For the third anniversary of the Capitol riot, WorldNetDaily kept up its revisionism about what happened. An anonymously written Jan. 5 article whined that President Biden wasn’t playing along with the revisionism:
Joe Biden, who appears to be claiming that his qualifications for the presidential election in 2024 are that the other guy is bad, lashed out Friday in a campaign speech that charged that, “We nearly lost America” on Jan. 6, 2021.
And President Trump, the leader so far among candidates for both parties in that race, responded.
A report from Fox News said he accused Biden of being the “true threat to democracy.”
“The Democrats rigged the last election and they are trying it again,” Trump told the network. “But it won’t work because they have shown how bad and incompetent they are.”
[…]Twitchy noted, “Biden’s faux concern about ‘democracy’ while his DOJ tries to throw a political opponent in jail is something else.”
The commentary explained, “Biden has in the past mocked the idea of people who don’t have fighter jets being able to take on the government but now he wants everybody to believe an unarmed mob and random trespassers almost overthrew the entire nation? This might be Biden’s biggest whopper ever, and that’s a high bar to clear.”
On Jan. 7, WND republished an article from the heavily discredited Gateway Pundit whining that people will continue to face accountability for their actions that day:
Matthew Graves, U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia on Thursday held a press conference on the 3rd anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol protest.
“It’s been three years since a violent mob attacked our Capitol,” said Matthew Graves, a Biden appointee.
[…]Graves then said the DOJ is now going to target THOUSANDS of Americans who were around the Capitol on January 6 – but did not enter the building.
He continued, “But, if a person knowingly entered a restricted area without authorization, they had already committed a federal crime. Make no mistake, thousands of people occupying the area that they were not authorized to be present in in the first place.”
One day after Matthew Graves’ press conference where he threatened to arrest thousands of peaceful Trump supporters who didn’t enter the Capitol building, Joe Biden was near Valley Forge bragging up locking up J6rs.
Biden bragged about pro-Trump protesters being sentenced to 840 years in prison.
The article — which named no rioter who was sentenced to “840 years in prison” — then made an attempt to whitewash the violence: “Most January 6 protestors peacefully strolled through the Capitol after being waved in by police but they were arrested and charged by Biden’s corrupt Justice Department anyway.”
WND also republished a Jan. 8 article from the Daily Signal uncritically repeating Republican Rep. Clay Higgins’ unsupported claim that “the FBI had 200 undercover assets both inside and outside the building.”
Bob Unruh was in full revisionism mode in his own Jan. 8 article that tried to both justify and downplay the riot:
One of the Democrats’ big claims against President Donald Trump over the January 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol was that he wanted to go there, intended to go there and threatened to go there.
That was the day thousands gathered to hear him speak and a small number of those went to the Capitol, many to protest the adoption of the 2020 Electoral College victory for Joe Biden, which they viewed as the result of corruption.
Of those, a few hundred rioted.
What is known now is that that election was the result of two significant undue influences on voters, one being the $400 plus million that Mark Zuckerberg handed out to various elections officials who largely used it to attract Biden supporters. Never before in American elections has that sum of money been handed out, outside of the structure of election expense rules.
The other was the FBI’s interference, when it instructed media corporations to suppress reporting about the Biden family scandals as revealed in a laptop computer abandoned by Hunter Biden.
Turns out those reports were accurate, and the FBI knew at the time it was telling publications to keep them hidden from voters. A subsequent polling showed that scheme alone likely turned the election from Trump to Biden.
Unruh offered no proof that the Zuckerberg money was “largely used … to attract Biden supporters” — probably because that didn’t happen. The “subsequent polling” about Hunter’s laptop was done for the Media Research Center, which paid two right-wing pollsters, including Trump’s own election pollster, to manufacture results that advanced that right-wing narrative. Unruh continued:
Democrats long have claimed that Trump planned to be at the Capitol with his supporters, based on statements from some Trump aides who recalled to Nancy Pelosi’s partisan committee looking into actions that day that Trump “might” have wanted to go to the Capitol.
Further, Ex-Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson “claimed in a disputed account based on hearsay that on the way back from his speech Trump lunged at the driver of the presidential limo to commandeer it and take it to the Capitol. The Secret Service and Trump deny that happened, and no evidence has emerged to validate Hutchinson’s claim. That did not stop the account from making its way into mainstream media,” reported Just the News.
But the report said the publication reviewed Secret Service documents and found “no plan” for Trump to be heading to the Capitol that day.
As we documented, the Secret Service agents whom Hutchinson said told her of Trump’s actions — who have been identified as Trump loyalists and yes men — declared they would testify to the January 6 Committee that Hutchinson was lying, but then quickly lawyered up and refused to testify; when one finally did testify, he conveniently couldn’t remember key details. Meanwhile, other witnesses corroborated key parts of Hutchinson’s testimony.
Unruh complained in another Jan. 8 article that former vice President Mike Pence believes the FBI about their lack of involvement in the riot, uncritically repeating Higgins’ unsupported claim to the contrary:
Just as U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., confirmed he believes “there were easily 200 FBI undercover assets” instigating the crowd during the January 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol, former Vice President Mike Pence has suggested another viewpoint.
While Higgins revealed there were FBI “assets” operating in the crowd, outside the Capitol, embedded into groups that entered the building and having “provoked’ protesters, Pence says he believes the FBI’s “repeated assurances … that they were not involved and I take them at their word.”
According to a report from Politico, Pence disagrees with President Donald Trump’s assertions that the FBI played a role in instigating protesters who turned their opposition to the events that day into a riot.
“I’ve heard the many repeated assurances from the FBI that they were not involved, and I take them at their word,” Pence told CNN.
Unruh offered no evidence that Higgins should be taken at his word when he has offered no evidence to back up his assertion.
UPDATE: WND also cheered the real-world results of its revisionism misinformation. Unruh touted in a Jan. 4 article:
A new polling from Suffolk University/USA Today reveals that nearly 4 in 10 respondents now believe that those protesters who disrupted Congress’ planned schedule on Jan. 6, 2021, “had a point.”
The polling also shows that the American public is losing confidence in the electoral processes that installed Joe Biden in the White House that month, and a huge majority worry about threats to America’s “democracy.”
Unruh repeated his false claim that Zuckerberg money was “largely used … to recruit Biden supporters.”