmed mom, Ashli Babbitt. Byrd's compadres at the Capitol Police Dept. exonerated him, twice. In Holt's fawning interview, Byrd also turns on the waterworks and, with Holt's prodding, claims he was called "racist names" by people in the aftermath of Babbitt's death. So why did the Capitol Hill cop come out? After months of supposed hiding, the Capitol Hill cop who shot unarmed pro-Trump protestor Ashli Babbitt at the Capitol, Lt. Michael Byrd has come out of the woodwork to talk about his shooting, in a softball interview with NBC's Lester Holt. Which is weird stuff, given that for months his identity had been concealed, by investigators, Congress, and other supposed watchdogs, on the grounds that revealing it to angry Trump supporters was too dangerous, and whose investigative conclusions excused him from accountability. Now he's come out — telling Lester Holt of his great heroics. He doesn't even need to, having been exonerated repeatedly. The most likely reason is this lawsuit, and these efforts by Babbitt's family to get answers: ["]Babbitt's family is suing for the identity of the officer to be publicly released but so far that effort has not borne fruit. They are also filing a $10 million wrongful death lawsuit, claiming the officer didn't issue a verbal command according to the Washington Examiner.["] Nancy Pelosi, Bennie Thompson and J6 Committee Start Fishing Expedition — Seeking All Communication From Political Opposition. Anyone who has followed politics for any amount of time knows the Nancy Pelosi "January 6th Committee" is an opposition research effort under the guise of a House investigation. The goal is to frame an extremist narrative favorable for the Democrats in the 2022 mid-term election. That is the entire goal. What the Mueller probe was to President Trump, the J6 Committee is to the MAGA movement. Everyone [...] in Washington DC knew Robert Mueller was appointed as special counsel for one reason, to target President Trump, weaken his administration and ultimately remove him from office. Not a single entity in DC did not know that was the goal. The same is true here. Everyone in DC knows Nancy Pelosi's J6 committee is intended to target Democrat political opposition. That is the goal. That is ONLY the goal. Not a single entity in DC does not know that is the goal. Officer who shot Ashli Babbitt says he was 'prepared to do the same thing' to protect Trump. The Capitol Police officer who shot and killed Ashli Babbitt on Jan. 6 defended himself against criticism from former President Donald Trump and others who claim he should not have used lethal force on the 35-year-old Air Force veteran. In his first public interview since the Capitol riot, Lt. Michael Byrd said it was "disheartening" that Trump, in particular, said Babbitt was "murdered," adding he would take the same actions if he was in charge of protecting the former president. Capitol Hill Cop Who Murder Ashli Babbitt Claims He Saved Countless Lives By Bravely Killing An Unarmed Veteran. Lt. Mike Byrd, the man who shot a clearly unarmed Ashli Babbitt at point-blank, did an interview with NBC's Lester Holt, who treated Byrd as if he thwarted a civil war. "I know that day I saved countless lives. I know members of Congress as well as my fellow officers and staff were in jeopardy and in serious danger. That's my job." "I believe I showed the utmost courage on Jan. 6, and it's time for me to do that now[.]" [Video clip] Pelosi's Jan 6 committee makes [a] blacklist of conservative media figures. Nancy Pelosi tried to impeach Trump over the Capitol riot, but failed when the Senate wouldn't take up the charge. Now Pelosi's Jan 6 committee is creating a blacklist of high-profile Trump supporters, many of whom are reporters, and are requesting their communications with the Trump administration. It was reported by Politico's Kyle Cheney that "Among the voluminous requests, the committee is seeking 9 months worth of contact between the Trump WH and this group of outsiders," he listed off a few names. The list, however, is not short. In a letter to the National Archives and Records Administration, the officially titled Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol "expedite" this request for "all documents and communications concerning the 2020 election and relating to the following individuals" from April 1, 2020, through January 20, 2021. The leader of the Proud Boys is on that list, Trump's children, and dozens of other names and document requests. Ashli Babbitt's widower reveals he gets ten death threats a day. Ashli Babbitt's widower says the Capitol police officer who fatally shot his wife during the January 6 riot should 'suck it up' after the cop's tearful interview where he said he's been receiving death threats. Aaron Babbitt told of his outrage at Lieutenant Michael Byrd's interview with NBC News on Thursday, hours after he was unmasked as Ashli's killer. Aaron said: 'I don't even want to hear him talk about how he's getting death threats, and he's scared. I've been getting death threats since January 7th — two, three, five, 10 a day — and all I did on January 6th is becoming a widower,' he told Carlson. Ashli Babbitt's Husband Appears on Tucker Carlson to Respond to MSNBC Interview With Her Killer. Ashli Babbitt's husband Aaron appeared on Tucker Carlson Tonight on Thursday [8/26/2021] and responded to the MSNBC interview with his wife's killer. Lt. Michael Byrd broke his silence and confirmed his identity with an on-camera interview with MSNBC earlier in the evening. The Capitol Police previously refused to confirm the shooter's name, even though it was reported all over the right-wing media, including by the Gateway Pundit. During his MSNBC appearance, Byrd said that he saved "countless lives" by killing Babbitt, who was unarmed. He also complained that he has been getting death threats since killing the Air Force veteran. Donald Trump Refuses to Comply with Jan. 6 Committee Demand to Reveal Presidential Secret Communications. Donald Trump will not comply. That is the former president's message to sweeping demands from the partisan Jan. 6 committee for privileged White House communications with his staff members and media contacts prior to the Jan. 6 events. "Executive privilege will be defended, not just on behalf of my Administration and the Patriots who worked beside me, but on behalf of the Office of the President of the United States and the future of our Nation," Trump said in a statement. The 45th president also has choice words for the Pelosi-led effort to publicly reveal his presidential and personal communications, which have long been considered legally protected under executive privilege. "The Leftist 'select committee' has further exposed itself as a partisan sham and waste of taxpayer dollars with a request that's timed to distract Americans from historic and global catastrophes brought on by the failures of Joe Biden and the Democrats," Trump also said in the statement. "Unfortunately, this partisan exercise is being performed at the expense of long-standing legal principles of privilege." Seven US Capitol Police officers sue former President Trump, Stop the Steal organizers over January 6 riot. Seven US Capitol Police officers are suing former President Donald Trump, Stop the Steal rally organizers and members of far-right extremist groups, accusing them of spreading lies, using White supremacist sentiments to attempt to overthrow the 2020 election, and ultimately bearing responsibility for the riot that injured more than 140 officers on January 6. "Plaintiffs and their fellow law enforcement officers risked their lives to defend the Capitol from a violent, mass attack — an attack provoked, aided, and joined by Defendants in an unlawful effort to use force, intimidation, and threats to prevent Congress from certifying the results of the 2020 Presidential election," says the lawsuit, which was filed Thursday in US District Court for the District of Columbia. Capitol cop who shot and killed Ashli Babbitt on January 6 WILL reveal his identity for the first time during interview with NBC's Lester Holt tomorrow night. The police officer who shot dead Ashli Babbitt during the Capitol riot will reveal his identity on Thursday when he sits down for a television interview to explain how the tragic events unfolded. Babbitt, 35, was the only person killed during the insurrection when the officer opened fire as a MAGA mob stormed through the Rotunda. 'Speaking out and revealing his identity publicly for the first time, the officer will share his perspective on the events of that day, including the aftermath of the deadly insurrection and the threats he has received,' said NBC News in a statement announcing that he would be interviewed by Lester Holt. The FBI Comes Up Empty-Handed in its Search for an Insurrection. For politicians, labeling controversies is often more important than addressing them. [...] The same is true with labeling political violence. When protests by Black Lives Matter and other groups turned violent last summer, the media was expressly told not to refer to "rioters" but rather "protesters." Riots causing massive property damage were described by CNN as "fiery but mostly peaceful protests." Conversely, the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol could not be just a riot, let alone a "fiery" protest, but only an "insurrection." Many in the media continue to awkwardly refer to "the insurrectionists" rather than the rioters. National Public Radio even ran a running account of the "Capitol Insurrection." The term was further driven home by House Democrats by impeaching President Trump for "incitement to insurrection" despite undermining any chance for an actual conviction. Members of Congress like Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) are still in federal court claiming a conspiracy of "armed and organized insurrectionists." The characterization of the attack as an insurrection served a myriad of political and personal purposes. First, it painted anyone associated with challenging the 2020 election results as supporting sedition and the country's overthrow. Second, if this was a protest allowed to turn into an uncontrolled riot, there would be more questions about the failure to properly protect the Capitol. Jan. 6 commission chair seeks texts, phone data from GOP members, Trump associates despite FBI findings. The Democratic chairman of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's select committee to probe the origins of the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol Building said Monday [8/23/2021] he will seek text messages and phone records from some Republican colleagues as well as associates of former President Donald Trump as part of the investigation. While he declined to identify the GOP lawmakers whose records he is seeking, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) said the panel is contacting technology and communications companies along with social media platforms and other sources for records from the day of the breach. "We have quite an exhaustive list of people. I won't tell you who they are, but it's several hundred people that make up the list of people we are planning to contact," he said after being asked if family members of the former president were included. Also posted under Anything you have ever said can be used against you.. Ashli Babbitt's family releases scathing statement: A 'secret' internal investigation 'proves nothing'. An attorney representing the family of slain unarmed Jan. 6 protester Ashli Babbitt lashed out at the Capitol Police on Monday after officially clearing the officer who shot her of any wrongdoing. The department concluded that shooting Babbitt, 35, who was trying to climb through the broken window of a door that leads into an anteroom near the House chamber, was justified because the officer acted within protocols and policy, thereby avoiding any disciplinary proceedings or criminal charges. In making the announcement, Capitol Police officials said investigators had conducted a months-long probe and had talked with several witnesses, while also reviewing video feeds and radio calls. Capitol Police officer exonerated in Ashli Babbitt shooting on Jan. 6. The United States Capitol Police Office of Professional Responsibility has cleared the officer involved in the shooting of Ashli Babbitt, U.S. Capitol Police announced in a press release on Monday [8/23/2021], saying that officer "will not be facing internal discipline." An internal investigation found the actions of the officer were "lawful and within Department policy," it said. The Editor says... Proud Boys leader sentenced to five months behind bars in DC jail. Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio is sentenced to approximately five months in jail after authorities apprehended him earlier this year amidst the fallout of the 2020 election. Days before the Capitol Hill riot, Tarrio was arrested in Washington over charges of property destruction, which came about from an earlier incident. It was then the cops found the magazines on him. Then on Dec. 12, the Proud Boys gathered in DC to protest the election results. It was then Tarrio burned a Black Lives Matter banner belonging to Asbury United Methodist Church. When it came to the high-capacity magazines, Tarrio told the court he was selling the items to a customer "who was [...] traveling to DC on Jan 6." Taliban Under The Bed. After the fall on Kabul, our elitists raced to Twitter and other forums to equate the Taliban to conservatives and Republicans in the U.S. What kind of country are we becoming, in which a significant part of it cannot, or will not, distinguish the difference between terrorism and political differences? [...] Much of the effort to link America's political right to the Taliban is nothing more than pathetic virtue signaling. It's the screeching of attention-hungry media personalities and celebrities who desperately need to show the world they're on the right side of history, and are morally and intellectually superior than most of their fellow Americans. Unfortunately, what they say influences others. This happened three days ago: A Life Destroyed for 'Parading' at the Capitol. After Robert Reeder was arrested in February and charged with four misdemeanors for his involvement in the Capitol protest on January 6, he lost his job as a truck driver for FedEx. [...] Reeder, like many Americans who attended Donald Trump's speech then walked to Capitol Hill, went alone. He is a registered Democrat but supported some of Trump's policies. The Maryland resident decided to travel to Washington on the morning of January 6, a "spur of the moment" decision, according to his attorney. After suffering the effects of tear gas and sting balls launched by police officers outside the building — a reality the news media still refuses to cover — Reeder went inside the building to look for water to rinse his eyes. From all accounts, he was allowed into the building. While inside, Reeder marveled at the beauty of the Capitol and urged others "do not destroy anything." He asked police how he could get out of the building as the situation between law enforcement and protesters escalated. Owen Shroyer, Infowars host, charged with entering restricted area during Capitol riot. Infowars host Jonathon Owen Shroyer has been charged with misdemeanors related to the Jan. 6 breach of the U.S. Capitol after the FBI said it found video from the riot showing him inside a restricted area. The "War Room with Owen Shroyer" host was accused Friday of knowingly entering any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority and violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds. Federal prosecutors do not allege that Mr. Shroyer merely entered the Capitol on Jan. 6, but rather that he breached the building's grounds and made it to the top of the stairs on the east side of the complex. FBI Starts Cover Story to Cloud Their Involvement in January 6th Events — Now Claim No Evidence of Coordination For J6 Insurrection. The motive for the FBI to say there is "scant evidence" of any coordinated group activity in the January 6th Capitol Hill events is transparent. The FBI need to cloud their involvement, their coordination, their agents, their planted informants and the FBI direction in the events. Reuters is writing today that current and former FBI officials have reversed course and said there is scant evidence that any right-wing or extremist group coordinated any attack on Capitol Hill. Tucker Carlson sees coverup plot behind announcement FBI found little evidence of coordination among Jan. 6 demonstrators. Most conservative commentators have reacted with glee to a report from Reuters that: ["]The FBI has found scant evidence that the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was the result of an organized plot to overturn the presidential election result, according to four current and former law enforcement officials.["] [...] But Tucker Carlson, the most important conservative commentator of the moment, takes his reasoning a full step farther. In a segment of the Friday edition of Tucker Carlson Tonight, he asked, "Why is the FBI exonerating people?" After reviewing the months of the 180 degrees opposite narrative, put out by the FBI and broadcast by the progressive media, that an organized insurrection took place, he suggests a sinister motive behind the leaked story to Reuters. "If there was organization going on, some of it came from the feds." As has often been the case, the FBI placed informants, or perhaps agents provocateur is the better term, among the demonstrators. In fact, there are upwards of 20 unindicted co-conspirators from the January 6 incident, and a good number of these may have been ringleaders on the FBI payroll, escaping prosecution for acts that were worse than the crimes for which others have been prosecuted. FBI Destroys Insurrection Narrative: 'Scant Evidence' Capitol Riots was Coordinated. Sources told Reuters the FBI has not found much evidence that proves anyone coordinated the Capitol Hill riot: ["]Though federal officials have arrested more than 570 alleged participants, the FBI at this point believes the violence was not centrally coordinated by far-right groups or prominent supporters of then-President Donald Trump, according to the sources, who have been either directly involved in or briefed regularly on the wide-ranging investigations.["] The FBI Finally Proves That Donald Trump Had Nothing to Do with Jan. 6 'Insurrection'. The Federal Bureau of Investigation did not set out to prove Donald Trump had nothing to do with the January 6 events that have been characterized as an "insurrection" and a "coup." But a new exclusive report from Reuters obliterates the essential claims that Donald Trump directed extremists to attack the Capitol building and urged protesters to thwart a peaceful transfer of power. "The FBI has found scant evidence that the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was the result of an organized plot to overturn the presidential election result, according to four current and former law enforcement officials," Reuters reported. "Though federal officials have arrested more than 570 alleged participants, the FBI at this point believes the violence was not centrally coordinated by far-right groups or prominent supporters of then-President Donald Trump, according to the sources, who have been either directly involved in or briefed regularly on the wide-ranging investigations," the report continued. FBI Finds Scant Evidence Of Any Coordination On Jan 6, Hardly The Insurrection The Media Wanted You to Believe. Corroboration from an FBI report on the Jan. 6 riots has concluded that the storming of the U.S. Capitol bore no relation to a political agenda devised by the GOP, or former President Trump. According to the investigation — exclusively released by Reuters — observing participants arrested at the Capitol on Jan. 6, collective information revealed that well over 90 percent of people stated no allegiance to a GOP-inspired objective during the rioting. "Ninety to ninety-five percent of these are one-off cases. Then you have five percent, maybe, of these militia groups that were more closely organized." The remaining few in this group were self-proclaimed political extremists, whose only concrete goal was to break into the Capitol — without a clue beyond this step. FBI finds Capitol storming wasn't organized by pro-Trump groups: Reuters. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has found that the January 6 storming of the United States Capitol was not organized by pro-Donald Trump groups as part of a plot to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, four current and former law enforcement officials said, according to Reuters on Friday [8/20/2021]. More than 570 alleged participants have been arrested since the demonstration, but the FBI believes they are almost all "one-off cases" and not due to a centrally coordinated "far-right" effort, nor are they the result of an organized push by then-President Donald Trump supporters. Cop who shot US Capitol rioter Ashli Babbitt cleared after internal probe. The cop who fatally shot US Capitol rioter Ashli Babbitt as she stormed the building was exonerated after an internal police investigation, according to a report Friday [8/20/2021]. "No further action will be taken" in the use-of-force probe of the United States Capitol Police officer, whose name has not been released, NBC reported, citing an internal memo from the department. The Capitol Police's report clearing him concludes the last remaining law enforcement investigation into the shooting, according to the outlet. Other details about the findings were not immediately available. The officer shot the 35-year-old Trump-boosting Air Force veteran in the head as she climbed through a broken door and into the Speaker's Lobby during the siege on Jan. 6. When the FBI has to release embarrassing information, they do it on a Friday afternoon. FBI Finally Admits there Is "Scant Evidence" US Capitol Attack Was Coordinated — The "Organized Plot" Talking Point Was a Massive Lie! It only took this corrupt organization seven months to finally report the truth. The FBI admitted this week there was "scant evidence" the US Capitol "attack" was coordinated. We knew this when it happened. The dirtbags at the FBI finally admitted this today. Chris Wray and James Comey DESTROYED the once-respected intelligence organization. Maybe someday an honest FBI agent will leak out the details on the informants and plants they had in the crowd that day? And, yet the FBI continues to arrest grandmas and actors who walked inside the US Capitol that day, many of whom were waved in by the police. So will the FBI ever admit that US Capitol Police killed two conservative women that day? FBI finds scant evidence U.S. Capitol attack was coordinated - sources. Though federal officials have arrested more than 570 alleged participants, the FBI at this point believes the violence was not centrally coordinated by far-right groups or prominent supporters of then-President Donald Trump, according to the sources, who have been either directly involved in or briefed regularly on the wide-ranging investigations. "Ninety to ninety-five percent of these are one-off cases," said a former senior law enforcement official with knowledge of the investigation. "Then you have five percent, maybe, of these militia groups that were more closely organized. But there was no grand scheme with Roger Stone and Alex Jones and all of these people to storm the Capitol and take hostages." FBI Investigation Just Blew Up the Dem Narrative about the Capitol Riot. [Scroll down] Just like the Russia collusion hoax, here's yet another lie that's blown up on them. The FBI investigators found that while some of the people might have wanted to break into the Capitol, there was "no evidence" that they had serious plans about what to do if they made it inside. This is why they didn't file any sedition charges. Oh. So the folks who argue that this was about overthrowing the government folks also get dealt a huge blow with this. So in essence, we are talking about what we've always been talking about here — a riot. BLM/Antifa rioted/attacked the Portland federal court house for more than 100 days, coming out with the same people. Yet their pictures aren't posted to be investigated on their own page, most weren't held and none of those leaders appears to have been identified or even pursued, despite the obvious organizing of it all over more than a year. Are We in a Revolution and Don't Even Know It? Two years ago, it would have been considered absurd that youth would ride bikes into drug stores and steal with impunity as security guards watched, or thieves could enter into Neiman-Marcus department stores and skip out with thousands of dollars of rich people's favorites. Over $2 billion in "stuff" was destroyed in 2020. And almost none of the violence was ever properly investigated, the perpetrators arrested, charged, tried, convicted, sentenced, or incarcerated. In such revolutionary times, no one knows any more what is and is not a crime. Illegally storming the border when positive for COVID-19? Destroying a public statue of George Washington or Thomas Jefferson? Looting a corporate chain store? Knocking out an Asian-American septuagenarian? Or turning over the tables of Jewish-Americans as they eat? Taking over municipal blocks and declaring the confiscation an autonomous zone? Not crimes. "Illegal parading" inside the U.S. Capitol building? Crime. 71-Year-Old Grandmother Visited By FBI Over Attending January Trump Rally. Coweta County School Board Member Linda Menk, a 71-year-old grandmother who lives in the rural community 40 miles southwest of Atlanta, says she was paid a visit by a pair of FBI agents for attending former President Donald Trump's now-infamous D.C. rally on Jan. 6. "It wasn't festive, but it was friendly," Menk said of the rally, telling The Federalist she remained on the outskirts of the crowd at Trump's White House speech, standing on the grounds of the Washington Monument to watch the jumbotron from afar. "That was kind of where we camped out so-to-speak," attending with a group she met in her hotel the night before since she got separated from those she drove from Georgia with. While The Left Was Busy Charging Conservatives As Radicals, Afghanistan Fell To Real Terrorists. Stephen Colbert implied to his viewers Monday night [8/16/2021] that the U.S. would be better off to focus its efforts on fighting the Americans associated with the January 6 Capitol riot than murderous, women-hating terrorists in the Middle East. "We've had troops there for 20 years. They fought, they sacrificed, their family sacrificed so that we wouldn't have a terrorist attack in America planned in a foreign country. Why should our soldiers be fighting radicals in a civil war in Afghanistan? We've got our own on Capitol Hill," Colbert said, which was met with laughter and applause from the audience. January 6 as Distraction from Afghanistan, Other Crises. "A mob of extremists and terrorists launched a violent and deadly assault on the people's house," Biden said on August 5. "It wasn't dissent. It wasn't debate. It wasn't democracy. It was insurrection. It was riot and mayhem. It was radical and chaotic." Ten days later, an actual mob of extremists and terrorists launched an assault to seize the Afghan capital in the most humiliating defeat of American political and military leadership in at least half a century. Biden, reportedly stunned by the success of an actual insurrection on his watch, remained in hiding at Camp David all weekend. The war in Afghanistan, unlike January 6, has been deadly, costly, and largely futile. Lawmakers of both parties now are asking tough questions about how our exit went so wrong, so quickly. Finger-pointing is happening in all different directions. The juxtaposition of the two events, however, shows how preposterous the framing of January 6 has been from the start. It also underscores the dangerous consequences of the ruling class' nonstop fixation on the Capitol protest. The Justice Department's 'Troubling' Discovery Delays. The government possesses more than 14,000 hours of surveillance footage from the U.S. Capitol Police's closed-circuit system, thousands of hours of body camera recordings from law enforcement, and mounds of digital information from personal devices and social media posts. More than 6,000 subpoenas have been issued "seeking documents such as financial records, telephone records, electronic communications service provider records, and travel records," according to a recent discovery filing. [...] [Judge Amit Mehta] reminded prosecutors about their obligations under the Brady rule, which requires the disclosure of evidence favorable to the defendant. (In an interesting disclosure, the prosecutor said the government does not have closed-circuit security footage from the doors on the east side of the Capitol building. She said they are looking "informally" at other sources of video that could contain exculpatory evidence. Stay tuned for updates — this might represent the first of many "disappearing" surveillance videos.) Reality Bites Biden's Policies. [Scroll down] It's been a cute prosecutorial trick to keep adding defendants and then claiming because there are so many and so much material to evaluate that it cannot meet its discovery obligations for months and the defendants, without a hearing, must be locked up (many in solitary) for months and months in clear violation of their right to a speedy trial. I think the trick is losing its magic. So much of the left's strategy depends on persuading voters that Trump supporters and the like are barbarians intent on overthrowing the government by any means. What happens when most of these cases collapse, as I think they will with a bit more sunlight on the Department of Justice's foul plays? Sen. Dianne Feinstein's Office Scolded Ashli Babbitt's Grieving Mother, 'Your Daughter Should Not Have Stormed the Capitol'. The grieving mother of Ashli Babbitt has revealed that an aide to Senator Dianne Feinstein scolded her saying, "your daughter should not have stormed the Capitol," when she called in an attempt to get more information about her death. Babbitt's mother, Micki Witthoeft detailed her awful experience with Feinstein's office during an interview with Dinesh D'Souza this week. Witthoeft said that the first time she called the office, the staffer who answered pretended not to know who Babbitt was. The next time she called, the aide scolded her for her daughter's actions and snapped, "Dianne Feinstein will never have two minutes for you." Ashli Babbitt's mom rips Pelosi, Feinstein, claims questions about daughter's death going unanswered. The grieving mother of Ashli Babbitt, the U.S. Air Force veteran who was fatally shot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, says neither Nancy Pelosi nor Dianne Feinstein — nor any other current elected official, Democrat or Republican, has reached out to her regarding questions about her daughter's death. California resident Micki Witthoeft spoke out last week in a podcast conversation with conservative commentator Dinesh D'Souza. She also said no one from the Biden administration or the Justice Department has answered her questions, including about the identity of the law enforcement officer seen on video firing his weapon at Babbitt. That anonymous officer was cleared of wrongdoing in April by the U.S. Justice Department, which claimed there was "insufficient evidence" to support a criminal prosecution. Why is the Democratic leadership so desperate to sacralize the Capitol Hill riot? The left is on a troubled quest to turn the rally-cum-riot at the Capitol that day into another Wounded Knee, a My Lai Massacre in the making, the equivalent of Emmett Till's murder. It is no coincidence that in the run-up to this year's Fourth of July celebrations, the venerable TIME magazine published '21 Lessons from America's Worst Moments'. Self-reviling bathos is today's noble journalism. But there is considerable difficulty shoehorning January 6 into this narrative. No one was killed but the overly eager but unarmed Ashli Babbitt, shot point blank by a Capitol Hill Police officer as she tied to enter the Speaker's Lobby. I know of no one who excuses Babbitt's presence there. She and hundreds of other protesters had crossed the line into riotous behavior. Our stalwart legislators were, by most accounts, cowering in fear. And some apparently trigger-happy plainclothes cop decided it was time to exercise some deadly force. [...] On April 28, President Biden called it the 'worst attack on democracy since the Civil War'. Verbal precision is not Mr Biden's strength, but this was hyperbole of high order. To make it stick, Democrats have tried their best to increase the drama and inflate the body count. The dramaturgy consisted of Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Houser Select Committee hearing on July 27, when four officers, Sgt. Aquilino Gonell, Michael Fanone, Daniel Hodges and Harry Dunn provided Munchhausen-esque accounts of their nightmarish experiences on that fateful day. Their testimony was broadcast live and convinced the convincible that the insurrection was led by bloodthirsty and all-but-unstoppable fiends bent on overturning the Constitution. January 6 political prisoners deserve much more outrage than they're getting. Hundreds, yes hundreds of Trump-supporters at the Capitol have been held for seven months without trial. Other than a timid protest by a few conservative House Republicans, this writer is unaware of demands that these political detainees — how otherwise explain their detention by Biden's attorney general Garland (and thank the Almighty he was not put on the Supreme Court) — be given a fair and speedy trial? Following a story in The Washington Post that a federal judge has constitutional concerns about one case involving a few of the detainees, The New York Times recognized, in its August 11 print edition, that the constitutional right of the detainees to a speedy trial is going by the boards, as trials are supposed to begin within 70 days of indictment. Here it is more than seven months after January 6, 2021, the date of the Capitol incursion. Latest developments in the prosecution of January 6 defendants. Prosecutors in the cases against the January 6 demonstrators are starting to run into some judicial pushback: Questions about exculpatory evidence in their possession not turned over as the law demands, lower courts assessing the defendant as more dangerous than the evidence warranted, and most significantly, whether the prosecution is overcharging defendants with the federal crime of obstruction. Most of the defendants are charged with knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted area — a fancy way of saying trespassing. Defendants are entitled to see before pleading to the charges any materially exculpatory evidence in the government's possession. Defense counsel have complained that the government has not been meeting this obligation, and the prosecution has been responding that it is unable to quickly assess all the evidence it has to meet this burden. As to those charged with trespassing, some are claiming they were invited in and, therefore, could not be guilty of the charges. The prosecution got one extension and the question is whether they should get another, a question complicated by the defendants' right to a speedy trial. Sixteen of the defendants facing the most serious charges will not have their cases heard until next January. MSNBC's Wallace: Trump 'Inciting Violent Extremism' by Meeting with Ashli Babbitt Husband, Mother. MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace said Wednesday [8/11/2021] on her show "Deadline" that former President Donald Trump was "inciting violent extremism" by meeting with the mother and husband of Ashli Babbitt, the rioter who an officer inside the Capitol fatally shot on January 6. Wednesday after the meeting, Trump put out a statement saying Babbitt was "murdered at the hands of someone who should never have pulled the trigger of his gun," adding, "We know who it is." With Republicans Like These, Who Needs Democrats? Senator Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) was challenged recently by a caller on the "Jay Thomas Show." The caller asked Cramer to reveal the identity of the Capitol Police officer who shot and killed unarmed Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt, on January 6. Cramer claimed he did not know the name of the officer, nor did he believe the public had any right to know that officer's name because he had not been found guilty of any wrongdoing. Such pandering to the ruling class and its railroaded investigation is embarrassing enough, as the available evidence (to say nothing of the evidence that the government refuses to release) indicates that the officer recklessly — through the broken window of a locked door — shot an unarmed woman who posed no threat to anyone. But Cramer went further. The public has no right to know, he asserted, "because the person that [sic] shot her is a police officer shooting a criminal not complying with officers' telling her 'stop, don't come through that window, we have guns drawn, don't do it.'" The Editor says... Pelosi's Contemptible Fraud. It is depressing to consider that Speaker Nancy Pelosi's House of Representatives committee of inquiry into the events of January 6 will probably not be generally exposed as the contemptible fraud that it is by the tainted and corruptly partisan national political and social media. It has already been adduced beyond challenge that President Trump advised his followers on January 6, if they went to the Capitol, to "demonstrate peacefully and patriotically." On listening to his speech again, it is completely unexceptionable, and he gives clearly his complaints about the voting and vote-counting procedures. A moron could deduce that where there are 44 million mailed and "dumped" ballots floating around, strange things are likely to happen in an election where a flip of 50,000 votes in three states would have changed the election result. It is an incontestable fact that the Trump Administration and campaign had nothing to do with what went on after the president addressed his followers near the White House on January 6. It is equally clear that almost none of the intruders at the Capitol were armed. There is not one scintilla of truth in any claim that President Trump or his collaborators had anything to do with promoting any intrusion at the Capitol or any physical threat to anyone, or any disturbance of the normal lawful processes of government. It has also been clearly established that President Trump, several days before the intrusion at the Capitol, offered 10,000 National Guardsmen as supplementary reinforcements in recognition of the fact that some of his supporters might be in a hostile mood on January 6. A massive dose of common sense about January 6. By calling events on January 6 an insurrection, the Biden administration is getting away with grossly abusing the rule of law and the Constitution to punish the people who were present at the Capitol on January 6. Worse, this is happening even as the federal government has consistently given a pass to leftists (whether BLM or Antifa) who, for more than a year, have destroyed public property; looted and terrorized whole communities; set fire to buildings; attempted to kill or maim city, state, and federal law enforcement officers; injured ordinary people, and committed murder. And shame on every Republican in Congress who is silent about this two-tiered justice system and the creation of political prisoners in America. But it's not just that the label "insurrection" is allowing the Biden administration to justify fearsome punishments for those who were there on January 6. While I cry shame on the Republicans in Congress, the fact is that they're cowed by that word "insurrection." Lawyer: Capitol Cop Who Shot Ashli Babbitt 'Ambushed' Her on Jan. 6 Without Warning. Kicking off the first hearing of the House Select Committee investigating the U.S. Capitol riot, Chairman Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat, promised to fully investigate "the facts of what happened on Jan. 6," calling it "a scene of violence in the citadel of democracy." But over the next 3½ hours, he and other Democrats, along with their handpicked Republican panelists and police witnesses, never mentioned the most lethal act committed that day — the fatal Capitol Police shooting of unarmed protester Ashli Babbitt. It was the only shot fired during the entire riot. This omission angered Babbitt's family and a number of Republicans who maintain that the Select Committee and the Capitol Police are covering up the circumstances surrounding her death. Questions linger over the shooting, especially whether the officer who fired the fatal shot warned Babbitt to stop before he opened fire as she attempted to breach a barricaded door inside the Capitol Building. The officer's lawyer insists his client not only issued such a command, but did so loudly and clearly. However, in an interview with RealClearInvestigations, Babbitt family attorney Terry Roberts said he has gathered evidence indicating the officer, a plainclothes police lieutenant, remained silent. Far from warning Babbitt he would shoot, Roberts said the officer "ambushed" her from the side where she could not see he had taken up position in a hall doorway and had trained his weapon on her. Whose Insurrection is it, Anyway? For months now, absent any enunciated threat, the Capitol has been surrounded by more fencing, Jersey barriers, and concertina wire than a Stalag. The pretext for those steel and cement ramparts doesn't comport with the stubbornness of House leaders and the Pentagon who dragged their feet on giving National Guard support to the Capitol Police on and before January 6. That's quite odd, as the FBI had passed along actionable intelligence suggesting that a toxic brew of left- and right-wing extremist groups sought to gaslight a peaceful Trump rally to enable acts of political violence. Fourteen thousand hours of fixed surveillance and police body cam footage would reveal the level of government infiltration and perhaps involvement in the January 6th melee. The most ominous-looking of the intruders in black bloc outfits, balaclavas, gloves, radio earpieces, and climbing gear who showed up at the Capitol West Front at the same time a pipe bomb was discovered next door at the RNC headquarters, were hell-bent on burgling the Capitol building and pressed a coordinated attack immediately upon their arrival. It appears that no one from that tactically-outfitted group has been arrested by the FBI, despite the testimony of credible witnesses and supporting video. Joe Biden Laments: Confederates Did Not Make It to the U.S. Capitol, but January 6th Rioters Did. President Joe Biden suggested the violence of the January 6th riot on Capitol Hill was worse than the Civil War during a speech Thursday at the White House. "Not even during the Civil War did insurrectionists breach the Capitol of the United States of America, the citadel of our democracy," Biden began. "Not even then. But on January the 6th, 2021, they did." The president hosted a signing ceremony Thursday [8/5/2021] for a bill awarding Capitol Police officers a Congressional Gold Medal for their response to the January 6th riots, giving Biden an opportunity to excoriate supporters of the former president for the violence. Judicial Watch obtains docs of DC examiner's request to cremate Ashli Babbitt 2 days after getting custody of body. The Washington, D.C. Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) reportedly submitted a request to cremate deceased Jan. 6th rioter Ashli Babbitt, an Air Force veteran, only two days after her death. This and other findings were discovered in more than 1,100 pages of documents from the OCME obtained by the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch via a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed in April. The documents obtained by Judicial Watch show that on Jan. 8th, two days after the Jan. 6th riot, OCME made a submission through the "OCME Online Permit" application form for "cremation." Moreover, the documents state that this "transaction was completed successfully." Wife of Jan. 6 Political Prisoner Outraged Over Double Standard: Why Are Black Lives Matter Protesters Paid $70K After Being Banned From Capitol? As hundreds of Trump supporters sit in DC jails cells for allegedly walking into the Capitol building while protesting results of the fraud-ridden 2020 election, Black Lives Matter activists will be awarded $70,000 after getting banned from the Iowa state capitol and fighting police officers. BLM activists protested at the Iowa State Capitol last July against a law barring convicted felons from voting when they started attacking law enforcement officials. Following the altercation, Des Moines police arrested 17 of the protesters on charges of disorderly conduct or assault. Citing a trespassing statute in state law, the Iowa State Patrol sent the protesters who were apprehended a letter banning them from setting foot on the Capitol grounds for up to a year. New Documents reveal the DC Office of the Chief Medical Examiner Submitted a Request to Cremate Ashli Babbitt Two Days after Gaining Custody of Her Body. Judicial Watch announced today [8/3/2021] that it received 1160 pages of documents from Washington, DC's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) related to Air Force veteran and San Diego native Ashli Babbitt. These new documents reveal that OCME submitted a request for permission to cremate Babbitt only two days after taking custody of her body and that 'due to the "high profile nature" of Babbitt's case, Deputy Chief Medical Examiner Francisco Diaz requested that a secure electronic file with limited access be created for Babbitt's records. Additionally, Babbitt's fingerprints were emailed to a person supposedly working for the DC government, which resulted in Microsoft "undeliverable" messages written in Chinese characters being returned. Babbitt was shot and killed by an unidentified law enforcement officer as she attempted to climb through a broken interior window in the Capitol Building, located outside the Speaker's Lobby off the House Floor during the January 6 disturbance. She was unarmed. At the time of the shooting, several officers reportedly can be seen in videos, standing in the crowd of protestors in which Babbitt was present. Sen. Ron Johnson tells constituents FBI had advance knowledge of January 6 riot but did nothing, says protesters were peaceful 'by and large'. Wisconsin GOP Sen. Ron Johnson told a group of constituents he believes the FBI had advanced knowledge of the Jan. 6th riot but failed to act — even as he ripped a select committee probing the events as a 'total sham.' During his remarks following an event in his home state Saturday [7/31/2021], he repeatedly downplayed the actions of the mob that took part in the Capitol riot, saying there were 'a couple hundred really bad actors' among thousands he defended. 'By and large those folks were peaceful protesters,' said Johnson, days after four police officers testified about battling crowd members outside the Capitol. He said most 'wouldn't even consider breaking the law.' Mollie Hemingway: Partisan Hearings Taking Jan. 6 Riot Out Of Context Are A "Joke". Mollie Hemingway made the case Sunday [8/1/2021] on FNC's "MediaBuzz" that the January 6 Capitol riot committee hearings are being held by partisan Democrats who are taking events out of the wider context of escalating political violence in 2020. ["]If you want to talk about consistency, you have to deal with the fact that we have a political party that embraced a movement to defund the police for an entire year and now we're pretending that they care so much about the police. [...] The defund the police movement, which the media and other Democratic partisans strongly celebrated, which was supported across the country by Democratic politicians, was something we saw in the past year.["] Keywords: Audition, coaching, rehearsal. Rep. Kinzinger Accidentally Reveals What the Democrat Capitol Riot Hearings Are Really About. Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) may have let the proverbial cat out of the bag about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-CA) Democratic select committee ostensibly designed to further investigate the assault on the U.S. Capitol which occurred on Jan. 6. Of course, he did not reveal anything that common sense wouldn't have already told us — but it is instructive nonetheless. In an appearance on ABC's "This Week," Kinzinger said the committee will be forcing "a lot of people" to testify and that "it's going to be a thorough investigation for sure." [...] The Democrats have been portraying these proceedings as some valiant effort to get to the "truth" surrounding the events that occurred on Jan. 6. They purport to be trying to get to the bottom of what motivated the riot and to figure out each detail of how the assault went down. Kinzinger's comments show that this is a gigantic load of bovine excrement. [Paywall] General Milley's Imaginary Coup. We need to clear some things up before they get any further out of hand, as the Dems insist on making this stuff every day's front page. For starters, stop saying "Reichstag moment." [...] Some 500 protesters taking selfies inside the Capitol building is a tantrum, not a coup. Among other things, a coup must have some path towards success, in this case, preventing Joe Biden from becoming president. The rioters at best might have delayed the largely ceremonial counting of the Electoral College votes until the next day. Susan Collins criticizes 'partisan' Jan. 6 commission. Sen. Susan Collins criticized House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for rejecting several Republican choices to serve on the "partisan" Jan. 6 commission. Collins, a centrist Republican from Maine, said she was "disappointed" that her efforts to have "an independent, bipartisan, nonpartisan, outside commission to look at all of the events of that day" were "not approved." "I think it would have had far more credibility than Speaker Pelosi's partisan committee that she has set up," she told CNN's Jake Tapper Sunday morning. In truth, this canard of "insurrection" does grave damage to the country. Please don't share this article with anyone except for your neighbors, friends, enemies, relatives, and coworkers — I don't want to get into trouble — but I remain adamant that January 6 was not an insurrection. To say otherwise is a despicable lie. Insurrection was not on the mind of anyone serious at the Capitol on January 6. It was a very large demonstration aimed at protesting the way an election was conducted. No matter what anyone thinks of the November 2020 election, there was something wrong with states changing their election laws months, even weeks before balloting. In addition, social media monopolies suppressed the news of the Hunter Biden laptop, which would have been a game changer. In the face of all that stuff, many thousands came to Washington, D.C. to protest. They did not come to seize the reins of power. There were no U.S. military generals or captains or colonels or lieutenants leading or strategizing a coup. There was no shooting of rifles or taking of hostages. Rather, people came dressed like it was a carnival, such as the men dressed in bear or wolverine outfits. New Video From Jan 6th Protests Show Large, Peaceful Crowd Attacked By Police With Flashbangs. There has been a growing call for the FBI to release all 14,000 hours of January 6th protest footage to be released to the public so America can see what possibly lead up to the riots. Many who attended had claimed the crowd was attacked by police and instigated and this newly released video seems to confirm it. [Video clip] A January 6 Detainee Speaks Out. Joe Biden's Justice Department notched another victory last week in the agency's sprawling investigation into the January 6 protest on Capitol Hill against Biden's presidency. On Wednesday [7/28/2021], Michael Curzio pleaded guilty to one count of parading, demonstrating, or picketing in the Capitol building. The government offered the plea deal to Curzio's court-appointed attorney in June; Curzio faced four misdemeanor charges, including trespassing and disorderly conduct, for his role in the Capitol breach. Curzio will pay the government "restitution" in the amount of $500 to help pay for the nearly $1.5 million in damages the building reportedly sustained. (The Architect of the Capitol initially said the protest caused $30 million in damages but prosecutors have set the figure far lower.) The misdemeanor to which Curzio pleaded guilty carries a maximum penalty of six months in jail. But Curzio isn't headed to jail any time soon. To the contrary, Curzio actually left jail on July 14. Because he had already served six months in prison. Curzio is one of nearly 100 defendants kept behind bars for months under pre-trial detention orders sought by federal prosecutors. Just 36% Of Independents Think The Jan. 6 Commission Is A Genuine Fact-Finding Effort. Democrats advertised the Jan. 6 commission as an effort to "investigate and report on the facts and causes relating to the January 6, 2021, domestic terrorist attack." But in today's highly charged partisan world, few believe that this is the commission's genuine concern, according to the latest I&I/TIPP Poll. The poll, which was taken after the first day of the commission's hearings, asked a straightforward question: "How likely is it that the Jan. 6 commission will make a genuine effort to uncover the truth?" Overall, the poll found that only 22% of the public believes that it's "very likely" the commission will make such an effort, while 18% say it's "not likely at all." Another 26% believe it's "somewhat" likely, while on the other side, 19% say it's "not very likely" that the commission plans to expose the truth about what happened. GOP Senator Says He's Grateful for Ashli Babbitt's Killer. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) joined Jay Thomas on "The Jay Thomas Show" on Tuesday [7/27/2021] and took questions from local callers. During their conversation Senator Cramer was asked by a caller about Ashli Babbitt and her killer Lt. Mike Byrd. Senator Cramer refused to identify the killer but said he was grateful for the officer's action. Senator Cramer then lied and said Ashli Babbitt was warned by police before she was shot in an ambush. This is a bald-faced lie. The officer hid in the shadows, did not utter a word, and then shot Ashli Babbitt in the neck as she climbed through a window. She was unarmed and was not a threat. Lt. Mike Byrd then slinked away after murdering Babbitt in cold blood. Rep. Matt Gaetz Implies that Our Own Government Was Behind Jan. 6 False Flag — Demands Release of 14,000 hrs. of Hidden Video. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) took to the House floor (without a mask) and implied that our own government was behind the Jan. 6 false flag attacks on the US Capitol. Rep. Matt Gaetz: "...the 14,000 hours of tape could also show us who was animating that violence. Whether they were connected in any way, directed any way — by federal agencies. It raises great suspicion that we are unable to get access to this information as members of Congress." Of course, Matt Gaetz is on to something. Video released by Bobby Powell showed violent hoodlums in all black smashing windows, damaging the US Capitol — but Wray FBI refuses to look for them. The History of Capitol Violence. Immediately following the January 6th Capitol incident, media outlets around the country were quick to place the blame for the siege on President Trump. Most newspapers, for example, ran attention grabbing headlines with the most common theme being "Trump Mob Storms Capitol" (New York Times) and "Trump Incites Mob" (Washington Post). In the months following the incident, the mainstream media, for the most part, has settled on one word to describe the chaos of 1/6 — insurrection. The Trump supporters, it seems, angry at the outcome of the November 3, 2020, election and fueled by President Trump's lies about election fraud, stormed the Capitol to wrestle control of the government back to Trump. Or something. January 6th has also become the greatest attack on democracy since the Civil War. According to the American press. Insert my eye roll here. The media complex conveniently leaves out the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the horrific casualties of 9/11 which left over 3,000 people dead. No, libs, the Jan. 6 events weren't a 'coup'. Here's what Jan. 6 wasn't: It wasn't the "worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War." Nor did it veer anywhere near the vicinity of being as dangerous as 9/11. Nor was it a "coup" or an "insurrection" — not in any way we commonly understand those words. It wasn't a "putsch." Nor did it, as the chairman of the Jan. 6 committee, Rep. Bennie Thompson, claimed, come "dangerously close to succeeding" in upending "American democracy." That's all a myth. It was a riot. Or, as Christopher Caldwell more forgivingly called it in The New York Times, perhaps "a political protest that got out of control." And, contra House Republican Adam Kinzinger's overwrought contention on the first day of the Jan. 6 select committee, there's no evidence that "self-governance" was threatened by the rioters. Only two sets of people gain anything from pretending that these rioters had anything approaching the wherewithal to overthrow the United States government: Democrats and the extremists. 'Unprecedented, Unreasonable, Unconstitutional, and Wrong'. During a status hearing Friday afternoon [7/30/2021] for Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, an Army reservist arrested on January 15 for his involvement in the January 6 protest in Washington, D.C., an assistant U.S. attorney admitted the government will not meet its discovery obligations for all Capitol defendants until early 2022. Kathyrn Fifield, the lead attorney representing the Justice Department, informed Judge Trevor McFadden that the "incalculable" volume of video collected by the government related to the Capitol breach investigation will prevent defendants and their lawyers from accessing the full body of evidence against them for several more months. "No system exists to wrap its arms around [all this evidence]," Fifield told McFadden. This includes at least 14,000 hours of surveillance video plus thousands of hours of body-worn camera footage from law enforcement. Fifield resisted setting a 2021 trial date for Hale; McFadden and Jonathan Crisp, Hale's court-appointed attorney, told the government last month that unless a plea arrangement was agreed upon, a trial would be set for later this year because Hale already has been incarcerated for more than six months. Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene accused of 'trespassing' at prison holding Capitol rioters. A group of GOP lawmakers was turned away from a Washington DC prison as they attempted to inspect the conditions of Capitol rioters in custody. Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene were among the group warned they were trespassing and obstructing the entrance to the correctional facility. The pair live-tweeted their attempt, along with Louie Gohmert and Paul Gosar, to make contact with prisoners held on charges related to the 6 January attack on the Capitol. "We absolutely are not trespassing and if that attitude is any indication of how they're treating their prisoners inside I have great concerns," Ms Greene told media at the facility. Support for Jan. 6 Capitol riot probe slip after cops' emotional testimony: poll. An emotional hearing this week in which police officers attacked in the Capitol riot testified before a House select committee investigating the events of Jan. 6 turned more Americans against the need for the probe, according to a Morning Consult poll. Among voters of all parties, 53 percent supported the investigation, down from 66 percent in the survey in June and 58 percent just a week ago. Four out of five Democrats were in favor, while only a quarter of Republicans were, along with half of independents. Only 49 percent of those polled said they had watched all or even part of the committee hearing that dominated the news cycle on Tuesday. GOP Reps Try to Check on Jan. 6 Detainees, Get Locked Out. Republican Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz, Louis Gohmert and Paul Gosar showed up at the federal lockup facility currently housing roughly 50 January 6 detainees in order to inspect the conditions of the political prisoners. They were looking into accusations of mistreatment, including being denied access to lawyers, beatings, and solitary confinement. They were denied. National Police Association rejects Jan. 6 hearings, says Congress should investigate George Floyd riots. The National Police Association (NPA) is rejecting the Jan. 6 Capitol riot congressional probe as a "dog and pony show" and proposing that Congress conduct a wholly different investigation. On Wednesday, the United States' largest police association slammed the hearings as a politically motivated stunt that has no goal of uncovering the truth of the events on Jan. 6, when hundreds of rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol. Speaking to Fox News on Wednesday, association spokesperson Betsy Brantner Smith said that Congress should instead hear testimony from the thousands of police officers who were injured during the so-called "summer of love" protests in 2020 that followed the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. "People need to see that police officers go through horrible things, and Jan. 6 was a horrible thing for some of those officers," she said, Fox News reported. "But, quite frankly, I find this whole Jan. 6 Commission, frankly, a dog and pony show. It doesn't tell the whole story." National Police Association slams Jan. 6 probe as 'dog and pony show,' calls for investigation of Floyd riots. The National Police Association on Wednesday slammed Congress' investigation of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot as a politically motivated "dog and pony show" that has no intention of uncovering the truth of what really happened that day. In an interview with Fox News on Wednesday [7/28/2021], association spokeswoman Betsy Brantner Smith, a retired police sergeant who describes herself as a conservative, said Congress should hear from the thousands of police officers who were injured during the George Floyd riots last year. "People need to see that police officers go through horrible things, and Jan. 6 was a horrible thing for some of those officers," she said. "But, quite frankly, I find this whole Jan. 6 Commission, frankly, a dog and pony show. It doesn't tell the whole story." Ashli Babbitt's Mom Speaks. The only video Ashli Babbitt's mom has seen of her daughter on January 6 is a clip of her walking from Donald Trump's speech to Capitol Hill. "That brings me peace," Micki Witthoeft, Ashli's mom, told me by phone on Wednesday. "She was in her zone, so happy, having a great day." "Until that [...] shot her." Nearly seven months after a United States Capitol Police officer shot Ashli Babbitt in the Capitol building on January 6, the government and subservient corporate news media still refuse to confirm the name of the federal officer who killed her. (Investigative journalist Paul Sperry recently reported the shooter likely is USCP Lt. Michael Byrd.) The Justice Department closed its investigation into her shooting in April and announced the unnamed officer would not face criminal charges. Three USCP officers participated in an overdramatic public hearing before the January 6 select committee on Tuesday, often referring to protesters as "terrorists," "insurrectionists," and "traitors," though not a single person arrested in the aftermath has been charged with terrorism, insurrection, or treason. They repeatedly claimed they thought they would be killed by the protesters. USCP officer Harry Dunn asked for a moment of silence in honor of Officer Brian Sicknick to once again promote the falsehood that he was killed in the line of duty. But there was no moment of silence for Babbitt, an Air Force veteran and Air National Guardsman with eight deployments overseas, including to Iraq and Afghanistan, who actually was killed on January 6. There were no tears and table-pounding from crisis-actor cops or emotionally-fragile lawmakers mourning her premature death. Babbitt was just 35. Capitol Hill Police Officer Claims, Without Evidence, That Crowd of Trump Supporters Repeatedly Called Him [a racial slur] On 1/6. Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn told the January 6 Select Committee, without evidence, that a crowd of Trump supporters repeatedly called him a racial slur during the protests. Dunn, a Capitol Police officer who is an admitted Democrat, spoke during the first hearing of the January 6 Select Committee on Tuesday, and described various scenes that strain credulity and supposedly occurred during the protests. Dunn said that he told many of them to leave the Capitol building, but in response they allegedly yelled, "no man, this is our house. President Trump invited us here. We're here to stop the steal. Joe Biden is not the President. Nobody voted for Joe Biden." Capitol cop gives us reasons to doubt his testimony. It might be time to add "Without evidence..." to each claim made in testimony by the Capitol cops put on display in the DNC sponsored hearings today. Certainly it ought to be added to Harry Dunn's testimony. [...] There are over 14,000 hours of surveillance tapes being withheld by the Biden DOJ which it refuses to release. One immediately asks why. One also comes to believe that that those tapes contain data which would blow open the case being made by the kangaroo court today. Congressmen weeping on television embarrass themselves and us. During the January 6 committee investigation, I was embarrassed to watch Adam Kinzinger cry and grimace. A third-grader dressed up as an adult. The ethically challenged Schiff sniffed and searched for words that would make headlines. He failed. May I suggest to the traumatized Capitol Police officers that they watch the many film clips, or the gut-wrenching photographs, of NYC police officers during and after that terrorist attack twenty years ago? Those are the heroic men. They experienced real trauma. No matter how many medals appear on the chests of the Capitol policemen, they mean nothing if those officers continue to hide the killer of Ashli Babbitt. That's cowardice — not heroism. Chief DC federal judge questions misdemeanor deals for US Capitol rioters. The chief judge in DC's federal court questioned the Justice Department's decision to offer misdemeanor plea deals to nonviolent US Capitol rioters, saying at a hearing Thursday [7/29/2021] that the relatively light punishment might not be enough to deter similar attacks in the future. "Does the government have any concern ... of the defendant joining a mob, breaking into the Capitol building" in the future, and "terrorizing members of Congress, the vice president, who had to be evacuated," Chief Judge Beryl Howell asked prosecutors during the plea hearing. "This could be a circumstance that arises every four years," Howell added. The defendant, Jack Griffith, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of illegally demonstrating in the Capitol building, which has become the standard plea deal that the Justice Department has offered to nonviolent rioters. The charge is a "petty offense," Howell said, comparing it to the same charge someone might face if they trespassed on government property after dark. A Capitol Police Officer who's a BLM activist? Of the many weeping people paraded before the House on Tuesday [7/27/2021] to testify about how deeply traumatizing it was for conservatives, rather than the usual left-wing activists, to protest at the Capitol, was one Harry Dunn, a giant of a man who claimed that he was intensely traumatized by the fact that protesters called him the "N" word. The horror of it all! Except there's reason to believe that Dunn may have been lying. There's no footage of this alleged racial outrage. Additionally, it turns out that Dunn is a BLM activist, a Trump hater, and a supporter of political violence — his political violence, not your free speech or protest. Leftists were incredibly affected by Officer Dunn's testimony. As far as they were concerned, he proved that, not only were the people at the Capitol on January 6 (who killed no one, looted nothing, and set no fires) the worst mob ever in the history of America, but they were racist. The Editor says... Florida suspends concealed weapons permits of 22 people facing charges related to Capitol riot. Florida suspended the concealed weapons permits Monday of 22 individuals facing charges involving the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Nikki Fried, the commissioner of Florida's Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, announced the suspensions immediately after a congressional hearing about the attack concluded on Capitol Hill. "The deeply disturbing events that occurred at our nation's Capitol on January 6th were sedition, treason and domestic terrorism — and those individuals involved in the insurrection must be held accountable for attempting to subvert our democratic process," said Ms. Fried, a Democrat running for Florida governor in 2022. AJ Swinson Lays Down the Truth About the Democrats' Capitol Riot Commission. The Democratic Party's Jan. 6 commission has begun and it has reignited the debate over the events of the assault on the U.S. Capitol building which occurred six months ago. The first day was jam-packed with accusations of white supremacy, outright lies, and even an outpouring of crocodile tears. But the all-important question is: Will the American public see through the obvious politicking involved in this sham of a hearing? A National Embarrassment. An Unadulterated Farce. The January 6th Committee Makes A Mockery Of America. Yesterday's partisan committee hearing on January 6th was nothing short of a national embarrassment. No doubt the January 6th riots were, too. Had pipsqueak Pence done his job, the country would look far different today. But two wrongs don't make a right. How Democrats continue to abuse their power for the partisan persecution of their political opponents will remain a stain on America's body politick for generations to come. The most humiliating moments — especially for the audiences watching from around the world — saw all four "stars" of the "show" crying for the television cameras. Questions that Won't be Asked by the January 6 Commission. The January 6 commission held a dramatic first hearing with lots of crocodile tears and a few real ones. As usual, the Democrats, and the two Democrat-friendly Republicans, seemed to agree on an emotional approach to the topic at hand to gain advantage over their political opponents. However, they failed to ask and answer important questions. [...] Here are some primary questions are unlikely to come up: First, who shot Ashli Babbitt and why? Perhaps she shouldn't have been where she was and doing what she was doing, but she did not need to die. The American citizen and Air Force veteran was unarmed. Federal bureaucrats have kept the information on who shot Ashli from Babbitt's husband, as well as from the American people, who have a right to know. Why? Second, did congressional leaders and other elected representatives, or their staffs, instigate the storming of the Capitol? [...] Third, why have American citizens who have been accused of only relatively minor crimes, such as trespassing, been held in jail without trial for more than six months? Why were they roughed up initially and kept in solitary confinement, as if they were political prisoners in Cuba? Why are their civil rights being violated? Does this mean that our Department of Justice (DoJ) has been politicized and is corrupt? Fourth, why are American citizens from many states who attended the peaceful rally before the storming of the Capitol, being hunted down and prosecuted by the FBI? [...] Fifth, speaking of the FBI, why were there so many FBI agents present in the crowd in the Capitol? [...] Sixth, was the October 2020 attempt to kidnap Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer prior to the Jan. 6th event in D.C. a dry run for the storming of the capitol? The Duplicitous Jan. 6 'Insurrection' Melodrama. After House Speaker Nancy Pelosi kicked two Republicans off the House investigation of the January 6 riot at the Capitol, the Democrats and their media flaks went into high gear to obfuscate Pelosi's transparently partisan motive to ensure the investigation reaches the preordained conclusion: that Donald Trump incited an "insurrection" aimed at undoing the election results. In response to Pelosi's obvious attempt to get the fix in, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California pulled all the Republicans from the commission (except for Rhino Liz Cheney). As always, the Dems' bare-knuckled "any means necessary" tactics are camouflaged with sophistries, logical fallacies, and begged questions presented as facts. The progressive site Politico was the eager promulgator of such propaganda. The column is filled with hyperbole like "the deadliest attack on the Capitol in two centuries." In fact, of course, the only fatalities were three protestors and a DC police officer who all died from natural causes, and Ashli Babbit, an Air Force veteran shot to death by a DC cop even though she posed no immediate physical harm to him or anybody else. Equally duplicitous, or just plain ignorant, is the phrase "deadliest attack in two centuries." Apparently, the three writers never heard of the violent attack on the House Chamber by Puerto Rican terrorists in 1954. Adam Schiff and Adam Kinzinger Compete for Best Actor in a Made for TV Dramatic Series. As Saul Alinsky noted, ridicule is the most effective political weapon. Andrew Breitbart was the master at flipping the Democrat's Alinsky effort back upon them and laughing. As a result, agitprop evolved to a space of political combat, and while we do not control many of the platforms, our team has the best meme agitprop ever seen in political combat. J6 Committee Hearing Has The Same Lawfare Producers, Directors and Script Writers as Christine Blasey Ford "Beach Friend" Hearing. Sometimes pictures are worth thousands of words. Seeing former DOJ official David Laufman show up at Nancy Pelosi's J6 Committee hearing explains the pantomime. David Laufman is seen below sitting behind committee witness Michael Fanone. Laufman was the DOJ-NSD official who interviewed Hillary Clinton during the fraudulent FBI Clinton email investigation of 2016; Laufman quit the DOJ and started working for Lawfare. Laufman then represented Monica McLean, the best FBI friend of Christine Blasey Ford who helped write the letter to Dianne Feinstein during their effort to block Justice Kavanaugh for SCOTUS Judge. [Photo] Monica McLean was busted by Senator Grassley for witness tampering; and then hired "beach friend" David Laufman to avoid legal trouble. What does Laufman showing up at another political pantomime disguised as a hearing tell us? It tells us the same Lawfare crew is producing, directing and writing the script for democrats again. The cast of characters, vis-a-vis witnesses, are different; however, the script is exactly the same. This is what they do. This is all political theater, written, directed and produced for public consumption. Nothing more. Capitol Police Officer says even if Jan 6 had been armed with pens that makes it an 'armed insurrection'. During the first hearing with the January 6 Select committee on Tuesday, Representative Adam Kinzinger questioned officers at the scene that day on public opinions downplaying the attack on the Capitol building. "So there's been this idea that this was not a armed insurrection, and as if somehow that is justification for what happened," said Kinzinger, going on to describe the different theories as to who conducted the riots, and what happened. "Now we've heard maybe the FBI actually started this, but one of the ones that has always held was that this was not an armed insurrection," he continued. Kinzinger is one of two Republicans on the primarily Democratic committee, which was touted as being bipartisan. Clown Show: Adam Schiff Pretends to Cry During January 6 Hearing. The January 6 Select Committee is underway and it's a total clown show. RINO loser Liz Cheney attacked Trump's White House during her opening statement. Weirdo RINO Rep. Kinzinger started crying like a baby during the "January 6 Select Committee" hearing. [...] Russian collusion truther and serial liar Adam Schiff got choked up and could barely speak on Tuesday during the hearing. Pelosi's Jan. 6th Committee Is A Charade That Smacks Of A Cover-Up. Mark Twain once mused that if you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. There will be no pause or reflection by the House select committee investigating the January 6th attack on the Capitol. That became abundantly plain as the hearings opened on Tuesday. Nancy Pelosi won't allow it. Her narrative of what happened that terrible day will be the only one permitted — all other facts [notwithstanding]. Pelosi's Democrat party is the majority in the House of Representatives, albeit narrowly. As Speaker, she rules like a tyrant. She abides no dissent, tolerates no differing opinion, and is contemptuous of the truth. Only her truth is indulged. Any contrary evidence will be suppressed or covered up. Pelosi has no interest in the full story of what actually happened on January 6th. She blames the great villain Donald Trump for everything and will countenance no other inquiry or outcome. You must believe her or else. Disband the FBI. Questions are now being raised as to whether the FBI had a role in the Capitol Hill protests of January 6, 2021. When one examines the FBI's involvement in the Trump-Russia collusion hoax; Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) abuses; standing by idly while in possession of Hunter Biden's Ukraine and Burisma-laden laptops, while President Trump endured a second phony impeachment; and the frame-up of Trump's National Security Advisor, Lieutenant General Michael Flynn — it is not too difficult to imagine. And that is just the problem: It is not difficult to imagine. And Now, A Video That Nukes The Jan 6th Commission From Space. As Adam Kinzinger and Adam Schiff wept on cue during the January 6th commission hearings yesterday, as political hack after political hack testified to how horrible that day was. As we heard about how violent white supremacists stormed the capitol, even raping AOC psychologically, this video nukes the dog and pony show from space. [Video clip] Cop who testified Sicknick died from line-of-duty injuries didn't mean it 'as a medical diagnosis'. U.S. Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn is not a doctor, and he apparently isn't playing one on TV, prompting his lawyer to subsequently try to justify his client's apparent perpetuation of January 6-related mythology. On day one of the congressional investigative committee hearings into the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, Dunn began his testimony, in what seems like an orchestrated moment for corporate media, by calling for a moment of silence for fellow officer Brian Sicknick who "died from injuries he sustained in the line of duty..." Dunn, whom Fox News host Tucker Carlson has previously described as an "angry, left-wing political activist," made this statement despite an April 2021 ruling from the Washington, D.C., chief medical examiner that Sicknick sadly died on January 7 of natural causes after suffering two strokes following the riot at the Capitol. The Crying Game: Tears Flow Like Soy at Partisan Democrat Re-Imagining of The Worst Day In American History. Testicrying. [Numerous tweets with video clips.] The Crybaby Capitol Cop Is Actually A Radical Extremist BLM In Support Of Property Damage And A Good Friend With Nancy Pelosi. In his closing remarks before the House select committee investigating Jan. 6, Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn compared the mob that stormed the Capitol, fueled by Trump's false claims of election fraud, to a hit man hired to kill someone. "If a hit man is hired and he kills somebody, the hit man goes to jail. But not only does the hit man go to jail, but the person who hired them does. It was an attack carried out on Jan. 6 and a hit man sent them. I want you to get to the bottom of that," Dunn told lawmakers at the panel's first official hearing on Tuesday [7/27/2021]. Earlier in the hearing, Dunn compared Jan. 6 to other protests, saying that day was different because of how it originated. America had its first show trial on Tuesday and it was loathsome. Perhaps it's because I grew up surrounded by extraordinarily tough people, but I found myself singularly unmoved by the spectacle in the House on Tuesday, which reminded me of a bad mash-up of Dr. Phil, Oprah, and BLM-produced soap opera, rather than a legitimate inquiry into an event that Democrats have seized upon to consolidate their power by destroying their opposition. As sobbing congressmen and Capitol Police officers took turns talking about their psychic injuries, I was alternately embarrassed for them if they were really that weak, and frightened of them if they were that sociopathic as a pathway to power. Teary Capitol Police Officer Who Testified About January 6 Previously Defended Violent George Floyd Riots In Kenosha. Harry Dunn, the teary-eyed U.S. Capitol police officer who testified in Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's politicized January 6 committee, previously defended the violent riots that shook the nation last summer and caused billions of dollars in damage. [...] In addition to cheering on the destructive behavior of rioters last summer, that were linked to more than 30 deaths, while hypocritically condemning those of the Capitol rioters, Dunn repeatedly and publicly berated former President Donald Trump for being "racist in chief." Tucker Mocks Kinzinger, Schiff for Faux Crying, Theatrics at Hearing. Tuesday [7/27/2021] marked the first session of the House committee convened to investigate the January 6 Capitol Riot. And it didn't take long for the theatrical nature of the proceeding to expose itself as Congressmen Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) and Adam Schiff (D-CA) let the faux tears flow for the cameras. Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson used a hearty dose of sarcasm as he keyed in on those moments and called them out for how "emotionally fragile" they were. "The one thing we did learn, it's something we long suspected but never seemed confirmed is an awful lot of members of Congress are emotionally fragile," he quipped. "At some seem unable — unstable really. Some to the point where they might qualify for federal disability of those grounds, they cry a lot." Before playing a soundbite of Kinzinger's crocodile tears, Carlson noted someone "handed out tissues for the weeping that was certain to ensue. It didn't take long for Republican Adam Kinzinger of Illinois to make good use of the Kleenex." January 6 Commission Star Witness Has a History of Hating President Trump and Supporting Riots That Aren't Where He's Working. Nancy Pelosi's "commission" on the riot in the US Capitol started out pretty much as one would have expected. Of course, a commission predicated on a lie (insurrection) needs lots of lies to back it up. [...] Actually, if we are going to use the broad rubric that [Mississippi Democrat Bennie] Thompson is using, thousands of people lost their lives for a variety of different reasons across the country. Regardless, only one was a direct result of something done at the Capitol that day. That would be Ashli Babbitt, who was shot and killed by an unidentified police officer. No, Officer Brian Sicknick did not die of injuries he sustained in the line of duty. He died a day later of a stroke he suffered nearly 12 hours after the events of January 6th. That is not in dispute. Any connection to January 6th is purely speculative, and in no other situation do we blame the deaths of officers who die of natural causes on stress endured while on duty. That's not how any of this works. Lies Pile up on Day One of the January 6th Hearings. Today was day one of the hearings on January 6th, held by Nancy Pelosi's partisan select committee. What transpired was a sideshow of fake crying and irrelevant, sometimes questionable testimony from Capitol Police officers who offered absolutely nothing of substance in regards to fixing the security issues that plagued the Capitol that day. Of course, because we are dealing with an event strictly meant to cause an emotional reaction, not actually accomplish anything, the lies flowed freely. To start, Bennie Thompson, who himself objected to the electoral college in 2004, claimed that seven people lost their lives. [Tweet] Rep. Jim Banks: Nancy Pelosi 'Ultimately Responsible' for the Security Breakdown on January 6. Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) said on Sunday [7/25/2021] that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is "ultimately responsible" for the breakdown of security at the Capitol on Jan. 6. "Due to the rules of the United States Capitol — the power structure of the Capitol — Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House, has more control and authority and responsibility over the leadership of the Capitol Police than anyone else in the United States Capitol," Banks told Fox News on Sunday. On July 21, Pelosi rejected Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Banks from a House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol breach after they were appointed by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.). Republican House members said Pelosi's move was nakedly partisan, and McCarthy pulled the other Republican picks from the committee. More Americans Want 'Black Lives Matter Riots' Investigated Than January 6 Riot. As Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi picks members of a select committee to investigate the riots of January 6, a new poll finds that many Americans believe she's focusing on the wrong riots. One-third more Americans believe Congress should hold investigative hearings about last summer's "Black Lives Matter protests that sparked violence" than think lawmakers ought to probe the riot at the capitol on January 6. In all, two out of three likely U.S. voters say they believe Congress should open an official investigation into "the violent protests," which blazed a trail of arson and looting through major and mid-sized cities nationwide. On the other hand, fewer than half (49%) of Americans support Pelosi's investigation of the D.C. riot, in which rioters protesting the 2020 presidential election results stormed the capitol. Senators strike $2 billion deal to reimburse Capitol Police, National Guard for Jan. 6 deployments. The Senate Appropriations Committee reached a deal Tuesday [7/27/2021] to reimburse the National Guard and U.S. Capitol Police for deployments during the Jan. 6 riot. The funding had been held up by a partisan fight over including extra funding, with the holdup creating a budget crunch that threatened to force National Guard units to cancel training. The deal would provide a $2 billion security supplemental bill that would pay back Capitol Police and the National Guard. Capitol Police Officer Testifies To The Racism He Faced During The Jan. 6 Riot — His Linkedin Profile Picture Reveals That He Is Just Another Political Actor. As protesters poured into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, a Black Capitol Police officer passionately testified Tuesday that he faced racist epithets, the likes of which he had never heard while serving in uniform. [Tweet] Officer Dunn knows he can say this because the mainstream fake news media will never ask him to prove it. Mike Cernovich has the best response to Officer Dunn's accusations. Release the videos. [Tweet] Of course, this hearing just looks like a huge political theater and Harry Dunn's Linkedin profile picture reveals that he is just another political actor. [...] Fox News host Tucker Carlson had previously predicted that the committee would have Dunn testify and called out the officer's radical activism. "Dunn will pretend to speak for the country's law enforcement community, but it turns out Dunn has very little in common with your average person. Dunn is an angry, left wing political activist whose social media feeds are full of praise, not coincidentally for Nancy Pelosi." Congressman Reveals What He Said and Did to Officer Who Shot Ashli Babbitt. C-Span is going to be running a series on the Capitol riot with interviews from 14 different members of Congress. [Tweet] They're literally trying to stretch it out like it's a TV series. I wonder if they have one for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and what she went through in her office a quarter of a mile away? The first clip that I've seen involves an interview with Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK). He explains how he hugged the Capitol Police officer who shot Ashli Babbitt and told him that he "did what he had to." [Tweet] From a legal and factual point of view, there are big problems with that statement that he "did what he had to." But part of the problem is that we are limited in the information that we have been provided because the Capitol Police, unlike every other police shooting, have not released all the facts, they haven't released all the information or video that they have and we haven't been able to hear the officer's reasoning for the shooting. They haven't even told us his name, although as I reported, his name was accidentally mentioned during a Zoom hearing when Capitol official Timothy Blodgett refers to Officer Byrd. Losing Our Liberty All at Once? [Scroll down] Joseph Hackett, you see, is a 51-year-old Trump supporter and member of an organization called the "Oath Keepers," a group whose members have pledged to "defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic." (You can see how this ends already, can't you?) The FBI does not like the Oath Keepers. They arrested its leader in January and have picked up many other members in the months since. Hackett came from his home in Florida to join the Trump "Stop the Steal" rally that took place on January 6. According to court documents, he entered the Capitol at 2:45 that afternoon. He left some ten minutes later, at 2:54. The next day, he went home. On May 28, he was apprehended by the FBI and indicted on a long list of charges, including conspiracy, obstruction of an official proceeding, destruction of government property, and illegally entering a restricted building. As far as I have been able to determine, no evidence of his destroying property has been made public. According to his wife, it is not even clear that he entered the Capitol. But he certainly was in the environs. He was a member of the Oath Keepers. He was a supporter of Donald Trump. Therefore, he must be neutralized. What about the Antifa and Black Lives Matter "peaceful protestors" who destroyed some $2 billion of property, killed or injured scores, and toppled countless public monuments? Take your time. Traveling the Quiet Road to Tyranny. Could we be traveling a quiet road to tyranny? Steve McCann's recent summary of what we now know about the events on Capitol Hill on Jan. 6, 2021, indicates why we should all be very worried about the US, leader of the free world, sliding ever closer towards tyranny. But it's a slow journey on a quiet road, with the final destination not yet in sight. J.B. Shurk has set out how far we've already come on this quiet road to tyranny[.] How do tyrannical despots attain absolute power without a violent revolution? They do it by stealth. Attorney: Jan. 6 Prisoners Brutally Beaten, Stripped, Hogtied, Humiliated by Guards — One Prisoner Blinded in One Eye — Worse Abuse Than Gitmo. Ryan Samsel was leading the charge against Capitol Hill Police on January 6 protests. Samsel pushed the flimsy bike racks and stormed the US Capitol. Samsel reportedly injured a female police officer. Since his arrest, Ryan Samsel has been held in Washington DC. On March 21, he was awakened by correctional officers, his hands zip-tied, then walked to an unoccupied cell and brutally beaten by the officers. Then Ryan Samsel lost an eye in the beating. Ryan was not alone. On Thursday night [7/22/2021] Attorney Joseph McBride joined Greg Kelly on Newsmax to discuss the abuse of the Jan. 6 political prisoners in Washington DC. At least two Jan 6 attorneys describe brutal conditions and 'beatdowns' allegedly by jail guards. Attorney Joseph McBride, who represents Capitol protester Richard Barnett, was in the news earlier this week after an interview on CNN went off the rails when he was mocked by anchor John Avlon for alleging that protesters arrested for their roles in the January 6 protest were being "tortured." His assessment was a reference to months of solitary confinement, as many of those arrested are being denied bail. But he also said they were "being beaten, they're being starved, they're denied medical care, they're being denied the right to worship, they're being cut off from their attorneys." In an appearance Thursday [7/22/2021] on Newsmax TV's "Greg Kelly Reports," the lawyer would repeat those claims while offering more details in support of the serious allegations. Why Not Award Ashli Babbitt's Killer the Medal of Honor? What follows describes our oligarchy's terrible trilemma concerning their narrative of January 6. Multiple sources — chiefly the U.S government by its efforts to hide him — identify Capitol Police Lieutenant Michael L. Byrd as the officer who killed Ashli Babbitt as she was attempting to climb through a window to enter the House Speaker's lobby that day. Were this identification incorrect, the certainty that the correct one is surfacing in secretless D.C. reminds our oligarchy of how hazardous are the foundations on which it set the ruling narrative that it narrowly thwarted the supposed "greatest menace to our democracy since the Civil War" — armed, white insurrectionists in the act of overthrowing the U.S. government, by courageous police work and prosecutions. From Joe Biden to the lowest ranks of the Justice Department and the media, the oligarchy had bet, in the name of national security, it could stonewall for the long run about who exactly did what on January 6. A forlorn bet, especially since the narrative on which the oligarchy rests its right to intimidate its opponents depends so much on affirming the virtuosity of its acts of oppression — foremost of which was shooting and killing Babbitt. But if the killing was a salvific act, why hide the killer? Why not celebrate him? Pelosi gets her puppets for partisan Jan. 6 commission. The partisan political propaganda is stunning to behold, even for The New York Times. This observation refers to the July 22 New York Times story on the Pelosi ban on two Republican congressmen from her Jan. 6 select committee, which now will consist of eight Pelosi puppets. Republicans Take Major Action Against "Authoritarian" Pelosi, Push to "Vacate" Her Chair. On Friday [7/23/2021], the House Freedom Caucus sent a bombshell letter to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), urging him to remove Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi from her position as Speaker after her "authoritarian" behavior in recent weeks. The letter came in response to drama that took place this week relating to the formation of the January 6 riot Select Committee. In their letter, the caucus told McCarthy they "respectfully request that you pursue the authorization of the House Republican Conference, pursuant to Conference rules, to file and bring up a privileged motion by July 31, 2021, to vacate the chair and end Nancy Pelosi's authoritarian reign as Speaker of the House." Pelosi is considering adding Kinzinger to Jan. 6 committee. Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is allegedly considering naming Illinois Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger to her special committee to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. "We'll see," Pelosi said when asked by reporters Thursday if she planned on adding more Republicans to the committee, according to CNN. "I mean, there are some members that would like to be on it. We'll see." Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, who leads the committee, told reporters before Pelosi's statement that Kinzinger was one of the Republicans Pelosi wanted for the committee and called him "a fine representative," according to Politico. Liz Cheney holds presser to back Pelosi freezing conservatives from Jan. 6 probe. U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) went rogue on Wednesday [7/21/2021], holding her own press conference to bash Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy for pulling out of the Jan. 6 Commission after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi blocked conservative Reps. Jim Jordan and Jim Banks from being on the committee. Cheney stands as the sole Republican backing Pelosi in her biased packing of the commission. She stood on the steps of the Capitol and railed against her fellow Republicans, accusing McCarthy of not wanting to get to the bottom of the Jan. 6 riot. "At every opportunity, the minority leader has attempted to prevent the American people from understanding what happened, to block this investigation. ... I am absolutely dedicated and committed to making sure this investigation holds those accountable who did this and ensures that it never happens again," she vowed. The Coming 'January 6' Train Wreck. The January 6 Capitol clash may be the gift that keeps on giving to cynics everywhere. In the coming months, Americans will likely see jaw-dropping bureaucratic debacles, stunning abuses by federal prosecutors, and appalling bloodlust by angry Biden supporters. Perhaps the least likely outcome is that the coming train wreck will restore faith in American democracy. The Justice Department declared last week, "The investigation and prosecution of the Capitol Breach will be the largest in American history, both in terms of the number of defendants prosecuted and the nature and volume of the evidence." The feds are sorting through "237,000 digital tips, 1 million Parler videos and images comprising 40 terabytes of data scraped from the Internet — roughly equivalent to 10 million photos, 20,000 hours of video, or 50,000 filing cabinets of paper documents," the Washington Post reported. Investigators are also sorting through "cell tower data for thousands of electronic devices that connected to the Capitol's interior distributed antenna system," information provided by phone companies, Google, and other data aggregation companies. The problem will be compounded because many government employees are slow readers. House erupts in anger over Jan. 6 and Trump's role. Smoldering tensions over the Jan. 6 Capitol attack exploded Wednesday in a partisan battle over who should sit on the special committee investigating the deadly siege — a clash of wills that spurred Republicans to end their participation in the investigation before it began. The fight started just after noon when Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said she would reject two of the five Republican nominees to the panel, Reps. Jim Banks (Ind.) and Jim Jordan (Ohio). Both are among the most staunch defenders of former President Trump and deny his role in instigating the attack, and Pelosi — fueled by objections from within her caucus — accused the pair of threatening "the integrity" of the coming investigation. Republicans quickly responded in kind. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) called a private meeting with all five of his nominees for the select committee, emerging shortly after with an ultimatum to Pelosi: Keep Banks and Jordan on board, or all of the Republican picks would walk away. Pelosi didn't budge, prompting McCarthy to yank the other three Republicans from the panel. Boebert Demands to Know Why Biden Regime Keeping Capitol Protesters in Lockdown While Antifa Rioters Go Free. A group of Republican lawmakers led by freshmen Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado are demanding that the Biden administration explain the alleged unequal treatment of Black Lives Matter and Antifa protesters, many of whom have never spent a night in jail, and those who have been incarcerated for months following the Jan. 6 Capitol breach. In a letter, Boebert and 10 other House Republicans asked Attorney General Merrick Garland to address "the apparent inconsistent application of the law with respect to rioters across the country," according to the Washington Times. "The foundation of our criminal justice system requires that all defendants are treated equally before the law, but the Biden regime is not living up to this solemn obligation," said Boebert, in a statement. Cheney sides with Pelosi decision to block GOP members from riot panel. Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, the former No. 3 GOP member in the House, said Wednesday that she sided with Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her decision to block two GOP lawmakers from serving on the special committee created to investigate the Jan. 6 riot. "I agree with what the speaker has done," Cheney, who Pelosi appointed to the panel earlier this month, told reporters outside the Capitol Wednesday [7/21/2021]. Pelosi blocked Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio and Jim Banks of Indiana from serving as one of five GOP appointees on the committee on Wednesday. The move overruled Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, a California Republican. McCarthy responded by pulling all five GOP lawmakers from the panel and announcing Republicans would conduct their own investigation into Jan. 6 that would focus on why Capitol security was easily overwhelmed by the rioters. Cheney is poised to be the sole Republican on the committee after accepting an appointment by Pelosi earlier this month. Cheney is a staunch foe of former President Donald Trump. She lost her House Republican leadership position earlier this year after publicly attacking Trump in defiance of McCarthy and other Republicans who said it was damaging party messaging and unity. The Antifa/FBI Coalition. Over two dozen people were killed during the Antifa and BLM protests in 2020. It is routinely reported that "five people died as a result" of the Jan. 6 disturbance. This is a totally accurate statement, however, it is still misleading. Only one of the deceased died as a result of violence. She was actually murdered by a government official. Relating these deaths allows the media to routinely describe Jan. 6 as a "deadly insurrection" as opposed to the "mostly peaceful" protests by Antifa and BLM. Prior to Jan. 6, Trump supporters had held dozens of mass rallies without burning cities or murdering people. This was a major embarrassment for the Deep State. Media coverage of the Jan. 6 event has been largely successful in minimizing that embarrassment. This was a major Deep State coup and the planning and execution of this "insurrection" reveal a disturbing relationship between the government and radical groups. The FBI did not only fail to adequately prevent the disturbance, they appear to have actively facilitated it. The FBI and radical leftists are branches of the Deep State. Pelosi Proves What a Sham Her Jan. 6 Commission Truly Is With Her Latest Move. If you didn't already know that a "Jan. 6 Commission" controlled by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) was going to be a partisan witch hunt, Pelosi just confirmed it with her latest move. Pelosi had appointed Democratic choices to the Commission including Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), so you already know how biased it was going to be, stacked with anti-Trump people. It was already stacked, with Democrats having eight choices for members and Republicans only getting five. But when Republicans announced their choices for the Commission, Pelosi vetoed two of them: Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH). In a statement, Pelosi reiterated the lie that the three-hour riot on Jan. 6 was the worst domestic assault on American Democracy since the Civil War. Pentagon watchdog to review 'nuclear football' safety procedures after January 6 incident. The Department of Defense inspector general is launching a review of the Pentagon's and White House's ability to keep the "nuclear football" secure during a crisis, following an incident on January 6 when rioters came within 100 feet of the backup "football." The inspector general will evaluate the policies and procedures around the Presidential Emergency Satchel, also known as the "nuclear football," in the event that it is "lost, stolen, or compromised," according to an announcement from the DoD IG's office. The "nuclear football" stays close to the president at all times. There is a backup "football" that stays close to the vice president in the event that the president is unable to carry out his nuclear launch responsibilities. The briefcase contains equipment and decision-making papers that the president or, in the event the president is not able to, the vice president needs to authenticate orders for and to launch a nuclear strike. The Editor says... Pelosi Rejects Two GOP Appointments to Capitol Riot Committee; McCarthy Nixes Participation in Response. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) rejected the potential appointments of Representatives Jim Jordan (R., Ohio) and Jim Banks (R., Ind.) to a select committee on the January 6 Capitol riot, in a statement on Wednesday [7/21/2021]. In response, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) said he would pull all Republican members from the committee. McCarthy initially recommended the two lawmakers along with Rodney Davis of Illinois, Kelly Armstrong of North Dakota, and Troy Nehls of Texas. "The Select Committee on the January 6th Insurrection will investigate and report upon the facts and causes of the terrorist mob attack on the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021," Pelosi said. "With respect for the integrity of the investigation, with an insistence on the truth and with concern about statements made and actions taken by these Members, I must reject the recommendations of Representatives Banks and Jordan to the Select Committee." Tucker:
Pelosi knows why Jan 6 riot happened, why won't she tell us? Instead of launching a committee for the purposes of political theater,
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) herself could shed a lot of light on what happened at the Capitol on January 6. Instead, the
investigation will resemble "MSNBC with subpoena power." That is how Tucker Carlson assessed the situation in another powerful editorial
delivered on Wednesday evening [7/21/2021] on his eponymous Fox News show. Pelosi could save the committee, if not the entire Congress and
America itself, a lot of time by answering a few basic questions, Carlson said. These include the following:
The Rank Shame of the FBI's Rank and File. More than 530 mostly peaceful Trump supporters have now been arrested for their unauthorized tour of the Capitol on January 6. The incomparable Julie Kelly has covered in grueling detail their arrests, indefinite detainment, and the cruelty with which they've been treated by the federal government. Many of these protesters have been arrested by the FBI, a once-revered federal law enforcement entity that at one point might have deserved your respect. It doesn't anymore. Federal prosecutions of January 6 raise questions of politics and equity. At the same time accused murderers are being released from custody under a broad movement to largely empty out prisons and jails, the federal government continues to throw the book at Donald Trump supporters for lesser alleged crimes. The alleged politically-motivated actions are drawing attention and criticism from some civil rights activists and legal observers. One civil rights activist who works with whistleblowers and describes himself as a "devoted liberal," and who did not wish to be named for fear of political persecution, says the federal government's pattern of prosecutions is disturbing and raises Constitutional questions. "People no longer have faith that justice is blind," says the official, who is an an executive at a national nonprofit organization. "They see that people on one side of the political spectrum are treated one way [and] the other side gets a pass." Reps. Roy, Massie push DOJ for information on Capitol riot prosecutions. Representatives Chip Roy (R-TX) and Thomas Massie (R-KY) sent a follow-up letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday requesting information on the investigations and prosecutions of Americans involved in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. In the letter, the congressmen wrote that they have not received a response from the DOJ to a May letter asking the same questions on the Jan. 6 Capitol riot prosecutions, and giving a deadline of July 21 to respond. "We continue to hear stories of overly aggressive and violent tactics from FBI agents executing arrest warrants on individuals with no risk of violence or who committed mere trespass offenses," the letter reads. "And DOJ continues to push for pretrial incarceration of citizens with no history of, or propensity for, violence, only to be rebuffed by judges time and time again. The American people deserve to know why." The last six months have seen a lot of leftist wish fulfillment. The left cried "insurrection!" on January 6 and, ever since, has used that cry to intimidate us. The whole Capitol event, I'm convinced, was orchestrated. It was a tableau they created deliberately. The orchestrators counted on our good people exercising just enough poor judgment to follow willingly the lead of others in the huge crowd, despite not knowing them. Leftists knew that if those others appeared to be like Trump-supporters — dressed like them, appeared to be trustworthy — there would be people who would follow blindly. Pelosi refused the 10,000 National Guard troops Trump offered to keep order because of the predicted rally size. I'm betting that the pipe bombs were planted by leftist operatives — why else has nobody been identified as having planted them? Antifa disguised as patriots rallied the crowd to break windows and flow into open Capitol doors. We know now that there were FBI plants among the crowd, too. The violence was calculated to fit a purposeful narrative. I suspect that Ashli Babbitt's murder was unintentional — but somebody had to get shot, I'm guessing, so the crowd would go nuts and disintegrate into mob violence. It didn't work, a credit to the mostly orderly Patriots, the same crowd of patriots who, when they marched in the past, even cleaned up after themselves. Because of this setup, we now know we can trust no one. MJT: Detention Facilities for Illegal Immigrants Are Better than the Capitol Hill Defendants. Georgia freshman Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene did not mince her words this week when discussing the hypocrisy of the Biden administration. During an interview Monday night on Newsmax's "Cortes & Pellegrino," Greene said the facilities for illegal immigrants are better than the ones where Capitol Hill protesters are being held. [...] "I think it's outrageous. You know, and I have no problem saying that these January 6 defendants are being treated like political prisoners of war," Greene began. "One of the things I did last week in California I toured the border, and I also got to see one of the detention facilities that ICE and our U.S. Marshals use, and I can tell you for a fact, illegals that break our laws entering our country and also have broken laws and are awaiting their court dates, they are treated far better than these January 6 defendants, especially those that are being held in the deplorable jail right here in Washington D.C.," she added. Who's Next? [Scroll down] This unprecedented state intervention into every level of American life is justified, the Administration claims, by the unrest that occurred at the Capitol on January 6. That event, while regrettable and ill-judged, has also been thoroughly mythologized into a veritable Reichstag Fire by Democrat politicians, Republican enablers, and a chorus of willing journalists. A few buffoonish and overzealous protestors have been narrativized into a cabal of organized insurrectionists who brought us, in the words of Democrat Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, to the brink of "a martial state." One must admire the sinister rhetorical economy of a Party that can invent a threat of martial law while working steadily, and quite in the open, to impose it themselves. At the heart of this assault on Americans by their government is a lie: the lie that Trump supporters killed Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick on January 6. As Northeastern Political Science Professor Max Abrahms notes in this feature, "Even after the official medical examiner concluded in April that Sicknick died from natural causes, President Biden, MSNBC, and CNN have continued to promote the politically self-serving fiction that he was killed in a terrorist attack." Now, in the Administration's new document, this invented murder is presented as the disastrous climax of an equally dishonest story about a supposed plague of right-wing terrorism in America. Zombie chimps from heck. The January 6 unpleasantness at the U.S. Capitol has been called "another 9/11," a "violent insurrection," and worse. But only one person died violently that day, and she was an unarmed white protester shot by a reportedly Black Capitol Police officer. Police literally opened the Capitol doors to let the marchers come inside. There was some major shoving by the mob and limited but oft-replayed breaking of windows (including some by people dressed like Antifa), but no serious violence and, considering the circumstances, rather a cordial relationship with police. All kinds of videos show well-behaved crowds inside the Capitol, in hilarious contrast to Antifa Marxists. The famous Buffalo Shaman guy literally strolled quietly into the Senate Chamber accompanied by a policeman. Then he led a small group in a prayer. That mellow dude remains locked up in isolation, for no other reason than to maintain the fiction of the "attempted overthrow." It's much like the New York Times' fabrication that Officer Brian Sicknick was beaten with a fire extinguisher, when in fact he died, uninjured, of a stroke the following day. Joe Biden's Misery Index Rises. In part, we are witnessing the gradual erosion of the two great myths which underpin the present wobbling administration: despite having 95 percent support from the national political media and outspending Trump two-to-one, it did not win a clean or unquestionable election; and despite fervent attempts to pretend otherwise, the trespass at the Capitol on January 6 was not organized, incited, or condoned by Trump or his organization and it was neither seriously armed, remotely coordinated, or intended by anyone to be an insurrection. The failure to come up with any serious indictments despite holding trespassers in prison for six months on what must have been strenuous shakedown efforts to suborn false inculpatory testimony, indicates that the politicization of the FBI continues. The Democratic effort to present the 2020 election as a deliverance of democracy from potential revolutionary despotism is a complete failure. The presentation by the FBI of a Lego set of over a thousand pieces, in its box, that when assembled makes a model of the United States Capitol, which was found at the home of January 6 trespasser Robert Morss, is indicative of how seriously the FBI has deteriorated, at least partially because of the political rot that infected it in the Obama era under Comey and McCabe. Insurrectionist Terrorist (or Is It Terrorist Insurrectionist?) Gets, Yes, an Eight-Month Sentence. A federal judge has imposed an eight-month term of imprisonment in the first sentencing on a felony charge stemming from the Capitol riot. The sentence was imposed on Paul Allard Hodgkins, a 38-year-old from Tampa, by Judge Randolph Moss, an Obama-appointee to the U.S. district court in Washington, D.C. In a widely seen photo, Hodgkins was depicted in Trump regalia and brandishing a Trump flag near the presiding officer's desk in the Senate chamber on January 6. Notwithstanding the overwrought political rhetoric by congressional Democrats and Biden administration officials, particularly Attorney General Merrick Garland, portraying the riot as an atrocity on par with such terrorist mass-murder strikes as the 9/11 attacks, the Justice Department did not charge Hodgkins with anything like a terrorism crime — no charge of sedition or insurrection. He was instead permitted to plead guilty to a single count of obstructing a congressional proceeding. In order to inflate the gravity of the misconduct, the Justice Department has been hyping the potential exposure of up to 20 years' incarceration prescribed by the relevant obstruction statute. But the statutory terms are general, applying to all offenders guilty of obstructing congressional proceedings, no matter how serious or comparatively trivial the conduct. DEA agent is arrested for storming the Capitol on January 6. A special agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration has been arrested for taking part in the Capitol riot displaying his firearm while waving a flag reading 'Liberty or Death'. Mark Sami Ibrahim, of Orange County, California, filmed himself storming the Capitol on January 6 with his gun tucked into his pants, and law enforcement badge on display. He was arrested on July 20 and charged with entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds with a firearm, entering Capitol grounds with a firearm, and stepping and climbing on statues on Capitol grounds. As they start sentencing January 6 detainees, the Democrats have a problem. Since January 6, the Democrats have played up the kerfuffle in the Capitol on January as the worst thing ever in American history, while ignoring the innumerable times leftists have aggressively invaded the Capitol. [...] Within minutes of January 6, the Democrats, who had turned a blind eye to the incredible violence of 2020, much of it played out on federal property, had their narrative in place: When elderly, unarmed people clamored to enter the Capitol — and the Capitol police opened the doors to let them in — that was an "insurrection." D.C., therefore, had to be turned into an armed camp. This was a convenient way to hide the fact that, had D.C. been open for business as usual on inauguration day, no one would have turned up to see the doddering mound of corruption that is Joe Biden false swear an oath he immediately ignored. Since January 6, Democrats have escalated their rhetoric. Steve Cohen, a Tennessee Democrat, likened January 6 to the Exodus and Pearl Harbor. Capitol rioter, 38, is jailed for Eight Months in first felony sentence that could set the bar for hundreds of other defendants. A Florida man who breached the US Senate chamber carrying a 'Trump 2020' campaign flag was sentenced on Monday to eight months in prison, making him the first among hundreds of accused rioters facing prosecution to be incarcerated. Tampa crane operator Paul Allard Hodgkins, 38, apologized and said he was ashamed of his actions on January 6. Speaking calmly from a prepared statement, he described being caught up in the euphoria as he walked down Washington's most famous avenue, then followed a crowd of hundreds up Capitol Hill and into the Capitol building. Jan 6 Protester Faces 20-Years In Prison For Standing In Capitol For 10 Minutes — Wife Launches GiveSendGo. After stealing the 2020 election, the Biden regime, Democrat Party and corporate media continue to exploit the events of January 6 to warrant a manhunt on Trump supporters. Branded "white supremacists" and "domestic terrorists," scores of Americans who protested the fraudulent election in Washington DC have since been arrested in pre-dawn raids and hauled off to jail. [...] Joseph Hackett, a 50-year-old chiropractor, now faces a 20-year sentence in federal prison after "heinously" stepping in the Capitol Building for approximately ten minutes on Jan. 6. Capitol protester sentenced to eight months. Paul Allard Hodgkins, one of the protesters who stormed the Capitol on January 6, received his sentence today. Judge Randolph Moss, an Obama appointee, sentenced Hodgkins to eight months. This is the first felony sentence handed down in connection with the events of January 6. The felony, to which Hodgkins entered a guilty plea, is obstructing a congressional proceeding. He carried a large "Trump 2020" flag onto the floor of the U.S. Senate near the presiding officer's desk. The prosecution sought a sentence of 18 months for Hodgkins. That sentence would have been far too harsh. Hodgkins didn't engage is violent conduct and reportedly he had no previous criminal history. Florida man set to become first Capitol rioter