In recent months, WorldNetDaily’s sparsely read Whistleblower magazine has become mostly about demonizing anyone who’s not as far-right as the managing editor for whom this magazine is his baby, David Kupelian: In his view, liberals hate women, are child sex traffickers, are godless communists or are in league with Satan (and probably all of them at once). The latest cartoon iteration appeared in the January issue, beginning with loads of Capitol riot revisionism:
In the secret thinking of America’s ruling elites, dominated as they are by today’s ever-more deranged and totalitarian Democratic Party, absolutely nothing is more valuable, indispensable and life-giving to their great cause than the Jan. 6, 2021 “armed insurrection” at the U.S. Capitol.
It’s irrelevant to them that the events didn’t come remotely close to constituting an actual “insurrection” by any legal or historical definition, nor was a single demonstrator inside the Capitol armed with a firearm.
Rather, what has become clear over the last three years is that a group of Trump supporters, convinced for very good reason that the recent election – and therefore their country – had just been stolen from them, gathered outside the Capitol to protest. Also in the crowd, it turns out, were a large number of undercover FBI assets, informants and agent provocateurs – at least 200, according to House Homeland Security Committee member Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana, who has seen all the evidence. Some of these “undercover assets,” reveals Higgins, were dressed up as Trump supporters and positioned within the Capitol building before any demonstrators were allowed in. Proof, says Higgins, of epic “entrapment” by the Deep State, since the FBI could have just left the Capitol doors shut instead of opening them wide and waving in Trump supporters, hundreds of whom would later be arrested, prosecuted and imprisoned.
When the protesters were allowed inside, most proceeded to mill around the U.S. Capitol like tourists, take pictures, some even shaking hands with police, thanking them and praying for them – all captured on long-suppressed surveillance video. A small minority broke windows, damaged property, clashed with police or trespassed into no-go areas. One protester, an unarmed Air Force veteran named Ashli Babbitt, was shot to death at close range and without provocation by a Capitol Hill policeman.
And yet, speaking for the Biden administration, Vice President Kamala Harris insisted with great pomp and solemnity that the minor riot that broke out on Jan. 6, 2021 was every bit as cataclysmic for the country as the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks that killed almost 3,000 innocent people and toppled the World Trade Center, as well as the Dec. 7, 1941 Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor that took over 2,400 American lives and thrust the U.S. into World War II.
Disgraced FBI agent Peter Strzok went even further than Harris, insisting, “9/11 is NOTHING compared to January 6!”
Obviously, the Jan. 6 “insurrection” is exceedingly precious to the ruling elites. The question is WHY?
It’s not just because convicting, imprisoning, sometimes torturing and destroying the lives of hundreds of supporters of Donald Trump is meant to terrify and intimidate into submission tens of millions of pro-Trump Americans. Indeed, many of these people did nothing wrong; one young man is just now being prosecuted three years later for having harmlessly ventured inside the Capitol building for a total of 6 seconds!
That 6-second claim comes from WND columnist jack Cashill, who omitted that there’s also a picture of the protester in question hanging on scaffolding outside the Capitol building, suggesting his motives may not have been quite as benign as Cashill and WND want us to think. The conspiracy then moved to a combination of racist replacement theory and transphobia:
These same ruling elites that cherish Jan. 6 are rapidly destroying the greatest, freest and most successful nation in world history. They’re intentionally flooding the nation with millions of illegal alien invaders, including mental patients, criminals and terrorists. They’re indoctrinating the next generation of Americans with poisonous Marxist ideologies, from preschool to graduate school. They’re driving violent crime rates to astronomical highs. They’re decimating the economy, crippling major industries from energy to automotive, and driving millions of families into serious financial hardship. And of course, they’re encouraging the grooming and recruitment of countless children too young to vote or drive, to have their breasts or sexual organs amputated, all in pursuit of a “gender ideology” that is both deranged and demonic.
To hold on to power, therefore, they feel compelled to turn their opponents into monsters – or at least convincingly portray them as such. Otherwise, they’ll almost certainly lose when voters who have suffered so grievously under their perverse rule have the opportunity to choose a different course.
This all leads up to the theme of the issue: “INCITING VIOLENCE: DEMS’ SECRET STRATEGY FOR STAYING IN POWER.” The accompanying essay by Kupelian, published at WND on Jan. 22, peddled more revisionism:
“It seems likely that government officials were involved in planting pipe bombs in Washington, D.C. three years ago,” Tucker Carlson declared recently, “as part of an effort to keep Donald Trump from running for president again.” The surveillance video demonstrating the pipe bomb charade, narrated by Revolver News’ Darren Beattie during his interview with Carlson, is both damning and jaw-dropping.
