Facts - A Highly Suspect Election And By No Means An Insurrection

September 9, 2022

The “Big Lie”

We’ve all heard the phrase “The Big Lie” invoked ad nauseam by mainstream media and liberals when referring to President Trump’s insistence that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. Anyone using that phrase is being disingenuous. For the phrase to be true, President Trump would have to i) know that he lost the election and ii) be deliberately promulgating a falsehood. That’s not what is happening. His vehement continued assertion that the election was stolen is obviously something that he believes to be true. If, like many, you don’t agree with his assertion, then you might refer to it as “The Big Delusion”, but you can’t honestly refer to it as a lie.

Despite what one hears from our highest levels of government, it’s not at all clear that the election wasn’t stolen. Biden’s early claim that “The November 3rd election was the most secure in American history” is laughable, and is as believable as his claim that the Hunter laptop story was Russian Disinformation. How could he have known so soon after the election was over and after an unprecedented number of recent election law changes had occurred throughout the states? The answer is he couldn’t. But then there is the fact that all the lawsuits regarding the election led to nothing. They led to nothing because they were all thrown out on technicalities. There was never an unbiased and thorough attempt to hear an argument or weigh any facts.

So, what do we know for certain?

1. A CNBC poll taken at the end of November, 2020, showed only three percent of Trump voters considered the election legitimate: 73 percent said Trump won the election and one-third wanted him to fight the results in court. Two-thirds said the president should not concede the race. So, one can infer that 71.4 million voters considered the election to be illegitimate.

2. Trump’s 73.6 million popular votes represented over 7 million more than any sitting president in history.²

3. Biden was the first person in decades to win the presidency while losing bellwether states such as Ohio and Florida. Biden also lost all but one of nineteen bellwether counties.³

4. For all key 2020 Pennsylvania electoral races other than that for president, a big red wave washed over Pennsylvania, yet Biden won Pennsylvania by 80,000 votes.³

5. “On election night itself, in key swing states where Trump held large leads – Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan – election officials shut down and stopped counting votes. When the lights came back on the next morning, Biden was in front in all.” ⁴

6. Despite the worst showing among minorities of any Democratic nominee since JFK, Biden surpassed Barak Obama’s record-breaking turnout by 10 million votes.

7. Prior to the 2020 election, under the pretext of accommodating for the pandemic, there was an unprecedented number of last-minute voting law changes across several states. Some of these were in direct violation of state election laws, and some were in violation of state constitutions. These resulted in an explosion of the types of voting known to be most susceptible to fraud, namely mail-in and drop-box voting. Efforts by the Trump team to expose this fraud, with data, prior to certification of the election results, were met with non-responsiveness, complete dismissal without basis, and deliberate misrepresentation by the media.⁵

8. Dinesh D’Souza’s documentary 2000 Mules provides compelling evidence that there was widespread illegal ballot harvesting and ballot trafficking in key swing states.⁶

9. From Trump’s first day in office, and throughout his four years in office, his presidency was under constant attack to discredit him and remove him from office. The Steele Dossier which led to the Russian Collusion Allegations which led to Impeachment was one giant lie and an illegal attack partially funded and promulgated by the Clinton campaign (Steele Dossier) and partially funded by our tax dollars (Mueller probe).

10. Prior to the election, the FBI suppressed the release of the highly incriminating contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop. While the laptop, now known to be legitimate, was in the possession of the FBI, 50 former high-level FBI and federal intelligence officials signed a letter stating that they believed the laptop story to be Russian Disinformation. Mark Zuckerberg recently admitted that the FBI visited Facebook/Meta just at the time when the laptop story would have gone viral. The FBI warned Facebook of an expected dump of “Russian Disinformation”, thus causing Facebook to suppress the laptop story.⁷ Just two days ago (8/30/22) FBI special agent in charge, Timothy Thibault, was escorted out of the Washington field office by at least two “headquarters-looking types”. Thibault, said to have “resigned”, has been accused of attempting to thwart a criminal investigation into Hunter Biden.⁸ President Trump’s Twitter account was suspended and the entire Parler social media platform was shut down by Amazon, Apple, and Google acting in concert. These steps, by the deep state and liberal elites, effectively thwarted any ability to get to the truth out about the laptop.