sentenced for felony. A Florida man who breached the Senate chamber on Jan. 6 was sentenced to 8 months behind bars on Monday[,] in the first punishment handed to a Capitol rioter for a felony plea. Paul Allard Hodgkins, 38, apologized to the court, saying that he was ashamed of his actions and had gotten caught up in the moment when he joined the mob in the Capitol building. "If I had any idea that the protest ... would escalate (the way) it did ... I would never have ventured farther than the sidewalk of Pennsylvania Avenue," Hodgkins told the judge, adding, "This was a foolish decision on my part." First felony sentencing for Capitol rioter set. Paul Allard Hodgkins, a 38-year-old crane operator from Tampa, Fla., was sentenced Monday [7/18/2021] to eight months in prison for his part in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Hodgkins' sentencing was the first for a felony in what is expected to be some 600 more for those who breached the Capitol building. The Editor says... Families of 9/11 victims enraged at libs comparing terror attack to Jan. 6 riot 'to score points politically'. The families of 9/11 victims are enraged over the media and leftists portraying the U.S. Capitol riot as being worse than the horrific terrorist attacks that occurred almost 20 years ago, leaving nearly 3,000 dead in their wake and launching wars across the globe. Families who lost loved ones on that tragic day told Fox News that they are disgusted and sickened by the comparison of the two events. While one person tragically died during the Capitol riot at the hands of an anonymous officer, 9/11 took thousands of grandparents, mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, and loved ones from their families forever. Ten Signs that the Age of Biden is Upon Us. [#10] The Lies About January 6 Slowly Are Exposed: This week, then-Capitol Police chief Steven A. Sund debunked the claim that the evacuations of the Capitol Buildings were caused by the pro-Trump demonstrations. Instead, he said that the evacuations were actually caused by the discovery of pipe bombs at the DNC and RNC headquarters located not far from the Capitol. To my knowledge, no one has been charged or arrested with placing those bombs and no one has claimed any of the many arrestees being held in unconscionable conditions for months had a thing to do with the bombs even though there are security videos of the guy who planted them. Change Of Venue for January 6th Trials. George Washington University School of Law's Program on Extremism has created an online resource for tracking the hundreds of criminal cases filed by the Biden Justice Department against United States citizens for their alleged actions on January 6th. The Administration has charged people from all 50 states, and as is reflected in the"Capitol Hill Siege" project archive, every case has been filed in the District of Columbia. This was far from inevitable. Despite the fact that the events on January 6th all culminated at the United States Capitol, according to federal court rules, not a single trial is required to take place in the District of Columbia. The rules do not require that the Department of Justice demand that trials regarding the events of January 6th take place in the District of Columbia. This is the Real Reason the Capitol Building Was Evacuated on Jan. 6. The January 6th uprising at the capitol building during the convening of the Electoral College is one of the most mythologized events in U.S. history, despite it now only being half a year old. One of the most politically impactful impressions of the Jan. 6 siege is the extreme danger presumably posed to the nation's lawmakers. After all, these were assuredly Trump supporters upset about the 2020 election. What other reason would they storm the capitol building than to overturn the results? Yet, there are numerous false assumptions that betray the mainstream narrative about the Capitol riots. The real crack in the narrative begins with this: The Capitol building was evacuated because of the bomb threat, not because of the protesters outside. How do we know this? Because former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund testified to it earlier this year, although the major news media appears to have missed or ignored this salient fact. The Real Story of January 6. [Scroll down] The Jan. 6 shooting of an unarmed protestor in the Capitol building also shocks the conscience of the nation. However, legal and political measures, and the media's false accounts of Jan. 6, have been employed to bury the murder of Ashli Babbitt and shield the identity of the U.S. Capitol Police officer who killed her. Charges have been brought against hundreds of Trump supporters for their actions during the protest. Dozens have been detained without bail in a Washington, DC jail for non-violent offenses, some of them misdemeanors, like trespassing. Federal and Washington, DC authorities refuse to make public the entirety of the 14,000 hours of videotape in possession of the U.S. Capitol Police and instead leak clips to the press selectively edited to put the protestors in the worst possible light. And what of the plainclothes policeman who drew his weapon on Ashli Babbitt and shot her in the throat? After a cursory investigation, local and federal law authorities declined any further action. And with that, Democratic Party officials and the press made the most important fact of Jan. 6 disappear. Because Republican officials are scared the media will tar them as "insurrectionists," too, they have made no effort to hold anyone accountable for the most gruesome crime ever committed in their place of work. Dem Rep Joyce Beatty Storms US Capitol, Arrested and Released Soon After While Trump Supporters Languish in Isolation in Prison for 6 Months for Same Offense. Democrat Rep. Joyce Beatty along with a group of far-left protesters stormed the Hart Senate Building on Thursday chanting, "End the filibuster!" Congresswoman Beatty, who is the head of the Congressional Black Caucus, was arrested during the insurrection by Capitol Police. Police zip-tied her wrists and marched her off. [...] Rep. Beatty was out of confinement soon afterward. Yet, ironically, she complained about 'the double-standard treatment'. She did not have to worry about being held indefinitely without trial. She did not have to worry about losing her job or being doxxed in her community. Congressional Black Caucus chairwoman Joyce Beatty is arrested in Senate office building by Capitol Police. Police arrested Congressional Black Caucus chair Joyce Beatty on Thursday afternoon after she led pro-voting rights protesters into a Senate office building. Officers moved in as Beatty, 71, and a handful of other activists, including Women's March co-founders Linda Sarsour and Tamika Mallory, chanted, 'Fight for justice,' and, 'End the filibuster.' Capitol Police later said they had arrested nine people for 'demonstrating in a prohibited area on Capitol Grounds.' Democrat Congresswoman Arrested After Leading Protesters Into Senate Building: Officials. U.S. Capitol Police on Thursday [7/15/2021] arrested Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio) during a protest at the Hart Senate Office Building in the Capitol. Photos taken by media outlets show Beatty, the chair of the Congressional Black Congress, being led away by a female officer while in handcuffs. Beatty also appeared to celebrate her own arrest, posting photos of herself on Twitter being led away by the Capitol Police officer. The protest appeared to be about voting rights and demonstrating against GOP-led state legislatures passing election integrity measures in recent months. The Capitol Cover Up. Judge G. Michael Harvey sounded floored. During a detention hearing this week for Robert Morss, arrested last month for his involvement in the Capitol protest, a federal prosecutor told Harvey she needed permission from the government before she could turn over to him a slice of video related to Morss' case. [...] The hearing is the latest example of how hard the USCP and Justice Department are fighting to keep more than 14,000 hours of surveillance video under wraps. Lawyers for the USCP insist the recordings can't be released for fear doing so will give wannabe insurrectionists too much information about the inside of the complex; the Justice Department claims the footage is "highly sensitive" government material. Defense lawyers and media companies are fighting for fuller access to videos used as evidence by the Justice Department. Cherry-picked clips produced by the government are released to the media to support the narrative that January 6 was an armed, violent insurrection perpetrated by domestic terrorists who supported Donald Trump. The Biden Justice Department, in other words, has full control over a massive trove of recordings that shows exactly what happened on January 6. The Government's Case Against a 'White Supremacist'. Tim Hale-Cusanelli might not be the easiest January 6 protester to defend. Some of the memes investigators found on his cell phone mock black people. Hale seems to have an odd fixation with Adolf Hitler, even sporting a haircut and moustache to resemble the Nazi leader. Those close to him say he's a comedian of sorts and insist his videos are satire not intended to hurt anyone. But a cursory view of the government's evidence against him raises eyebrows. They do not, however, make him a criminal. Hale, an Army reservist for 11 years, was honorably discharged after he was arrested for participating in the Capitol protest on January 6. At the time, Hale was a security contractor at the Naval Weapons Station in New Jersey but quickly became ensnared in the Justice Department's "shock and awe" campaign that rounded up at least 100 Americans before January 20 to stop people from going to Washington, D.C. to protest the inauguration of Joe Biden. Texas couple, along with their son and two daughters are charged with taking part in the Jan 6. Capitol siege after a family friend turned them in. Five members of the same Texas family have been arrested and charged for taking part in the January 6 riot at the US Capitol, federal documents reveal. The Department of Justice has brought federal trespassing and disorderly conduct charges against Kristi Munn, Tom Munn, Dawn Munn, Josh Munn, and Kayli Munn of Borger, Texas. During the choas, Kristi Munn is alleged to have posted a message on Facebook that read: 'Tear gas tastes like freedom.' No treason or sedition charges for January 6 rioters. The number of people who have been charged in connection with the January 6th riot at the Capitol Building has now grown to over 500. Few of the accused have achieved the level of "fame" that Jake Angeli, the so-called Qanon shaman has achieved, but they are all facing a variety of charges ranging from disturbing the peace to vandalism, with a smaller number facing assault raps. Plea deals are being struck already, with some of the participants agreeing to cop to lesser charges to avoid a trial. But Michael Tarm of the Associated Press thinks he sees something missing from all of these proceedings. Why, he asks, has nobody been charged with sedition or treason? Biden Implies that Civil War Confederate Soldiers Were Better People Than Trump Supporters on Jan. 6th. During an unhinged speech on Wednesday in Philadelphia, President Joe Biden implied that Confederate soldiers were better people than the Trump supporters at the January 6th riot because not even the "confederates" during the Civil War "never breached the Capitol." The comments from Biden came when he accused Republicans of attempting to "suppress and subvert the right to vote" with voter security laws. "There's an unfolding assault taking place in America today, an attempt to suppress and subvert the right to vote in fair and free elections, an assault on democracy, an assault on liberty, and assault on who we are, who we are as Americans, for make no mistake, bullies and merchants of fear, peddlers of lies, are threatening the very foundation of our country," Biden stated. Megyn Kelly sends left into uproar after noting media portrayal of Jan. 6 'much worse than it actually was'. Now-independent journalist Megyn Kelly has the left in an uproar after observing that the media is portraying the Jan. 6 protest at the U.S. Capitol "as so much worse than it actually was." Taking their lead from Democrats, the media has billed the riot that day as being on the same scale as 9/11 or Pearl Harbor, claiming it was an "insurrection," an attempt to overthrow the federal government — of course, the worst they portray it, the more beneficial it is to their real agenda, which is to blame it on former President Trump. "A faction turned," Kelly said on her popular podcast, speaking of some at the Capitol that fateful day. "But there's no question the media represented this as so much worse than it actually was." January 6 inmates endure 'human rights violations on a daily basis,' bail motion alleges. If the late Jeffrey Epstein's alleged partner in sex trafficking can be granted a laptop 13 hours a day to actively participate in her defense, why not January 6 defendants? The jailhouse accommodation for Ghislaine Maxwell is the most prominent example cited in a bail application for alleged Capitol rioter Dominic Pezzola, submitted to D.C. federal court Friday [7/9/2021]. The 43-year-old veteran, now incarcerated in D.C. jail for 150 days, has been effectively shut out of his own defense in violation of constitutional guarantees specifically for defendants, not just their counsel, the filing says. Not only is Pezzola unable to "adequately" view the voluminous text, audio and video evidence held by the prosecution, but like all other January 6 defendants housed a short drive from the U.S. Capitol, his right to attorney-client privilege is functionally meaningless, his lawyers Marty Tankleff and Steven Metcalf argue. So Much Evidence that January 6, 2021 was a Calculated Set-Up. Political persecution and isolation of vast swaths of the citizenry by the Justice Department, the Intelligence Community, and the Judiciary in the wake of the January 6, 2021, Capitol incursion should bring a chill down the spine of every American. This same troika, but with different nomenclature, was mobilized by 20th Century despots to eliminate their political enemies and establish a police state. (I attended the January 6, 2021 rally at the U.S. Capitol and observed first-hand what the media and the Democrats have falsely and with malice claimed was an "armed insurrection.") The initial step in consolidating power is to incessantly demonize as enemies of the state one's political opponents. The second is to isolate and delegitimize them by either staging or so exaggerating an incident that any and all steps to quash them are acceptable in order to "save the nation." Therefore, the question is: was January 6th pre-planned by legitimate Trump supporters, was it spontaneous or was it a calculated set-up? A Big Post-January 6th Narrative Gets Officially Debunked. Following the unrest on January 6th, 2021, the media and their political allies set about to paint what happened as the worst thing to hit the country since the Civil War. Joe Biden bandied that line about multiple times while Nancy Pelosi feigned deep concern. The reality of the situation always made those comparisons ludicrous, including comparisons to 9/11, where 3,000 people died and terrorists literally attempted to blow up the Capitol Building. Further, there's a fairly objective case to be made that the BLM riots of 2020 were far worse, as well, seeing dozens of deaths and billions in destruction. On January 6th, one person was killed — Ashli Babbitt, who was shot by an unidentified police officer. Some will gasp at me for daring to add context to the situation, but I'd argue the distinct lack of actual action once people entered the Capitol Building is fairly good evidence they only meant to yell at people and take selfies. Certainly, a single police officer standing in a hallway, which was one of the famed confrontations of the day, did not actually hold back the crowd. Rather, the crowd obviously chose not to lash out further. Pointing out such details is not an apologetic of January 6th, and frankly, I'm sick of bad-faith actors insisting you can not apply objective context without being complicit. With all that said, one of the big post-January 6th narratives was that people were leaving and would leave the Republican Party in droves over their disgust with what occurred. Was that true? Did the American people actually buy the ridiculous notion that January 6th was worse than 9/11 and comparable to the Civil War? No, the FBI did not seize a 'fully constructed Lego set' from a Jan 6 rioter. It has been revealed that a report by The Daily Beast regarding a "fully assembled" Lego model of the Capitol, found in the possession of a suspect charged in connection to the riot Jan. 6, was fake news. Last week, social media lit up after The Daily Beast published a "scoop" revealing that a man arrested for his involvement in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot had a "fully assembled" Lego set of the US Capitol in his home. The story was widely mocked by political commentators and keyboard pundits asking if the FBI was going to investigate other Lego sets in people's homes, everything from Hogwarts to the Death Star. It turns out the reporting was erroneous, as the man only had the unopened box set. The Editor says... Dear Reporters: The Capitol Riot Was Not 9/11, and the story is not about the media. There is a faction of the news media that seems stuck on January 6. They need to get some perspective. And political hucksters who claim that the Capitol riot was worse than the September 11 attacks deserve all the derision they get. One symptom of the January 6 fixation is a recent Vice article entitled, "'So, So Angry': Reporters Who Survived the Capitol Riot Are Still Struggling." [...] Get over yourselves. The Capitol Hill press corps are not the first people to deal with a traumatic event and be expected to keep doing their jobs. This was not the worst of those, and some of those other events were also wholly or partly the work of political actors. Ask any of us who went through September 11. Trump digs into who shot Ashli Babbitt, report that officer was on big Dem's security detail. Former President Donald Trump said Sunday [7/11/2021] that he has heard information that the U.S. Capitol Police officer who shot and killed unarmed Jan. 6 protester Ashli Babbitt was the "head of security" for a top Democrat. Capitol Sergeant at Arms Timothy Blodgett dropped the name of the officer widely suspected of shooting Babbitt during a hearing, as was recently reported. Lt. Michael Byrd was at the door in the U.S. Capitol when the 14-year Air Force veteran was shot, Blodgett confirmed. The officer has reportedly been in hiding and under protection since that fateful day. Trump appeared Sunday [7/11/2021] on Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures," and was asked about January 6. You are Now in the Totalitarian Zone. In a press release, the Capitol Police, a largely patronage operation designed to protect the Capitol, just received a large boost in its already substantial budget to build regional offices in California and Florida and then in other regions "to investigate threats to members of Congress. Reason shares my concern about yet another spying operation: ["]The department does not need to become yet another unaccountable intelligence agency involved in the dubious and often nakedly political project of conducting widespread surveillance on the American people. Opening field agencies and monitoring "threats to members of Congress" are actions that dilute the Capitol Police's very clear mandate to guard the Capitol building. The FBI, National Security Agency (NSA), Department of Homeland Security, and CIA are already empowered to investigate threats to political leaders; the federal government does not need to hire additional spymasters for this purpose, especially given that the agencies burdened with doing so have tended to violate the rights of innocent Americans. But make no mistake: The Capitol Police has every intention of becoming just like the FBI and the NSA.["] Even worse, as the Capitol Police force is considered part of Congress, it is not covered by the Freedom of Information Act which means its operations are not transparent or accountable. That's what has so far kept it from having to divulge the name of the officer who shot Ashli Babbitt. Neither the Capitol Police nor the FBI has made publicly available the thousands of hours of videos of the January 6 Capitol riot which by now only the most deranged, ill-informed, or partisan continue to claim was an "armed insurrection" or one that resulted in the death of an officer. The Capitol Police Will Open Offices in the States To 'Investigate Threats to Members of Congress'. The January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol thrust its police force into a sympathetic national spotlight; like any other government agency, the U.S. Capitol Police has seized this opportunity to expand its mission and acquire additional funding. Now the Capitol Police plans to build regional field offices in the states: California and Florida, for starters. "The Department is also in the process of opening Regional Field Offices in California and Florida with additional regions in the near future to investigate threats to Members of Congress," notes the department in a press release. [...] This development should be vigorously opposed by all civil libertarians. Unfortunately, funding for the Capitol Police is tied into a larger, fraught political narrative about right-wing threats to law and order. For many on the right, Trump and his unhinged supporters are the good guys, which makes the Capitol Police the bad guys. For liberals, it's the reverse. This has hopelessly scrambled what should have been a clear consensus that the U.S. does not need another domestic spy agency. 'Utterly Unacceptable': Judge Blasts DC Jail for Not Allowing Jan. 6 Capitol Defendant Access to Evidence. A federal Washington D.C. judge faulted a district jail on Thursday for failing to provide evidence to a defendant who was arrested for allegedly being involved in the Jan. 6 Capitol breach and has been held there for months. Jorden Mink, the defendant in the case, was indicted on several federal charges, including destruction of government property and theft. Mink, who has pleaded not guilty, has been held in jail since January. Officials have alleged Mink used a baseball bat to smash windows at the Capitol and passed furniture through the smashed windows to the crowd outside. "I can't allow someone to sit in prison for this long without access to material," Judge Randolph Moss said at a court hearing on Thursday, saying the delay in evidence was "utterly unacceptable" and "not consistent with due process." The weaponization of January 6. After the disputed 2020 election with questionable results in numerous states, millions of President Trump's supporters were enraged. There were election challenges and protests across the country. The major protest on January 6 in Washington, D.C. was the culmination of weeks of rallies across the country. Although estimates vary widely, the January 6 rally featuring President Trump attracted at least 500,000 supporters. The overwhelming majority of the participants heeded President Trump's plea to "peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard." Some participants marched to the U.S. Capitol, and about 900 people entered the building. Research from the staff of U.S. senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) shows that approximately 40% of those who entered the U.S. Capitol were allowed into the building by the police. Among the rest, those who committed vandalism or assault should be prosecuted. The others may have entered the building illegally, but their actions do not rise to the level of terrorism. It has not stopped some far-left activists masquerading as analysts from claiming that the events of January 6 were worse than 9/11, the day that the country was attacked by Islamic terrorists, which resulted in the deaths of 2,977 innocent people. No Relief for Lego Man or Other January 6 Detainees. Joe Biden's Justice Department wants the Lego Man kept behind bars — indefinitely. Federal agents seized a plastic replica of the Capitol building from the Pennsylvania home of Robert Morss during his arrest on June 11. Justice Department officials are citing the Lego model as evidence in the criminal case against Morss for his involvement in the January 6 protest: "During his arrest, law enforcement recovered some clothing and other items that appear to match those he carried with him on the 6th — including a 'Don't Tread on Me' flag, a neck gaiter, a military utility bag, a black tourniquet, and military fatigues. (Law enforcement also recoverd [sic] a fully constructed U.S. Capitol Lego set.)" So wrote government prosecutors in a July 2 filing asking the D.C. District Court to deny Morss' release while he awaits trial on nine counts, including assaulting police officers and disorderly conduct. While dangerous criminals daily threaten the safety of innocent people in cities across the country — and many are released on bail — the FBI continues its nationwide manhunt for Capitol protesters while the Justice Department repeatedly petitions the court to keep the accused incarcerated for months on end. Attorney General Merrick Garland, who despicably compares January 6 to the Oklahoma City bombing, recently bragged his office reached a "benchmark" of 500 arrests. (Who knew criminal investigations had quotas?) Last layer of Capitol fencing removed. The inner ring of fencing around the US Capitol was removed Saturday, more than six months after the Jan. 6 riot that led to its construction. Small knots of tourists quickly ventured onto the historic building's broad stone plaza to snap close-ups of its marble facade and iconic steps, and joggers weaved through the scattered groups. House Sergeant at Arms William Walker said Wednesday that the fencing would begin to come down this weekend based on a new Capitol Police assessment showing a lower threat level than earlier this year. The outer ring of fencing was removed in March. A Coup Against The Constitution? The 2020 election was a debacle for many reasons, as the Democrats exploited the COVID crisis to shred the usual controls on ballots and their validation. They got the outcome they wished. Then on January 6 they got their own Reichstag Fire to use against all the rabble who supported Donald Trump. There was no "insurrection" that day, but the Biden team has seized upon it to smear anyone on the political right as an enemy of the state who even questioned the election in any way. The people swept up in the massive dragnet deployed by the state security apparatus have been treated as terrorists and over-charged shamelessly for what in most cases was glorified sightseeing. The government activists needed an insurrection, so they invented one. The only conspiracy here was by the left to deprive their political opponents of their Constitutional rights. Murderer released on $15,000 bond as Jan. 6 protesters held indefinitely without bail. Behold the breadth of brazenness in our two-tiered justice system. In one America, we have career violent criminals released on low bail after murder and attempted murder, when the victim is terrified the criminal will attack again if not jailed. In the other America, we have Trump supporters arrested for nonviolent acts of "trespassing" upon public property when Capitol Police held the doors to the building open — yet they are kept in jail for months without bail, despite no criminal record. [...] Earlier this week, WMC-TV news in Memphis reported on Lachrisa Oliver, a Memphis woman who survived a shooting in March who must now deal with the release of the alleged perpetrators into her neighborhood headed into the trial. Tajuana and Teuana Ayers, along with an unnamed juvenile suspect, were arrested for a March 3 shooting that left Lachrisa in critical condition and her nephew dead on her doorstep. Shockingly, Tajuana and Teuana, despite the murder and attempted murder charges, were released on just $15,000 and $25,000 bonds respectively. Federal Government Paying $6.1 Million to Create Database for Capitol Riot Prosecutions. The Department of Justice has committed to paying over $6 million to a multinational firm to create a database to host the reams of data prosecutors are gathering in cases against accused participants of the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. Deloitte Financial Advisory Services, LLP was contracted in late May to help develop the database and the government has started transferring a large volume of materials, including tens of thousands of records from the U.S. Capitol Police, prosecutors said in a court filing this week. "Following the Capitol Breach, the United States recognized that due to the nature and volume of materials being collected, the government would require the use of an outside contractor who could provide litigation technology support services to include highly technical and specialized data and document processing and review capabilities," prosecutors wrote in the filing, which was submitted in a case against several accused Capitol rioters. Date for First January 6 Commission Hearing Has Been Proposed, and It May or May Not Involve Republicans. The first hearing for the select committee on the January 6 Capitol is fast approaching, with or without Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy's (R-CA) picks being chosen for the committee. On Friday [7/9/2021], Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), the chairman of the committee, appeared on MSNBC's "Hallie Jackson Reports," where he offered that the first hearing will be July 21 or 22. He says they will "absolutely" move forward "based on the legislation passed," because they "have a quorum of the committee, and the committee is committed to doing our job." Who killed Ashli Babbitt, and why? [Scroll down] It will not do to conceal the identity of police officers who kill people. Nor, as far as I know, has the identity of such officers been withheld for long in cases involving police shootings of Blacks. In fact, most police departments are required to release an officer's name within days of a fatal shooting regardless of the race of those involved. Furthermore, it will not do to withhold from the public the stated reasons for police killings or the circumstances that caused the officers in question to resort to lethal violence. Again, this information was not withheld in any case I followed where an officer killed an African-American. Yet, it's been half a year since a member of the Capitol Police Force shot and killed Ashli Babbitt on January 6. And still, the name of the officer who shot her has not been disclosed. The fence has to be out of sight and forgotten by Election Day, 2022. Biden Does Not Need A Domestic "Terrorism" Agenda Unless He Is About To Violate American Rights. One of Joe Biden's first actions upon entering the White House was to initiate a 100 day review of the government's domestic terrorism policies, and I think this says a lot about what path his presidency is bound to follow. Yes, the media continually argues that the Capitol protest on Jan 6th was a vast conspiracy on the part of conservatives to "overthrow" the democratic process and commit insurrection. In fact, all it really amounted to was a large protest which was less violent than the majority of Black Lives Matter protests across the nation over the past year. The media also incessantly mentions the five deaths that occurred on the day of the protest while continuing to ignore the fact that NOT ONE of those deaths has been attributed to the direct actions of protesters, and at least three of the deaths were due to natural causes. Why does the mainstream media keep lying by omission? Because they have to keep the narrative alive that the capitol protest is a sign of some underlying conservative "evil" that must be contained or destroyed. We don't really give them much to work with, so they have to create reasons out of thin air to convince people to hate us. A January 6 protester is pushing back against the 'federales' lies. Briefly, on January 6, a combination of Trump supporters, provocateurs, and possible federal actors entered the United States Capitol, as so many leftists had before them. Footage indicates that many walked through open doors with Capitol Officers welcoming them. They wandered through the Capitol and a couple of people stole things. A Capitol Officer murdered an unarmed woman. The entire leftist establishment announced that what happened was worse than the Civil War (650,000 dead), Pearl Harbor (2,335 dead), and 9/11 (2,996 dead) put together. Since then, the feds have pursued people in a way reminiscent of Inspector Javert pursuing Jean Valjean in Les Misérables, with those arrested for non-violent crimes placed in solitary confinement for months. This is despite the fact that most of the charges boil down to trespassing and "parading." This treatment must be understood against the backdrop of 2020, which saw rioters burn down cities, loot to the tune of billions of dollars, brutally assault people and kill more than 20 people, including police officers. All this violence and destruction receive celebratory applause from the same Democrat crew now hyperventilating about January 6. In addition, throughout the year, Democrat-run cities have explicitly or effectively done away with bail and simply allowed known, highly violent criminals, to roam the streets, where they've committed terrible claims. Scapegoats, Boogeymen, and Hobgoblins. During 120 days of rioting, arson, and looting during the summer of 2020, the country suffered about $2 billion in property damage, roughly 25 deaths, and some 14,000 arrests. Rioters burned down a Minneapolis police precinct. They set afire a federal courthouse in Portland. And they tried to incinerate the historic St. John's Episcopal Church next to the White House. Downtown areas of Portland and Seattle were taken over by rioters, who occupied entire city blocks with impunity. Most of those arrested during the violent summer were either released or eventually had their charges dropped or vastly reduced. Although many of the Antifa and BLM rioters shouted revolutionary slogans, called for violence against the police, and carefully organized their rioting on social media, neither the media nor the government ever declared the rioters to be conspiracists or insurrectionists. In contrast, when roughly 500 renegade Trump supporters, in buffoonish fashion, broke into the Capitol on January 6, 2021, the media and government immediately claimed it was a carefully planned "armed insurrection." But no one was arrested for possessing or using a gun. FBI Seizes "Fully Constructed" Lego Model of U.S. Capitol at Home of Alleged January 6th Rioter. The FBI has reportedly found a "fully constructed" Lego brand toy model of the U.S. Capitol in the home of one of the alleged January 6th rioters. The media is treating this story as very, very serious. We live in such dumb times. [...] American citizens have been held in solitary confinement without bail or trial for months, and this is what we're talking about. It's like we're living in an episode of the Twilight Zone. FBI seized 'fully constructed' US Capitol Lego set from home of alleged rioter. The FBI seized a "fully constructed" Lego set of the U.S. Capitol from the home of an alleged insurrectionist. Prosecutors detailed the finding in a court document for Robert Morss, who was arrested on June 11 at his home in Glenshaw, Pa. The government argued that Morss should be detained from court pending trial. According to the court filing dated July 2, law enforcement recovered clothing and other items from Morss's home that match what he carried on Jan. 6. Among the items were a "'Don't Tread on Me' flag, a neck gaiter, a military utility bag, a black tourniquet, and military fatigues." In addition, "law enforcement also recovered a fully constructed U.S. Capitol Lego set," prosecutors wrote. It's unclear why Morss had the Lego set. The Pittsburg Post-Gazette previously reported that Morss was a substitute social studies teacher. Update: Who Shot Ashli Babbitt? And Why Is This A State Secret? More than six months after the events at the U.S. Capitol that led to the shooting death of protester Ashli Babbitt, the officer who killed her remains a secret as carefully guarded as any in Washington, D.C. Why? Real Clear Investigations reporter Paul Sperry — who has been trying for months to learn the name of the U.S. Capitol Police officer who pulled the trigger — reported that a name surfaced, inadvertently, at a February House hearing. Sperry uncovered a transcript and reviewed the C-SPAN video from the hearing. During that inquiry, the House sergeant at arms appears to name the shooter — at least he mentions the officer's last name in the context of that shooting. Sperry deduced, based on other available information, that he was referring to USCP Lt. Michael L. Byrd. Sperry said the department hasn't denied that Byrd was the cop who killed Babbitt, although it did so when another officer's name started getting bandied about. Naming the Capitol Cop Who Killed Unarmed Jan. 6 Rioter Ashli Babbitt. Most police departments — including Washington, D.C.'s Metropolitan Police — are required to release an officer's name within days of a fatal shooting. Not the U.S. Capitol Police, which is controlled by Congress and answers only to Congress. It can keep the public in the dark about the identity and investigation of an officer involved in a shooting indefinitely. Which is what happened with the Jan. 6 shooting of Ashli Babbitt, an unarmed protester in the U.S. Capitol riot who was fatally wounded by a plainclothes police lieutenant as she attempted to breach a set of doors inside the building. For the past six months, as Congress has proposed legislation to reform police departments across the country, the Capitol Police has stiff-armed government watchdogs, journalists and even lawyers for Babbitt, who have sought the identity of the officer and additional details about the shooting. The USCP still refuses to release his name, in stark contrast to recent high-profile police shootings around the nation. In February, USCP issued a press release promising to "share additional information once the investigation is complete." But Justice Department investigators closed their probe in April, clearing the officer of criminal wrongdoing in Babbitt's death, which the medical examiner ruled a homicide. Confirmed: Undercover Agents Were Working Capitol Rioters on January 6, Court Documents Reveal. At least one undercover agent was working the extremist groups that would show up at the Capitol on January 6th, new court documents reveal. The revelation was disclosed in an affidavit accompanying criminal charges against Fi Duong. "An accused U.S. Capitol protester spoke with an undercover Washington police officer on Jan. 6 who later connected the man to an undercover FBI worker," the Epoch Times reported. "On the morning of January 6, 2021, Fi Duong and an associate of his (Associate 1) introduced themselves to a Metropolitan Police Department Undercover Employee (MPD UCE) in the vicinity of Freedom Plaza, Washington, D.C," the criminal complaint states. "Duong asked the MPD UCE if he/she was a 'patriot,' to which the MPD UCE responded in the affirmative and asked Duong the same question. Duong responded by claiming to be an 'operator'." Did the Feds Lie About January 6? Navy Vet Capitol Protester Says So and Wants His Case Moved Out of 'Trump-Hating' Capital. The attorney for one of the men at the "protest gone wild" at the Capitol Building last January has called on the federal judge to move Thomas Edward Caldwell's trial out of "Trump-hating" Washington, D.C. Caldwell was the first of the Capitol protesters to be arrested. The coverage of his arrest set the tone for media coverage of all other arrestees in the Department of Justice's "shock and awe" plan to root out alleged "white nationalist" militancy. Caldwell's attorney says that's the problem because it's untrue. Attorney David W. Fischer filed a motion to move the trial to the Western District of Virginia where there are fewer people who "despise many things that traditional America stands for" and who have less "petulant intolerance for those with differing views." He notes that only 5% of Washington, D.C., residents voted for Trump and they hold him in such contempt that they believed the fake news that he was Russian spy. Capitol Police IG Confirms 'Stand Down' Order Given, Covers Up Name of Official Who Gave It. The Capitol Riot cover-up continues. On Thursday, the Inspector General for the Capitol Police provided testimony that corroborates the contents of a 104-page report on the police's role in the January 6th riot in Washington D.C. But there was a critical piece of information missing: Who gave the order. "An order to hold back heavy riot-control weapons left Capitol Police at a grave disadvantage as front-line officers, vastly outnumbered, fought to protect Congress from a violent mob Jan. 6," the Washington Post reported. "Inspector General Michael Bolton told the House Administration Committee that a deputy assistant chief of police instructed officers not to use the weapons — including stingballs and 40mm launchers — out of concern that 'they could potentially cause life-altering injury and/or death, if they were misused in any way'," the Post said. Undercover FBI Agent Infiltrated Militia Group That Surveilled Capitol: Filing. An accused U.S. Capitol protester spoke with an undercover Washington police officer on Jan. 6 who later connected the man to an undercover FBI worker, according to a new court filing. Fi Duong is facing charges for allegedly entering the Capitol during a joint session of Congress in January, for disrupting the session, and for impeding the session. He faces decades in prison. In an affidavit accompanying the criminal complaint, FBI special agent Jason Jankovitz said that Duong and an associate introduced themselves to an undercover Metropolitan Police Department officer on the morning of Jan. 6. Duong allegedly described himself as an "operator" and asked if the officer was a "patriot," to which the employee responded in the affirmative. Officers later ascertained Duong was inside the Capitol several hours later. A week later, the undercover Washington officer linked Duong with an FBI undercover employee. Did Rashida Tlaib Just Commit Treason? The noble and patriotic Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Gaza) has a big new idea: defund not only the police, but Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Why? Because they engage in terrorism, of course. The Democrat effort to scapegoat and criminalize all opposition to the Leftist agenda in response to their imaginary January 6 "insurrection" is gathering steam, and now Tlaib wants to take it even farther, treating organizations dedicated to defending the United States as if they were enemies of the state. In the Left's new America, that's exactly what they are. More about Rashida Tlaib. Buffoonery Abounds as Adam Schiff Accidentally Proves [the] GOP Right About [the] Focus of [the] Capitol Riots Committee. Democrats and the mainstream media have raked Republicans over the coals for months now over their continued objections to a Capitol Riots Commission. While the Democrat argument is that Republicans are supposedly afraid of the truth, the GOP's argument is that it is unnecessary to add a "commission" on top of the DOJ investigation as well as the other numerous inevitable Democrat-run committee "investigations" into the attack, which they feel will ultimately be little more than show trials designed not only for Democrats to obfuscate the matter even more so than they've already done but also to keep the issue and Trump's name out there going into the 2022 midterms. Now they call being a Republican treason. The Lincoln Project recruited and hired Joe Trippi, a longtime Democrat activist, to derail Republican efforts to win back Congress next year. [...] Trippi wrote in USA Today, "There are no longer two healthy parties in America. The catastrophic mistake for our nation is to continue to see the fight as Democrats vs. Republicans, left vs. right. We are at war with an authoritarian movement fueled by former President Donald Trump. It includes many of the 147 Republicans who signed on to treason with their Jan. 6 votes objecting to Joe Biden's win, and it has grown since then." Trippi is calling for One People, One Nation, One Leader! His argument is that President Trump is an authoritarian, when the opposite is true. A real strongman would have used covid 19 as an excuse to postpone the 2020 election indefinitely. A real authoritarian would jail dissidents indefinitely for minor crimes without trial — as Josef Biden is doing with the people who entered the Capitol on January 6. A real authoritarian would have had the military shut down the real insurrections last summer by Antifa and BLM. Naming this anti-American project after Lincoln is an old communist trick. Defund the FBI. One of the dangerous perpetrators captured by the FBI this week is Lois Lynn McNicoll, who was arrested in California on June 28. McNicoll, 69, is a Los Angeles County public employee; the FBI was tipped off by one of her co-workers. As is often the case, McNicoll talked to Special Agent Daniel Dale without an attorney present. (Many January 6 defendants have cooperated with the FBI under the presumption they did nothing wrong and wanted to help the agency catch the real bad guys.) Dale "interviewed the defendant at her place of employment in a non-custodial capacity," the agent wrote in McNicoll's criminal complaint. "The defendant was informed that any participation was voluntary and that she was free to terminate the interview at any time. The defendant affirmed that she understood." So, what did this alleged domestic terrorist do? A little before 3:00 p.m. on January 6, McNicoll entered the Capitol building through an open door. Surveillance video captured by the U.S. Capitol Police security system — more than 14,000 hours of footage to which only the government and a few congressional committees have access — shows McNicoll taking a few photos inside the building. After being ushered out of the building by police, she exited the complex about 30 minutes later. McNicoll didn't vandalize anything, she didn't steal anything, she didn't attack anyone. It's not even clear whether she spoke to anyone; it appears as though she went in the building alone. But Dale claimed there is "probable cause" to conclude McNicoll committed at least four federal offenses during her half-hour "crime spree." Joe Biden's pants-on-fire lie of a white nationalist insurrection. The Democrats have a talent for avoiding responsibility for their contemptible actions by blaming them on the other side. [...] In his first joint address to the U.S. Congress on April 28, Biden identified white supremacy as the number-one domestic terror threat. He insisted that white supremacists pose a bigger threat than foreign actors. "We won't ignore what our intelligence agencies have determined to be the most lethal terrorist threat to our homeland today," Biden said. "White supremacy is terrorism." For seven months, Democrat mayors and governors refused to take action against leftist violence that destroyed our cities. In many cases, they supported the rioters. "You have to look pretty hard to find Democrats condemning fires, riots, violence, looting, stealing, burning police cars," said author and political commentator Dennis Prager. If you condemn only what Republicans do and applaud what was done daily by leftists, says Prager, then you don't care about truth. "Violent protests had been championed and normalized by Democrats and their media over the last four years," Daniel Greenfield wrote in the Jewish Press. Greenfield is referring to the attempt by the media to characterize the ongoing violence as "peaceful protests," an obvious fabrication. Kash Patel: FBI Director Wray Was 'Noticeably Absent' From Cabinet Phone Calls in Run-Up to Jan 6. A former Trump official revealed in an interview this week that FBI Director Christopher Wray was missing in action during the run-up to the January 6 Capitol riot. Kash Patel, the chief of staff to the Acting United States Secretary of Defense under President Donald Trump, told Epoch Times host Jan Jekielek that on Jan. 4, 5, and 6 he was on the phone with President Trump, then-Chief-of-Staff Mark Meadows, Attorney General William Barr, and the Department of Homeland Security to discuss security around the Capitol, but Wray was noticeably absent from those phone calls even though his participation was requested, and it was in the FBI's purview to help keep the Capitol safe. Patel told Jekielek that the Department of Defense had offered to send thousands National Guard troops to D.C. to quell any potential violence, but Mayor Bowser had rejected the offer for what he believed were political reasons. Crackpot and Former ABC Strategist Matthew Dowd: "Jan. 6 Was Worse than 9-11". Former ABC News analyst and Republican strategist Matthew Dowd joined Joy Reid on MSNBC on Tuesday, the sixth month anniversary of the Jan. 6 protests in Washington DC. Dowd told Reid, "January 6th was worse than 9/11." [...] These people were hoping for mass slaughter on Jan. 6. The FBI and Antifa even infiltrated the Trump crowds to make sure the situation got violent. But the damage was minimal. The violence could not even match a weekend night in Portland. And, the only one killed in cold blood was Trump supporter and veteran Ashli Babbitt who was gunned down by [a] Capitol Police [officer]. These liberal pundits are just a joke. Reporters Are 'Traumatized' Over January 6th and It's Laughably Pathetic. The penchant for "journalists" to make every story about themselves spans the catalog of issues they cover. Given that, it's hardly surprising that they are now turning the unrest on January 6th into a testament to their own supposed trauma. Vice News released a piece today that includes all kinds of laughably pathetic anecdotes, from some journalists needing therapy to others refusing to enter the Capitol Building. [Tweet] To be clear, not a single reporter was harmed on January 6th, and as far as I can tell, no one even attempted to harm one. Of course, the same is true of many of the Congressional members who claim to be deeply traumatized as well. Regardless, much of this self-centered consternation seems overtly political to me. Why do we not hear of any reporters being traumatized by the months of rioting in the summer of 2020? 20 Questions for Nancy Pelosi About January 6. No one has milked the events of January 6 more than House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). She set the official narrative early and often, a storyline her scribes in the news media have dutifully repeated without question or scrutiny. "[Y]esterday, the president of the United States incited an armed insurrection against America, the gleeful desecration of the U.S. Capitol, which is the temple of our American democracy," Pelosi lamented in a hyperdramatic press conference the day after the raucous protest. She accused President Trump of "sedition" and urged his cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove him just two weeks before he officially left the White House. Nearly every word in her opening statement that day is untrue. The president didn't "incite" the violence; it was not an insurrection, armed or otherwise, and the only person who used a firearm was a still-unidentified Capitol police officer who killed an unarmed female veteran. Identity of Ashli Babbitt Killer Confirmed — Careless Capitol Police Lieutenant Is Being Protected by Democrats, Pelosi and Deep State FBI. Ashli Babbitt's husband Aaron Babbitt and Attorney Terrell Roberts joined Tucker Carlson in mid-June to discuss the continued challenges they have had getting any information on her death or the identity of her government-employed killer. During the discussion, Tucker Carlson asked Attorney Roberts about the report that Ashli's shooter also left his loaded gun in a US Capitol restroom[.] Joy Reid, Matthew Dowd: January 6 Was Worse Than 9/11, GOP Must Be Crushed. Tuesday night [7/6/2021] on MSNBC's The ReidOut, host Joy Reid and longtime faux Republican Matthew Dowd engaged in some corrosive, offensive, and repulsive rhetoric as they insisted that the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was worse than the radical Islamic terror attacks on September 11, 2001 and that an insufficient number of Democrats share the same concern. And in the segment beforehand, Reid showed off her anti-Christian bigotry by mocking Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) for "tweet[ing] Bible verses every day for random reasons" as he, according to Reid, supports white supremacists. Over 535 Charged 6 Months After Jan. 6 Capitol Breach: DOJ. Over 535 defendants across nearly 50 states have been charged in the six months since the Jan. 6 breach of the Capitol Building, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said Tuesday [7/6/2021]. That includes 495 defendants who have been charged with entering or remaining in a restricted federal building or grounds, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia said in a statement. Nearly 235 defendants were charged with obstructing, influencing, or impeding an official proceeding, or attempting to do so, it added. At least 165 defendants have been charged with assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers or employees, including over 50 individuals who have been charged with using a deadly or dangerous weapon or causing serious bodily injury to an officer, the DOJ said. So far, some 10 people have pleaded guilty to a variety of federal charges, from misdemeanors to felony obstruction. Kash Patel says January 6 could've been prevented. [Thread reader] Kash tells @JanJekielek Everyone knew something bad could happen on January 6. Just like at Starbucks and Dunkin' Donuts closing down and boarding up windows. It's not like they had better Intel than the FBI. [Video clip] Wearing [sic] about the optics is a political opinion. When it comes to safety of members of Congress or to the American people Optics don't matter. [Video clip] #Kash tells @JanJekielek Jan 6 happen [sic] because of complete failure from law-enforcement. On Jan 4, 5, and 6 he was on the phone with the President, chief of staff, Attorney General, and DHS. The only person that was missing from the phone call was the Director of the FBI. The Editor says... Trump Asks Who Killed Ashli Babbitt at Rally, Demands to Know Why Jan. 6 Protesters Are Still Jailed. Former President Donald Trump demanded to know who killed Ashli Babbitt during a rally in Florida at the Sarasota Fairgrounds on Saturday night [7/3/2021]. Trump also pointed out the hypocrisy of so many January 6 protesters being imprisoned, while the same was not true about the Black Lives Matter and Antifa militants that destroyed cities across the nation during the summer of 2020. "Who shot Ashli Babbitt? Who shot Ashli Babbitt? Who? Who Shot Ashli Babbitt?" Trump asked. "We all saw the hand. We saw the gun." Trump noted that he spoke to Babbitt's mother "the other day," and that she was an incredible woman who is still grieving and devastated "like it happened yesterday." Letters from a D.C. Jail. his week, five Republican senators sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland regarding his office's handling of January 6 protesters. The letter revealed the senators are aware that several Capitol defendants charged with mostly nonviolent crimes are being held in solitary confinement conditions in a D.C. jail used exclusively to house Capitol detainees. Joe Biden's Justice Department routinely requests — and partisan Beltway federal judges routinely approve — pre-trial detention for Americans arrested for their involvement in the January 6 protest. This includes everyone from an 18-year-old high school senior from Georgia to a 70-year-old Virginia farmer with no criminal record. It is important to emphasize that the accused have languished for months in prison before their trials even have begun. Judges are keeping defendants behind bars largely based on clips selectively produced by the government from a trove of video footage under protective seal and unavailable to defense lawyers and the public — and for the thoughtcrime of doubting the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election. House Sergeant At Arms 'Slips Up' & May Have Just Revealed Name of Ashli Babbitt's Shooter. The Acting House Sergeant at Arms appeared before a House committee and appears to have named Ashli Babbitt's shooter. Timothy Blodgett, in an exchange with Rep. Herrera-Buetler during a hearing on Jan. 6 that appeared on C-SPAN, seems to have casually dropped the name. [Video clip] The Genesis of Our American Collective Meltdown. [Scroll down] The derangement was then capped off, first, by a buffoonish riot at the Capitol followed by a Reichstag-fire style militarization of Washington, D.C., in a "never let a crisis go to waste" psychodrama. Then came a novel second and unprecedented presidential impeachment, without a special prosecutor, witnesses, or cross examinations. It was based on the myth of a deadly "armed insurrection" fueled by President Trump, which purportedly led to the murder of a police officer. Later most of the writs of the House impeachment were proven fantasies, from the idea of "armed" and "well-organized" to "murderous" revolutionaries. The only mysteries were the identity of the unnamed officer who fatally shot an unarmed female protester and military veteran, and why the government has still not released thousands of hours of video detailing the riot. That impeachment charade was followed by a trial in the Senate — without the chief justice presiding — of a president, who was no longer in office. Somewhat related: Pelosi cancels the Fourth of July. During an average year, the U.S. Capitol welcomes 2.5 million visitors, but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has refused to reopen the Capitol to visitors — school groups, families, or anyone hoping to see the legislative branch in action. To make matters worse, Pelosi's refusal even to allow visitors on the Capitol grounds resulted in the outdoor concert regularly held on the Capitol's west front to celebrate our nation's independence being canceled. What could have been a unifying celebration of our Independence Day and defeat of COVID-19 will instead be virtual performances streamed online. Washington, D.C., has fully reopened. Americans traveling to Washington, D.C., this summer can attend sporting events, go to concerts, take their families to the National Zoo, see monuments, and visit most Smithsonian museums on the National Mall. The U.S. Capitol should be open for tours. Unfortunately, keeping the Capitol closed is just part of the speaker's larger effort to exert more control over the House. Ashli Babbit's Killer is a Dangerous Incompetent. The lack of training discipline this man exhibits is alarming. And the results of this incompetence was the murder of Ashli Babbit. If a cop on the street in any city in America handled a pistol like this he or she would have their gun taken away and be sent back to training. Making matters worse — he took an innocent life. Questions Need Answering in the Shooting of Ashli Babbitt, and Trump Just Asked a Big One. In every case in which there is a police shooting, I always counsel to wait for the facts. Even if you think you know from an immediate witness statement or video, it's always good to get all the facts, in order to be able to properly evaluate the shooting. That's assuming you can get the facts. In the case of the shooting of Ashli Babbitt during the Capitol riot, we're missing some pretty big facts. Perhaps chief among them is who shot her. That question got even bigger Thursday [7/1/2021], after President Donald Trump issued a message, asking simply: Who shot Ashli Babbitt? 'Who shot Ashli Babbitt?' Trump demands answers on Capitol riot shooting death of MAGA supporter. Donald Trump has demanded to know who was responsible for shooting and killing Ashli Babitt at the Capitol on January 6. 'Who shot Ashli Babbitt?' Trump put simply in a statement on Thursday after Nancy Pelosi announced the makeup of the select committee to look into the Capitol Riot. Unarmed Navy [sic] veteran Babbitt, 35, was shot and killed when she tried to breach a door leading to the House chamber when protesters stormed the Capitol. The Editor says... Pelosi names Cheney to serve on committee probing Jan. 6 riot. