FBI Director <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/christopher-wray" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chris Wray</a> refused to say Tuesday whether <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fbi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI</a> sources had dressed as Trump supporters and entered the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/us-capitol" target="_blank" rel="noopener">U.S. Capitol</a> ahead of protesters on January 6, 2021.
Wray testified in front of the House Homeland Security Committee alongside Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and National Counterterrorism Center Director Christine Abizaid. During the hearing, Louisiana Rep. Clay Higgins (R) questioned Wray on the extent of the FBI’s involvement in the January 6 riot.
“Did the FBI have confidential human sources embedded within the January 6 protesters on January 6 2021?” the Louisiana congressman asked. Confidential human sources are not FBI agents; they are typically insiders in a group or well-connected individuals who have agreed to feed information to the FBI through handlers.
The FBI director said he has to be “very careful” about “when we do and do not and where we have and have not used confidential human sources.”
“To the extent that there’s a suggestion for example that the FBI’s confidential human sources or FBI employees in some way instigated or orchestrated Jan 6, that’s categorically false,” Wray said.
Higgins pressed Wray on if any FBI confidential human sources were dressed as supporters of former President Donald Trump and positioned in the U.S. Capitol “prior to the doors being open[ed].”
Wray began his response reiterating his previous answer when Higgins exploded: “It should be a no! Can you not tell the American people, no, we did not have confidential human sources dressed as Trump supporters positioned inside the Capitol on January 6?”
Wray responded as Higgins time for questioning expired, saying, “You should not read anything into my decision to not to share information related to confidential human sources.”
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Prior to the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot, the FBI had as many as eight sources embedded within the Proud Boys, a right-wing paramilitary group that was represented in the Capitol riot. Five members of the group are scheduled to stand trial next month for their actions leading up to and on January 6. The defendants have been charged with seditious conspiracy for allegedly planning and coordinating the Capitol riot.
The revelation about the FBI informants in the Proud Boys organization came in a series of legal filings made over the past week by the defendants’ attorneys. The defense attorneys argued that prosecutors had improperly withheld information on the informants, and that the information appeared to be favorable to the defense, according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/14/us/politics/fbi-informants-proud-boys-jan-6.html?smid=tw-nytimes&amp;smtyp=cur" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a>.
The new revelation raises questions about what the FBI knew in the weeks and days leading up to the January 6 riot, and why the bureau wasn’t able to prevent the event using information given to it by the Proud Boys informants.
The FBI official leading the investigation into the January 6 riot, Steven D’Antuono, the assistant director in charge of the Washington Field Office, is set to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-fbi-official-who-led-whitmer-kidnapping-plot-j6-investigations-to-retire-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">retire</a> at the end of the month. The FBI announced D’Antuono planned departure in an internal memo last week.
Before taking his post in Washington, D.C., D’Antuono worked in the FBI field office in Detroit. As the special agent in charge, D’Antuono oversaw the bureau’s investigation into a group of militia men and busted a plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
The Whitmer plot received national attention when it first broke into the news in October 2020, just weeks away from the presidential election between then-President Trump and then-Democratic nominee Joe Biden. The plot was immediately characterized in the media as one of the most important domestic terror cases in decades.
Questionable conduct by FBI agents and informants, which came to light in the ensuing trials, marred the bureau’s image and the plot’s investigation. Of the six men charged by the Department of Justice in the plot, two cut plea deals before heading to trial, two were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-whitmer-plot-jury-refuses-to-convict-on-conspiracy-charges" target="_blank" rel="noopener">acquitted</a> at trial, and two were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-jury-convicts-two-men-of-conspiring-to-kidnap-michigan-governor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found</a> guilty of conspiracy in a second trial after the first jury hung on the charges.

Clay Higgins

‘It Should Be A No!’: Congressman Explodes After Wray Refuses Question On FBI, January 6

Christopher Wray

Congress

Department of Justice

January 6

U.S.

Washington D.C.

