On the fifth anniversary of January 6, the Left’s carefully constructed narrative is starting to crack.
On today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words,” Hanson explains how branding January 6 an “insurrection” drove impeachment efforts, investigations, and years of specifically framed media coverage.
He also examines the arrest and confession of Brian Cole Jr., the alleged January 6 pipe bomber, and why the delayed investigation and lingering questions surrounding his background cast doubt on many of the conclusions Americans were first told to accept.
“To sum up everything we’ve been told about January 6th from the congressional committee to Kamala Harris’ description of it, to comparisons with the four-month, $2 billion, 35 dead, 1,500 police officers, prior riots, arson attacks on courthouses, police precincts that was never really mentioned as a comparable crisis in the republic, all of these things, a number of FBI informants, a number of FBI agents, any effort to find the pipe bomber, the treatment of the January - it was all never transparent.
“We never got the honest story.
“So, that begs the question, why?
“Why didn’t they just come out and say, ‘Here’s all the information?’
“And the reason is, they wanted to cement a narrative in everybody’s mind that a reckless demonstration that turned into a riot was a pre-planned insurrection by Donald Trump, who ordered it, and therefore, should forfeit his political career, and he should never be allowed to run for office.”
Chapters
0:00 The January 6th Narrative
1:40 Inconsistencies in the Investigation
2:20 The Mysterious Pipe Bomber
3:49 Media and Political Reactions
5:05 FBI Informants and Undercover Agents
7:02 Summarizing the January 6th Events
8:47 Conclusion