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Thursday named Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, an outspoken foe of former President Donald Trump, to serve on the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Ms. Cheney said she was "honored" to be chosen, but House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy called her decision to accept the appointment from the Democratic leader "unthinkable." He has warned GOP colleagues not to participate in the panel. "I was shocked that she would accept something from Speaker Pelosi," Mr. McCarthy said at a press conference following the speaker's announcement. "It would appear to me, since I didn't hear from her, she's closer to [Mrs. Pelosi] than us. I don't know." Nancy Pelosi says Liz Cheney will be the lone Republican on January 6 committee. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday said Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming will be the sole Republican on the House's select committee to investigate the fatal January 6 insurrection on the US Capitol. "We're very honored and proud that she has agreed to serve on the committee," Pelosi said of Cheney. Cheney has in many ways been ostracized by her own party for refusing to echo former President Donald Trump's lies about the 2020 election. In May, Republicans ousted Cheney from her leadership post as conference chair. The Wyoming lawmaker stands among the small group Republicans willing to openly criticize Trump. Donald Trump Has One Question for Pelosi That She Will Refuse to Answer on Her Jan. 6 Committee. Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the resurrection of her January 6 witch hunt in the form of a partisan committee, already having failed at the Senate impeachment trial to prove Donald Trump 'incited' rioters at the Capitol. Liz Cheney will be the lone Republican on Nancy Pelosi's committee. The Wyoming Republican joined the ranks of anti-Trump Democrats by agreeing to be part of Pelosi's star chamber. "Former President Donald Trump's top GOP nemesis Liz Cheney will serve on a committee created by House Democrats to investigate the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol," the Washington Examiner reported. America's New Political Prisoners. Last week the Department of Justice brought its first insurrectionist to justice. A 49-year-old Indiana grandmother of five who walked into the Capitol Building through an open door on Jan. 6 and wandered around for 10 minutes pleaded guilty to "parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building." For her crime, she was sentenced to three years of probation, $500 in restitution, and 40 hours of community service. Given that President Biden has called Jan. 6 the "worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War," how did she get off so easy? Her court-appointed lawyer had her read and watch Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Just Mercy, and Schindler's List, evidence that she was on her way to renouncing her white privilege. What does racism and exterminationist antisemitism have to do with the nonviolent crime she committed? Nothing, of course. The Biden administration sees Jan. 6 as a platform to criminalize its opponents, and the only way out for Donald Trump supporters is to confess to thought-crimes. House Democrats Primed to Launch Inquisition to Help Bolster False 'Insurrection' Narrative. The House of Representatives is set to launch a new investigation Wednesday to help bolster the January 6 insurrection narrative. With an expected approval of a 13-person committee, the investigation would be led by democrats. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi would appoint a chairperson and at least eight of the committee's members. In a memo to all House republicans on Tuesday, Steve Scalise urged members to vote against the resolution, urging the panel "is likely to pursue a partisan agenda." The Democrats' Weird January 6 Obsession. Democrats are determined to keep the memory of the mostly-peaceful demonstration in Washington last January 6 alive. It isn't just a matter of investigatory commissions, either. The obsession has spilled over into family holiday celebrations. Do Democrats want to combat political violence or just wave the bloody flag? Democrats pretend they care about political violence and efforts to undermine our democracy. Really, they care about making Republicans look bad. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unveiled a bill this week that would establish a Democratic-controlled select House committee to investigate the Capitol riot after Republicans blocked an earlier proposal that would have created a bipartisan, bicameral commission. Republicans voted against the first commission because it was bound to become a politicized headache that would get in the way of the facts. One only needs to glance at comments Democrats have made about Jan. 6 to understand Republicans were right: Democrats absurdly equated the Capitol riot to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and claimed Jan. 6 was the "worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War," to quote President Joe Biden. Both of these claims were ridiculous, as Democrats (and any persons remotely familiar with U.S. history) well knew. But they exaggerated the riot anyway to create a political cudgel to hammer Republicans any time they pleased. House votes 222-190 to set up a select committee to investigate the Capitol riot. The House of Representatives voted Wednesday 222-190 approving a resolution that would form a select committee to investigate the January 6 Capitol attack. Only two Republicans — Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger — joined all 220 Democrats to vote in favor of the resolution. Another 190 Republicans voted against it, while 19 GOP lawmakers abstained. The vote comes after the House had previously passed a bill that would have formed a 9/11-style commission to investigate the January 6 Capitol attack, that then failed to override a Republican filibuster in the Senate in late May. January 6 Cases Being Treated More Harshly by DOJ. Observers have recently commented that the January 6 criminal cases are being treated differently from other cases, often, referring to criminal cases arising from Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests and/or Antifa riots. The difficulty in making that comparison is that those cases are often not similar to the January 6 cases in ways that the law considers relevant to the question of equal treatment. For example, the BLM and Antifa cases are often being pursued in state courts by state prosecutors, which operate very differently from federal prosecutors and federal courts. Or the types of charges or the specific conduct of the defendants is different from the January 6 defendants. Those differences make the claim of disparate treatment relatively easy to brush off. However, the claim of unequal treatment is, in fact, legitimate. A comparison of the January 6 cases to other federal cases involving the same kind of conduct demonstrates that the January 6 cases are being treated significantly more harshly by DOJ and the D.C. U.S. Attorney's Office. Federal Protection of "Oath Keepers" Kingpin Stewart Rhodes Breaks The Entire Capitol "Insurrection" Lie Wide Open. Hey Republicans, you can crack open the entire story of January 6, 2021 ("1/6") with one simple, relentless question: what is the FBI and Army Counterintelligence's relationship with Stewart Rhodes? Stewart Rhodes is the founder, boss and kingpin of the Oath Keepers. The Oath Keepers, we are told, are America's largest militia, the most prominent antigovernment group in the United States, and the preeminent right-wing domestic extremist insider threat to the entire U.S. military. Whatever the truth of these hyperbolic claims, the fact remains: the Oath Keepers are the most extensively prosecuted paramilitary group alleged to be involved in 1/6. Indeed, it was the alleged "pre-planned assault" on the Capitol by Stewart Rhodes's alleged Oath Keepers lieutenants that was used as the key talking point to try to convert the day's events from a protest into an "insurrection." But Stewart Rhodes is not simply a key figure in the Oath Keepers. Stewart Rhodes is the Oath Keepers, according to Oath Keepers board member Richard Mack. Rep. Lauren Boebert Can Block People on Personal Twitter Account, Judge Rules. A federal judge has sided with Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) in a First Amendment lawsuit, allowing the first-time Congresswoman to continue blocking a critic on her personal Twitter account. Boebert, a vocal supporter of former President Donald Trump, blocked former state Rep. Brianna Buentello, a Democrat, after Buentello criticized Boebert's remarks in the days leading up to the Jan. 6 breach of the U.S. Capitol, calling her a "seditionist" and demanding that she resign. Buentello sued on the basis of First Amendment rights, arguing that Boebert's Twitter block was not an act of a private individual, but an act on behalf of the state, because Boebert uses her personal Twitter account for announcements related to her works in Congress. She also cited previous cases in which courts ruled that elected officials, including Trump, cannot block constituents. Buentello is a Boebert constituent in Colorado's Congressional District 3. January 6: The Process Is the Punishment. Misdemeanor trespass (which is the charge for the vast majority of the January 6th "rioters,") is usually dealt with via a $50.00 bond/fine and no court appearance or conviction. However, in the case of the evil Trump supporters, the Department of Justice is literally putting them through the wringer. [...] Leftist demonstrators, some even violent, get a $50.00 slap on the wrist and most importantly, NO criminal conviction on their records. Those who dare to support a vulgarian President and protest the obvious theft of an election, even if not convicted, will still suffer the full power of the Federal Government. While not only having to pay their own lawyers by the billable hour, these victims of government abuse also get the privilege of paying taxes to fund the outsized salaries of the corrupt government attorneys harassing them. Once merely a tool to pressure real criminals that have committed real crimes, the left has discovered that "lawfare" can be used to modify behavior and/or punish their enemies. Nancy Pelosi Unveils Democrats' January 6th Committee to Investigate Capitol Riot. Nancy Pelosi formally unveiled her January 6th House Committee Monday to investigate the January 6th incursion that occurred at the US Capitol; saying the probe is necessary to prevent "any future assault." [Transcript] Did Cops Attack and Provoke Peaceful Protesters on January 6? Joe Biden's Justice Department is using every legal maneuver at its disposal to keep under wraps more than 14,000 hours of surveillance footage captured by the United States Capitol Police security system on January 6. Prosecutors insist the recordings are "highly sensitive" material; USCP's general counsel warns that releasing the videos would provoke another "attack" on the Capitol complex. But the trove of footage held by USCP isn't the only video used as incriminating evidence in court proceedings, particularly hearings where prosecutors argue that a January 6 defendant should remain behind bars awaiting trial. The Justice Department also has footage recorded by body cameras worn by D.C. Metropolitan Police officers. (According to the USCP's general counsel, Capitol police officers don't wear body cameras. Interesting.) Federal prosecutors routinely petition the court for pre-trial detention of January 6 defendants; judges have concurred in dozens of cases. Proof that the accused is a "danger" to society largely rests on cherry-picked video clips created by the government from video footage exclusively held by the government. On Jan 6 the Secret Service Offered to Escort Roger Stone to the Front of the Capitol March and Into the Capitol — Stone Smartly Declined. Roger Stone was on with Alex Jones yesterday and he told the story of how the Secret Service reached out to him on Jan 6 and offered to escort him to the front of the march and into the Capitol. Stone smartly declined. [Video clip] What The FBI Did to a Pillar of His Community After the Capitol Riot Is Shameful. Joseph Bolanos, 69, was well-respected in his community, always coming to the aid of others. As the president of his local block association in New York City, he has always looked out for his neighbors, particularly over this past year during the pandemic doing things to raise morale. He even became a Red Cross volunteer after 9/11, and he also once saved a woman when someone tried to mug her. On top of all that, he takes care of his elderly mother, who is 94. But, the FBI blew up his life and almost destroyed him over the past few months. His crime? Attending President Donald Trump's rally on Jan. 6 with a friend, even though he never went into the Capitol building. He dropped in on the rally and then went back to his hotel. He was there at his hotel, with time stamps on pictures to prove it, he says, during the breach at the Capitol. He did go back to the Capitol later, filming from the outside, but the riot was over by that point. FBI raids 69-year-old man's home after he attends Trump rally, neighbors tipped off authorities. Joseph Bolanos says he didn't riot at the Capitol. He wasn't even on the streets at the time, having retreated to a hotel room as the incursion had happened. He said he turned over evidence to the FBI that proves this[.] But the FBI still raided his and his mother's apartments. He's had two strokes since. He's said he's been ostracized by his community, where he was a respected member. All because an anonymous caller reportedly told the FBI he was bragging about having entered the Capitol — which he has the evidence to prove he didn't do. According to a Wednesday [6/23/2021] piece by New York Post columnist Miranda Devine, Bolanos is the president of his Upper West Side block association, a position he's held for almost a quarter-century. US Hits Jan. 6 Defendant With Little-Used Firearms Charge. Federal prosecutors have applied a little-used law against a man accused of obstructing the congressional proceedings on Jan. 6, asserting he transported a gun and used it in furtherance of a civil disorder. In a superseding indictment against Guy Reffitt released this week, the Texas man was charged with two violations of federal civil disorder law for actions allegedly taken in Washington on Jan. 6. Authorities said Reffitt violated the law against transporting "any firearm, or explosive or incendiary device, knowing or having reason to know or intending that the same will be used unlawfully in furtherance of a civil disorder." He is also accused of violating the portion of the law that fines or imprisons anyone who "commits or attempts to commit" an act to interfere with a law enforcement officer during a civil disorder to charges. Both counts carry prison sentences of up to five years. New Jan. 6 video shows police 'walk away' after black-clad men smash windows, FBI uninterested? A new Jan. 6 video has surfaced from Bobby Powell, who hosts the "The Truth Is Viral" podcast, that appears to show black-clad rioters breaking out windows and defacing the Capitol after DC police were ordered to leave. During an interview with OANN, Powell suggested that the two men in black who busted out windows and reportedly attempted to push protesters inside may have been FBI informants. He witnessed the incident as he was on the east side of the building on Jan. 6 and commented on what he saw that day. "Two men I saw attacking the building, breaking windows, and even pushing people inside have not been arrested. And they are not on the list of suspects being sought by the FBI," he opined. "I provided the FBI with 29 minutes of high definition footage, 1080p, more than five months ago. Neither one of these men has been arrested." The Emerging Reality Is the Biden Justice Department Will Charge Everyone It Can Identify for Capitol Protests. [Scroll down] The simple reality is that prosecutors in the DC US Attorney's Office are not exercising prosecutorial discretion to decline to bring charges against individuals who were merely present inside the Capitol on January 6, with no evidence that they did anything else. Most of the attention remains focused on the small number of cases where the government prosecutors have charged multiple individuals in conspiracies involving pre-planning and organizing of groups to Washington DC on January 6 with the purpose and goal of preventing the meeting on Congress from taking place to "certify" the vote of the members of the Electoral College. Those cases, as a general proposition, involve claims that the named defendants engaged in individual and collective acts of violence and/or property destruction. Grandma charged with 'parading' at the Capitol told to denounce her whiteness. A 49-year-old grandmother named Anna Morgan-Lloyd was directed by her attorney to denounce her whiteness prior to appearing before a federal judge to account for her crime of January 6th, 2021, in which she stands accused of "parading" — yes, parading — through an open Capitol door. She's lucky she didn't get the death penalty, considering the vicious clowns in charge of Washington, D.C. — and therefore the rest of the formerly United States — today. Uncle Sam, who has looked the other way for 13 months as Antifa, BLM and assorted anarchists and lowlife thugs engaged in violent riots, burning, looting, and laying waste to America's big cities is now throwing his full weight behind prosecuting the 500 or so unarmed people who strolled through open Capitol doors on that fateful day. The vast majority of the aforementioned 500 did nothing wrong during their short stint inside The Capitol. However authorities and the media are bending over backwards to disparage them, sap their finances — and ruin their lives. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Calls for Release of January 6 Surveillance Footage. epresentative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) sent a letter to top government officials seeking answers about the January 6 investigation and conditions in a D.C. jail specifically used to house Capitol defendants. Greene requests the release of at least 14,000 hours of surveillance footage captured by USCP security system on January 6 as well as the identity of the officer who shot and killed Ashli Babbitt, an unarmed female veteran Trump supporter. "It is abundantly clear that there is a two-track justice system in the United States," Greene wrote. Who Killed Ashli Babbitt? [Scroll down] This level of transparency regarding the use of deadly force by police has come to be expected and is now common (though not yet ubiquitous) across the country, which makes it all the more curious that what rightly should be regarded as one of the most controversial police shootings to have occurred recently has gone all but unexamined in the press. The case of Ashli Babbitt, the Air Force veteran who was shot and killed by a U.S Capitol Police officer during the so-called insurrection of Jan. 6, has gone largely unexamined, either in the media or among the self-professed experts who find fault in even the most clearly justifiable police shootings. Ashli Babbitt's shooting was not clearly justifiable, far from it in fact, yet the U.S. Department of Justice, in a memo just over a page in length, explains it away by saying their "investigation revealed no evidence to establish that, at the time the officer fired a single shot at Ms. Babbitt, the officer did not reasonably believe that it was necessary to do so in self-defense or in defense of the Members of Congress and others evacuating the House Chamber." And that, peasants, is that. Your rulers have made their decision, do not dare question it. What? No mention of global warming? Maoist thought reform imposed on first January 6 defendant to be sentenced. Anna Morgan-Lloyd, the 49-year-old grandmother from Indiana who strolled into the US Capitol and spent several minutes peacefully walking around, got the same message that was delivered to Chinese dissidents and "bad elements" during Mao's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution: confess to thought crimes, embrace the state-sanctioned ideology, and you will be shown mercy. In the case of Morgan-Lloyd, the message was delivered to her by her own defense lawyer, a public defender paid by taxpayers. And it worked. She received three years' probation, a $500 fine, and no incarceration beyond the two days she had spent in jail following her arrest. Innocent New York City Man's Life Is Ruined When Neighbors Report Him for Going to Jan 6 Trump Speech. Joseph Bolanos doesn't wear horns, isn't a crackpot, and isn't a terrorist. He has been a neighborhood watch leader in New York City's Upper West Side for 23 years. In 2012, as president of the West 76th Street Block Association, Bolanos put up signs reading "rat xing" to shame the city into cleaning up the garbage. The neighbors loved him. Now the 69 year old is a neighborhood pariah. One neighbor who brought him Thanksgiving dinner recently wrote him a nasty-gram wishing him death. "I hope Antifa gets you," the note read. What is Behind Gen. Mark Milley's Righteous Race Sermon? Look to the New Domestic War on Terror. The post-WW2 military posture of the U.S. has been endless war. To enable that, there must always be an existential threat, a new and fresh enemy that can scare a large enough portion of the population with sufficient intensity to make them accept, even plead for, greater military spending, surveillance powers, and continuation of permanent war footing. Starring in that war-justifying role of villain have been the Communists, Al Qaeda, ISIS, Russia, and an assortment of other fleeting foreign threats. According to the Pentagon, the U.S. intelligence community, and President Joe Biden, none of those is the greatest national security threat to the United States any longer. Instead, they all say explicitly and in unison, the gravest menace to American national security is now domestic in nature. Specifically, it is "domestic extremists" in general — and far-right white supremacist groups in particular — that now pose the greatest threat to the safety of the homeland and to the people who reside in it. In other words, to justify the current domestic War on Terror that has already provoked billions more in military spending and intensified domestic surveillance, the Pentagon must ratify the narrative that those they are fighting in order to defend the homeland are white supremacist domestic terrorists. That will not work if white supremacists are small in number or weak and isolated in their organizing capabilities. To serve the war machine's agenda, they must pose a grave, pervasive and systemic threat. 73-Year-Old Pastor and Purple Heart Veteran Arrested For Being at Capitol, His Son Also Arrested in Front of 3-Year-Old Daughter. A 73-year-old Purple Heart Vietnam veteran and pastor James Cusick has been arrested at his home in Florida for being at the Capitol on January 6, though he was not involved in any violence or vandalism. His son Casey, was also arrested in front of his distraught 3-year-old daughter who asked why they were locking her dad's hands. He is also not accused of any violence or vandalism. Videos of the heartbreaking scene were provided to the Gateway Pundit. Deprogramming of January 6 Defendants Is Underway. It's safe to say Heather Shaner, a D.C.-based criminal defense attorney representing a handful of January 6 protesters, does not share the political beliefs of her Capitol clients, which is why she's forcing them to read books and watch movies highlighting dark chapters in U.S. history. In an interview with Huffington Post, Shaner explained her belief that "this is the most wonderful country in the world, it's been great for all kinds of immigrant groups, except for the fact that it was born of genocide of the Native Americans and the enslavement of people." Shaner's legal captives are learning the hard way what the government will do when one resists their commands to comply. Not only have their personal lives been shattered, finances depleted, and reputations destroyed by an abusive Justice Department investigation, Shaner's clients must be indoctrinated with leftist propaganda about America's alleged systemic racism. The purge of the populist mindset is underway, courtesy of the fetid Beltway judicial system and the Joe Biden regime. Judges routinely lecture January 6 defendants about the wrongthink of a "stolen election" while prosecutors openly mock their political beliefs, including home schooling and gun ownership. American citizens are being tortured right now within five miles of the White House. Like the Gestapo did in Nazi Germany, the Federal Government is targeting anyone who dares criticize it decision making processes, questions its motives, or challenges its legitimacy. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been vocal about her desire to put Trump supporters on lists. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar frequently makes antisemitic statements during times where Jewish persons are regularly attacked in public. United States citizens are being rounded up and held in federal prison absent due process for protesting their government. And DC-GITMO detainees are being physically and psychologically tortured on President Biden's watch. None of the persons being held in DC-GITMO are Democrats. Is there even a question as to whether this is political...? I think not. As Expected Political Pelosi Announces January 6th Select Committee to Support Mid-Term Election Roadmap. The January 6th House Select Committee investigation is to MAGA voters what the Mueller Investigation was to President Trump. A tool to attack political opposition and frame a narrative for the 2022 mid-term election. Nothing more. [Video clip] FBI tears innocent New Yorker's life into shreds after Jan. 6: Devine. Joseph Bolanos was a pillar of his community. President of his Upper West Side block association for the past 23 years, he looked out for his neighbors during the pandemic. He dropped off masks and kept extra heaters in his rent-controlled apartment for seniors. He raised morale with a weekly street dance to show his support for essential workers. A Red Cross volunteer after the 9/11 attacks, the 69-year-old security consultant once received a police commendation for heroism after saving a woman from being mugged. Unmarried, and caring for his 94-year-old mother, he was a well-loved character in the quiet residential area. But now his neighbors think he is a domestic terrorist. Yes, he attended then-President Donald Trump's rally in Washington, DC, on Jan. 6, but he never entered the Capitol. He was in a friend's room at the JW Marriott a 30-minute walk away when the Capitol breach occurred. Far Left Activists Infiltrated Jan. 6 Protests Dressed as Conservatives with OAN Microphone. Two far left activists infiltrated the Jan. 6 protests in Washington DC dressed as conservatives and carrying an OAN microphone. The two men breached the US Capitol grounds that day. They later were visitied by the FBI in February and gave the agents tips on how to infiltrate a Trump rally. They were carrying an OAN microphone. The men, Walter Masterson and Peter Scattini, appear on The Young Turks program and routinely disguise themselves as Trump supporters. National Guard threatens to cancel training and exercises if not reimbursed for $521M Capitol deployment. The half-billion-dollar National Guard price tag to man the U.S. Capitol for more than five months following the Jan. 6 riot has emptied the Guard's coffers and will affect readiness if Congress does not act, National Guard Bureau Chief Gen. Daniel Hokanson said Wednesday [6/23/2021]. National Guard members were deployed in 2020 for more than 21 million service days to respond to missions, including the domestic COVID-19 response, hurricane relief, fighting wildfires, protecting cities ravaged by the George Floyd protests, and overseas missions. But the Guard's largest and most expensive mission was to protect the U.S. capital, including providing security for the presidential inauguration and the much-criticized militarization of the U.S. Capitol grounds with razor wire and 7-foot nonscalable fences. The peak deployment in the nation's capital required 26,000 service members from all 50 states, U.S. territories, and the District of Columbia. Biden Threatens to Nuke Americans but Manages to Blow Up a Big Democrat Narrative Instead. Earlier today, as RedState reported, Joe Biden launched into another dementia-laden rant where he talked about nuking Americans and shooting deer in kevlar vests. No, I'm not being facetious. That actually happened. In one of the best arguments for the Second Amendment ever spoken by a president, Biden asserted that no one can stand up to the government without F-15s and nuclear weapons. He seems to have a thing for the F-15, having mentioned it several times in this context and perhaps not realizing that the U.S. Military has an array of other fighter-bombers to murder U.S. citizens with. [...] If Biden and his party truly believe the government is so all-powerful that any possible rebellion would be put down with ease, then how does that square with their claims that our "democracy" was on the brink of destruction on January 6th because some unarmed people took selfies in Pelosi's office? Either our system of government is so fragile that a dude in horns and facepaint can threaten its existence, or it's so untouchable that the government would just nuke anyone who got within a mile of doing any harm to it. Which is it? Because it can't be both. Grandmother of 5 from Indiana Is First "Insurrectionist" to Be Sentenced in Jan. 6 Protests — For Walking Inside US Capitol! On Wednesday, a grandmother of 5 from Indiana, Anna Morgan Lloyd will plead guilty to one misdemeanor charge for 'demonstrating in a capitol building" in exchange for 3 years of probation and a $500 fine. This is only after the politicized Biden-DOJ held her in jail for 2 days, letting her go after she had "expressed contrition for her conduct." Recent History Suggests FBI Involvement in January 6. [Scroll down] If the past is prologue, there's no reason to consider the FBI's involvement a "conspiracy theory" rather than a solid likelihood. How many times have we been down this road over the past five years — assured that claims about the FBI's malfeasance and abuse were "conspiracy theories" only later to learn they were true? We were told the FBI did not use spies to infiltrate the Trump campaign. They did. We were told the FBI didn't ambush and frame former National Security Advisor Mike Flynn. They did. We were told the FBI would not mislead the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. They did. We were told the FBI wouldn't doctor official reports or correspondence. They did. We were told the FBI would never use a sketchy Russian national to bolster the collusion case against Trump. They did. Sadly, the FBI is one of the least trustworthy agencies in the federal government — and that's saying a lot. The stench of Jim Comey's deceitful reign has irrevocably tarnished the reputation of the FBI for tens of millions of Americans. The similarities between Russiagate and the Capitol "attack" are becoming increasingly clear. The initial narrative about what happened that day has steadily crumbled over the past five months. Nancy Pelosi 'will name a Democrat-led House select committee to investigate the Capitol riot'. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is planning to name a Democrat-led select committee to investigate the Capitol riot, reports sugged. Pelosi made the announcement of her intentions during a closed-door meeting of the Steering and Policy Committee on Tuesday evening, according to two sources familiar with the discussions who spoke to Politico. CNN reported Tuesday night [6/22/2021] that she would set up the panel after Republicans blocked a 9/11-style commission in the Senate. The left is pursuing an agenda that benefits just a few of them. Climate change, COVID, violence in our cities, homelessness, borders and immigration, education, race; all of it is a means to an end. [...] We've demonized police and the U.S. Attorney General has asserted the danger of "white supremacy" with no examples, not one indictment, and no proof. We've continually referred to the January 6th demonstrations as an armed insurrection, yet there were no guns, and nobody died — except Ashli Babbitt, who died at the hands of someone on the Capital police force or maybe a secret service agent. We've demonized whites as racists and ignored black-on-black crime completely. Put these things together, you come up with an excuse to form a national police force. It is the final piece in the puzzle, leading us to a Marxist revolution, autocracy, and America's failure. Is that what we want? I think not. History has shown that to be a recipe for mass murder, every single time it's happened. Levin on plight of arrested Capitol rioters: 'They'd be treated actually better' at Gitmo. A number of prominent individuals have begun demanding that the Biden administration stop covering up the facts about the Jan. 6th riot at the U.S. Capitol. These individuals range from Fox News hosts Tucker Carlson and Mark Levin to classically liberal, Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald. Levin, one of the latest to speak up about the Biden administration's glaring lack of transparency, made the case Saturday on Fox News' "Life, Liberty and Levin" that at this point, the alleged treatment being faced by Jan. 6th rioters is worse than the treatment currently faced by Guantanamo Bay detainees. "We're hearing that they're in some of the worst jails and that some of them are being put in solitary confinement where they only have an hour where they can go outside. That they're being fed poor food, they're being treated like they're terrorists and in Guantanamo Bay, where they'd be treated actually better," he said. Maxine Waters Goes on Depraved Rant: 'I'm Told' Capitol Riot Mob Was Organized by Trump Campaign. 'Auntie' Maxine Waters unfurled a true 'conspiracy theory' on CNN Saturday [6/19/2021]. Absent any corroborating evidence whatsoever, she baselessly accused the Trump campaign of organizing the Capitol riot. Waters was invited on by Jim Acosta, who recklessly allowed the partisan left-wing California Democrat to unfurl a real stemwinder about Jan. 6, all with the sole intention of smearing her political enemies. [Video clip] Maxine Waters Claims Trump Campaign Helped Organize Capitol Riot. Democratic California Rep. Maxine Waters claimed Saturday [6/19/2021] that members of former President Donald Trump's reelection campaign had helped to organize the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. Waters claimed to Jim Acosta on CNN that she had been "told" that organizing for the riot had been going on within the Trump campaign. She further claimed that Trump surrogates opposed an investigation because they were afraid of being caught supporting those who swarmed the Capitol. More evidence — from January 5th. [Thread reader] On Jan 5th, the night before the infamous Jan 6th Capital Event, this Fed was caught on camera encouraging the crowd to raid the capital on the next day. The crowd yells NO! We can't do that and he insists that everyone raids the capital. Who is Ray Epps? [Video clip] Before we get to Boomer Fed Mr. Epps, would you look who makes an appearance? What are the odds we get a cameo from our dear friend and fed antifa provocateur John Sullivan? [Photo] [...] Ray Epps told The Arizona Republic in a brief telephone interview Monday that he had traveled to the capital for the event, and that he had been advised by an attorney not to speak about it. If Biden Wants to Paint Trump Supporters as 'Domestic Terrorists,' Ich Bin Ein Inländischer Terroristischen. Since 20 January 2021,
the Hologram's administration has been moving inexorably to curtail the freedoms and liberties of Trump supporters and American patriots in ways that are eerily similar to
the pressures exerted by the Soviets on the Allies and German people after World War II:
There's more information about the FBI and its role in January 6. [Scroll down] Glenn Greenwald has a long, detailed Substack post detailing the innumerable times the FBI has crossed the line from getting close to criminals to engaging in criminal activity. It's too long and complicated to summarize but I strongly suggest that you read the whole thing. (Years ago, an FBI agent told me how they caught a terrorist by working with him to plan a bomb attack, so I don't doubt Greenwald's veracity.) Tucker, meanwhile, did not address whether he and the Revolver misunderstood the charging documents. Instead, in his Friday monologue, he followed the same thread Greenwald did, providing information about FBI agents and informants encouraging people to commit crimes, and then arresting them even when they hadn't acted on the FBI's encouragement. He also discussed at least one case (the Garland, Texas shooting) in which the FBI agent did everything short of firing a gun. When the FBI does this type of thing, it isn't police work or due process; it's police state activity. Questions About the FBI's Role in 1/6 Are Mocked Because the FBI Shapes Liberal Corporate Media. The axis of liberal media outlets and their allied activist groups — CNN, NBC News, The Washington Post, Media Matters — are in an angry uproar over a recent report questioning the foreknowledge and involvement of the FBI in the January 6 Capitol riot. As soon as that new report was published on Monday, a consensus instantly emerged in these liberal media precincts that this is an unhinged, ignorant and insane conspiracy theory that deserves no consideration. The original report, published by Revolver News and then amplified by Fox News' Tucker Carlson, documented ample evidence of FBI infiltration of the three key groups at the center of the 1/6 investigation — the Oath Keepers, the Proud Boys, and the Three Percenters — and noted how many alleged riot leaders from these groups have not yet been indicted. While low-level protesters have been aggressively charged with major felonies and held without bail, many of the alleged plot leaders have thus far been shielded from charges. Flashback to February, 2015: Jan. 6 Suspects [Being] Held Without Bail [is] More Un-American Than [the] Capitol Incursion. A month ago, the media reported that at least 53 Americans suspected of breaching the U.S. Capitol in January were still incarcerated. One web site more recently said "hundreds" are still behind bars. We know many have been denied bail, some apparently condemned to solitary confinement. Meanwhile, Antifa and Black Lives Matter rioters are breezily waved through the system if they're arrested at all. Is this still America? Or a tyranny where political dissenters are disappeared? "Detaining Americans captured within the United States indefinitely without trial or even charge is a clear violation of our Constitution and our values, and it must not be permitted," says Sen. Feinstein. "We've seen over and over again that our criminal justice system is well-equipped to interrogate and convict terrorists, and I support that process." The California Democrat is at odds with her party. From the president down, most Democrats are treating the Jan. 6 protests as a genuine threat to the country. Matt Gaetz and Paul Gosar Lead Congressional Charge for "Real Answers" After Explosive Revolver Investigation of Jan. 6th. Revolver has raised the questions. But it will take work by allies within the government to reveal the full truth. And thankfully, several lawmakers are already stepping up. Late Tuesday [6/15/2021], in the wake of Revolver's investigation, Congressman Matt Gaetz of Florida sent a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray demanding to know how many undercover federal agents and informants were present at the Capitol, what roles they played, and how many of them had infiltrated the Proud Boys, Oathkeepers, and Three Percenters. Republicans and Conservative Pundits Walking into a Trap Demanding Congressional Investigation of FBI Involvement on Jan 6th DC Event. Last night CTH highlighted the flaw in the Tucker Carlson (Fox News) and Darren Beattie (Revolver News) advocacy for a Senate investigation into the FBI involvement with the January 6th DC protest/insurrection. Bottom Line: legislative oversight has consistently been participating in the corruption carried out by intelligence agencies and FBI. Tonight I want to warn everyone of the trap that exists if this advocacy for a legislative approach continues. Republicans are right now walking into a trap. Read this next line carefully: The January 6th Commission is to MAGA voters what the Mueller investigation was to President Trump. [...] Let me be clear, that January 6th Commission will be entirely run by democrats and their Lawfare operatives within staff. The purpose of that commission would carry the same intents as the Mueller investigation in 2017 through 2019: to frame a narrative against their political opposition. A police state is forming right before your eyes. As questions about the January 6 Capitol protests mount, something very bad is afoot. A police state is taking shape. It is being suggested (and I agree) that the FBI had paid informants among the Capitol protesters who actually helped plan the protests and encouraged violence. [...] This would be the foundation for the creation of a police state. First, though, let's examine the January 6 protests. Left wing drama queens describe January 6 as a coup or insurrection. What happened in the riots over the last year were far worse. What happened in Portland was far worse. In 2011 when a mob stormed the Wisconsin Capitol in Madison Nancy Pelosi called it an "impressive show of democracy in action." There are questions that really need answering. The Capitol doors are magnetically locked. Someone had to unlock them from inside in order for the protesters to gain entry. They had help. Watch as Capitol cops wave protesters onto the grounds. [Video clip] About That Revolver Story Claiming FBI Agents/Informants Are the Unnamed "Co-Conspirators" in Jan. 6 Indictments. [Scroll down] Having written between 500 and 600 indictments, I'll say this: You call someone an "unindicted co-conspirator" in an indictment when 1) you're not sure of their true identity; 2) they are not yet under arrest, you're not certain where they are, and you think they might flee if they see their name in an indictment; 3) they are cooperating; 4) you have charged them in a different case with other defendants for tactical reasons — you can't name them in two cases for the same conduct; 5) you are not sure as to that specific person that you will have sufficient admissible evidence to convict them at trial when you go to the grand jury; 6) the person is not an actual conspirator because they didn't know what crime was being conspired about by the others — they only knew something illegal might be happening soon. This is by no means an exhaustive list. But the "three primary reasons" given by the Revolver author are a joke. Trained observer noted 'agents provocateur' during Capitol riot amid new report govt. operatives may have been involved. Reports Tuesday [6/15/2021] suggesting that elements of the national security and federal law enforcement establishment may have been involved in planning and fomenting the Jan 6 riot sound shockingly similar to observations made a week after the incident by a trained analyst who's an expert in "propaganda, political warfare, psychological warfare, and subversion." During his opening monologue, Fox News's Tucker Carlson discussed court documents filed by federal prosecutors related to suspects arrested following the Capitol protest. Some of those documents mention "unindicted co-conspirators" who appear to have been involved in the rioting and who also seem to have committed harsher offenses but nevertheless have not been charged. "'Person Two' and 'Person Three' were organizers of the riot," Carlson said, referencing how they are described in the federal court documents. "The government knows who they are, but the government has not charged them. Why is that?" The FBI's role in the Jan. 6 Capitol fracas is absolutely disgusting. I think we can dispense with the overly protective pleasantries at this point. The FBI is a goon squad of un-American thugs who have taken the worst elements of East Germany's Stasi police state and Cosa Nostra's organized crime and turned them into a blueprint for exercising and keeping illegitimate power over their enemies. They aren't a law enforcement organization, and they certainly don't [care] about justice. They're regime enforcers with badges. [...] You'd think it was sufficiently clear, as evidence mounted over the last five years, that Comey and Co. had undertaken a mission (with John Brennan at CIA, Bruce Ohr at Main Justice, Nellie Ohr and Glenn Simpson at Fusion GPS, Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice, James Clapper, and Christopher Steele, the Russia hoax dossier author and former Russia desk head at Britain's MI6) to frame the sitting president of the United States as a Russian asset by repeatedly filing fraudulent FISA affidavits with America's secret surveillance court, among other unprosecuted crimes, to spy on Donald Trump and his associates. But there were also the efforts of Rod Rosenstein, Andrew Weissmann, Robert Mueller, and their army of fifty FBI agents who spent two years trying to entrap President Trump on phony "obstruction of justice" charges during a bogus special counsel witch hunt. FBI Operatives Likely 'Unindicted Co-Conspirators', Organizers Of Capitol Riot: Report. Tucker Carlson dropped several bombshells on his show Tuesday night, chief among them was from a Revolver News report that the FBI was likely involved in organizing the Jan. 6 Capitol 'insurrection,' and were similarly involved in the kidnapping plot against Michigan Governor Gretchin Whitmer. "Why are there so many factual matters that we don't understand about that day?" asked Carlson. "Why is the Biden administration preventing us from knowing? Why is the administration still hiding more than 10,000 hours of surveillance tape from the US capitol on January 6th? What could possibly be the reason for that — even as they call for more openness... they could release those tapes today, but they're not. Why?" Carlson notes that Revolver News has dissected court filings surrounding the Capitol riot, suggests that unindicted co-conspirators in the case are likely to have been federal operatives. Tucker Carlson suggests undercover FBI agents may have orchestrated Capitol riot. Fox News host Tucker Carlson suggested that undercover FBI agents helped orchestrate the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. "But strangely, some people who participated in the riot haven't been charged. Look at the documents. The government calls these people 'unindicted co-conspirators.' What does that mean? It means that in potentially every case, they're FBI operatives," Carlson said during a Tuesday [6/15/2021] segment of Tucker Carlson Tonight. "For example, one of those 'unindicted co-conspirators' is someone the government identifies only as 'Person Two.' According to those documents, Person Two stayed in the same hotel room as an 'insurrectionist' named Thomas Caldwell, who's alleged to be a member of the group called the Oath Keepers. Person Two also 'stormed the barricades' at the Capitol on Jan. 6, alongside Thomas Caldwell." Carlson then said that 65-year-old Caldwell was "led to believe" there would be a "quick reaction force" ready to help at the Capitol. The quick reaction force was to be led by a person law enforcement only identified as "Person Three," who also had a hotel room in the area and an accomplice. Murder Incorporated: Theirs And Ours. America has a Murder Inc. located in Washington, D.C. in the federal centers of governmental power. Speaking to NBC, Putin said, "Did you [someone in the United States] order the assassination of the woman who walked into the Congress and who was shot and killed by a policeman? Do you know that 450 individuals were arrested after entering the Congress?" He turned the tables on the American media and the American government. It is assumed she was killed by "accident," sort of like how the China virus "escaped" from the Wuhan lab. But Putin is going further, alleging that Babbitt was assassinated. He makes this claim to put American government officials on the defensive. He has done so. If the murder was "innocent" in some way, we wouldn't see the kind of cover-up that is taking place. Putin is obviously aware of the secrecy surrounding the murder. He knows that the Biden "Department of Justice" said it would not pursue criminal charges against the Capitol police officer who killed Ashli Babbitt. It won't even name him. [...] If the murder of Ashli Babbitt was not an assassination, the government should prove it. It looks to outside observers that she was invited into the Capitol, surrounded, and killed. Tucker: What if FBI operatives actually organized the insurrection? [Scroll down] Well, then, who could these unindicted co-conspirators be? If they weren't "deep state" agents provocateur out to ensnare the patriotic heroes who attended Trump's January 6 rally in a false-flag insurrection, who are they? A much less sexy but much more obvious possibility is that they're insurrectionists who rolled over on their comrades after January 6 when the FBI came knocking, a prospect that's terrified suspects for months. Someone who participated in the riot but then made a deal with the feds after they faced prosecution would qualify as a co-conspirator because they did sincerely intend to commit one or more crimes at the time of the attack. The most likely reason why they haven't been indicted is because they're cooperating. The Tucker Carlson Solution to Deal With a Corrupt Intelligence Apparatus and FBI Will Not Work, Here's Why. Last night and tonight, Fox News host Tucker Carlson led off the show with discussion of the "January 6th Insurrection" narrative. On Tuesday night [6/15/2021] Carlson and Darren Beattie suggested some form of senate Church Committee 2.0 should be initiated in order to investigate the U.S. intelligence community, and specifically the FBI for their role in coordinating or facilitating the January 6th events. On Wednesday night Carlson again recommended the U.S. congress should start investigating. [...] The fatal flaw is an obvious one that unfortunately too many people just will not, and cannot, accept: The Legislative Branch of the federal government is part of the Intelligence Community corruption. The oversight "gang of eight" are enablers and participants in the corrupt endeavors that Carlson wants them to investigate. Seattle Cops Threatened With Termination Unless They Hand Over Personal Communications. Six Seattle police officers are being threatened with termination unless they turn over personal communications in the wake of their visits to Washington, D.C., to attend the Jan 6th Trump rally. The Office of Police Accountability (OPA) has asked for private communications even after the officers were cleared of any wrongdoing associated with the Capitol riot. Two of the officers posted pictures on social media showing they attended the Trump rally that day. Four more came forward voluntarily to confirm their attendance. Each officer was on vacation, and none were in uniform. But the investigation that cleared the officers wasn't enough for the OPA. They carried out a "pro-active investigation" on their own and are demanding the police officers turn over their personal information or face termination. Tucker Carlson Outlines The Primary Threat to Our Nation, The Corrupt Intelligence Apparatus Which Includes The FBI. Tucker Carlson did an extensive monologue and interview last night [6/15/2021] as a review of the January 6th DC protest while contrast against the likelihood of FBI organization and coordination. Many are calling this a brave outline because Carlson will likely face backlash for the overview. As CTH has noted often, the politicization of the U.S. intelligence apparatus is the biggest threat to our constitutional republic. In this segment Carlson arrives at the same conclusion. Carlson used a Revolver article by Darren Beattie as the framework for the discussion. FBI and DHS Attempted to Recruit Green Beret to Infiltrate Oath Keepers Before Jan. 6 Riot — And He Recorded It. Throughout 2020 the Black Lives Matter terrorist group was linked to conservatively 91% of the riots that resulted in the most expensive property damage in US insurance history[.] There were zero Trump rallies that turned violent during this same time period. Then on January 6, after one million Trump supporters rallied with President Trump at the Ellipse outside the White House, some 900 individuals went inside the US Capitol. Over 400 have since been arrested even those who were waved into the US Capitol by the police standing at the exits. Since January the Deep State and Democrats will not release videotapes to Republican lawmakers from January 6th inside or outside the US Capitol. Democrats are waging war on conservatives and January 6 is their chief weapon. There is something you need to know because it is of overwhelming importance to America's survival as a constitutional democratic republic: The Biden administration is moving inexorably to making it a crime to oppose Biden and the Democrat party's policies. Attorney General Merrick Garland is organizing a massive task force to hunt those illusory "White supremacists," who just happen to be Trump supporters. Moreover, the federal charging documents against many of those being held for trespassing in Congress reveal that some of the people most active in planning January 6 and encouraging others to act were FBI agents or informants. In other words, it was a set-up. Revolver News Breaks Report on Likely Deep State Plants Inside Jan. 6 Uprising — Was It All Planned? Throughout 2020 there were zero Trump rallies that turned into violent riots and zero damages. Since January the Deep State and Democrats will not release video tapes to the Republican lawmakers from January 6th inside or outside the US Capitol. There's likely a reason for that. Who ever saw a group of black block Trump supporters lead a violent break-in of a federal government facility? It's never happened. Who were these people? [Video clip] On Tuesday [6/15/2021] Revolver News published an important piece on the "unindicted co-conspirators" in the Jan. 6 attack who were never charged by the DOJ or FBI for their part in the violence on Jan. 6. Jan 6 detainees in 'Deplorable Jail' allegedly being punished after advocate appears on Mark Levin show. American Greatness senior contributor Julie Kelly said Monday that Jan. 6 protesters who remain behind bars months after the Capitol incident are going to be placed on 24-hour lockdown as punishment for an interview she did over the weekend. On Sunday [6/13/2021], Kelly discussed the cases with Fox News's Mark Levin, in which they both compared the different treatment so-called "MAGA" protesters are receiving from the Justice Department and other federal authorities versus leftist rioters and protesters who assailed the White House in June 2020 and a federal courthouse in Portland, Ore., for more than 100 nights throughout last summer, injuring hundreds of police officers with Molotov cocktails, laser pointers, and commercial-grade fireworks. "It's really important for people to understand, these people are in jail on pre-trial detention orders that are being requested by the Justice Department and signed off on by federal judges in Washington, D.C.," Kelly said of the Jan. 6 protesters. Unindicted
Co-Conspirators in 1/6 Cases Raise Disturbing Questions of Federal Foreknowledge. [Scroll down] Revolver News is willing to
address the matter directly in the following three questions:
