The Patriot Post® · In Brief: Another January 6 Narrative Goes Boom
A few idiots did get out of control on January 6. But the real lesson from that day is what Democrats have done ever since to besmirch the name of every conservative for the actions of a handful. Aside from our own Douglas Andrews, who’s been on the beat since January 7, 2021, journalist Julie Kelly has done outstanding work to uncover the truth.
Her latest article is about one particular part of the narrative:
How does a mob “illegally storm” the Capitol building when police let them in? That is the latest narrative-shifting question the media wants desperately to avoid after a federal judge on Wednesday found a January 6 defendant not guilty for his conduct during the protest at the Capitol that day.
Matthew Martin was arrested in Santa Fe, New Mexico on April 22, 2021; he later was charged with the four most common misdemeanors related to the Justice Department’s prosecution of Capitol protesters: entering a restricted building, disorderly conduct, violent entry, and parading in the Capitol building.
Those petty offenses comprise the overwhelming majority of criminal charges against the nearly 800 or so January 6 defendants. More than 150 people have pleaded guilty to the “parading” charge — many have been sentenced to a few months in prison.
But those defendants might regret accepting the plea deal offered by the government after D.C. District Court Judge Trevor McFadden not only acquitted Martin on all counts but agreed with Martin’s assertion that he was “waved” in by Capitol Police officers. Martin, who opted for a bench trial before the Trump-appointed judge and testified in his own defense, entered the building around 3 p.m. through a set of doors on the east side. He walked through the Rotunda and stayed inside for about 10 minutes.
For that activity — a right protected under the Constitution up until January 6, 2021 — Martin’s life, like that of every other American ensnared in this abusive prosecution, has been destroyed.
Kelly explains the trial’s bombshell:
As Martin tries to rebuild the life his own government attempted to annihilate over a 10-minute jaunt through a public building which had been vacated by lawmakers, Martin might get the last laugh. His trial blew up one of the most animating features of January 6 — that hundreds if not thousands of Trump supporters overran police and unlawfully invaded the Capitol. Despite a trove of video evidence, including security camera footage showing how law enforcement officers stood by as people filed in on both the east and west side of the Capitol, the myth that a “mob” broke down doors to gain entry persists to this day.
But that narrative just suffered a major blow — and by a witness for the government, no less.
Testifying under oath, a U.S. Capitol police official told the court that police indeed had allowed people to enter the building that day.
The news isn’t that police allowed people in, but that a police official has now testified as much.
So, one more allegation about January 6 is exposed as a lie, which can be added to the growing list of falsehoods.
No, it wasn’t an “armed insurrection.” No, Officer Brian Sicknick was not bludgeoned to death by a fire extinguisher or killed as the result of any attack by Trump supporters. Zero police officers died as a result of January 6, not “several” as Joe Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland maintain. No, “white supremacists” and “right-wing militia” groups are not responsible for what happened that day. No, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) was not in danger of being raped or killed. No, Kamala Harris and Mike Pence were not in the building during the breach, rendering the property off-limits to the public.
Not that the truth will ever prompt Democrats to stop lying. There’s far too much political gain to be had in treating events that day as an “insurrection.”