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ANALYSIS<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 From the beginning, conspiracies surrounded the Capitol Riot on January 6, 2021. Stunned conservatives couldn\u2019t believe Republicans caused that mayhem. Some called it a deliberate false flag operation by the feds to entrap innocent Trump supporters and launch a massive witch hunt.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both last two things did occur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, the Democrats and media called the afternoon event an attempted coup and later more steadily \u2018the insurrection.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was neither. But it also wasn\u2019t a well-orchestrated false flag operation. The truth is just as bad but less planned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was at the Capitol on Jan 6 as a security contractor for a foreign TV news crew, and I condemned the violence the next day. I wrote that the, at times, violent riot wasn\u2019t a coup, or an insurrection<\/a> but the violence was criminal behavior, and should be punished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also noted that the rioters all appeared to be passionate Trump supporters, and not likely a false flag operation by the feds, or ANTIFA infiltrators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since then, I have defended many of the peaceful protesters unfairly caught up in the FBI dragnet and harshly charged for minor nonviolent crimes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have also written about the large<\/a> number of undercover police and federal agents and their informants since identified at the Capitol that day. And I have noted how the Democrats<\/a> in charge of the House and Senate that day refused National Guard support, as did the Democrat mayor of DC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At least until it was too late.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, former Capitol Hill Police Chief Steven Sund has added his insight into the events. And he claims that it seems as if they wanted something to happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sund resigned from his post shortly after the riots. He had been chief of the Capitol Police since 2019 and had served as a police officer for more than 30 years in total.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Newsmax reported on<\/a> his untelevised interview with Tucker Carlson taped before Carlson was fired from Fox News:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Everything appears to be a cover-up,” Sund told Carlson. “I’m not a conspiracy theorist … but when you look at the information and intelligence they had, the military had, it’s all watered down. I’m not getting intelligence, I’m denied any support from National Guard in advance. I’m denied National Guard while we’re under attack, for 71 minutes …”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026 “Could there possibly be actually … they kind of wanted something to happen? It’s not a far stretch to begin to think that. It’s sad when you start putting everything together and thinking about the way this played out … what was their end goal?”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Sund told Carlson he believes that Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley and then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., had intelligence of what was coming on Jan. 6 but failed to communicate it and subsequently covered it up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“If I was allowed to do my job as the chief we wouldn’t be here; this didn’t have to happen,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carlson also said on Russel Brand\u2019s podcast that Sund told him:  ‘Oh yeah, that crowd was filled with federal agents.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This all fits neatly with much of what I have noted previously. But while I blamed Democrat leaders for holding back needed support to defend the Capitol for other political reasons, Sund seems to believe they held it back because they started hoping for a big chaotic show they could then turn into a political circus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the chaos ensued, and so did their circus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sadly, Donald Trump and some of his supporters fell for the trap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Opinions expressed by contributors do not necessarily reflect the views of Great America News Desk.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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