As reported on Sept. 18, a rally was held in front of the Capitol Building seeking Justice for the “insurrectionists” of Jan. 6. Those responsible for the rally said it was not about Trump, their political loyalties or a stolen election. Many of the 600 or so being prosecuted for breaching the perimeters of the Capitol, they maintained, were the victims of political bias rather than any serious criminal transgressions. Significantly, polls show almost half of Americans, including Democrats, agree!
Yet on the very same day The Washington Post published an article claiming the rally represented an attempt “to falsely recast the deadly riot of Jan. 6 as something more benign” suggesting “that many of the hundreds of people charged in connection with the breaching of the Capitol were not violent.”
The recently released Capitol videos to which I have already referred clearly showed dozens of the intruders wandering passively through the building engaged in no violence whatsoever. But the Post characterized the day’s events as a “deadly riot”! The only person killed as a result of a willfully homicidal act was Ashlee Babbitt, shot while climbing unarmed through a window by a Capitol officer who, as it turns out, is a person of color whose identity the government has done its best to keep from the American public. No death on Jan. 6 was the result of the “deadly” intentions of the “insurrectionists.” Brian Sicknick, initially said to have died as a result of being pummeled with a fire extinguisher, actually died of a stroke. Given more than 8 months to research its subject, the sanctimonious Post had apparently failed to discover that none of Trump’s supporters had actually tried to kill anyone. Or was it in fact so biased that it was simply unwilling to admit as much?