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Biden signs RFK Stadium land bill into law, a step toward potential Commanders stadium in Washington

President Joe Biden on Monday signed into law a bill that transfers the land that includes the old RFK Stadium from the federal government to city control, the next step to potentially pave the way for the NFL’s Washington Commanders to return to the nation’s capital.

Giving the District of Columbia control of the land for the next 99 years allows for the decaying husk of the old stadium to be torn down and the site redeveloped for any number of things. One of the possibilities is a football stadium and surrounding entertainment options at the franchise’s former home.

Owners Josh Harris, Mitch Rales and Mark Ein and Mayor Muriel Bowser stood behind Biden at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office when he signed the D.C. Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium Campus Revitalization Act. The Commanders in a statement said it was a big win for the city and its residents.

“Washington can finally move forward on a new vision for the RFK site,” they said. “We look forward to being a part of that conversation as we evaluate a future home for the Washington Commanders.”

Bowser called this moment “the results of years of tireless and strategic advocacy, extraordinary collaboration and bipartisan leadership.”

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J6 was about holding establishment politicians accountable to the people

By the time you read this, you will have already endured the overblown commentary from countless corporate news outlets about January 6, 2021, a day that should remain relatively insignificant in the grand scope of American history. Yet at the same time, you will almost certainly find yourself completely unenlightened as to what the objective, unadulterated truth is about the events that took place at our nation’s capital a few years ago.

Here is that truth, as I see it: J6 wasn’t an insurrection or a failed coup. The people who engaged in that behavior weren’t even close to being capable of carrying out the hyperbolic scenarios portrayed in the media. What is often overlooked, however, is how they still managed to instill fear in the hearts of those ensconced in the ivory tower of Capitol Hill—reminding them, if only briefly, that they work for the people.

To be clear: the protestors‘ method was misguided. But the underlying attitude they carried—the sense that it is not only their right but their duty to hold public officials accountable—is something Americans from all political affiliations could take a page from. It’s worth noting that politicians and major media voices quickly seized on January 6 to make an example of those involved, deploying harsh rhetoric and legal measures that sent a strong message: oppose us in any way beyond casting a ballot, and you risk punishment. This response serves as a chilling deterrent against anyone who might, in the future, choose to exercise the kind of direct, forceful accountability that rattles those in power far more than the occasional protest sign or a single vote.

Why, then, do politicians and mainstream news pundits still use the words “insurrection” or “failed coup” when describing those events—even now—despite evidence to the contrary? The FBI’s investigation into the Capitol incident concluded that the violence was not coordinated by any grand coalition of white supremacists, far-right groups, or supporters of former President Donald Trump. Nor was there a plot to overturn the 2020 Presidential Election or take political hostages. The media has relentlessly bombarded us with rhetoric that the incident was a terrorist insurrection—even though there were only two fatalities that day, both of whom were protestors: Rosanne Boyland, who died of an amphetamine overdose, and Ashli Babbitt, a former Air Force veteran who was fatally shot by an officer when attempting to climb through a shattered window. Her death was ruled justifiable homicide, despite her being unarmed. In an era defined by protests against racism and police brutality—especially as it relates to unarmed black citizens—this instance of a black officer shooting a white woman has been met with considerably less public introspection or empathy, a silence which some find ironic.

The real talking point that should dominate discussions of January 6 is the misuse of the term “insurrection.” There was no plan to overthrow the government, no organized preparation to seize power, and American freedom was never genuinely in jeopardy. For major networks to keep calling that day an “insurrection” is irresponsible and a blatant form of gaslighting.

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NEW VIDEO Shows J6 Trump Supporter Rosanne Boyland Shot in the Face by Police Projectile, Then Pushed Down and Smothered, Before Metro Police Officer Beat Her with a Stick as She Died on US Capitol Steps

President Trump held his first press conference on Tuesday after Congress certified him the winner of the 2024 presidential election on Monday.

During his press conference from his home in Mar-a-Lago, President Trump made headlines when he announced he was changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico – to the Gulf of America.