Former Vice President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mike-pence-heads-to-iowa-amid-2024-rumors/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mike Pence</a> recalled his boiling anger on January 6, 2021, when then-<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dr-jordan-b-peterson-analyzes-trump-answers-whether-he-should-run-in-2024/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">President Trump</a> accused him of lacking courage, calling his ex-boss&#8217; demand that he refuse to certify 2020 election results &#8220;reckless&#8221; in a candid interview Sunday.
Pence spoke to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/muir-wastes-entire-interview-trump-robert-kraychik/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ABC News World News Tonight anchor David Muir</a> for an interview set to air Monday, on the eve of publication of his new book, “So Help Me God.” In the interview, excerpts of which were released early, Pence recounted his feelings on January 6, 2021 when he read a tweet from Trump saying Pence &#8220;didn&#8217;t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution.&#8221;
“It angered me,” Pence said. “But I turned to my daughter, who was standing nearby, and I said, ‘It doesn&#8217;t take courage to break the law. It takes courage to uphold the law.’&#8221;
“I mean, the president&#8217;s words were reckless,” Pence continued. “It was clear he decided to be part of the problem.”
Excerpts from Pence’s book published in <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trump-mike-pence-jan-6-president-rally-capitol-riot-protest-vote-count-so-help-me-god-stolen-election-11668018494" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Wall Street Journal</a> include a description of Pence’s recollections of January 6. Pence related how he had lunch with Trump roughly two week after the 2020 election and told the former president that if legal challenges to the election results failed, he could launch a 2024 comeback by helping Republicans win the Senate runoffs in Georgia, the 2021 Virginia governor’s race, and the House and Senate in 2022.
“He seemed unmoved, even weary,” Pence wrote, recalling that Trump told him, “I don’t know, 2024 is so far off.”
Pence recalled an &#8220;irresponsible&#8221; ad by the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lincoln-project-founder-attacks-meghan-mccain-in-twitter-meltdown/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lincoln Project</a>, a controversial group purports to be anti-Trump Republicans but now campaigns against all GOP candidates, that suggested when he presided over the joint session of Congress to count the electoral votes, he would be “putting the final nail in the coffin” of Trump’s re-election.
“It was designed to annoy the president. It worked,” Pence stated, adding that at a December cabinet meeting, “President Trump told me the ad ‘looked bad for you.’”
Pence answered that he had fully supported the legal challenges to the election and still would.
Pence said he welcomed Missouri GOP Sen. Josh Hawley’s announcement he would co-sponsor election objections because he believed they deserved to be debated in Congress.
“On Saturday, Jan. 2, I instructed my chief of staff to issue a statement supporting the right of lawmakers to bring objections under the Electoral Count Act,” Pence noted, which he said prompted Trump to tell him, “You have gone from very unpopular to popular!” but urging him to reject electoral votes, saying, “You can be a historic figure, but if you wimp out, you’re just another somebody.”
Pence said Trump called him in late morning on January 6, and Pence told Trump he didn’t think he had the power to decide which electoral votes would count, adding that he would issue a statement to that effect to Congress.
“You’ll go down as a wimp,” Trump said, according to Pence.  “If you do that, I made a big mistake five years ago! &#8230; You’re not protecting our country, you’re supposed to support and defend our country!”
“We both took an oath to support and defend the Constitution,” Pence said he reminded Trump.
Hours later, when rioters stormed the Capitol and were looking for him, Pence said he refused to leave the complex.
“You’re not hearing me, I’m not leaving!&#8221; he told his security detail. &#8220;I’m not giving those people the sight of a 16-car motorcade speeding away from the Capitol.”
On January 11, Pence wrote, he met with Trump, who asked Pence about his wife and daughter, then asked Pence, “Were you scared?”
“No,” Pence said he answered Trump. “I was angry. You and I had our differences that day, Mr. President, and seeing those people tearing up the Capitol infuriated me.”
On January 14, the men met again; Pence said Trump looked discouraged, so he told the president he would pray for him.
“Don’t bother,” Trump replied.
When Pence insisted that he would “never gonna stop praying for you,” Trump smiled, Pence recalled.
“That’s right—don’t ever change,” Trump told him.

Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence Visits “America Reports”

