Donald Trump has often pinned the blame for the Capitol Riot on Nancy Pelosi for her failure to provide security, and now, new video released by House GOP investigators proves he was right.
In the immediate aftermath of the breach of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was recorded admitting responsibility for the lack of adequate security that day.
“You’re gonna ask me in the middle of the thing, when they’ve already breached the inaugural stuff, ‘should we call the Capitol Police?’ I mean the National Guard. Why weren’t the National Guard there to begin with?”
“They thought that they had sufficient resources—” her chief of staff Terri McCullough replied.
“It’s not a question of how they had … they don’t know!” Pelosi replied. “They clearly didn’t know, and I take responsibility for not having them just prepare for more.”
🚨 Since January 6, 2021, Nancy Pelosi spent 3+ years and nearly $20 million creating a narrative to blame Donald Trump.
NEW FOOTAGE shows on January 6, Pelosi ADMITTED:
“I take responsibility.”
WATCH: pic.twitter.com/95a0totTWB
— Oversight Subcommittee (@OversightAdmn) June 10, 2024
Just the News has more:
The footage was recorded by Pelosi’s daughter Alexandra, who helped HBO shoot a documentary about the Jan 6 riot. But the video was not aired in its entirety until Monday, when Republicans on the House Administration Oversight Subcommittee released it after obtaining it from the TV network.
Pelosi’s reaction to the Capitol riot depicted in the footage was reported by Politico on Sunday. However, some of the key quotes above were not included by the outlet, which reviewed the footage independently.
“Numerous independent fact-checkers have confirmed that Speaker Pelosi did not plan her own assassination. Cherry-picked out-of-context clips don’t change that. Three years later, House Republicans are still trying to whitewash January 6th. It’s shameful, unpatriotic and pathetic,” a spokesperson for Pelosi told Just the News.
While Pelosi’s people are dismissing the relevance of the footage, House Republicans insist that the footage completely undermines the narrative that Democrats have been pushing for three years. Democrats have long claimed that Trump was responsible for the security failures that day, even though he has said repeatedly that he had requested more National Guardsmen to be on hand that day and was rejected.
Pelosi’s J6 Select Committee spent taxpayer’s money chasing false political narratives and using Hollywood producers for their ‘investigation.’
Her admission of responsibility directly contradicts their own narrative. #J6Truth pic.twitter.com/xbNrkVopo7
— Rep. Barry Loudermilk (@RepLoudermilk) June 10, 2024
Nancy Pelosi admitted to being responsible for not calling the National Guard on J6
ARE YOU FVCKING KIDDING ME ?
TIME TO MAKE THIS FEDSURRECTIONIST VIRAL ON 𝕏. THE MSM WON’T SHOW YOU THIS
YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO 👇 pic.twitter.com/lgIgvfdxrs
— Marjorie Taylor Greene Press Release (Parody) (@MTGrepp) June 10, 2024
According to a GOP report from 2022, congressional leaders, including Pelosi, hesitated to deploy the National Guard early during the 2020 Black Lives Matter riots due to concerns about the optics of doing so. Gen. Mark Milley was also reportedly concerned about former President Trump potentially misusing the military for political purposes, which also influenced the delay.
