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From The New York Times:

By Glenn Thrush and Alan Feuer
Glenn Thrush reported from Washington, and Alan Feuer from New York.
Dec. 12, 2024
More than two dozen F.B.I. informants were in Washington on Jan.
6, 2021, but contrary to widespread conspiracy theories, bureau
officials did not order anyone to break the law as a pro-Trump mob
stormed the Capitol that day, according to a report by a Justice
Department watchdog released on Thursday.
After a nearly four-year investigation, the department's inspector
general, Michael E. Horowitz, also determined that the F.B.I. had
not stationed any undercover agents in the crowd that gathered at
the Capitol to disrupt the certification of Joseph R. Biden Jr's
electoral victory over Donald J. Trump in the 2020 election.

Do you detect the conspicuous lack of conviction in DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report on the Jan 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol building, which has been the central device for defeating the populist revolt against the treasonous DC blob? And did you notice that it took him four years to report on the event? Weird, a little bit, ya think?

I’ll tell you why: because when investigators genuinely interested in the truth come on the scene, soon to happen, a very different story will be revealed. The Horowitz report is a last ditch attempt, at the very last moment, to get ahead of that true story — which is that the FBI and its parent, the DOJ, have been lawlessly and in bad faith acting against their oaths to defend constitutional government.

For eight years — including the four when Mr. Trump was president — the FBI and DOJ worked tirelessly to run him out of office and make sure he could never return. The effort was prodigious and, astoundingly, it failed. It was launched initially to conceal the crimes of Bill and Hillary Clinton, especially their moneygrubbing in Russia around the Skolkovo project — Russia’s Silicon Valley — and the Uranium One scandal — which involved the sale of US nuclear assets to Russia’s state-owned Rosatom company. The Clintons’ problems became especially acute in the summer of 2016 when Hillary’s private (outside government) email server came to light with its thousands of potentially incriminating memos. Looked like trouble.

The cure for that was to accuse candidate Trump of conniving with Russia, a sort of political homeopathy. It began as a mere Hillary campaign prank — the Steele Dossier — but CIA Director John Brennan and Barack Obama dumped it in FBI Director James Comey’s lap, and asked him to run with it. Mr. Comey stupidly complied, and before long he marshaled the executive officers of the FBI into the massive hoax that became RussiaGate.

The Mueller Investigation was intended to convert all that into a prosecutable Trump crime while covering up the FBI’s own crimes, but it proved a fiasco when the Mueller report issued in March, 2019, came up empty — to the horror of the Trump-deranged public.

Inspector General Horowitz’s report on these FBI shenanigans came out in December of that year, finding little amiss besides some “errors” in FISA applications and FBI attorney Kevin Clinesmith’s forgery of an email as to whether one Carter Page was ever a CIA asset. The big news media let it all slide. Mr. Trump somehow survived, to the blob’s horror, and prepared to run for re-election.

The 2020 election was a fantastic trip laid on the American public. Covid-19 allowed for drastic changes in voting rules. The Democratic Party managed in plain sight to maneuver the obviously senile Joe Biden to head their ticket, and an array of very conspicuous late-night frauds got him elected. On Jan 6, 2021, Republican legislators were poised to contest the results out of several swing states where the frauds occurred in the requisite Congressional certification ceremony. The law plainly allowed for such challenges. It could not be allowed to happen.

Hence: the operations to interrupt the proceedings. The primary device would be the pipe bombs planted at the nearby DNC and RNC headquarters — terrorists on-the-loose! The backup plan was to turn the large protest group gathered around the Capitol into a mob that would somehow provoke an evacuation of the building. Between the FBI’s assets (“confidential human sources”) planted in the crowd, plus the Capitol police firing rubber bullets and “flash-bangs” into them, and mysterious figures ushering-in protesters through unlocked security doors, the breach of the Capitol was accomplished and the lawmakers fled the building. Nancy Pelosi arranged for the national guard to not be called onto the scene to fortify the understaffed Capitol Police. She was thrilled at how well it worked (captured on film). And the pipe bomb caper was swept under the rug, despite a ton of evidence that indicated the person-of-interest on the scene was a federal contractor, his movements recorded in cell-phone records and closed-circuit cameras.

When the lawmakers returned late that night in a great fugue of histrionic consternation, the majority decided to dispense with those challenges to the vote in swing states. “Joe Biden” became president and the DOJ under new Attorney General Merrick Garland commenced a raft of vicious prosecutions against anyone and everyone present at the Capitol on Jan 6. The next step was to mount a barrage of prosecutions against Mr. Trump himself, guaranteed to prevent him from ever running again, to bankrupt him, and to stuff him into prison for the rest of his natural life.

