On February 27, 1933, the German parliament (Reichstag) building burned down. The Nazi leadership and its coalition partners used the fire to claim that Communist insurrectionists were planning a violent uprising. The Nazis claimed that emergency legislation was needed to prevent this. The resulting act, commonly known as the Reichstag Fire Decree, abolished a number of constitutional protections and paved the way for Nazi dictatorship.
January 6th was the Democrats’ Reichstag fire.
The slow rolling coup kicked off with the Russian hoax following the election of President Trump in 2016. For four tumutous years, The Democrats and their RINO lapdogs worked furiously to undermine and sabotage Trump’s presidency. The deathblow was the 2020 election. The final coup d’é·tat was the great January 6th hoax.
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Federal law enforcement knew there was going to be a huge demonstration on Capitol Hill on January 6th. The FBI knew. Everybody knew. There was ample warning. But Capitol police force were not told, plans were not made, they were completely unprepared. It was where Americans would march for election integrity in the face of the egregious rigging of the November 2020 elections. So why were front line officers kept in the dark? It wasn’t a failure of communication, it was a direct action. No response to calls from Capitol police. Those responsible were not punished, they were rewarded.
They planted Feds. The planted agitators. Their silence was a stand down order.
Tarik Johnson, a black man, did the RIGHT THING TO PROTECT MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, and Nancy Pelosi & Chuck Schumer fired him for it. These are YOUR DEMOCRATS https://t.co/Bz5xsPkyo6
— MarktheDeplorable 🇺🇲🇺🇲❤❤ (@MarkN77647844) March 8, 2023
High crimes.
It was by design.
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When permission was requested to evacuate the Senators, there was radio silence.
It was by design.
No one answered their please for direction, help or guidance.
It was be design.
The Democrat party wanted a bloody day to extinguish any dissent or opposition to their election coup and imprison dissidents and patriots who tried to stop their White House revolution.
Capitol Police officer Tarik Johnson said he was never contacted by the January 6 Committee, even though he wanted to testify about what he had seen.
‘I asked myself why every day,’ he said.
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‘And every day I might have a different answer but I looked at how pretty much they focused on Donald Trump, and not the failures of the Capitol Police.’
“My voice is one of the first ones you hear on the audio transmission, so I did expect to get an interview sometime, but it didn’t happen.”
Despite pleas for help on Jan. 6, Johnson said he did not hear anything, not even from Capitol Police chief assistant Yogananda Pittman, who allegedly kept vital information about the protests from him. The federal intel and law enforcement agencies knew about the warnings of a massive disturbance at the Capitol on Jan. 6, Carlson said, but the frontline officers on duty that day did not know.
“We should have been better prepared that day, and we could have been better prepared that day if the information was disseminated like it was supposed to be,” Johnson said.
Tucker Carlson on Tuesday night analyzed the actions of Lt Tarik Johnson, a Capitol Police officer who resigned after the January 6 riot. Carlson, who has been given 40,000 hours of surveillance footage from the Capitol by Kevin McCarthy, showed Johnson doing his job. Johnson was given a MAGA cap by a rioter and wore it, he says, for safety: he says he was forced to resign after photos of him in the Trump hat emerged.
Pelosi, who was in charge of Capitol security as speaker, failed to keep the congressional police force adequately prepared to handle mass demonstrations, according to a congressional investigation. House Republicans tasked with investigating the riot after the speaker barred them from the official Select Committee on Jan. 6 outlined Pelosi’s negligence in their minority report published in December. Pelosi’s deputies on the House panel, however, shielded the speaker from scrutiny throughout the probe. (The Federalist)
Despite pleas for help on Jan. 6, Johnson said he did not hear anything, not even from Capitol Police chief assistant Yogananda Pittman, who allegedly kept vital information about the protests from him. The federal intel and law enforcement agencies knew about the warnings of a massive disturbance at the Capitol on Jan. 6, Carlson said, but the frontline officers on duty that day did not know.
Johnson still wonders why the January 6 Committee never called him to testify.
“Since you were there on January 6, what did you think of the job of the January 6 Committee?” Carlson asked.
“I prayed almost daily that they would get to me,” Johnson responded. “I was never asked to testify… I was never asked by anybody connected to the January 6 Committee to testify. I asked myself why every day, and every day I might have a different answer. But, you know, pretty much they focused on Donald Trump and not the failures of the Capitol Police.” (Fox News)
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Tarik Johnson, a 22-year veteran on the Capitol Hill force, was tasked with securing the certification of the 2020 presidential election.
“My voice is one of the first ones you hear on the audio transmission, so I did expect to get an interview sometime, but it didn’t happen.” Johnson told “Tucker Carlson Tonight” about the House Select Committee in an interview aired Tuesday. “I guess the focus was on Donald Trump.”