None of the above, either individually or collectively, provide proof that the election was stolen. At the very least, however, collectively they support the notion that it’s reasonable for people to have serious doubts about the legitimacy of the election, and to demand investigation into what transpired.

The Actual Big Lie

Although Trump’s assertion is not a “Big Lie”, there is a big lie associated with the 2020 election, and it’s a whopper! That lie is the assertion that on January 6, 2021, President Trump incited a deadly armed insurrection at the Capitol by white supremacists. The only falsehoods in that assertion are:

A. That Trump incited this peaceful protest. OK, it was a riot. But if one accepts that the BLM summer of carnage and destruction (35 dead and $2+ billion property damage) were “peaceful protests”, then surely this short-lived (approx. 4 hours) event, with $1.5 million property damage, qualifies for such a description. In any case, it wasn’t incited by Trump.

B. That it was deadly. The phrase “deadly insurrection” implies that murders were committed by the insurrectionists (protestors). Although it’s true that 4 people died that day, all who died were protestors and none of these deaths were at the hands of any protestors.

C. That it was armed. Not a single person was arrested on January 6 for possessing a firearm, and there is zero evidence that anyone who entered the capital had a firearm.

D. That it was an insurrection. There are specific criteria which must be met for an event to be classified as an insurrection. The Jan. 6 riot at the capitol did not meet any of these criteria.

E. That this was a crowd of white supremacists. For a protest that only lasted about four hours, this was the most filmed event in history, including 14,000+ hours of video surveillance by security cameras and police body cameras. Although some Capitol police officers have said they were called the “N” word, no video or audio evidence supports this contention. Were there a few racists in the crowd? It’s statistically possible, but that hardly supports characterizing the crowd as white supremacists. They weren’t. They were a group of citizens who, right or wrong, believed the election had been stolen.

The Events Of January 6, An Overview

The program for the January 6, 2021 Save America March in Washington D.C. consisted of two activities. The first part of the program, held at The Ellipse, was a gathering to hear speeches by President Trump and others. For this portion of the program a crowd of well over one hundred thousand Americans came together. That event was entirely peaceful. The second part of the program was much smaller. It involved a march to the Capitol for a protest regarding the election. This protest at the Capitol had pockets of violence.

The Speeches

The crowd that gathered to hear President Trump speak was one of the largest to have ever gathered in the ellipse, although one would never know this based on the almost non-existent coverage of the event by biased media. Almost no videos of this rally were shown on mainstream media. When discussed on TV, commentators often referred to a crowd of “about ten thousand” or a crown that “numbered in the thousands”. The crowd, in fact, numbered well over one hundred thousand. Participants came from across the nation. The rally was peaceful. The crowd was composed of young and old, men and women, and all races. A true depiction of this rally can be seen in either of the following documentaries:

A. Capitol Punishment available on Locals. This documentary, by well-known actor Nick Searcy, provides a real view of what transpired on January 6th and thereafter.

$9.99 at https://nicksearcy.locals.com/

B. The Real Story of January 6/Documentary. Available on EpochTV

https://www.theepochtimes.com/the-real-story-of-jan-6-documentary_4596670.html

For an accurate understanding of January 6, I strongly recommend BOTH of these video documentaries, as well as the books JANUARY 6 How Democrats Used The Capitol Protest To Launch A War On Terror Against The Political Right (Julie Kellie, Bombardier Books, ©2022) and THE BIG FRAUD: What Democrats Don’t Want You to Know about January 6, the 2020 Election, and a Whole Lot Else (Congressman Troy E. Nehls, Bombardier Books, ©2022).

The Capitol Protest

The plan for the day included a march to the capitol for a peaceful protest after the conclusion of the speeches in The Ellipse. The number of people who participated in this protest was a fraction of the number who gathered in The Ellipse to hear the President Trump speak. Some hot-heads in the crowd engaged in violence, mostly window smashing, after having been incited by others in the crowd. Some officers were injured, although none critically. The violent activity was criminal and deserving of prosecution consistent with that typical for similar criminal activity. But “the idea that a brief disturbance at the Capitol – a chaotic political protest that had pockets of violence and featured more clownish behavior than criminal misconduct – rose to the level of an ‘insurrection’ or attempted coup d’état was absurd and overblown from the start.”⁹ Although at some Capitol entrances protestors were blocked by police, at others police freely allowed these protestors to enter. Many entered, walked around, then left without having any idea they had done anything illegal…