Amazingly, none of that worked. The cases against Mr. Trump were lame to an extreme, prosecuted by oafs, and adjudicated by bungling judges. Four years of “Joe Biden” pretending to run things came close to wrecking the country, and too many citizens did not fail to notice. His inept stand-in for this year’s election, Kamala Harris, made a fool of herself and her party, and now Mr. Trump is back with a much-enhanced populist opposition to the quivering DC blob.

The crew he has chosen to manage this government are pretty clearly determined to correct what has been happening in it, and the office-holders still lodged in many positions of power — where they have been waging war against the citizens of this country — have nowhere to run and hide now. They know that they are guilty of abusing their power and bringing harm to their fellow Americans. They know that something is coming for them — the dreaded consequences that they worked so diligently to evade.

Notice, you are not hearing any vows of magnanimity from incoming Trump appointees. They are not pretending to forgive and forget. Neither are they crowing about retribution. They are reaching by law for the levers of power. They will discover and disclose the files that the blobists have not already managed to destroy. And where the files are missing, they are going to depose the blobists under oath and get them to say on-the-record what they did, and why, and who ordered them to do it. And you can be sure the blobists will be ratting-out each other to stay out of prison.

This is true even of such seemingly mild fellows as Inspector General Michael Horowitz, in office since 2012 through all this monkey business in his agency, who let his report about the Jan 6 business slide until he could no longer conceal it, and who confabulated it into the modified, limited hang-out that it, dishonorably, is.

26 my ass. There were way more FBI rioters than that.

Insurrection Barbie
@DefiyantlyFree
Dec 14
A Michigan journalist captured video of a potential FBI informant manipulating the protest at the capitol. This suspected potential FBI informant pulled out the glass and encouraged people to go through it.

@Real_RobN
23h
Here is, The FBI’s CONFIDENTIAL HUMAN SOURCE James Ehren Knowles who infiltrated the Proud Boys is leading Pelosi’s staged insurrection at the garage of the Capitol building on Jan 6.

The House Administration Oversight Subcommittee and its chairman Barry Loudermilk on Tuesday released an interim report on the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, concluding the attack was preventable and also asking for an investigation into former Rep. Liz Cheney for criminally tampering with a witness during the Democrat-led congressional inquiry of the tragedy.

“Based on the evidence obtained by this Subcommittee, numerous federal laws were likely broken by Liz Cheney, the former Vice Chair of the January 6 Select Committee, and these violations should be investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation,” the report released by the House Administration Oversight Subcommittee and its chairman Barry Loudermilk stated.

"Evidence uncovered by the Subcommittee revealed that former Congresswoman Liz Cheney tampered with at least one witness, Cassidy Hutchinson, by secretly communicating with Hutchinson without Hutchinson’s attorney’s knowledge.," it added. “This secret communication with a witness is improper and likely violates 18 U.S.C. 1512. Such action is outside the due functioning of the legislative process and therefore not protected by the Speech and Debate clause."

as many suspected, it’s full of pork. it’s also full of nightmares. buried in this vast tome of “we have to pass it to find out what’s in it” are some things that i think we all really need to find out about BEFORE it’s passed because if they pass, well, we’ll never find out anything else again.

chief among them is the “congress critter full immunity act,” a set of new self-bestowed privileges so egregious as to beggar belief and constitutional compliance alike.

it is the very definition of “above the law.”

it’s buried in an innocuous section (605) ostensibly about the treatment of electronic services. ...

this absurdity grants each house member and office the right to quash subpoenas for data from their office including emails and electronic records.

it essentially makes them grand jury and discovery proof.

this is as egregious as it is anathema to the idea of responsible, representative government.

you cannot possibly hold the state accountable when the state has this sort of privilege (in the most literal sense of “private law”) to be free from investigation.

this is transparently an attempt to stymie and eliminate accountability, stop all existing investigations dead in their tracks, and prevent any new ones from being brought.

it really ought to go without saying that public officials wielding public power and the public purse need to be MORE accountable than the general public, not less and certainly not absolved from it.

and yet here we are. ...

who put this in the bill?

i'd be very curious to know and to start asking some VERY pointed questions about what they are trying to hide...

What follows below is a brilliant analysis of the federal government motive to create a J6 crisis that permitted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to trigger an emergency session and avoid the 2020 election certification challenges.

