Evidence Suggests The Insurrection on Jan. 6 was Not a Spur of the Moment Accident: It was An Attempted Overthrow of American Democracy and Almost Succeeded

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By Glynn Wilson –

There is no way that the failure of law enforcement and the military to protect the United States Capitol building on Wednesday, Jan. 6, was somehow an accidental failure of intelligence — as the story is being framed so far as of Monday — with too few cops on duty to hold back the “unexpected” mob that stormed the building and breached the citadel of American democracy.

Multiple sources with direct contacts inside the Capitol Police force and who are knowledgable about how the agency works — who cannot be publicly identified because they would lose their jobs and put their lives at further risk — tell The New American Journal EXCLUSIVELY that officers were told to “stand down” over the radio even as throngs of rioters inspired by the incendiary language of the lame duck president at his insurrection rally were storming into the building.

Stop and think about that. The formal security guards for the United States Capitol were ordered to “stand down” — as Trump’s right-wing militia were flooding into the unlocked doors and breaking windows to breach the Capitol.

The sergeants at arms for both the House and Senate stalled ordering up more officers and calling in troops — as the breach was occurring.

It also looks like there was a stand down order across the Potomac River at the Pentagon, where new reporting shows the mayor of D.C. and the head of the Capitol Police were begging for National Guard troops, who were still being held back and not on the way — hours after the breach took place.

Just as the Iraq war in 2003 was not just inspired by the “bad intel” of Weapons of Mass Destruction inside Iraq, the official coverup of Trump’s attempted coup is already underway.

The lack of a massive police presence to protect the Capitol might remind you of another day of infamy in American history. According to many investigators and scholars, police agencies in Dallas, Texas, were secretly ordered to “stand down” on Friday, November 22, 1963. At 12:30 p.m, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza. This too was a coup and we may never find out the full truth of what happened on that day — because it was covered up people inside the highest levels of the United States government.

They did it at least in part to protect the poor American people and the government itself, because it was such a horrible story that they thought the people could never handle the truth.

Remember when Joe Biden went after Donald Trump in the debates for not telling people the truth about the coronavirus? He said the American people can handle the truth.

We will see if this is true. We will see if this story comes out as it is framed here.

Stand Down, Stand By

It is pretty clear now that police agencies and the U.S. military in the Department of Defense in Virginia, Maryland and Washington were ordered by the commander-in-chief and/or his agents to “stand down” for the coup attempt on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021. That is a term Trump used in the first debacle of a presidential debate with Democrat Joe Biden back during the fall campaign.

“Stand down, stand by,” he told the Proud Boys and their allies in Qanon conspiracy groups, white supremacy and Neo-Nazi organizations and full blown domestic terrorists in the radical right-wing militia movement. Donald Trump called for the insurrection march at a rally on the National Mall broadcast on national television for all to see. All of those groups were well represented at the rally on The Mall and the march to the Capitol and the insurrection inside. He had been calling for it and rallying his forces for weeks on Parler, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, by text message and email too.

Will we ever discover the truth? Maybe with all the video and other evidence all over social media, if experienced people with knowledge of how things work put the pieces all together. Will those responsible ever be held accountable? We will see.

It has taken five days for the American press to put together the first detailed reports of what happened inside the Pentagon between Capitol Police and Washington, D.C. Metro Police on and prior to Wednesday. Normally I would just share these stories on social media, but not this time. We have been working on our own investigation. The instincts of the traditional media to go with the official line on a story this big is not to be trusted in full on deadline as the first draft of the history of this story is being written. It will take more time for an investigation to be conducted and all the facts to come out and all the culprits and co-conspirators to be outed.

It’s looking more and more like this was a full-blown conspiracy on the part of the lame duck president of the United States to incite a riot and inspire an insurrection to overturn a legitimate election and try to overturn American democracy itself and take over as America’s first dictator. Watching this all on cable TV and social media, millions of people were duped into thinking this entire spectacle was just another reality television show and that Trump was just being Trump, not serious about taking over the country, and that somehow, cooler heads would prevail at the end of the day. Now it should be openly apparent that Trump was serious all along, inspired and advised by Russia’s dictator Vladimir Putin. Now we see that Trump’s attempted coup came closer to succeeding than anyone is reporting, yet.