‘It Angered Me’: Pence Recalls His Reaction When Trump Said He Lacked Courage

Pence Recalls His Reaction When Trump Said He Lacked Courage

Donald Trump

Mike Pence

Politics

One of the top officials in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fbi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI’s</a> Washington Field Office, Steven D’Antuono, is reportedly retiring from the agency at the end of the month.
D’Antuono is the assistant director in charge of the Washington Field Office. He was promoted in October 2020 from his previous position as special agent in charge of the Detroit Field Office where he over saw the FBI investigation into the conspiracy to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. He is expected to retire at the end of the month, according to a reportedly internal FBI <a href="https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1590721095639785472" target="_blank" rel="noopener">memo</a>.
At his role in Washington, D.C., D’Antuono has been one of the chief FBI officials in charge of the bureau’s investigation into the U.S. Capitol riot on January 6. D’Antuono has <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2022/08/04/sen_ted_cruz_grills_fbi_director_how_is_agent_who_ran_entrapped_fake_whitmer_kidnappers_now_working_on_j-6_case.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">received</a> scrutiny and criticism from Republicans over his handling of both the kidnapping conspiracy and January 6 investigations.
D’Antuono’s departure comes as Republicans <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/days-midterm-elections-control-congress-still-limbo-rcna56507" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appear</a> to be on the verge of retaking control of the house with a slim majority. The transferal of power away from Democrats and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) would give Republicans power to dictate House investigations, and the FBI could be a target after numerous whistleblower leaks revealed potential corruption and allegations of politicization at the bureau’s highest levels.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-brass-barred-agents-from-probing-hunters-laptop-whistleblowers-tell-lawmaker" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> earlier this year that his office alone has collected the statements of 14 FBI whistleblowers. In the Senate, Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley (IA) and Ron Johnson (WI) have collected whistleblower testimony as well.
Some of that whistleblower testimony has implicated D’Antuono’s work. The FBI field office assistant director is currently responsible for overseeing the bureau investigation into rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. The Department of Justice has brought hundreds of charges against alleged rioters as a result of the investigation.
Whistleblower accounts given to Republicans in Congress allege that the January 6 investigation is being manipulated to appear as if domestic extremism is a rising national phenomenon. According to Jordan’s office, one FBI whistleblower said that the FBI is manipulating its casefiles around the investigation to create “false and misleading crime statistics.”
“Instead of hundreds of investigations stemming from a single, black swan incident at the Capitol, FBI and DOJ officials point to significant increases in domestic violent extremism and terrorism around the United States,” the whistleblower <a href="https://republicans-judiciary.house.gov/press-release/whistleblower-alleges-fbi-schemed-to-distort-january-6-cases-into-nationwide-domestic-violent-extremism-epidemic/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">alleged</a>.
D’Antuono’s work at his previous position in Michigan has also drawn scrutiny. The Department of Justice announced charges related to a conspiracy to kidnap Whitmer in October 2020, weeks before the election. The investigation and bust quickly became “one of the most important domestic terrorism investigations in a generation,” according to <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kenbensinger/michigan-kidnapping-gretchen-whitmer-fbi-informant" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BuzzFeed</a>.
Later, doubts grew about the extent of the FBI’s role in the sting as defendants raised questions about the conduct of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/whitmer-kidnapping-plot-fbi-informant-slept-in-the-same-room-smoked-weed-with-defendant" target="_blank" rel="noopener">human sources</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/conspiracy-to-kidnap-a-governor-fbi-told-informant-to-brand-innocent-man-as-federal-agent-to-avoid-suspicion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI agents</a> involved in the investigation. Of the six men charged by the Department of Justice in the plot, two cut plea deals before heading to trial, two were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-whitmer-plot-jury-refuses-to-convict-on-conspiracy-charges" target="_blank" rel="noopener">acquitted</a> at trial, and two were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-jury-convicts-two-men-of-conspiring-to-kidnap-michigan-governor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found</a> guilty of conspiracy in a second trial after the first jury hung on the charges.

Top FBI Official Who Led Whitmer Kidnapping Plot, J6 Investigations To Retire: Report

