Michael Dorstewitz groused in his Jan. 9 Newsmax column:
Tuesday marked the five-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 protest at the U.S. Capitol, and Democrats are furiously trying to rewrite what actually happened that day.
[…]Democrats typically refer to Jan. 6, 2021 as an “insurrection,” defined as an organized plot to overturn the results of a presidential election. However, Reuters reported seven months later that there was no evidence to support that claim.
FBI investigators uncovered small cells of protesters, including the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys, that “aimed to break into the Capitol,” Reuters reported.
“But they found no evidence that the groups had serious plans about what to do if they made it inside.”
Four months ago we learned that 274 FBI agents were deployed to the Capitol grounds during the Jan. 6 riot, together with a huge number of paid informants.
In fact, those 274 agents were deployed after the riot, not during it. Dorstewitz went on to whine:
Despite the hundreds of agents and paid informants, there was one element still missing: National Guard troops. President Trump maintains that his requests for troops were denied by then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
But as late as two months ago, Pelosi claimed she and others “begged” the president to send the Guard to protect the Capitol.
However, Steven Sund, U.S. Capitol Police Chief at the time, was there, and said Pelosi “doesn’t get to rewrite J6. She torpedoed my documented Guard requests. J6 wouldn’t have happened if Pelosi et al allowed me to do my job. J6 was preventable!”
Actually, Pelosi had no role in providing security, as Sund presumably knows. Still, Dorstewitz tried to boost his credibility by adding, “Sund had no axe to grind two months ago — he’d resigned from the Capitol Police by then.” Obviously, he still does. Dorstewitz added:
Furthermore, Pelosi’s daughter released a video of her mother admitting responsibility for no National Guard presence, which was reported by the New York Post.
In fact, Pelosi never claimed that she took “responsibility” for the riot, and there was no mention in the video of Trump offering National Guard troops (because that never happened).
Despite peddling such falsehoods, Dorstewitz concluded:
If Congress wants to recognize the anniversary of Jan. 6 each year, let it be with the truth and not a Democratic fairy tale conjured up to make them feel better.
History is too important.
Yes, it is. That’s why we’re calling out Dorstewitz’s lies.