Think about it.

What if those radical militia members with zip tie handcuffs had been successful in capturing and killing Vice President Mike Pence and members of Congress?

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Congress would have had no choice but to adjourn at that point and Trump could have declared martial law and shut down the Electoral College official count. That was obviously the plan. Why did it fail?

Some people on social media are still laughing about this, saying Trump himself must have laughed in wonder at how far his army got. It is more likely that behind the scenes, Trump is mad as hell that they failed to capture Mike Pence and Nanci Pelosi so that he could declare martial law and take over the government.

It looks like the Secret Service and the F.B.I. were the only law enforcement agencies that were not fully compromised. All the members of Congress were sheltered in a safe place in the Capitol until more Capitol Police officers arrived and were aided by D.C. Metro Police in finally getting the mob out of the building and back off the Capitol steps and grounds. Some Capitol Police officers did their duty to protect members of Congress. By the time the National Guard were deployed and arrived, it was already way too late to prevent the breach. They did help control the crowd in the streets after dark from getting out of control.

Capitol Police were shown holding the doors open to let the rioters out, rather than arresting them, contrary to the heroic defense of the Capitol story all over the place in the mediasphere.

A line of people exit the Capitol building. One bloodied in the head and more came out who previously stormed the building. pic.twitter.com/0MF2aAp3Ly

— Matthew Miller (@mattmiller757) January 6, 2021

This will not stand.

Video evidence clearly shows that the security guards for the Capitol itself, the Capitol Police, were involved in the breach of the Capitol, removing barricades and inviting the rioters in, failing to protect doors that should have been bolted shut, colluding with groups of domestic terrorists who in fact planned to capture and kill the Vice President and members of Congress, all on the direct orders of the commander-in-chief.

Video of Capitol Police being cozy with rioters.

Limited reporting already shows that Trump obstructed calling up the National Guard. He refused to sign the order to send in the Guard offered by the Republican governor of Maryland, even after the building had already been breached. If this is not collusion to commit sedition and treason in a full-blown conspiracy to overthrow a duly elected new government I don’t know what would be. The doubters need to look at these facts. This is NOT funny.

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Are there a text messages, phone calls, emails or other messages from Trump or any of his family, lawyers or agents ordering the Department of Defense and Capitol Police to “stand down” on this day? Will we ever find out the whole truth?

It seems this is far more serious and concerning than is being reported so far, and another attack on the inauguration on Jan. 20 is already being planned.

Elected officials and broadcast news personalities are all still stopping short of calling this an attempted coup ordered by the president himself. Even the U.S. attorney who will be investigating and prosecuting this case stopped short of calling it “sedition” or “treason” in an exclusive interview on National Public Radio (NPR).

D.C.’s Acting U.S. Attorney Calls Scope Of Capitol Investigation ‘Unprecedented’

But House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, a Democrat from South Carolina, suggested Friday that someone from inside the U.S. Capitol may have been “complicit” in the attack, citing the relative ease that Trump’s supporters raided the building on Wednesday.

“I do believe that something was going on,” Clyburn told CBSN’s Lana Zak in an interview on Friday. “They knew where to go.”

Obviously there was a detailed plan for specific members of the insurrection to go to pre-ordained offices and accomplish detailed tasks, like a well organized militia with leadership, command and control, and detailed planning.

Clyburn told the network that he had heard from others in Congress that their staff reported seeing members of the violent mob being let into the building “through side doors.”

“Somebody on the inside of those buildings were complicit in this,” he said, and that includes Republican members of Congress who stood up for Trump and tried to challenge the Electoral College votes on the House floor. FBI agents are combing through offices in Tennessee and other states where public officials on the state level were involved in the collusion and riot planning too.

Video evidence backs this up.

Clyburn added that he felt something was “amiss” on Wednesday morning when he arrived at the U.S. Capitol and “the perimeter had not been established,” in preparation for what was expected to be a contentious joint congressional session to count the Electoral College votes that would reaffirm Joe Biden’s win in the 2020 presidential election.