https://twitter.com/i/status/1440776133675388931

https://youtu.be/xH9XWNz0GW4?t=292

The Events Of January 6, Some Specifics

Death Toll

Four people, all protestors, died at the Capitol on January 6. They were Ashley Babbitt, Roseanne Boyland, Kevin Greeson, and Benjamin Phillips. Contrary to incessant blatant lies from liberal politicians and mainstream media, no Capitol Police officers died that day nor did any die later as the result of any injuries sustained on January 6.

Ashli Babbitt

Ashli Babbitt, an unarmed 35 year-old white female, was shot and killed by Lt. Michael L. Byrd, a Black man, as she was climbing through a broken window at the Capitol. The appalling video of this murder can be found in either of the aforementioned documentaries. Had the races of the two been reversed, and had the victim not been a Trump supporter, this gruesome video would have aired nonstop on mainstream media, and it’s likely that half the nation would still be on fire. As it is, the video went viral on social media for a short period but mainstream media largely neglected it. Apparently, the media’s only interest was to vilify Babbitt, a veteran who had served 14 years in the Air Force with 8 tours overseas. The cover-up began immediately. The Capitol Police never disclosed Byrd’s name – nor did the U.S. Department of Justice when it announced in April that the investigation into Ashli’s shooting was closed and the officer would not face charges.

Byrd finally came forward in August, 2020, well after the USCP cleared him of any wrongdoing. In an NBC News interview with Lester Holt, Byrd immodestly told Holt that he had shown the “utmost courage” on January 6 and “I know that day I saved countless lives”. How he could believe he save countless lives, on a day when not a single person was killed by any protestors, defies all rationality. Incredibly, he also said that if he had it to do over again, even knowing she was unarmed, he would have still shot her. Byrd’s temerity is colossal, and his statements are revolting.

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton stated after a review of the documents concerning the shooting; “The Biden-Garland Justice Department and the Pelosi Congress have much to answer for over the mishandling and cover-up of this scandalous killing of an American citizen by the U.S. Capitol Police.”¹⁰ Stan Kephart, a police use-of-force expert, after studying the evidence concluded that, “Ashlie Babbitt was murdered. She was shot and killed under color of authority by an officer who violated not only the law but his oath, and committed an arrestable offense.”¹¹ Congressman Troy E. Nehls, who served nearly thirty years in law enforcement, with eight of those years as a county sheriff in Texas, was in the Capitol that day. After reviewing documents and video evidence, Nehls concluded, “Ashli Babbitt did not deserve to die, and Capitol Police Officer Lt. Michael Byrd should have been tried for murder, rather than cleared by the Capitol Police.”¹²

Roseanne Boyland

Roseanne Boyland became trapped in an entrance tunnel to the Capitol as rioters pushed from one side and Capitol Police pushed back from the other side. The police employed a noxious gas in the tight space causing several people to vomit and pass out. Many proclaimed “I can’t breathe”. As confirmed by a District Court Judge, Boyland had fallen on the step and was being crushed as officers pushed protestors back away from the doors of the tunnel entrance. Protestor Michael Foy attempted to help the unconscious Boyland. He swung a hockey stick at police, who continued to push the crowd, while yelling “She’s being crushed….she’s dead, she’s hurt.”¹³ In a video of the melee at the tunnel entrance, a police officer appears to repeatedly beat the unconscious Boyland with a truncheon.¹⁴ Boyland was eventually taken to a local hospital and died later that day. Incredibly, the D.C. Medical Examiner’s Office ruled the cause of death as acute amphetamine intoxication without any mention of extenuating factors. Boyland had been prescribed Adderall (used for attention deficit disorder) for years. Adderall contains amphetamine salts as its main ingredient. In the same vicinity as that of Boyland’s death, an unarmed woman, Victoria White, was severely beaten by a police officer. White, trapped in the tunnel by the crowd, was struck with a metal baton nearly forty times in the head and face over a 5 minute period.¹⁵

Kevin Greeson

Kevin Greeson’s death was ruled a heart attack with no mention of extenuating factors. Greeson had a history of heart problems. An anonymous witness told National File that Gleeson was hit in the eye by a projectile from an explosive device thrown into the crowd by police. “[H]e couldn’t start breathing [sic], he collapsed, and that’s when we [were] just like, ‘Paramedic, paramedic!’.”¹⁶

Benjamin Phillips

Benjamin Phillips died of a heart attack during the protest. Phillips had a history of heart problems. There are no known extenuating factors regarding Phillips’ death.

