WorldNetDaily’s Bob Unruh continues serving up his fantasy version of the Capitol riot in a Nov .13 article:
Retiring California Democrat Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s partisan committee that was purported to be “investigating” the events in Washington on Jan. 6, 2023, spent some $17.4 million of taxpayer money.
Their result was an evidence-edited and message-orchestrated claim that President Donald Trump somehow was at fault.
That was the day Trump held a rally for supporters, encouraging them to peacefully protest what was perceived as the faulty results of the 2020 president election.
Some went to the Capitol, some went inside and some vandalized various parts of the building.
Actually that election now is known to have been skewed by several undue influences. One was that Mark Zuckerberg handed out cash like candy to local elections officials who often used it to recruit voters in Democrat districts.
The other was the FBI’s decision to try to suppress information about Biden family scandals contained in a laptop computer abandoned by Hunter Biden. A poll after the election said had those details been reported routinely, like other election issues, Biden likely would have lost.
So much deliberately wrong here, not the least of which being the fact that Zuckerberg did not attempt to “recruit voters in Democrat [sic] districts.” Also note that Unruh described what happened on Jan. 6 as merely “events,” instead of the more accurate description of “riot.” Also, Unruh ignored the fact that Trump also told his supporters to “fight like hell.” Unruh went on to huff:
Pelosi, then speaker of the House, assembled a partisan team, refusing to seat GOP nominees. She then picked Democrats and two Trump-hating Republicans to be on the team, which ignored evidence supporting Trump and amplified claims of his responsibility, even to the point of hiring producers and others to assemble videos “dramatizing” their claims against Trump.
This ignores the fact that then-House speaker Kevin McCarthy threw a fit and pulled his entire slate of nominees after Pelosi rejected a couple of them for being too slavishly pro-Trump, giving Pelosi the opportunity to name them all, which included some Republicans.
This was all prelude for the not-so-huge revelation Unruh eventually served up:
Now a report at the Center Square explains its investigation has confirmed while the projected budget for the committee was $9.3 million, House disbursements confirm the political scheme cost taxpayers at least $17.4 million.
U.S. Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Texas, is on a new committee appointed by House Speaker Mike Johnson assigned to review security failures that day and confirmed the original committee “didn’t spend taxpayer money properly after The Center Square told him about the final costs of the panel’s investigation.”
“They wasted it, wasted it,” he confirmed. “That was a sham committee. (Liz) Cheney. (Adam) Kinzinger. It was a joke.”
Sounds like Nehls is the real joke here. Still, Unruh continued:
Dan Savickas, of the Taxpayers Protection Alliance, a non-partisan nonprofit, told the Center Square the more than doubling of the budget was not appropriate.
“The median budget for a House committee is $6 million a year, so for the Jan. 6 committee to spend $17.4 million is excessive,” he confirmed. “And anytime a committee is grandstanding, specifically Jan. 6, to fit a narrative instead of holding people accountable and getting the story is bad. That’s why they hired documentary filmmakers.”
It was not explained why an attempted insurrection should receive the same amount of funding as a generic investigation. Unruh served up more:
The J6 committee hired “freelancers with backgrounds in producing and editing graphics as well as video and audio footage – prominent features of the committee’s 10 nationally televised hearings from June to December 2022,” the report said.
The anti-Trump conclusions from the committee later have “come into question,” the report said.
Unruh did not disclose why the fact that Trump incited the Capitol riot should be dismissed as “anti-Trump conclusions.” But then, Unruh loves to mislead about the riot.