“We have seen a double standard here,” Clyburn said, comparing the lack of security on Wednesday to the incredible show of force for peaceful Black Lives Matter protests last summer.

“There were no security people on the steps,” Clyburn said. “They were all out in a place which I thought gave low security. They did not do their jobs. They were not just derelict. You could say they were complicit.”

Clyburn Suggests Someone Within U.S. Capitol Was ‘Complicit’ In Letting Mob Inside

Republican staffers for conservative members of Congress most vocal in supporting Trump are now being implicated in opening doors for the rioters, as happened in Oregon in December. This should have served as an early warning for law enforcement. Was it simply missed? Or was it purposely ignored?

Rioters stormed the Oregon Capitol in December. Video shows a Republican lawmaker let them in.

Washington Post Report

While there was lots of heroic reporting on the ground as the insurrection happened, The Washington Post was finally able to get an interview with Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund, who resigned on Friday at the behest of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Let’s go through what he said here, since most Americans cannot to afford to pay or are not willing to pay to read The Washington Post online. As a journalist covering politics and public affairs, I have no real choice but to pay for it, since the Post and the Times are about the only two newspapers left worth reading in this country anymore. (See my notes interspersed).

Outgoing Capitol Police chief: House, Senate security officials hamstrung efforts to call in National Guard

Two days before Congress was set to formalize President-elect Joe Biden’s victory, Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund was growing increasingly worried about the size of the pro-Trump crowds expected to stream into Washington in protest, the Post reports based on what he said, taking his word for it.

To be on the safe side, Sund asked House and Senate security officials for permission to request that the D.C. National Guard be placed on standby in case he needed quick backup.

But, Sund said Sunday, they turned him down. (After the fact he says this, covering his backside).

In his first interview since pro-Trump rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol last week, Sund, who has since resigned his post, said his supervisors were reluctant to take formal steps to put the Guard on call even as police intelligence suggested that the crowd President Trump had invited to Washington to protest his defeat probably would be much larger than earlier demonstrations.

House Sergeant at Arms Paul Irving said he wasn’t comfortable with the “optics” of formally declaring an emergency ahead of the demonstration, Sund (claims). Meanwhile, Senate Sergeant at Arms Michael Stenger suggested that Sund should informally seek out his Guard contacts, asking them to “lean forward” and be on alert in case Capitol Police needed their help.

Irving could not be reached for comment by the Post. A cellphone number listed in his name has not accepted messages since Wednesday. Messages left at a residence he owns in Nevada were not immediately returned, and there was no answer Sunday evening at a Watergate apartment listed in his name. A neighbor said he had recently moved out.

Stenger declined Sunday to comment when a reporter visited his Virginia home. “I really don’t want to talk about it,” he said.

It was the first of six times Sund’s request for help was rejected or delayed, he said. Two days later on Wednesday afternoon, his forces already in the midst of crisis, Sund said he pleaded for help five more times as a scene far more dire than he had ever imagined unfolded on the historic Capitol grounds.

An army of 8,000 pro-Trump demonstrators streamed down Pennsylvania Avenue after hearing Trump speak near the White House. Sund’s outer perimeter on the Capitol’s west side was breached within 15 minutes. With 1,400 Capitol Police officers on duty, his forces were quickly overrun.

“If we would have had the National Guard we could have held them at bay longer, until more officers from our partner agencies could arrive,” (Sund) said.

(NAJ: But in other interviews, District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser and acting police chief Robert J. Contee III say they offered help in advance, but were turned down by Sund and the acting defense secretary, Christopher C. Miller, only recently appointed by Trump. He has never undergone a confirmation hearing in the U.S. Senate).

Just before 2 p.m., the pro-Trump mob entered the Capitol, sending lawmakers and staff scrambling for safety. D.C. police had quickly dispatched hundreds of officers to the scene. But it wasn’t enough. At 2:26 p.m., Sund said, he joined a conference call to the Pentagon to plead for additional backup.