Ron Johnson sets [the] record straight after analyzing hours and hours of Jan 6 footage. U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson on Sunday [6/13/2021] strongly refuted a media-generated narrative that the Jan. 6 Capitol riot was an "armed insurrection" during an appearance on Fox News. In an interview with "Life, Liberty, and Levin" host Mark Levin, Johnson discussed his efforts to extract information from Justice Department and Capitol Police sources about the demonstration, adding that his staff has recently reviewed some 14 hours of video taken that day and have made some startling discoveries. But the notion that there were throngs of armed participants intent on overthrowing the government — the purpose of insurrection — is completely false, Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican, asserted, and the video evidence he's seen thus far proves as much. Who Let Capitol Protesters Into the Building on January 6? Judge Amit Mehta thinks no one let protesters into the Capitol building on January 6. During a pre-trial detention hearing on Friday — Joe Biden's Justice Department continues to demand jail time for nonviolent offenders before their trials even begin — the D.C. District Court judge made that false claim. "No one was let in," the Obama appointee told the lawyer representing Jason Dolan, an alleged Oath Keeper and former U.S. Marine with no criminal record. (Mehta denied the government's motion for detention but admitted it was a "close call.") Mehta, of course, is flat wrong. Videos taken by people at the Capitol not only show some U.S. Capitol Police officers ushering protesters toward the building and allowing them to enter but, as American Greatness exclusively reported last month, USCP officers also cautioned several protesters how they should behave. In fact, in an anonymous interview with the Gateway Pundit in May, Dolan himself described how someone inside the Capitol opened the doors. (Dolan was arrested three days after the interview was posted.) The Justice Department, in a motion to keep Dolan incarcerated awaiting trial, called his story a "conspiracy theory." Ashli Babbitt's widower says the cop who shot her dead MUST be named. Ashli Babbitt's husband is demanding authorities name the police officer who shot his wife dead during the US Capitol riot — amid claims it is the same cop who previously left his handgun in a public men's room. Speaking to Fox News' Tucker Carlson on Monday night [6/14/2021], Aaron Babbitt said he still hasn't been told which officer was responsible for fatally shooting his 35-year-old wife on January 6. The Metropolitan Police Department has so far refused to name the officer involved and the Department of Justice announced in April they would not be pursuing charges against the officer following an investigation. Family attorney gives hint on identity of the Capitol Police officer who allegedly shot Ashli Babbitt. Aaron Babbitt, husband of deceased Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt, who was shot and killed inside the U.S. Capitol by a police officer, and his attorney, Terrell Roberts, appeared on Fox News' "Tucker Carlson Tonight" to discuss their ongoing battle to learn the identity of the cop who shot her and why he felt compelled to use deadly force. During the segment, Roberts appeared to drop a serious clue as to who the Capitol Police officer may be. Ashli Babbitt, 35, was killed when she allegedly tried to climb through a broken window next to a door outside the Speaker's Lobby, which leads to the House chamber. The tragic incident was captured on video. A Trump supporter, Babbitt was unarmed and there was no warning heard before the shot suddenly rang out. Putin Implies That the U.S. Government 'Assassinated' Ashli Babbitt. Ahead of his summit with Joe Biden in G7 in Geneva, Switzerland, Russian President Vladimir Putin implied that the United States government had ordered the assassination of Ashli Babbitt, who was shot and killed by Capitol Police during the Capitol riot on January 6. Putin made the comments during an interview with NBC News, in which he argued that the United States and Russia are similar in how they handle dissent. "We have a saying: 'Don't be mad at the mirror if you are ugly,'" Putin said regarding the arrests and persecution of Capitol rioters. "It has nothing to do with you personally. But if somebody blames us for something, what I say is, why don't you look at yourselves? You will see yourselves in the mirror, not us." Vladimir Putin Asks NBC News Who Ordered the Assassination of Ashli Babbitt by the Capitol Police. Vladimir Putin sat down with NBC News for his first on-camera interview with a western news agency in more than three years. Putin avoided public commentary during much of the Trump Administration, but less than six months into the Biden Administration he came out swinging at Biden and the US on a host of issues. [...] This interview was carefully orchestrated by Putin to follow along after Biden's disastrous public appearances at the G7 and NATO Summits. Putin was not going to allow any demonstration of "unity" coming out of Biden's first foreign trip to be the only press story ahead of his meetings with Biden. For the most part defiant, and in some instances just plain trolling the Biden Administration, Putin showed the citizens of this country, using NBC News, why it is he's going to wipe the floor with addle-minded Joe Biden as long as he remains in the White House. Putin asks who shot Ashli Babbitt, accuses U.S. of arresting MAGA protesters for political persecution. Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused the Biden administration of jailing "MAGA" demonstrators who took part in the Capitol Building breach Jan. 6, likening it to "persecuting political opinions" the way a dictatorial government would do. Putin's comments come before a scheduled summit with President Joe Biden in Geneva, Switzerland, on Wednesday after he was asked in an interview in Moscow with NBC News last week about his jailing of opposition leader Alexei Navalny. The Russian leader appeared to deflect the question and, instead, compared the Justice Department's arrest of hundreds of Trump supporters who breached the Capitol earlier this year with Navalny's treatment. Many Capitol protesters are still being held in custody months later, some for nothing more than simple trespassing. There have also been reports that some suspects have been physically abused, while others are being held for 23 hours a day in solitary confinement, the latter of which has even drawn criticism from some Democrats. Tucker: Govt Hiding 14K Hours Of 'Potentially Exculpatory' Jan 6 Footage From Defendants. Tucker Carlson spoke with American Greatness' Julie Kelly on Tuesday night [6/8/2021] and highlighted how the government is hiding 14,000 hours of "potentially exculpatory" video evidence from Jan 6th defendants. "I don't understand how you can prosecute someone for a crime and then withhold potentially exculpatory video," Carlson said. "That's what they're doing," Kelly responded. "That seems completely contrary to justice," Carlson said. "That's just shocking. And maybe a Republican office holder can wake up and note that, like now." New Video Shows Capitol Police Letting Jan. 6 Rioters Inside — And Sen. Ron Johnson Is Demanding Answers. Republican Sen. Ron Johnson is pressuring Capitol law enforcement officials to answer questions about Jan. 6 and why Capitol Police were not prepared to stop people from entering the building. In a letter to Acting Chief of U.S. Capitol Police Yogananda Pittman, Johnson explained that his team's review of the video footage from the Capitol riot raised some questions about how law enforcement chose to handle the situation. First, Johnson explained that more than 300 people appeared to enter the building through the upper west terrace door after it was left ajar by a group exiting the building under the supervision of a Capitol Police officer. Just one minute later, Johnson said the footage shows that the officer, "who was in the vicinity of this door one minute earlier, walked into another hallway away from this door and out of the view of the security camera" while people poured in. Jan. 6 video mystery: Senator asks about officer 'gesturing toward' doors as intruders file past. The top Republican on one of the Senate's most powerful investigative panels says video footage from the Jan. 6 riot shows more than 300 people gained unauthorized access to the Capitol through a single doorway, and he is demanding answers from the police officers who were nearby. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.), the top Republican on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, sent a letter late Thursday [6/10/2021] to U.S. Capitol Police Acting Chief Yogananda Pittman divulging the findings of his security footage review and asking whether the officers present during the episode have been interviewed. "Have these officers filed detailed reports of this incident?" Johnson asked. "Has USCP conducted transcribed interviews with them? If so, I request copies of these reports and transcribed interviews. If not, I respectfully ask for the opportunity to interview these officers." Why Is the Government Hiding January 6 Video Footage? Joe Biden calls it the worst attack since the Civil War. Attorney General Merrick Garland compares it to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. The FBI is breaking down the doors of Iraq War veterans and small business owners who have no criminal records, and some are hauled off to rot in solitary confinement in a fetid D.C. jail, for their involvement in the alleged travesty. The event, of course, is the roughly four-hour-long disturbance at the U.S. Capitol on January 6. As mostly nonviolent Americans dared to protest Congress' certification of a clearly fraudulent presidential election in a place that once was considered "The People's House," lawmakers scurried for cover as reporters and photographers captured part of the ruckus on video and still shots to wield as political ammunition against Donald Trump and his supporters. But have we seen a full and fair depiction of exactly what happened that day? The answer, as evidenced by an ongoing coverup by the U.S. Capitol Police and the Justice Department, clearly is no. New Video Shows Antifa Breaking into the Capitol Building Before the "Insurrection". The truth always comes out. In the aftermath of the January 6th "insurrection," many Trump voters complained that they were set up. They claimed that it was Antifa that first broke into the Capitol Building — and that innocent Trump supporters were lured into the building. Specifically, there was a fear that Antifa infiltrated the rally. Democrats called it a crazy conspiracy theory. Their allies in the mainstream media mocked the very notion. But now, 6 months later, there is new video evidence that appears to suggest that, yes, it was Antifa that first broke into the Capitol Building. [Video clip] 6 men are charged with conspiracy in the Capitol riot, only 1 went into the building. Six men, members of the Three Percenters, were indicted for conspiracy for their roles in the Capitol riot of January 6th. Five of the six didn't even go into the Capitol and one crawled through an already broken window. The charges include conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of an official proceeding and aiding and abetting, obstruction of law enforcement during civil disorder and aiding and abetting, entering and remaining in restricted building or grounds. Two of the men indicted, Alan Hostetter and Russell Taylor, of Orange County were condemned for organizing a Virginia for Trump rally held outside the Supreme Court on Jan. 5. The indictment also suggested Hostetter was dangerous in part because he founded the American Phoenix Project to oppose government-mandated Covid restrictions. Who unlocked Capitol doors and let rioters in? Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) has sent a letter to the U.S. Capitol Police asking how and why a key door to the Capitol that was initially locked, became unlocked, allowing hundreds of unauthorized people to enter the Capitol on January 6. According to the letter, Johnson and his staff have reviewed security camera videotape showing the following timeline of events on the day of the pro-Trump rally and subsequent rioting at the Capitol building, despite Trump's calls for peace: [...] Letters from a D.C. Jail. This week, five Republican senators sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland regarding his office's handling of January 6 protesters. The letter revealed the senators are aware that several Capitol defendants charged with mostly nonviolent crimes are being held in solitary confinement conditions in a D.C. jail used exclusively to house Capitol detainees. Joe Biden's Justice Department routinely requests — and partisan Beltway federal judges routinely approve — pre-trial detention for Americans arrested for their involvement in the January 6 protest. This includes everyone from an 18-year-old high school senior from Georgia to a 70-year-old Virginia farmer with no criminal record. It is important to emphasize that the accused have languished for months in prison before their trials even have begun. Rep. Nunes: officials must release name of Ashli Babbitt's killer. Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) has urged security officials in Washington to release the name of the officer who killed Ashli Babbitt. In an interview on Thursday, the California Republican questioned the uncertainty of Babbitt's murder and called for transparency. Nunes argued all recent shootings involving a police officer have caused public outrage, while the murder of Ashli Babbitt has been actively covered up by Democrat officials and media. Nunes pointed out video footage of Babbitt's killing has yet to be released and the name of the perpetrator is still unknown, which he said was unacceptable. "We don't need the executive branch or the Department of Justice to give us our own video tapes. We are a separate branch of government," he asserted. "What is going on here is a massive coverup by Pelosi and Democrats." Name of Officer Who Shot Ashli Babbitt on Jan. 6 Should Be Released: Rep. Devin Nunes. Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) called on officials to release the name of the officer who fatally shot Ashli Babbitt on Jan. 6 and said that thousands of hours of security footage from the Capitol breach should be released to the public. He also noted that Babbitt's family filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit seeking the officer's name and related information, Nunes told Newsmax on Wednesday [6/9/2021]. "In any normal circumstance where you have an officer-involved shooting, you have people that immediately go out there and say, 'Where's the videotape? Where's the videotape? We need to know what officer did this,'" he said. "Why are we living under a different set of rules?" he asked, likely referring to the release of body camera footage after high-profile officer-involved shootings. Ashli Babbitt's husband sues DC police for the name of the officer that shot her. Ashli Babbitt's husband Aaron has filed a lawsuit to force the police to hand over the records of Ashli's shooting. This way, Babbitt could know the name of the officer who shot and killed her. Previously, Babbitt filed a Freedom of Information Act Request over the records. But, it went unanswered. DC Police have not publicized the name of the officer and the Justice Department decided not to pursue charges either. Ashli Babbitt's husband sues DC Police for video, name of officer who fatally shot her. The husband of Ashli Babbitt — the woman shot and killed while attempting to breach the Speaker's Lobby during the Capitol riot — is asking a D.C. court to force police to turn over records about the officer who shot her. In a complaint filed in D.C. Superior Court last week, Aaron Babbitt, who lives in San Diego, California, claims the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department has failed to comply with the D.C. Freedom of Information Act. The complaint was filed by Terrell Roberts, an attorney with the Maryland-based law firm Roberts & Wood, which has been representing the Babbitt family. Another January 6 Falsehood: $30 Million in Damages to the Capitol. The U.S. Capitol Police on Monday morning conducted what it called a "routine" training exercise on the grounds of the Capitol. The stagecraft, almost five months to the day from the January 6 protest, involved emergency vehicles and helicopters. The agency warned area residents not to be "alarmed," which of course was the exact reaction USCP wanted. Call it insurrection theater. The USCP has acted as the Democratic Party's stormtroopers since January 6, attacking peaceful Americans during the protest, lying about the death of officer Brian Sicknick, and now making officers available for embarrassing cable news hits where they share their hurt feelings and the permanent trauma they've suffered since enduring the supposedly harrowing ordeal. The distressed officers, however, seem just fine with the fact that a still-unidentified colleague shot and killed an unarmed woman, Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt. Capitol-employed apparatchiks have played a key role in shaping the narrative about what happened on January 6, all in service to their Democratic paymasters. The DC Pipe Bomb Suspect: What is the FBI hiding from the public? [Scroll down] A couple possibilities. First, the FBI's investigation is probably further along than any of us know. They're collecting data on purchases of the suspect's Nike Air Max Speed Turf and the timers, etc. used to make the pipe bombs. From that data they cross-reference travel, locations on 1/5/2021, height, shoe size, etc. Second, maybe there's something else to this story. The FBI has always been sensitive to its public perception and controls information to serve that purpose. For example, the FBI has never been forthcoming about its agents' involvement with terror suspects. Or, consider whether the pipe bomb investigation would cut against the politics of January 6. I take no pleasure in skepticism of the FBI, but this is a reputation the FBI has earned. Either way, this outside observer can't help but notice that one group of targets — those who entered the Capitol Building on January 6 — are pursued in the public sphere more aggressively than the person who set out pipe bombs the night before. Biden's Jan. 6 Narrative Just Got Even More Ridiculous. Federal prosecutors are saying the unrest on January 6 resulted in "approximately $1,495,326.55 damage to the United States Capitol." The figure was disclosed last week in a plea agreement with one of the January 6 defendants. What's notable about the $1.5 million is how remarkably small it is. The government can misplace that much on a National Science Foundation study of lizards walking on treadmills. [...] Architect of the Capitol J. Brett Blanton told Congress in February repairs were going to run to $30 million — a number he wildly inflated by adding the price of Nancy Pelosi's barbed wire fence through March 31 and mental health treatments for traumatized staff. The final bill of $1,495,326.55 shows he overstated it by 95%. Solitary confinement for Jan. 6 riot participants draws criticism from Democratic senators and ACLU. Many participants in the Jan. 6 Capitol riots are being held in solitary confinement in Washington, D.C.'s city jail, a situation that's drawing scrutiny from Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bob Casey and the American Civil Liberties Union. The Department of Justice has charged 510 individuals in connection with the Jan. 6 breach, which began when supporters of outgoing President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol with the intent of trying to stop the certification of Electoral College votes for Joe Biden as president. After Jan. 6, Washington, D.C., jail officials decided that all Capitol riot detainees be held in "restrictive housing" as a safety measure for the accused. However, the accused found themselves in solitary confinement 23 hours a day before their trials even started. 'Justice Must Be Administered Equally' — Republican Senators Demand Answers For 2020 Riots, Capitol Riot From DOJ. A group of Republican senators sent a letter Monday to Attorney General Merrick Garland demanding answers regarding punishments for those who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 and those who rioted over the spring and summer of 2020. The Daily Caller first obtained the letter, which was sent to the Department of Justice (DOJ) by Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville, Utah Sen. Mike Lee and Florida Sen. Rick Scott. In the letter, the group of GOP Senators draw parallels between the treatment of the Capitol rioters to the treatment of rioters throughout the spring and summer of 2020 and call for clarifications on punishment. Another High-Ranking Capitol Police Official Resigns Amid January 6th Riots Fallout. A high-ranking Capitol Police official has resigned ahead of an impending report that is likely to scapegoat officers for security failures running up to the January 6th riots. The Capitol Police official's resignation is yet another domino to fall in the aftermath of the Capitol Riots. The first domino was set off by former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund stepping down, followed by the House and Senate sergeant-at-arms. Politico reported on the resignation on Monday [6/7/2021]. US intelligence knew MAGA fans were planning Jan 6 'war' for WEEKS but did nothing to protect Capitol cops. Capitol Police and intelligence agencies including the FBI knew Trump supporters were threatening to storm the Capitol and wanted to target Democrat lawmakers weeks before January 6, but didn't act, a bipartisan Senate Report has revealed. Law enforcement was aware of a plot to breach the Capitol, that maps of the building's tunnel system had been shared online, and that supporters were planning to bring guns to D.C., but failed to act or share information with uniformed cops. The report noted that Trump encouraged his supporters to go to the Capitol to protest and a copy of his speech was added to the report, but it did not mention if he had a direct role in the attack. It also did not refer to the riot as an insurrection. Murder Incorporated: Theirs and Ours. [Scroll down] Putin is obviously aware of the secrecy surrounding the murder. He knows that the Biden "Department of Justice" said it would not pursue criminal charges against the Capitol police officer who killed Ashli Babbitt. It won't even name him. The U.S. Attorney's Office simply declared that "...the investigation revealed no evidence to establish that, at the time the officer fired a single shot Ms. Babbitt, the officer did not reasonably believe that it was necessary to do so in self-defense or in the defense of the Members of Congress and others evacuating the House Chamber." Attorney Terrell N. Roberts, III, who has handled police brutality cases and represents Ashli's husband and family members, responded, "This double-negative is an odd way of explaining the basis for not bringing charges. It plainly glosses over the obvious problem of squaring the decision not to prosecute with the known facts. The actual evidence is this: the officer shot an unarmed woman who was not an immediate threat to him or any Member of Congress. That is inconsistent with any claim of self-defense or the defense of others, period." Senate report blames Capitol Hill police for January 6th riot. It's a little more complicated than how the headline portrays the situation, but not all that much. Despite Democrats' anger over their failure to form a 9/11-style commission to investigate the January 6th riot, the Homeland Security and Rules committees in the Senate have continued their work investigating what happened on that day and a preliminary report is ready for release. People who have seen the report indicate that the committees are finding fault with the leadership of the U.S. Capitol Police for not making critical intelligence information available to its own forces ahead of the incursion. Online intelligence gathering revealed that people were planning the attack well in advance, with maps of the area and the Capitol Hill building being circulated. Various routes to infiltrate the complex were being discussed and if the police had been informed of all of this, they could have been better prepared and equipped to handle the assault. Ashli Babbitt's Family Sues D.C. Cops to Learn the Identity of Her Killer. The family of Ashli Babbitt is suing Washington, D.C.'s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) to learn the identity of the officer who fatally shot Babbitt in the Capitol on January 6. Court documents show that the plaintiff, Aaron Babbitt, filed the lawsuit on April 21, 2021. Under Washington code, the MPD was supposed to produce the requested information or prove that the department is legally exempt from doing so within 15 days. As of June 4, the department has yet to do either. Aaron Bobbitt's attorney, Terrell Roberts, stated the problem with the lawsuit is that Capitol Police are not subject to the law regarding the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Famed Attorney Representing Capitol Protesters Launches New Org to Counter ACLU's Move to the Far Left. Famed attorney John Pierce, who is currently representing several January 6 protesters, has launched a new organization to defend Constitutional rights in response to the American Civil Liberties Union's move to the far left. The mission of the National Constitutional Law Union Inc. (NCLU) is to preserve and protect the United States Constitution and the American way of life "by providing legal support and funding to individuals whose Constitutional rights, civil liberties and similar rights are being violated or in jeopardy." [...] Pierce told Gateway Pundit, "Since the Biden/Harris administration has taken office, the radical left has moved with extreme speed and violence of execution to change the United States into a Marxist, socialist and totalitarian state. It is happening before our very eyes. We cannot and will not allow this to happen." Liz Cheney says Trump 'inciting' the Capitol riot is 'the most dangerous thing a president has ever done'. Liz Cheney claimed Trump did 'the most dangerous thing' a president has ever done by 'inciting' the January 6 Capitol attack as she revealed many GOP lawmakers didn't vote for impeachment because they feared for their safety. 'I think what Donald Trump did is the most dangerous thing, the most egregious violation of an oath of office of any president in our history,' Cheney told David Axelrod on an episode of his The Axe Files podcast, which was recorded Saturday but released Monday [6/7/2021]. 'I have had a number of members say to me, 'we would have voted to impeach, but we were concerned about our security,' Cheney said during another part of the interview. Also posted under Liz Cheney and Lies about President Trump. An Invented Insurrection: How the left is trying to criminalize conservatism. The Biden Administration is abusing state power to create the appearance of a conspiracy to commit an insurrection on January 6th, 2021 at the U.S. Capitol. The problem is the indictment they just filed with the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia — it proves there was no conspiracy. The malfeasance of the FBI, the Department of Justice, and the judges involved with the arrest and incarceration without bail of many of those who participated in the riot at the Capitol have been covered brilliantly in a series of pieces by Julie Kelly. These events are abhorrent to anyone who believes in the rule of law and better suited to a totalitarian police state removing political enemies. America is not supposed to have indefinite detention based on political beliefs, and yet here we are. This treatment is all the more heinous when compared with the near-total lack of interest in prosecuting the year plus-long violence and destruction perpetrated by Black Lives Matter (BLM) and Antifa, some of which involved the seizure and continued occupation for weeks of government buildings. This is a far step from equal treatment under the law and should bring a concerted response from all those on the right who oppose tyranny. Confirmed: Jan. 6 Protest Resulted in Estimated $1.5 Million in Damages — Or 1/1000th of Damages by Black Lives Matter-Antifa Protests in 2020. Biden, Pelosi, Democrats and their fake news media want you to believe the Jan. 6 protest was the most violent "insurrection" in history. They say it was as bad as the 9-11 Islamist attacks on America that killed 3,000 innocent Americans. What they don't tell you is that the protests were mostly peaceful and the protesters caused minimal damage until their government fired on with flash grenades, tear gas and rubber bullets without warning. That's when protesters ran up the stairs and entered the US Capitol — after the doors were opened. We have all seen video of protesters breaking windows and trying to force their way into sections of the US Capitol. On Friday [6/4/2021] the mainstream media reported the estimated damages from the January 6 protests came out to $1.5 million. The Editor says... Anderson Cooper Makes Insane Claim About Capitol Riot, but Guess Where He Got It From. How set are liberal media and other Democrats on continuing to spread hyperbole about the Capitol riot on Jan. 6? Not to mention demonizing any Republicans who questioned election integrity? There were two golden examples of how crazy the left has gotten over it, as they try to press the narrative. Here's a delusional MSNBC guest, Rachel Bitecofer, political scientist, claiming that we are "watching democracy collapse." JP Morgan resumes political contributions... except for certain politicians. After the January 6 riot on Capitol Hill, many corporations chose to make grand announcements that they would no longer send political contributions to any politician who supported the attempt to overturn the presidential election results. The woke virtue-signaling was strong. Financial organizations joined in. Some of them chose to limit contributions to politicians who didn't support overturning the election results while others paused all political contributions. Some organizations are quietly starting up. For example, Citigroup suspended all political contributions through its PAC for the first quarter of 2021 while Morgan Stanley singled out politicians who opposed the election results. Government Seeks Retribution for the Biden Resistance. The U.S. government's vengeance case against the Oath Keepers, a group that publicly declared its opposition to Joe Biden's presidency, is now in its fourth iteration with no end in sight. Biden's Justice Department, led by a man denied a seat on the Supreme Court in 2016 by Senate Republicans and a woman loyal to both Barack Obama and Robert Mueller, is sparing no resource to destroy the lives of Americans tied to the group that allegedly "stormed" the Capitol on January 6. Last week, Channing Phillips, the acting U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia overseeing the sprawling investigation into the events of January 6, filed another superseding indictment against the Oath Keepers while adding new defendants. Four men have been arrested since May 27; the total number of defendants is 16 and counting. Our Increasingly Unrecognizable Civilization. [Scroll down] Look at just three things we have lost. One is equality before the law, something absolutely essential to a free society. In its place, we now have politicized law. If a policeman fatally shoots someone, whether his name is released to the public depends on whether the shooting is consistent with the preferred narrative of the ruling class. A policeman recently took down a young woman who was threatening the life of another young woman with a knife, and that policeman was immediately identified — indeed, his photo was posted and he was threatened by NBA superstar LeBron James on Twitter. On the other hand, we know nothing of the policeman who shot dead an unarmed woman in the U.S. Capitol on January 6. His name will apparently never be released to the public. The Big Lie About Brian Sicknick's Death is Keeping Two People in Solitary Confinement. [Video clip] The New Secession Crisis: The Democrats have already left the Union. The Democrats have already seceded from America's historic conception of nationhood in many respects: [...] THEY have occupied our nation's capital with thousands of troops as if the American people were a foreign foe. This was done in response to a nonexistent threat on the pretext of a shocking but solitary riot, wherein everyone who died was a Trump supporter and none of the so-called "insurgents" was armed. They have since held many of those participating, even peripherally, in prison for months, often in solitary confinement, on absurdly inflated charges, as a political punishment and a warning to future dissidents. 'It's like Guantanamo Bay': Inside the Washington D.C. jail where Capitol rioters are 'treated like domestic terrorists'. The Washington D.C. Jail — where dozens of Capitol rioters are housed before their trials — is like 'Guantanamo Bay', a lawyer representing one of the protestors told DailyMail.com. The suspects are held in solitary confinement in cells the 'size of a walk-in closets' for up [to] 24 hours a day and treated like 'domestic terrorists' by jail guards after several law enforcement officers were injured and killed during the January 6 violence at the Capitol, lawyer Joseph McBride said. McBride, who represents Richard 'Bigo' Barnett, 60, of Arkansas — the man known for putting his feet up on Speaker Nancy Pelosi's desk — claimed that the guards are 'roughing up' the siege suspects to show solidarity with law enforcement who protected the Capitol. Elect the January 6 Protestors to Congress. Only a criminally insane person would torture another human being, but thousands of government employees manage the task every day around the world. Until a few months ago, I would have been referring exclusively to Marxist dictatorships, but now we've received word of the special detention facility set up in Washington, D.C. for the January 6 protesters, in which men are isolated for 23 hours a day, and where a man was maced after having a breakdown in solitary confinement and many others have been beaten, including one who suffered a broken orbital bone that may permanently damage his vision. One reason governments are so good at this sort of crime — basic brutality — is that, like any crime syndicate, they separate the man kicking someone with his boot from the higher authority giving the orders to kick. Putin to press Biden on human rights of Capitol rioters, Russia says. Russian President Vladimir Putin is prepared to press President Biden on the "human rights" of Capitol rioters when they meet this month in Switzerland, the country's top diplomat says. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said alleged rioters are being "persecuted" and that Putin will turn the tables on Biden over US support for Russian dissidents, such as jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who last year survived poisoning attempts. "We are ready to talk, we have no taboo topics. We will discuss whatever we think is necessary. We will be ready to answer the questions that the American side will raise. This also applies to human rights," Lavrov reportedly said at a press conference Monday in Moscow. Feds move to drop charges in first Capitol riot case against Chris Kelly for lack of evidence. In a stunning development, federal prosecutors are suddenly moving to drop all charges against Jan. 6 protester Chris Kelly whom the FBI falsely claimed entered the Capitol building that fateful day. "The government and defense counsel have discussed the merits of the case and upon reflection of the facts currently known to the government, the government believes that dismissal without prejudice at this time serves the interest of justice," prosecutors wrote. The judge has not signed off on the case dismissal yet. A dismissal without prejudice means that the government could bring charges against Kelly again in the future if things change. Capitol Mystery: Who's Blocking the Evidence? Since Part 1 of this investigation, the New York Times has been forced to backpedal on their insane and mendacious claim that Officer Sicknick was murdered by a fire extinguisher-wielding MAGA mob. Fox News said they corrected their report. Zerohedge said they retracted it. In truth, what they did was much more cowardly, deceptive, and unethically on brand for the New York Times. They kept their screaming headline but pinned a qualifier that "new information has emerged" that "questions the initial cause of his death." [...] Congress wants a "New 9/11 Commission" about 1/6, purporting to leave no stone unturned. If right out the gate, you start deplatforming and destroying civilians who point out Very Obvious Boulders Still Rightside-Up, you're not just disgracing yourselves — You're showing disrespect to the honor of Officer Brian Sicknick. According to reports, Sicknick joined the U.S. Capitol Police after leaving his military service disheartened by the glut of unresolved "intelligence failures" from the original 9/11 Commission. Capitol Police Fired Exploding Flash Grenade Into Crowd on Jan. 6 — into a Crowd of Men, Women and Children! On Jan. 6 Capitol Police started firing flash grenades and rubber bullets at peaceful protesters with US and MAGA flags. From the video you can see the protesters are NOT on the Capitol steps and were behind barriers. There were children, veterans and seniors in the crowd. The protesters were packed tightly together and the Capitol Police started firing on them. No, the Capitol Trespassers Aren't 'Terrorists'. You'll have to excuse me if I'm not buying the "Big Lie" that January 6 was remotely the same as 9/11. Because Ashli Babbitt is not Osama bin Laden, the Proud Boys are not al-Qaeda, and January 6 was not 9/11. These statements are obvious to anyone with a functioning brain, which seems to disqualify the political Left. I don't care what Joe Biden says. I don't [care] about Christopher Wray or the hyperpartisan FBI's "threat assessments." I certainly wouldn't be caught dead nodding along with Don Lemon as he cries about a phony "insurrection." Unlike the aftermath of 9/11, America has not become more united since January 6. In fact, we've become more bitterly divided. There's a simple explanation for that: January 6 did not create a common enemy. In reality, there is no new enemy at all — just a few hundred upset people from "flyover country" who, perhaps rightly, feel as though they're not being heard by their elected officials, and who can now be used as political tools by dishonest partisans. Capitol Police Started Shooting at Peaceful Trump Crowd on Jan. 6 — Fired Flash Grenades and Rubber Bullets on Peaceful Protesters Including Children. On Jan. 6 Capitol Police started firing flash grenades and rubber bullets at peaceful protesters with US and MAGA flags. From the video you can see the protesters are NOT on the Capitol steps and were behind barriers. There were children and seniors in the crowd. The protesters were NOT breaking any laws. This was before protesters entered the US Capitol — many of them entering after police gave them the OK. Democrats Melt Down After Pelosi's Scheme For "9/11 Style" Commission Fails. Democrats are going kicking and screaming into the long Memorial Day weekend after Senate Republicans successfully blocked a bill creating the sham "9/11 style" commission that was key to their plans of retaining control over Congress. The creation of this travesty went down by a score of 54-35 with Republicans using their first filibuster of the Biden era, an added indignity to Dems that will almost certainly fuel renewed efforts to eliminate the last remaining obstacle to one-party tyranny. The passage of the bill would have required ten GOP senators to slither into the enemy camp, well short of the six treacherous turncoats led by the three-headed monster of Mitt Romney, Susan Collins, and Lisa Murkowski who joined Democrats. Republicans Were Right to Block the Politically Motivated January 6th Commission. Republicans in the Senate held together to thwart attempts to form a commission to investigate the trespassing and minor property damage that happened at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. We should all refuse to call it an insurrection or even a riot at this point if for no other reason than to frustrate the left — in particular, leading Democrats like this bitter former presidential candidate who keeps lying to her followers: [Tweet] It is well established that the only person who died that day due to violence at the Capitol was Ashli Babbitt, an unarmed veteran and Trump supporter. The identity of the Capitol Police officer who shot her remains unknown, unlike officers in the past year who have shot suspects to save their own lives or the lives of others. Officer Sicknick's death was used as a prop by anti-law-enforcement Democrats in the wake of January 6th. Joe Biden Scolds Republicans for Blocking Jan. 6 Investigation of 'Greatest Assault Since the Civil War'. President Joe Biden scolded Republicans Thursday for blocking a Democrat-led effort to investigate the January 6 riots on Capitol Hill. The president spoke about the upcoming Senate vote to establish a commission as he made a stop for ice cream while visiting Ohio. The vote is expected to fail, as not enough Senate Republicans plan to support the legislation. Biden purchased an ice cream cone and one for a bystander, prompting reporters to ask what flavor he ordered. "Chocolate Chocolate Chip," Biden replied. "What's your message to Republicans who are prepared to block the January 6th commission?" the reporter continued. "Eat some chocolate, chocolate chip," Biden said. Republican Senators Block Bill to Form Capitol Riot Commission. A bill to form a commission tasked with investigating the January 6 Capitol riot will not move forward after the measure failed to reach the 60 votes required to advance. The legislation failed in a 54 [to] 35 vote as Senate Republicans used their filibuster power for the first time since President Biden took office. Just six Republicans voted to advance the bill: Senators Lisa Murkowksi of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine, Bill Cassidy of Lousiania, Ben Sasse of Nebraska, Mitt Romney of Utah and Rob Portman of Ohio. New Video Depicts Capitol Police Using Stun Grenades on Crowd. In a clip obtained by American Greatness, peaceful protestors on the west side of the Capitol building on January 6 are shown confronted by U.S. Capitol Police reportedly using flashbangs — a type of stun grenade used to disorient a target's senses — and rubber bullets. The approximate time of the confrontation was around 1:36 p.m. [Video clip, language warning.] The man speaking in the video is Kash Kelly, a former gang member and founder of the Streetlights Unity Movement and Foundation, a group he launched in 2020 in opposition to Black Lives Matters to help at-risk people in inner-cities, Kelly told me during a brief interview from a Washington, D.C. jail Thursday afternoon. He was an outspoken supporter of Donald Trump. "The police started shooting at people," Kelly told me. "There were kids in the crowd." Rep. Devin Nunes Says Democrats Won't Release Tapes from Jan. 6 US Capitol Assault — Why Is That? Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) joined Greg Kelly on The Kelly File on Tuesday night. Kelly asked Rep. Nunes about the Capitol Hill riot and the American left comparing it to the 9-11 attack when Islamists killed 3,000 Americans. Devin Nunes told Greg Kelly it was ridiculous and that the Democrats will not release video tapes to the Republican lawmakers from January 6th inside the US Capitol. Man in Pelosi's Office Discusses Jail Conditions for January 6 Detainees. In one of the most iconic images of January 6, a man is pictured with his feet up on a desk inside House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-Calif.) office. Richard Barnett, 60, traveled from his home in Arkansas to hear Donald Trump's speech then made his way to the Capitol complex. He entered Pelosi's office, where a few photojournalists just happened to be stationed; Barnett put his feet on the desk, posed for the cameras, and left Pelosi a note. (He is quite a character, I can safely say after a lengthy phone interview.) Two hours later, the photos went viral. Pelosi's daughter, Christine, posted the picture of Barnett at 3:21 p.m. that afternoon. "The Trump rioter did vandalize her office," she tweeted. "The trash will be removed and the seditionists will be prosecuted." That incident started a legal and personal nightmare for Barnett, who spent nearly four months behind bars before a federal judge finally released him in April. Insurrection Obsession. Okay, let's say out loud what the regime doesn't want said — there was no insurrection. At least not in Washington, D.C. Now, in places like Portland and Seattle, there were and are insurrections, actual ongoing occupations of actual territory by actual criminals where the government is expressly told it's not in charge and to stay out. And, of course, the government tolerates those insurrections. It does so because the Democrats in charge — this nonsense never happens in Florida with DeSantis in charge — perceives the actual insurrectionists as political allies, so they do nothing. Some insurrections, it appears, are more insurrectiony than others. Despite the rending of garments and gnashing of teeth, the fracas on Capitol Hill was barely a brawl — what if they gave an armed insurrection and nobody showed up with arms? It certainly was not even close in damage, violence, or casualties to the routine BLM/Antifa rioting last year — rioting the Democrats tacitly supported. But these rioters were not allies of the elite, and the elite felt threatened, and so we're now all supposed to accept — without bursting into laughter — that this was the worst thing in the history of ever. Brandon Straka Breaks His Silence After Jan. 6th Capitol Arrest In LIVE Podcast. Conservative hero Brandon Straka was arrested for going inside the Capitol building on January 6th. He wasn't charged with committing a violent crime, but he was charged with entering the Capitol building. 100 Percent Fed Up reports — Tonight, Straka surprised his fans with an appearance on his Facebook where he discussed his future. "My case has been extended for another 3 months, so you won't hear from me much for the next 3 months," he told his fans during the LIVE Facebook podcast that lasted for almost 2 hours. He promised his fans that as soon as his trial is over, he will be back, and "this will be behind us." Straka used the occasion of his 3-year-Walkaway anniversary to share the good news with his massive fan base in his first live appearance since his arrest. The #Walkaway founder announced that he's back — and that the Walkaway movement is not going away. Shut down the Jan. 6 gulag. If you listen to Democrats and anti-Trump liberal Republicans like Sen. Mitt Romney and Rep. Liz Cheney, you'd think that nothing was being done about the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Never mind the FBI's all-out hunts and raids across 44 states. Never mind the continued detention of an unknown number of pro-Trump supporters. Never mind the more than 2,000 criminal charges brought by federal prosecutors against nearly 500 Americans arrested over the past four months. Nope. Absolutely nothing is being done, the gaslighters insist, so these partisan opportunists are pushing forward with their witch-hunt commission to uncover the "facts." Republicans are right to oppose this charade and the continued weaponization of Jan. 6. It's not about finding the truth. It's about foisting the same old false narratives about conservatives on the public. It's about holding every Republican and Trump supporter accountable for the violent or reckless actions of a few. More than 4 months later, National Guard troops stationed at the Capitol have finally left DC. Having been stationed in Washington, D.C., for more than four months following the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, the last remaining National Guard troops officially ended their term on Sunday, the Army reserve component announced in a news release. "The National Guard's U.S. Capitol security mission to support the U.S. Capitol Police ends May 23," the release stated as the final 2,200 troops exited the nation's capital. "They've hit that magic date, and they're going home," added retired Lt. Gen. Russel Honore on CBS's "Face the Nation" on Sunday [5/23/2021]. Trump's lawyer argues Dem. Eric Swalwell cannot sue him for inciting an insurrection. Former President Donald Trump's lawyer argued in a new filing that the speech he delivered on January 6 before the MAGA riot was protected by the First Amendment and he had 'absolute immunity' as president to contest the election. The claim filed in D.C. District Court was in response to a lawsuit from Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell, one of the House's impeachment managers, seeking to hold Trump legally accountable for inciting an insurrection after Democrats were unable to get an impeachment conviction in the U.S. Senate. Trump's lawyer said that the president's bully pulpit message at the 'Save America' rally was a constitutionally protected presidential act, according to CNN, which first reported on the new filing. The Capitol 'armed insurrection' narrative is crumbling. Back in February, I noted here that there were a few differences between these two sets of events. At the Capitol, we were told that 'domestic extremists' or 'domestic terrorists' at the instigation of Donald Trump 'stormed' the Capitol in what amounted to an 'armed insurrection.' One trouble with that narrative is that the only arms were deployed by the Capitol police, one of whom shot someone dead. The victim's name was Ashli Babbitt, an unarmed veteran and pro-Trump activist who was trying to climb through a window. The role of the Capitol police that day is curious. At first, they went along with — indeed, they assiduously circulated — the baseless rumor that one of their number, Brian Sicknick, had been brutally beaten to death with a fire extinguisher by a crazed Trump partisan. That story was as eagerly seized upon by the media, just as were the phantasmagoric stories about Brett Kavanaugh's teenage sexual exploits or the Covington Kid's rudeness to an Indian elder. It turned out that Sicknick died of 'natural causes', a fact that even the New York Times eventually admitted after their original story had done its damage to Trump and anyone who supported him. Authorities Seize $90,000 from 'Journalist' Paid by CNN, Allege He Actually Encouraged and Emboldened Rioters. A man who painted himself as an innocent, independent journalist when he captured the most violent scenes amid the Jan. 6 breach of the U.S. Capitol Building has been hit with additional charges and seen $90,000 in assets seized for selling his footage to media outlets. John Earle Sullivan claimed to have entered the Capitol with the intention of recording the rioters, yet quickly gained notoriety in the days that followed for his history of far-left, anti-police activism that included charges of rioting, threats of violence, and criminal mischief in his home state of Utah. According to the original criminal affidavit when he was first arrested in January on charges of unlawful entry, disorderly conduct, and attempted obstruction of law enforcement, Sullivan began the day on Jan. 6 with the apparent intention of burning down the Capitol Building and ripping then-President Donald Trump out of office (or something to that effect). Black Lives Matter Supporter at Capitol Breach Said He 'Brought My Megaphone to Instigate' Trump Supporters: DOJ. The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed new charges against reported Black Lives Matter activist John Sullivan for his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol breach, saying that Sullivan allegedly told others later that he brought along a megaphone to incite riots inside the building. According to court documents filed last week by federal prosecutors, Sullivan, of Utah, is facing new weapons charges. Sullivan, in statements online and in reports, said he attended a number of Black Lives Matter protests last year, posted numerous anti-police and anti-Trump statements, and also allegedly posted support on Twitter for armed revolution. After leaving the Capitol on Jan. 6, Sullivan was seen, according to federal prosecutors, telling a witness that he "brought my megaphone to instigate [expletive]" and wanted to "make these Trump supporters [expletive] all this [expletive] up" inside the Capitol building. Welcome To Joe Biden's Police State. The Biden administration is using the Jan. 6 incursion into the Capitol building as a pretext for a domestic spying campaign that will supposedly target "violent extremists" but is more accurately described as the beginnings of a Biden police state. Last week, we learned that the Defense Department plans to monitor service members' social media posts for "concerning behaviors." According to The Intercept, which broke this story, the plan is to enlist a private firm to do the spying, so as to avoid nasty entanglements with the First Amendment. The Intercept reports that: ["]An extremism steering committee led by Bishop Garrison, a senior adviser to the secretary of defense, is currently designing the social media screening pilot program, which will 'continuously' monitor military personnel for 'concerning behaviors.'["] This isn't the only such incident. Earlier this month, CNN reported that the Biden administration "is considering using outside firms to track extremist chatter by Americans online, an effort that would expand the government's ability to gather intelligence but could draw criticism over surveillance of US citizens." Biden administration to release Gitmo terrorist detainees but not January 6 trespassers. The Biden administration is set to release three terrorists from the U.S.'s Guantanamo Bay detention facility. Saifullah Paracha, a former Al Qaeda bagman and terror plotter who met with Usama bin Laden in the fall of 2000, is one of the three to be released. Paracha also offered up his textile company for Al Qaeda's use. He suggested that AL Qaeda might use his company's containers to bring chemical agents like sarin gas — and other weapons of mass destruction — into the United States. Uthman Abdul al-Rahim, from Yemen, is another GITMO detainee to be set free. He was a guard for Usama bin Laden and was part of the "55th Arab Brigade" at Tora Bora. Al-Rahim's brother is a member of Al Qaeda, and some of his buddies were responsible for the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole in October of 2000. Time to Confront the U.S. Capitol Police About Its January 6 Lies. The body of U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick wasn't even cold before his employer leveraged his untimely death to stoke more outrage about the events in the nation's capital on January 6. "At approximately 9:30 p.m. this evening ... United States Capitol Police Officer Brian D. Sicknick passed away due to injuries sustained while on-duty," read a press release issued January 7. "Officer Sicknick was responding to the riots [and] was injured while physically engaging with protesters. He returned to his division office and collapsed. He was taken to a local hospital where he succumbed to his injuries. The death of Officer Sicknick will be investigated by the Metropolitan Police Department's Homicide Branch, the USCP, and our federal partners." The agency intentionally included the word "homicide" to suggest Sicknick was killed by homicidal Trump supporters. [...] We now know that gruesome account was completely fabricated. Can anyone doubt, given their flagrant partisanship in the wake of the Capitol protest, the U.S. Capitol Police planted the now-retracted fire extinguisher story? US Capitol Doors on Jan. 6 Were Magnetically Locked — Someone Inside Capitol Security Had to Release the Lock to Open the Doors. Last week a member of the Oath Keepers called The Gateway Pundit to tell us his story of the January 6th protests and riot. He is living in fear since the Jan. 6 protests at the US Capitol and wanted to get his story out. The Oath Keepers is a non-partisan association of current and formerly serving military, police, and first responders, who pledge to fulfill the oath all military and police take to "defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic." What he told us is truly shocking and has not been reported by the mainstream fake-news media. This man wanted to remain anonymous. We spoke with Attorney Kellye Sorell about his story. He believes the government is planning to arrest him. Feet-of-Clay Icons. The Pentagon seems to have lost its way. It has transmogrified into a cultural engine of change from a defensive force devoted to battlefield supremacy. The Defense Department is chasing its tail, supposedly on the scent of white supremacists of the armed insurrectionist sort who stormed the Capitol. The only problem is that none of the rioters now sitting in jail without bail and in solitary confinement have even been charged with insurrectionary crimes, treason, or conspiracies. None used arms. None even possessed them inside the Capitol. None killed any law enforcement officer, contrary to what we were told. So far, no architects of the supposed insurrection — most likely a spontaneous riot of ragtag misfits — have been arrested. Four of the five who died were protesters. None died violently at the hand of another — except an unarmed military veteran who was shot entering a window by an officer, whose name, age, and race remain concealed, as does most of the video evidence of the Capitol melee itself. Thousands of hours of Capitol videos of the entire mess have not been released. In other words, a woke military is pursuing an ideological witch hunt of its own based on the myth of an epidemic of armed insurrectionists in its ranks. Team Biden keeps hyping a basically phony 'domestic violent extremism' threat. With illegal migrants crossing the southern border by the hundreds of thousands and setting new records by the month, the Department of Homeland Security's top priority — somehow — is "domestic violent extremism," and it doesn't even mean Antifa. [...] Yes, the Jan. 6 Capitol riot was awful, but that collection of crackpots is no serious national-security threat or there'd have been some sign of more such trouble in the months since. [...] As soon as the CDC relaxed its guidance for the vaccinated, DHS announced: "Violent extremists may seek to exploit the easing of COVID-19-related restrictions across the United States to conduct attacks against a broader range of targets after previous public capacity limits reduced opportunities for lethal attacks," adding that the violent, fueled by "false narratives," are "likely to exploit Constitutionally-protected freedom of speech activity." The Editor says... The curious case of the BLM-loving Capitol riot provocateur who was paid $35k each by CNN and NBC. Well, this isn't going to help the corporate media narrative that "insurrectionists" inspired by President Trump's rhetoric tried to overthrow democracy at the Capitol. Yesterday [5/23/2021] on ABC's This Week, George Will said, "I would like to see January 6th as burned into the American mind as firmly as 9/11," and I don't think he meant as an example of agents provocateurs creating false flag incidents to discredit their political rivals. But thanks to a court filing that has escaped corporate media notice, we now know that the Justice Department has seized over $60,000 from the bank accounts of John Earle Sullivan, who sold video he took of activities that day, including of the murder of Ashli Babbitt, under the theory that it was the fruit of a criminal act. Keywords: Poorly-informed, nitwit, propagandist, unprepared, incompetent. An Update on BLM Activist Who Tried to Profit off Filming Shooting of Ashli Babbitt. As we previously reported, John Sullivan organized BLM protests in Utah and has been involved in BLM actions in Washington, D.C. Sullivan also ran a leftist group called Insurgence which talked about revolution and had a website that sold black bloc gear. But, he was also involved in actions at the Capitol riot. Sullivan recorded footage at the Capitol including the shooting of Ashli Babbitt by a Capitol Police officer. He claimed that he was an independent journalist covering the action, but prosecutors didn't believe that, saying video showed him saying things like, "Let's go. This [...] is ours!" and "Let's burn this [...] down." The Biden administration is still lying about January 6. We're slowly getting more information about events on January 6 at the Capitol. Every new bit of information shows that what happened pretty much falls within the parameters of anything Code Pink or Antifa have done on or to federal property, although with significantly less violence than Antifa uses. Nevertheless, Democrats continue to claim that January 6 was an insurrection that rivaled the entire Civil War in intensity. The latest claim comes from Biden's White House, where his Press Secretary asserts that several police officers died on January 6. The Left Is Obsessed with January 6. On January 6, 2021, a massive outpouring of supporters of President Donald Trump descended on Washington D.C. for a rally. The president invited his supporters to "peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard" at the U.S. Capitol. It did not matter that he did not call for violence, Congress impeached him anyway. The crowd's mission was not to burn down the U.S. Capitol or harm members of Congress. For the overwhelming majority of those in attendance, their goal was not to commit violence, but to persuade either Vice President Mike Pence or a majority of the members of Congress to oppose the certification of the 2020 U.S. presidential election results. Instead of the day being focused on claims of voter fraud and election irregularities, the entire media narrative turned into the "attack on the U.S. Capitol." 'The American Public Deserves to Know' About Ashli Babbitt's Death: National Police Association Spokesperson. Terrell Roberts, an attorney for the Babbitt family, told The Epoch Times that the decision was "baffling, given the circumstances that it's a clear case of shooting an unarmed person without any legal justification." Mark Schamel, a lawyer representing the officer, told The Epoch Times via email that the officer "had to resort to deadly force" and that his actions "stopped the mob from breaking through and turning a horrific day in American history into something so much worse." Babbitt was with a group that entered the Capitol building on Jan. 6. A witness to the event said that police were asking people to get back and out of the way from a door that had its windows smashed. Babbitt did not heed the call and as she tried to climb through, an African-American police officer wearing a suit fatally shot her in the neck area. There is no indication that Babbitt was armed and her family's attorney has said she was not. Smith, the National Police Association spokesperson, said she was also disturbed by "the complete lack of curiosity by the legacy media." What Happened to Officer Brian Sicknick? The claim is so pervasive as not to be questioned: Five people died as a result of the January 6 "insurrection" at the Capitol building, killed by blood-thirsty Trump voters at the president's behest, out for revenge over a stolen election. Even though only one death — the shooting of Ashli Babbitt by a still-unidentified police officer — is provable by video evidence, the other fatalities nonetheless are accepted as an article of faith to stoke public outrage about what happened that day. The most tragic death, the media and lawmakers lament, is that of United States Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick. No Evidence Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick was Murdered. Facts are starting to seep out about Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick's death. There has been an intense push by the Media, the Left and most of the ruling class to cement into the public's mind the narrative he was murdered by Trump supporters. The cause of death is unknown. There is no evidence officer Sicknick was struck by a fire extinguisher. There does not appear to be any evidence he suffered from blunt force trauma. All that is actually known is he died after going back to the office, from what appears to be a stroke resulting from a blood clot. Brian Sicknick was a Trump supporter. Here are two sources attempting to report facts instead of the narrative being pushed by the ruling class and the left to smear Trump supporters. [...] Who shot Ashli Babbitt?