Those congressional floor challenges, known and anticipated well in advance of the morning of January 6, 2021, would have formed a legal and constitutional basis for ‘standing’ in judicial challenges that would have eventually reached the Supreme Court. The certification during “emergency session” eliminated the problem for Washington DC.

Regitiger explains below, only edited by me for clarity and context:

I think most, not all, but a large number of people, are totally missing what happened; and why this happened on Jan 6th. I am going to try my best to outline the events that day, blast past the commonly held assumptions and get right down to the core corruption.

I will present this as a series of questions and answers.

♦ Q1: How do you prevent congress from delaying the certification of state electoral votes?

A: It requires a crisis. A crisis that creates an “emergency” …An “emergency” that invokes special house rules.

FACTS: Remember carefully, focus please. Just moments, literally 3 minutes before two representatives issued a vote for motions to suspend the certification, the House members were “informed” by capitol police and other “agents” that a protest was about to breach the chambers. It was at this time that key people: Pence, Pelosi, Schumer, Mcconnell can be seen being walked out and escorted from the chamber. This effectively halted the Entire Chamber Process.

♦ Q2: Why was it necessary to halt the chamber process?

A: The crisis was created to eliminate the motion challenges to halt the certification and to begin voting to look into voting irregularities and fraud

FACTS: The two motions were completely legal and constitutional under at least two constitutionally recognized procedures… procedures that would REQUIRE the house to pause the certification and then vote to determine whether the motions of suspend could move forward.

♦ Q3: What was so important to refuse this motion and the subsequent votes to suspend the electoral certification?

A: It was important to remove that process entirely and continue the fraud and certify the fraud with no detractors on record. This effectively gives no standing for a SCOTUS ruling appeal! Understand this. If those two motions, even just one had successfully been voted EVEN IF THE MOTIONS were DENIED IN VOTE, this gives those who presented them with STANDING FOR A CONSTITUTIONAL LEGAL ARGUMENT BEFORE SCOTUS.

♦ Q4: Could this have been done some other way other than creating a crisis/protest?

A: Unlikely. In order to prevent those two motions, requires that speaker of the house, minority leaders, and the president of the congress (vice president of the United States: Pence), to NOT BE PRESENT IN THE CHAMBERS.

Once the capitol police and other “law enforcements agents” informed the speaker and these three other individuals, Pelosi UNILATERALLY UNDER EMERGENCY RULES, suspended the business of the congress. This protest was necessary. The crisis was created because there is no other way to suspend the business of certification UNILATERALLY. By creating a crisis invokes emergency procedures. No other circumstances other than war or mass simultaneous explosive diarrhea can create such unilateral speaker delivered suspension of the certification.

♦ Q5: Why did the motions, once that the speaker RECONVENED congress, move forward back again to the floor for votes? Why were members disallowed to even consider putting forward ANY motions to the floor in when the chamber business was reopened?

A: The Speaker initiated the NEW sessions under special emergency rules. These rules abandon and make it clear that the ONLY purpose of the new session was to EXPEDITE the certification and dismiss all prior regular session procedural rules. This is why those two motions to table votes to consider a debate and pause to the certifications of state vote electors never happened later that evening when the house business was reconvened!

♦ Q6: Other than new rules, emergency rules, what other peculiar things occurred when the speaker reconvened?

A: Members were allowed to “vote” in proxy, remotely, not being present. You can use your imagination about what conditions were placed on ALL members during this time to prevent anyone from “getting out of line”.

Also clearly, it was at THIS NEW SESSION that VP Pence, President of Congress, would also have no ability to even consider pausing the electoral certification, because there were no motions of disagreements on the matter. So, in a technical legal claim, he is correct that he had no constitutional authority to address any issues of fraud or doubts about electoral irregularities. But this completely dismisses the FACT that congress created rules in this crisis/emergency that never allowed them to be floored!

Understand what happened in Jan 6, 2021. Don’t get hung up on Viking impostors, stolen Pelosi computers, podium heists, and complicit capitol police. Understand the process and what happened and what WAS NOT ALLOWED TO HAPPEN.

This was a coup….it was a very organized and carefully planned coup. VP Pence without a doubt as well as most members of the house were quite aware of how the certification was going to be MANAGED. It would require new rules to prevent the debate clause from occurring! New rules that ONLY AN EMERGENCY CRISIS COULD CREATE! So, they created an emergency.