Weapons

As of November 1, 2021, sixty-five defendants faced charges of either possessing or using a deadly or dangerous weapon. Not a single firearm was among the list of “weapons”. Included in the list were flagpoles, sticks, a crutch, chemical spray, metal signs, tasers, a stun gun/walking stick, and a skateboard. Protestors who carried some sort of weapon told investigators they did so in order to protect themselves against anticipated attacks by leftwing activists. BLM and Antifa activists had recently harassed and assaulted people at other Trump rallies.

An Insurrection?

To be considered an insurrection or attempted coup, a violent attack upon the seat of government must meet certain basic criteria. It must be organized and coordinated; it must be armed; and above all, it must have a plan of action once it seizes the reins of power.⁹ One need only watch any of the video evidence of the protest to know that it wasn’t at all organized or coordinated. What started as a rally of over one hundred thousand people at The Ellipse resulted in only sixty-five weapons charges at the Capitol without a single firearm among them, and including such ‘weapons’ as sticks, crutches, and a skateboard. It’s beyond absurd to call this incident organized and armed. It’s also clear that this small group of misfits could never have seized power and would not have had a clue what to do if they did. Perhaps the most convincing evidence that this was not an armed insurrection can be found in the actions of the Capitol police. Other than for the murder of Ashli Babbitt by officer Michael Byrd, the police used only rubber bullets, sting balls, flash bangs, truncheons, and chemical irritant sprays to disperse the crowd. To quash an armed insurrection, immediate and deadly force would surely be warranted.

Inciting An Insurrection?

The Left and entrenched D.C. bureaucrats have alleged that President Trump’s speech on January 6 incited an insurrection. “Inciting an Insurrection” is an oxymoron. “Inciting” implies provoking or urging people to act spontaneously. By definition, an insurrection is not a spontaneous act. It must be planned and coordinated, and it must have a plan of action once control is seized. The disingenuous, continued use of the word “insurrection” is reflective of nothing more than an intense hatred of Trump and a goal to stop him, by any means necessary, from running for president in 2024.

The Sickening Exploitation of Sicknick’s Death

The Truth

Officer Brian Sicknick, a member of the Capitol Police Force, was defending the Capitol on January 6. At 2:20 p.m. Officer Sicknick was allegedly sprayed with a chemical irritant on the west side of the building. Video later showed Sicknick, patrolling an area where police were using tear gas against protestors, attempting to wash his eyes with water.¹⁷ Sicknick texted his older brother Ken on the evening of January 6 and told Ken he had been sprayed twice with pepper spray but was fine. Officer Sicknick died the next day. It wasn’t until three months later (4/7), that the District of Columbia Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, Dr. Francisco J. Diaz, released autopsy results confirming that Brian Sicknick had died of natural causes, a stroke caused by blood clots.¹⁸

The Many Astounding Lies

For months the Democrats and the media openly and knowingly lied about the death of Brian Sicknick in order to smear Trump supporters as violently enraged cop killers. Here are some examples of the lies that transpired during the three months between Sicknick’s death and the truth reported by the DC Medical Examiner:

On January 7, the US Capitol Police issued a statement including “Officer Brian D. Sicknick passed away due to injuries sustained while on-duty”.

On January 8, Nancy Pelosi ordered Capitol flags to be flown at half-staff. Pelosi also issued the following statement… “The perpetrators of Officer Sicknick’s death must be brought to justice. The violent and deadly act of insurrection targeting the Capitol, our temple of American Democracy, and its workers was a profound tragedy and stain on our nation’s history. But because of the heroism of our first responders and the determination of the Congress, we were not, and will never be, diverted from our duty to the Constitution and the American people.”

On January 8, Jeffrey Rosen, the acting attorney general, wrote “Our thoughts and prayers are with the family and fellow officers of U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian D. Sicknick, who succumbed last night to the injuries he suffered defending the U.S. Capitol, against the violent mob who stormed it on January 6th”.

