Tragic Ashli Babbitt and the buried Jan. 6 truth

So now we know that the cop who shot dead unarmed Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt, 36, during the Jan.6, 2021, Capitol riot was rewarded with a promotion and a $36,000 bonus. There were no ill consequences for his rash actions that day.

Instead, Capt.Michael Byrd, 56, was held up as a hero of democracy, despite the fact that he had a lengthy disciplinary record that includes leaving his loaded handgun in a public bathroom in the Capitol Visitor Center, “improperly” firing his gun at a car near his home while off-duty and abusing a Maryland cop who tried to stop him entering a high school football field as a “racist a–hole,” again while off duty, according to a letter released last week by the GOP-led House Administration’s Subcommittee on Oversight.Three entries in Byrd’s internal affairs record are missing, wrote subcommittee chairman Rep.

Barry Loudermilk, (R-Ga), in a letter to current Capitol Police Chief Thomas Manger. Loudermilk is asking questions about Byrd and everything else about the Jan.6 riot that was used so effectively to tarnish Donald Trump and his supporters and that provided the excuse for the Biden administration to weaponize federal law enforcement against them.The J6 riot was not an insurrection but a protest that escalated into an out-of-control riot because then-Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund was denied intelligence about potential threats that day and denied National Guard backup that he was begging for.In the cold light of hindsight, a new Trump administration will ensure that the narrative of J6 is rewritten to reflect the truth of that tragic day instead of the lies spun by Democrat Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi’s J6 committee.Sund is a crucial witness to history.

Pelosi made him her scapegoat, firing him immediately, but she knew that he had begged for the National Guard to assist his vastly outnumbered troops. He needed the permission of the Capitol Police Board, and Pelosi and then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCo...