For years, some of us have asked why the Capitol was so poorly prepared for the January 6th riot. As part of the coverage on that day, I remarked at the start of the protests that I had never seen the Capitol so thinly protected for a major demonstration. Some paths to the Capitol were protected by a handful of bicycle officers and thin barriers. Now, a previously-unreleased video taken on Jan. 6, 2021 shows then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., admitting that she was responsible for the lack of preparedness.
The video was disclosed in a posting on X by a House Republican panel. The video shows Pelosi in an exchange with Chief of Staff Terri McCullough on the evacuation. Pelosi states:
“We have responsibility, Terri. We did not have any accountability for what was going on there. And we should have. This is ridiculous. You’re going to ask me in the middle of the thing when they’ve already breached…that, should we call the Capitol Police? I mean the National Guard? Why weren’t the National Guard there to begin with?…They clearly didn’t know, and I take responsibility for not having them just prepared for more.”
The video was never released by the J6 Committee, which was criticized for its highly choreographed and scripted hearings with little balance in the presentation of evidence. The lack of emphasis on the security issues was glaring and raised by critics throughout the hearings.
While Democrats and the media dismissed the issue and claims that Trump offered to supply the national guard, it was later confirmed that those offers were made to Congress and rejected. A report from Capitol Police Inspector General Michael Bolton also found that Capitol police were told that they could not use critical riot materials and tactics in preparation for the Jan. 6th protests.
What was so curious about the lack of precautions that morning is that the Capitol had just experienced the violence outside of the White House in the Lafayette Park protests.
To this day, the media and many members continue to repeat false accounts of the Lafayette Park. Many still have stories posted that claim that Lafayette Park was cleared for Trump to hold a photo op in front of a church. I discussed those accounts in testimony before Congress and in columns on the clearing of the Lafayette Park area. NPR still has a story on its website entitled “Peaceful Protesters Tear-Gassed To Clear Way For Trump Church Photo-Op.” More officers were injured in the Lafayette Park protests than on January 6th.
As previously discussed in repeated columns, the House Democratic leadership refused to hold a single hearing with key witnesses on what occurred before the riot. After using a “snap impeachment,” weeks went by without calling such witnesses before the Trump impeachment trial. Such evidence would have challenged the narrative and raised questions over decisions made by Congress that left the Capitol vulnerable to such an attack.
In the Lafayette Park protests, White House officials feared that the compound could be breached by violent protesters who had injured dozens of officers and engaged in arson and attacks around the White House during that weekend. They decided to clear the area to install fencing (which Congress only ordered after the Jan. 6th riot). They also deployed the National Guard and the “heavier, less lethal weapons” that the Inspector General found were denied to the Capitol Police.
Had Pelosi and others accepted National Guard support and installed fencing as was done at the White House, it is doubtful that the riot on January 6th would have occurred or any disruption would have been far more limited in scope. The fact that the J6 Committee downplayed this major factor in the riot further undermines how the investigation was framed by the Democratic leadership. Pelosi barred the GOP members selected for the committee, hand picking two anti-Trump Republican members.
The absence of any balance on the committee was evident from the start. There was little effort to present alternative explanations or defenses to critical issues raised in hearings. No opposing witnesses were called who might contradict the narrative put forward by the Committee, including witnesses who would debunk the much-repeated, false claim that Trump wrestled with his driver to gain control of the presidential limo to drive to the Capitol.
With the Speaker admitting on tape that she bore responsibility for the lack of precautions, one would think that the J6 Committee, including then Vice Chair Liz Cheney, would consider that relevant for the public to understand the underlying facts. Instead, it was buried with much other countervailing evidence.
The Jan 6 committee and its Hollywood producer had this footage of Nancy Pelosi taking responsibility all along but refused to make it available to the public just so they could get Donald Trump. Sham trials have proven to be just a part of how they roll. Sham Trials, sham RussiaGate and sham the laptop is just Russian disinformation. Make no mistake. When Donald Trump says that he is the only one between them and you it is not an over exaggeration.
TiT,
Well said.
Trump is what stands between us and tyranny from the totalitarian leftists.
UpstatePartisan,
Every time you say something like ‘Trump is what stands between us and tyranny’
whether it’s from ‘totalitarian leftists’ or the whatever you want to call them right,
you lose credibility. He’s playing the same game they all are. You’re just falling for it.
Oh yeah, you won’t read this, since it’s from an ‘anonymous’ deplorable.
Sorry I didn’t use a screen name like TiT.
TRUMP PROBATION REPORT LEAKS !!
PO: Let’s talk about how you’re processing your 34 convictions. Do you feel any contrition?
Trump: No!
PO: *taking notes*
Trump: Wait. What does contrition mean?
PO: It means remorseful, penitent, feeling regret for your actions…it could be a factor in your sentencing.
Trump: Oh, in that case I have the best contrition. Big strong men come up to me with tears in their eyes…they say Sir…they always call me Sir…we’ve never
seen such beautiful contrition.
PO: I still don’t think you know what it means.
Trump: I know all the words. The best words. I had an uncle at MIT who…
A Pelosi-rrection a la Whitmer conspiracy.
From the Department of Defense. District of Columbia officials knew of the planned protests and had requested some assistance when the “First Amendment demonstrations” were planned for Jan. 5 and 6, McCarthy said. Based on this request, officials called up 340 National Guardsmen to help. The Guardsmen were assigned mainly to traffic control, Metro crowd control, some logistics support and a 40-member quick reaction force to be based at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland.
“No other requests were made,” the Army secretary said.
Nancy Pelosi takes blame for not calling in the National Guard and jumps on MSNBC to put the blame on Trump. Why not other media outlets like ABC or PBS? She knew that the only network that would allow her spin was MSNBC. The Mayor of D.C. also turned down the National Guard except to help with moving traffic. Riot fence around the Biden Whitehouse to keep out Jew haters but no riot fence around the Capitol building.
Who’s trying to re-write history?
Nancy Pelosi is a criminal and psychopath. Subpoena her and her documents. Then lock her up.
PELOSI plotted and schemed with Gen. Millie, Susan Rice, etc. to stage the FEDsurrection to setup Trump supporters to label them as domestic extremists and terrorists.
What Pelosi is doing to law abiding citizens in coordination with the corrupt Biden Fed Stasi shackling and perp walking grandmas and ANYONE opposing the REGIME, is a CRIME.
J6ers have been stripped of due process and railroaded by the corrupt DC Courts.
PELOSI belongs in PRISON. She is a stone cold LIAR.
Then prosecute her for INSIDER TRADING.
PELOSI is the MOST corrupt SCUMBAG politician we’ve seen in a long time in America.
She is lawless, shameless EVIL SCUM.
Lock her up.
MAKE her PAY THE PRICE for her TREACHERY.
Pelosi acts as if SHE is above the law. Because she knows she IS above the law.
She is lawless, scheming, evil scum.
She breaks the law with impunity and has done so for DECADES.
Make HER pay the price for her crimes against citizens!
LOCK HER UP.
Pelosi comes from a long line of corrupt scum politicians way back in Baltimore MD.
Like Father, like Daughter. Like brother. etc.
How is Gavin the sleezy greasy, scumbag out in California related to Pelosi?
All SCUMBAG corrupt politicians!
Give me an example of when Trump has taken responsibility for anything and then I will care about something a Democrat says she has taken responsibility for.
Here is what Trump should do to hold these government gangsters accountable:
“The easiest way for Trump to get even is to expose the NordStream terror attack and the involvement of Biden, Blinken, Sullivan, Nuland and the CIA. It’s a crime in any jurisdiction. Get arrest warrants, lock them up and watch them turn against each other in exchange for a deal.” @KimDotcom
@The Buck Boozer
“Give me an example of when Trump has taken responsibility for anything”
No war
The Abraham Accords
No Ukraine war something that occurred under Obama-Biden and then under Biden again
A strong economy that Biden is sucking dry even though some of his numbers initially benefited from Trump’s great performance.
Higher take-home salaries for the middle-class
low inflation.
More jobs for blacks
Immigration control on our southern border.
To complete the list of good things Trump took responsibility for is almost non-ending but it might be a bit less than the number of empty bottles you are responsible for.