On January 8, the New York Times published “Pro-Trump rioters attacked the citadel of democracy, overpowered Mr. Sicknick, 42, and struck him in the head with a fire extinguisher, according to two law enforcement officials. With a bloody gash in his head, Mr. Sicknick was rushed to the hospital and placed on life support. He died on Thursday evening.”

On January 10, CNN’s Jake Tapper reported “The flags at the U.S. Capitol are at half-staff this morning for the police officer, Brian Sicknick, who was murdered this week”.

On January 11, the Washington Post published an opinion piece stating: “Officer Sicknick was pummeled by a rioter wielding a fire extinguisher, according to witnesses.”

The blatant “fire extinguisher” and “murder” lies were repeated for weeks by CNN and other news outlets. Reporters Poppy Harlow, Anderson Cooper, Ana Cabrera, Erin Burnett, Rep. Ted Lieu on Wolf Blitzer, Joe Scarborough, Andrew McCarthy, and Tiana Lowe, among many others, all spread these falsehoods.

The military’s joint chiefs wrote in a January 13 statement, “We mourn the deaths of the two Capitol policemen.” (Democrats tried to tie the alleged suicide of another Capitol Police officer to Jan. 6.)

Federal prosecutors included Sicknicks’ death in charging documents against Capitol defendants.

House impeachment managers included the Times story in their official memo detailing the evidence against Trump: “The Insurrectionists killed a Capitol Police officer by striking him in the head with a fire extinguisher.”

On February 1, the House of Representatives passed a resolution stating, “The remains of the late United States Capitol Police Officer Brian D. Sicknick shall be permitted to lie in honor in the rotunda of the Capitol from February 2, 2021, through February 3, 2021.”

Even long after the release of the medical examiner’s findings, Joe Biden has repeatedly referred to the two Capitol Police Officers who were killed on January 6.

As the “fire extinguisher” narrative began to unravel and before the ME’s report of death by natural causes was released, the DOJ charged and arrested two men, Julien Khater and George Tanios, in connection with an “attack” on officer Brian Sicknick. Tanios claims that he took a few cans of chemical spray in case he needed to defend himself against leftwing protestors. When the D.C. Metro Police force and the USCP began attacking protestors with flash bangs, sting balls, rubber bullets, and tear gas, Khater is alleged to have taken bear spray out of Tanios backpack and sprayed the chemical toward the officers. Both men spent months imprisoned in solitary confinement without the possibility of bail.

Incredibly, despite the ME’s conclusion, the Capitol Police continue to perpetuate the lie. After the medical examiner released the report, the agency issued a statement: “The USCP accepts the findings from the District of Columbia’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner that Officer Brian Sicknick died of natural causes. This does not change the fact Officer Sicknick died in the line of duty, courageously defending Congress and the Capitol.”¹⁹ Huh????

The KGB

Rounding Up The Domestic Terrorists

If there was a concerted FBI effort to round up and imprison the BLM and antifa activists who

committed violent crimes and massive destruction during the BLM riots, I am not aware of it. As one example, for months a large section of Seattle was overtaken and vandalized by protestors, many of whom were armed, and virtually nothing happened. Federal courthouses were vandalized, and many rioters had come from other states, thus warranting FBI involvement. In stark contrast, after January 6 the FBI immediately began to round up and imprison January 6 protestors. The stories of over-the-top actions by the FBI are plentiful and chilling. Protestors who had done nothing violent, had damaged no property, were allowed to freely enter the Capitol, and who would immediately have turned themselves in had they received a phone call from the FBI instructing them to do so, were awakened by early morning raids on their homes consisting of:

a) Armored vehicles, some with turrets and some with battering rams,

b) 20 to 30 armed officers,

c) Announcements over loud bullhorns, for all the neighbors to hear, that they are under arrest and must come out with their hands up,

d) Police flash-bang grenades being detonated,

d) Doors being smashed in by police before the person had any time to get to a door to open it,

e) Parents being hand-cuffed in front of their neighbors while their children look on frightened and while multiple red dots (laser points from swat rifles) are apparent across the parents’ torsos.

Video evidence of these actions are plentiful in the documentaries previously cited.

