With Debate Looming, Time to Fact Check the January 6 Committee Report

If the Biden team relies on the Select Committee report, they will put themselves at a serious disadvantage.

The report contains little in the way of uncontested truth, and much in the way of outright falsehood.

In researching my book, Ashli: The Untold Story of the Women of January 6, I routinely cross-checked what I was learning against what the committee had reported or strategically omitted.

A compilation of the report's inaccuracies would run longer than the report itself fortunately for the reader, Rep. Thompson managed to compact the essence of the report's failings into the one paragraph cited above.

To parse the paragraph is to understand the depths of the report's dishonesty.

Neither was so much as mentioned in the House report.

As Witthoeft wryly observed, "The gun-toting populous of the United States showed up that day without guns." The only shot fired that day was shot by the Capitol Police lieutenant Michael Byrd, who killed Witthoeft's daughter.

Ignoring harsh truths, Thompson and his colleagues doomed their report to frivolity by their obsession with Trump.

If Thompson read his own report, he knows that the riot began at the Capitol 15 minutes before Trump made his "Fight like hell" remark on the Ellipse, a 45-minute walk away.

The report does concede that "[a]s violence escalated at the West Front, non-lethal grenadiers began launching chemical munitions at the crowd.

" What the report fails to mention is that Trump was still speaking at the Ellipse when the grenadiers began their assault. 

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