January 6, 5 Years Later: Were We Played? It's been five years since the events of January 6, 2017, and the narrative surrounding that day continues to be a subject of intense debate and controversy. The left's initial portrayal of the demonstration as an organized insurrection, complete with the use of the word 'insurrection' in the second impeachment of Donald Trump, has been called into question. But here's where it gets controversial... The left's narrative has always had something off about it. We knew there was a massive demonstration, and it turned violent outside. People were invited in, perhaps because the guards inside the Rotunda and the Capitol had no other alternative. Yet, everything after that was too clear-cut. The Democrats had the Jan. 6 committee, but some of the tapes and testimonies were not kept safely, and they're not accessible. Some witnesses were berated, and we learned that Speaker Kevin McCarthy's nominations were not accepted for the first time in House history. The only way to get on the committee as a Republican was to have no political future or be doomed to defeat in the next election. Now, we're hearing more strange things. The so-called pipe bomber was arrested, and this was very strange because the Biden Justice Department didn't know who he was, but he was probably a participant in right-wing terrorist activities that day. A new administration comes in and starts tracing cellphone imprints, and they find Brian Cole Jr., a young African American man from a middle-class family. He says he's an anarchist, and initial reports suggest he was on the left with empathies for Black Lives Matter and Antifa. But the evidence is fragmentary, and we're not sure. The Biden administration didn't investigate who the pipe bomber was and left it out there as if he was part of a violent resistance. This is consistent with the misinformation and fake news about the entire day. Remember, Kamala Harris, when running for president, compared January 6 to Pearl Harbor and 9/11. But the key is how many people died violently. The violent deaths were one or two: a Trump protester caught in the scramble and the pressure between the crowd and the police, and Ashli Babbitt, a 14-year veteran who was unarmed and committing a misdemeanor. She was shot by Officer Byrd, and we were told it was a justified shooting. We never learned that Officer Byrd had a checkered record or that he was clumsy and lazy with his gun. The FBI informants and agents were never transparent, and the effort to find the pipe bomber was never clear. The treatment of the January 6 events was never transparent, and we never got the honest story. The reason for this is that they wanted to cement a narrative in everyone's mind: a reckless demonstration that turned into a riot was a pre-planned insurrection by Donald Trump, who ordered it and should forfeit his political career. They impeached him and wanted that narrative to stick, but it was a complete fabrication. There was a demonstration, there was a riot, and it was wrong. But everything else was a Democratic narrative, and the latest revelations about the pipe bomber are mysterious. Maybe he wants to pose as a right-wing person and confirm the predestined narrative that he's a violent right-wing person. But the whole thing is mysterious, and we never got the honest story.