America knew, within a couple of hours, the names of Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley, Marc Chapman, Shirhan Shirhan, James Earl Ray, and James
Hodgkinson. (Or did you already forget that James Hodgkinson shot House Minority Whip Steve Scalise and three others on a softball field,
in an attempted mass assassination of members of the House GOP caucus?) But after searching the Internet for a few hours, there only
remain questions, and no answers about Ashli's shooting. My only assumption can be that the hard facts concerning the shooting are so
egregious, and so threatening to the incoming Democratic Congress and new Biden Administration that the American people are once again being
treated as mushrooms; we are kept in dark and fed piles of stinking manure. Here are few questions a lot of Americans would like
answered.
Update: Sen. Johnson: vast majority of people on January 6th [were] peacefully protesting, in jovial mood. Sen. Ron Johnson suggests that the vast majority of people who were at the Capitol on January 6 were peacefully protesting and in a "jovial mood." Back in March Johnson also said he didn't feel threatened by the protesters, but he would have if BLM or Antifa was involved, per report on ABC: [...] We Don't Need a Commission to Investigate the Capitol Riot. Why do we need a commission for this? That's one of the questions Rich Lowry and I batted around on The McCarthy Report podcast a couple of Fridays ago. We happened to be recording just as news broke that House Homeland Security Committee chairman Bennie Thompson (D., Miss.), and ranking member John Katko (R., N.Y.), had reached an agreement to create a special bipartisan commission to examine the Capitol riot. We should not be astonished that this agreement proved fleeting. Congressman Katko is a moderate who voted to impeach President Trump after the latter's instigation of the rally that devolved into an uprising, which the media-Democrat complex monotonously brands as an "insurrection" (though when even worse mayhem is perpetrated by leftists, it is branded "mostly peaceful protest" by the same partisans). Marco Rubio Announces Opposition to January 6 Commission: 'This Is a Partisan Joke'. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) said Friday that he intends to vote no on the partisan January 6 commission, saying it is "designed to be used as partisan political weapon." "Last night I read the bill creating a January 6th commission," Rubio wrote in a tweet, which included a video message from the Florida senator. "It isn't designed to produce a serious inquiry; it's designed to be used as partisan political weapon. I am a no." Jan. 6 Commission Will Be DOA in Senate. On Wednesday [5/19/2021], the House of Representatives passed a resolution authorizing a probe into the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. All too predictably, the "National Commission to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol Complex Act" (HR 3233) would be neither bipartisan nor independent. The Democratic chairperson of the commission would enjoy unilateral power to appoint staff and set the investigation's parameters without meaningful consultation with the Republican co-chair. Even worse, the "compromise" that created HR 3233 was cobbled together by Reps. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and John Katko (R-N.Y.), both of whom already voted in January to impeach then-President Trump for inciting "insurrection." Inevitably, the purpose of the commission is less about conducting a legitimate inquiry into the riot than pursuing a political vendetta against Trump. Senate Republican Opposition Grows Over January 6 Commission As Democrats Peddle To Distract From Unpopular Agenda. Many Senate Republicans oppose the partisan January 6 Commission which serves the Democrat's agenda by deflecting from their unpopular policies. "I don't think there will be 10 votes on our side for it," Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN) said of the legislation which passed the House with 35 Republican votes. "At this stage, I'd be surprised if you're gonna get even a handful." Historian Doug Wead Goes Off on Democrats Over Jan. 6 Lies. Doug Wead is a historian, New York Times bestselling author, and advisor to two American presidents. On Friday [5/21/2020] Doug Wead joined author and presidential historian Craig Shirley on Greg Kelly Tonight to discuss the Democrats' latest attempts to rewrite history with their dishonest talking points on the January 6 protest and riot at the US Capitol. Democrats and their fake news cohorts are labeling the Jan 6 protests where three Trump supporters died and another was shot dead as the worst attack on the US Capitol since the War of 1812. This is of course a complete lie. Democrats Approve $1.9 Billion To Fund Domestic Extremist Narrative and Expand Capitol Hill Security. Earlier today [5/20/2021] Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats passed a $1.9 billion funding bill to support their 2022 reelection effort. The funds will be used to cement the 2022 "right-wing extremist" and "domestic terrorist" narrative as part of the January 6th Commission scheme to paint any opposition as a threat to the government. The bill barely passed with a 213-212 vote. Interestingly, the same republican useful idiots that voted to support Pelosi's plan yesterday — voted against funding it today. The January 6 Commission Is All About Revenge. The January 6 commission, if passed, would be yet another extension of Crossfire Hurricane, the illicit probe launched by the FBI in 2016 in an effort to destroy one of Barack Obama's most despised political enemies. One special counsel investigation, numerous congressional and senate inquisitions, and two impeachment trials later, the Left's insatiable lust to take down Donald Trump remains unsatisfied. But now, rather than just targeting the president and his family, millions of Americans must be punished for defying the ruling regime — which only partially includes the federal agencies, political leaders of both parties, the news media, and Big Tech. This dangerous crusade is accelerating at an alarming pace at the highest levels of government; apparently, it is of no concern to nearly three dozen Republican members of Congress who are helping Joe Biden and the Democrats exact their revenge on Trump supporters. Regime vs. Regime. The attempt of America's ruling class to convict 455 persons of "armed insurrection" — i.e. of waging war against the United States, a species of treason — for protesting insufficient scrutiny of the 2020 election on January 6 in the Capitol, while at the same time it excuses and even cheers the burning and looting of courthouses, police stations, and downtowns all over America, is not the exercise of a "double standard." The people in and out of government who do this are not corrupt. Instead, acting as part of the regime — the oligarchy — they are replacing the American republic and waging war to crush its remains. The sooner Americans realize that we are being governed by people at war with our Constitution and contemptuous of ourselves, the sooner those people may be treated as the enemies they are. House passes $1.9 billion Capitol security measure creating permanent National Guard force. The House on Thursday narrowly passed a nearly $2 billion spending package to bolster security in the Capitol in the wake of the destructive and deadly Jan. 6 riot. Most Republicans opposed the measure, which passed 213-212, with three Democratic members voting "present" and three opposing the bill. GOP lawmakers cited duplicative spending and objected to a provision that adds the National Guard to the Capitol security force. It passed a day after Democrats and 35 Republicans voted to create a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 riot. Susan Collins says she won't vote for January 6 commission without changes. Opposing the commission, which is the closest we might get to a truly bipartisan account of the insurrection, is the wrong thing for the country but the right thing for the party. So naturally Senate Republicans seem increasingly determined to oppose it, notwithstanding the surprising mini-revolt yesterday by the House GOP. Any attempt to beat a filibuster and pass the House bill to create a commission begins with the seven Republicans who voted to convict Trump in February, but two of those seven sound like they're voting no — and one of them might be unmovable. Susan Collins is movable in theory, if Democrats are willing to tweak the legislation. Jen Psaki claims 'a number of officers' died the day of the Capitol riot. White House press secretary Jen Psaki claimed Thursday there were "a number of officers" who died the day of the Capitol riot, despite a D.C. medical examiner's office determining that officer Brian Sicknick died the day after as a result of a stroke. Psaki made the comments during a White House press conference when she was asked about an open letter by Metropolitan Police Department officer Michael Fanone earlier this month, in which he discussed the "physical injuries" and "psychological trauma" suffered by officers that day and asked elected leaders to "recognize" fully the actions of officers who responded to the riot. "I'm happy to check on the status of the letter," Psaki said. "Obviously, the president's view is that there were a number of officers who lost their lives, paid a tremendous sacrifice, on a day that will be a stain on our democracy for many years to come, and certainly, many who survived. This will be a long-lasting trauma. I'd have to check on the letter and the status of that." Jen Psaki Makes False Claim About Capitol Riots and the Gaslighting Needs to Stop. For all the bloviating and posturing from Democrats and the mainstream media about how Republicans are supposedly revising the history of the Capitol riots, very few of these same people hold themselves to the standards they demand of their political opposition when either reporting on or discussing what happened that day. One falsehood, in particular, has persisted, and that is the one where rioters are accused of "murdering" multiple Capitol Police officers. While it's true that early on, those investigating the attack were operating off the premise that the late Officer Brian Sicknick was killed as he tried to defend the Capitol building, D.C. chief medical examiner Francisco J. Diaz ruled in mid-April that Sicknick "suffered two strokes and died of natural causes a day after he confronted rioters at the Jan. 6 insurrection." Trump: 35 House Republicans Who Voted for Jan. 6 Commission Are 'Wayward,' 'Can't Help Themselves'. Former President Donald Trump said that the 35 Republican House members who voted with Democrats in approving a Jan. 6 Capitol commission bill "can't help themselves." In a statement on Thursday [5/20/2021], the former president argued that while the GOP has superior policies to Democrats, the Democrats "stick together" and "Republicans don't." Because of this, Trump said, Republicans in Congress are perceived by voters as "being ineffective and weak." Trump made reference to Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), and Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), who was ousted from her House Republican Chair position during a vote last week. Sasse and Romney — both frequent critics of Trump — voted to convict Trump during his second impeachment trial, while Cheney voted to impeach him. What Trump Meant to Millions. I loved President Trump because he stood up for the ordinary people of America, those who for so long had been kept in cultural servitude by the political elite. Trump endowed ordinary Americans with a sense of possibilities by returning manufacturing jobs to America, restoring our sovereignty as a nation free of global institutions, and, above all, ending the atmosphere of political correctness that had choked free expression for decades. Then, when the elite saw everyday Americans rising above their station, it decided to put them back in their servitude by depriving Trump of a second term, by whatever means necessary. Now the high-paying jobs are disappearing, we are bowing to the UN, IPCC, and WHO once again, and every word that comes out of the White House has to do with "social and racial justice." The Capitol riot of Jan. 6 gave them an excuse, and now ordinary Americans are back on the cultural plantation. Dems Spread 'Capitol Police Statement' Before Vote on 1/6 Commission but There Was One Big Problem. Democrats were trying to push through the vote on a "Jan. 6 Commission" today in the House. They succeeded, with 35 Republicans crossing over to vote in favor of it, not seeming to care that it's going to be a "bash Republicans" effort, rather than any sort of real investigation. There are already multiple investigations going on, so there wasn't any need for an additional. This is simply an opportunity for Democrats to bash Republicans. Marjorie Taylor Greene slams '9/11-style commission' as a 'ruse to smear Trump'. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Wednesday night [5/19/2021] described a 9/11-style commission to look into the Capitol insurrection as an attempt to 'smear President Trump and his supporters' — following her party's leaders in opposing the inquiry. Thirty-five House Republicans defied party leadership and Donald Trump to vote in favor of setting up the commission. The group of rebels including Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger and the eight other GOP members who voted to impeach Trump sided with all Democrats. They did so despite calls from Kevin McCarthy to block the probe, arguing it is political and ignores other violence such as Black Lives Matter and Antifa. Taylor Greene followed McCarthy's lead and denounced the commission. 'The January 6th Commission will be used to smear President Trump and his supporters for the next few years and cover up the real damage to the American people: Democrat policies,' she tweeted. House passes bill to create commission to investigate Capitol riot, with 35 Republicans joining Dems. The House voted overwhelmingly Wednesday evening to set up a bipartisan 9/11-style commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol by a mob of Trump supporters, with dozens of Republicans breaking with their leadership by voting in favor of the measure. In a 252 to 175 vote, the Democrat-controlled House passed the bill, with 35 GOP members voting "yes" despite Republican leadership urging them to vote against it, CNN reported. No Democrats voted against it. All ten of the Republicans who voted for impeaching former President Donald Trump for allegedly inciting the riot voted in favor of setting up the commission, and they were joined by another 25 GOP members — 14 of whom are members of the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus, according to CBS News. Republicans Should Demand Any Jan 6 Commission Also Investigate May 31. When the horse is dead, you should probably stop beating it. Jan 6 has been dead for a while. It paid off for a few months, but as we head toward June, House Democrats and their media still keep talking about some sort of bipartisan commission to investigate the Capitol Riot. If the Democrats want an investigation so badly, then they can include the May 31 protest. Or is an attack on the White House by Black Lives Matter somehow not serious enough to merit an investigation? Democrats decided that it was okay to riot, to smash and burn government property, until they briefly decided on Jan 6 that fighting with police officers was a horrifying crime, before once again deciding that it was a truly wonderful form of protest. A very basic question, one which Republicans have failed to ask, would be, "Which is it?" Shawshank for January 6 Detainees. "I've been in solitary confinement for a hundred days now and haven't been convicted of any crime with no end in sight." That was part of a lengthy message Jacob Lang sent to his father, Ned, the last week of April. Jacob was arrested on January 16 in New York and charged with several crimes related to his activity in Washington, D.C. on January 6. Lang, who turned 25 while incarcerated, is accused of assaulting police officers using a dangerous or deadly weapon. The government's evidence against him appears to be strong. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges. But Lang and dozens of January 6 defendants already have been convicted by Joe Biden's Justice Department and sentenced by federal judges — presumed guilty until proven innocent — awaiting trials that won't begin for months. It's all part of what Attorney General Merrick Garland promised is his "top priority" — the sprawling investigation into the alleged insurrection — and what another top prosecutor boasted is the "shock and awe" campaign to punish Americans protesting the results of the 2020 presidential election. President
Trump Calls the January 6th Commission "A Trap", Which it is.
Mitch McConnell Opposes Current January 6 Commission Legislation. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) will not support the current legislation to form the January 6 commission, according to two sources who told Axios. According to Axios, the two sources were a part of the Republicans' closed-door caucus lunch Tuesday where the minority leader told his Senate colleagues. McConnell, according to Axios's sources, said something like: "There's 41 of us who could change this, and I think we should." After McConnell finished speaking, Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) reportedly also stood up and questioned parts of the deal, according to the report. Trump implores GOP to vote against proposed Jan. 6 riot commission. President Trump urged Congressional Republicans late Tuesday to vote against legislation that would create a 9/11-style commission to investigate the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol Jan. 6, calling it "more partisan unfairness" by Democrats. "[U]nless the murders, riots, and fire bombings in Portland, Minneapolis, Seattle, Chicago, and New York are also going to be studied, this discussion should be ended immediately," Trump said in a statement. "Republicans must get much tougher and much smarter, and stop being used by the Radical Left. "Hopefully, [Senate Minority Leader] Mitch McConnell and [House Minority Leader] Kevin McCarthy are listening!" the former president concluded. America's Political Prisoners. [Scroll down] Likewise, the Capitol Police is not really a police force. It's a personal security guard for the Emirs of Incumbistan. That's why they're exempted from the freedom-of-information laws that apply to real constabularies: If Ashli Babbitt had been shot dead by an officer of the Dead Moose Junction Municipal Police Department, you'd know his name; but she was shot instead by a member of the Congressional Praetorian Guard, and thus you have no right in law to know his name. This is yet another example of the political class opting out of the legal regime they impose on everybody else. The biggest lie of January 6th was that the "rioters" were somehow responsible for multiple deaths that day. Very belatedly, the DC coroner confirmed that, aside from Ashli Babbitt, everybody dead had died of natural causes — including Officer Sicknick, whom most Americans still believe was murdered by Trump supporters bludgeoning him with a non-existent fire extinguisher. The Capitol Police, in both their formal statements and their leaks to media chums, helped advance that lie. Have they played similarly fast and loose with other aspects of the "investigation"? Kevin McCarthy to Oppose Bipartisan Legislation to Form January 6 Commission. House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) announced on Tuesday that he will not support the bipartisan legislation to create a commission to investigate the January 6 riot at the Capitol. Republican Rep. John Katko (R-NY) negotiated a deal with Democrat leadership, but McCarthy said that the legislation was formed through a "shortsighted scope." "For months, the Speaker of the House refused to negotiate in good faith on basic parameters that would govern a commission to examine the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol... Republican requests for fair representation and an unbiased premise from which to begin such an investigation were always understood to be the starting point for bipartisan negotiations, not the end result. Given the political misdirections that have marred this process, given the now duplicative and potentially counterproductive nature of this effort, and given the Speaker's shortsighted scope that does not examine interrelated forms of political violence in America, I cannot support this legislation," he said. Anti-Trump Leader of Group Who Marched With BLM, Claims Group Helped Storm the Capitol. I've written about the involvement of folks in addition to Trump supporters in the actions that occurred January 6 at the United States Capitol. We've heard a lot about John Sullivan, the left wing activist who had been involved in organizing BLM protests in Utah and was heard at a D.C. protest in August calling for President Donald Trump to be ripped out the White House. He was right at the door to the House chamber when Ashli Babbitt was shot and filmed the incident. He was later arrested and police alleged he was involved in inciting action that day that could be heard on video. Left-Wing 'Known Agitator' Charged For Alleged Role In Capitol Breach. A left-wing "known agitator" from Utah was charged Thursday for his alleged participation in the breach of the U.S. Capitol last week. John Earle Sullivan has been charged with entering a restricted building or grounds, "civil disorders," and violent entry or disorderly conduct, reported to KUTV 2 News. The Daily Caller News Foundation's Chuck Ross noted that Sullivan appeared on CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360" following the breach, claiming he witnessed the fatal shooting of protester Ashli Babbitt by a Capitol Police officer. He also appeared alongside MSNBC's Chris Hayes, Ross noted. "Left wing activist John Sullivan charged in Capitol riots. He was filming as Ashli [Babbitt] was shot in the Capitol. Was interviewed by Chris Hayes and Anderson Cooper," Ross posted to Twitter on Thursday evening. I Saw Provocateurs at the Capitol
Riot On Jan. 6. Before it began, I saw from my vantage point on the West Front of the Capitol what appeared to be four
separate cells or units:
Video Allegedly Shows One Of The Main Provocateurs Involved In Babbitt's Shooting Going Behind A Squad Of Police On The Stairs Change His Clothes And Disappear. FBI placed a warning of "armed protests" being planned at all 50 state capitols and Washington, D.C., on Inauguration Day. Security has been stepped up in Washington following last week's violent riot at the U.S Capitol where a mob of pro-Trump supporters stormed the building to prevent Congress from certifying the election. Citing "credible threats" against the popular landmark, the National Park Service has shut down the Washington Monument. However, the riots that happened on Jan. 6 are still causing concerns about the safety of the capitol as well as accusations by some GOP members that wasn't only Trump supporters that stormed the Capitol. Known Antifa Member Admits they were Paid to Infiltrate Trump Protests in DC, Wants his Money! There [has] been a massive amount of Antifa, Homeless, regular citizens, etc., that have admitted they were bused in and paid to cause havoc at Trump rallies. The media doesn't want you to know that this is happening like it did throughout the worlds "Color Revolutions". [Video clip] Two known Antifa members posed as pro-Trump to infiltrate Capitol riot: sources. At least two known Antifa members were spotted among the throngs of pro-Trump protesters at the Capitol on Wednesday [1/6/2021], a law enforcement source told The [New York] Post. The Antifa members disguised themselves with pro-Trump clothing to join in the DC rioting, said the sources, who spotted the infiltrators while monitoring video coverage from the Capitol. The infiltrators were recognized due to their participation in New York City demonstrations, and were believed to have joined in the rioting so that Trump would get blamed, the source said. 10 Times Democrats Urged Violence Against Trump And His Supporters. While Democratic politicians and the corporate media blamed President Donald Trump for the mob riot at the Capitol on Wednesday [1/6/2021], saying his rhetoric incited violence, many of these same lawmakers and bureaucrats have for years called for violence and physical action against those who believe differently than they do. "Hate to break it to you but if Trump had won, there would have been violence on Wednesday, and it most certainly would have been worse. How do I know? Because Democrats have been endorsing violence as a political tactic throughout the Trump Administration," wrote Grabien founder Tom Elliott on Twitter. In an extensive thread, Elliott outlined many examples of Democratic politicians and other leftists advocating for violence as a response to conservatives. In 2018, Democratic Rep. Ted Lieu of California said on MSNBC that if Trump fired special counsel Robert Mueller, there would be "widespread civil unrest" as people would "take to the streets." Ashamed of What? People ask me if I feel "ashamed" about what Miranda Devine describes as "the clueless insurrection" in the Capitol on Wednesday. My response? I am about as ashamed as Joe Biden, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Juan Williams of Fox News were about the riots and shootings that the Democratic Party subsidized and even justified last summer. Unlike those violent riots, which the Democrats and national media attributed to white racism, and which came from Democratic voters, the turmoil in the Capitol on Wednesday did not result in burning and looting. There were no white or black policemen shot and the only shooting victim (which the media don't seem to care about since white Republican lives don't matter) was a female protestor, Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt, by a Capitol police officer. The Capitol: So Much Susupicious Evidence. In the now-famous picture of seven guys scaling the wall to the Capitol Building, one can see people already at the precipice. Those are the ones who walked up the stairs (just outside the frame) when the entirely inadequate security melted away. Wow, it is almost as if it is a staged photo reminiscent of the dozen versions of the Russians raising the flag over the Reichstag in 1945 or Pelosi's garage. Me? I would have taken the stairs, but then I would not have been wearing a headscarf and a backpack with a tool dangling from my belt as three of the four nearest the top were begging for the director to yell, "Cut!" [...] False flag? Hitler put less effort into setting up Poland with Operation Himmler at the inception of WWII, the "big one" (as Archie Bunker used to say). No security and no weapons — what a surprise. It's almost as if they wanted this. Yet they still managed to kill a woman by shooting through a door. Deadly force is allowed only when you fear for your life or the lives of others. From multiple videos, one can see that what Ashli Babbitt was doing had not yet met that threshold. The breach of the Capitol was an obvious set-up. What happened at the Capitol building on Wednesday [1/6/2021] obviously was a stratagem to destroy the President's popularity and support and overshadow the challenges to the Electoral College vote, to my eyes. The building was breached at the beginning of that process and, of course, riveted the media news feeds. Members of Congress were evacuated with hoods over their heads as if they were in grave danger. As a group of protesters approached the building, a policeman removed the barricade and appeared to invite them in. That group entered the rotunda peacefully and stayed behind the rope line. Those who observed this noted that there were several instigators embedded among the crowd. They were using bullhorns to agitate and move people. A couple of them set off flash bangs. We now know that several known Antifa activists were among the agitators. As they broke windows, Trump supporters tried to stop them. But the distraction worked, frightened the pathetically spineless Republicans who were set to challenge the stolen election. They quickly capitulated and Biden was certified. The Republicans, even the ones we thought had grit, got rolled. Left-wing Activist Encouraged Intruders Inside Capitol, Urged Police to Leave Post. John Sullivan, videographer and founder of "a group for racial justice and police reform," posted a video on YouTube on Jan. 7 that shows him entering the Capitol building in Washington with a group of Trump supporters and possibly others on the previous day. He's heard on video encouraging others and convincing Capitol police to let the trespassers through at several impasses. The video also reveals further details about the situation that led to the death of Ashley Babbitt, an Air Force veteran shot inside the building by Capitol Police. Sullivan is known for taking part in protests and riots connected with the Black Lives Matter movement, which was founded by Marxist organizers. In July, he was arrested in Utah for alleged rioting, making a threat of violence, and criminal mischief due to his part in a protest that resulted in the shooting of a motorist. Reporter Who Followed the Mob Into the Capitol Shares What He Saw. Julio Rosas, a senior writer for Townhall, was at the Capitol on Wednesday when violence broke out as supporters of President Donald Trump forced their way into the building. Rosas, who has spent the past several months reporting on riots across America, followed the mob inside the Capitol to capture the situation on video. He joins the show today to explain what it was like to be in the middle of the chaos. [Podcast] Left-Wing Activist Encouraged Intruders Inside Capitol, Urged Police to Leave Post. John Sullivan, videographer and founder of "a group for racial justice and police reform," posted a video on YouTube on Jan. 7 that shows him entering the Capitol building in Washington with a group of Trump supporters and possibly others on the previous day. He's heard on video encouraging others and convincing Capitol police to let the trespassers through at several impasses. The video also reveals further details about the situation that led to the death of Ashley Babbitt, an Air Force veteran shot inside the building by Capitol Police. Sullivan is known for taking part in protests and riots connected with the Black Lives Matter movement, which was founded by Marxist organizers. In July, he was arrested in Utah for alleged rioting, making a threat of violence, and criminal mischief due to his part in a protest that resulted in the shooting of a motorist. "As a protest organizer, John Sullivan is heard talking about seeing the shooting, looking at the gun, and seeing smoke coming from it. John did not condemn the attempted murder nor attempt to stop it nor aide in its investigation by police," the police affidavit said, Desert News reported. "An armed revolution is the only way to bring about change effectively," he said in a Dec. 28 tweet. Black Lives Matter Activist Took Part in Storming of Capitol. John Earle Sullivan, who has advocated for an armed revolution on social media, was arrested in July 2020 for making a threat of violence and criminal mischief. He organized a protest with Black Lives Matter activists and members of the far-left Antifa network. According to the Deseret News, Sullivan damaged vehicles and urged people to block roadways. Video footage captured him threatening to beat a woman. Photographs showed Sullivan inside the Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6. Sullivan has since given interviews claiming he took part in the illegal breach of the building as part of an effort to understand supporters of President Donald Trump. "For me, it's important from the group and the people around me to see that side of things, to see the truth," Sullivan told KSL-TV. "I don't care, like what side you're on, you should just see it raw." Sullivan has not been charged with unlawful entry or any other charges that police say other people who entered the building face. His picture is not among those circulated by authorities of persons of interest in the incident.
BLM activist inside Capitol claims he was 'documenting' riots, once said 'burn it all down'. An anti-Trump activist who once said he wanted to "rip" the president out of office entered the Capitol Building Wednesday [1/6/2021] alongside a mob of pro-Trump protesters, but he said he was just there to "document" it. "There's this narrative going around right now that Antifa was the people there causing the riots, causing the tension, they were the only people breaking into the Capitol, and I wanted to be able to tell a part of history and show that that was anything but the case," John Sullivan, the founder of Utah-based Insurgence USA, told Fox News Thursday. Insurgence USA describes itself as "the revolution." It began protesting racial injustice in policing last year following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody. Update: Update 2: Left-wing activist charged after claiming he was in DC to 'document' riot. An anti-Trump activist from Utah — who claimed he traveled to Washington, DC, to document the violent siege on Capitol Hill — was arrested Thursday [1/14/2021]. John Sullivan was taken into custody Thursday and faces charges of civil disorder, entering a restricted building and violent entry or disorderly conduct after participating in the violent mob of President Trump supporters who stormed the US Capitol last week, according to court documents filed in federal court. In the footage he provided to the FBI, Sullivan can be heard saying as rioters climb a wall, "You guys are [...] savage. Let's go!" prosecutors say. Once inside the Capitol, he tells the protestors, "We gotta get this [...] burned. He also says, "it's our house [...]" and "we are getting this [...]" as he roamed the building, according to court papers. Sullivan can also be heard arguing with cops, telling them, "you are putting yourself in harm's way. The people have spoken," and "there are too many people, you gotta stand down." The Viking Guy Who Entered Capitol Is Actor, Took Picture With Pelosi's Son-In-Law. [Scroll down] About the Trump Viking, he turns out to be an actor named Jake Angeli from Phoenix, Arizona. He also attended a Black Lives Matter rally in January of last year. [...] Angeli is not on the wanted FBI list because he was already identified. Even do the Metropolitan Police on Thursday released photos of members of the violent mob wanted on federal charges after storming the US Capitol building and Jake is on one of the photos as a person of interest. The Viking Guy Who Entered Capitol Is Actor, Took Picture With Pelosi's Son-In-Law. [Scroll down] About the Trump Viking, he turns out to be an actor named Jake Angeli from Phoenix, Arizona. He also attended a Black Lives Matter rally in January of last year. [...] Angeli is not on the wanted FBI list because he was already identified. Even do the Metropolitan Police on Thursday released photos of members of the violent mob wanted on federal charges after storming the US Capitol building and Jake is on one of the photos as a person of interest.
The Editor says... NY Post: New Info From Law Enforcement Source About Antifa at Capitol Protest. As we previously reported, the 'horn guy' who infamously made it into the Senate chamber and was featured in many pictures with horns on his head and paint on his face is an actor and a known Trump and Q supporter. There is a picture of him at a BLM protest, but he was there as a counter-protester holding a Q sign. The sign was cropped out of the picture that went viral on social media. [...] There was a very identifiable BLM protester there whose common hashtags were BLM and Antifa. His name is John Sullivan from Utah and he was arrested at a violent BLM protest in July. He helped organize a protest where a motorist was shot by another BLM person. He also advocated for ripping the president from the White House. He was next to the doors, near Ashli Babbitt when she was shot. Worrisome Signs the Capitol Breach was Planned to Discredit Trump Supporters: An Eyewitness Account. Based on what I saw and read, I have no doubt that dozens and possibly even hundreds of Antifa and/or other provocateurs had infiltrated the rally in order to carry out violent acts and suck impressionable Trump supporters into their antics. None of this violence was justified, but contrast the frustration and conflicted attitude of this Capitol building trespasser with that of the proud of this BLM rioter. One calls for prayer while the other calls for "reparations." Some of the more impulsive Trump supporters fell into a trap that served to scapegoat both the Trump administration and the 99.9% of rally participants who neither condoned nor participated in any of the violence. Doing Better. Then there was the kerfuffle on Capitol Hill, where Trump stalwart and Air Force vet Ashli Babbitt was gunned down by Capitol cops. By all accounts, Babbitt was a victim, not a perpetrator. She should be remembered as an innocent who is casualty of war. Let's also recall the Boston Massacre was a catalyst for the Revolution. Since Wednesday, we're gaining insights into the Hill fracas. It's looking more like a false flag event with each passing hour. But why should it surprise us that the left would infiltrate provocateurs into MAGA crowds at the Capitol to spark confrontations with police? That's Brownshirt 101 stuff. We do know who we're up against, don't we? Breaching the Capitol: The Surprise That Was No Surprise. [Scroll down] Norms no longer exist. A judge was killed last year. Congress members were shot at a baseball game. Representative Steve Scalise was almost murdered. BLM and Antifa attacked federal buildings, businesses, and people. Few have been arrested and held accountable. Senator Rand Paul was attacked by his next door neighbor. Senator Josh Hawley's wife and infant child was threatened in Missouri in the middle of the night. People are yelling at strangers to A) wear a mask and videotaping and harassing them or B) not wear a mask and are videotaping and harassing them. Young people are attacking children wearing MAGA hats. The media is defaming teenagers and innocent people. All rules of civility are gone. Law Enforcement Draws Criticism After Breach of Capitol Building. Americans looked on in shock Wednesday [1/6/2021] as a calm protest turned into an angry mob that swarmed past barriers and stormed the Capitol — spraying officers with chemical agents, breaking windows and doors and looting sizable objects — as the Capitol Police struggled to contain the violence and sometimes simply retreated. The Editor says... A pipe bomb was reportedly found at RNC headquarters and destroyed by authorities. A pipe bomb was found at the headquarters of the Republican National Committee (RNC) in Washington, DC, as pro-Trump rioters stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday, The New York Times reported. Also on Wednesday afternoon, a suspicious package was found at the nearby headquarters of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), The Times said. The explosive device at the RNC was destroyed by a bomb squad, according to The Times, citing an RNC official. A Democrat told The Times anonymously that the contents of the package had not yet been identified. Two known Antifa members posed as pro Trump to infiltrate Capitol riot: sources. At least two known Antifa members were spotted among the throngs of pro-Trump protesters at the Capitol on Wednesday, a law enforcement source told The [New York] Post. The Antifa members disguised themselves with pro-Trump clothing to join in the DC rioting, said the sources, who spotted the infiltrators while monitoring video coverage from the Capitol. The infiltrators were recognized due to their participation in New York City demonstrations, and were believed to have joined in the rioting so that Trump would get blamed, the source said. Two other DC protesters were actually Philadelphia-based Antifa members, the Washington Times reported Wednesday night, citing a retired military officer with access to facial recognition software. Facial recognition firm claims antifa infiltrated Trump protesters who stormed Capitol. Trump supporters say that Antifa members disguised as one of them infiltrated the protesters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday [1/6/2021]. A retired military officer told The Washington Times that the firm XRVision used its software to do facial recognition of protesters and matched two Philadelphia Antifa members to two men inside the Senate. The source provided the photo match to The Times. One has a tattoo that indicates he is a Stalinist sympathizer. Many Antifa members promote anarchy through violence and want the end of America in favor of a Stalinist-state. "No more USA at all" is a protest chant. XRVision also has identified another man who, while not known to have Antifa links, is someone who shows up at climate and Black Lives Matter protests in the West. Were leftist provocateurs leading the way into the Capitol? First, to state the obvious, there is no question that Trump supporters criminally entered the Capitol and behaved abominably. All who breached the inadequate protective perimeter must be prosecuted to the full measure of the law. Throw the book at them! But there are grounds for suspicion that provocateurs, anxious to discredit Trump, his supporters, conservatives, and those who question the integrity of the presidential vote may have been the point of the spear in violently attacking the Capitol. [...] There must be a complete and thorough inquiry into the mob action. I wish that I had more faith in the FBI.
