Commentary
With political campaign happenings soaking up the space I allow myself for each edition, there were four stories related to the January 6 breach of the Nation’s Capitol that I was holding in my stack of stuff for a future story, when WHAM, a single word – bloodbath – gave the story priority.
By now you know that former President Trump, during a rally in Ohio, was speaking of China and Mexico benefiting from the Biden administration’s electric vehicle policies when he said:
“If I get elected – now if I don’t get elected, it’s gonna to be a bloodbath for the whole – that’s gonna be the least of it. It’s gonna be a bloodbath for the country, that’ll be the least of it. But they’re gonna sell those cars, they’re building massive factories.”
It was a continuation of his earlier campaign speech in Michigan when he was critical of UAW leadership for supporting Biden’s electric car mandate, saying “there soon won’t be any cars made in the USA.”
But Trump’s use of “bloodbath” gave the leftist media, like MSNBC, another opportunity to attack Trump, indicating that the word was a dog whistle for violence.
Leftist David Corn, bureau chief of Mother Jones, and formerly with the leftist magazine, The Nation, described the remarks as “violent” during an appearance on MSNBC’s “The Weekend.” MSNBC’s legal analyst Glenn Kirschner characterized Trump’s comment as an example of him escalating “the violence of his rhetoric.”
In a social media post, Joe Scarborough included a photo from January 6, and captioned it with: “promises another bloodbath if he loses again.” He deleted it after a critical post by Elon Musk, only to pick up on the story agin on “Morning Joe.”
I doubt that President Biden personally submits messages to “X” (formerly Twitter), but this appeared there: Joe Biden@Joe Biden: “It’s clear this guy wants another January 6.”
While Red State mused that Trump may have used the word to get press reaction. When Trump referred to MS-13 members as “not human,” then Speaker Nancy Pelosi rose to the bait and spoke out that they were “not animals.”
No doubt, from time to time, Trump’s vocabulary results in news coverage, and he eats that up.
Now to the Jan. 6, Stories
Since it has been clear to me that the Biden-Harris campaign was going to declare that Trump incited the insurrection of the Capitol, even though he has never been so charged, I continued to collect material for future commentary.
Just an aside. As someone who was responsible for advertising in industry before retiring, I was amused by a Biden-Harris Jan. 6, campaign ad in which they dropped out the copy from a black background, a taboo in advertising. It’s too difficult to read. Incidentally, I don’t expect you to be able to read the accompanying copy.
I don’t know if it will go far, but Georgia’s Republican Rep. Barry Loudermilk announced that the House may refer members of the highly partisan January 6 Committee to the Department of Justice for alleged misconduct involving document concealment and destruction.
As co-chair of the Administration Oversight Subcommittee, Laudermilk revealed that videotapes of interviews, transcripts and other evidence gathered by the Democrats had been deleted, destroyed or moved from one agency to another.
Mississippi Democrat Rep. Bennie Thompson and then Wyoming RINO Rep. Liz Cheney co-chaired the Jan. 6 committee. Since the partisan event, that failed to prove that former President Trump incited insurrection, Cheney’s bid for reelection failed. She continues to speak out against Trump.
The second story, reported by the Washington Examiner, noted that Judicial Watch’s suit under the Freedom of Information Act that the CIA, in fact, had been dispatched to the Capitol in search of explosive devices. Previously, we learned that the FBI had agents scattered among protestors.
The third story pertains to the calling out of the National Guard by President Trump, that has been a point of contradiction by authorities. Lt Gen. Keith Kellogg, national security advisor to Vice President Pence, said that he was present at the time Trump requested National Guard troops be deployed before the breach of the Capitol.
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany followed with a tweet @PresSec45: “As President @realDonaldTrump’s direction, the National Guard is on the way along with other federal protective services. We reiterate President Trump’s call against violence and to remain peaceful.”
FINALLY … we’ve learned that the “compelling” and “explosive” testimony of Cassidy Hutchinson, White House aide to Chief of Staff Meadows, that President Trump attempted to grab the Secret Service driver of his car to “persuade” him to drive him to the Capitol, was not true. Of course, we knew it couldn’t be.
May God continue to bless the United States of America.