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Gladys Sicknick, mother of the late Capitol Police Officer <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/d-c-medical-examiner-capitol-police-officer-brian-sicknick-suffered-two-strokes-died-of-natural-causes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brian Sicknick</a>, claimed in a new ad that her son had died because of &#8220;people like&#8221; Republican Arizona gubernatorial candidate <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/kari-lake-blows-up-at-media-for-running-garbage-bulls-story-to-carry-water-for-katie-hobbs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kari Lake</a>.
The Republican Accountability Project, chaired by Bill Kristol and formerly known as Republican Voters Against Trump, shared the ad on Tuesday with the caption, &#8220;&#8216;My son died because of people like Kari Lake.&#8217; Watch this powerful testimony from Gladys Sicknick, mother of the Capitol Police officer who died after January 6.&#8221;
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&#8220;I&#8217;m Gladys Sicknick, I&#8217;m the mother of Brian Sicknick, the Capitol Police officer who died defending our country on January 6,&#8221; Sicknick said over footage of the Capitol Hill riot.
&#8220;Kari Lake is very dangerous for our country. She saw what happened on January 6 and continues to spread &#8216;The Big Lie,'&#8221; Sicknick continued. &#8220;We&#8217;re going to have more violence because people — they believe whatever she says. It&#8217;s very dire for our democracy, for our country, with candidates like Kari Lake. My son died because of people like Kari Lake.&#8221;
Lake has certainly — and repeatedly — questioned the integrity of the 2020 election. She said during a Republican <a href="https://www.azmirror.com/2022/08/25/kari-lake-is-one-of-4-big-lie-swing-state-gop-guv-candidates-they-could-upend-the-2024-presidential-election/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">primary debate</a> in June that she would not have certified Arizona&#8217;s vote counts in the 2020 presidential election, calling the whole process corrupt and later saying of President Joe Biden, &#8220;He lost the election, and shouldn’t be in the White House.&#8221;
But still, the ad draws a conclusion that doesn&#8217;t appear to fit the facts. Gladys Sicknick lays out the narrative in such a way that it seems designed to make viewers believe that her son died in the thick of the riot while protesters were crushing and beating him, spraying him with chemicals. She even describes him as &#8220;the Capitol Police officer who died defending our country on January 6th.&#8221;
But Sicknick actually died the following day — on January 7th — and according to the Office of Chief Medical Examiner, Dr. Francisco Diaz, he died of natural causes. Sicknick collapsed at the Capitol around 10 p.m. on the evening of the 6th, and died nearly 24 hours later after suffering two strokes, Diaz&#8217;s report confirmed. The medical examiner also stated that Sicknick did not suffer any allergic reaction to chemicals that were sprayed on him, nor did he appear to have any serious internal or external injuries that would have contributed to his death.

US-VOTE-ARIZONA

‘Very Dangerous For Our Country’: Officer Sicknick’s Mother Blames ‘People Like’ Kari Lake For Her Son’s Death In New Ad

Officer Sicknick's Mother Blames 'People Like' Kari Lake For Her Son's Death In New Ad

Arizona

Bill Kristol

Elections

Kari Lake

Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/read-it-kari-lake-trolls-liz-cheney-with-savage-thank-you-letter/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Liz Cheney</a> (R-WY) traveled to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/michigan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michigan</a> Tuesday night to stump for a Democrat for the first time.
Cheney joined Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) in East Lansing, encouraging Michiganders to vote for the Democrat in next Tuesday’s election. Slotkin, the incumbent, is in a tight race to represent the state’s 7th district with Republican State Senator Tom Barrett.
&#8220;If we want to ensure this revival of our republic, we have to walk away from politics as usual,&#8221; Cheney said, <a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/michigan/2022/11/02/cheney-tells-slotkin-crowd-to-walk-away-from-politics-as-usual/69611435007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Detroit News, adding. &#8220;If the people in our party are not doing the job they need to do, then we’re going to vote for the people in the other party.”
After Slotkin welcomed her to Michigan, Cheney told the crowd of about 500, &#8220;This is, by the way, the first time I’m campaigning for a Democrat.&#8221;
The Republican congresswoman who garnered attention as the vice chair of the House committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot narrowed her focus on restoring a republic she believes has been damaged by many in the Republican Party.
“The chips are down for us. This is our time of testing. Not a single one of us in this room and not a single one of us across this country can be a bystander. We all must stand and defend this republic,” <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/01/politics/liz-cheney-elissa-slotkin-2022-midterms/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a> Cheney.
Slotkin rehashed Cheney’s concern for the state of American politics, saying that the biggest issue the two agree on is &#8220;preserving American democracy.&#8221; Barrett railed against Cheney and Slotkin, calling them “war-hawks.” The Michigan Republican was endorsed by Harriet Hageman who defeated Cheney in Wyoming’s Republican primary in August.
“People are sick and tired of these establishment forces hanging together, no matter what,” Barrett said. “The phony idea that Elissa Slotkin and Liz Cheney are now part of some non-partisan coalition together – the only thing they brought us is the misery we’re all feeling right now.”
Republicans have become accustomed to Cheney’s new goal of opposing conservatives she deems dangerous to democracy. Earlier on Tuesday, Cheney <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3714527-liz-cheney-endorses-democrat-tim-ryan-in-ohio-senate-race/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">endorsed</a> Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) over Republican candidate J.D. Vance in Ohio&#8217;s Senate race, and last week, the congresswoman was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/read-it-kari-lake-trolls-liz-cheney-with-savage-thank-you-letter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">trolled</a> by Arizona gubernatorial Kari Lake after Cheney made an ad urging Arizonans not to vote for the confident Republican.
“Thank you for your generous in-kind contribution to my campaign,” Lake wrote in a letter. “Your recent television ad urging Arizonans not to vote for me is doing just the opposite. Our campaign donations are skyrocketing and our website nearly crashed from traffic as people rushed to learn more about my plan to put Arizona first and join our historic political movement.”