New Video From Capitol On January 6th Shows Police Letting Protesters Into Building. In this short clip, Capitol Police officer Keith Robishaw warns protesters — including "Q shaman" Jacob Chansley — inside the Capitol Building on January 6 against using violence. Chansley and another protester are then seen instructing other protesters to be nonviolent as they exercise their right to assemble. [Video clip] Video Shows U.S. Capitol Police Gave Protesters OK to Enter. A newly-obtained video shows United States Capitol Police officers speaking with several January 6 protestors — including Jacob Chansley, the so-called "Q shaman" — inside the Capitol that afternoon. One officer, identified in the video and confirmed by charging documents as Officer Keith Robishaw, appears to tell Chansely's group they won't stop them from entering the building. "We're not against ... you need to show us ... no attacking, no assault, remain calm," Robishaw warns. Chansley and another protestor instruct the crowd to act peacefully. "This has to be peaceful," Chansley yelled. "We have the right to peacefully assemble." [Video clip] Pelosi Gets Her Way As Dems Set To Launch "9/11-Style" Commission On Capitol "Insurrection". Democrats have fully embraced the concept of the big lie and now they will be putting on a spectacle to shore it up. They're set to create a "9/11 style" commission to investigate the so-called "insurrection" at the U.S. Capitol. Nancy Pelosi has long been pushing for this travesty, along with the circus-like atmosphere that it will be given by the media. On Friday, the only remaining obstacle was removed when feckless GOP Rep. John Katko caved. As the ranking member on the House Homeland Security Committee, the New York Republican agreed to allow Pelosi and the Dems to abuse their powers. They plan on hauling Trump supporters — and perhaps the former POTUS himself — before the commission in what has all of the makings of a show trial directly out of Stalinist Russia. Democrat Looks to Censure Republicans Who Disagree With January 6 Narrative. Rhode Island Democrat David Cicilline is asking colleagues to sign on to a resolution that would censure three House Republicans for trying to minimize the events surrounding the January 6 riot at the Capitol. Censure is a very serious matter. Only expulsion from Congress would be a worse punishment. If Democrats are going to censure Republicans for downplaying what happened on 1/6, what should the punishment be for hysterically overexaggerating what happened at the riot? Cicilline said the Republicans — Reps. Andrew Clyde (Ga.), Jody Hice (Ga.), and Paul Gosar (Ariz.) — claimed the riot was not an insurrection and engaged in other efforts to undermine the "damage that was done." The January 6, 2021 Videos. Julie Kelly at American Greatness reports that the Capitol is monitored 24/7 by "an extensive systems of cameras' positioned inside and outside the building as well as near other congressional offices on the grounds" and captured more than 14,000 hours of footage between noon and 8 p.m. on January 6. These tapes were made available to "two democratic-controlled congressional committees, the FBI, and the D.C. Metropolitan Police department." But they won't make all the tapes available to the defendants or the public, on the shaky ground that it would only provoke more violence. Almost everything you have seen about the demonstration were snippets captured by social media users and those journalists on the scene. We are being denied the full picture, and the prosecution presents to the court only selected short clips from the videos. The Capitol Police, which launched the lie that Officer Brian Sicknick's death was the result of a blow on the head by protestors — something the tardily released autopsy report proved false — also may be secreting video from January 5 which would show what preparations had been made for the scheduled demonstration the next day. Why so secret? As Kelly notes, we already know that Sicknick murder claim was false, as was the claim that this was an "armed insurrection" and the logical explanation for keeping the videos under seal is this: "It contradicts most if not all claims advanced by Democrats and the media over the past four months." Congressman Roy leads letter to DOJ to get answers on reports of politicized prosecutions of Jan. 6 suspects. On Thursday afternoon [5/13/2021], Congressman Chip Roy (TX-21), joined by Congressman Thomas Massie (KY-4), inquired about reports of politicized prosecutions of American citizens suspected of illegal activity at the capitol on January 6, 2021. "Those that damaged property and assaulted police officers on January 6th should rightfully face justice," the letter reads. "However, the public outcry and hyper-politicization of the events on January 6th may incentivize prosecutors to use overly aggressive tactics, overcharge, and abuse the power of the federal government in order to satisfy favored political groups." Anticipate Alinsky-styled Language "Insurrection Deniers" to be Main Element of Current Democrat Narrative. Promoting the January 6th protest in Washington DC as a "domestic terrorist" event; and promoting the protest as an "armed insurrection" against the U.S. government; is the cornerstone of the Democrat's 2022 election effort. If we watch carefully now we will see an increased emphasis on attacking anyone who might downplay the Democrat narrative. With their back against the wall on failing and catastrophic policy outcomes; with gas prices skyrocketing; and with the economy stalled due to inflation (ie. stagflation), the democrats are all-in with this "insurrection" narrative as a political tool to distract the voting population from merging crisis of bad policy. Lawmakers reach deal on bipartisan 9/11-style commission to investigate Capitol riot. The two top lawmakers on the House Homeland Security Committee reached an agreement Friday on legislation that would create a bipartisan, 9/11-style commission to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. The bill, authored by Mississippi Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson and New York Republican Rep. John Katko, is focused exclusively on the attack and not other episodes of political violence as multiple Republicans earlier insisted. Though it has the support of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, it is unclear whether Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and other members of his caucus support it. "I haven't read through it," McCarthy told reporters when asked about the bill Friday morning [5/14/2021]. "There has been a growing consensus that the January 6th attack is of a complexity and national significance that what we need [is] an independent commission to investigate," Thompson and Katko said in a joint statement. Pelosi Organizes Politics of [January 6th] Commission to Assist Democrats 2022 Election. House Democrats have organized a bill [pdf here] that will create a commission to investigate the January 6th events in Washington DC. The narrative is a 9/11-style commission to investigate the details, issues and circumstances of the January 6th "insurrection"; however, everyone with a lick of political common sense knows this commission will be used to further a Democrat narrative about 'right-wing extremism' in an effort to assist Democrats in the mid-term election. House Republicans Defy the January 6 Narrative. Big Tech used the so-called "attack" on the Capitol [1/6/2021] as an excuse to achieve its long-sought-after goal to deplatform the former president; NeverTrumpers such as Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) insist the chaos of the day was fueled by the "Big Lie" — in other words, the belief held by tens of millions of Republicans — and a good share of independents — that Joe Biden didn't legitimately earn enough votes to win the White House. The Biden regime vows to use the "whole of government" to purge the country of "domestic violent extremists," which is code for Trump supporters. And the media continue to blatantly lie about the number of fatalities on January 6, including the myth that Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick died at the hands of Trump "insurrectionists." But some Republicans are fed up with all the myths, the Justice Department's abusive manhunt for Capitol protesters, and the obvious double standards. Sen. Ron Johnson Corners Capitol Police Chief For Dodging Questions About Sicknick's Death. Sen. Ron Johnson went after acting chief of U.S. Capitol Police Yogananda Pittman for dodging his questions about her force's involvement in spreading lies about the cause of Capitol Officer Brian Sicknick's death following the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. In April, the Wisconsin Republican sent a letter to the acting chief of U.S. Capitol Police demanding answers about the law enforcement agency's Jan. 7 press release that claimed Sicknick, whom medical examiners determined died of natural causes, died due to "injuries sustained while on-duty" after "physically engaging with protestors." What Really Happened at the Capitol: Questions that Need Answers. On January 5th, a slew of vocal conservatives including myself, spoke to a sea of Patriots in Washington DC. We were optimistic that our massive presence there would lead to a national audit of the 2020 election, and that answers about all the election irregularities would lead to uncovering the complex and epic fraud to the rest of the masses. By the time I had arrived to the Capitol on January 6th, (in case you didn't know, the Capitol was breached way before anyone listening to Trump speak could have possibly walked there in time) dozens of people were telling me that the police were just letting people in, if I wanted inside. I sensed a trap and knew the Left would like nothing more than to crucify me for something like that, and luckily I never did step foot inside. Everyone's cell phone and data service was cut off for over a 1-2 mile radius, and there was no way to communicate with each other other than in person. By the end of it all, I ended up getting tear gassed for no discernible reason, while I stood on the grounds peacefully chanting and singing songs next to veterans, older people, people with dogs, and other regular non-threatening folks. Internet Sleuths Claim Two Newly Uncovered Videos From Jan 6th Reveal Who Shot Ashli Babbitt. One of the reasons that conspiracy theories and internet sleuthing are on the rise is because there's a critical breakdown in trust between the public and the government. [...] And one incident that has sparked a lot of different theories and internet sleuthing is the melee that unfolded at the Capitol on January 6th. That event has been marred by fake news, politicization, and has also been used by politicians as a weapon of mass control and destruction — and no, that's not a "conspiracy theory," it's fact. Early reports from "trusted" mainstream news sources claimed that Trump supporters beat a cop to death with a fire extinguisher. That never happened, but if you spend any time on social media, you will see many people still pushing that lie. The same goes for calling it an "armed insurrection." Trump supporters were not armed. The only people who had guns were Capitol Police. And to this date not a single person has been charged with the crime of insurrection. Capitol attackers are higher priority for prosecution than summer rioters, Garland says. Attorney General Merrick Garland acknowledged Wednesday that the Justice Department is prioritizing prosecuting those who participated in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol over those who rioted and looted during last summer's social justice demonstrations. "I think it's fair to say in my career as a judge and in law enforcement, I have not seen a more dangerous threat to democracy than the invasion of the Capitol," Mr. Garland said in testimony before the Senate Appropriations Committee. "There was an attempt to interfere with the fundamental element of our democracy — the peaceful transfer of power. "If there has to be a hierarchy of things that we prioritize, this would be the one we would prioritize because it is the most dangerous threat to our democracy," he continued. D.C. jail treatment of Capitol riot defendants draws bipartisan outrage. A short drive from the U.S. Capitol, 1,500 inmates are stuck in their jail cells 22 hours a day. Until last month it was 23, and they were also barred from going outside. A smaller group of inmates may have it even worse: those awaiting trial for alleged crimes in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. They've been placed in "restrictive housing," a maximum-security designation. The plight of nearby inmates has received surprisingly little attention on Capitol Hill for the better part of a year, since the District of Columbia Department of Corrections issued its "medical stay-in-place" policies for COVID-19 mitigation. Bravo: Rep. Paul Gosar Stands Up for Ashli Babbitt, Demands To Know Who Executed Her. Republican Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona took a big stand for Ashli Babbitt on Wednesday [5/12/2021], demanding to know who executed her during the January 6 protest at the Capitol. "Who executed Ashli Babbitt?" Gosar asked former acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen during a tense exchange at a hearing about the protest. Babbitt was an an unarmed Air Force veteran who was shot at close range by a Capitol Police officer during the protest. Her killer has never been named and the Department of Justice has decided that he will not be charged. Why Is the Government Hiding January 6 Video Footage? Joe Biden calls it the worst attack since the Civil War. Attorney General Merrick Garland compares it to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. The FBI is breaking down the doors of Iraq War veterans and small business owners who have no criminal records, and some are hauled off to rot in solitary confinement in a fetid D.C. jail, for their involvement in the alleged travesty. The event, of course, is the roughly four-hour-long disturbance at the U.S. Capitol on January 6. As mostly nonviolent Americans dared to protest Congress' certification of a clearly fraudulent presidential election in a place that once was considered "The People's House," lawmakers scurried for cover as reporters and photographers captured part of the ruckus on video and still shots to wield as political ammunition against Donald Trump and his supporters. But have we seen a full and fair depiction of exactly what happened that day? The answer, as evidenced by an ongoing coverup by the U.S. Capitol Police and the Justice Department, clearly is no. Former police chief: If we lose the rule of law, we are going to lose America — and we're just about there. On January 6, a group of people entered the U.S. Capitol building, clearly a terrible idea. While some got carried away and committed criminal acts, an overwhelming majority did not. Yet, the FBI has made it it's life mission to get anybody and everybody who can be identified as being at the US Capitol on January 6, whether they committed a crime or not. To date, over 800 persons have been arrested or taken into custody. A number have been locked up, some in solitary confinement, for months without being charged. A Phony Insurrection Brings on a Real Purge. For the new White House tenants, the events of January 6, 2021 ushered an opportunity to refresh the progressive narrative and raise public hackles against soldiers and cops. Throwing fuel on that Reichstag fire were approximately fifty arrested Capitol protesters with ties to the military and police. Most had been separated from government service for years or decades. Three were active army reservists and six were enlisted police officers who are now suspended or fired over their horseplay. The Department of Justice has been relentless in its efforts to bring the Capitol invaders to heel. Deeper and darker politically supercharged criminal and counterintelligence investigations have taken a second seat, to include those involving surveillance by the Obama inner circle on the Trump campaign, the compromise of careless Senate Democrats by moles from the Chinese Communist Party, eyewitness and digital evidence of Biden family swindles, and the textbook definition of treason from an Obama secretary of state who allegedly disclosed a close ally's military strategy to a Mideast terror regime. The Ashli Babbitt Killing: Where's the Outrage? There is an obvious double standard in deciding if a police officer should be charged with violating a use-of-force policy[.] On January 6th an unarmed 5' 2", 110 pound Caucasian female was shot by police with minimal media coverage and even less outrage. A Google search reports approximately 1,060,000 results for Ashli Babbitt and 293,000,000 for George Floyd. Ashli Babbitt was a decorated Air force veteran and a Trump supporter. George Floyd, despite what the media is attempting to portray him as, was a criminal. George Floyd's family received a $27 million settlement. Barbra Streisand donated an unknown number of shares of Disney stock to his daughter. Kanye West donated $2M for an education plan for her. [...] Both individuals were involved in a criminal act. Floyd was resisting arrest and his fate would have been different if he had cooperated. Babbitt was not given an opportunity to submit or resist arrest. [...] The officer who shot Ashli Babbitt also had plenty of time to decide to use his taser. This was not a split-second decision. There is no mention of any disciplinary action taken for this officer's violation of the use-of-force policy. DOJ Puts Grandma on Wanted Poster — While Sealing the Records of Antifa/BLM Rioters. While the FBI has a dragnet out for people who took Unauthorized Selfies while trespassing, the Biden's DOJ is now offering to seal the records for George Floyd rioters, essentially granting them pardons, because no employer can ever find out about their rioting and violence. [...] Don't expect that offer to be made for the Four Hour Insurrectionists who were arrested for merely being present at the Capitol. If you remember, there were massive riots at Trump's inauguration, designed to shut that process down. An "assault on our democracy," if you will. Washington DC has made a powerful statement about those riots — they're paying money to the rioters, pretending that money is owed to them for the police being too aggressive about stopping a riot during a transition of power. Politico Reveals Shocking Truth About January 6 Capitol Riot. The riot has always had a curious element that the mainstream disinformation media never bothered themselves to examine. An "armed insurrection" originating in MAGA country would have actually been armed. MAGA country is awash in firearms of all kinds and people who know how to use them. Yet not a single gun has ever been verified to have been in the hands of any of the rioters. The armed insurrection was not armed, and going by the charges Politico outlines, was not an insurrection. The charges do not fit that accusation, according to Politico's report. Judges are noticing and trying to get the cases expedited. But the Democrats have moved to shred the Constitution over January 6, while allowing — encouraging, in Kamala Harris's case — more truly insurrectionist rioting from the left. A fair media would point all of this out, not months later and after the Democrats have done enormous damage to the country, but as events are happening. Ashli Babbitt's family to seek $10 million from USCP in lawsuit. The family of Ashli Babbitt, who was fatally shot while participating in the Jan. 6 invasion of the U.S. Capitol, plans to sue the police department and the officer who fired the gun for at least $10 million. News of the forthcoming lawsuit, first reported by Newsweek, came more than two weeks after the Justice Department said it would not file criminal charges against the officer who killed Babbitt. Terrell Roberts, an attorney for the Babbitt family, told CNBC on Thursday that it had not been determined when, or in which court, the civil lawsuit against the U.S. Capitol Police would be filed. Ashli Babbitt family to file civil charges over the violation of her constitutional rights. The attorney for the family of Ashli Babbit, the unarmed protester shot and killed during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, is now announcing that they will file civil charges over the violation of her constitutional rights. Attorney Terry Roberts appeared on NewsMax Monday morning [4/26/2021] to talk about the Department of Justice dropping all charges against the unnamed police officer who shot Babbitt that day during the siege on the Capitol. He pointed out that the officer was to Babbitt's left as she came into the building through the breached entrance. She did not see him and he allegedly gave her no verbal warning before shooting and killing the 35-year-old Air Force veteran. No one evidently heard a warning whatsoever. The officer's attorney, Mark Schamel, claimed he issued several warnings according to RealClearInvestigations. Roberts also pointed out that Babbitt could have been arrested after entering the building and that it was evident she was not armed. He contended that the shooting was totally unnecessary and there was no legal justification for shooting her. Family of Woman Shot, Killed at Capitol Considers Lawsuit. The family of the unarmed woman who was shot and killed during the Jan. 6 protest at the U.S. Capitol is considering a lawsuit against the Capitol Police and the officer who shot her, The Epoch Times reported. Attorney Terrell Roberts told the publication that the lawsuit would claim excessive use of force and constitutional violations. "That will be filed against the officer, the Capitol Police," Roberts said. Thirty-five-year-old U.S. Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt was shot and killed as she attempted to climb through a window in the Speaker's Lobby inside the Capitol. She was the only one shot during the breach. Lawyer for Ashli Babbitt's Family Says Lawsuit Will Be Filed Soon Against US Capitol Police. A lawyer for Ashli Babbitt's family said that they will file a lawsuit against the U.S. Capitol Police after a Capitol Police officer shot and killed her during the Jan. 6 Capitol breach. No charges were filed against the officer, who has not yet been identified, who shot Babbitt. Babbitt, a U.S. Air Force veteran, was unarmed when she tried to climb through one of the Capitol doors before the officer shot her. "The family and I were disappointed in the Department of Justice's decision on this, but my role is really to bring a civil action and in that way, vindicate her rights," Terry Roberts told Newsmax on Monday [4/26/2021]. The Babbitt family, he said, disagrees with the Department of Justice's move to not pursue criminal charges against the officer, adding "clearly, the officer a required willfullness ... he could clearly see that she was not armed" and didn't present an immediate threat. The officer also didn't give ample warning before the shooting, Roberts said. Indefinite Incarceration for Protesters With 'Wrong' Politics. Joe Biden's Justice Department wants to keep Richard Barnett in jail — indefinitely. The Arkansas man, photographed showboating inside House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office on January 6, has been behind bars for more than three months. Barnett occupied Pelosi's office for six whole minutes; he absconded with a piece of mail and left her a note that read "Nancy, Bigo was here, [...]." The desk belonged to a Pelosi aide, not the speaker herself. Several reporters and photographers who also happened to be in Pelosi's office at the very same time prompted Barnett to sit at the desk and "act natural" as they took a series of photos. Death threats against Barnett's family immediately started when a press photograph of Barnett went viral that afternoon; Pelosi's daughter tweeted the picture right after it was taken. Upon his return home, Barnett met with FBI investigators without an attorney present, allowed for a search of his home, and turned himself in. He was taken into custody on January 8 and charged with trespassing, disorderly conduct, and possession of a "deadly or dangerous weapon," to wit, a walking stick that also can be used as a stun gun. He never used it. It's Biden's 'First 100 Days' Week. With the militarization of Washington, D.C. and the adding of walls, borders, and fences, Congress is now living and working in their own gated community. None of the "unwashed masses" are allowed to enter. Almost as if the Democrats realize that they really did not win in 2020. When the government is scared of its own people, there's a real problem. The Editor says... 'The American Public Deserves to Know' About Ashli Babbitt's Death: National Police Association Spokesperson. Terrell Roberts, an attorney for the Babbitt family, told The Epoch Times that the decision was "baffling, given the circumstances that it's a clear case of shooting an unarmed person without any legal justification." Mark Schamel, a lawyer representing the officer, told The Epoch Times via email that the officer "had to resort to deadly force" and that his actions "stopped the mob from breaking through and turning a horrific day in American history into something so much worse." Babbitt was with a group that entered the Capitol building on Jan. 6. A witness to the event said that police were asking people to get back and out of the way from a door that had its windows smashed. Babbitt did not heed the call and as she tried to climb through, an African-American police officer wearing a suit fatally shot her in the neck area. There is no indication that Babbitt was armed and her family's attorney has said she was not. Smith, the National Police Association spokesperson, said she was also disturbed by "the complete lack of curiosity by the legacy media." Who Killed Ashli Babbitt? Is it too much to ask to know the name of the federal government employee who, on our behalf, shot an unarmed veteran who was, at worst, trespassing in a public building? Apparently, it is, since no one in our glorious, licensed, and neutered regime media seems to want to tell us. They know. They all know. They just don't want you to know. We know the identity of the incompetent cop who shot the guy with a warrant (for carrying a concealed weapon without permit, which is not even a crime in nearly two dozen free states — racist Democrat gun control laws helped kill him). All we know about Wyatt Twerp, who shot the super-scary Q person for climbing through a window, is that the DoJ thinks it's A-OK to cap misdemeanor suspects if they oppose the ruling caste and clear him. The dummy who can't tell her taser from her Glock got charged though, even though it's absolutely clear she was stupid rather than malicious. Capitol Police IG Confirms [a] 'Stand Down' Order [was] Given, Covers Up [the] Name of [the] Official Who Gave It. The Capitol Riot cover-up continues. On Thursday [4/15/2021], the Inspector General for the Capitol Police provided testimony that corroborates the contents of a 104-page report on the police's role in the January 6th riot in Washington D.C. But there was a critical piece of information missing: Who gave the order. "An order to hold back heavy riot-control weapons left Capitol Police at a grave disadvantage as front-line officers, vastly outnumbered, fought to protect Congress from a violent mob Jan. 6," the Washington Post reported. [...] Similarly to how the identity of the police officer who shot and killed Ashli Babbitt, who attempted to breach an inner chamber of the Capitol building during the siege, has been kept secret, the official's name who can be identified to trace back the 'stand down' order is also being covered up. Pregnant Single Mother Raided By FBI, Detained For a Week After Going Through an Open Door at the US Capitol — Now Faces Over 30 Years in Prison. Felicia Konold of Arizona was on a road trip celebrating being alive after a bad accident left her with a broken back and half of her face ripped off in 2020. Konold had never travelled before, so for the first time in her life she has been taking road trips through the country that she loves so dearly with her brother — while also homeschooling her 10-year-old son. When Konold heard that President Donald Trump was going to be speaking in DC, the siblings decided to add a stop to their road trip plan. She had never been to a protest before and did not really know what to expect — in fact, she did not even expect it to be a protest, just a rally. What she did know is that patriotic Americans who loved their president were not often treated kindly, and that she had a little boy that needed her. She packed a medical kit and bought some extra protective layers to make sure she would get home safe, should leftists attack the event. Tucker Carlson: There are currently 'two systems of justice' in America : 'This stuff is scary'. Fox News host Tucker Carlson tore into the Biden Justice Department Wednesday night after they ruled that there will be no charges brought against the D.C. police officer who shot and killed protester Ashli Babbitt on Jan. 6. He noted that the American people are still wondering exactly what happened and who it was who shot Babbitt: "In cases like this, the benefit of the doubt usually does go to law enforcement, and as we've often said, we're fine with that. It should. But still, in a free society, the rest of us have a right to know roughly what happened. In this case, who shot Ashli Babbitt and why?" The officer's identity has not been released due to alleged security concerns. Carlson commented that the public is being stonewalled by the Biden administration and the media: "No one will tell us. The Biden administration says the man who killed Babbitt is a Capitol Hill police officer, and he did the right thing. That's all they've said. Ashli Babbitt lawyer releases blistering statement after Biden DoJ refuses to file charges against officer. An attorney representing the family of slain Capitol Building protestor Ashli Babbitt clapped back at the Justice Department after officials announced Wednesday there would be no charges filed against the plainclothes officer who shot and killed her on Jan. 6. Babbitt, an Air Force veteran, was seen in videos attempting to climb through a broken window into another room off of the House floor when she was shot by the officer, who still has not been publicly identified. She was unarmed. "The shooting of Ashli Babbitt on January 6, 2021 by an unidentified U.S. Capitol Police Officer was an unjustified use of deadly force which violated her constitutional rights," said attorney Terrell N. Roberts, III, of Roberts & Woods in Riverdale, Md. Ashli Babbitt Was Killed By Capitol Police On January 6. They Still Won't Tell Us Who Did It Or Why. Less than a day after armed robbery suspect Daunte Wright was shot by police, the name of the police officer who pulled the trigger was publicly released. A short time later, her address was leaked. Now her home is surrounded by concrete barricades, metal fencing, and armed police guards, in hopes of preventing the violent mob from burning it to the ground. This is generally how things have played out for all of the high-profile police shootings in recent memory. All except one. It was announced yesterday by the DOJ that the officer who shot Ashli Babbitt, one of the pro-Trump rioters at the Capitol on January 6th, will not be charged in her death. The statement from the DOJ refers to this man only as "the U.S. Capitol Police officer" because his name was never made public. Four months later, and we know absolutely nothing about the federal officer who shot an unarmed woman in the Capitol. It took one day to find out who shot Daunte Wright and where she lives. But more than 120 days after Babbitt's killing, and we know as much about the shooter as we did the moment after he pulled the trigger. The DOJ is Lying about the Ashley Babbitt case. Today [4/14/2021], the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia issued a press release explaining their decision to not prosecute the officer who shot and killed unarmed protester (and veteran) Ashli Babbitt on January 6, 2021. It states that DOJ officials, along with the Metropolitan Police Department's Internal Affairs Division, "conducted a thorough investigation of Ms. Babbitt's shooting." This included reviewing video footage, getting statements from officers and other witnesses, collecting physical evidence, and the results of Ms. Babbitt's autopsy. [...] You'll notice there's no mention of a verbal warning to Ms. Babbitt or other efforts to subdue her without the use of deadly force. Continuing on, the DOJ maintains that the "focus of the criminal investigation was to determine whether federal prosecutors could prove that the officer violated any federal laws, concentrating on the possible application of 18 U.S.C. § 242, a federal criminal civil rights statute." Hmm: DoJ won't charge Capitol officer in Babbitt shooting. Not unexpected, but this will generate plenty of controversy nonetheless. The Department of Justice declined to charge the US Capitol Police officer involved in the shooting of Ashli Babbitt, and might have even tacitly endorsed the officer's justification for using deadly force in the January 6th riot: [...] The question in any police shooting is whether lethal force was reasonable and justified in the situation. Babbitt was not herself armed, but the crowd had already seriously injured law-enforcement officers in other parts of the Capitol. This part of the mob tried smashing through the barricaded doors that led to the Speaker's Lobby, where members of Congress had sought shelter from the rioters. Two-Tiered Justice, DOJ Close Investigation into Murder of Ashli Babbitt With No Charges. Infuriating, and the timing of the DOJ announcement explains Biden on distract television today [4/14/2021]. Not only did the DOJ not prosecute the Capitol Hill police officer who murdered Ashli Babbitt, but they still refuse to name him. The sunlight upon the two-tiers of justice in the United States is at a supernova level of intensity. Decision Whether to Charge Capitol Police Officer in Shooting of Ashli Babbitt Is In. The decision of whether to charge the Capitol Police officer who shot Ashli Babbitt during the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6 is in. Perhaps there was never any question what the result would be. The Justice Department has announced that the officer will not face criminal charges. No Charges Against Officer Who Shot Ashli Babbitt: DOJ. The U.S. Capitol Police officer who shot dead an Air Force veteran during the tumultuous events on Jan. 6 will not be charged, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced April 14. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia and the DOJ's Civil Rights Division decided jointly not to pursue charges against the officer. The decision came after a "thorough investigation" into the shooting of Ashli Babbitt, a 35-year-old who joined others in storming the U.S. Capitol in Washington during a joint session of Congress in January. Babbitt was shot while trying to climb through a broken window into the Speaker's Lobby, adjacent to the House chamber. "Officials examined video footage posted on social media, statements from the officer involved and other officers and witnesses to the events, physical evidence from the scene of the shooting, and the results of an autopsy," the DOJ said in a statement. The Editor says... Biden's Chamber of Confected Hatreds. [Scroll down] There are absurd lamentations that the promised 9/11-style inquiry into the hooliganism at the U.S. Capitol on January 6 is not happening, as if there were the slightest comparison to be made between a carefully planned foreign quadruple suicide mission against the most prominent buildings in America and a rapidly improvised trespass on the Capitol by habitual troublemakers that could not have occurred if the speaker of the House and the mayor of Washington, D.C. had listened to the appeals of the head of the Capitol police. Ashli Babbitt's Death is Now Determined to Be 'Homicide' by Chief Medical Examiner. Ashli Babbitt's death is now determined to be a 'homicide,' according to the Chief Medical Examiner in the nation's capitol. "The District of Columbia Office of the Chief Medical Examiner on Wednesday released the official cause of death for four people who died during the Jan. 6 Capitol riots, ruling that protester Ashli Babbitt's manner of death was a homicide," the Epoch Times reported. "Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Francisco J. Diaz said the cause of death for Babbitt, 35, was a gunshot wound to the left anterior shoulder," the report continued. "Her manner of death was ruled homicide, his office said." "Authorities previously said Babbitt was shot by a police officer as she allegedly attempted to climb through a door window inside the Capitol building," the report went on. "The name of the officer has not been disclosed by local or federal authorities." Dems Knew About Capitol Riot Plans 'for Months' in Advance of Capitol Building Attack. In an explosive new revelation, House Democrats at the Trump impeachment trial revealed they warned the now-resigned capitol police chief days before the attack on the capitol building. Furthermore, recent admissions prove Democrats knew the capitol siege was coming months in advance. House impeachment manager Rep. Stacey Plaskett revealed the explosive information at the second day of the Trump impeachment trial, although it undercuts the Democrats' entire narrative that Trump "incited" the riot. "The day before the rioters stormed the Congress an FBI office in Virginia also issued an explicit warning that extremists were preparing to travel to Washington to commit violence and, quote, war, according to internal reports," she said. Politico: Capitol Hill riot prosecution might "embarrass the Biden administration" in the end. If so, the embarrassment will result only because the media and some prosecutors wildly inflated expectations. As violent and disturbing as the Capitol Hill riot was, only a small minority of the rioters took parts in specific, prosecutable assaults. The rest, Politico reports today [3/30/2021], likely will get charged with misdemeanors, and never see the inside of a prison. Many Capitol rioters unlikely to serve jail time. Americans outraged by the storming of Capitol Hill are in for a jarring reality check: Many of those who invaded the halls of Congress on Jan. 6 are likely to get little or no jail time. While public and media attention in recent weeks has been focused on high-profile conspiracy cases against right-wing, paramilitary groups like the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys, the most urgent decisions for prosecutors involve resolving scores of lower-level cases that have clogged D.C.'s federal district court. A POLITICO analysis of the Capitol riot-related cases shows that almost a quarter of the more than 230 defendants formally and publicly charged so far face only misdemeanors. Dozens of those arrested are awaiting formal charges, even as new cases are being unsealed nearly every day. In recent days, judges, prosecutors and defense attorneys have all indicated that they expect few of these "MAGA tourists" to face harsh sentences. The Commonalities Between the Rise of the Nazis and the Tactics of the American Left Cannot be Ignored. [Scroll down] Sixth, in January 1933, Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. Within four weeks a mysterious fire broke out in the Reichstag (Congress) Building which they blamed on communist agitators and that this was the opening salvo in a violent coup. Using this pretext, the Nazis were able to force through the Reichstag The Enabling Act of 1933 in March of the same year. This law embedded the Nazis as the sole dominant political party and ensured that only the Nazis could win future elections, if any were held. They were the first modern proponents of never letting a crisis, real or manufactured, to go to waste. The left and the Democrat party seized upon the disturbances at the Capitol on January 6, 2021 to proclaim that it was an "armed insurrection" and the opening salvo in a violent coup attempt by white supremacists. To further reinforce this false narrative, they theatrically brought in 20,000 National Guard troops and built fortifications around the Capitol building. Further following in the footsteps of the Nazi Party, the Democrats almost immediately pushed to pass H.R. 1 (euphemistically entitled The For The People Act) which would overturn virtually all existing voter laws, embed the Democrats as the sole dominant political party and ensure that only the Democrats could win future elections. A Family on Trial for January 6. [Scroll down] Bruno [Cua] was arrested on February 5 by FBI agents in Atlanta — a grand jury indicted the high schooler on 12 counts, including assaulting a police officer and possessing a "dangerous or deadly" weapon. For the first three weeks following his arrest, Cua languished in solitary confinement before being transported to a jail in Oklahoma City where he shared a cell with 30 other inmates. His family, like the families of dozens of January 6 defendants, has been denied the opportunity to post bail. And there's a chance the teen will remain behind bars until at least May when his trial is scheduled to begin. U.S. District Court Judge Randy Moss is weighing whether to finally release Bruno back to his parents or keep him detained for at least another two months. Moss seems inclined to side with government lawyers who insist Bruno is a danger to the community based on social media posts expressing outrage at the election, mocking Democrats including Joe Biden, and encouraging protestors to bring "pepper spray, tasers, baseball bats" to the capital — big talk for a kid traveling with his mom and dad. Some of the posts being used as evidence against him, in fact, are dated after January 6. The January 6 Prosecutions Hit a Speed Bump. Two weeks ago, I wrote of the Department of Justice's overreach respecting some of the hundreds of January 6 defendants. On Friday the D.C. Circuit clipped the department's wings. I expect more such losses as time goes on and the Department must actually present evidence in contested trials. The ploy of keeping in D.C. jails without bail some of the protestors who engaged in no specific violent acts at the Capitol until their cases can be heard was very obviously designed to compel them to plea bargain so they could return home to their families and jobs, and the three-judge panel wasn't buying it. If you think that there is a partisan tinge to their decision, you'd be wrong, Judge Robert Wilkins was confirmed under Barack Obama; Judge Judith Rogers under Bill Clinton, and Judge George Katsas under Donald Trump. It was bipartisan. America's soldiers sleep in the cold while the Democrat invaders sleep in hotels. When the Democrats decided to launch their unconstitutional military occupation of Washington D.C., they summoned 26,000 National Guard troops from all over the country to serve as a captive audience for Biden's inauguration in an empty city living in fear. Those troops were made to sleep on cold marble floors in the Capitol and later in a cold parking garage. They were fed tainted meat, food with metal shavings and worms, resulting in illnesses and hospitalization. The bill for this disastrous mess came to $483 million. Nothing but the best for the troops. As the massive flood of illegal alien migrants poured across the border, some wearing Biden t-shirts, coming to receive the illegal amnesty that he had promised them, they got a better deal. No cold parking garage floors for future Democrat voters and no food with metal shavings. Instead, Biden delivered a $86.9 million contract to house 1,200 illegal migrants in hotels. That's nearly four times as much money being spent per migrant compared to the total amount of spending per soldier. And since only a portion of that $483 million even went to providing for the troops, the actual discrepancy behind those numbers is much higher than it appears. Democrats want answers from White House, DOJ, FBI, and more on Capitol riot. Top House Democrats pressed federal agencies, including the Justice Department, the FBI, and the White House, for documents related to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, asking Biden officials to hand over records from the waning weeks of the Trump administration. Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney, Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, and the leaders of the Armed Services, House Administration, and Homeland Security committees signed the letters. "In today's letters, the Chairs requested documents and communications from three key time periods — before, during, and after the attack — which relate to the counting of the Electoral College vote, or the potential for demonstrations, violence, or attacks in the National Capital Region on or around January 6, 2021," Democrats said Thursday. Prosecutors Now Backing Away from Statements and Charges Against January 6th Protestors. Interesting that Reuters would outline the walk-backs. Even more interesting that the details of the walk-backs seem to prove the DOJ never actually intended to win any of these cases, but rather wanted to advance a political narrative about extremists through their earlier statements. The approach of building a political narrative through false accusations and over-charging in the DOJ is the essence of Lawfare. The government has endless taxpayer resources to fuel their political weaponization of the judiciary. The process of the charges then becomes the punishment by design. The targets are drained financially, sometimes physically detained under false pretense, and then the DOJ walks backwards when the judges finally ask for proof. The process is the punishment for political affiliation. The DOJ is fully weaponized. The majority of Americans can clearly see this taking place. 'I Can't Serve My Country Anymore': Former DEA Agent Says He Was Fired For Attending Jan. 6 Rally. A former Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent says he was fired simply for being present at former President Donald Trump's Jan. 6 rally. Mark Ibrahim spoke with Fox News host and Daily Caller co-founder Tucker Carlson about what happened to him after he attended the former president's speech along with his brother, an FBI special agent. [Video clip] "There were thousands of Republicans, kind of garden variety Republicans, who went to hear Donald Trump speak near the White House on January 6th," Carlson began. "Most of them didn't do anything wrong at all. They just sat and listened. Our next guest is one of them." Carlson then introduced Ibrahim, who said he attended the speech and went to the aid of police officers on the scene, but did not participate in any illegal activity. A Wilderness of Lies. The bizarre reaction of the inner party to the very peaceful demonstrations in January makes no sense at face value. There must be another reason for why they are telling the citizens that they will shoot the next demonstrators who come into the city to petition their rulers for redress. The question is, what are they plotting next? [...] This is the state of the American regime. No one knows what is really going behind the razor wire and Army troops patrolling it. We are left to analyze video of Biden falling down the stairs of Air Force One and reading the body language of his handlers. Amateur linguists try to tease meaning out of his incoherent mutterings on Zoom sessions. The other geriatrics running the party are scrutinized by regime analysts, looking for clues to contextualize their behavior. Like the Soviet empire, the American empire is now a confusing black box. It does things and makes noises, but none of it can be accepted on its face, so the world is left to guess. Psaki [was] Asked Why Migrants Get Hotel Rooms but National Guard Got Parking Garages. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki was pressed Monday on why the Biden administration is allocating millions to provide migrants with hotel rooms while the National Guard was forced to rest on the concrete floor of DC parking garages. 'You are opening up new facilities. You're spending $86 million on hotel rooms for migrants. How do you square that with the National Guard troops who were sleeping in parking garages?" asked one reporter. Wife Suffers Miscarriage Day After FBI Raids Home for Combat Veteran Husband's Presence at US Capitol. The wife of a decorated combat veteran who was inside the Capitol suffered a miscarriage one day after the FBI raided their home. [...] In the early morning of February 11, Kuehne, his pregnant wife Annette, and their four-year-old child were awakened to sirens, cell phone rings, and bursts of colorful lights reflecting through their windows. [...] Kuehne is a retired decorated combat veteran who has received numerous medals and awards including the Purple Heart, a Navy Commendation Medal with Valor, and a Navy and Marine Corp Achievement Medal with Valor for actions in combat. He served this country in the United States military for over twenty years. He was even awarded a rare Medal of Merit from the Boy Scouts of America for his actions involving scouting skills and ideals for saving his youngest sister's life from the burning car she was in when he was 9 years old. Defiant US Soldiers Openly Questioning Why BLM Riots Weren't Treated Like Capitol 'Insurrection'. Soldiers "from every echelon" of the US military have been openly questioning why last year's violent BLM and Antifa riots weren't treated like the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a comparison which has [irritated] the military's top enlisted leader, Chief Master Sergeant Ramón "CZ" Colón-López. In a Thursday briefing at the Pentagon, Colón-López (CZ) told reporters that some troops have asked "How come you're not looking at the situation that was going on in Seattle prior to that? [Jan. 6 riot]" "This is coming from every echelon that we're talking to," CZ added. The Capitol Fencing Is Starting to Come Down, and the Political Hacks Are Finally Admitting the Obvious. I've got good news. If you are self-immolating enough to visit Washington, D.C., right now in its current, insane state, you'll be able to enter at least some of the Capitol grounds again soon. The outer fencing that has surrounded the complex since the January 6th riot is finally set to come down, and the political hacks who kept it there for so long are finally admitting the obvious. Namely, that there has been no credible threat to justify the fortification of the Capitol for the last several months. Capitol Investigation Seeks to Criminalize Political Dissent. In the early hours of March 12, FBI agents in southwestern Florida barricaded a neighborhood to prepare to raid the home of one resident. Christopher Worrell of Cape Coral was arrested and charged with several counts related to the January 6 Capitol melee. Even though Worrell had been cooperating with the FBI for two months, the agency nonetheless unleashed a massive, and no doubt costly, display of force to take him into custody. [...] Worrell's arrest is the latest in what the U.S. Department of Justice warned would be an "unprecedented" investigation leading to sedition charges filed against American citizens. Attorney General Merrick Garland pledged to make the Capitol Breach manhunt his top priority; on his first day in office, he received an update on the investigation from FBI Director Christopher Wray. Garland has compared January 6 to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people, including 15 children. Roughly 300 people have been arrested so far, many of them transported to Washington, D.C. to await trial and dozens denied bail after federal prosecutors argued the defendants, including a high school senior from Georgia, pose a threat to the nation. The Capitol Breach probe, the department's official title, is a flagrant political prosecution targeting Trump supporters. Every display — from heavy-handed FBI raids to a militarized Washington, D.C. — is designed to portray the President Trump's allies as domestic terrorists. FBI Uses SWAT Tactical Team, Armored Vehicles and Armed Troops to Arrest Man Who Attended January 6 Capitol Hill Protest. Just as the FBI used a heavily armed tactical SWAT team to arrest Roger Stone, the FBI deployed the same tactics in Naples, Florida to arrest a man who attended the January 6th DC protest march. Military tactics, armored vehicles, automatic rifles and a no-knock raid. Essentially the FBI continues to send a message to the larger electorate. They use these aggressive tactics against people based on their politics. There are no honorable "rank and file" in the modern FBI; the entire institution is compromised. This stuff is nuts. 2 months later, where's the evidence GOP lawmakers were involved in Jan 6 riots as Dems claim? Two months ago, a number of House Democrats leveled the accusation that some of their Republican colleagues gave "recon tours" to Jan. 6 rioters prior to their storming of the Capitol... there is still no evidence that occurred. Federal prosecutors, however, are still "requesting video" from authorities. They are trying to ascertain whether certain Republican representatives gave tours prior to the riot according to an inside source, Fox News reported. The U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia hasn't given up investigating allegations that Republican House members gave Capitol tours in the days before the riot. Meanwhile, Republican lawmakers are ringing the alarm bells calling the unsubstantiated allegations "dangerous." The Legends of Our Fall. [Scroll down] Yet — so far — no master insurrectionist planners have emerged; no plan of a coup or of a Capitol takeover exists. There are no cells found deep inside the government that were activated by or followed up on the assault. [...] Officer Sicknick did not, as the media and impeachment narratives insisted, die from head trauma from a violent assaulter. The cause of his tragic demise remains unclear. But he may have died from natural causes, not necessarily aggravated by riot-related violence. No one arrested in the Capitol was found either to have brought in or to have used a firearm. No one was then "armed." No protest or vandal brought their own plastic ties into the Capitol to kidnap or "arrest" legislators as media reports have alleged. We still await the full story of January 6, an event that was used politically to justify a second impeachment and trial of Trump, the greatest militarization of Washington, D.C. since the Civil War, and the most intrusive use of state power in memory to root out supposed insurrectionists throughout government. National Guard Association Calls for DC Capitol Deployment to End. A civilian association of National Guard service members is calling for the US Capitol deployment to end, months after the January presidential inauguration and the raucous protest at the Capitol over certification of the 2020 election. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin extended the Capitol deployment this week, overruling the Chief of the National Guard, who had determined that the presence of military forces at the Capitol was no longer necessary. The Editor says... Retired Army Sgt. Kenneth Harrelson Arrested for Attending Jan. 6 Protests — Family's Bank Account Locked Down, Wife Loses Her Job. Angel Harrelson from Florida contacted The Gateway Pundit last week. Angel's husband, Retired Army Sgt. Kenneth Harrelson, was arrested last week and is currently being held in jail for attending the January 6th protests in Washington DC. The feds may move him to Washington DC this coming week for trial. Kenneth is a retired Army Sergeant and US veteran. He suffers from serious physical maladies including high blood pressure. The US government locked down the family bank account following the arrest. Angel lost her job. FBI Sends in Armored Vehicle with Turret, 2 Vans, 6 FBI Vehicles, 3 Local Police Vehicles to Arrest Young Father Who Attended Jan. 6 Rally. Joshua James was arrested this week and is being charged in connection to the violent events of January 6th in Washington D.C. Joshua James is an Iraq War veteran. He was wounded in a bomb blast in Iraq. And Joshua is being held by the FBI without bail. Joshua is the breadwinner in his family. He receives retirement pay from the military. He has three young children including a 3-year-old. [...] The FBI lured him out of his home in Alabama by pretending to be a customer needing a pressure washing. Then an Army armored vehicle with a turret on top, 2 FBI vans, 6 FBI vehicles, 3 local police and sheriff's vehicles pulled up and ransacked their home. National Guard Association Disagrees with Defense Secretary's Order to Occupy Capitol. The chairman of the National Guard Association, representing more than 450,000 citizen soldiers, says it is time for the Capitol Police to resume responsibility for the safety of the Capitol, agreeing with Daniel Hokanson, the National Guard bureau chief general, who Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin overruled on Tuesday. According to a report, the National Guard Association Chairman and Arizona Adjunct General, Major General Michael McGuire, said, "This enduring requirement of having them around the city, I think it's completely inappropriate at best, illegal at worst." Ashli Babbitt's Legal Team Discusses Case On Tucker Carlson. Tonight [3/12/2021] Terry Roberts, the attorney heading up Ashli Babbitt's legal team went on Tucker Carlson to discuss the hardships and details of the case. Ashli Babbit was shot dead by a US Capitol Police Officer on January 6, 2021. Babbitt Family Attorney, Terrell Roberts told Tucker Carlson that NOTHING warranted the use of deadly force on Ashli Babbitt. [Video clip] Report: Biden Admin Overruled National Guard General Who Wanted To Pull Troops Out Of D.C.. The top general at the National Guard pushed the Biden administration to relieve troops of their deployment in Washington D.C. but was ignored and overturned by the Pentagon to instead gaslight the public with the continued military presence. According to an official memo obtained exclusively by Fox News Thursday, the National Guard chief told the Pentagon he disagrees with the need for 2,300 troops to remain at the U.S. Capitol, which has seen beefed up security from federal troops since the riot in early January. Despite the National Guard citing no need for their occupation of D.C. and being overstretched for resources, Fox News reported, Biden Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin "overrode the National Guard's recommendation and extended the D.C. mission." Defense Sec Overruled the Head of the National Guard, May Keep Guard in D.C. Involuntarily. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, you know that guy whose name Joe Biden can't remember, "the guy that runs that outfit over there" made the decision to hold 2300 National Guard members in Washington, D.C. for the next ten weeks until May 23. Threat? What threat? They don't need no threat! But there's a whole backstory to this that reveals how problematic this is. Austin, the Biden political appointee, overruled the head of the National Guard, General Daniel Hokanson. [Tweet] In a memo, Hokanson explained how they did not have enough volunteers because of how stretched the National Guard already was given all its duties as well as also helping out with virus vaccinations and getting ready for seasonal disaster response. That this is impacting their ability to provide volunteers; that only 500 have volunteered for the duty. The Editor says... New Memo Shows National Guard Being Forced to Stay at U.S. Capitol, Despite a Lack of Resources. A new memo first reported by Fox News correspondent Gillian Turner shows the National Guard is unable to successfully carry out its mission at the U.S. Capitol and that resources throughout the country are being stretched to the maximum as troops are forced to remain in Washington D.C. "Efforts to date have not secured enough volunteers among supporting states to meet the USCP request of 2,280 Soldiers, no Option B of 1000 soldiers," the memo, written by Chief of the National Guard Bureau General Daniel Hokanson, states. 'Collusion of stupidity': National Guard extension at Capitol confounds experts. The Pentagon's decision to extend the National Guard deployment of 2,300 troops at the U.S. Capitol until May 23 to protect against an unknown threat is prompting outrage and concern from critics. The Guard has been positioned around the legislative hall since the Jan. 6 Capitol riot was carried out by some of former President Donald Trump's supporters, but officials have refused to explain what they call an ongoing threat from right-wing militia groups. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Tuesday night approved a U.S. Capitol Police request to extend the Guard deployment, prompting howls from conservatives as the riot and response have become a political hot button. "It's a collusion of stupidity," said Heritage Foundation security analyst Jim Carafano, who questioned the need for miles of razor wire-topped fencing surrounding the Capitol complex, a two-month extension, and calls for a quick reaction force. "It doesn't pass the commonsense test," he told the Washington Examiner. "You're gonna have a mob show up in Washington with no notice whatsoever?" McCaul: 'It's easier to get into the US illegally than it is to get into the US Capitol'. House Foreign Affairs Committee ranking member Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, sounded off on Tuesday [3/9/2021] on the burgeoning illegal immigration crisis at the southern border on "The Story": ["]In fact, the secretary of homeland security said 'don't come now, but you can come'. This is the wrong statement; wrong message to be sending. You know, I was a federal prosecutor down there in Texas. I know the border. I chaired homeland [security]. I've been down there [at the border] more than any other member. I've seen this movie before. It's all about deterrence. When the green light is on and the messaging is if you come you can stay, they're going to come. The traffickers know this. They're very smart and very advanced.["] [Link to video clip] Sen. Tommy Tuberville: 'Fort Pelosi' Provides 'Black SUVs with Secret Service' to Democratic Congressmen,' not Republicans. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) told Breitbart News on Wednesday that Democrat representatives, not Republicans, are being provided Secret Service protection per House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-CA) directives. The federal government built concrete barriers alongside fencing with razor wire surrounding the Capitol following violent riots on January 6, ostensibly to protect against a threat of "domestic terrorism" from conservative supporters of former President Donald Trump. Tuberville contrasted Washington, DC's, reaction to unrest on January 6 with dozens of violent and destructive leftist-driven riots in large American cities in 2020. Ashli Babbitt's family's legal team releases statement. ["]The shooting of Ashli Babbitt on January 6, 2021 by an unidentified U.S. Capitol Police Officer was an unjustified use of deadly force which violated her constitutional rights. It is clear from video footage that Ashli did not pose a danger to the officer, or any other person, when she was shot. Ashli was unarmed. She did not assault anyone. She did not threaten to harm anyone. There was no excuse for taking her life. It is a universal law enforcement standard that a police officer should use no more force than necessary to accomplish a lawful purpose. At 5' 2" tall and 110 pounds, an arrest of Ashli could have been accomplished by a single trained officer with a set of handcuffs. At the time of the shooting, there were over a half-dozen police officers in close proximity to the Speaker's door where Ashli was standing. Some of those officers had just allowed protesters access to the door by stepping aside. Other officers, dressed in full tactical gear, stood among the protesters just a few feet behind the door. Still others stood casually at the opposite end of the Speaker's Lobby, unconcerned with the activities of Ashli and the protesters around her. All of these officers were in a position to have aided in the apprehension of Ashli if it was necessary. Given her background as a 14-year veteran of the Air Force, it is likely that Ashli would have complied with simple verbal commands, thereby making the use of any force unnecessary. However, the officer who shot Ashli never attempted to arrest her. Nor did he call on his fellow officers to arrest her. Instead, he fired a shot into her chest. Witnesses confirm that the officer did not give Ashli a single verbal warning prior to firing. In fact, Ashli was not even aware that the officer was present, as he was located in the doorway of a room off to the side of her field of vision. [...] ["] The Kabuki Theater At the Capitol Is About to Get Worse, and It Should Anger You. If one were to go to Washington D.C. today and walk around the Capitol Building, to the extent that you can even get close to it these days, you'd be mistaken for thinking you were in a third-world country. The current fortifications and military presence feel much more apt for an embassy in Baghdad than they do for the center of the U.S. government. We are now over two months out since the January 6th riot, where the most recent information shows that not a single person was killed with malice or intent except for a woman shot by police. If what occurred was a "coup" attempt or an "insurrection," it was the worst in human history. Regardless, there have been no credible threats since that day. The hysteria over March 4th turned out to be absolute nonsense, for example. Despite that, Democrats and the Capitol Police are intent on keeping this Kabuki theater going. Last week, reports came out that the National Guard was being requested to stay another two months. Now, that's morphing into something more permanent. As the Insurrection Narrative Crumbles, Democrats Cling to it More Desperately Than Ever. Twice in the last six weeks, warnings were issued about imminent, grave threats to public safety posed by the same type of right-wing extremists who rioted at the Capitol on January 6. And both times, these warnings ushered in severe security measures only to prove utterly baseless. First we had the hysteria over the violence we were told was likely to occur at numerous state capitols on Inauguration Day. [...] The resulting clampdowns were as extreme as the dire warnings. Washington, D.C. was militarized more than at any point since the 9/11 attack. The military was highly visible on the streets. And, described The Washington Post, "state capitols nationwide locked down, with windows boarded up, National Guard troops deployed and states of emergency preemptively declared as authorities braced for potential violence Sunday mimicking the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of pro-Trump rioters." All of this, said the paper, "reflected the anxious state of the country ahead of planned demonstrations." But none of that happened — not even close. After raw meat and metal filings fed to them, National Guard troops in DC are told no changes coming in contracting for food. If Nancy Pelosi and the Congressional Democrats wanted to discourage people from signing up for the National Guard, they could not do much more to denude the force of recruits than station them in DC for months as props in an insurrection theatre fantasy, and then feed them raw meats and metal filings. To top it off, no changes are going to be made in the contracting for food supplies because the bureaucrats claim they could find nothing wrong when they inspected the food prep facilities. Nancy Pelosi's Capitol pawns. Have we really reached the point where National Guard soldiers in their third month of protecting the Capitol are poisoned with rotten food, worms and metal shavings and no one cares? The contempt shown to these soldiers by their Washington, DC, masters is as sickening as the rancid slop they've been served. Barstool Sports last week was the first to publish stomach-churning photos of raw chicken and beef, moldy bread rolls and rotten fruit, along with firsthand complaints from anonymous soldiers. At least 50 soldiers were struck ill with "gastrointestinal complaints" after eating the meals and several required hospital treatment. It's not as if the troops are in a hardship posting like Afghanistan. Where is the respect? Victor Davis Hanson's perfect description of why troops are in DC. Readers may already know why the troops are in DC but few put it as well as Victor Davis Hanson. [Video clip] The Capitol Police Chief And Her Democratic Bosses Are Lying To You All To Hold Our Capital Hostage. My city has been occupied for more than eight weeks. Major thoroughfares blocked, thousands of armed soldiers, armored vehicles, seven-foot fencing, concertina wire. What's it all for? An invading army across the Potomac? Rising far-right militias, ready to strike at any moment? Nope. It's because when angry rioters and protesters attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, a Capitol Police force hobbled by its leadership's poor training regimens, nearly non-existent fitness standards, and fecklessness in the face of crisis were incapable of protecting the building or even shutting the big doors on time. It's because those idiot rioters had finally — after months and years of left-wing riots here and across the country — finally given Democratic lawmakers and the corporate media the right-wing riot they always claimed was around the corner. It's because panic porn and agitprop are useful tools when you're working as hard as you can to spread fear and distrust against the half of the country that disagrees with your policies. Greenwald: If Left Can Create Narrative The Country Is Always Under Threat, They Can Expand Mass Surveillance. Glenn Greenwald warned the left is desperate to contain the "mythology" of what happened on the day of the Capitol Riot in order to preserve the Capitol Wall and have Congress create laws expanding surveillance. [Video clip] DC Will Remain Under Military Occupation As Long As Pelosi Rules. The contrast below between the security on the southern border and military presence in Washington, D.C., tells you all you need to know about today's Democratic Party in charge. [Tweet] While a migrant crisis mounts on the southern border, aided by President Joe Biden's day-one executive order bringing a halt to construction of the border wall, Washington politicians have surrounded themselves with miles of fencing to provide protection not afforded to the American people. An estimated 25,000 troops descended on Washington in the immediate aftermath of the Capitol riots in early January, bringing more armed military forces to lock down the capital city than remain in Iraq and Afghanistan combined. As of this month, 6,000 troops remain an occupying force, supported by fencing around the Capitol that still stands at the order of Democratic politicians hellbent on exploiting the eruption of political violence at the start of the new year. No end in sight for Capitol fortress. Since the first week in January, the Capitol has been protected by an 8-foot fence topped with barbed wire, erected after hundreds of former President Donald Trump's supporters stormed the building and overwhelmed the police on Jan. 6. Two months have passed, and many of the rioters have since been arrested and charged. The House impeached Trump for inciting an insurrection, and the Senate acquitted him. But the fencing remains, along with thousands of National Guard troops called in to respond to the attack and to protect the building during President Biden's inauguration. The once-open Capitol campus has been transformed into a fortress and will likely remain so for the foreseeable future. "It's not rational," said Sen. Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican. "I'd say right now we're overreacting." Dumbest 'insurrection theatre' stunt of the week. The relentless campaign to demonize supporters of President Trump entered the realm of self-parody this past week, with warnings that the US Capitol and democracy itself were in danger on March 4 because QAnon saw that date as the real inauguration day. It was all balderdash, a PsyOp aimed at delegitimizing support for Trump or questioning the integrity of the presidential election. Even the Washington Post admitted there was nothing to it, calling the reports a "mirage." [...] This is too kind, for mirages are genuine phenomena, a product of the physics of light. This bogus warning was entirely the product of human intentions, not the result of impersonal natural forces. And it amounted to the worst sort of propaganda, intended to demonize a group based on lies, by fanning the flames of panic. Power and Political Investigations: The Democrat Roadmap. How do corrupt politicians conduct investigations? Corruptly. Over the next couple months, it's looking like we will see the inception of a new "9/11 style commission" to investigate the events of January 6, 2021. [...] A Commission of 7 Democrats and 4 Republicans. Or perhaps an evenly split commission if Senate Republicans get their way. An investigative scope dictated by Pelosi. A duration of nearly a year, if not longer, with a budget of millions. All to conclude at the end of 2021. Just in time for Congressional hearings before the 2022 election. The Imaginary Government. We have long been in a post-constitutional democracy, one that recognizes no individual rights, but simply who has the most votes, or, more accurately, the most ballots. It is as destructive to the United States as it was to France, minus the guillotines, for now. Driving home the fact of the stolen election is pointless. Everyone knows it was stolen, especially those who benefitted from the steal. They also understand the value of keeping up the illusion of legitimacy. Equal to that value is the importance of never conceding that point. The larger question, the most important question, is how do we expose the fraud in a real way? Recognizing it is good, pushing back on the legitimacy narrative is good, but it's just filed away as two competing political voices urging the middle to move their way. Lost is the importance of the stolen election. The inability of the federal government to faithfully prosecute a free and fair election destroys its authority. They gloss over this fact, because it suits both political parties to pretend that the election was legitimate, knowing that if it was not. They no longer hold authority until a free and fair election can be held. In essence, they are actors on a stage and as long as the people suspend disbelief, they can continue in that role. [...] A government that no longer needs the actual votes of the people is free to unleash all manner of unlawful assaults upon them. Lt. Gen. Russel Honore recommends 24/7 'quick reaction force' of D.C. Guard to protect the Capitol after review. A security review ordered by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is recommending establishment of a permanent 'quick reaction force' that would be able to respond to urgent threats to the Capitol — as influential conservatives and Donald Trump loyalists continue to try to muddy the retired Army general leading the effort. Pelosi ordered the review after the Jan. 6th riot and brought in retired Lt. Gen. Russsel Honore to oversee it. Among his recommendations are a 'quick reaction force,' known in military parlance as a QRF. How are the optics now? Police asks National Guard to stay at U.S. Capitol for another 60 days amid continued threats. Pentagon officials were reviewing a request Thursday [3/4/2021] for National Guard troops to help out with security at the U.S. Capitol for another two months, as threats of more far-right violence remain heightened in the wake of January's bloody attack. The Capitol Police department sent the request for continued National Guard backup on the same day that law enforcement officials said a militia was scheming to attack the historic building again, less than two months after Trump supporters besieged it in a deadly attempt to stop Congress from certifying President Biden's election. According to a Capitol Police intelligence assessment, an unnamed militia had been devising a "possible plot" to storm the building in an attack modeled after the Jan. 6 riot, likely because Thursday was March 4 — the date when followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory falsely believed the military would reinstall Donald Trump as president. Law enforcement agencies stepped up security on Capitol Hill in anticipation, adding more checkpoints and barbed wire fencing, making Washington look more like a city at war than it already did. House Cancels Thursday Session over Security Concerns. The House canceled plans to hold a Thursday session after security officials warned of a potential plot by an unnamed militant group to breach the Capitol, according to a new report. While the Senate plans to be in session Thursday [3/4/2021], the House will hold its final votes of the week on Wednesday evening over concerns of credible threats of violence, according to the Washington Post. Extremists have reportedly circulated threats for March 4, which they have called the "true Inauguration Day" when former President Donald Trump will be sworn in for a second term. In a memo on Wednesday, House Sergeant-at-Arms Timothy Blodgett told lawmakers that the Capitol Police have "enhanced their security posture" in response to the threats. National Guard troops remain posted at the Capitol, he added. The Editor says... Update: 5,000 National Guard troops remain in DC amid QAnon frenzy that Trump will be inaugurated again this week. Nearly 5,000 National Guard troops are in Washington, DC this week for an inauguration that won't happen. That's because followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory believe that on 4 March, which was once the inauguration date of US presidents, Donald Trump will become president again. The Progressives are the extremists. The Progressives, in their extreme denial of the First Amendment's freedom of religion clause, shut down churches, synagogues, and choirs. And if not totally shut down, they limited church attendance in most of these. Totalitarian governments do not like large groups of people assembled together, whether it is at church or at a Trump MAGA rally. Hypocritically, they did not have any problems with Antifa nor Black Lives Matter riots. Dubbing Capitol complex 'Fort Pelosi,' Boebert draws cheers at CPAC over Natl Guard still being in DC. Republican lawmakers ridiculed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's ongoing deployment of National Guard troops and police as well as fencing and razor wire around the U.S. Capitol during speeches at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Fla., on Saturday [2/27/2021]. "I wouldn't be surprised if we start quartering soldiers in the committee hearing rooms," said freshman Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado, who dubbed the Capitol complex "Fort Pelosi." "There's plenty in the parking garages at Fort Pelosi. Maybe we can start unreasonably seizing and searching members of Congress. Oh, wait, we're already doing that in House chambers," Boebert added, likely a reference to Pelosi's unilateral decision last month to install metal detectors and post guards at each entrance to the House chamber following the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.