Despite pleas for help on Jan. 6, Johnson said he did not hear anything, not even from Capitol Police chief assistant Yogananda Pittman, who allegedly kept vital information about the protests from him. The federal intel and law enforcement agencies knew about the warnings of a massive disturbance at the Capitol on Jan. 6, Carlson said, but the frontline officers on duty that day did not know.
“We should have been better prepared that day, and we could have been better prepared that day if the information was disseminated like it was supposed to be,” Johnson said.
Johnson, whose role was to evacuate lawmakers safely, urged for guidance from his superiors but did not hear back. So he took matters into his own hands that day, as seen by footage released by “Tucker Carlson Tonight” from inside the Capitol Building.
However, his career came to a screeching halt after he was spotted outside the Capitol wearing a Make America Great Again hat, which received national attention.
Johnson, a Biden voter, said a Trump supporter placed the MAGA hat on his head. He decided to keep wearing it for self-preservation as he navigated the pro-Trump crowd outside. Johnson was put on an indefinite suspension for doing so and later resigned and lost his pension.
“I couldn’t say what would have happened walking through that crowd without it,” Johnson said.
Yogananda Pittman went on to be elevated by then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to be acting chief of Capitol Police. She later took a post as head of security at the University of California Berkeley, right outside of Pelosi’s congressional district. She did not respond to a request for an interview from “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”
Johnson still wonders why the January 6 Committee never called him to testify.”Since you were there on January 6, what did you think of the job of the January 6 Committee?” Carlson asked.
“I prayed almost daily that they would get to me,” Johnson responded. “I was never asked to testify… I was never asked by anybody connected to the January 6 Committee to testify. I asked myself why every day, and every day I might have a different answer. But, you know, pretty much they focused on Donald Trump and not the failures of the Capitol Police.”
🚨BREAKING: In an interview with Tucker Carlson, former Capitol Police Lieutenant who was suspended for wearing MAGA hat says then assistant Capitol Police Chief Yogananda Pittman who was later promoted by Nancy Pelosi kept vital info from Police on January 6th pic.twitter.com/LE6t41qEAa
“You may notice that the one person, really, who was never blamed for anything that happened on January 6th, was the very same person who was in charge of the police force, the Capitol Hill police that was charged with security safety on January 6th,” Carlson said. “That person was Nancy Pelosi.”
“So if there was a security failure on January 6th, which, demonstrably there was, it was probably Nancy Pelosi’s fault,” Carlson added. “After looking at thousands of hours of footage, we came to the conclusion that many others have reached, which is the Capitol Police were not prepared for what happened.”
Federal intelligence agencies, including the Capitol Police, warned about the potential for turmoil as Congress certified the 2020 election results. The FBI has refused to answer Republican senators’ questions about the extent of the agency’s involvement in the riot.
Daily Mail:
Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Tuesday night condemned the treatment of a Capitol Police officer caught on camera wearing a MAGA cap on January 6, arguing that surveillance tapes showed he was doing his job and was wrongly forced out.
Johnson told Carlson that his bosses had failed them, saying the Capitol Police commanders were ill prepared and did not answer when he radioed seeking guidance.
He said it was shameful that his boss, Assistant Chief Yogananda Pittman, who oversaw the department’s operations in the days leading up to the riot, had been praised by Nancy Pelosi and was now in a cozy role heading up policing at the University of California in Berkeley.
‘The frontline officers and supervisors were not prepared at all,’ Johnson told Carlson.
‘We had no idea we were going to be facing what we faced that day.’
Carlson broadcast footage of Johnson appearing to help protect the members of Congress inside the building when it was stormed.
Johnson was suspended the day after the riot, when footage of him in the MAGA cap emerged.
He then resigned, believing he had no future at the force.
Carlson presented Johnson diligently doing his job.
‘Around 2 o’clock I hear an officer say the Capitol was breached. So I ran inside to assist,’ said Johnson, adding that he locked doors to keep the political leaders safe.
He then radioed his bosses for help.
‘I said something to the effect of, we need direction,’ Johnson said.
‘”What do you want me to do?” Nobody responded.’ (more….)
Newly Released Surveillance Footage Challenges Official Jan. 6 Narrative
List of troubling questions from Jan. 6 keeps growing as more video is made public
The unveiling of some of the 41,000 hours of video from Jan. 6, 2021, that was hidden from public view for more than two years has sparked a new national conversation about just how much still isn’t known about the Capitol incursion.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson was given exclusive access by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to U.S. Capitol security videos and other footage, most of it hidden from public view
If Carlson’s first broadcast special on the footage that aired on March 6 is any indication, the prevailing Jan. 6 narrative is on life support, and the day’s legacy of troubling questions continues to deepen as a result.