The Gulag

The stories of the incarceration of January 6 protestors depict what one would expect from a dictatorial banana republic. They include many months of incarceration without bail, solitary confinement, brutal treatment, deplorable conditions, and no set trial date. Some imprisoned protestors have had their trial dates postponed multiple times. Some have been imprisoned since shortly after January 6 and are still in prison awaiting trial; eighteen plus months in prison without having been found guilty of anything because they haven’t even had a trial. Here is one of many exceptionally disturbing examples that can be found in Chapter 10, “Inside the Deplorable Jail”, of Julie Kelly’s book:

Ryan Samsel

Ryan Samsel was arrested and incarcerated on January 30. Samsel, accused of assaulting a police officer, remained incarcerated and was not formally indicted until August 25th! In March, Samsel was beaten severely by prison employees. According to a fellow inmate, “Ryan had a confrontation with one of the guards about getting toilet paper. As a Marine, he wasn’t one to put up with a lot of stuff. All of a sudden, they moved him to the last cell out of sight of security cameras.” Samsel’s attorney, Steven Metcalf, detailed what then happened to Samsel: “Around midnight, two guards came to that cell, restrained Samsel’s arms behind his back with zip-tie handcuffs and ‘beat him to a bloody pulp’.” He was taken to Howard University Hospital the next day. According to his lawyers he was treated at the hospital: “for injuries including, but not limited to, head strike and loss of consciousness, bilateral eye ecchymosis, acute kidney injury, injury of the wrists, fracture of the orbital floor (right side/closed fracture), bilateral facial bilateral nasal bone fracture, and thoracic outlet syndrome. Ultimately, as a result of the brutal assault, Mr. Samsel lost vision in his right eye, has suffered seizures, and has continuing pain and suffering in relation to the thoracic outlet syndrome”. After his hospital stay, Samsel was transferred to the Central Virginia Regional Jail where officials refused to provide requested treatments such as MRIs and ophthalmology care to his damaged eye socket.

Exactly what happened to “innocent until proven guilty” and to a person’s right to a speedy trial as guaranteed in Amendment 6 of the Constitution – “the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury”? And what are the chances of finding an impartial jury in a district that voted 93% for Joe Biden? In fact, not even the judges or defense lawyers have proven to be impartial. As one of many examples in Kelly’s book:

Judge Tanya Chutkan had this to say at the sentencing of a defendant who had made a plea deal – “I would just remind you of the officers who were in fact killed that day and officers who had heart attacks and officers who had their eyes gouged out and officers who will never be coming home to their families.” The judge’s statement is rife with errors, myths, and falsehoods. All these assertions are untrue. Apparently, truth and facts carry little weight among DC judges.

As another example:

In cases where a defendant cannot afford an attorney, the court assigns one. D.C. Defense attorney H. Heather Shaner has assigned books and videos to be watched by the January 6 defendants she represents, her “captured audience”. These materials present a decidedly one-sided view of American history as one of racism and oppression. Just imagine being falsely accused of a crime and having a defense attorney who immediately treats you as an ignorant white supremacist!²⁰

The Russian Show Trial

The House Committee On January 6 (aka Circus, aka Witch Hunt, aka Kangaroo Court, aka Kabuki Theater)

I confess, but make no apology for the fact, that I didn’t watch this prime-time theater, knowing from the outset that it was a complete farce. I did keep up with much of what transpired through podcasts to which I regularly listen. What can one possibly expect from an investigation that is composed entirely of members selected for the extreme hostility they have demonstrated toward the person being investigated? Usually in House investigations, the House Majority Leader affirms members for the majority party and the House Minority Leader affirms members for the minority party. In this unique case, Nancy Pelosi did not allow any of the Republican members selected by the Minority Leader. Who could have been better suited to sit on the committee than Congressman Troy. E. Nehls, one of the members proposed by House Minority Leader, Kevin McCarthy. Before being elected to Congress, Nehls had been in law enforcement for 30 years, the last eight of which were as a Sherriff. On January 6, Nehls assisted the Capitol Police against rioters who were smashing windows and attempting to enter the House chamber. Pelosi instead chose two members to represent Republicans, both of whom were known to hold animosity for Trump, and both of whom had voted to impeach him. What is one to expect from a trial, of sorts, in which no defense representative is allowed to question witnesses? This farce, which isn’t yet complete and which is sure to drag on until shortly before the mid-terms, has already cost taxpayers millions.