•NOTED: I understand why many people have great interest in debunking the j6 event. I get that. I think it is important to dissect and examine the events of that day but please, step back and understand WHY these things happened. Examine the chain of events in congress. Why those two motions that would have at least paused the certification THAT WOULD GIVE VP PENCE THE CONSTITUTIONALLY RECOGNIZED POWER TO MOVE TO SUSPEND THE ELECTORAL CERTIFICATION AND THEN EXAMINE THE IRREGULARITIES AND CLAIMS OF FRAUD!

At the very center of this coup stands Mike Pence, the same individual who also spoiled President Trump’s first opportunities in the earlies hours of his Presidency just 4 years prior, when he created and facilitated the removal of Lt General Michael Flynn. I will not spend much time on this thread explaining why Lt Gen Flynn was so important to President Trump and why the IC was so afraid he would have advisory power to the President. That I will leave for another day, another time. But understand this clearly: MIKE PENCE WAS AND IS WORKING FOR THE MOST CORRUPT CRIMINAL TREASONOUS PEOPLE IN GOVERNMENT.

•PRO TIP: If you really want to get a true understanding of this matter videos of protesters walking in the capitol is not going to address them. Actual video and timeline records of events and the specific actions taken by the speaker just moments before TWO MAJOR ELECTORAL ALTERING MOTIONS WERE ABOUT TO BE FLOORED.

This crisis was developed just in time with a precise coordination to prevent those two motions to be entered into the chamber record. The two motions do not exist. The emergency powers established in the new session made sure they never could be entered. The emergency powers could never happen without a crisis.

God Bless America!”

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/03/07/tucker-carson-responds-to-the-blitzkrieg-of-dc-and-media-apoplexy-following-his-broadcast-of-j6-cctv-video/comment-page-2/#comment-9640783

We have all suffered through an interminably long four years that seemed as though it would never end. From the very first second, things went sideways, and fast. Approaching the 2020 election, we felt secure and confident. Some went to sleep on time on election night, at peace that a popular president pulling record rally crowds was no contest against a doddering basement campaigner.

But the shock and disbelief at waking up to the announcement of Biden’s win quickly turned to horror, as facts emerged about the cognitively vegetative candidate’s inexplicable midnight surge.

The horror melted into a spreading black oil of despair after the January 6th fedsurrection, an induced riot infested with federal agents, and the full scope of the long odds the country really faced became clearer. Brace for impact.

As “Dark Brandon” (or whoever was pulling his strings) slid behind DC’s wheels of power, covid recommendations transformed into mandates, temporary pandemic restrictions transferred to permanent status, and a crowd of profoundly unattractive men with wildly atypical sexual appetites transitioned into the federal government and began busily transforming the nation’s laws to better suit their twisted predilections.

Over an unrelenting four years, they prosecuted and sued the President in every way they could conceive of, limited only by their ability to conscript reckless volunteer lawyers, prosecutors, and judges. They raided his house and dug through Melania’s intimates drawer. They labeled him ‘Hitler,’ called him ‘dangerous,’ and warned anyone who’d listen that he would Destroy Democracy.

Even if only through grossly incompetent negligence, they tried to kill him at least twice, and even successfully shot him once.

President Trump’s re-election seemed so unlikely for so long that many Republicans supported other primary candidates, just because they were convinced the Nation was tired of Trump and he was ‘unelectable.’ When, following the disastrous debate with Joe Biden, Trump finally edged ahead in the polls, the Democrats did the unthinkable, and pulled a sitting, nominated president off the ticket at the last minute.

With two months to go, the Democrats frantically campaigned an unelected, unvetted pinch hitter. They spent a record $2.5 billion dollars in eight weeks selling the least-liked political candidate in history, and flipped the polls back to the donkey. Only the betting markets honestly predicted the outcome, and the joyful but unelected replacement nominee lost badly in an inglorious mudslide.

Trump’s come-from-behind victory was unpredictable and unpredicted. At one point or another, every single political pundit forecast Trump’s loss, and most of them predicted he’d lose badly. But the people, primed by the pandemic, rejected the experts’ prognostications and advice, and stuck with the felon. In that sense, and in countless other ways, President Trump’s re-election was uniquely historic, a miraculous comeback story so unbelievable even the Hallmark Channel would have passed on the script.

In seven days he’ll be restored to where he should have been in 2021. But in nearly every conceivable way, Trump is better poised to accomplish his agenda now than he would have been had he formally won four years ago.

