Joe Biden plans to commemorate the third anniversary of the events of January 6 by giving a speech Friday morning near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, the historic site where General George Washington regrouped the Continental Army despite all odds in 1777-78.
After years of comparing Jan 6 to 9/11, Pearl Harbor, and the Oklahoma City bombing, Biden will again desecrate hallowed ground and the graves of the victims—roughly 2,000 soldiers died over a six-month period at the Valley Forge encampment—to prioritize the largely peaceful protest at the Capitol as a pivotal event in American history. Fighting Trump and his supporters, the stunt apparently is supposed to demonstrate, is just like living in subhuman conditions fighting starvation, hypothermia, and deadly diseases to prevail over the British crown. (Ironically, Biden moved up the speech from Saturday to Friday amid bad weather forecasts.)
“The president will make the case directly that democracy and freedom—two powerful ideas that united the 13 colonies and that generations throughout our nation’s history have fought and died for—remains (sic) central to the fight we’re in today,” said Quentin Fulks, Biden’s deputy campaign manager.
What Biden and his history-illiterate team don’t realize in their latest attempt to ratchet up comparisons between America’s most fraught moments and a four-hour disturbance on public property during a Wednesday afternoon where the only people killed were Trump supporters is that Biden is King George III, not Washington or the rebels: an intemperate and entitled ruler clinging to power by intentionally provoking his subjects while using whatever force necessary to crush the opposition.
Biden’s Valley Forge performance also underscores the Democratic Party’s desperation to sustain the January 6 “insurrection” narrative throughout the 2024 presidential campaign; his first campaign ad released Thursday includes several familiar scenes of the Capitol protest. Bearing a dismal record across the board resulting in mass unpopularity even among his own voters, Biden is pinning his re-election hopes on the notion he is General Washington leading the charge to save “democracy” from the imaginary threat of Trump and MAGA extremists.
Dysentery, where are you when we need you most?
And despite a steady onslaught of criminal and Congressional investigations coupled with news coverage to bolster the claim that the 2020 presidential election was above reproach, public trust in that election has slipped since January 6. Overall trust in the election fell 10 percent in the past three years even among independents. Only 31 percent of Republicans now say Biden was legitimately elected, a 20 percent drop since 2021.
More bad news could be just around the corner. The U.S. Supreme Court might—and I use that word with uncharacteristic optimism—open a can of whoop ass on Biden’s Department of Justice, federal courts in Washington, and other partisan interests advancing the J6 narrative. Trump and Republican officials separately filed petitions before the Supreme Court to reverse the Colorado Supreme Court’s 4-3 decision to remove Trump from the presidential primary ballot in concluding Trump violated the 14th Amendment by fomenting an “insurrection” on January 6.
Justices eventually will be asked to consider the landmark opinion issued last month by U.S. District Court Judge Tanya S. Chutkan, an Obama appointee, that determined Trump is not entitled to presidential immunity protections in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s four-count criminal indictment against Trump. An appellate panel will hear arguments on Tuesday in Washington, a necessary step before the matter reaches SCOTUS.
Other SCOTUS action could cloud Biden’s Valley Forge moment. As I’ve reported, SCOTUS is reviewing how the DOJ intentionally bastardized vague language in 1512(c)(2), the obstruction of an official proceeding statute, to turn otherwise lawful political activity into a felony offense. The count represents two of four counts in Smith’s J6 indictment and has been applied to more than 300 J6 defendants.
Since four justices agreed to grant “cert” in the case of Fischer v. USA to review a muddled appellate panel’s ruling that allowed the charge to stand, many legal observers expect the court to significantly modify if not outright reverse the appellate court’s decision—resulting in a humiliating defeat for the DOJ, Smith, and nearly the entire federal bench in Washington.
Some of those judges appear to be signaling their concern the count will be tossed. Sentencings for individuals convicted of 1512(c)(2) have been delayed pending SCOTUS’s final decision while some defense attorneys are asking for their clients to be released from jail while the court decides.
On December 31, the attorney representing Pennsylvania woman Sandra Weyer asked for her immediate release from squalid conditions in a Philadelphia prison. Weyer, 60, was sentenced to 14 months for her conviction on the obstruction count and four misdemeanors for her 11 minutes presence inside the Capitol; her attorney, Nicholas Smith, argued that without the obstruction conviction, his client would have already served the average amount of time on misdemeanor convictions.
And the government need not just worry about the highest court. While the court of appeals in Washington has been mostly friendly territory for the DOJ, it has issued a few reversals on J6 cases. A panel will hear the appeal of Thomas Webster, a former NYPD officer convicted of assaulting police and other charges, on February 6. Webster’s appeal strikes at the heart of some of the most egregious abuses related to J6 defendants including the court’s universal refusal to move trials out of heavily Democratic Washington and conceal evidence from the jury.
During an interview with podcast host Alan Sanders last month, Loudermilk hinted that former staffers of the now defunct January 6 Select Committee have expressed concerns over the committee’s investigation. “Some…are coming forward and telling us things because they don’t like the injustice they’re seeing being done. But now, when you get separation of time and away from the emotions and you start looking more objectively, you’re like, ‘wow, this was a setup, the investigation was a setup.’ That’s what we’re seeing.”
Loudermilk already has identified missing materials produced by the January 6 Select Committee. Democrats reportedly destroyed or withheld video recordings of witness interviews; many written transcripts also remain missing.
Loudermilk said his staff is preparing a full account of January 6 including the involvement of paid agitators, law enforcement and intelligence failures, and the construction of the so-called “gallows” that produced so many chilling optics from that day. “You’ve got the gallows, the famous gallows, that were erected on the west front of the Capitol that they love to portray in all of their committee hearings. As it turns out, those gallows were erected…at like 5:30 or 6 o’clock before the sun ever came up. Why were those gallows allowed to stay up all day?’
We, of course, know why: so Democrats and the media can pretend that white supremacists, summoning the days of slavery, planned to hang people that afternoon. In fact, Biden used a clip of the January 6 gallows in his new campaign ad as proof of an “extremist movement” in America.
Almost like the day was intended to fuel the “extremist” narrative well into the 2024 election…
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Julie Kelly is an independent journalist covering the weaponization of the U.S. Government against her citizens, Follow Kelly on Twitter / X.
Photo “January 6 Riots” by Tyler Merbler. CC BY 2.0.