“I am making an urgent, urgent immediate request for National Guard assistance,” Sund recalled saying. “I have got to get boots on the ground.”

On the call were several officials from the D.C. government, as well as officials from the Pentagon, including Lt. Gen. Walter E. Piatt, director of the Army Staff. The D.C. contingent was flabbergasted to hear Piatt say that he could not recommend that his boss, Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy, approve the request.

“I don’t like the visual of the National Guard standing a police line with the Capitol in the background,” Piatt said, according to Sund and others on the call.

Again and again, Sund said, “The situation is dire,” recalled John Falcicchio, the chief of staff for D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser. “Literally, this guy is on the phone, I mean, crying out for help. It’s burned in my memories.”

Pentagon officials have emphasized that the Capitol Police did not ask for D.C. Guard backup ahead of the event or request to put a riot contingency plan in place with guardsmen at the ready, and then made an urgent request as rioters were about to breach the building, even though the Guard isn’t set up to be a quick-reaction force like the police.

“We rely on Capitol Police and federal law enforcement to provide an assessment of the situation,” Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman said during a news conference last week. “And based on that assessment that they had, they believed they had sufficient personnel and did not make a request.”

Despite Sund’s pleas, the first National Guard personnel didn’t arrive at the Capitol until 5:40 p.m. — after four people had died and the worst was long over.

Sund, 55, offered his resignation the next day, telling friends he felt he had let his officers down. Many lawmakers, infuriated by the breach and angry that they had been unable to reach Sund at the height of the crisis, were only too happy to accept it.

Under pressure from lawmakers, Stenger and Irving also resigned.

In a wide-ranging interview, Sund sought to defend his officers, who, he said, had fought valiantly. And with threats of violence looming ahead of Biden’s Jan. 20 inauguration, he said he remains worried.

“My concern is if they don’t get their act together with physical security, it’s going to happen again,” he said.

As he prepared for last week’s demonstrations, Sund drew on decades of experience. Hired as chief in 2019, two years after joining the Capitol Police, he worked for 23 years on the D.C. police force, leaving as commander of the Special Operations Division. Widely respected in the District and among leaders of U.S. Secret Service and Park Police, he had helped to run 12 national security events, including Barack Obama’s 2013 inauguration. He also served as incident commander during the 2013 Navy Yard shooting.

Last Monday, Sund said, he began to worry about the Jan. 6 demonstration.

“We knew it would be bigger,” Sund said. “We looked at the intelligence. We knew we would have large crowds, the potential for some violent altercations. I had nothing indicating we would have a large mob seize the Capitol.”

Sure, there were claims that alt-right instigators had discussed storming the building and targeting lawmakers. But Sund said such threats had surfaced in the past.

“You might see rhetoric on social media. We had seen that many times before,” he said. “People say a lot of things online.”

Still, he decided to call Irving and Stenger to ask for permission to request that the National Guard be put on emergency standby. Irving didn’t like the idea, Sund said; he said it would look bad because it would communicate that they presumed an emergency. He said he’d have to ask House leaders.

On the way home that evening, Sund did as Stenger suggested, calling Maj. Gen. William J. Walker, the head of the 1,000-member D.C. National Guard, to tell him that he might call on him for help. “If we can get you leaning forward,” Sund said, “how long do you think it would take to get us assistance?”

Walker said he thought he could send 125 personnel fairly quickly. Over the weekend, Sund had also conferred with D.C. Police Chief Robert J. Contee III, who also had offered to lend a hand if trouble arose.

On Tuesday, Sund said he briefed Irving and Stenger, who said that backup seemed sufficient.

Just before noon Wednesday, Sund was monitoring Trump’s speech to the crowd on the Ellipse when he was called away. There were reports of two pipe bombs near the Capitol grounds. So Sund didn’t hear the president call on protesters to “fight” against lawmakers preparing to confirm Biden’s victory. Nor did he hear Trump’s personal attorney, Rudolph W. Giuliani, urging the crowd to engage in “trial by combat,” an eerie reference to battles to the death in the series, “Game of Thrones.” Sund said he now suspects that the pipe bombs were an intentional effort to draw officers away from the Capitol perimeter.