President Trump also told the assembled journalists that he heard there was a second person who died on January 6, 2021 at the pro-Trump protests on Capitol Hill.

Actually, Mr. President, four people died that day, three were killed by police action, on January 6, 2021.

Ashli Babbitt was shot and killed in cold blood by Officer Michael Byrd. Kevin Greeson died of a heart attack. Benjamin Phillips was killed when Capitol Police fired exploding cylinders into the crowd, and he was knocked unconscious, and Trump supporters were unable to revive him. And Rosanne Boyland was gassed, pushed down, smothered until unconscious, and then beaten with a stick by Officer Lila Morris several times as she lay dying on the US Capitol Steps.

The Capitol Police also attempted to kill Derrick Vargo when they pushed him off a three-story ledge. He survived with serious injuries.

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Trump takes aim at FBI over January 6 pipe bomb mystery: Deep State coverup exposed?

In a shocking development that has reignited the national conversation about the events of January 6, 2021, former President Donald Trump has publicly asserted that the FBI knows the identity of the individual responsible for planting pipe bombs near the Democratic and Republican National Committee headquarters on the eve of the Capitol riot. Trump’s bold claim, made during a recent interview with Revolver News’ Darren Beattie, suggests a deliberate cover-up by federal authorities – a narrative that aligns with the explosive findings of a recent House Administration Committee report.

The January 6 pipe bomb incident remains one of the most perplexing and underreported aspects of that fateful day. The bombs, planted just hours before the Capitol breach, were discovered outside the DNC and RNC offices but failed to detonate. Despite an extensive FBI investigation – including over 1,000 interviews, 39,000 video files reviewed, and a $500,000 reward for information—the suspect’s identity remains a mystery. But according to Trump, the mystery may not be as unsolvable as the FBI claims.

In his interview with Beattie, the former president expressed confidence that the FBI knows who planted the bombs but has chosen to conceal the truth. “The FBI knows who did it,” Trump asserted, implying that the suspect’s identity would be politically damaging to the Biden administration and the so-called “regime” in power. This bombshell accusation comes on the heels of an 80-page House Administration Committee report that corroborates much of independent media’s reporting, raising serious questions about the FBI’s handling of the case.

The report, released just days before Trump’s interview, suggests that the FBI conducted a legitimate investigation into the pipe bombs for the first few months of 2021 but abruptly dropped the case around May of that year. Beattie and Trump both speculate that the FBI uncovered the bomber’s identity and determined that revealing it would be too embarrassing for the Biden administration. This theory has gained traction among conservatives, who have long criticized the FBI for what they see as a pattern of politically motivated misconduct.

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Schumer, silent on Biden’s clemency for cop-killers and child-raping serial killer, tells Trump not to pardon J6 protesters

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) is among the Democrats apparently keen to pretend that any kind of presidential pardon is now off the table after President Joe Biden gave an “unconditional” blanket pardon to his felonious son Hunter Biden and commuted the sentences of monstrous child-killers, city-impoverishing fraudsters, and other predators.

Schumer noted Monday on X, “It is utterly shameful that the president-elect is considering pardons for January 6 rioters.”

After winning the election in a landslide, President Donald Trump told Time magazine in an interview, “We’re going to look at each individual case, and we’re going to do it very quickly, and it’s going to start in the first hour that I get into office.”

“A vast majority should not be in jail, and they’ve suffered gravely,” added Trump.

Weeks later, Trump reiterated in an interview with NBC News’ “Meet the Press” that he would begin issuing pardons to Jan. 6 protesters on his first day back in office, noting that unlike the radicals involved in the genuinely deadly BLM riots who largely got out legally unscathed after inflicting billions of dollars of damage on the nation, Jan. 6 protesters were treated “unfair[ly].”

“Those people have suffered long and hard. And there may be some exceptions to it. I have to look,” said Trump.

When asked whether he would consider also pardoning violent protesters, Trump noted that some of the convictions for violent crimes were bogus and said, “I’m going to look at everything. We’re going to look at individual cases.”