Liz Cheney

‘First Time I’m Campaigning For A Democrat’: Liz Cheney Hits The Trail In Michigan

Liz Cheney Hits Campaign Trail In Michigan In First Stump For A Democrat

2022 Election

2022 Midterms

Democratic Party

Michigan

An <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-whistleblower-reveals-widespread-disgust-inside-bureau-in-bombshell-bongino-interview/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI whistleblower</a> joined Daily Wire host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/author/andrew-klavan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Andrew Klavan</a> Friday to reveal his frustration with the bureau’s leadership over the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-fbi-agent-peter-strzok-says-january-6-was-worse-than-9-11/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 6</a> investigations and detail what he experienced as an agent.
Steve Friend, who was a domestic terrorism investigator before being suspended, told the host of “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/the-andrew-klavan-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Andrew Klavan Show</a>” that the FBI broke its own rules when investigating January 6 cases and arrested people without enough evidence. He also explained how one of his superiors told him that January 6 was a higher priority than pursuing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-whistleblower-alleges-bureau-took-agents-off-child-sex-abuse-cases-to-pursue-political-probes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">child pornography cases</a>.
“When I was moved over to from my child exploitation cases, the assistant special agent in charge even mentioned that he felt that child pornography was going to be a local issue and that domestic terrorism, specifically January 6th, was the higher priority,” Friend said.
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The whistleblower added that when he started getting involved on January 6 cases, he noticed that they were “more or less being directed from Washington, D.C.,” even though local field offices usually call most of the shots on cases. Friend explained that this was “inconsistent with FBI rules.”
“So we have very specific rules when it comes to having cases open once they&#8217;re opened and assigned to a specific field office,” Friend told Klavan. “And there&#8217;s agents or task force officers who are running that case. It&#8217;s really their responsibility to be able to carry the case forward and make all the investigative decisions.”
Bending the rules wasn’t the only way the bureau took January 6 investigations too far, according to Friend. The whistleblower also said that the FBI treated non-violent protesters unfairly. Friend told Klavan that he has arrested 150 violent criminals over the course of his career, and has never used a SWAT team, but when arresting an alleged Capitol rioter whose biggest crime was entering the building and taking a brochure, the FBI used flash bangs and breached his home at 6 a.m.
The FBI agent brought up his concerns with his colleagues, but said he was resisted. “They pushed back on me and said I was being a bad teammate. They said that I was being insubordinate. Even brought up the fact that, you know, what&#8217;s my future going to be with the FBI despite having my work reputation being really good,” Friend explained to Klavan.
Friend was sent home and then later suspended after a meeting with the special agent in charge who told him that he “represented a really fringe belief within the FBI.”
But that “fringe belief” is more common than what leaders in the bureau are saying, Friend remarked.
“Agents on the ground have agreed with my sentiments that we&#8217;re being overly aggressive,” the whistleblower said of pursuing alleged January 6 rioters. According to Friend, the gap between management and the field within the FBI is proof that “massive reform” is needed at the headquarters.
“I think that the mindset there is really the problem,” he said. “The rank and file people just want to put bad guys in jail.”

Whistleblower Details How FBI Allegedly Broke Rules, Made Jan. 6 Higher Priority Than Child Pornography

Whistleblower Tells Andrew Klavan How FBI Allegedly Broke Rules, Made Jan. 6 Higher Priority Than Child Pornography

