As part of WorldNetDaily’s anti-Kamala Harris propaganda operation during the election, WorldNetDaily’s Elizabeth Farah issued a series of videos titled “Kamala’s America: The Nightmare Scenarios Revealed” that featured various right-wingers spouting the approved narrative. One of those videos was an Oct. 3 conversation with WND columnist Jack Cashill, who peddled his Capitol riot conspiracy theories, including his new book about them centered on Ashli Babbitt, the rioter who was shot by police inside the Capitol. The book apparently features 10 female riot participants, and Cashill claimed that “none of them committed a crime to speak of,” then admitted that “one woman broke a window. She’s a mother of eight, and she’s serving four and a half years in prison. That’s what the Merrick Garland-Biden-Harris Justice Department looks like.” Cashill appears to be talking about rioter Rachel Powell. As we pointed out the last time Cashill tried to portray her as a victim, she did much more than break a window — she encouraged other rioters to surge forward against police lines using a bullhorn, and she carried an ax and a large wooden pole while storming into a restricted section of the Capitol. When police raided her home, they found bags loaded with duct tape, rope cell phones, throwing stars and other weapons.
Cashill repeated his victim narrative on Babbitt, claiming she was acting at least somewhat responsibly while in the Capitol building. He once again made sure not to mention that, as a more credible news organization reported, before the riot Babbitt “had become consumed by pro-Trump conspiracy theories and posted angry screeds on social media. She also had a history of making violent threats.” Cashill then stated that the officer who shot Babbitt “created a martyr. … who is the last person you want to be as a martyr — attractive, Air Force veteran, married.”
Farah joined in the conspiracy-mongering:
So much happened with January 6. So much of it was misinformation, disinformation and carefully orchestrated, and you know, some are keeping with the narrative — it’s a violent insurrection, an insurrection with no weapons, a violent insurrection where everybody forgot to bring their weapons. And you’re bringing up some things that I’ve either forgotten — this is why the book is so important — or that I never knew.
In fact, a number of the rioters were armed.
Cashill rehashed his conspiracy theory that the riot was an “inside job,” rehashing the old, discredited attacks on Ray Epps as an alleged plant — Farah called him an “apparatchik” while Cashill called him a “mole” –as well as pushing another conspiracy theory about Kamala Harris being at the Democratic headquarters at the time of the riot instead of the Capitol.
Farah repeatedly mispronounced Harris’ first name incorrectly throughout the 79-minute video, putting the accent on the second syllable; she did pronounce it correctly a couple times, then whined, “Do you know how many times I had to say the word ‘Kamala’ to try and pronounce her name correctly just for the record?” Actual, responsible journalists wouldn’t be whining about getting something correct.
If Trump was to win, Cashill called for “a recognition, first off, that you’re never going to get justice in Washington, D.C. … No political Democrat will ever be convicted and no political Republican will ever be committed.” He then called for “a South Africa-style truth and reconciliation commission. So what they set up was this commission in which, if you told the truth about what you had done, they would grant you amnesty. So I’m more interested right now in truth than an actual real injustice. The justice will come in that these people will be forever known for what the infamous deeds they’veve done. There are so many of them — they’d have to take a number, there’d be a queue outside the door.” He also called for all nonviolent protesters to be pardoned. On top of that, Cashill said, federal courts should be moved out of Washingon, D.C.
In a discussion of purported “snitch lines,” Cashill complained of a case in which one rioter’s “son ratted out … his father, and the guy’s serving four years in prison now, even though he didn’t even go into the building.” Farah chimed in that the son has “got, no doubt, some teenage angst, he’s on his high horse, you know, in his ivory tower, like most teenagers are. They’re self-righteous, and he calls in his dad, which may be something he regrets the rest of his life. … So he snitches on his dad, his dad is, in essence, put in prison because his son is annoyed that he got — had his phone taken away once, put on restrictions, whatever. You can build any scenario around it. Point is, the man never even met into the Capitol building and now he’s serving a four-year term.” Cashill then likened this to a case in the old Soviet Union in which a child was allegedly portrayed as a hero for turning in his parents, declaring that “we’re just one step away from that now.”
In fact, the father, Guy Reffitt, was using increasingly violent rhetoric in texts with his son and even threatened his life over turning him in, claiming “traitors get shot.” Reffitt was a member of the Three Percenters anti-government militia, and he was equipped with a handgun, body armor, a helmet, radio and zip-tie cuffs outside the Capitol, where he incited the crowd into storming the building, declaring he would drag Nancy Pelosi out of the building and hoped that her head would hit every stair on the way down. Contrary to Farah’s biased take, the son does not regret turning Reffitt in, calling him a “narcissist.”
The rest of the video was Cashill and Farah fearmongering about what Harris and Walz would purportedly do. Farah went on to declare that “all leftists despise the rule of law” — even though she and Cashill favor subverting the rule of law by pardoning Capitol rioters who violated it.
Cashill also laughably claimed, “We’ll be getting arrested, Elizabeth, for doing this show.” It seems both Cashill and Farah are desperate to be seen as martyrs when all they are are liars and fearmongerers trying to profit off of that.