By Mike Huckabee
January 6, 2025
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By the time you read this on Monday, January 6, 2025, the certification of President Donald Trump’s second-term win is just about to take place, if it hasn’t already happened. This date, of course, also marks the fourth anniversary of the unfortunate events of January 6, 2021. There’s plenty to say about both.
The day couldn’t be marked without a commentary from investigative reporter Julie Kelly, who remarks that this is “a plot twist that even the most creative --- or diabolical --- fiction writer would never have imagined.”
For one thing, the still-Vice President Kamala Harris will be presiding. You have to love that.
As Kelly points out, Kamala herself likened January 6 to December 7, 1941, and September 11, 2001, saying these events “remind all who have lived through them where they were...when our democracy came under assault.”
(Speaking of that, Kamala has still had nothing to say about where SHE was on January 6 four years ago, as it was NOT at the Capitol building, to be certified as the first black female elected Vice President, but rather at the DNC headquarters for reasons she’s never made clear. See “pipe bomb story,” which we’ll get to.)
Kelly notes that the Democrat talking points about January 6 went out before the first protester even entered the Capitol building. “As the chaos was still unfolding at the Capitol, Joe Biden gave a nationwide address --- he allegedly had planned to talk about the economy at 4 PM, but in yet another fortuitous coincidence for Democrats, Biden quickly pivoted to a lengthy rant about the protest, to denounce the ‘insurrection.’”
Since that day, we’ve been subjected to a nonstop tape-loop of J6 rhetoric. Trump was impeached --- again. Anyone who was even in the vicinity that day was forever inked to “domestic terrorism” by the FBI. The DOJ ended up arresting roughly 1,600 individuals, most of whom had nothing to do with any disturbance. And they’re still arresting people!
Then there was the January 6 “Select” Committee. (We always put “Select” in quotation marks because Nancy Pelosi personally and in violation of the rules selected the two so-called Republicans on it, Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, both of whom thankfully destroyed their own political careers with their disgusting behavior.) Not only did this committee exist to tell Americans “what to think” about J6 (chairman Bennie Thompson’s words), but it also hid exculpatory evidence and destroyed massive records that were supposed to be turned over to the new Congress. Shameful.
As Kelly writes, “The exhaustive operation --- the multifaceted lawfare, the Congressional theater, the media fixation --- was supposed to end up with Trump sitting in jail, a final death blow to his political future and the populist movement he created.” But that was not to be.
Part of the reason was the failure on all fronts of the Biden administration, of course. But the other part was their stunningly heavy-handed approach to “getting Trump,” as well as his supporters, associates and allies. It was the DEMOCRATS who rightly came to be seen as the real threat to democracy, not us.
As Kelly observes, “Instead of representing one of the darkest days in history, January 6 to millions of Americans instead embodies the corrupt, bloodthirsty and vengeful nature of the existing government and its media bootlickers, which foreshadowed the sort of banana republic-style rule see in Marxist hellholes, not in the United States.”
So now we’re counting on President Trump to do what is necessary to reform the unelected government bureaucracies that played a role in this. It’s they who apparently have been running things --- easy with a senile puppet in the Oval Office --- but that has to end NOW.
We’re hoping for some accountability as well. Special Counsel Jack Smith and prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney’s office in DC (Matthew Graves, who oversaw the January 6 prosecutions) are reportedly lawyering up, with Smith planning to exit the country and go back to the war crimes court at The Hague. Liz Cheney is being investigated by a congressional committee and might face scrutiny by Trump’s DOJ. As we reported last week, Bennie Thompson has even said he’d accept a pre-emptive pardon from President Biden if Biden offers it. (What do you bet Biden does, along with pardons for everyone who might conceivably need one? A president who can award “billionaire philanthropist” and real-life Bond villain George Soros the Presidential Medal of Freedom on his way out the door is capable of ANYTHING.)
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who’s on video admitting responsibility for security failures on January 6, went on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday to lament the “denial of what happened January 6.” If anyone is in denial, or who just doesn’t understand what happened and its importance to history, it’s her.
https://www.declassified.live/
RELATED: Speaking of dismantling the unelected bureaucracy, recall that last week we commented on the cutoff of funding (finally!) for the Global Engagement Center, the division of the U.S. State Department dedicated to censoring so-called “disinformation” from news/opinion sites like OURS. Trump’s new administration is going to have to rededicate itself to this, as the GEC has already rebranded itself and is now the “Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference Hub.” The GEC’s budget was simply “realigned.”
These people are DRIVEN to stifle dissent, and stopping them will require a stake through the heart.
To commemorate January 6, THE GATEWAY PUNDIT re-posted a piece that originally ran about a month ago, about the mistreatment in prison of Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio, currently serving a 22-YEAR SENTENCE for his “role” in the riot. (He was one of four Proud Boys convicted of “seditious conspiracy;” Biden’s DOJ had asked for 33 years.)