Had Trump in fact won the 2020 election, his faltering Administration would have remained mired in a slough of political despond. Instead, a different take on how things played out is that Trump was gifted with four years to re-arm and re-tool. During that time, instead of re-arming and re-tooling, through catastrophic cultural missteps and toxic identity-group alignments, Democrats did their level best to Bud Lite themselves and alienate vast sections of their traditional base, like black men, Latinos, and women.

Perhaps more often than not, history works in mind-bogglingly mysterious ways. The story of Trump’s 2024 re-election is one of those cases. Although cheated out of the 46th presidency, paradoxically, a much more politically muscular Trump will return to the White House in 2025, stronger, bolder, freed from the shackles of political controversy, and far more focused.

Let us count the 2025 advantages over where he was in 2020. Trump now enjoys a mandate. He has the House. He has the Speaker. He has the Senate (or at least, a claim to the Senate). He has the Supreme Court. The RussiaGate nonsense has been transformed from a political liability into massive political capital — and another type of mandate. The legion of presidential legal battles are over in any legitimate sense; his lawyers mostly conducting mop-up operations.

Ironically, in many ways the Democrats nourished a mesomorphic Trump Administration. By crying about “Trump’s revenge” for months and months and months until our ears bled, and by prosecuting the former president six ways from Sunday, they paved a runway to previously unthinkable future prosecutions.

In other words, among other things, Trump’s four wilderness years demolished a latticework of invisible doctrines, institutional norms, and political precedents that protected treacherous former presidents and insidious government officials from criminal prosecution. Under the long-standing, unstated you-stay-out-of-our-branch-and-we’ll-stay-out-of-yours arrangement, only four years ago judges would have explicitly or implicitly refused to convict bad government actors, protecting them with one archaic defensive doctrine or another judicially-made immunity rule.

But those rules are now obscured or even erased, thanks to the relentless state and federal prosecution of the 45th president. If anything, judges may now be more likely to lean the other way. The Democrats have even opened Pandora’s box to civil lawsuits against former Presidents, something previously unthinkable in the cold marble corridors of the nation’s courtrooms.

The newfound strength of Trump’s brawny political position is obvious in many ways. First, some of the best evidence is the way the world is responding to Trump’s election. We have repeatedly seen the awe-inspiring Trump effect, involving many markets and actors moving toward better positions merely because of Trump’s election.

The domestic and international demand for Inauguration tickets evidences an expectation of power, and such expectations often help manifest the expected result. When world leaders and domestic power brokers act like someone has power, that is power. The expectation is self-reinforcing and creates the very reality they're anticipating.

Then there is the galactic media shift, from relentlessly fawning Biden coverage to wall-to-call critical Trump reporting — even though Trump is not yet in office. They are already obsessed with him. Like Mark Zuckerberg, who gave Democrats $450 million in 2020, but is now throwing Biden under the censorship bus, many former institutional gatekeepers feel the political winds blowing and have completely capitulated.

And what about Trump’s new and powerful allies, like Elon Musk, who were far off stage in 2020, or even on the wrong side? Not only are they allied, but they are all-in allies.

Second, there is the evidence of the man himself. Trump has always been a confident speaker, but now he speaks with an authority and confidence beyond anything seen during his first term. Trump talks like a man whose most ambitious plans have been realized to the fruitfulest extent and who is finally coming into his own.

As evidence, just consider how effortlessly President Trump wheeled out his historic ideas of recovering the Panama Canal (a ‘settled matter’ of international law), making Canada into the 51st state (instead of DC), and buying Greenland —an idea that provoked hoots and howls of mockery in 2019 when he first mentioned it but is now a seen as a serious geopolitical play in an increasingly Arctic-focused world.

Witness Trump’s bold nominations for cabinet and agency leadership positions.

Over the weekend, news emerged of President Trump’s plans to take the oath at noon, then head straight into the Senate building to start signing a record number of executive orders. Say what you like about executive orders, but this tidal wave of action reveals a President who knows exactly what he wants to do and has an agenda clearer than perhaps any Administration in our lifetimes. ...

One week out from this historic Inauguration Day, I am arguing that this muscular Trump Presidency could never have happened without the cheating, the wilderness years, the persecutions, and all the Democrat overreach that drove independents and conservative Democrats into the arms of the Republican party, defying punditry that long claimed the nation’s changing demographics would cement Democrat party power for generations.

In other words, you just can’t predict how history’s big moves will work out. Whoever unleashed the pandemic —intentionally or negligently— which tanked Trump’s second term in 2020, never considered that it might result in this kind of swinging pendulum.