The first wave of protesters arrived at the Capitol about 12:40 p.m.

“As soon as they hit the fence line, the fight was on,” Sund said. “Violent confrontations from the start. They came with riot helmets, gas masks, shields, pepper spray, fireworks, climbing gear — climbing gear! — explosives, metal pipes, baseball bats. I have never seen anything like it in 30 years of events in Washington.”

Using video footage from the Capitol and radio transmissions from his incident commanders, Sund could see his officers trying to hold the line. But the rioters immediately yanked the barricade fence out of the way and threw it at his officers’ heads.

(NAJ: Videos actually show officers themselves removing barricades and waving rioters in).

“I realized at 1 p.m., things aren’t going well,” he said. “I’m watching my people getting slammed.”

Sund immediately called Contee, who sent 100 officers to the scene, with some arriving within 10 minutes. But at 1:09 p.m., Sund said he called Irving and Stenger, telling them it was time to call in the Guard. He wanted an emergency declaration. Both men said they would “run it up the chain” and get back to him, he said.

Minutes later, aides to the top congressional leaders were called to Stenger’s office for an update on the situation — and were infuriated to learn that the sergeants at arms had not yet called in the National Guard or any other reinforcements, as was their responsibility to do without seeking approval from leaders.

“What do you mean that there’s no National Guard, that there’s no reinforcements coming?” aides demanded to know. “Why haven’t you ordered them, why aren’t they already here?”

Sund said he called Irving twice more and Stenger once to check on their progress. At 1:50 p.m. — nine minutes before the Capitol was breached — Sund said he was losing patience. He called Walker to tell him to get ready to bring the Guard. Irving called back with formal approval at 2:10 p.m. By then, plainclothes Capitol Police agents were barricading the door to the Speaker’s Lobby just off the House chamber to keep the marauders from charging in.

Sund finally had approval to call the National Guard. But that would prove to be just the beginning of a bureaucratic nightmare to get soldiers on the scene.

At 2:26 p.m., Sund joined a conference call organized by D.C’s homeland security director, Chris Rodriguez. Among those on the screen were the District’s police chief, mayor and Walker.

Unlike anywhere else in the country, the D.C. Guard does not report to a governor, but to the president, so Walker patched in the office of the Secretary of the Army, noting that he would need authorization from the Pentagon to order soldiers to the Capitol.

Piatt noted the Pentagon still needed authorization from Capitol Police to step foot on Capitol grounds. Sund ticked through details on the severity of the breach, but the call got noisy with crosstalk as officials asked more questions.

Contee sought to quiet the din. “Wait, wait,” he said, and then directed attention to Sund. “Steve, are you requesting National Guard assistance at the Capitol?”

Sund said he replied: “I am making urgent, urgent, immediate request for National Guard assistance.”

But Piatt, dialed in from across the river at the Pentagon, pushed back, according to Sund, saying he would prefer to have Guard soldiers take up posts around Washington, relieving D.C. police, so that they could respond to the Capitol instead of guardsmen. Sund’s account is supported by four D.C. officials on the call, including Bowser.

Bowser told The Washington Post that Sund had “made it perfectly clear that they needed extraordinary help, including the National Guard. There was some concern from the Army of what it would look like to have armed military personnel on the grounds of the Capitol.”

Falcicchio said that once Contee confirmed that Sund wanted the National Guard, D.C. officials echoed his request.

“Contee was definitely — I hate to use this term, but there’s no other term for it. He was pleading,” Falcicchio said. “He was pleading with them to fulfill the request that Capitol Police was making.”

But the entire discussion was in vain. Only McCarthy, the secretary, could order the Guard deployed — and only with the approval of the Pentagon chief. McCarthy has since said that, at the time of the call, he was busy taking the requests to activate more Guard to acting defense secretary Christopher C. Miller.

At one point, according to a defense official, Contee said, “Let me be clear, are you denying this?” To which Piatt responded that he wasn’t denying the request; he simply didn’t have the authority to approve it.