Through the news media, the public has had limited access to the nearly 4.7 years’ worth of video captured by security cameras, police bodycams, and videos taken by tens of thousands of Jan. 6 protesters.
Much of it, however, has been hidden under a judicial protective order. It’s unclear if Congress, as the custodian of Capitol Police security video, provided its entire collection of Jan. 6 video to the Department of Justice. Prosecutors have for more than a year referred to 14,000 hours of video used in the prosecution of alleged Jan. 6 crimes.
Well before Carlson envisioned his highly watched March 6–7 specials, defense attorneys on Jan. 6 criminal cases complained that video and other evidence beneficial to their clients have not been disclosed by the government as required under Supreme Court rulings.
With Carlson’s revelations about the “QAnon Shaman,” Jacob Chansley, and mysterious Jan. 6 figure Ray Epps, the cries from defense attorneys about exculpatory evidence will likely increase in the coming weeks and months.
Since Jan. 6 was arguably the most photographed and videoed event in recorded history, the truth about the day should be easy to discern.
But the massive digital evidence cache has been tightly controlled—and even manipulated—to great effect on public opinion. Unfettered public access to all of the video—if it is granted—will crack the legacy media narrative even more and widen the political divide in America.
What follows is an overview of the myriad issues that the 41,000 hours of video will most likely impact.
Johnson continued: ‘I was requesting permission to evacuate the senate side, the senate chambers, because I had a clear line of sight to get them out the senate door, and I didn’t get permission.
‘The dispatcher called a couple times to see if I could get permission.
‘No response.’
He said that his superiors failed, so he had to take the initiative.
‘The person that I thought was going to authorize the evacuation didn’t do it,’ Johnson said.
‘I wanted to get those members of congress out as quickly as I could.
‘That’s why I initiated those evacuations.’
He said he deliberately ignored the chain of command, and usual procedures.
‘Me being disciplined, it wasn’t as important as not getting the members of congress and their staff to safety.’
Carlson asked him about the moment he donned the MAGA cap.
‘There was a demonstrator on the right side of me, he reached over and put the MAGA hat on me,’ said Johnson, a self-professed Biden voter.
‘He asked for it back and I said I would like to keep it as the hat is going to help me.’
Carlson said: ‘It’s your passport through the crowd.’ Johnson agreed.
Failure of Leadership in Evacuation
The evacuation of the U.S. Senate and U.S. House on Jan. 6 provides perhaps the clearest case of how security video can define a critical story.
In Carlson’s second Capitol videos special on March 7, he will tell the story of U.S. Capitol Police Lt. Tarik Johnson, who said he was left without direction on Jan. 6 by assistant Capitol Police chief Yogananda Pittman.
After taking to the radio to ask for permission to evacuate the Senate, Johnson got no response. Even after the USCP dispatcher repeated Johnson’s call for direction, there was silence from the Command Center.
Police with guns drawn watch as protesters try to break into the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)
Johnson forged ahead with the evacuation and went on to direct the evacuation of the House. He said on the radio that he would take any discipline for acting on his own.
The segment on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” will be based in part on investigative reporting by The Epoch Times, which told Johnson’s story in January.
“There was no response from anybody at the Command Center,” Johnson told The Epoch Times. “I say even before I initiated evacuation, I say specifically, ‘We’ve got to start thinking about getting the people out before we don’t have a chance to.’
“I heard no response. Then I asked for permission to evacuate. I heard no response.”
Johnson said the Command Center’s silence caused the loss of precious time that might have prevented the shooting death of protester Ashli Babbitt at about 2:45 p.m. on Jan. 6.
U.S. Capitol Police Lt. Tarik Khalid Johnson asks Oath Keepers Steve (center) and Michael Nichols for help rescuing police officers trapped inside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. (Rico La Starza/Special to The Epoch Times)
Johnson became known to much of America as the Capitol Police lieutenant who wore a bright red Make America Great Again ball cap while he worked with a pair of Oath Keepers to rescue 16 USCP officers trapped in the foyer inside the massive Columbus Doors.
Johnson was suspended by USCP and later accused of rules violations, including conduct unbecoming, for wearing the Trump hat and working with the Oath Keepers on the officer rescue. He said he believes those charges were actually brought because the evacuations and other split-second leadership decisions he made embarrassed Pittman.
Police Actions Raise Questions
Carlson aired Capitol security video showing Capitol Police leading the QAnon Shaman around the building and letting him into the U.S. Senate, where he posed on the rostrum and made a speech.
Many other aspects of police presence and behavior on Jan. 6 have already drawn scrutiny and critique.
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