The truth is Jan. 6 was a dark day in the history of our republic. Fueled by repeated lies from President Donald Trump, a group of men and women stormed the United States Capitol to stop Congress from certifying the Electoral College vote. Along with those men and women were many more who wandered in, curious, thinking they were allowed to be there. We should not lump them all in together, but we should not give the veneer of patriotism to the criminal trespassers.
Ashli Babbitt was one of those with malicious intent. The Air Force veteran thought she was a hero saving the republic when really, she was a trespasser seeking to stop the lawful operations of Congress. She is no martyr. The security cameras that captured her death at the hands of a Capitol Hill police officer show she was trying to break through glass to open a door for the mob. Behind the door, House members were fleeing for their lives. Outside, the crowd had erected a gallows and some roamed the halls of Congress to find Vice President Mike Pence to hang him.
The truth is a lot of Republicans who condemned the activities of the day have now tried to claim it was something worth celebrating or was not bad. Cowards like Kevin McCarthy, the would-be Speaker of the House, condemned the day, then reversed himself like a supine sycophant to Trump. Now, some Republicans even think Jan. 6 is a cause for celebration like the storming of the Bastille that set off the French Revolution. These would-be Robespierres will lose their heads in the process of trying to take others’. No conservative should ever celebrate the French Revolution.
But there are other truths, too. These truths the press and Democrats would prefer not to talk about. They’d prefer to scream “whataboutism” or claim bringing them up is to excuse or mitigate Jan. 6. Unfortunately for them, to truly understand Jan. 6, we must understand other events and how those were handled.
In 2009, progressive activists stormed the State Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin. The Wisconsin State Journal reported it in eerily similar language to Jan. 6. “Thousands of protesters rushed to the state Capitol Wednesday night, forcing their way through doors, crawling through windows and jamming corridors,” reported the paper. Progressives were trying to stop a vote making Wisconsin a right-to-work state, which would undermine labor union powers. Speaker Nancy Pelosi called it an “impressive show of democracy” and said she stood with the protesters. The media was mostly matter-of-fact about it and by no means condemnatory.
In Texas, protesters stormed the State Capitol in Austin to stop Republicans from passing a pro-life measure. News anchors and reporters who covered it for the national press almost all explicitly excused the protesters and made Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis a national figure and heroine for feminism. She rode the fame to several electoral defeats in Texas and talking-head gigs on CNN and MSNBC.
In Washington, D.C., progressive activists stormed the United States Capitol to stop the vote on Brett Kavanaugh and to intimidate United States senators. Major news outlets were almost all uniformly on the side of the protesters. Some reporters explicitly cheered on the protesters on their social media accounts.
This does not even include the coordinated and concerted Democratic efforts starting in 2000 to treat any election they lose as illegitimate. Bush was “selected not elected,” and Trump was fraudulently accused of being bought and paid for by the Russians. Stacey Abrams still denies her loss with press complicity, but Republicans are bullied and denounced for denying the legitimacy of 2020.
The bottom line is all of these should be condemned, but we should not be surprised some Republicans got tired of playing by the rules after two decades of Democrats breaking them without consequence. Few in the press or among the Democrats will own up to that.
Instead, they will scream at me for telling the whole truth, not just the part they want to hear. Undoubtedly, in November, the press and Democrats will scream voter suppression if Republicans win, ratcheting things further.
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Read Babbits backstory may have U think otherwise
You are the 2nd person to say look at Babbits past. I try twice and found nothing. So where is information from?
Read she used her SUV to try to kill hubbys lover Prior 1-6 & other LE issues All I found online about her.
No 1 believes me on BPR.
I used her name & pre DC event in Search
I have been doing this job for like a few weeks and KJH my last weekly payment was exactly
𝙁𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙝𝙤𝙬 𝙃𝙀𝙍𝙀….__𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐠𝐥𝐞𝐩𝐚𝐲𝐬𝟎𝟏.𝐓𝐤
What an absolute pack of bullcrap lies strung together ! Nothing but Pinko-Commie talking points that are 100% fiction !
The leftist propaganda machine is out in full force
No one covers the May June riots in cities & Dems storming govt sites in the Past
Or 1983 bombing in Capitol
A much needed piece that should be shared across the country. Well stated; thanks for the post.
What horse shit is spewed in the article. Democrats are wholly responsible for the riot.
You’re being badly downvoted, John, but I look at it this way: this is a piece you can show anyone sold on the Biden-Harris narrative about the events being an “insurrection” that threatened the end of democracy in America. All but the most incorrigible fanatics among them should at least have a grudging respect for what Erickson says about Pelosi and the numerous “insurrections” by Democrat-dominated mobs.