To date, the biggest “bombshell” uncovered by the commission appears to concern a story about Trump lunging for the steering wheel of his vehicle on the trip back from The Ellipse on January 6. Apparently, Trump wanted to go to the Capitol, and the Secret Service was intent on taking him to the White House. My reaction when I first heard about this was, and continues to be, so what? Unless I’m mistaken Trump, who is known to be brusque and curtly reactive in some situations, was still the sitting President at the time. This story was relayed to the commission by Cassidy Hutchinson, aide to former chief of staff, Mark Meadows. Hutchinson wasn’t even present at the time, but relayed the story that she said had been relayed to her. The Secret Service members who were present immediately issued statements that Hutchinson’s story was untrue. These same agents had earlier been questioned by the commission. Why would the commission allow hearsay testimony about an incident for which they could have easily obtained direct testimony and for which the direct testimony contradicted the hearsay?

Lastly, what should one expect from an investigation of Donald Trump done by a committee whose vice chair, Liz Cheney, issued a campaign ad in which her father, Dick Cheney, described Trump as a coward and the greatest threat to our republic in our nation’s 246-year history?

Another Scenario

Another scenario, one that doesn’t crumble under scrutiny, is that Democrats and entrenched Washington bureaucrats engineered and instigated the events that transpired on January 6 in order to paint Trump as an insurrectionist and to eliminate any chance Trump might have of retaking the presidency in 2024. Such an action is consistent with the final impeachment of Trump, an endeavor that could not have had any motive other than preventing Trump’s potential re-election. Here are just some of the pieces of information that don’t hold up under the “Trump incited an insurrection” scenario, but that make perfect sense under a “Get Trump at all cost scenario”:

1. The security arrangements provided an illusion that the Capitol had been prepared for an attack, while making it easy for protestors to enter the Capitol so that they could be charged with crimes, and the narrative of an insurrection, with media coverage and trials, could go on indefinitely.

A. The USCP’s Intelligence and Interagency Coordination Division (IICD) issued an assessment, regarding January 6, on January 3 that included “there has been a worrisome call for protestors to come to these events armed and there is the possibility that protestors may be inclined to become violent.” The IICD noted a concern about the attendance of the pro-Trump group Stop The Steal which it said has a “propensity to attract white supremacists, militia members, and others who actively promote violence,” which “may lead to a significantly dangerous situation for law enforcement and the general public alike”.²¹

B. Why was the National Guard not in place to defend the Capitol? Trump claimed in a Washington Times article that he “strongly recommended” to Pelosi that she send in the National Guard to secure the Capitol on January 6 but Pelosi ignored the request.²²

Pelosi denies this but, in any case, as the leader of the USCP Pelosi had the authority to request National Guard assistance, in advance, and did not.

C. Why wasn’t the IICD information shared with the USCP’s own officers? As a Senate Report makes clear, “critical information was not shared with USCP’s own officers and other law enforcement partners.”²³ The Capitol Police on the ground didn’t understand what they might be up against.

2. Given the recent ruling in the Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping trial, in which two defendants were found not guilty because they were subject to clear entrapment by the FBI, it’s not a stretch to think that the FBI was complicit in a scheme to entrap Trump. It has been discovered that several FBI agents were among the crowd of protestors, but their purposes and actions have not been revealed.

3. Coincidentally the main FBI agent in charge of the Whitmer kidnapping case, was transferred to the DC field office sometime prior to January 6.