Over 1,580 defendants have been charged with crimes connected to the Jan. 6, 2021, protests. Blaze News previously reported that nearly 1,000 people have pleaded guilty to Jan. 6 charges, 68% for misdemeanors and 32% for felonies. Of those who pleaded guilty to felonies, 53% were for supposedly assaulting law enforcement officers. Some of the most consequential prison sentences ranged from 10 to 22 years.

Mike Davis, founder of the Article III Project, told the Washington Examiner in a statement that “nothing that happened on Jan. 6 calls for a 22-year prison sentence, especially when the Biden Justice Department essentially gave amnesty to the much more deadly and destructive BLM and Antifa rioters.”

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Explosive Claim: Journalist Steve Baker Alleges Gen. Mark Milley Approved Heat and Sound Directed Energy Weapons During 2020 Riots — Claims He Has Evidence to Prove It

In a bombshell revelation during an appearance on Sara Gonzales Unfiltered, investigative journalist Steve Baker has accused General Mark Milley, then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, of authorizing the use of heat and sound-directed energy weapons against protesters during the violent riots that rocked Washington, D.C., in the summer of 2020.

Baker claims to have photographic evidence to substantiate these allegations, with a full exposé promised in the coming days.

It can be recalled that during the summer of 2020, a series of protests and riots erupted across the United States following the death of George Floyd.

These events, often referred to as the “Summer of Love,” resulted in significant loss of life and property damage.

By early June 2020, at least 19 deaths were reported in connection with the protests nationwide.

114 police officers were assaulted at the Capitol Hill protests. 180 police officers were assaulted and injured during the BLM riots in Washington, DC in the summer of 2020.

Over 700 police officers were injured in the BLM riots nationally — and that was just the first half of 2020!

Between May 26 and June 8, 2020, the riots caused an estimated $1–2 billion in insured property damage across 140 U.S. cities in 20 states, making it the costliest civil unrest in U.S. history.

Speaking to host Sara Gonzales, Baker detailed the alleged deployment of heat and sound-directed energy weapons during the Summer of Love.

According to Baker, these weapons—capable of emitting both super audible and subaudible frequencies—can be used for crowd control or, more ominously, as tools to incite agitation and violence.

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‘The View’ Host Compares Jan 6th To THE HOLOCAUST

January 6th rolled around again Monday and provided the leftist corporate media with an excuse to once again declare the date some sort of Pearl Harbour or 9/11 like anniversary, purely to smear Trump supporters.

The View host Sunny Hostin went even further by directly comparing the events of January 6th 2021 to slavery and the holocaust.

Yes, really.

Hostin stated “After January 6th, I think we need to find moral clarity, you know, in this country. I just remember after January 6th, you had someone like Mitch McConnell placing the blame on January 6th where it belonged, squarely on Donald Trump’s shoulders.”

She continued, “And then you started seeing people backtrack that and losing their moral center. You had Condoleezza Rice, I believe, on this very show saying, you know, we need to move on from January 6th.”

“I say no, you don’t move on, because January 6th was an atrocity. It was one of the worst moments in American history,” Hostin continued to blather.

“And when you think about the worst moments in American history, you know, like World War II, things that happened, you know, like the Holocaust, chattel slavery, we need to never forget. Because past becomes prologue if you forget and erase,” she concluded.

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NBC News Goes After ‘False Claims’ That Aren’t False in Congressman’s J6 X Post

To hear the mainstream media tell the tale, Jan. 6, 2021, was the worst moment in our nation’s history. While there’s no denying that the incursion on the Capitol was an unfortunate event, the media and the Biden administration’s overreaction to it was even worse.

Four years later as Congress gathers to certify another presidential election, the 2021 incident is still fresh on the minds of leftists. The NBC News liveblog about today’s election certification is full of references to four years ago. One of those references is a ridiculous assertion that Rep. Mike Collins (R-Ga.) made “false claims” in a post on X on Monday morning.