“It was clear that it was a dire situation,” the defense official said. “He didn’t want to commit to anything without getting approval.”

At 3:45 p.m., Stenger told Sund that he would ask his boss, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), for help getting the National Guard authorized more quickly. Sund never learned the result. More of Contee’s officers had arrived and were helping remove rioters from the grounds. Capitol Police worked with other federal authorities, including the Secret Service, the Park Police and the FBI, to secure lawmakers, eject rioters and sweep the building so lawmakers could return to finish counting the electoral college votes that would allow them to formally recognize Biden’s victory later that night.

According to a timeline the Defense Department published Friday, Miller verbally authorized the activation of the entire D.C. Guard at 3:04 p.m. It would take two more hours for most of the citizen soldiers to leave their jobs and homes, and pick up gear from the D.C. Armory.

Sund, who was officially replaced as chief Friday, said he is left feeling that America’s bastions of democracy need far more security. He said the violent crowd that mobbed the Capitol was unlike anything he has ever seen.

“They were extremely dangerous and they were extremely prepared. I have a hard time calling this a demonstration,” he said.

“I’m a firm supporter of First Amendment. This was none of that,” he added. “This was criminal riotous activity.”

Sund blamed Trump for putting his officers at risk, saying “the crowd left that rally and had been incited by some of the words the president said.” Sund said he fears what may come next.

On Sunday, the Capitol’s rolling green lawn was ringed by high black fencing and patrolled by personnel in green camouflage keeping the public at bay.

“This is the people’s house. Congress members have always prided themselves on having an open campus,” Sund said. But now, “I’m not sure that will continue to be defensible.”

You can believe the Post‘s reporting and what Sund said if you choose. We find it suspicious. Could it be that police were offered cushy jobs in a new Trump administration or as private security if they helped with the insurrection? Will some astute prosecutor check to see if Trump is actually guilty of bribing Capitol Police and members of the military to overthrow his own government? It is not beyond the pale for Trump, who we warned would become a fascist dictator the day he was elected.

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The New York Times on Monday published a similar, less detailed account.

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Fascists All Around Us

And now we are seeing in the stories about the arrests that police officers from all over the country were involved, along with members of the military and veterans of all stripes. Trump and his propaganda machine have gotten to all manner of white Christians especially, and loyalists to this fascist dictator are pervasive throughout our society and culture now.

State houses are compromised, along with city councils, county commissions, school boards, police departments, National Guard outposts. Where are the newspapers and television news shows to expose the corruption at the local level? Either so damaged economically that they have no reporters to cover this, or taken over by conservative media conglomerates like Gatehouse Media and Sinclair Broadcasting. Churches have always been involved in politics in this country, in spite of the Constitution and Supreme Court rulings establishing a wall separating church and state. But many are involved now more than ever, and have become unconstitutional outposts for the racist fascism of Trump.

We have a chance to hold onto and restore Democracy if President-elect Joe Biden can be sworn in on Jan. 20 and begin to restore the damage by putting people back in charge of all the federal agencies who are loyal to the Constitution, not a cult of personality. But Trump has still not conceded, and his militia will not back down until he does, as they made clear on Wednesday, Jan. 6, in videos that are now being seen all over the world.

Trump still holds power for a few more days. The world is watching to see if the professionals can seize control and protect our government and its institutions from this insurrection.

But what should be crystal clear now for all to see — at least those who are keeping up with their eyes wide open — is that Trump’s entire four year tenure in the White House has been an insurrection against American Democracy. There is no doubt about it. It is not funny.

Check out this video from Vice News on the insurrection rally and march from Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021. America may be headed for another civil war after all.

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If you want to see how scary Trump’s propaganda videos are from Parler, which has been taken down by Amazon and Apple, and YouTube, you can see it on Vimeo.

If you want to see some more crazy fake news propaganda, just go to Trump’s YouTube channel, which is still up, thanks to Google.

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This is a work in progress and the first draft of the history of this event. The published reports in print and on television are the first draft of the official coverup of the event. We will continue to work on this story and others and add evidence as it comes in.