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https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/01/no_j6er_got_justice_in_biden_s_d_c.html

“I fear that you will get more violence,” said Sen. Lindsay Graham on “Meet the Press” this Sunday. “Pardoning the people who went into the Capitol and beat up a police officer violently I think it was a mistake.”

In so saying, Graham, like so many pundits on the Right, showed how little he knows about what transpired on January 6, 2021, and during the four years afterward. In truth, the one thing all J6ers have in common, including the allegedly violent ones, is that they had no more chance at securing justice in Joe Biden’s D.C. than the Scottsboro Boys had in Jim Crow Alabama.

In 2020, 95 percent of the D.C. citizens voted against Donald Trump. If this jury pool were not poisoned enough, the media lied relentlessly to potential jurors about the “insurrection,” about “white supremacist” mobs, about cops being “murdered” — pick a number of dead cops, 1 to 5.

A change of venue would seem to have been in order, but none was allowed, and the juries lived down to expectations. They acquitted not a single J6er. Knowing the odds against them, hundreds of defendants pleaded guilty to crimes they did not commit — including felony assault.

The Scottsboro Boys at least had the major media and the ACLU on their side, The J6ers had neither. On the first anniversary of January 6, for instance, all 51 ACLU chapters signed on to a letter drafted by the D.C. ACLU about “the white supremacists” that invaded the U.S. Capitol. The date was the only thing the ACLU got right:

“On January 6 of last year, the residents of D.C. were traumatized as an insurrectionist mob roamed our streets, harassed our neighbors, and violently broke into the Capitol Building, killing at least five people — all in an attempt to overthrow the counting of American citizens’ votes.”

What makes this letter doubly perverse is that the ACLU signees had a fresh memory of what an insurrectionist mob actually looked like. They saw elements of this mob in action over a three-week period that began on May 29, 2020.

On the night of May 29, rioters threw rocks, alcohol, and urine at the Secret Service agents guarding the White House, injuring more than 60 of them. On May 30, rioters defaced the Lincoln Memorial and the World War II Memorial. The next night they looted dozens of businesses and set St. John’s Episcopal Church on fire.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/crash-reagan-national-airport-washington-dc/

A passenger jet and a Black Hawk helicopter collided in midair Wednesday and crashed into the Potomac River near Reagan National Airport near Washington, D.C., officials said. 

The plane, American Eagle Flight No. 5342, a regional jetliner, was carrying 60 passengers and four crew members, CBS News learned. There were three soldiers aboard the Sikorsky H-60, a Defense Department official told CBS News.

At least 19 bodies had been recovered by 2:50 a.m. ET, a law enforcement source familiar with the investigation told CBS News.

Here’s what we know so far about the crash:
What we know about the victims and the search for survivors

As of 2:50 a.m. Thursday, an official said at least 19 bodies had been recovered from the river, which contained three debris fields. The official said no survivors had been found.

In a news briefing early Thursday, officials said that police boats and divers were conducting search and rescue in the Potomac River.

“It’s a highly complex operation, the conditions out there are extremely rough for the responders. It’s cold. They’re dealing with relatively windy conditions,” District of Columbia Fire and Emergency Medical Services Chief John Donnelly told reporters.    

https://www.frontpagemag.com/bill-gates-angry-at-elon-musk/

Bill Gates is angry that Elon Musk is editorializing on X about the internal politics of Europe, from the United Kingdom to Germany. The outraged Gates claims we don’t allow (hired) foreigners to interfere in our domestic politics and don’t do that to others.

Really?

Is he joking, or simply completely misinformed?

1. Does Gates remember Christopher Steele, the British subject and ex-spy who interfered in the 2016 presidential election by fabricating a venomous dossier to destroy the Trump campaign? Yes, it is illegal to hire foreign nationals to work in American presidential campaigns, but that stopped neither Hillary Clinton who used three paywalls to hide her payments to Steele nor the FBI who hired him as an informant and helped spread his salacious lies throughout the media and government.

2. Does Gates remember the British Labor callout to enlist British activists and financial support for them to swarm American swing states in service to the 2024 Kamala Harris campaign?

3. Closer to home, has Gates ever complained about Swiss national and multibillionaire Johann Georg Wyss, and his multimillionaire donations that have poured into Democratic coffers to sway our elections via his “Hub Project”? That long-standing interference makes Musk’s postings seem amateurish in comparison.

4. For that matter, surely Gates is familiar with the chronic efforts of both the Clinton administration (by its own admission) and Obama administration to interfere in elections in Israel over some 20 years in a serial effort to defeat Benjamin Netanyahu— that included inter alia funding with taxpayer monies anti-Netanyahu political groups.

So please, Mr. Gates, spare us you very selective outage about Mr. Musk, given your prior deafening silence on hired foreign interference here and Democratic efforts to interfere in the elections of others—including fueling the Ukrainian opposition in the 2014 Ukrainian election.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/a-tale-of-two-pardons/

Just before the White House doors slammed shut behind him, Joe Biden released more pardons and commutations. First came the commutation of 33 death-row inmates condemned to execution, so that President Trump couldn’t carrying out their sentences. Then it was the turn of various federal agency bureaucrats; Biden family members implicated in influence-peddling and other grifts; and Congressmen who served on the January 6 committee whom the erstwhile Marionette in Chief claims will be targeted by Trump for retribution. Meanwhile, the new president has pardoned nearly all the 1500 January 6 protestors, many of whom have been incarcerated for years for misdemeanors.

Each side of the partisan divide is criticizing these pardons. Democrats and Never-Trump Republicans have gone into high dudgeon because Trump included protestors and rioters accused of assaults on police, or who were members of white supremacist fringe outfits. Coming from lefty Democrats, this sudden concern for the police is grotesque hypocrisy. Where was this solicitude in the 2020 BLM summer riots that targeted police and burned not just cop cars, but police precinct headquarters?

Or how about their national war on law enforcement through a campaign to defund the police? How many innocent people have died because of cutbacks in the number of those who protect us? Or how about rabid anti-American George Soros using his billions to help elect anti-law enforcement attorneys general and prosecutors? As for January 6 protests, the violence was like a picnic compared to the 2020 months of riots, assaults, and arson––all supported, excused, and rationalized by Democrats, some of whom solicited donations so the thugs could make bail. And don’t forget how few Black Lives Matter and Antifa rioters were even arrested or indicted, let alone spent any time in jail.

And let’s remember how ill- prepared the Speaker of the House and the D.C.  Mayor were for handling a rally that was allowed to descend into chaos on January 6. Or why the Capitol police were escorting protestors into the building and unlocking doors for them. You’d think that authorities who believe that Donald Trump and his Maga base were “semi-fascists” who wanted to “destroy our democracy” would have been readier to defend what the Dems called our “temple of democracy.”

But the Capitol is just a building, and the heart of our Republic is the Constitution. How unseemly is it for a party that for a hundred years has degraded the Constitution and attacked the Bill of Rights, especially the First and Fourteenth Amendments, to now assume the mantel of guardian of “our democracy”? The House January 6 Committee egregiously trampled on the latter right, and its principle of equality under law, as did the prosecutors who for four years hunted down, arrested, charged, tried, and sentenced protestors for misdemeanors like trespassing, whereas thousands of 2020 rioters got off scot-free.