Tarrio was not even in Washington DC that day.
As Cara Castronuova reports, Tarrio is --- after being moved to 11 different prisons in just 16 weeks --- currently in a rural Mississippi prison where at least there is a lot of Trump support among both inmates and staff, as opposed to “the gulag” in leftist DC. (By the way, in case you’ve heard that the Proud Boys are some sort of white supremacist group, Tarrio is Afro-Cuban.) His treatment as described in this article is shockingly inhumane.
The theory is that his isolation and frequent moves, dubbed “diesel therapy,” were done to “keep Tarrio’s mouth shut” in the months leading up to the 2024 election. When a mainstream media outlet inquired about doing an interview, Tarrio was advised by prison officials not to do it, and that was reportedly when his “road trips” from prison to prison to prison started. He was reportedly transported, in all, over 3,200 miles, wearing shackles, chains and handcuffs the whole way. One trip might last as long as 18 hours. And whenever he arrived at a new prison, he was put into solitary for two weeks, with no time outside at all.
As Castronuova writes, what Tarrio went through “can only be described as the greatest form of torture that one must endure within the U.S. [Bureau of Prisons] system.” The physical changes wrought by his treatment are likened here to those of Tom Hanks’ character in CASTAWAY. His beard grew long; he had no showers or decent food for weeks at a time and, in some locations, not even a toothbrush. Tarrio lost over 40 pounds.
The news of Trump’s win on November 5 was Tarrio’s only hope of a future. He prayed for Trump to win, and now he’s praying for a presidential pardon, which surely, he will get. He just wants to return home to Miami and go kayaking in the Florida Keys.
You’ll want to read the full account of what he’s gone through, complete with a map of his “diesel transport.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.
Today, Congress ushers in a new Trump era. Yes, there will be protests, but at least most congressional Democrats have settled down and are resigned, at least for this moment. Still, anti-Trump protesters have convened at the Lincoln Memorial to demand he be blocked from becoming the 47th President because he’s a (sigh) “insurrectionist.” Good grief. There are your “enemies of democracy.”
Most people are sick of this and want solutions to problems. As Sarah Arnold at TOWNHALL says, “While the left continues to push its narrative of division and ‘insurrection,’ Trump remains focused on uniting the country, restoring prosperity, and taking on the corrupt political elites who have long been out of touch with the American people.”
(SIDE NOTE: While Democrat politicians are largely going with the flow today, expect that spirit of cooperation to evaporate with Trump’s inauguration. Look who Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has appointed to the Senate Judiciary Committee. This choice is so awful, we’re wondering if the GOP might even bring a vote to disqualify Shifty, considering he was previously censured for lying to the American people.)
https://slaynews.com/news/
As we pass the fourth anniversary of the J6 riot, it’s also a good time to note that information is still coming out about the pipe bombs supposedly placed to go off that day. BLAZE MEDIA has an excellent write-up on the interim joint report just issued by the House Judiciary Committee and the Committee on House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight (the one chaired by Rep. Barry Loudermilk of Georgia). As you know, just as the House report outlining the many security failures was being released, the FBI happened to release an update of its own, the most significant part of which seems to be that, after four years, they can say the pipe bomber was 5-foot-7.
For when you have time, this is a must-read.
RELATED: Even as Trump is certified as the President-elect, some on the left are still doing what they can to put black marks by his name. Judge Juan Merchan knows he can’t put President Trump in jail, much as he wants to, for those 34 counts of “falsifying business records” (for perfectly legal NDA payments to Stormy Daniels being labeled “legal expenses”), but he’s going through the motions of a sentencing hearing anyway, just so Trump can technically be referred to as a convicted felon.
As you know, this case is filled with reversible error, and on the bright side, once this step is taken, Trump can file his appeal. But in the meantime, the left gets to call Trump a convicted felon, which they will richly enjoy even though it means nothing to the people who support him and know he was railroaded. Jonathan Turley explains the nature of the left’s “consolation prize.”
Here’s more from the Victory Girls blog. Of course, Merchan timed this for ten days before Trump’s inauguration…
https://victorygirlsblog.com/
SEMI-RELATED: Since some political adversaries are as unhinged as ever, and Trump still has the “old” Secret Service, many of his supporters have expressed concern about his plan to have a victory rally in DC the day before his inauguration. At least it’s indoors, at Capitol One Arena, rather than in the open air, but still...perhaps he could rethink that? It might be better --- safer --- to keep the transition of power low-key. The inauguration the following day is worrisome enough.
Come to think of it, with so much at stake, couldn’t President Trump just be sworn in INSIDE the White House, with lots of big-screen coverage outside? We’d happily go for that.
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