President-elect Joe Biden alleged that Black Lives Matter rioters would have been treated differently if they had mobbed the U.S. Capitol building, a claim lacking evidence but echoed by peddlers of critical race theory and progressive activists.
“No one can tell me that if it had been a group of Black Lives Matter protesting yesterday, they wouldn’t have been treated very very differently,” Biden said in an address Thursday afternoon. “We saw a clear failure to carry out equal justice.”
The U.S. Capitol Police is investigating the killing of a woman who entered the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6 during a session of Congress.
“These individuals actively attacked United States Capitol Police Officers and other uniformed law enforcement officers with metal pipes, discharged chemical irritants, and took up other weapons against our officers. They were determined to enter into the Capitol Building by causing great damage,” the police force’s chief, Steven Sund, said on Jan. 7 in a news release.
Today marked a change for our nation.
Atoxic brew bubbled in 2020. It burst January 6, 2021. Mark this day. Like 9/11, there will be a before and after quality to what comes now. 9/11 was a generation ago. Breaching the Capitol in Washington, D.C. will be this generation-defining moment for the United States of America. Like in the aftermath of 9/11, many stupid policy decisions will be made. Liberty will be lost.
On Wednesday I joined Tucker Carlson to discuss the so-called storming of the Capitol.
There has been much talk these last two months about the disconnect between Fox and its audience over the events of November 3rd, but they are as nothing to the disconnect between Fox and its audience over the events of January 6th. The media may be sentimental about the Capitol, but in my unscientific survey of my North Country neighbors the people aren’t. Congress has an approval rating that falls somewhere between Isis and child pornographers. Pundits and politicians can wax mawkish about “the people’s house” but you’d be hard-pressed to find one in a thousand citizens who’s ever used those words in a non-contemptuous sense – and most of the other 999 would assume that the phrase referred to some long-term care facility Andrew Cuomo moves the old folks into for his Covid express checkout.
Washington Examiner reporters and staff were inside and outside the Capitol building on Wednesday when a protest against the congressional acceptance of Electoral College votes making Joe Biden the president-elect rather than President Trump turned into a mob that breached the building and forced lawmakers and staff on Capitol Hill into lockdown for hours.
Here is a portion of what they saw and heard.
These disturbing videos capture the moment US Air Force veteran and President Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt was fatally shot during Wednesday’s riot inside the US Capitol building.
Babbitt, 35, was among several supporters of the president who overpowered police and breached the US Capitol in an attempt to disrupt the certification of the 2020 presidential election in favor of Joe Biden.
Ya think? Capitol Police officer who shot, killed woman during protest placed on administrative leave
The U.S. Capitol Police officer who fired the fatal bullet that killed Ashli Babbit during Wednesday’s riot at the Capitol Building was placed on administrative leave, the department said Thursday.
The officer, who has not been identified, will have their police powers suspended while awaiting the outcome of a joint investigation between the Capitol Police and Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department.
A Donald Trump supporter, among those who stormed the US Capitol building, has described the moment a fellow rioter was shot dead.
Wearing a Trump-Pence baseball cap, the protester – who identified himself as Thomas from New Jersey – said the woman had “rushed to the windows” before being shot in the neck.
The FBI is seeking the public’s help identifying the rioters who barged into the Capitol building on Wednesday.
The federal agency said in a statement that it is looking for footage from the chaos that left a trail of destruction and sent lawmakers into lockdown.
I don’t recall them being this gung ho about antifa, and what about that Russia thing?
Jamie Stiehm is a US political columnist who was in the Capitol building in Washington DC when it was stormed by pro-Trump rioters. Here’s what she saw from the press gallery in the House of Representatives.
I had told my sister earlier: “Something bad is going to happen today. I don’t know what, but something bad will happen.”
Outside the Capitol, I encountered a group of very boisterous supporters of President Donald Trump, all waving flags and pledging their allegiance to him. There was a sense that trouble was brewing.
A female Air Force vet from California was identified Wednesday as the protester killed in the Capitol building.
Ashli Babbit, who lived around San Diego, was fatally shot in the pro-President Trump chaos, her husband told KUSI-TV.
Militia members have gathered outside the Georgia Capitol and pro-Trump protesters have reportedly infiltrated the the Kansas statehouse, as riots over the president’s election loss erupt nationwide.
Violence broke out in Washington DC Wednesday after thousands of Trump supporters breached security perimeters at the Capitol with lawmakers inside the House Chamber urged to put on gas masks as tear gas was fired in the Rotunda.
In the hours that have followed, an armed militia has reportedly surrounded Georgia’s State Capitol building, 200 protesters have stormed into Kansas statehouse, and New Mexico’s and Texas’ State Capitols have been evacuated.
I’m gonna miss President Trump.
A woman who was shot on Capitol Hill during a violent outbreak has died.
The woman was shot by law enforcement and taken to a nearby hospital, multiple law enforcement sources told WRCB and NBC 4. It’s unclear where in the Capitol building she was shot or why.
The Capitol Hill complex went on lockdown Wednesday after planned “Stop the Steal” protests devolved into a violent breach of the congressional building — smashing windows, breaking into offices, looting rooms, and forcing an evacuation of Vice President Mike Pence and lawmakers as staff and reporters were told to shelter in place.
A political scientist examines the evidence and concludes that widespread fraud took place.
As a citizen who is also a political scientist, I have tried to do due diligence to assess what happened in the recent election. Who won what and at what level and what does it mean? And what about the charges of vote fraud? People keep asking me what I think, and I decided to write down the conclusions I have reached to date and on what grounds. Because charges of vote fraud have called the outcome of the presidential election into question, I have paid particular attention to them.
I am angry. It’s not a passing emotion brought on by a single circumstance. This anger is a deep, painful, abiding anger created by a mix of frustration, despair, hopelessness, and injustice. For decades I have been told to trust American institutions and if I have grievances to work harder to improve them. I have done so, far more than most Americans, and my reward has been watching corruption and ineptitude only increase.
A state by state analysis of the fraud allegations and what can be done.
This second of four articles covers how time-tested traditional fraud tactics dating back to Boss Tweed appear to have been used in targeted “battleground” states in 2020, how their detection revealed abundant evidence of massive fraud, but nevertheless the state courts turned a deaf ear to lawsuits. (Allegations of vote machine fraud will be the topic of a later article.)
December 14: Another 2020 Surprise. In seven states — Pennsylvania (20 electoral votes or EV), Georgia (16 EV), Michigan (16 EV) Arizona (11 EV), Wisconsin (10 EV), Nevada (6 EV), and New Mexico (5 EV) — Republican lawmakers voted to send a competing slate of Electors to Congress come January 6, 2021.
