Posted on 02/06/2025 8:58:29 PM PST by Red Badger
The U.S. Mint confirmed that a controversial coin using a description that referred to Jan. 6 freedom fighters as “insurrectionists” has been officially taken out of circulation after it was exposed by the popular social-media account Libs of TikTok on Tuesday.
The commemorative coin had been authorized and first posted on the Mint’s website during the Biden administration, citing a law passed by the Democrat-controlled Congress in August 2021.
It was not immediately clear how long the coin had been available, how many were struck or at what cost to U.S. taxpayers. Headline USA reached out to the Mint for comment and will update with any response.
However, an inquiry on Thursday indicated that the erroneous bronze medallion may soon go the way of the three-legged buffalo or the elusive Trump gold round as a numismatic novelty.
“Please be advised these bronze medals are no longer available,” said the Mint’s reply.
President Donald Trump issued a blanket pardon to some 1,500 political dissidents who were charged by the overzealous Justice Department, led by failed Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland, with crimes such as “parading on Capitol Grounds.”
While a handful—whose sentences Trump commuted instead of issuing a full pardon—were charged with serious felonies such as “seditious conspiracy” for their communications on social media prior to the 2021 uprising, none were charged with “insurrection.”
That, however, did not stop Democrats from pushing disinformation and waging an extensive lawfare campaign to milk the Jan. 6 skirmish for their own political gain throughout the Biden presidency.
Trump was impeached but ultimately acquitted by the Senate on charges that included “incitement of an insurrection.”
Several Democrat-led states, most notably Colorado, also attempted to use the so-called Insurrection Act of the 14th Amendment to block Trump from the 2024 presidential ballot. However, that effort—waged by activist organizations that may have been publically funded, indirectly, through USAID—was swiftly overruled by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Contrary to Democrat propaganda, no officers with the Capitol Police, D.C. Metro Police or any other responding law-enforcement agencies died as the direct result of the events on Jan. 6.
Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, a Trump supporter who died of a stroke in his home later that night, was deemed by the coroner to have perished due to natural causes.
When Republicans regained control of the House of Representatives in 2023, the full release of surveillance video from within the Capitol revealed that several of the responding officers had likely perjured themselves in official testimony before the House Jan. 6 committee and in subsequent cases in the D.C. District Court, lying as to their specific whereabouts and actions during the Capitol breach.
Before leaving office, former President Joe Biden, as one of his last official acts, issued unprecedented preemptive pardons to both the Jan. 6 police officers and the members and staffs of the Jan. 6 committee—the latter of whom were accused of witness tampering and withholding exculpatory information from their Star Chamber probe.
Several of the officers—including David Lazarus, an outspoken activist who served as then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s head of security; Harry Dunn, who launched his own failed run for Congress; and Michael Byrd, who was responsible for the homicide of Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt—have since become household names.
The Biden pardons notwithstanding, newly confirmed Attorney General Pam Bondi said Thursday that she planned to open a review of the Jan. 6 cases.
Any officers who formally accepted Biden’s pardon not only tacitly admitted to their own criminal wrongdoing, according to federal law, but also may have waived their Fifth Amendment right to avoid testimony due to self-incrimination.
Dunn has been able to let go of his delusions about the Capitol uprising, going so far as to confront and attempt to intimidate J6 dissident Brandon Fellows this week.
Fellows, who had returned to the scene hoping to gain reentry into America’s so-called Temple of Democracy, reportedly heckled Dunn as he was giving a press conference condemning the Trump pardons.
How ever many were already sold will increase in value to collectors.
They sell any of these medals?
If they did, they are now rare as hell.............
That is quite the collectible! That is also why before President Trump ran for president, I thought he was just a rich playboy. That was a facade of major proportions.
his face says so much
that’s what I though days ago when I first heard about the coin. some got out and will be “super rare” valuable, instead of worthless for the fact they were trying to promote a fake narrative.
Good.
I hope whoever designed it and whoever approved it is fired.
https://youtu.be/lkiZ2r3G4kA?si=8KoecEV5aeeXG5Ep
I’ve wanted him for President since 1980.
Rona Barrett interview
I saw that interview on YT after he was president. He is a great person.
The rock and racism article must be riveting
OMG!! EVIL NEVER SLEEPS!!
Does anyone have a very recent red book?
I would like to know just how many were minted compared to other recent medals.
I checked my 2023 version and the 2019 Apollo 11 50th anniversary medal (for example):
2019D (41,738 minted) worth 40 bucks
2019S (181,811) 39
2019P (59,697) 70
I’m sure there is a better example than this.
I can’t find this medal at Littleton’s.
Ooo, I think I see a wee loophole. Confess what you did to the American public, or get nailed on perjury charges.
IMHO that is not unambiguously the case. There are differing readings on that score, I believe.And I’m not at all happy about the implication in respect to J6’ers who copped a plea to escape drastic overcharges. And if indeed there were “J6ers” who simply were in DC on that day, but were tracked down by all those FIBers long after the fact, any charge at all would have been unambiguously an egregious overcharge.
No shame at all, IMHO, pertains to J6ers who were grateful for pardons they received. How many FReepers who didn’t live within easy driving distance of DC can be certain that if it had been easy to do so they wouldn’t have gone to Washington on that day, and been taken up in that dragnet?
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