Yesterday – Monday, Jan. 6 – Congress convened to certify the 2024 re-election of former President Donald Trump. It marked the fourth anniversary of the notorious Capitol Hill riot that Democrats and their media still falsely portray as an “insurrection.”
Hundreds of Trump supporters gathered at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, after President Trump spoke to a crowd. Among other things, he said, “Our country has had enough. We will not take it anymore and that's what this is all about. To use a favorite term that all of you people really came up with, we will ‘stop the steal.’"
He urged them to protest Congress’s counting of Electoral College ballots. Here’s the part that the media often ignore:
Trump: "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 protesters went to the Capitol hoping to persuade Congress to review alleged evidence of vote fraud that several courts had declined to examine. For the same reason, some Republican lawmakers tried unsuccessfully to delay the vote.
Dozens of hotheads rioted, broke windows, attacked police and forced their way inside. Hundreds followed, many walking in peacefully, unimpeded by police. Then-Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson obtained video that showed many peaceful interactions between police and strolling protesters in the Capitol’s halls.
By contrast, the other media and the House Jan. 6 committee showed the same clips of violent footage day after day, a complete 180 from how the media treated the 2020 George Floyd riots.
The Jan. 6 breach delayed the count by a few hours, and Congress certified Joe Biden’s election as the 46th president.
In the maelstrom, at least 114 police officers were injured, according to a March 2022 General Accounting Office report. One Trump supporter, Ashli Babbitt, was fatally shot by a Capitol police officer. Two other Trump supporters – Kevin Greeson and Benjamin Phillips – succumbed to fatal heart issues, and another, Rosanne Boyland, died from an accidental overdose of prescription medicine.
In the weeks that followed, several officers died, including Brian Sicknick, who the New York Times erroneously reported had been hit with a fire extinguisher.
Officer Sicknick died from a blood clot on Jan. 7 after suffering two strokes, according to a medical examiner. He had been sprayed with a chemical irritant, but his death was ruled the result of natural causes.
Another Capitol Hill Police officer, Howard Liebengood, committed suicide on Jan. 10.
A week later, Metropolitan Police Officer Jeffrey Smith committed suicide. He had been struck on the helmet by a metal pole and had been put on medical leave. He shot himself after being ordered back to work.
In July, more than six months after the riot, Metropolitan Police reported that two more officers who had been on Capitol Hill that day – Kyle DeFreytag and Gunther Hashida – committed suicide.
Officer DeFreytag had not confronted rioters and had been assigned to enforce a curfew. As for Officer Hashida, “Authorities drew no connection between the riot and his death,” according to the Washington Post as reported by FactCheck.org.
None of this is to minimize the tragic deaths. Or the gravity of the riot. The purpose here is to clarify how the media and leftist politicians lied about it and exploited it for their own purposes.
For instance, on Oct. 24, 2021, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York Democrat, tweeted that Jan. 6 had been “a terror attack” resulting in “almost 10 dead.”
This past week in New Orleans and Las Vegas, we saw what real terror is.
Citing the “insurrection,” Attorney General Merrick Garland rounded up more than 1,300 people who had been at the Capitol. Many were imprisoned for years before facing trial and some are facing harsh sentences. Using facial imagery technology, the FBI has been rounding up still more defendants.
By contrast, thousands who committed violence in 574 riots in 200 cities during the Floyd protests went scot-free. The Biden Justice Department under Merrick Garland seemed more interested in arresting peaceful pro-lifers at abortion clinics and identifying traditionalist Catholics and parents who spoke up at school board meetings as potential “terrorists.”
Citing the alleged “insurrection,” Democrats in the House impeached former President Trump a second time and held the Jan. 6 committee hearings. A 128-page GOP House report released on Dec. 17, 2024, exposed the charade as a Soviet-style show trial complete with alleged perjury and witness tampering.
Democrat judges in Oregon and Maine cited the insurrection clause of the 14th Amendment to bar Mr. Trump from presidential primary ballots in 2024 before being slapped down by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Emboldened by the “insurrection” narrative, Democrat prosecutors in four jurisdictions brought spurious charges against Mr. Trump, hoping to keep him from being re-elected.
Jan. 6, 2021, was the gift that kept on giving for the Democrats. At least, they thought so until voters shocked them on Nov. 5, 2024.
Monday’s Electoral College certification was conducted without the kind of drama that transpired four years ago.
Maybe that's because it was much clearer this time around as to which candidate actually won the election.
This article appeared originally here.
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