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Outspoken socialist Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez admitted that Capitol Police held the doors open on January 6th.
The “Squad” member said, “I have no idea what happened to the people on the inside who were very clearly sympathetic with what was going on and opening the doors wide open for that. And I’m supposed to sit here and pretend like none of that ever happened.”
AOC admits Capitol Police held the doors open on Jan 6 pic.twitter.com/CIql9rlbvE
— Jack Posobic 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) July 14, 2022
This comment comes in stark contrast to other top Democrats who have claimed January 6th was a violent terrorist attack.
Vice President Kamala Harris claimed Jan. 6th was a terrorist attack by comparing it to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which killed 2,403 Americans, and the 9/11 terror attacks, which killed 2,977.
Harris achieved the lowest approval rating for any vice president in U.S. history at just 28 percent, according to USA Today.
Business Insider confirmed this is a “historic low for any modern vice president.”
On January 6th, a total of five people died. An unarmed Trump supporter and 14-year U.S. military veteran, Ashli Babbitt, was shot and killed by police. One person died of a drug overdose. And three people died of natural causes.
In response to Harris, Donald Trump Jr. said “she’s clearly an idiot and the most out of touch politician up to and including crooked.”
Democrats were hoping a prime-time hearing on their investigation into the events of January 6th at the U.S. Capitol would gain the interest of Americans.
TV ratings painted a different picture. According to Newsbusters, all three major broadcast networks that aired the hearing ended up with a smaller audience than if they had simply provided their usual news content.
Beginning with ABC, the network received 4.35 million viewers for the hearing, but it usually draws 7.4 million viewers for “World News Tonight.” This is based on ratings from the week of June 1.
On NBC, the network attracted 3.31 million viewers, which is roughly half of the 6.06 million viewers who usually tune in. On CBS, the network attracted 3.24 million viewers, which is lower than the nightly average of 4.3 million viewers.
Hoping game 5 of the Rangers-Lightning series has better ratings.
— J.D. Haltigan, PhD 🏒👨💻 (@JDHaltigan) June 9, 2022
The committee investigated the events of January 6, 2021 at the U.S. Capitol, hoping to pin it all on President Trump. Democrats have created a false narrative that the events of January 6 were an organized attempt to overturn the presidential election result.
Citing the FBI officials, an exclusive Reuters report has already shot down this theory.
On the contrary, there is strong evidence that roughly 96% of cases were “one-off incidents” and only 4% could be tied to various militia-type groups. These groups were still not centrally coordinated.
“The FBI has so far found no evidence that he [President Trump] or people directly around him were involved in organizing the violence, according to the four current and former law enforcement officials,” FBI officials told Reuters.
“FBI at this point believes the violence was not centrally coordinated by far-right groups or prominent supporters of then-President Donald Trump,” the report adds.
