Much of the January 6, 2021 mythology is wrong, on the right and left. The J6 relevance continues, as the basis for Trump’s impeachment1 and indictment3. Tucker Carlson’s unaired interview with Steven Sund, Capitol Police chief on J6, is probative. Carlson intended to air the interview the day he was fired. Sund, and the sergeants at arms of the House and Senate, “resigned” on January 7. These lifelong, consummate law enforcement professionals were at the top of their profession. Carlson elicited Sund’s insistence he was denied intelligence indicating that wholesale violence was planned: “This didn’t have to happen. Everything appears to be a cover-up.” Sund reported that the crowd was filled with federal agents during “a planned, coordinated attack.” Carlson just re-interviewed Sund. (Must viewing.) Carlson: “a systematic denial of intelligence and support.”
Were these three officials fired to create convenient scapegoats? Was the intent to silence them before installing compliant replacements? Pelosi’s J6 committee destroyed evidence. Sund revealed that whistleblowers have been forced out (Capitol employees lack whistleblower protections).
Many on the right assume that everyone indicted was innocent of seditious conspiracy. The original and superseding indictments of Oath Keepers defendants appear to dispel that idea:
While certain Oath Keepers members and affiliates inside of Washington, D.C., breached the Capitol grounds and building, others remained stationed just outside of the city in QRF [Quick Reaction Force] teams. The QRF teams were prepared to rapidly transport firearms and other weapons into Washington, D.C., in support of operations aimed at using force to stop the lawful transfer of presidential power…
