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.
Having spent years investing time in the early 1970’s searching for the best most effective antidote to radiation poisoning from nuclear fallout, it’s fortuitous timing to have it readily at hand now that WWIII is on our doorstep, be it from Putin, ‘Rocketman,’ the Ayatolla, Israel, or from the U.S.
But as usual, the American public has not been given this information on any acceptable scale, partly for fear of inducing more fear of nuclear arms being used for the first time since 1945.
“. . . I take responsibility for not having them just prepared for more.”
Ever wondered how what the Left says in private, squares with what it says and does in public?
Rinse and repeat for: The Afghanistan debacle, Antifa/BLM, Biden’s dementia, inflation, lawfare.
Integrity is not the Left’s strong suit.
That was a calculated spiel by the criminal pelosi.
It pretends to absolve her of blowing it on purpose so they could get their J6 insurrection plot and fallout for years.
Should I suppose it was still her daughter filming ? I do suppose that, and also know it was all vetted before released and was a doctored game because they had the plan all ready. They had months of coordination with the FBI and the DC police chiefette and how they would stifle the Sgt at Arms, etc.
We should compare the difference in the reaction of Republicans to the conviction of Hunter Biden with the reaction of Democrats to the conviction of Donald Trump. The latter engaged in orgiastic celebrations. The former mused, sometimes with pity, about the result.
The difference reflects that one side is sober while the other is in the midst of a demonized bacchanalia of destruction.
Only one of the convicted defendants is running for POTUS. That one is a twice impeached former POTUS, the other is a family member of the current POTUS.
@DavidSacks
“The Cover-Up Is Worse Than the Crime
The old Washington adage that the cover-up is worse than the crime has never been more true than in the Hunter Biden case. The charges on which he was convicted today have rightly been described as rinky-dink and divert from a much bigger scandal involving foreign influence payments to Hunter and other members of the Biden Family. This is the story that intelligence officials worked successfully with the Biden campaign to conceal from the American public prior to the 2020 election.
The FBI seized Hunter Biden’s laptop from the repair shop in December 2019, almost a year before the 2020 election. What was the Bureau’s response? Did it begin an investigation into Hunter’s shady foreign dealings and potential FARA violations? As the Twitter Files exposed, the FBI began telling “Trust & Safety” executives from social networking companies to be on the lookout for a Russian “hack-and-leak” operation involving Hunter Biden, priming these executives to censor the story. The FBI would have verified the authenticity of the laptop soon after seizing it, so its warnings to social media companies were deceptive.
When the NY Post story broke, 51 former intelligence officials, including 5 former directors of the CIA, wrote their infamous letter claiming the laptop was Russian disinformation. We now know from the sworn testimony of former CIA acting director Mike Morell that the letter was coordinated by then Biden campaign operative, now Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Note that the intelligence community (IC) adopted the same “Russian disinfo” cover story that the FBI had incepted with social networks. Indeed the letter became the “expert” confirmation the social networks needed to suppress the story.
What’s the take-away? The Biden campaign knew it had a problem a year before the election. A phony narrative was invented that the Russians were behind the story. The FBI communicated this narrative to social networks; dozens of intelligence officials backed it with the weight of their credentials; Biden himself invoked it as a defense in a presidential debate with Trump; and MSM reporters like Leslie Stahl dutifully repeated it. Finally social media companies suppressed the true story, depriving the American people of information they were entitled to know before they voted. This was election interference.
As journalist @mtaibbi explained, “By any marker, this is an enormous news story. If we go by the usual measuring stick of American scandal, the Watergate story, this potentially meets or exceeds that, on almost every level. Does it reach into the current White House? Check. Was it a craven attempt to subvert the electoral process? Check again. Did a presidential candidate engineer a massive public deception? Yes, resoundingly. Did it involve intelligence agencies? Yes, and these weren’t amateurs like Nixon’s plumbers. These were 50 of the most powerful people in the intelligence world… conspiring to meddle in domestic politics on a grand scale.”
Taken together with the IC’s participation in the Russiagate hoax during the Trump presidency, the security state has shown a brazen willingness to interfere in electoral politics on behalf of their preferred candidate. This is not democracy; it is the subversion of it. There’s only one way to send the message that this is unacceptable: vote for the candidate they hate on November 5.”
8:09 PM · Jun 11, 2024
Joe Biden and his handlers know he is going to lose bigly in a “fair” election.
What is their game plan? There can be no election.
Brace for something terrible to happen before November 5, 2024.
That is the ONLY way the evil-doers can prevent a Trump landslide.
Meanwhile, the Evil-doers (Democrats) will continue jailing their political opponents, dissidents, and enemies.
We now live in the Banana Republic of Biden.
Do not go back to sleep.
We have a country to save!
I would go farther and say our world. These people are walking us into WWIII and nuclear annihilation with their pointless war against Russia. Trump will make Ukraine a neutral buffer state that will never be part of NATO and then we will have a better chance of avoiding catastrophe.
I won’t argue that taken in total, the many crimes of Hunter and the rest of his family of gangsters are gigantic in comparison to the three he was convicted of, but I can’t agree with your assessment of “rinky-dink”, and you can be sure that our injustice department would not consider them at all rinky-dink if I or another “MAGA extremist” had committed the same crimes; we’d be looking at the max.