4. Some Capitol entrances had significant police protection. These are the ones most seen in media coverage of the event. Others had very limited coverage where officers can be seen removing barricades and protestors can be seen freely walking by officers into the Capitol.²⁴ ²⁵ Some officers posed for selfies with protestors.²⁶

5. At a rally held on the evening of January 5, a man, later identified as Ray Epps, is captured on video repeatedly and loudly instructing those present to “Go Into The Capitol Tomorrow”. The crowd is suspicious of Epps and begins chanting “Fed, Fed, Fed…”. Epps is seen in another video on January 6 at The Ellipse provoking the crowd in the same manner. Later, at the Capitol, Epps is seen standing in front of a police barricade shouting into a person’s ear. That person, Ryan Samsel (recall the horrific prison treatment of Samsel described above), then turns and pushes back the barricade with Epps following right behind. Curiously, Epps himself is never captured on video entering the Capitol. At one point Epps’ name appeared on the FBI list of those wanted for the Capitol riot. His name later disappeared from the list and Epps was never charged. Epps, perhaps the person most responsible for inciting the melee of January 6, was never charged for anything!²⁷

6. Video evidence shows that several people who were present at the January 6 rally were also present at BLM/Antifa riots in the summer of 2020. The person who caught Ashlie Babbitt’s murder on video, John Sullivan, also known as “Jayden X.”, was present at many of the George Floyd protests. He founded a group called Insurgence USA to fight police brutality. He told a crowd at a June 2020 protest “racism is still real in America and that needs to change. It’s not enough to voice your words. Put those words into action…make change happen.” He was arrested in July for an altercation with pro-police protestors. According to the Washington Examiner, Sullivan ran “an antifa Discord server that featured other left-wing activists discussing tactics and strategy at protests.” There is footage of Sullivan inside the Capitol yelling “This shit is ours! Fuck yeah.” and “We gotta get this shit burned.”²⁸ What would be the purpose of BLM/Antifa members attending a Trump rally other than to incite violence?

7. Prior to January 6, fences were put up around the Capitol and signs were posted indicating this was a restricted area. Video footage shows a man waiting alongside the fence for 21 minutes, then, calmly and methodically, cutting down and rolling up the fence and taking down the signs that would have indicated to later arriving Trump supporters that the area was restricted and, consequently, they could be arrested for entering the Capitol area. Oddly, even though there is plenty of footage, this man did not make it onto the FBI’s Most Wanted list.²⁹

8. In addition to the videos taken by the protestors, more than 14,000 hours of video evidence was captured by security cameras and police body cameras. Requests by members of Congress to see these videos were repeatedly denied for the stated reason that they could compromise the security of the Capitol. It’s hard to imagine why these videos could not be released to Republican Congressmen and Senators who are in the Capitol daily. Ultimately it was determined that about 7000 +/- hours of the videos would be released, but the remaining 7000 +/- hours would be withheld because that footage was not relevant. This is akin to a fox who is guarding a henhouse providing evidence that “the hens are fine” by showing half of the hens!

In Conclusion

Each reader will draw his/her own conclusions based on this article.

Here is what I know:

The 2020 presidential election was the most corrupt election in my lifetime.

Here is what I believe:

1. The 2020 presidential election was stolen.

2. The “insurrection” lies and distortions, and the House Commission “show trial” are part of an elaborate scheme by Democratic politicians, liberal elites, and the deep state aimed at ensuring that Donald Trump is not permitted to run for office in 2024.

References

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²⁸ pgs. 188-189

² Newsweek, Natalie Colarossi, 11/19/20

⁵ Jan. 6 Committee Ignores Clear Evidence Of Mass Illegal Voting, Systematically Broken Election Laws, Margot Cleveland, The Federalist, June 17, 2022.

⁶ https://watch.salemnow.com/series/xFOCFe59zfCS-2000-mules?channel=featured-movies

⁷ https://nypost.com/2022/08/25/mark-zuckerberg-criticizes-twitters-handling-of-the-posts-hunter-biden-laptop-story/

⁸ National Review, Top FBI Agent Resigns after Allegedly Thwarting Hunter Biden Investigation: Report, Caroline Downey, August 30, 2022

¹⁴ EpochTV, The Real Story of January 6/Documentary, 1 min. 7sec.

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²⁰ Huffpost, A Lawyer for Jan. 6 Defendants Is Giving Her Clients Remedial Lessons In American History, Ryan J. Reilly, June 21, 2021

²² The Washington Times, Trump says calls for National Guard on Jan. 6 were ignored by Pelosi, Joseph Clark, Feb. 3, 2022

²³ United States Senate, “Examining the U.S. Capitol Attack: A Review of the Security, Planning, and Response Failures on January 6”, Pg. 2

²⁴ https://twitter.com/i/status/1440776133675388931

²⁵ https://youtu.be/xH9XWNz0GW4?t=292