Collins, who has a reputation for humorous posts on X, wrote:

On #ThisDayInHistory in 2021, thousands of peaceful grandmothers gathered in Washington, D.C., to take a self-guided, albeit unauthorized, tour of the U.S. Capitol building. 

Earlier that day, President Trump held a rally, where supporters walked to the Capitol to peacefully protest the certification of the 2020 election. During this time, some individuals entered the Capitol, took photos, and explored the building before leaving. 

Since then, hundreds of peaceful protestors have been hunted down, arrested, held in solitary confinement, and treated unjustly. Countless hours and taxpayer dollars have been spent pursuing innocent grandmothers and raiding President Trump’s home, while terrorists and millions of illegal immigrants continue to cross our nation’s borders, causing havoc in our communities. 

Thankfully, President Trump has announced that, on day one of his presidency, he will grant pardons to nonviolent defendants.

Full disclosure: Collins is my congressman, and I think the world of him. I also enjoy his sense of humor on social media.

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House Report Discloses New Information On Unsolved J6 Pipe Bomber

Four years after what the FBI describes as an act of domestic terror–the protest at the Capitol on January 6, 2021–federal authorities have not yet solved the most consequential crime of that day: the presence of two explosive devices within blocks of the U.S. Capitol.

A report issued today by Representatives Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky), chairmen of House subcommittees examining the events of January 6 and the work of the January 6 Select Committee, details how the FBI investigation into the so-called pipe bomber went cold by early 2021 despite dedicating significant resources into finding the suspect and initially identifying several “persons of interest.”

The FBI originally claimed an individual wearing a hoodie planted the devices near the headquarters of the Republican National Committee and outside the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee on January 5, 2021 between the hours of 7:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. The devices were not discovered until 17 hours later, coincidentally, around the same time the Joint Session of Congress convened at 1:00 p.m. on January 6 to debate the results of the 2020 presidential election. A woman doing her laundry found a pipe bomb in an alleyway near the RNC headquarters at around 12:40 p.m.; a plainclothes Capitol Police officer discovered a similar device outside the DNC headquarters at 1:05 p.m.

The latter situation posed an extreme danger to incoming Vice President Kamala Harris, who left the Capitol at 11:25 a.m. and inexplicably went to the DNC, where she remained until around 1:15 p.m. As I have reported, several officers including numerous Secret Service agents and a bomb-sniffing canine failed to detect the device sitting just steps away from the building’s entrance.

News of the devices prompted the evacuation of nearby buildings and set off the first wave of panic that afternoon. Some top law enforcement officials including former U.S. Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund believe the devices were a diversionary tactic. “[While] law enforcement has not identified the suspect responsible for planting both pipe bombs, the explosive devices played a critical role in how the events of that day unfolded. Whether intended to or not, both pipe bombs acted as diversions, forcing law enforcement to draw resources away from the Capitol,” the report states. The first exterior breach of Capitol grounds occurred at 12:53 p.m.

But no one has been arrested despite a $500,000 reward offered by the FBI. Further, the failure to locate the J6 pipe bomber doesn’t add up considering the extensive investigative tools still being used by the FBI to track down and arrest J6 protesters, a caseload now approaching 1,600 individuals.

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FBI Releases Suspiciously Doctored Video of January 6 Pipe Bomber After House Report Reveals Bureau Engaged in Massive Coverup

Four years later…

The FBI on Thursday evening released *new* footage of the January 6 pipe bomber after Rep. Loudermilk released a report revealing the bureau engaged in a massive coverup operation.

For years we’ve been told an unidentified suspect planted pipe bombs at the RNC and DNC headquarters on January 5, the night before the Capitol riot.

The FBI still ‘can’t find’ the person who planted the bombs.

A new report released Thursday morning by the Committee on House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight into the January 6 pipe bomber shows the FBI stopped looking for the suspect in 2021 and covered up evidence.

Later Thursday evening, the FBI released new information on the January 6 pipe bomber and offered a $500,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest of the suspect.

The FBI says the January 6 pipe bomber is approximately 5’7″ tall.

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