ANYONE THAT REALLY BELIEVES THAT A FEW THOUSAND UNARMED PEOPLE STORMING THE CAPITAL BUILDING WAS REALLY GOING TO BE ABLE TO OVERTURN OUR GOVERNMENT IS EITHER A TRUE LEFT WINGER, OR REALLY STUPID!
No, we get enough bull shit out of the Washinggton elite. We don’t another piece of it.
Horse shit!
Sounds like AAN has gone the way of CNN – nothing but lies.
Did you read the whole piece? “Nothing but lies” suggests that you stopped reading after the first three paragraphs. The fourth paragraph set the stage for a major shift.
In subsequent paragraphs, Erickson raked the Democrats over the coals for precedent after precedent after precedent. The fifth paragraph already showed Nancy Pelosi calling a similar event an “impressive show of democracy” and saying she stood with the protesters. Now she is spewing rhetoric out of the other side of her mouth.
Conservatives have a short attention span
Disgusting…
…liar
Unsubscribing to American Action news…
…I can get this BS on CNN or MSNBC
The electorate is not nearly as dumb as you you think. Many people died in the BLM riots the previous summer, but guess you think that was okay. You enshrine people like George Floyd and fail to show the entire video and selectively pick the parts of the film which favor your position. America is at its lowest point because of journalist like you. History does repeat itself, and I hope when you see the end result of what you are doing, you will realize that you aided and abetted the fall of the greatest country in human history. Shame
With conservatives like you…who needs democrats
If you think eric Erickson is a conservative, you are brain dead.
as usual a hit piece by biased lefties that are trying to brainwash the brainless Dems that are willing to accept a bunch of crap spewed by the the big mouth socialists
Read the whole article !!!
As far as saying Trump, and his followers lied, you are wrong! There was corruption in voting, and the dem’s did cheat! How do you explain the fact that Trump was leading by a huge margin!
when the poles were closed, and in the morning, he had lost! Bull Crap, HE was cheated, and he actually won that election! So put the Trump lied crap to rest! He was telling the truth! The Dems’s are as corrupt as you can get, and they cheat every chance they get!!!!
Written by a true Dumbocrat.
There is only one truth of Freedom in American history of the territory known as the U.S.A. You must know and understand that the freedom of the patriots in 1776 was only obtained by fighting and killing those that did not want it. It is maintained forever only if armed citizens stand up against those that want you to lose it, do as those in 1776 did. Right now the socialists think they can complete their plan with laws passed by one vote to break a tie in the U.S Senate and disarm the Supreme Court by ‘packing’ it. This revolution started long ago and it looks like it can be stopped if in November the S.C. rejects the voting law now looking for a way to be passed. Be prepared!
Erickson is quite the communist liar. Trump offered 10,000 National Gaurd to provide a peaceful protected protest area and Pelosi and her Trump hating followers refused so that this phony faked garbage could be strewn. Erick should be ashamed of his lie about an unarmed peaceful protester being hideously murdered by an incompetent so-called policeman.
Wow just more Democratic Party lies, if you watch the films ( Those not already doctored by the Media ) it shows that there were 6 people dressed in Black ( From Head to toe ) that broke out the window Ashley Babbitt was crawling through, while those breaking out the windows you see police standing there doing nothing, ( while another is either holding the door open or trying to unlock it to open it ) Did they try to stop those 6, or shoot them. While it was obvious they were armed ? NO and to this day those 6 have not been Identified or Charged ( Same as those that placed the pipe bombs ) But as soon as they encouraged a unarmed Ashley Babbit to crawl through that window, those same officers that stood there while the window was broken shot a killed a woman that was unarmed ( By their own reports ) . So again the media wants to twist the facts to meet a narrative that did not occur
Eric,
The takeaway is that after a five-years of an in your face coup and numerous impeachments by the DNC and the deep state, along with deliberate riots, arson, murder and mayhem, COVID lockdowns and destruction to the economy with the DNC Burn, Baby, Burn riots you have the audacity to characterize this lame excuse as a Casus Belli for the LEFT.
The one time conservatives show up en-masse it’s an ‘insurrection’ seems the DNC is scared witless, change the ‘w’ to ‘sh’ and you see their reaction.
This cannot end well when a political party conspires to overthrow your government, and schemes against its political rival with violent language and calumny, and all you can do is excuse the plotting of Pelosi, who refused the National Guard in the days leading up to the so-called insurrection.
There are no coincidences with the left and DNC, none…!