At the same time, it now turns out that the famed “House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack,” run entirely by Trump-hating Democrats – and which throughout much of the Biden presidency has labored to advance the narrative that Donald Trump led a revolutionary attempt to violently overthrow the U.S. Government – “deleted more than 100 encrypted files from its probe in the days before Republicans took over the House majority,” the Daily Mail reported.
Oh. And why would they do that? What exactly was the “House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack” trying to hide?
Answer: EVERYTHING.
For in the secret thinking of America’s ruling elites, absolutely nothing is more precious, indispensable and life-giving to their great cause than the Jan. 6 “armed insurrection” at the U.S. Capitol.
It’s completely irrelevant to them that the events didn’t come remotely close to constituting an actual “insurrection” by any legal or historical definition, nor was a single demonstrator inside the Capitol armed with a gun.
They did, however, have bear spray and other chemical irritants, stun guns stolen from law enforcement, fire extinguishers and other means of violence. Funny how Kupelian didn’t mention any of that. Nevertheless, he continued to build his conspiracy:
Question: What if, far from being horrified by a half-baked riot they absurdly claim is worse than any domestic conflict since the Civil War, the left actually loves the idea of violence on the right – the worse the better – since it perfectly serves their agenda?
Increasingly, the evidence strongly suggests today’s power-mad leftist elites not only intend to intimidate and discredit their political opponents by calling them terrorists, they mean to provoke actual violence.
[…]The harsh truth is, the leftist elites are delighted with any riot, vandalism or demonstration they can cynically label “terrorism” and “insurrection.” It serves their purposes. That’s why House Speaker Nancy Pelosi perversely refused to approve President Trump’s specific request for a major National Guard presence at the Capitol that day. Tucker Carlson recently called the whole Jan. 6 riot “a set-up.”
Kupelian is lying. Even if Trump had made a request for National Guard troops — which he didn’t — it was not Pelosi’s job to approve them. He then switched to complaining about Trump-Nazi references:
This writer has previously documented how, throughout Trump’s four years in the White House, Democrats and the media relentlessly likened the 45th U.S. president to Hitler. This reckless defamation continues to this day. In the Dec. 20 edition of The New Republic, an article headlined “Trump Is Going All In on the Hitler Vibes” once again openly compares America’s 45th president to the Nazi mass murderer:
[…]Then on Jan. 6, 2024 – the third anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot – Biden himself, in a major speech delivered near historic Valley Forge, went there again, likening Trump to Hitler:
“He calls those who oppose him ‘vermin.’ He talks about the blood of America as being poisoned, echoing the same exact language used in Nazi Germany,” said Biden. “He posts the words that describe his 2024 campaign: revenge, power and dictatorship. There’s no confusion about who Trump is.”
Unfortunately, repeatedly likening your top political opponent to the genocidal monster Adolf Hitler is not just absurd; it carries great peril. After all, most people agree that the most moral and patriotic response to the actual Hitler was to try to kill him, to end a terrible war and stop the murder of 6 million Jews and countless others. There were 16 known plots to assassinate Hitler, and even though all of them failed, the perpetrators and collaborators, all executed by the Nazis – from Col. Klaus von Stauffenberg to the revered German theologian Deitrich Bonhoeffer – are today universally considered heroes.
Kupelian conveniently failed to disclose that he’s an massive hypocrite about this — his website has an extensive record of likening Barack Obama to Nazis, and a few months before this issue came out, his boss, Joseph Farah wrote a column declaring of President Biden, “There’s a Nazi living in the White House.” If Kupelian was truly offended by such comparisons, he would issue a full apology and retractions for WND’s smears of Obama and Biden. But he won’t — the narrative matters more to him than the truth, and he clearly believes that the most moral and patriotic response to Obama and Biden is for them to die by whatever means.
Kupelian concluded by admitting that this is all about attacking “the left” yet again:
What is cryptically called “the left” has grown so rebellious against God, truth, morality and reality that it feels compelled to put out the light, to silence voices of truth, to “call evil good, and good evil” as the prophet Isaiah put it.
Americans are truly living through a time when the most decent, honest and courageous people are, as the Savior of mankind put it, being “persecuted for righteousness’ sake.”
With 2024 promising to be such an extraordinarily consequential year, there’s never been a better time for good people to let their light brightly shine into the oncoming darkness.
But Kupelian is not a good person, and he’s not offering “light.” All he has are lies, hypocrisy and conspiracy theories — the stuff of political and moral darkness.