What the J6 Report Doesn't Tell Us

 

     Unlike a certain jolly old elf who seems to get better at it year after year, those of us Santa surrogates feel our age and reluctantly admit that it gets harder as we get older. Oh, I wrapped all my presents this year after a $412 excursion with Number One son at Wally World yesterday and placed them under the tree with, more or less, care.

     But it just seems to take more time as one gets older. Either that, or hours get subtracted from each day as we get closer to Christmas. Didn't yesterday have 25 hours or was that just my beleaguered imagination?

     That goes with keeping promises and all the miles to go before we sleep. And just yesterday, I promised you all a post about the 800+ page report that was dropped yesterday by the J6 Select Committee. Between that and the lengthy Executive Summary and that report, we weren't treated, as far as I know, to any earth-shaking developments. But it still deserves a fair hearing even on a political blog in the wilderness such as this one.

     And, a promise is a promise.

     First of all, we know that Trump expected to be swaddled with 10,000 National Guardsmen as he marched to the Capitol, despite the fact that the DC National Guard only has about 1200 members and that, in order to reach that freakishly large number, Trump would've had to poach Guardsmen from Virginia, Maryland and other surrounding states.

     Of course, he didn't want them for protection- He wanted to turn the National Guard into a Praetorian Guard, a massive show of force to show Congress that they'd better think twice before "stealing" the election from him. Trump, after all, according to Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony, infamously told a Secret Service agent that "they're not here to harm me" right before his infamous speech at the Ellipse.

     The proposed 10,000 member show of force was meant to be just that- a show of force. Give me my imperial crown or else.

     We learned that, not long after the election, he put Sidney Powell on mute and laughed at her as she incoherently babbled on about Italian satellites changing votes from Trump to Biden.

     Trump knew back then it was all bullshit. As had been reported months ago, Trump had once admitted to an aide that he knew he lost. He just didn't want anyone else to find out he'd lost. As if that was a national security secret on a par with who really killed JFK and what really crashed near Roswell in early July, 1947.     

     But to me, what's been vastly under-reported is a fact that got scant coverage in the MSM when the rest of the revelations came out- The fact that the Secret Service actually sought a way to get Trump to the Capitol safely. Yes, they actually looked for a way whereby they could get him there, which would have been akin to adding a sulfur kicker to a thermite bomb, which would turn it into a much higher and more destructive thermate bomb.

     Then they decided they couldn't do it while still looking good. So they took Trump back to the White House. In other words, as far as Trump's Secret Service protective detail was concerned, the Capitol was Plan A. The White House was Plan B.

     It joins a growing list of questions to revelations that were given extremely short shrift in the worthless MSM. Such as, how did Alex Jones and friends know exactly where to stand in the middle of Mike Pence's proposed motorcade route if he'd gotten in that limo? Only two law enforcement bodies knew the details of that theoretical route- The DC police and the Secret Service.

     Who fed them that information?

     Were the metal detectors taken down at Trump's order at the Ellipse? No one's ever answered that question, have they?

     And how did the rioters know which windows to break through at the Capitol? Only about a dozen weren't reinforced and yet that's precisely the ones the rioters went through, out of the nearly 600 in the Capitol building.

     Who tore out Rep. Ayanna Presley's alarm system in her office before the riots even started? Why did the Senate Parliamentarian's office, where the electoral college votes were stored before certification, get trashed the most? As with the location of the Capitol's unreinforced windows, who fed them that information?

     How did they find Majority Whip Jim Clyburn's office, which is difficult for even Capitol veterans to find?

     Enquiring minds want to know. Because the J6 final report isn't noteworthy for what it tells us as much as for what it doesn't tell us.