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 images of some in the crowd battling U.S. Capitol Police officers were aired constantly, as were the photos of some flag waving Trump supporters in the building posing for pictures on the U.S. Senate floor or in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office.
No violent actions can be condoned and all who engaged in criminal behavior should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. In the aftermath of this security breach, the FBI arrested hundreds of people for various offenses and is continuing to investigate.
While these individuals are being arrested and prosecuted, scores of violent criminals involved in approximately 275 Antifa and Black Lives Matter riots last summer have escaped justice. It seems there is more of an FBI focus on bringing Trump supporters to justice than those criminals who burned, looted, and robbed during a summer of discontent in the wake of George Floyd’s death.
It has been over four months since the January 6th protests and the liberal media cannot stop discussing it on their cable news programs. It serves as a perfect distraction from covering the disaster known as the Biden administration. Immediately after his inauguration, President Joe Biden began issuing executive orders and supporting policies that can be accurately described as socialism on steroids.
The results are both calamitous and predictable. Biden has created a souring economy, rising gasoline prices, the resurgence of inflation, a border catastrophe, and a new Middle East conflict. His decision to stop construction of the border wall looks worse every day the flood of illegal immigrants continues.
President Biden also announced the termination of the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. This announcement is particularly hypocritical after he decided to cancel sanctions on a Russian company involved in the construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline into Germany. Obviously, for Biden, pipelines are fine in Europe, but not in the United States.
The left-wing media do not care about these inconsistencies or the horrible situation Biden is creating. Thus, they are conveniently ignoring the negative reports about the President and focusing on January 6thand the “insurrection” because of their overwhelming hatred for Trump and his supporters.
According to the left, the actions of January 6thwere akin to 9/11 and Pearl Harbor combined. In those attacks on our country, thousands of people died; however, after this protest, five people died, including four of natural causes. The only person killed was an unarmed Trump supporter, Ashli Babbitt, who was shot dead by a U.S. Capitol Police officer.
Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives approved the formation of a commission to investigate the activities on January 6th. Sadly, 35 House Republicans joined Democrats in supporting this sham investigation.
U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) called the commission “a partisan political weapon.” He noted that while the members will be evenly split among Democrats and Republicans, “the chairman of this commission has the power to hire all the senior staff and has special powers to overrule decisions made by the other side and the vice-chair. This is a partisan joke.” Rubio believes the true purpose of the commission is for Democrats to keep “the House majority in 2022” and to keep “this (January 6th) in the headlines.”
Rubio is right, this commission is not about justice, it is about politics. The legislation will advance to the U.S. Senate where it will be considered. If this is eventually approved by the U.S. Senate and becomes law, a formal commission will be created.
At that point, Republicans should try to make the best of the situation by demanding the following questions be answered:
1) Why did a U.S. Capitol Police officer shoot and kill an unarmed Trump supporter, 12-year United States Air Force veteran, Ashli Babbitt?
2) Why did the Department of Justice decide to forgo charges against this police officer and why has his identity been kept secret? It was announced this week that Ashli Babbitt’s family has filed a $10 million lawsuit against the U.S. Capitol Police. According to their attorney, Terrell Roberts III, there has been “zero accountability.” He said the family has been given “no explanation to justify the shooting and they do not even identify the officer. That is what they do in autocratic countries, not in the United States.”
3) Why was there a false story about the death of U.S. Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick? It was initially reported that he was killed by a Trump supporter, who threw a fire extinguisher at him.
4) Why did it take so long for the medical examiner’s report to be made public?
5) Why was security so lacking at the U.S. Capitol when there were multiple reports about a large crowd expected?
6) How many police officers actually allowed protesters to enter the building?
7) How many Antifa and other leftist agitators were mixed in with the Trump supporters causing mayhem and encouraging the crowd to commit violence?
A genuine commission would be designed to uncover the truth, but in this case, the only goal is to punish President Trump and his supporters so thoroughly that the “America First” agenda is permanently destroyed.