In Liberty
What an idiot.The truth is the cop that shot Babbitt is a coward just like you are and just like the cop you are a liar. I can;t stand liars plus really stupid ones. Now about this big insuraction, seriously no weapons involved, not real weapons because you wouldn’t have a clue about them. If I came at you with a water pistol youd be running behing mommy peeing in you pants. Here is the truth a real insuraction would have been a blood bath true and simple.
Now about the election fraud. You must not read too much because alot has come out since this shame election. In fact you have to be an idiot to dispute what has been known for ever. But I expect that from limited people like you. I seriously don’t even know why I would take time to answer such stupidity, or is it your another one of these idiots taht are a cheap paid offf person. I am staying with the total dumb ass on you though because i don’t think you can count past 10.
Do us all a favor and sut up because you show your stupidity ever tkime you open your mouth.
Congress members were fleeing for their lives… howw funny. Damn you shpould write movies but they would suck too. you moron the police let the rioters in, many of them. The elections were riged and Trump (he is a egoistical person and I am not a fan of trump, per say but liked most of his policies) was not lying. You’re lying. I would love to see some treat you like they did Babbitt and youd be crying about how unfair it was for someone to tresat you likewise. This is so typical of you chicken shits…
No the vast majority of the wrong, as typical, has been on our politicians for being paid off and taking everyone with them on their side and the dems are way on top of that right now.
I suggest you go back to your Biden, you moron, and be with the other press and lick his ass because he surely can’t wipe it on his own. Oh and keep taking money from the super rich because they will run you over when they get what they want and I just want to have a comfy chair, a good drink and some popcorn and watch that show.
So well written! That about covers it.
As always….
tit for tat
I’m really getting tired of reading that Trump lied and that’s why this “insurrection” occurred. He didn’t lie and you are leaving out that there were agitators in the crowd getting everyone all riled up and Trump had nothing to do with that. The left did! And what about ANTIFA being in the mix with Trump supporters?? Roy Epps is a guy of interest. He was filmed getting people riled up to break into the capitol. It was HIS idea and he was put there by Nancy Pelosi, the FBI, the CIA or all of the above.
The author got it about right except the part about President Trump lying about the stolen election. When there is a thorough investigation of the election, and all ballots that weren’t properly submitted and controlled throughout are thrown out, I will then believe the result of that review, not the results as currently recorded.
1-6 questions:
o why hide video from public
o who gave Cap police orders to open doors
o who were the outside agitators
o why didnt Nancy deny NG forces when Trump asked for them IE IN ON riot
o can we examine phone & text logs from Schumer & Pelosi
o why did some rioters change into MAGA gear
o what was Antifa doing inside capitol pre riot ( see video).
o Who planned riot, looks staged from local LA Daily News map.
o Are the ones in jail the ones who took down fences outside Capitol aside damages inside
o why cant local media see prisoners?
Ideas?
this is nothing but lies if you want someone to blame . Blme Biden for circumnavating th the electorial votes in favor of his lies .and that is all he has ever done is LIE!!!!
Wow! This guy isn’t biased is he!? FAKE NEWS
True threat to the US Democracy is the LACK of prosecution of the Rioters, Arson, Assault, Murder, destruction of Federal Properties and Buildings, police stations, police vehicles and the approximately 25 police murdered by the BLM and Antifa riots across America. From Minnesota, to Oregon, California, New York, Pennsylvania and more this occurred, yet the Liberals and their Media say it was “Mostly peaceful”! No, it was true tyrannical and America MUST enforce and prosecute those rioters! Bring back energy independence, secure the borders, enforce the laws, and watch the country thrive!🇺🇸
Erickson is a RINO with Trump Derangement Syndrome. He has always hated Trump, and that has bent his thinkng. Everything in this article is warped by the lens of his hatred for Trump. And, no, I am not a big Trump fan, but this is ridiculous and contrived.
You are a moron Erickson.
I am interested to hear exactly what lies POTUS#45 told that directly contributed to violence or lawlessness on 06jan2021. Please include what person did what, and the evidence to support that claim.
Erik Erickson is a trump hater plain and simple!
LISTEN UP…IT is NOT OKAY to SHOOT DOWN and UNARMED PERSON. GOD Says PREZ TRUMP Did NOT get a FAIR ELECTION. GOD is NOT a LIAR. HE is the TRUTH. I STAND By GOD’S Word. From SamuraiQueen. 😄😄😄
Sadly Erickson is a globalist puppet. Might be on Soros’ payroll. Ashli was UNARMED and no threat to ANYONE yet the cop, who had past cases of irresponsible handling of his gun, fired through a door.
