AMAC EXCLUSIVE
On March 19, former Trump aide Peter Navarro was in rare form as he gave a fiery speech about Nancy Pelosi’s House Select Committee on the January 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol (the J6 Committee). Navarro boldly called out an “unprecedented assault on the constitutional separation of powers.” He gave hope, saying “I will gather strength from this: Donald John Trump is the nominee.” After concluding his powerful oration, Navarro stepped away from the microphone and surrendered himself to the federal Bureau of Prisons to serve his four-month sentence.
Navarro is the just one victim of the J6 Committee’s crusade to smear President Donald Trump headed by Nancy Pelosi and now-former Rep. Liz Cheney. He refused to take part in the charade, ignoring a subpoena from the committee on the grounds of executive privilege. For asserting this long-honored right in American politics, he was sent to prison.
From the moment that Nancy Pelosi first announced her plans to create a “9/11-type commission” to investigate the January 6 riot, many were skeptical of how such a commission would be handled. The Senate wisely voted down the proposal, forcing Pelosi to give up her dreams of a bicameral commission in favor of a House select committee.
Suspicions of the committee intensified when Democrats refused to seat the members selected by Republican House leadership, breaking away from tradition. As a result, then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy refused to take part in the committee and instructed the rest of the Republican caucus to do the same. Only flagrantly anti-Trump Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger defied McCarthy and joined with Democrats. Kinzinger subsequently declined to seek reelection and Cheney was voted out in a landslide.
The violated protocols leading up to the formation of the J6 committee pale in comparison to the glaring partisanship displayed once the committee got underway. It was a made-for-television extravaganza produced in true Hollywood fashion, complete with surprise witnesses and plenty of over-the-top rhetoric.
Yet though these theatrics were performed in the hallowed halls of Congress, the proceedings had all the hallmarks of a Tiger King-style docu-drama. While making long overtures to democracy and uncovering the truth, the committee was actually plotting to suppress crucial evidence that undermined their narrative and cover their tracks to ensure that the American people never learned vital facts about what happened that day.
Yet, truths this big always have a way of coming to the surface in the end. Such is the case of the Committee on House Administration’s Subcommittee on Oversight headed by Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) which is systematically excavating everything that Nancy Pelosi tried so hard to bury.
As soon as Rep. Loudermilk began his task, he was immediately struck by the scope of the project. While an eighteen-month investigation like the J6 Committee usually results in data indexed in some type of digital catalogue, the information left behind by the Democrats was completely disorganized. Once Republicans started wading through the terabytes of data, it became clear that the Democrat committee had left them with a daunting roadblock.
When Democrats were on their way out the door following the 2022 midterm elections, they violated House rules by deleting and destroying important evidence and locking it behind passwords that have not been shared. They claimed to have handed over more than four terabytes of data to Republicans, but Loudermilk revealed that his committee had only received a little more than half that much. Much of the missing evidence may never be recovered, but Loudermilk suggested that among the missing data are reports on the investigation into the actual breach of the Capitol Building and videos of the depositions that were taken.
As Loudermilk’s excavation of the J6 Committee goes deeper, so too does the hole in which the J6 Committee finds itself.
As the J6 Committee would have it, President Trump intentionally riled up the crowd on January 6 and ordered them to breach the Capitol in an explicit effort to overturn the 2020 election. This narrative is not only plainly false, it also seems concocted specifically to mask other failures which occurred that day.
For instance, four whistleblowers from the D.C. National Guard publicly testified to Loudermilk’s panel that the delay in the deployment of guardsmen to the grounds of the Capitol on January 6, 2021 was not a delay on President Trump’s part, but rather a delay on the part of the Army.
Col. Earl Matthews, Sgt. Maj. Michael Brooks, Cap. Timothy Nick, and Brigadier Gen. Aaron Dean gave their first-hand accounts of how Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy delayed by more than two long hours in giving the go-ahead for deployment of Commander William Walker’s National Guard forces, who were waiting for the official word in full tactical gear for hours on buses.
This was in spite of the fact that Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller gave advance approval of the deployment at the direction of President Trump. To this day, it is still unclear why the National Guard was held back, and if anyone at the Capitol was involved in this fateful decision.
It should also be pointed out that the four guardsmen whistleblowers weren’t just waiting for Loudermilk to come along before telling their story. In fact, their accounts were entirely ignored by Pelosi’s committee simply because it did not fit the anti-Trump narrative that the committee was so carefully building.
The American people can only wonder how deep the dishonesty and criminal conduct of Nancy Pelosi’s phony J6 Committee will go, but Rep. Loudermilk is determined to find out. His team is still hard at work trying to uncover the truth. For Peter Navarro who now sits in federal prison and for the American people who have so grossly been lied to, the time has come for true justice to be served.
Ed Martin is a lawyer who succeed iconic conservative leader Phyllis Schlafly as President of the Phyllis Schlafly Eagles, the pro-family organization with leaders in every state. He clerked for the federal court of appeals and has served as Chief of Staff to the Governor of Missouri, Chairman of the St. Louis Board of Elections, and in 1997 as special assistant to Pope John Paul II.
