Jack Cashill was trying to manufacture another conspiracy theory in his July 3 WorldNetDaily column under the headline “Question No. 1 for Kamala: Where were you on January 6?”:
All of a sudden, Kamala Harris matters. It’s not just that she would ascend to the presidency should the current placeholder be displaced willfully or otherwise.
No, what makes Harris suddenly relevant is that powerful people want her to be the candidate in 2024, none more powerful than kingmaker, Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina.
“This party should not, in any way, do anything to work around Ms. Harris,” Clyburn warned his fellow travelers Tuesday. “We should do everything we can to bolster her whether she’s in second place or at the top of the ticket.”
When Clyburn talks people listen. He boosted Obama over Hillary in 2008, Hillary over Bernie in 2016, and Biden over Bernie in 2020. His endorsement of Harris for the top spot had many of the Left’s talking heads walking back all the mean things they had been saying about Kamala these past four years.
Should Harris be the nominee, one question that needs to be asked is how she spent the day on Jan. 6, 2021. For the year following that memorable day, she said not one word at all about her whereabouts.
On Jan. 6, 2022, Harris broke her silence – sort of. During a televised speech from the Capitol, Harris told the public only where she wasn’t, namely at the U.S. Capitol with her fellow senators.
Harris made this concession only because Politico had that very day broken the story that on January 6 Harris was not at the Capitol where everyone thought she was but at the DNC headquarters.
So, not a conspiracy theory — Cashill answered his own question. So he went on to a new one:
Like everyone else in the major media, Politico links the bombs to the riots under the assumption the bomb makers were part of the “destructive” plot to stop the certification of the 2020 presidential election.
Harris knows better. She knows that the bombs were planted not by the Trump people, but by the anti-Trump people. She may not know who precisely the anti-Trump people are, but she knows enough not to talk about the bombs or her own proximity to one of them.
Much as we see in the scramble to replace/resurrect Joe Biden, the leftist coalition to thwart Trump is not a monolith. As I discuss in detail in “Ashli: The Untold Story of the Women of January 6,” several different entities had a hand in the attempt to discredit the MAGA movement on that fateful day.
Still, despite answering his own question, Cashill tried to salvage a conspiracy out of it anyway:
The first questions to Harris should be establishing ones: Where were you at 1 p.m. on January 6, and why were you there?
More difficult questions follow: Why have you concealed your presence at the DNC? Why have you not talked about the bomb? How have you resisted the urge to dramatize your brush with death at the hands of these white supremacists?
Harris’ silence, as they say, speaks volumes. To date her silence offers the strongest confirmation that January 6 is, in part at least, an inside job.
Despite the fact that there is no there there, Cashill desperately wants you to think there is. So he hooked up with his favorite charlatan filmmaker to further the conspiracy in his Aug. 21 column:
In our just released 3-minute video, “KamalaGate,” Los Angeles filmmaker Joel Gilbert and I ask two basic questions of Kamala Harris.
The first is, “Why did you lie about where you were on January 6, 2021?” The second related question is, “Why did you tell no one where you really were?”
This mattered because as a Secret Service “protectee” her presence in a building made that site a “restricted” space. By leaving the false impression that she was at the Capitol, prosecutors were able to ratchet up the charges against January 6 defendants.
But, Harris was not in the Capitol during the riot, not for a minute, not for a second. As to why Harris told no one where she had been, namely at the DNC headquarters a block or so from the Capitol, we have a good idea.
As Harris knew or soon found out, 1 p.m. was the witching hour on January 6. Minutes before 1 p.m., Ray Epps and his crew breached the Capitol perimeter.
At just about 1 p.m., a still-unidentified man hung a noose on a gallows that stood unmolested for hours. Shortly after 1 p.m., a still-unidentified man, the “scaffold commander,” mounted the scaffolding with an electric bullhorn and urged people to keep moving forward.
These lies had immediate consequences. For nearly a year, January 6 prosecutors told jurors that Harris “remained within the Capitol building” throughout the day.
Most relevantly perhaps, 1 p.m. was roughly the time pipe bombs from a still-unidentified bomber were found near the RNC and the DNC offices.
Of course, 1 p.m was the time the certification process began. The evidence strongly suggests an orchestrated plot to incite chaos and blame Trump and his supporters for whatever followed.
Actually, no, it doesn’t. His Ray Epps conspiracy theory was debunked long ago. Still, he can’t stop smearing the guy anyway:
Trump did not incite the riot. His enemies did. An FBI that was able to pluck a peaceful great grandmother out of the crowd and arrest her has still not been able to identify several of the key provocateurs.
Epps, the most conspicuous of the provocateurs, was outed not by the FBI but by pro-Trump protesters.
Not only did Epps encourage the initial breach and a secondary breach, but he also provided hands-on help to those pushing a large metal Trump sign into a line of police officers.
Perversely, the more evidence that surfaced against Epps, the more the media embraced him and the more the FBI ignored him. For its part, the House Select Committee treated Epps as though he were an endangered species.
Not until Sept. 23, 2023, did Epps plead guilty to a single misdemeanor charge and only then because his preferential treatment embarrassed the keepers of the narrative. The great grandmother in question got a stiffer sentence.
In fact, as even Cashill admitted, the “great grandmother in question,” Rebecca Lavrenz, committed a crime and it was caught on video, yet she continues to deny guilt. Contrary to Cashill’s claims that Epps “encourage the initial breach and a secondary breach,” Epps actually tried to de-escalate the violence at points and cooperated with authorities, and unlike Lavrenz, never entered the Capitol building.
Despite all that, Cashill still ended on a conspiratorial note: “The question Harris needs to answer is the question, slightly modified, that Sen, Howard Baker famously asked of Richard Nixon, ‘What did she know and when did she know it?'”