It isnt just pelosi being corrupt its all uniparty democrats and republicans…..why did ukraine maidan happen with lindsay graham, john mccain and the cia installed a nazi puppet into ukraine presidency? years later, the uniparty cashes in on the american tax payer dime (as usual) and launders hundreds of billions of dollars through the ukraine back into their pockets in DC…..so many people will go to jail but they will not….the uniparty is in complete control, sadly
BREAKING:
James Comer vows to investigate shark that was in the vicinity of Trump’s sinking battery boat.
The shark insists on testifying live.
2 years ago Nancy Pelosi made $30 million in the stock market. I’d like her to manage my 401K portfolio. She’s a public servant, I know I can trust her.
I think you will find that her husband Paul Pelosi made all that money.
She correctly disclosed this family income in her required disclosures.
Her husband is a venture capitalist, just like the ones swarming to Trump’s side.
Most democrats are proud of pulosi for this.
Right but, so what? What happens now? Nothing. There are people who have been sentenced to 20 years for the events of that day like Enrique Tarrio who wasn’t even there. Is there any accountability? No. Will there be? No. Will anything change in future? No. Peter Navarro is sitting in jail for defying a subpoena by these clowns and Steve Bannon is heading there July 1. For the most part, the people who are in jail did nothing different from any other protestors and yet they have been punished while others walk. The real crime is the crime of setting innocent people up, trying them in fake kangaroo show trials, and organizing a fake committee to frame a narrative for the folks at home. If anyone should be in jail for j6 it’s the j6 committee .
“I take responsibility…” for being a direct and mortal enemy of the American thesis of Freedom and Self-Reliance, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, actual Americans, and America.
“I take responsibility…” for being a direct and mortal enemy of the severely-restricted-vote republic the Founders established and provided to Americans.
“I take responsibility…” for being a communist (i.e. liberal, progressive, socialist, democrat, RINO, AINO) interested only in taking and giving “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs” under the compulsive and barbarian “dictatorship of the proletariat.”
– Mizz Comradette Nanny Patricia Pelosi
Now that Hunter has been convicted, my writers are furiously working on a piece outlining the egregious weaponization of the Biden Justice Department. This is a clear cut example of a two-tiered justice system.
Standby for an update.
Jonathan
How many bong hits did it take for you to come up with this gem?
Botox Nancy Piglosi and her hammerhead spouse, Paul, are the the dynamic—-albeit drunken—-duo of white collar crime.
BIDEN GUILTY OF THREE FELONIES!!!
BIDEN GUILTY OF THREE FELONIES!!!
BIDEN GUILTY OF THREE FELONIES!!!
HUNTER BIDEN GUILTY ON ALL CHARGES !!!!!
Yet another egregious example of the weaponization of the Biden Justice Department, and the two-tiered system of justice.
Jim Jordan and James Comer need to get on this NOW, and demand answers !!!!!!
Because one case somehow proves your whole ‘theory’. What BS.
So let me get this straight, Nancy Pelosi admits she was responsible for the failure of ordering enough protection for the Capital and it only comes out now? That the January 6 Committee knew and had it buried so it did not come out?
So much for the search for the truth….
The January 6 Committee was a Soviet-style kangaroo court. They had zero intention of revealing the truth.
The Quiet Man,
It all goes to show how much of a sham the Jan6 committee was.
It also proves the whole “insurrection” narrative was a lie.
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What Pelosi should have done is had the Capitol Police shoot the first few people who breached the Capitol so the others would not follow. If she had done that, then the revisionist historians on FoxNews and amongst Republicans in Congress and elsewhere would not be claiming these people were not really Trump supporters but Antifa or FBI plants or something.
I hope they will not use kid gloves on the Trump insurrectionists next time and just shoot them in the act.
Johnny, name another time a cop killed an UNARMED WOMAN without any outrage against the cops. There wasn’t even a real inquiry into the cop that shot the UNARMED WOMAN. No civil rights investigations, no anti-cop marches, no gun freak outs. Nope, just another day with the left maing the (d)ifference.
And exterminate all of the 1000s of Blue city rioters, pro-Hamas terrorists—all are true insurrectionists. Look up the term, fool.
Pelosi knew that calling in the National Guard would have meant they could end up clashing with the hundreds of federal agents who were placed in the middle of the Fedsurrection to stir things discontent. Jan 6 was just a show, like the impeachments and the Trump trials. You’re a sheep.
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