Andrew Klavan

Whistleblowers

Longtime MSNBC anchor <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/andrea-mitchell/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Andrea Mitchell</a> attempted to tie the violent attack on <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/paul-pelosi/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Paul Pelosi</a> to the January 6th riot on Capitol Hill.
Mitchell pointed to reports saying that the alleged attacker, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/suspect-who-allegedly-attacked-paul-pelosi-with-hammer-is-identified-former-castro-nudist-protester" target="_blank" rel="noopener">identified</a> by authorities as Berkeley resident <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/breaking-nancy-pelosis-husband-violently-assaulted-hospitalized-after-break-in-at-california-home/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David DePape</a>, had been looking for the House Speaker and asking, &#8220;Where is Nancy?&#8221; — just like some of the rioters had asked as they walked through the halls of the Capitol on January 6th, 2021.
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BREAKING: Suspect in attack on Nancy Pelosi&#39;s husband was searching for the House speaker, sources say.<a href="https://twitter.com/mitchellreports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@mitchellreports</a>: &quot;The intruder confronted Mr. Pelosi in their home, shouting &#39;where is Nancy&#39; &#8230; That&#39;s what the intruders going through hallways on Jan. 6 were shouting.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/qRtwGye32E">pic.twitter.com/qRtwGye32E</a>
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&#8220;The assailant who attacked Paul Pelosi was in search of the Speaker of the House,&#8221; Mitchell began. &#8220;Which puts it into a federal crime, you know, against the relative of an officer and now the second in line for the presidency.&#8221;
&#8220;Before the assault occurred, according to the source, the intruder confronted Mr. Pelosi in their home, shouting, &#8216;Where is Nancy? Where is Nancy?’” Mitchell continued, before observing, &#8220;That&#8217;s what the intruders going through hallways on Jan. 6 were shouting: &#8216;Nancy, Nancy,&#8217; this is part of the January 6th insurrection toxicity that has infected the brains of people around the country in horrible ways, if this is accurate.&#8221;
Despite Mitchell&#8217;s claims, local officials have made it a point to state that the motive for the attack has not yet been determined.
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&quot;The motive for this attack is still being determined.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/xyD9IDgVxw">pic.twitter.com/xyD9IDgVxw</a>
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Even Drew Hammill, spokesperson for Speaker Pelosi, said in his initial statement that no one had yet determined the alleged attacker&#8217;s motive: &#8220;The assailant is in custody and the motivation for the attack is under investigation.&#8221;
Still, Mitchell was not the only one leaping to such conclusions. Attorney Tristan Snell claimed, &#8220;January 6 isn&#8217;t over. They tried to kill Pelosi that day, and she&#8217;s still in danger. This won&#8217;t end until every single person involved is brought to justice. Every. Single. One.&#8221;
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January 6 isn&#39;t over. They tried to kill Pelosi that day, and she&#39;s still in danger.
This won&#39;t end until every single person involved is brought to justice. Every. Single. One.
&mdash; Tristan Snell (@TristanSnell) <a href="https://twitter.com/TristanSnell/status/1586052257606692864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 28, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Author Wajahat Ali joined in, <a href="https://twitter.com/WajahatAli/status/1586013043024367616" target="_blank" rel="noopener">adding</a>, &#8220;Reminder some violent insurrectionists incited by Trump wanted to kill Nancy Pelosi and Mike Pence on January 6.&#8221;
As did NBC presidential historian Michael Beschloss, who said, &#8220;@NBCNews: attacker of Paul Pelosi shouted, &#8216;Where is Nancy?&#8217; This would echo January 6, 2021, attack against Congress.&#8221;
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<a href="https://twitter.com/NBCNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NBCNews</a>: attacker of Paul Pelosi shouted, &quot;Where is Nancy?&quot; This would echo January 6, 2021, attack against Congress.
&mdash; Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/BeschlossDC/status/1586029839781449730?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 28, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Tennessee Congressional candidate Randal Cooper <a href="https://twitter.com/CooperforTN6/status/1586038762273849344" target="_blank" rel="noopener">argued</a> that a failure to address what happened on January 6th was the reason politically motivated violence was happening.
&#8220;Our collective failure to have any real consequences for the violent attempt to overthrow the government on January 6 continues. It’s been left to voters to decide whether we’re a democracy or a dictatorship,&#8221; he claimed.