With Ashli Babbitt Killing Shrouded in Mystery, Capitol Officer Who Shot Her Is in Hiding for His Own Safety. All told, seven people died in connection with the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6. But only Ashli Babbitt's death was directly caused by violence that day. She was a rioter killed by a Capitol Police officer, who fired the only shot by any person during the 4½-hour siege. Yet the story of who he is and why he opened fire remains shrouded in mystery. More than six weeks after Babbitt succumbed to a single gunshot wound to the upper chest, authorities are keeping secret the identity of the officer who fired the fatal round. They won't release his name, and the major news media aren't clamoring for it, in stark contrast to other high-profile police shootings of unarmed civilians. [...] Drawing on interviews with informed sources and available documents, RealClearInvestigations has put together a portrait of the actual shooter and the shooting, which some describe as completely justified and others call murder. D.C. Medical Examiner: Officer Brian Sicknick died of stroke from natural causes, not result of assault. We have covered many times before the curious lack of medical evidence as to how Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick died. The media and Democrat narrative initially was that he died either from being beaten with a fire extinguisher and doused with bear spray. Sicknick's death, attributed to pro-Trump rioters, was a leading excuse for a federal law enforcement crackdown on every protester physically at the Capitol that day, regardless of whether they committed violence. The other deaths that day were not at the hands of the rioters, in fact, the only person we know died violently, Ashli Babbitt, was shot by police, who will not be charged. In what is a bombshell revelation, the District of Columbia medical examiner, in an interview with the Washington Post, reveals that Sicknick died of a stroke due to natural causes. Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, who engaged rioters, suffered two strokes and died of natural causes, officials say. Capitol Police officer Brian D. Sicknick suffered two strokes and died of natural causes a day after he confronted rioters at the Jan. 6 insurrection, the District's chief medical examiner has ruled. The ruling, released Monday [4/19/2021], will make it difficult for prosecutors to pursue homicide charges in the officer's death. Two men are accused of assaulting Sicknick by spraying a powerful chemical irritant at him during the siege, but prosecutors have not tied that exposure to Sicknick's death. In an interview with The Washington Post, Francisco J. Diaz, the medical examiner, said the autopsy found no evidence the 42-year-old officer suffered an allergic reaction to chemical irritants, which Diaz said would have caused Sicknick's throat to quickly seize. Diaz also said there was no evidence of internal or external injuries. Cause of Death for Officer Brian Sicknick Released, Major Blow to Media and Democrat Narrative. The official cause of death has been released for Officer Brian Sicknick, who was repeatedly claimed by the mainstream media — and even some on the right — to have been murdered on January 6th. According to the determination, Sicknick died of natural causes, having suffered two strokes later that evening after the unrest at the Capitol had subsided. D.C.
Medical Examiner's Report Blows Huge Hole in Narrative About Capitol Riot Deaths. The Chief Medical Examiner for D.C. on Wednesday [4/7/2021]g
ave his determination on the causes of death involving those who died in the Capitol riot on January 6th. Dr. Francisco Diaz, the Chief
Medical Examiner, listed the causes of death as following:
Timeline of Events in DC on Jan. 6. On Jan. 6, supporters of President Donald Trump gathered in the nation's capital for a demonstration, called the "Save America March." The plan was to hold a rally in The President's Park just south of the White House and then march to the Capitol building to demand that Congress and Vice President Mike Pence reject electoral votes for former Vice President Joe Biden from states where election results were marred by irregularities, allegations of fraud, and unconstitutional voting rule changes. By the end of the day, the Capitol went through several rounds of lockdown after a sizable group of protesters broke inside. Four people died in or around the Capitol, including Ashli Babbitt, a woman who was shot dead by a Capitol Police officer. Three others died due to medical emergencies, authorities said. One man died of a heart attack and another of a stroke, and one woman was crushed by the crowd, several media reported. A Capitol Police officer, Brian Sicknick, died the next day. He "was injured while physically engaging with protesters ... returned to his division office and collapsed," Capitol Police said in a statement. Family of fallen Capitol Police officer says cause of death unknown — stop making it political. The United States Attorney's Office has opened an investigation into the death of Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick. Sicknick died Thursday night [1/7/2021] after protesters on Capitol Hill became violent. According to ABC6, the investigation is being conducted jointly between the FBI and the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department, with cooperation from U.S. Capitol Police. Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen said in a statement that the Department of Justice "will spare no resources in investigating and holding accountable those responsible." Meanwhile, Sicknick's family is asking others to stop making his death a political issue. Unfortunately, few seem to be listening.
Airbnb to cancel all D.C. reservations during inauguration week. Airbnb said it will cancel and block all reservations in the Washington metro area in the coming days as efforts to secure the capital were ratcheted higher ahead of right-wing protests this weekend and the presidential swearing-in on Jan. 20. The mass cancellation came as regional leaders announced that a number of Metro stations would be closed for a week to discourage visitors from going into downtown Washington. Airbnb also discovered and banned accounts for many people involved in hate groups and last week's Capitol siege, the company said in its announcement Wednesday [1/13/2021]. GOP U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio [is] challenged by Democrats to repudiate stolen election claims. Champaign County Republican Rep. Jim Jordan on Tuesday [1/12/2020] clashed with Democrats on the House Rules Committee over GOP claims that the 2020 presidential election was "stolen." The confrontation occurred as Jordan argued against bringing a measure to the House floor that would urge Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the Constitution's 25th Amendment to assume the presidency on the grounds that President Donald Trump is unfit to serve. Horrified that a mob of Trump supporters marched on the Capitol last week and rioted as Congress attempted to tally electoral votes that showed Democrat Joe Biden won the election, Democrats who control the House are bringing a measure to the floor that would urge Pence to displace Trump. Five people, including a Capitol Police officer, died as a result of the melee. If Pence doesn't act, Democrats will bring up a measure to impeach Trump. The Editor says... Outgoing Capitol Hill Police Chief Says Efforts to Summon National Guard Were Thwarted: Report. Steven Sund, outgoing chief of the U.S. Capitol Police (USCP), says House and Senate security officials rejected or slow-walked multiple requests by the agency to call in the National Guard for assistance on Jan. 6. Sund told The Washington Post in an interview published on Jan. 10 that, in the days leading up to the Jan. 6 incident in which protesters and rioters breached the Capitol building and committed acts of violence, he had asked House and Senate security officials to let him request that the D.C. National Guard be put on standby. He told the outlet that the officials denied or postponed his requests six times. House Sergeant-at-Arms Paul Irving said he wasn't comfortable with how a declaration of an emergency would be received ahead of the protests, said Sund, who resigned following the Capitol breach. "We knew it would be bigger," Sund told The Washington Post. "We looked at the intelligence. We knew we would have large crowds, the potential for some violent altercations. I had nothing indicating we would have a large mob seize the Capitol." Four Police Officers Placed on Leave for Allegedly Attending Capitol Riots. At least four police officers from across the country were placed on administrative leave for allegedly attending the U.S. Capitol riots on Wednesday. Two of those off-duty police officers from Rocky Mount, Virginia, who allegedly attended the Wednesday rally that turned into a deadly riot, were placed on administrative leave pending review, WSLS reported. The department also notified federal authorities. More details about the January 6 disturbance at the U.S. Capitol. [Scroll down] Four protesters died during the siege. Capitol Police shot and killed Ashli Babbitt, who was reportedly crawling through a broken window to get into the Capitol Building. She was 35 years old and an Air Force veteran. KTLA TV reports that Kevin Greeson, a 55-year-old Alabama man, died of a heart attack during the Capitol unrest. Fifty-year-old Benjamin Philips of Pennsylvania died of a stroke. And a 34-year-old woman, Rosanne Boyland of Atlanta, died of a "medical emergency." This attack didn't just shock the consciences of all well-behaved Americans, it was a political disaster for the man the rioters supported — President Trump. As a result of the melee, the U.S. House of Representatives is trying another impeachment attempt against the president who has mere days left in his term of office. Protestors might have breached Capitol security with 'inside assistance,' Congresswoman says. Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz said on Friday [1/9/2021] that protestors might have been able to breach U.S. Capitol security and storm the building with "inside assistance." She called for congressional lawmakers and law enforcement to formally investigate the possibility of inside help related to Wednesday's riot at the Capitol. Wasserman Schultz said she attended an "emergency" Democratic caucus meeting on Friday and there are questions that need to be answered. She also said the law enforcement response to the protest was "horrendous" and the Capitol Police's lack of preparation was "appalling." Wasserman Schultz added that she was the top House Democratic lawmaker in charge of overseeing the Capitol Police for 10 years. Will the Left Say Her Name? Will those on the Left who spent all summer and early fall protesting police brutality across the country take to the streets now over the fatality at the U.S. Capitol Building on Wednesday? Ashli Babbitt, 35, was identified as the victim shot by Capitol Police when a mob of pro-Trump protesters stormed the building. The unarmed woman, a 14-year veteran who served four tours with the Air Force, was shot in the chest and died after being transported to a local hospital. She was married and lived near San Diego. Her husband and mother-in-law found out about her death on television. "I'm numb. I'm devastated. Nobody from DC notified my son and we found out on TV," the husband's mother, Robin Babbitt, told The [New York] Post. 4 Capitol riot suspects, including man seen in Pelosi's office, face federal charges. Federal officials released additional details Friday [1/8/2021] about crimes for which several people now face charges following Wednesday's riots and attacks on Capitol Hill. A senior Justice Department official said that law enforcement took Richard Barnett, 60, into custody in Little Rock, Ark., after a viral photograph showed him sitting inside House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office with one leg resting on her desk. He was expected to make a court appearance in Arkansas and will be extradited to Washington, D.C., the Justice Department said. After the break-in, Barnett, a resident of Gravette, Ark., told KFSM, the CBS affiliated TV station in Fort Smith, Ark., he was looking for the bathroom when he saw that the door to Pelosi's office was open. Hawley Blasts Simon & Schuster For Canceling His Book Deal Following Capitol Riots. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) excoriated publisher Simon & Schuster on Thursday after they canceled his upcoming book following the riots that engulfed the Capitol. Hawley, who was among the Republicans objecting to the certification of the Electoral College votes that made Joe Biden president-elect, was slated to release a book titled "The Tyranny of Big Tech" in June 2021. The book set out to argue that major tech companies "represent the gravest threat to American liberty since the monopolies of the Gilded Age," according to Simon & Schuster's website. After the chaos at the Capitol on Wednesday, however, Hawley's publisher backed out of the deal. "After witnessing the disturbing, deadly insurrection that took place on Wednesday in Washington, D.C., Simon & Schuster has decided to cancel publication of Senator Josh Hawley's forthcoming book," they explained. Penn. elector objector Hawley loses book deal after Capitol siege. Simon & Schuster announced on Thursday they are cancelling the publication of an upcoming book from Republican Sen. Josh Hawley after he tried to derail a vote on Joe Biden's Electoral College victory. In a statement, the publisher said it could no longer support Hawley, a potential 2024 presidential contender, for what it said was "his role in what became a dangerous threat to our democracy and freedom." "After witnessing the disturbing, deadly insurrection that took place on Wednesday in Washington, D.C., Simon & Schuster has decided to cancel publication of Senator Josh Hawley's forthcoming book, "The Tyranny of Big Tech," the statement read, referring to the Capitol siege which killed four people. Capitol Police chief resigning after mob attack. The U.S. Capitol Police says an officer who was injured after responding to riots at the Capitol has died. Officer Brian D. Sicknick died Thursday due to injuries sustained while on-duty, physically engaging with protesters at the U.S. Capitol, the statement said. Supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol on Wednesday as Congress was tallying the Electoral College votes to confirm Democrat Joe Biden won the election. Sicknick returned to his division office and collapsed, the report said. He was taken to a hospital and later died. Who was Ashli Babbitt, woman shot inside Capitol building? Ashli Babbitt, the Air Force veteran who was fatally shot after breaching the Capitol building Wednesday, was "never afraid to speak her mind," according to her ex-husband. "I feel absolutely terrible and sick to my stomach about it," Timothy McEntee, who was married to Babbitt for 14 years, texted the Washington Post after Babbitt's death. "She was never afraid to speak her mind and in a way this was her way of speaking her mind (going to the rally)."
Ashli Babbitt, protester killed at Capitol, was Air Force vet from California. The President Trump supporter killed in the Capitol building Wednesday was an Air Force vet from California who tweeted a day earlier how "nothing will stop us" and "the storm is here." Ashli Babbitt, who had 14 years in the service and did four tours of duty, was married and lived near San Diego, her husband, Aaron, told KUSI-TV. [...] Babbitt took a fatal bullet to the chest during the mayhem inside the Capitol. Video footage captured the sound of the gunshot, and showed the woman crumpling to the floor from multiple angles. She apparently was shot by Capitol Police, law enforcement sources told The [New York] Post. The Editor says... Breaching the Capitol: The Surprise That Was No Surprise. What is obvious right now: Capitol security is woefully inadequate. It was shocking to see how easily the barricades were tipped over and the Capitol was invaded. Here's a video of the exact moment it happened. The young people, clad in black, doing this don't have a a MAGA quality. In fact, one older MAGA man attempted to restrain the young man attempting to push over the barricade. Was this the work of an agitator? Once inside, at least some of the protestors appear to be confirmed Antifa members, according to a facial recognition software company. [...] A woman standing in a group of men was shot in the neck and later died. From the angle on the video, it's unclear how the police officer or secret service member could even tell whether she was going for her pocket to get a gun, as is being asserted. She stood there in the crush of the men around her. It's a terrible tragedy that is getting lost in the news. Will the officer be charged? Update: Additional update: Congress certifies Biden's win after Trump supporters storm U.S. Capitol. Vice President Mike Pence, who presided over the vote count, formally announced the results of Biden's 306-232 win over Trump in the Electoral College. The confirmation came nearly 12 hours after hundreds of pro-Trump demonstrators stormed the Capitol while lawmakers were counting the electoral votes inside. Four people, including a woman who was shot by police, died during the chaos. Congressional Whack-a-Mole. Democrats view the MAGA base with disdain and fear, as if 75 million grenades were running in and about the Beltway with their pins pulled out. As a result, they have resorted to a siege mentality that seeks to alarm and intimidate Americans by giving the Capitol and other historical landmarks a post-9/11 look and feel, with thousands of soldiers encircled by more tall fencing, Jersey barriers, barricades, razor wire, and guard posts than is required to safeguard an Army base in Afghanistan. Thousands of personnel, most citizen-soldiers sent to bivouac on hard parking garage floors, munch on battlefield MREs, and forced to undergo FBI loyalty investigations of their political beliefs, continue to be perplexed over their prolonged presence. They patrol the grounds of the People's House in 12-hour shifts, freezing half to death and armed to the teeth for phantom insurgent attacks. We have been given far-fetched reasons, to include aspirational internet chatter, as pretext to defend government against its own citizenry. Why we need an inquiry into January 6. [Scroll down] Indeed, so quick was the construction of this narrative that the cynics among us speculated that the riot, if not exactly premeditated by anti-Trump forces, was at least foreseen as an exploitable possibility. Something similar can be said about the deployment of the phrase 'our democracy'. In this case, the first-person-plural possessive is very clearly intended to be exclusive, not inclusive. No one wearing a MAGA hat or waving a Trump banner is included in that 'our'. The thousands of loyalty-tested National Guard troops and the tall, razor-wire-tipped fence hastily erected to surround the Capitol communicated the same message. It's Us vs Them, comrade: talk about 'unity' and 'our democracy' but practice division and exclusion. Nancy Pelosi called the Capitol 'the people's house', the 'citadel of democracy', but the armed troops and the fence bespoke a different reality. No Proof January 6 Was an 'Armed Insurrection'. Since the Justice Department launched its nationwide manhunt to track down and arrest anyone involved with the Capitol breach on January 6, hundreds of perpetrators have been arrested. Most face misdemeanor charges for trespassing or disorderly conduct, but dozens are in jail and denied bond for the thoughtcrime of believing the 2020 presidential election wasn't on the up-and-up. First Came Word Guard Might Be Staying In D.C. For Much Longer, Now There's Word on the Barbed Wire Fencing. We've been reporting on the troubling question of what are the National Guard still doing in Washington, D.C. at this point and why are there reports that they intend to keep them through the fall? So far there's been no explanation given as to why that's happening and what the rationale is, what the "threats" are supposed to be. No one is being told, including the governors whose units were being used or Congressional Republicans. Rep. Lisa McClain, who is on the House Armed Services Committee, is demanding answers from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on the matter. It's ridiculous that there's so far been in excess of $480 million spent without any explanation to Congress as to why it is continuing. But that's not the only problematic security measure continuing in D.C. Police Did the Capitol Killings. It is time to honestly examine the deaths which occurred at the Save America protest on January 6th, in Washington D.C. Despite Big Media's fabrications and fantasies, the truth is that the patriotic protesters did not kill anyone. In direct opposition to weeks of media reports, Trump's supporters were the only ones who were killed on that day and they were killed by wanton police violence. It looks like the situation was carefully orchestrated to get people killed, so that their deaths could be used to satisfy a nefarious political agenda. [Video clip] National Guard To Stay In DC "Through Fall 2021", Why?! A leaked email suggests that there are plans to keep the National Guard in Washington DC beyond the previously discussed deadline of March 12th, and throughout the Summer AND Fall. A report by FOX 5 cites an internal email seen by reporters that reveals The National Security Council is asking the Department of Defense to engage Capitol Police on planning for post-March 12th support. The report notes that there will be a meeting for agencies to discuss the matter next Wednesday, February 17th. Are Democrats Creating Two Americas? Turning D.C. into an armed camp doesn't exactly shout "kumbaya." The Yawn-of-the-Century inaugural happened without so much as a jaywalking incident. Nonetheless, the "threat" lingers, claim the Jacobins. Camo-clad soldiers patrol the streets, when not bedding down on concrete floors in parking garages. The Capitol is ringed with fences and razor wire. It's like a topsy-turvy taste of post-WWII Berlin, when the Russians erected fences and walls to keep citizens from fleeing. In this case, the Jacobins deploy the military and build fences to keep free people out of the institutions that are rightfully theirs. Cutting Through the Nonsense of the Great Capitol Trespass. January 6 was not an insurrection. It was not a coup. It was not sedition. It was not another 9/11. It was not like the Rwandan Genocide, as CNN's Anderson Cooper recently suggested. It was trespassing. Save your crocodile tears. Perhaps it was "traumatic" for some of our elite ruling class. They finally came face-to-face with the dirty underclass they're supposed to be serving. If it was indeed "traumatic," maybe those members of the ruling class should reconsider their chosen career paths. If you're traumatized by the public, maybe public service isn't for you. [...] Why are Americans so angry? And not just the Americans who trespassed at the Capitol, but Americans on both sides of the political aisle. After all, the Left has been smashing, looting, and otherwise terrorizing cities for a while now. Something is obviously amiss here, and our political elites are entirely unwilling to confront it. The proper response in our constitutional republic, where the implicit agreement is that Americans have consented to be governed by these buffoons, would have been for the buffoons to seriously consider this question. They could have done it publicly. They could have returned to their congressional districts and held open forums or town halls. They could have asked the simplest of questions to their constituents. They could have at least tried to give us the impression that they cared. But they don't. Sunday Talks, Richard Grenell Discusses the New Police State in Washington DC. Richard "Ric" Grenell appears on Sunday Morning Futures [2/14/2021] with Maria Bartiromo to discuss the new police state constructed around our nation's capitol in Washington DC. Bartiromo outlines the newly fortified security perimeter and the thousands of military troops that will be guarding Capitol Hill for an unknown amount of time. Questions are being asked about why DC needs to assemble a police state encampment. Who and what are they protecting themselves from? [Video clip] Since the 2020 Election — Joe Biden and His Gang Are Scared to Death of Facing the American People. No, Joe Biden IS NOT the most popular President ever. Nope, it didn't happen. We have literally truckloads of evidence showing the election was stolen. There is no way Biden won a legitimate election minus any fraud. Probably the most obvious evidence Joe Biden stole the 2020 election is because he and his gang are absolutely frightened of facing the American people. Biden and gang have built walls all around Washington D.C. He held his inauguration inside the iron fences and nobody showed up. The Biden gang claims Joe Biden won more votes than any President in history by millions of votes. They claim Biden won more than 80 million votes, but where are the voters? There's More Word On How Long the National Guard Might Stay In D.C., It's Starting to Get Crazy. Now that the impeachment trial is over, that's the last excuse for having the National Guard still in Washington, D.C., right? So now they can all go home, one would think. Not so fast with that logical thinking there. Now there's more talk and you're not going to believe it, that they might stay until the fall. Wait, what? Major Matt Murphy said the current plan is to have the 6,000 who are presently on hand stay until March. But apparently they are in talks about being there longer. According to the DCist, Robert Salesses, assistant Secretary for Homeland Defense wrote in an email about an "extended timeline" to the Capitol Police and National Security Council. American Police State: No Questions Allowed. When does a free state become a police state? Is it when government declares itself "essential" but religious worship "selfish"? Or when making a living becomes a crime? Or when free speech rights are afforded only to those who say "correct" things? Or maybe when tens of millions of Americans find themselves unexpectedly labeled as "domestic terrorists" by the military-media complex overnight? Perhaps the telltale sign is this: simply asking why becomes subversive. Questions become bigger threats than foreign missiles. Words are regarded as weapons legally possessed only by those in power. For all else, they are rendered contraband. If Congress were transparent, rather than vindictive, and if its members worried more about finding truth than burying it, then lawmakers in D.C. would have spent the last few months quelling doubts about the 2020 election instead of intensifying those doubts with a second, inflammatory impeachment. Alas, we're ruled by unserious people who take their power very seriously. GOP congressman: 'We still don't have answers' to why National Guard remaining around Capitol. Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are still waiting for an explanation of why National Guardsman are still on duty around the Capitol Hill complex more than one month after the deadly riot there on Jan. 6, Rep. Michael Waltz, R-Fla., told "The Story" Monday [2/8/2021]. "We still have National Guardsmen out there, away from their families, away from their jobs, supplementing the police," Waltz told host Martha MacCallum, "and yet we can't get a briefing on what is this dire threat that requires so many people. We still don't have answers." Waltz also discussed accusations of hypocrisy against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., over violating her own Capitol security measures by ignoring metal detectors, as well as his FoxNews.com op-ed calling on Republicans to look to Florida as a roadmap for the party's national success. Ron Johnson: Capitol Still Barricaded to 'Send a Signal' to Trump Voters That They're 'Dangerous'. During this week's broadcast of "Sunday Morning Futures" on Fox News Channel, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) sounded off on the barriers and continued heavy police presence at the U.S. Capitol a month after a group of former President Donald Trump's supporters stormed and breached the Capitol. Johnson told host Maria Bartiromo that the heavy law enforcement presence is to "send a signal" to Trump supporters that they are "dangerous" and "insurrectionists." "Obviously, leaders in Congress think walls and barriers work because they've surrounded the Capitol with them," Johnson joked. America's Political Prisoners First. In September 2019, Couy Griffin, founder of Cowboys for Trump, met with President Trump in the Oval Office. His group, according to its website, believes "securing our border, protecting our Second Amendment, and protecting the lives of the unborn are the most vital and key aspects in America's Greatness." Trump supporters riding on horseback — often carrying American flags and Trump banners — participated in rallies across the country to show support for the president. Today, Griffin sits in a jail cell denied bail. Prosecutors charged Griffin with one minor count of trespassing as part of the Justice Department's sweeping investigation into the events of January 6. Griffin, who is a county commissioner in New Mexico, never entered the Capitol but investigators scoured his social media account to find evidence that he was "well within the restricted area" of the building. Griffin did not assault a police officer or break any windows or even steal an important leader's laptop. His real crime, of course, is that he's a supporter of Donald Trump — and his real threat to society, according to U.S. prosecutors and a federal judge, is that Griffin dares to doubt the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. The Reichstag Fire of the Democrats: A pretext for political terror. There are thousands of soldiers outside Congress and political terror inside its halls. That political terror isn't coming from a QAnon Shaman who only eats organic food, but from the Democrats who are using a manufactured state of emergency to purge the opposition. Democrats deployed 26,000 troops to Washington D.C. at a cost of $500 million. Thousands of soldiers, authorized to use deadly force as they were forbidden to do either at the border or during the Black Lives Matter assault on the White House, will stay to fight an imaginary threat. While walls, razor wire, and military encampments rise outside the halls of government, inside them the Democrats have unleashed a true coup. Protesters have "stormed" Congress before, from both the Left and the Right, which cannot be called overthrowing the government. But Democrats began their own overthrow by launching an unconstitutional post-office impeachment of President Trump for speaking at a peaceful protest and a push to remove Senate members who objected to the stolen election by abusing the 14th Amendment. The fake emergency has been extended to March. The FBI continues falsely claiming that there is some sort of threat that requires 7,500 soldiers to conduct a military occupation of the nation's capital. The FBI's claims that this threat would occur during "First Amendment-protected protests" has a massive credibility problem because there have been no protests in D.C. Even though these protests have yet to emerge for over a month, the occupation goes on. What Is Happening in DC? A Large Barbed Wire Fence With Troops And Cops Protecting From Whom Exactly? This was the scene from around the Capitol area in DC yesterday. A large barbed wire fence has been constructed to completely surround the main institutions with armed police and military on the outside. This is now 10 days after the inauguration and the streets are completely empty but for a prayer group standing around. [Video clip] Lingering National Guard Presence In D.C. Costing Half A Billion Dollars. The presence of National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., is racking up a hefty bill of $500 million as threats reportedly require them to remain into early spring. The estimate exceeds even the $480 million Bloomberg projected Thursday [2/4/2021], according to an official who confirmed the number to The Hill, and does not include the costs incurred by the city. Approximately 26,000 guardsmen from all 50 states, as well as three U.S. territories and the District of Columbia, descended on the capital in the wake of the unrest on Jan. 6, locking down the sensitive areas around the Capitol building, National Mall, and large portions of downtown with police barricades and razor-topped fences. Tucker Carlson Reveals Bank of America Notifying Feds of Customer Purchase History to Use Targeting Capitol Hill Protestors. It shouldn't come as a surprise, yet it does. According to a segment aired tonight on Tucker Carlson television show, Bank of America sent customer purchasing history to federal agencies to assist in their investigation of persons who attended the January 6th protest in Washington DC. [Video clip] The Great Wall of Washington. According to President Joe Biden, Democrats were supposed to be building bridges — not walls. Tell that to his party's leaders, who are actually considering a plan to add a permanent, razor wire fence around the Capitol complex. Despite major pushback from both parties, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., have told reporters that they'll "defer to the experts" when it comes to securing America's representatives — even if it means turning the People's House into a supermax. Reaction to the idea, which acting Capitol Police Chief Yogananda Pittman rolled out last Thursday [1/28/2021], has been fierce. "It's a mistake to turn the home of our democracy into a fortress," Rep. Jake Auchincloss, D-Mass., a retired Marine, fired back. On the GOP side, Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., joined in their outcry, declaring that she was "adamantly opposed" to walling off the Capitol. First Steps for Surviving What's Coming Our Way. Well, that didn't take long. The Harris/Trotsky administration's opening salvo of executive orders stopping the Keystone Pipeline, allowing Chinese access to the US power grid, destroying women's sports, and declaring diabetic Americans as collateral damage is only a precursor to the anti-terrorism and gun control laws targeting some seventy-four million voters. So, what are you and your family's first steps as this barbed wire curtain swiftly envelops our formerly constitutional Republic? (We do not have a constitutional Republic while there are still thousands military troops occupying our nation's capital. We are now enduring a Kabuki government as we are being force-fed a well-crafted MSM fantasy of a lawfully and joyously elected national presidency.) Progressive Marxist-Leninists regimes all have a few common themes as they consolidate power. These include the criminalization of free speech, free assembly, elimination of a free press and religious freedoms, and a sustained and brutal attack on the civilian ownership of firearms. For Americans these are more than a coordinated attack of our 1st and 2nd Amendments rights, this is a deliberate design to eradicate these rights in perpetuity. Why Is the National Guard Still In Washington? There were roughly 25,000 National Guard members in Washington, D.C., for the inauguration of President Joe Biden. It has been normal practice to have some National Guard in town for inaugurations, but 25,000 was far more than any number from the past. Of course, nerves were raw after the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, but there is little doubt that mobilizing 25,000 troops was an overreaction. Now, 5,000 are still in the nation's capital. The inauguration was nearly two weeks ago. It went off without incident. There is no need for troops in the city. And yet, touring the federal area of Washington, one finds tall fencing and razor wire creating a huge militarized zone around the Capitol, with National Guard members guarding it from inside the fence. The barrier is not just on the perimeter of the Capitol. It extends for blocks beyond the building in every direction. Now the head of the Capitol Police wants to make the fencing permanent, and the National Guard has not left. They are staying at least until mid-March, apparently because authorities fear another Jan. 6-style riot from Trump supporters. The Justice System Is Rigged Against The Right. The infamous "Zip Tie Guy" was denied bail this week. Eric Munchel, who went viral for carrying around zip ties during the Capitol riots, was deemed too much of a threat by a federal judge to be allowed out of jail. This order overrode a Tennessee judge granting bail to Munchel. Why was Munchel deemed a threat? According to federal prosecutors, the zealous Trump supporter needed to be held because people died in the riots (even though they couldn't prove Munchel's involvement in any of those deaths), his opinions make him an extremist, and he allegedly was part of a group that yelled at a reporter. The only solid evidence of criminal wrongdoing is that the defendant walked around the Capitol without permission — he didn't bring the zip ties and there is no evidence he attempted to kidnap lawmakers. That still won't draw any retractions from media outlets that claimed this foolish demonstrator was a terrorist mastermind bent on abducting the entire Congress. Even though we grant bail to rapists and murderers, Eric Munchel was apparently too dangerous to be set free. And, as the prosecutors admitted, it was due to his politics. Dem Governors Aren't Returning Troops From D.C. Occupation, They're Sending More. Bitterly cold winter conditions are setting in. And the coronavirus is spreading among the National Guard troops occupying D.C. as part of Biden's political theater. Many Republican governors stepped up to end the occupation when troops were forced to sleep in parking garages because they had offended a Democrat staffer. But Democrat governors are doubling down on the authoritarian occupation of D.C. and are deploying more soldiers to intimidate Americans. [...] Governor DeWine of Ohio, one of the few Republican governors to contribute to the Democrat military occupation of the nation's capital, is sending more troops. But most of the governors, like Governor Andy Beshear of Kentucky, are Democrats. Meanwhile, Republican legislators are demanding answers. Here's Why The National Guard Is Still In D.C. Ten Days After An Uneventful Inauguration. It has been ten days since President Joe Biden was inaugurated, and yet, National Guard troops remain in Washington, D.C. Despite the left's fearmongering, the event went off without a hitch and there have been no threats since. Indeed, at this point, troops appear to be spinning their wheels, sleeping in parking garages, and having to order from local restaurants since their food contract came up short. Several states have already recalled their troops. Now, it appears that some politicians are questioning the need for continuing to have members of the Guard stationed in the nation's capital. The Editor says... Security Theater Redux. [Scroll down] By the time of Biden's inauguration, enormous numbers of National Guard troops occupied Washington, D.C. in an unironically named Green Zone. Large numbers of armed troops were visibly bivouacked within the U.S. Capitol, even though the protesters from January 6 were quickly dispersed, mostly nonviolent, and had long since gone home. The FBI warned of coordinated nationwide violent protests in the days leading up to the inauguration, almost none of which materialized. The approximately 25,000 National Guard present were armed, before being disarmed and subject to vetting for their political beliefs. By the time the inauguration ceremony rolled around, there wasn't much for them to do. The inauguration went off without any notable security breaches. Of course, this is not a terribly impressive achievement, as there were essentially no regular American citizens there. It's easier to maintain security within a closed perimeter than it is to maintain security while preserving the contours of a free society. For all of the solemn praise of democracy by Biden and the rest of the assembled VIPs, the imagery was more reminiscent of the Soviet Union, including the absence of ordinary citizens and the prominent display of military power. The Soviet Union, of course, also purported to be a democracy, and it also had elections. But their elections had many of the features now familiar at home: vetting of candidates by the state bureaucracy, the use of intelligence agencies to investigate and defame dissenters, restrictions on free speech aimed at "saboteurs" and other troublemakers, a compliant media subordinate to the party, and largely preordained results to elections. Governors pull the plug on Biden's show of force. Governor Greg Abbott of Texas and governors of other states ordered their National Guard troops home after Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and the rest of Congress evicted them from the Capitol they were brought in to protect from imaginary terrorists. Congress sent 5,000 Guardsmen to sleep in a cold parking garage with one bathroom and no WiFi. That was the final straw for Abbott, who was displeased when Democrats demanded the FBI vet Guardsmen for disloyal thoughts. He tweeted, "This is the most offensive thing I've ever heard. No one should ever question the loyalty or professionalism of the Texas National Guard. I authorized more than 1,000 to go to DC. I'll never do it again if they are disrespected like this." The Editor says... Your Government is Afraid of You. Here is some evidence: the military occupation of Washington, DC; claims of "insurrection"; Speaker Pelosi's interference with the military command structure; more baseless claims of dark Russian conspiracies; serious discussion of reeducation camps for Trump supporters; marginalizing and criminalizing all things "Trump" — those are all expressions of fear. Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and President Biden keep using the word "insurrectionists" to describe the rowdy Trumpsters who raided the Capitol building unlawfully two weeks ago. That is deliberate. It makes all the respectable, career politicians, government drones and DC political operatives appear to be "victims" — draped in the flag and bravely defending the Constitution. It also criminalizes all of their opposition. Not just the protestors who raided the Capitol, but all Trump supporters — across the USA — and those opposed to The Swamp mentality to which we have now returned. There were more troops in Washington, DC guarding the inauguration of Joe Biden than are in Iraq and Afghanistan, combined. 25,000 National Guardsmen from 13 states, plus more than 2,000 Active Duty military from the Metro DC region. There was also the full panoply of federal and D.C. law enforcement. From Metropolitan Police to the Postal Service. Remember: No one was allowed to go to the Inauguration. The National Mall was closed. Blocks and blocks of downtown DC were shutdown with jersey barriers, 12-foot metal fencing and armed checkpoints. You are supposed to believe this is a "normal" security precaution. You are not supposed to question if the reaction is excessive, heavy-handed or unprecedented. The National Guard is reportedly planning to ask troops to remain deployed at the Capitol until mid-March. The National Guard is planning to ask up to 7,000 troops deployed to Capitol Hill to volunteer to stay until March 12, according to Military.com. An official reportedly said the plan was still being finalized, and that Guardsmembers would not be required to remain deployed over its 31-day activation. "We are not going to make anybody stay," spokesperson Nahaku McFadden told Military.com. Of the roughly 25,000 troops initially deployed to the Capitol for security on Inauguration Day, 15,000 of them are expected to return to their respective states this week. Guardsmembers from all of the US states and territories like Puerto Rico were activated to support President Joe Biden's inauguration on Wednesday.National Guard troops exploited for 'insurrection theatre' subjected to disgusting abuse as soon as no longer needed for visuals. Even Hollywood extras for crowd scenes receive far better treatment than the National Guard troops that were mobilized to protect Biden's inauguration from a non-existent threat. Yesterday [1/21/2021], I called it "insurrection theatre" because the massive deployment was all about generating an atmosphere of fear and painting supporters of Donald Trump as an imminent threat to the Republic because they re aching for overthrow of the government. The excuse, of course, was the incursion of the Capitol, a disgusting event, but hardly a sign of a vast insurrection plot that would require tens of thousands of armed troops to deter or defend against. [...] And there are many signs that the people at the spearhead of the mob at the Capitol may have been false flag provocateurs from the left, who, it turns out, were extremely successful in discrediting, even crippling Trump supporters and conservatives. Who ordered the National Guard troops stuffed into the icy underground parking garage? Following the strange inauguration of Joe Biden, some 25,000 to 65,000 National Guard troops brought in to guard the Capitol were in for a string of insults. First, their loyalty was questioned. Then their professionalism was questioned. And with no clear purpose for so many of them to protect the Capitol, it was clear they were being used for photo op props, not the service they were sworn to. They found themselves there not to chase off rioters, but to bolster Democrats in their political purpose of smearing Republicans as insurgents. The final insult came when someone ordered them to get lost from the Capitol. Like discarded props, or no longer welcome valets, more than a thousand were ordered into an icy underground parking garage to stay out of sight, out of mind. They had no heat, just one bathroom for 5,000 personnel, and only one outlet. They had no internet and no beds, forcing them to sleep on hard ground in 38-degree cold. COVID was present, making the harsh conditions a potential superspreader event. Biden's militarized inauguration showcased Democrats' insecurity. Nothing says, "This was a perfectly normal election, and now it's time to come together as a united nation," like having your swearing-in behind 12-foot-high razor wire surrounded by 25,000 troops whose loyalty you doubt. That's what we witnessed at President Biden's inauguration on Wednesday [1/20/2021]: a grim testament to the fundamental insecurity and fragility of the re-ascendant liberal elite. Democrats no doubt hoped that the optics of this military-heavy presidential installation would convince ordinary Americans that the republic is in peril from the populist ferment that sent Donald Trump to the White House in 2016 and garnered more votes four years later than any GOP ticket, ever. It's a peril that can only be addressed by, in James Comey's lovely phrase, "burning down" the Republican Party. But the whole aura was less Lincoln and more bananas. As in banana republic. Abe Lincoln had fewer troops to defend Washington during the Civil War, even though the Confederate capital of Richmond was just down the road. Hail To The Thief. Through world wars and wars on terror, Washington D.C. has remained a national capital where the hundreds of millions of taxpayers who labor to pay for its grand edifices, free museums, and lavish lifestyles could briefly come to enjoy a little of the life lived by the ruling class in the Imperial City. Now the ruling class has made it clear that it doesn't want peasants entering D.C. Even as Biden's team prepped the executive orders that would end the national emergency at the border and shut down construction of the wall, new walls topped by razor wire were rising across the imperial city. The new Fortress of Government sealed off two miles of the National Mall and parts of downtown D.C. and filled it with more soldiers than are deployed in Iraq. The Secret Service designated green and red zones. Some 25,000 National Guard members were dispatched from Vermont, Maine, Louisiana, Wisconsin, Ohio, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Arkansas, Missouri, South Carolina, Rhode Island, Virginia, and Colorado to prepare for a fake invasion that never came. But the armored vehicles and heavy weaponry did come. What Do They Think Is Going to Happen: Intense Security Response Across Country to Inauguration. Just exactly what do the powers that be think is going to happen on the inauguration? I wrote about how there is a massive presence now of the National Guard in Washington, D.C. with an estimates of up to 20,000 troops there. Now the reports have been adjusted up to as many as 30,000. There are so many, they are all over the Capitol, even sleeping in the hallways including folks brought in even from New Jersey and Puerto Rico. As I reported, they're armed and not just with the normal riot response weapons. They've also been given authority to use lethal force. According to Stars and Stripes, Guardsmen have been approved to carry their service firearms, M4 carbines, and M9 pistols. Is this what they call a "peaceful transition of power" for a man who allegedly got more votes than anyone in history? But they aren't only bringing in massive numbers to D.C. Maryland has declared a state of emergency in response. Virginia bridges into the district are shut down. The National Mall is shut down. Massive 12 foot fencing has gone up around the city and it's basically locked down, with "checkpoints" all over the city, with police checking vehicles. The Editor says... You are being "purged". Whenever a coup overthrows the government, the new regime is always fragile. For that reason, the plotters always do a purge of anyone who can threaten their new power base. [...] So they begin with the President, who is being impeached and declared persona non grata, even going to far as to pass a bill that bans him from VISITING the Capitol. They will also eliminate anyone who presents a threat from the legislature.
Democrats to Censure Mo Brooks and Louie Gohmert in Coming Days for Challenging Election Fraud and Blaming Riots on Them. Democrats are planning to censure Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) and Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) in the coming days for challenging the stolen 2020 election. Democrats want to pin the rioting in the US Capitol by Trump supporters and Antifa on the Republican lawmakers who had nothing to do with it! This is how a tyrannical government behaves. Democrats have all the power and they are going to use it to punish anyone who stands in their way. 
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