The Daily Signal - Victor Davis Hanson: What We Were Told About January 6 Doesn’t Add Up

Starting point is 00:00:00 I want to return to the January 6th demonstration that turned into a riot. Everything that we've been told by that narrative from the left seems inaccurate. We were told that it was a pre-planned armed takeover, a coup. There was always something wrong about the left-wing narrative of January 6th. Now we're hearing more weird things. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hansen for the Daily Signal. I want to return to the January 6th demonstration that turned into a riot. Everything that we've been told by that narrative from the left seems inaccurate. They told us it was an organized insurrection. They used the word insurrection. Remember, in the second impeachment indictment of Donald Trump. And the trial, remember, was held after he left office. And he was acquitted by the Senate. But the the word was insurrection. And we know that Jack Smith wanted to use that term insurrection, but he felt that since no one had been charged with insurrection a hundred

Starting point is 00:01:09 years, he dare not do it. But we were told that it was a pre-planned armed takeover, a coup, but there was always something wrong about the left-wing narrative of January 6th, because we knew there was a massive demonstration. We knew it turned violent outside, and we knew that people were sort of invited in, maybe because the guards inside the rotunda and the Capitol had no other alternative. But everything after that was too clear cut. The Democrats had the January 6th Committee, and we know that some of the tapes and testimonies were not kept safely. They're not accessible now. Some of the witnesses were kind of berated. Then we also learned that Speaker McCarthy's nominations were not accepted for the first time in House history.

Starting point is 00:02:03 And the only way you could get on the committee if you were a Republican were if you either had no political future like Adam Kinser or you were doomed to defeat in your next election like Liz Cheney. So there was something weird about. Now we're hearing more weird things. They just arrested the so-called pipe bomber. And this was very strange because we were told by the Biden DOJ. They didn't know who he was.

Starting point is 00:02:28 There was no information, but he was probably a participant in the right-wing terrorist activities that day. So it was to their political advantage, apparently, not to really pursue the investigation. A new administration comes in, and they just start tracing the cell phone imprint of various people, and they look at their sales records where they bought this particular item in the pipe bomb, and they came up with a Brian Cole Jr. He's a young African-American man from a middle-class family. He says he's an anarchist. Initial reports seem to suggest he was on the left

Starting point is 00:03:11 and had empathies with Black Lives Matter and Tifa. But the evidence is so fragmentary. We're not sure. He had four hours of testimony in which he purportedly today confessed. And now he says, he thought Trump was robbed of the election. So we don't know exactly what his empathies were, but it was apparently incumbent upon the Biden administration not to investigate who this pipe domer was and to leave it out there as if he was a part of a violent

Starting point is 00:03:41 resistance. And that is consistent with the misinformation that we had and the fake news about the entire day. Remember, Kamala Harris, when running for president, she said, January 6 is the same thing. It rests with. It's parallel to it's comparable to Pearl Harbor, 2,400 dead, or 9-11, 3,000 people dead. And, of course, how many people died? Well, we know five people died, but how many people died violently? That's the key thing to remember, and the violent deaths were one. Maybe two, a Trump protester that was caught in the scramble and the pressure between the crowd and the police, but really won, Ashley Babbitt, a 14-year veteran who was unarmed and was committing a misdemeanor of entering a broken window. She was shot by Officer Byrd lethally, and then all of a sudden

Starting point is 00:04:41 we never really knew who Officer Bird was. We were told it was a justified shooting. We never learned that he had a checkered record, that he was clumsy, lazy with his gun, that he had left it and people had found it in a capital restroom. So they wanted to suppress the information and suggest that she was an insurgent. That was a complete misinformation. Then we were told there wasn't really any FBI informants. And Christopher Ray said he didn't know. And only with a change of administrations at FBI records come out that there was probably somewhere between 250 and 275 actual FBI agents or informants in the crowd. And remember that Matthew Rosenberg, the Pulitzer Prize reporter for the New York Times

Starting point is 00:05:33 had told us at the time in an ambush interview by Project Veritas when he nonchalantly was talking to someone he didn't know was associated with Operation Veritas, he said there was a ton of informants there, and he knew them. And then, of course, Donald Trump said, assembled peacefully and patriotically to the Capitol, not like Camilla Harris, who in the year before, 2020, had told people that the George Floyd riots should not stop. They will not stop. She called them demonstrations, but they were riots. And she said, nor should they stop. They're going to go under the election. Add it all up. And the latest, revelations that there is a pipe bomber and he was angry at the Democrats because he left

Starting point is 00:06:27 something at the Democratic Party, a Republican. We don't know. We don't know whether his anarchist sympathies mean he's on the left. It's very improbable to think that they would be on the right, even though he thinks Donald Trump got robbed of the elections, but maybe he wants to pose as a right-wing person and confirm the pre-the-pre-defendant. in narrative that this man must be a right-wing violent person, and he thinks maybe the left will be go easy on him, or maybe he thinks that Donald Trump will pardon him. I don't know. But the whole thing is mysterious. And to sum up, everything we've been told about January 6, from the congressional committee to Kamala Harris' description of it, to comparisons with the

Starting point is 00:07:16 four-month, $2 billion, 35 dead, 1,500 police officers, prior riots, arson, attacks on courthouses, police precincts that was never really mentioned as a comparable crisis in the Republic. All of these things, a number of FBI informants, a number of FBI agents, any effort to fight in the pipe bomber, the treatment of the January, it was all never transparent. We never got the honest story. So that begs the question, why? Why didn't they just come out and say, here's all the information. And the reason is, is they wanted to cement a narrative in everybody's mind that a reckless demonstration that turned into a riot was a pre-planned insurrection by Donald Trump, who ordered it, and therefore should forfeit his political

Starting point is 00:08:09 career, and he should never be allowed to run for office, and they impeached him, and they wanted that narrative to stick. And it was a complete fabrication. There was a demonstration. There was a riot. It was wrong. But everything else was a democratic narrative, as we're seeing most recently with a strange case of Brian Cole that suddenly, suddenly after four years of Biden, DOJ, in action, within 10 months, the Trump FBI found out who he was and that he confessed to that crime of leaving pipe bombs at the DNC in the RNC headquarters. Thank you very much. This is Victor Davis Hansen for The Daily Signal.

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The Daily Signal - Victor Davis Hanson: What We Were Told About January 6 Doesn’t Add Up

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