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&#8220;Capitol Punishment&#8221; director Chris Burgard described the chilling visit he got from the FBI after making his movie about <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/january-6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 6</a> and said &#8220;if this can happen to me, it can happen to anybody.&#8221;
Burgard has been making films for decades, and he told The Daily Wire on Friday that not once with any of those movies, about everything from the Vietnam War to an exposé on our southern border, has he had a visit from the FBI. In his movie, he challenges the media&#8217;s &#8220;insurrection&#8221; narrative and gives protestors, who say they never entered the building, the chance to speak, after being vilified and more, as previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-film-capitol-punishment-counters-medias-jan-6-insurrection-narrative">reported</a>.
The director, who lives on a large ranch with a quarter-mile driveway in Texas with his family, said it was his wife Lisa who discovered the FBI agent’s card on the door of her home.
&#8220;There was no note attached, so I wasn&#8217;t sure, like, was it for Chris, was it for me, was it for the whole family?&#8221; Lisa shared with <a href="https://pjmedia.com/uncategorized/jeff-reynolds/2022/10/20/former-pjtv-filmmaker-investigated-by-fbi-as-domestic-terrorist-for-j6-documentary-n1636605" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PJ Media</a>. &#8220;Were we supposed to call them back? I really didn&#8217;t know what to make of it, but it was a warning. I mean, I&#8217;ve never had anything like that happen before.&#8221;
She called Chris and he said he got an attorney. When they reached out to the FBI agent, Burgard said he told him &#8220;that they had a call in to the terrorist threat center that I was a terrorist because I had made the movie &#8216;Capitol Punishment&#8217; and they had orders from DC I needed to be investigated,&#8221; the outlet noted.
&#8220;We had to have a family meeting afterwards because, you know, from doing the movie, my daughter knows those other girls that had their house raided, and pulled out into the street,&#8221; Burgard said. &#8220;One of them was handcuffed. They were flash-banged. And my daughter&#8217;s like, &#8216;Dad, you think they&#8217;ll raid us tomorrow? Should I keep the dogs in my room? Cause I don&#8217;t want them to shoot my dogs.&#8217; I can&#8217;t tell you the stress this caused my family.&#8221;
&#8220;To call me and my family a terrorist threat &#8230;&#8221; he told The Daily Wire, mentioning what his daughter said to him, &#8220;it’s not stuff that you should have to live with.&#8221;
When asked why he thought this happened, he said, &#8220;If this can happen to me, it can happen to anybody.&#8221;
&#8220;But in the United States of America they [someone] can say ‘oh, he&#8217;s a terrorist’ cause I made a movie?&#8221; Burgard added.
He wanted to press the fact that there are &#8220;good FBI agents,” and said the &#8220;agents were very professional.&#8221; The agent told them they needed answers to three questions, which he was able to submit in writing, the outlet noted. Those turned into nine sub-questions. He said as of now, he hasn&#8217;t heard another word from them, but has no idea if there&#8217;s still an investigation.
Producer and actor Nick Searcy talked to The Daily Wire about his <a href="https://twitter.com/yesnicksearcy/status/1583463305351696384?s=20&amp;t=HAR1TwDTGPvS3INOvqS1Fg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweet</a> regarding Burgard&#8217;s FBI visit and said Chris is right when he said if &#8220;it can happen to&#8221; him, &#8220;it can happen to anybody.&#8221;
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The <a href="https://twitter.com/FBI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FBI</a> has now targeted the director of this film I produced, Capitol Punishment, <a href="https://t.co/keJeSjI5RR">https://t.co/keJeSjI5RR</a> 
This is not America. But this is how it works under Dems like <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JoeBiden</a> and Reps like <a href="https://twitter.com/RepLizCheney?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepLizCheney</a>.
When will the Republicans speak up? <a href="https://t.co/WFn9NRnY8w">https://t.co/WFn9NRnY8w</a>
&mdash; Nick Searcy, INTERNATIONAL FILM &amp; TELEVISION STAR (@yesnicksearcy) <a href="https://twitter.com/yesnicksearcy/status/1583463305351696384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 21, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Well, Americans that disagree with the Biden administration are being silenced through the FBI and law enforcement and now they are going through Chris because he made a movie,&#8221; Searcy told The Daily Wire. &#8220;This is not something that should be happening in the U.S. where we are supposed to have free speech.&#8221;
&#8220;No one is safe from this,&#8221; he added. &#8220;There&#8217;s no legal reason that someone can say that guy&#8217;s a terrorist and then the FBI goes to investigate. … You have to have a crime first.&#8221;
Searcy then asked what could be in the film that would cause them to go visit Burgard. He also encouraged people to go watch the film that can be seen by going to <a href="https://hisglory.tv">His Glory TV</a>.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-film-capitol-punishment-counters-medias-jan-6-insurrection-narrative" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New Film &#8216;Capitol Punishment&#8217; Counters Media&#8217;s Jan. 6 &#8216;Insurrection&#8217; Narrative</a>

‘Capitol Punishment’ Director Gets Chilling Visit From FBI After Making Jan. 6 Film

