The latest in WorldNetDaily’s series of attempts to whitewash the background of Capitol riot criminals and falsely portray them as victims was served up in an anonymously written March 30 article:
There’s a lot of review going on now of the Jan. 6, 2021, events at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, where hundreds of supporters of President Donald Trump followed his instructions to go to the Capitol and protest the suspect Joe Biden election victory peacefully.
Of course, there were a few who got out of hand, breaking windows to enter and then vandalizing.
Democrats for the last two years have released cherry-picked segments of video to try to portray the events as an actual attempt to overthrow the U.S. government, even though there was no plan, no military involved, no leader and such.
Now, the Republican party, in the majority in the U.S. House, is releasing more video, and it shows that the “insurrection” storyline is anything but true.
Likewise are the facts of some individual cases misleading.
For example, the Gateway Pundit cited the case against Jake Lang, who attended the protest and rally “because he believed the election was stolen from Donald Trump.”
After Trump’s rally, he “walked to the U.S. Capitol where he was gassed and trampled when Capitol Police pushed Trump supporters down the stairs. Jake was nearly killed. The woman next to him was gassed, knocked down, trampled and then beaten with a stick by police. She died on the steps of the U.S. Capitol. Her name is Rosanne Boyland.”
The report continued, “Jake Lang was next to Rosanne when she died. Being a former wrestler, Jake was able to crawl out of the pile. He then went back and saved Phillip Anderson who was knocked unconscious next to Rosanne Boyland. Jake was not able to rescue Rosanne but he saved the life of another man that day.”
The result that he was accused of taking “swipes” at police after they killed Boyland, and was arrested.
He’s been held in prison without trial ever since – a total of 800 days.
Of course, what Lang actually did is much worse than the whitewash WND attempted:
Lang is allegedly seen on video picking up a police riot shield and slamming it to the ground near law enforcement, according to prosecutors. He is also accused of swinging a baseball bat at police officers multiple times, striking the officers’ shields.
Lang, for his part, seemed proud of his actions, according to court filings.
“This is me,” Lang reportedly posted on Instagram, using an animated finger symbol to point himself out at the front of the crowd facing off against police.
Funny that WND didn’t mention the shield or baseball bat.
WND went on to falsely claim that Lang faces “misdemeanors ” — in fact, the charges against him include multiple counts of civil disorder and assaulting, resisting, or impeding law enforcement, which are felonies. WND also repeated Gateway Pundit’s assertion that Lang is “a political prisoner of the regime,” which is also not true. He was denied release last year pending trial because he assaulted police officers:
The Appellate Court upheld the Sept. 20 decision by Judge Carl J. Nichols, writing: “The evidence proffered by the government shows that, over the course of two and a half hours on January 6, 2021, appellant repeatedly pushed, punched, and kicked at police officers defending the Lower West Terrace entrance to the Capitol building. He also slammed a door against one officer’s head and struck other officers first with a stolen riot shield and later with a metal baseball bat.”
The Appellate Court referenced another Jan. 6 case, United States vs Munchel, in their ruling: “As we explained in Munchel, ‘those who actually assaulted police officers … are in a different category of dangerousness than those who cheered on the violence or entered the Capitol after others cleared the way.’”
WND is so desperate to minimize the Capitol insurrection that it feels it must lie to and mislead its readers in order to keep a bogus narrative alive.