Jeff Crouere is a native New Orleanian and his award winning program, “Ringside Politics,” airs nationally on Real America’s Voice Network, AmericasVoice.News weekdays at 7 a.m. CT and from 7-11 a.m. weekdays on WGSO 990-AM & Wgso.com. He is a political columnist, the author of America’s Last Chance and provides regular commentaries on the Jeff Crouere YouTube channel and on Crouere.net. For more information, email him at [email protected]
If January 6th was an “innsurrection” or a “coup d’tat”, then it was pretty pathetic… no one had guns, and they all left after a few hours… probably the most pathetic attempt to overthrown a government that the world has ever seen…
Perhaps, it SHOULD have been a full on insurrection, that drug these traitors out of the capital building, to waiting gallows..
People who did nothing but peacefully protest at the Capitol are being held in solitary confinement. I wonder how many antifa and blm traitors are in solitary confinement? Answer: none. We have the Gstapo / Stasi FBI and the Department of No Justice. Oh, and how these two entities, along with the intelligence agencies spy on innocent Americans. What a disgrace our Country has become.
HELL< most of those antifa goons that HAVE been arrested, more than likely got RELEASED WITH NO CHARGES, OR got bailed out Within 2-5 hours of being arrested… Let alone are being held without bail…
There are many questions that some who are leftists working daily to undermine The Republican party and of course the Leftist Democrat elite are ” Ant- Trump and these leftists have made that a full time joe.
And JOE BIDEN , and his Vice President, their Marxist comrades, would ” load the Supreme Court ” WITN THEIR FRIENDS, ” who seen things their way.
Wasn’t it leftist democrat, Maxine Waters who said of Trump susporters, ” Get in their Face, Let them know they’re not welcome anywhere, and this intolerant RacistLeft her district to show how intolerant the Marxists democrats really were.
NANCY Pelosi, and CHUCK SCHUMER DEMOCRT MARXISTS, are in control of CONGRESS AND THERES ALWAYS THE Republicans – RINOS,in name only, that the leftist can always count on to win the day for the leftist democrats to clear all those in prison whe were the victims of Racial injustice, will be freed from the chains that bound them for so long… Nancy Pelosi and Chuck SHUMBER will see the prisons are empty of all those who were
PRISON and were there because of those Police, Defund those police, DEUS will see thats done, yes sir, THE DEMS ARE GOING TO SEE IT DONE…
They have to blow this non-event up as big as possible to mask their own terrorist actions from antifa and BurnLootMurder.
When thinking back on the mass of people grouped together January 6th. , there happened a certain individual whom this protest was to
Prove fatal for her that day There were a mixed bunch of protesters mixed together for this Protest held at the Capital that day, some were Antifa thugs and others were Trump suspporters. But a miracle happened on that day, on January 6Th. At the Capital, would you believe out of all those protesters, the Capital Police Just happen to shot and kill a Trump supporters talk about your more happened, a Capital policeman shot and killed a” Trump susporter.. Who would believe , that out of all those protesters a Trump supporter would be killed..
This was what I meant to say above post. “…A Capital policeman just happened to shot and killed a Trump susporter, talk about a strange occurence, who could believe this happened, the a single Trump supporter would be singled out and killed by a Capital policeman.
“No violent actions can be condoned and all who engaged in criminal behavior should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
And this should apply to all the ANTIFA and BLM rioters and looters that were arrested. Sadly, it doesn’t. The vast majority of those arrested have been turned loose without any charges being filed. It may well be up to “we the people” to make sure justice is served.
That’s cause the dept of INJUSTICE< seems to be fully aboard and CONDONES what these Riots by BLM/Antifa do… ERGO to them, they are not 'a crime'..
TheMarxist , SOCIALISTS LIKE BURNIE SANDERS, like James Madison said ” FACTS ARE STUBREN THINGS ,..” and no matter if the Marxists in the Democrat party wish things to be, reality awakens them all to reality. The politicians live in the world of, ‘different than the average American middle class , or as DEMOCRAT president, Joe BIDEN ONCE CALLED THE MIDDLE CLASS, ” The Dregs of society ”