Adam Kinzinger and Liz Chaney are responsible for this. They should be exposed publically and charged with sedition.
Jail all democrats.
How did they find 12 people in Maryland who didint know “No one fvcks with a Biden”?
They didn’t. The trial was in Bidens backyard, and THEY are used to getting f*cked by a Biden….
Dad, I smoked crack, bought an illegal gun, and lost my laptop today.——Hunter
I am so proud of you, son——-Joe
Dad, I smoked crack, bought an illegal gun, and lost my laptop today.——Hunter
You also paid my bills, and forwarded the 10 percent to my Malta account.–—-PedoPete
“Juneteenth”
Joe thought is was “June tenth”, and threw a party yesterday.
Politico Contradicts Turley
Republicans have spent the last three years attempting to portray Pelosi as singularly responsible for the security breakdown, despite shared responsibility among congressional leaders and evidence that they relied on the assessments of police and security officials. The new footage does not bolster GOP claims of Pelosi being at fault. Instead, it largely aligns with and adds depth to previous snippets of Alexandra Pelosi’s footage released by the Jan. 6 select committee and in an HBO documentary that was released in 2022.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/09/chaos-anger-congressional-leaders-jan-6-evacuation-00162424
Politico lmao
We’ve seen the video, spastic
How much did you get paid to type this drivel?
Joe Biden cautioned 2A advocates again today, saying “guess what, you need F-15s, not rifles”.
Dennis, could you remind Joe that the Taliban didnt have F-15s?
Are you kidding me – now talk about non presidential and hostility toward those you govern …
He’s a total a_ _.
I can’t even believe a potus would be that stupid and open his piehole and remove all doubt.
So did the bullet go through his forehead right as he finished that sentence ?
Big hearted Joe and Jill Biden still have a granddaughter that they will not recognize who was brought into this world by their wonderful son. I heard that Joe hugged Hunter and whispered in his ear, why didn’t you have the damn thing killed. Never mind, she’s dead to me anyway.
They can put Jewish babies in an oven and cook them alive and Anonymous, Dennis McIntyre and Fishwings will still be on their side. Let’s not forget that the other socialist party known as The National Socialist German Workers Party were also in favor of burning Jewish babies. They’re still the same without the mustache.
Floyd, what are you babbling about????
You just write the most aggressively stupid comments, all day, every day. How do ever feel any sense of accomplishment??
Paul Ryan says to run “Goofy” Gavin or Moochhell.
Paul Ryan doesn’t care who; just get Buydone out now!
Nothing that anyone says is of any interest to me, so they might as well not say it.
Biden goes brain dead to music
https://nbcmontana.com/amp/news/nation-world/biden-appears-to-freeze-slur-words-during-white-house-juneteenth-event-mental-physical-health-accuity-trump-george-floyd-washington-kamala-harris-age-trump-election-2024-november
https://www.heritage.org/progressivism/commentary/bidens-history-getting-away-racist-remarks
Surprising news just in time for elections!
Violent Crime Rate Falls Sharply After Pandemic Surge
Violent crime fell in the first quarter of 2024 by more than 15%, continuing its postpandemic decline nationwide, according to data released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation……The latest FBI report is based on data voluntarily submitted by 13,719 of over 19,000 law-enforcement agencies across the U.S., the FBI said….The murder rate in the first quarter is well below prepandemic levels, said John Roman, a senior fellow in the Economics, Justice and Society department at NORC at the University of Chicago. Using FBI data and several other sources*, Roman estimates the first-quarter murder rate at 4.5 deaths per 100,000 people. In 2019, the rate was 5.1. “We are nearing 50-year lows,” Roman said
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/violent-crime-rate-falls-sharply-after-pandemic-surge-c8059d4b
* regarding those several other sources…..
the FBI reports:
Obesity levels have plummeted since Jan 2021 due to high costs of groceries
Gen Z have higher productivity, higher drive to excel, and refined interpersonal skills
Fertility rates are exploding with the average American Gen Z and Millennial being married by age 23, with 4.5 children, 2- story house, white picket fence and 2 dogs barking in front yard
Church attendance has soared to heavenly rates where most Americans believe without any hesitation in the trinity: me, myself and I
CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NBC, ABC have been reporting news factually and actually since Hunter Biden got sober and became a model father
Joseph R. Biden scored double digits in his neurocognitive tests with an impressive IQ >49 (officially trainable MR)
Dr Jill Biden aced her USMLE medical board exams without even studying and earned her specialization as a ventriloquist far surpassing average psychiatrists
And excommunicated Nancy Pelosi swore on her Katholic Wholly Bibliography that she does take responsibility for rigging the Congressional Jan 6 Nazi Inquiry
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aguis in hreba
“They are banning books about black experiences bleauwh”
——Joe Biden in his speech Monday
Thats not a typo. Exact quote.
Another transcript: “She no los she knows so long thrszweu nide, our freedom can never be secured.”
And that’s with reading it off the teleprompter.
https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1800643134176579706
“sharp as a tack”? No, “dead as a doornail.”
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