Why were the protestors waved through the doors and even had selfies taken with police at the beginning? Why did the cops guarding both outdoor and indoor doors suddenly leave and allow the truly malicious people (agitators” break in?
This is pure BS
Oh my goodness, what kool-aide have you been drinking? The events of Jan. 6 were not admirable in any way, but they certainly were not driven by murderous intent or the kind of destructive motivation you describe! They were mostly energized by frustrated citizens who saw their hopes for the nation going up in smoke because of the election results. Shame on you for perpetrating this bs!
FU and the horse you rode in on.
Erickson sounds must be a Pelosi shill, the CCP should be proud.
There no longer is any laws. Anything socialists do go unpunished, even unmentioned.
Anything Republicans do get screamed to high heaven and punishment comes before trial .. and trials hang loose among the hordes of socialists officials, prosecutors, judges and police.
Justice in US is a copy of justice in DDR, it is owned by the socialists. Rotten to the core.
I see your point but I don’t share your criticism. Many were “breaking” in to make their point right or wrong. Many saw this election as a fraud and an attack on democracy itself right or wrong. It sure hell wasn’t a insurrection. It was a protest to the illegal activity being noted all around the country. Mail in ballots, late night ballot deliveries, extended voting. Many state violating their own election laws. They wanted Pence to hear them out and not certify the vote right or wrong. Wake the f@ck up.
I’d be interested to know what Trump’s lies were.
Makes no difference the riots started before TRUMP finished his talking! The citizens at the rally got there after the door were open. It was people that could not get into the rally and the Non government and Government agataters that started the trouble that a few of the citizen ralliers got caught up in. If I was being gassed and beat by Law enforcement that was supposed to be there to protect and serve me I might fight back too in self defence and defense of our RIGHTS!!!
Eric Erickson is a Trump hater and fake conservative riding the fence with the post stuck up his rear end.
Erik Erickson. He’ll never get over trump. Still Butthurt because he said trump would never be president
What a bunch of twisted crap.
Erick Ericson shows himself to be utterly clueless in this piece.
Remember Ashley who was murdered and the perp’s name was hidden by the Dems?
Gallows to hang Mike Pence?…is that supposed to be serious? Did the writers/editors even see the pictures of the so-called “gallows”? Look…I’ll agree that threatening the VP nothing short of stupid and possibly a serious crime. But if you believe that “threat” was real and not merely symbolic, you’re way beyond stupid.
Horse poop I watched it live on TV was shot dead in the face in a window by an armed (and I use the term loosely) police officer, who shot her in the face. I will never forget it .
You, and this author are so full of swamp water that you must’ve been swimming in the deep swamp for quite awhile. Come up for air and check your “facts”!! You are dead wrong.
What a bunch of bull. Did Eric the red write it?
January sixth was in know way a dark day in history and President Trump did not lie. November third, twenty twenty was the darkest day in our history. That is the day the Fascist used every dirty trick they could to steal the Presidential election. Not sure who this Eric Erickson writer is but he needs to get hie facts straight or admit he is a fascist in conservative clothing.
Mr. Erickson being dubbed as the ‘replacement’ for good old Maharushi is the chief reason I turned off WSB. I used to admire his political experience and analyses, Now I find him and his smug holier-than-thou attitudes a maze of untenable contradictions. You can have it the one way or you can have it the other way, but you cannot have it BOTH ways.
When does the truth become a lie and the lie become the truth?
Is Satan ruling this world?
Are the Establishment Elite Demon Possessed?
What lies is Trump coming up with? The article makes allegations of lies from Trump, and then seems ‘balanced’ with criticism of the Democrats afterwards. This is just another attack on Trump first and foremost.
I may be dating myself here, but when I think about the Jan.6 protest (I refuse to cal it an insurrection unless or until someone is actually convicted of that). I think of an old public service announcement designed to stop people from smoking pot. The PSA goes something like this. It starts out with the parents of a teenager smoking pot. The teenager spies them smoking pot. It cuts away and then cuts back with the parents finding pot in the teenager’s room. They question him as to why. He answers. “I learned it from watching you all right. I learned from watching you!!”
We saw the riots and looting all during the summer of 2020. President Trump had nothing to do with the fact that the crowd got violent. The violence was brought on by the democrats and the fact that they made that kind of behavior acceptable and hailed it. They learned it from watching you!
This is a misconceived piece. Trump didn’t lie. Trump got a record 75 million votes, which was consistent with the massive adoring campaign crowds. Biden, after spending much of the campaign in his basement, didn’t get 16 million more legal votes than Hillary in 2016 and Obama in 2012 and 12 million more legal votes than did a seemingly charismatic Obama did in 2008.
