WorldNetDaily columnist Jack Cashill spent a good part of the 2024 presidential campaign trying to build a conspiracy theory out of Kamala Harris not being at the Capitol the day of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot — never mind that even Cashill admits and doesn’t dispute the fact that she was at the Democratic National Committee headquarters that day, which completely undercuts his conspiracy theorizing. Nevertheless, Cashill continued to push it anyway in his Sept. 11 column:
Amidst the sea of lies, omissions and half-truths offered by ABC’s David Muir and Vice President Kamala Harris Tuesday night on the subject of January 6, one highly consequential deception stands out – Harris’ absence from the Capitol.
“I was there,” said Harris. Well, no Kamala, you were not. And Harris’ absence speaks to what remains Harris’ greatest unspoken liability.
Cashill then quickly moved to praising Donald Trump for repeating his (dubious) talking points about the riot during his debate with Harris:
Muir then asked Trump, “Is there anything you regret about what you did on that day? Yes or no?”
Trump responded accurately that he did not organize the day’s rally, but expecting a big crowd, he asked Nancy Pelosi, then speaker of the House, for 10,000 National Guard troops.
“They rejected me,” he said. “Nancy Pelosi rejected me. It was just two weeks ago, her daughter has a tape of her saying she is fully responsible for what happened.”
More accurately, it was Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser who rejected the White House offer, but Trump’s claim about the tape is accurate.
In fleeing the Capitol on January 6, a panicking Pelosi said, “We take responsibility, Terri [McCullough, her chief of staff]. We did not have any accountability for what was going on there, and we should have. This is ridiculous.”
The House speaker is ultimately responsible for the security of the Capitol. Pelosi knew this. “Why weren’t the National Guard there to begin with?” She asked. “[The Capitol Police Board] clearly didn’t know. And I take responsibility for not having them just prepare for more.”
Trump was in no position to respond. He was speaking at the Ellipse, a 45-minute walk from the Capitol. The Ray Epps-led attack on the Capitol began at 12:53 p.m., 20 minutes before Trump finished his speech.
Trump did not “incite” these people to riot as Harris claimed. They did not hear a word of his speech.
As we pointed out the last time Cashill obsessed over that Pelosi tape, she never claimed that she took “responsibility” for the riot, Pelosi was not in charge of security at the Capitol, and Trump’s that he sought or authorized National Guard troops has been repeatedly debunked. (Also, Ray Epps never entered the Capitol building, so he could not have “led” the attack.) Cashill then returned to his Kamala conspiracy, with the help of his favorite discredited charlatan filmmaker:
Most relevant, however, was Harris’ claim that “she was there.” She wasn’t. She was at the DNC when, at the 1 p.m. witching hour, a pipe bomb was found. She was not at the Capitol during the riot for a minute.
As early as the Jan. 17, 2021, edition of “CBS Sunday Morning,” Harris had clearly been instructed not to talk about the DNC or her alleged proximity to an assassination attempt.
“I was at the Capitol that morning,” Harris told Jane Pauley, “and then I was in a meeting, and I was told that I should leave. And then I was taken to a secure location, with my husband.”
Nearly four years later, Harris continues this deception. For those who prefer video to print as an explanatory medium, Los Angeles filmmaker Joel Gilbert and I compressed the whole of “Kamalagate” into a 3-minute video.
Whatever Harris’ role, the evidence continues to mount that there was a plot underway on January 6 – yes, an “inside job” – to incite enough chaos to shut down the certification process.
The launch hour seems to have been 1 p.m., the time when the certification process began at the Capitol, when Epps and crew breached the perimeter and when the bomb was discovered outside the DNC.
The question Harris needs to answer is this: What did you know about the plot and when did you know it?
The fact that nobody outside conspiracy-obsessed haters like Cashill and Gilbert seems to prove there was no “plot” at all.
In his Sept. 16 column, Cashill made the conspiratorial demand that if Trump wins the election, J.D. Vance should head an “American Truth and Reconciliation Commission,” which would “would offer amnesty to those willing to tell the truth about the corruption of justice in the past decade.” He added: “Unlike Trump, Vance has not been a victim of this corruption. He could manage the affair dispassionately and legitimize the conciliatory nature of the ARTC and, by extension, the Trump presidency.” One of the things Vance could adjudicate is his Kamala conspiracy theory:
During the debate, Kamala Harris did not shy from repeating the lies about January 6 that, in her case, are both personal and damning. No, Trump did not “instigate” the riot, “some officers” were not killed, and she was not at the Capitol at any time during the riot. J6 is a large, unwieldy subject, but a useful point of entry would be Harris’ caginess about her actions that day.
At the press conference, Vance would do well to zero in on the inarguable fact that Harris has repeatedly deceived the public about her presence at the DNC at the very moment the pipe bomb was discovered and the riot launched – by people who did not attend Trump’s speech. Her deceit did corrupt the cases of hundreds of unjustly punished J6ers and may be a cover for a genuine “inside job.”
Cashill did not explain why any of this matters to anyone not in his right-wing bubble.