Guilt for Jan. 6 Lies With Those Eager to Condemn It
By Conrad Black
Wednesday, 02 June 2021 09:54 AM
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The following article appears first and formost on American Greatness
It's once again with great regret that I take issue with my friend of more than 40 years, George F. Will. From my perspective of unambiguous admiration and personal liking for him, I am distressed that on the subject of President Trump, he seems to have taken complete leave of his senses.
Last week, he said on television that the events at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 should be seared into the minds of Americans as 9/11 was, as the two are equally profound assaults on the country.
Let us examine that statement.
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The FBI (no reservoir of goodwill for Trump) has confirmed there was no coordination with the Trump campaign or anyone associated with the ex-president. Indeed, Trump urged his followers to "demonstrate patriotically and peacefully."
If U.S. House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., or the egregious mayor of Washington D.C., Muriel Bowser, had responded to the requests in the preceding days from the chief of the Capitol Police for reinforcements, the incident likely would not have occurred.
In their desperation to represent the episode as an attempt by the outgoing president to incite an insurrection, (which requires taking over the armed forces, police, and media outlets as happens in countries that have coups d’état), the media falsely represented the death of one Capitol policeman as a result of having been beaten over the head by Trump supporters with a fire extinguisher, a complete fabrication.
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George Will, Peggy Noonan, and other estimable friends who are normally sensible bear heavy responsibility in the disaster that has now been riveted on the backs of the American people and the world.
As Bill Clinton might say, I feel your guilt. As the ghastly current jargon goes, you own this debacle. Donald Trump isn’t the problem, you are.
A presidential election result that was highly questionable, despite the frenzied efforts of an air-tight media pretense that all the late drops of unverifiable heavy Biden votes in a few key states were squeaky clean, and which the judicial system at every level refuses to judge for process reasons (a divided Wisconsin Supreme Court said the challenge in that state had to start at the lower courts and work up — impossible given those deadlines), naturally leaves the 75 million voters who supported the ostensibly losing candidate upset. That they would demonstrate is understandable, and when the speaker of the House and mayor of Washington refused the capitol police chief’s request for reinforcements, some hooliganism was predictable.
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