Posted on 06/27/2022 9:12:32 PM PDT by JoSixChip
BREAKING: The Sergeant at Arms in Charge of Capitol Security on January 6 DIES under Mysterious Circumstances
McConnell asked for and received his resignation on Jan 7, 2021.
Thank you CatHerd.
That’s very relevant. Been busy and haven’t had time to deep read into this.
We are at war and the scumbags are inventing the means to slur President Trump.
Let's not fool ourselves . . . why do you think the border is open ?
Every body is a voter and there are enough "laws" to prevent citizens from stopping an illegal vote until after the fact.
You’re welcome. I haven’t had time, either. I did read a couple of articles (yes, against FR custom, lol) and happened to remember that.
So many goofy conspiracy theories, especially from the Q crowd. There’s no evidence whatsoever he was to testify today. Cassidy Hutchinson, a former top aide to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, is widely thought to be the witness scheduled for today. The rumor he was shot is based on another guy by the same name who was killed in California in 2013. It goes on and on...
The man was 71 years old. We don’t know his exact cause of death, but too many can’t wait to find out and rush ahead with wild assertions. Which makes us conservatives look paranoid and nutty.
They’re pretty mild here.
You oughta see them on Truth Social.
I’m taking a few days off from TS.
It’s too depressing seeing people I once counted on or respected sound like mental patients.
Ray Epps says he was at a church bingo game at the time of the event?.
That’s the reason I didn’t join TS — heard it was a Q Quackhouse. It’s bad enough here.
I cringed when Trump named it Truth Social, seeing as how the Q crowd are always carrying on about Truth with a capital T and claiming they are the sole possessors of it.
“Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.” Especially when they capitalize it!
I can sympathize. It’s saddened me to see some here get sucked down that rabbit hole.
The rumors he was shot are based on the shooting death of another man named Michael Stronger, age 20, in California in 2013:
https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2013/12/02/oakland-police-identify-sunday-homicide-victim/
Including the details, like his arrival in a friend’s car, being dropped off across the street, etc.:
https://casetext.com/case/people-v-lepe-15
Some people post lies to get retweets and likes and stir people up.
Cassidy Hutchinson, not Stenger, was the one scheduled to testify today:
Ugh. Spellchecker. Stronger=Stenger
They revoked his Comet Pizza card.
Thanks for the correction.
I had no idea he got fired.
That makes the story more interesting.
The Jan 6 Committee scheduled a special hearing today - any new testimony the MSM can twist into a political bomb shell?
>>>Re: “I had no idea he got fired. That makes the story more interesting.”<<<
Both the House and Senate Sergeants at Arms resigned, as did the US Capitol Police Chief. Fall guys?
There have been arguments back and forth about whether Pelosi declined National Guard presence, with the MSM claiming she did not:
https://www.newsweek.com/house-republicans-say-nancy-pelosi-rejected-national-guard-january-6-riot-kevin-mccarthy-jim-banks-1714401APBut have a look at this:
The House Sergeant at Arms reports to Pelosi and the Senate Sergeant at Arms reported to McConnell, a Republican who was then Senate Majority Leader. There is no evidence that either directed the security officials not to call the guard beforehand, and Hammill said after the insurrection that Pelosi was never informed of such a request.
The officials on the board, along with the former Capitol Police chief, Steven Sund, have disputed each others’ accounts of who requested the guard when. Both Sergeants of Arms and the police chief resigned immediately after the attack.
https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-235651652542
Here’s Capitol Police Chief had to say;
“Sund told the Post that House Sergeant-at-Arms Paul Irving was concerned with the “optics” of declaring an emergency ahead of the protests and rejected a National Guard presence. He says Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Michael Stenger recommended that he informally request the Guard to be ready in case it was needed to maintain security.”
Considering Irving’s boss was Pelosi ... ahem. In the AP story, the “Hammill” who claims “Pelosi was never informed of such a request” was Drew Hammill, Pelosi’s spokesman.
I have a lot of trouble believing Irving nixed the Guard without ever consulting his boss.
>>>Re: “The Jan 6 Committee scheduled a special hearing today - any new testimony the MSM can twist into a political bomb shell?”<<<
Oh boy, and how. But it’s already been taken apart:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4074709/posts
Several threads on FR about it already.
Here is some related information that might be of interest to you.
Judicial Watch has acquired dozens of Jan 6 documents from the Washington D.C. Police Department. By law, the D.C. police must respond to FOIA requests, unlike the U.S. Congress.
Judicial Watch has been focused on the killing of Ashli Babbitt.
The man who shot Babbitt was a Capitol Police Lieutenant and the senior shift officer.
Per the D.C. Police, the Lieutenant stated that the number of Capitol Police present was just half the number usually on duty for a joint session of Congress.
I looked for the link at Judicial Watch, but cannot find it.
The information was published some time in June.
Re: “Per the D.C. Police, the Lieutenant stated that the number of Capitol Police present was just half the number usually on duty for a joint session of Congress. I looked for the link at Judicial Watch, but cannot find it.”
Things that make you go “hmm.”. I could not find the link either, but this Forbes article is quite damning:
“Despite employing 1,879 sworn officers as of September 2020, a congressional inquiry forced USCP to admit that on January 6th, only 195 officers were deployed to interior or exterior posts at the U.S. Capitol and 276 more were assigned to the Department’s seven civil disturbance unit platoons.”
More at link (it only gets worse):
I know this will not be a popular opinion on FR, but prior to Jan 6, I thought the rally was a bad idea. Trump was used to holding rallies where crowds could be vetted before entry, and both inner and outer perimeter security were robust. He was accustomed to having control over security and crowd management.
Not so for this Jan 6 rally where control was in the hands of his enemies. Opportunity for bad actors to infiltrate was wide open. Sorry, but it seemed to me at the time poor judgment on his part, and still does. Whether it was Fatal Error is debatable.
Re Ashli Babbit:
There was a very loud and persistent bunch on FR who insisted she was not dead at all. She was a “crisis actor”, the “blood was fake” and the EMT crew were “crisis actors” as well. And, oh yeah, the window she was climbing through was a movie set type window that conspirators had installed the night before. And on and on, each assertion more bizarre than the last.
They refused to believe she was dead even after her family confirmed her death. Pictures of her memorial service were not sufficient proof for them. They were hostile and quite nasty to any who tried to reason with them. I don’t know whether they ever came to their senses, but there was no convincing them she was really, truly, most sincerely dead back then.
Look for Dick Cheney. He must be out there somewhere defending that sourpuss butthurt daughter of his.
The Judicial Watch document just refers to "half."
JW has a big pile of Ashli Babbitt documents.
Searching with the exact name of the shooter might turn up the correct document.
It is just one sentence. It is not the main subject of any document.
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