Erickson is a Trump hater who is ignoring what Julie Kelley at the America Gregtaness site has been revealing about January 6. The real truth about January 6 isn’t in Erickson’s piece. It is in the masterful reporting of Julie Kelley. Read her new book, and demand release of the 14,000 hours of Capitol Building video that the DOJ is hiding.
Much ado about very little! You are just a new-normal Trump hater.
With the democrats. It is. “do as I say. Not as I do” Disgusting. and for that moron VP to compare it to 911 or Pearl Harbor is insane. Hundreds of innocent people died then. One person died Jan 6 by a security cop Her death was uncalled for No comparison . V P go back an read your history book. Oh that’s right they want to do away with history
The day would have been no problem if the F.B.I., Antifa & BLM hadn’t orchestrated the “insurrection.”
I was there. I witnessed all the Antifa and BLM Members, and their filth! Like all liberals, they threw trash everywhere on the ground!!
Conservatives don’t do that. We “conserve” our world for future generations.
This writer is just another Liberal Hack.
He probably wasn’t even there! I was!!
Donald Trump was speaking for almost 15 minutes AFTER the so called “insurrection ” started. It was BLM & Antifa that did that!!
And a black policeman murdered a white woman that day at the Capitol, but no one seems to care about her. She was Conservative!!
The lieutenant is STILL a murderer!! Arrest him!!
Ms. Babbitt, you are NOT forgotten!!
When is the investigation of Nancy Pelosi ? She was the only one who did not want the national guard to stop any violence.. nothing but a planned set up to do her favorite thing..another impeachment so Trump can’t run for president again..no need to call the FBI they are nothing but democrat bootlickers
We still have to find out if there were government agitators planted within the group to entice and invoke the demonstrators to breach the Capitol and its security. We still have to unravel why the Speaker of the House, who oversees security and was aware of the pending demonstration, didn’t take the offer to use the National Guard as security backup. Also. why are videos of what happened seemingly being withheld from release, etc. and additionally why isn’t the committee more diverse other than including the likes of Never Trumper and Donald hater Liz Cheney and excluding ?
As it appears these Capitol demonstrators have been imprisoned, are awaiting charges and trials, why haven’t BLM and ANTIFA anarchists’ been arrested, charged, and jailed for the millions in damages caused as building were torched and businesses pilfered? It it only because Congressional Reps didn’t have their feather ruffled during that incursion and rampage or have they forgotten who they serve, not just themselves and their staffers? Lot’s of wrongs here that need equitable balancing, deliverance, and adjudication which Reps. Jordan and Banks may have offered as on that committee as Trumpers rather than Never Trumper Cheney.
Absolutely! Ray Epps and his group were at the location of the primary breech. He, along with Scaffold man, where the lead provocateurs in ordering the crowd to enter the Capitol. Along with them, were at least two other masked men who cut the fence and carried away barriers before the crowd arrived from Trumps speech. This was important because most these people didn’t know they were prohibited from entering the grounds—the barriers were removed as people were let in. This is all on video, including Epps participating in the breech, yet these men have not been indicted or arrested. Considering this is the largest manhunt in FBI history, rounding up over 630 people including senior citizens, this is unheard of. There is no way they should be unindicted coconspirators since they were the ringleaders.
FJB, Let’s go Brandon.
What an idiot EE turned out to be. Shut up AH you are no longer relevant.
The most important things in my life are God, Trump and Jesus.
People Read the whole damned article before making yourselves look stupid.
OK!!! I AM SO PHUKKIN’ DONE DONE DONE WITH CNN/AAN!!!! PROPAGANDA MACHINES HAVE COGS ALL OVER THE DAMN COUNTRY AND THEN SOME!!!
GFY!!!
UNSUBBING!!
Erick Erickson is so full of hatred for Pres. Trump that he can’t see the truth when it hits him in the face.
Just let us see all the videos for that day and let us decide for ourselves. That simple.
The article is bullshit. Many of us were there with our commander in chief in massive but peaceful fashion. At 12:45pm…only 3/4 through the president’s speech, the FBI informant orchestration went into action at the capitol. If you keep these type of hack stories coming, many of us will drop you.
American Action News, seems to have deliberately left out Ray Epps who was instigating much of the violence on Jan. 6th. He is now being protected by the FBI…
There was absolutely nothing in Trump’s speech that would even come close to instigating violence at the Capitol Building on Jan. 6th. American Action News, Has now chosen sides instead of reporting what actually happened on that day…