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Disgraced former <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fbi">FBI</a> agent and a central figure in propagating the Trump-Russia “collusion” probe ​​Peter Strzok touted to legacy media pundits Monday that September 11 is “nothing compared” to January 6.
During an interview with MSNBC’s Nichole Wallace during Deadline White House, Wallace condemned FBI director Christoper Wray for failing to spout “one utterance” of connecting the dots between 9/11 and 1/6, adding that day in American history was the “deadliest attack on the U.S. Capitol.&#8221;
“If you look at the scale in terms of threat to democracy — I mean 9/11 was a tragedy, we lost thousands of lives in a horrific way — we still mourn to this day,” Strzok said. “But when you look at something that is an attack on democracy . . . that could actually bring about a fundamental change to American governance, as we understand it — 9/11 is nothing compared to January 6.”
Strzok then echoed MSNBC’s sentiments slamming federal authorities for failing to get on the “same sort of war footing” that the U.S. paved following the events at the World Trade Center twenty years ago.
“Shame on everyone,” he added.
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While framing it against 9/11, Nicolle Wallace claims January 6 was &quot;the deadliest attack on the U.S. capital in history.&quot; Disgraced and corrupt former FBI agent Peter Strzok agrees, saying: &quot;9/11 is nothing compared to January 6&quot; and demands leaders &quot;be on the same war footing.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/lI1KTYnE2f">pic.twitter.com/lI1KTYnE2f</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1582108540332019712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 17, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Strzok joined a list of political voices — primarily on the left — who believe that a mob of former President Donald Trump supporters storming the United States Capitol has somehow become a more terrorizing event than two planes crashing into the World Trade Center, taking nearly 3,000 innocent lives.
To this day, New Yorkers can still remember the stench that permeated the air for months from the thousands of dead bodies killed on that dreadful day.
Politifact <a href="https://www.politifact.com/article/2022/feb/22/far-left-group-bombed-capitol-1983-heres-how-s-dif/">reports</a> January 6 involved approximately 2,000 people. Some of them overturned barricades, clashed with police, and stormed the Capitol in an attempt to stop Congressional members from certifying the 2020 presidential election results. Officials estimate about 800 people out of the massive crowd breached the Capitol grounds and building, leaving just over 200 people pleading guilty to one or more charges.
A bipartisan Senate <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/05/us/politics/jan-6-capitol-deaths.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> reviewed by The New York Times earlier this year found nine people died on or after January 6. However, the only one who died by gunshot was 36-year-old military veteran Ashli Babbit.
However, reports from supporters and independent journalists tell a different story. Witnesses allegedly say a small number of agent provocateurs climbing press risers long before any Trump supporter made it past the Capitol Reflecting Pool, which sits in front of the main lawn just before the main physical building.
Witnesses say following the alleged agitators riling up the crowd, only a fraction of the group joined in on the mob mentality.
Sources witnessed Capitol police officers allegedly opening barricades to access the grounds, riot police forming barriers until disbanding, which allowed the crowd to advance, and other authorities holding the door open for protestors to enter the building.
Once on the ground and in the building, witnesses said “protestors” could allegedly be seen changing their black bloc attire into Trump merchandise before creating more chaos. Others have also said they witnessed rioters inside the building relaying cudgel-like weapons through windows to the people on the other side of the window frame. All the while, the majority of Trump supporters on the ground screamed at the violent rioters to protest peacefully.
And mainstream media has repeatedly shared those images of the elderly women “storming the Capitol” while staying within the stanchions, taking pictures of the interior of the building.
Yet, Stzrok, who has been accused of causing long-term damage to the FBI’s reputation after the bureau fired him four years ago, and others have pledged to create the narrative that January 6 was the worst attack on American soil and a so-called deadly insurrection.

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Boy, Speaker of the House <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/actor-russell-brands-unloads-on-nancy-pelosi-youve-gotta-be-fing-kidding-me" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nancy Pelosi</a> is one rugged gal. Based on the latest <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/january-6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 6</a> footage, she is such a brawler that she must think she is a regular <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/robert-de-niro-i-would-disown-my-children-if-they-were-like-trumps-family" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Robert De Niro</a>.
On Friday, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pelosi-sneered-at-trump-on-jan-6-im-going-to-punch-him-out" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Pelosi was recorded by her daughter — who for some reason was filming the entire day at the Capitol — threatening to give former President Donald J. Trump a knuckle sandwich if he even dared approach the building.
&#8220;I hope he comes, I’m going to punch him out,&#8221; Pelosi said. &#8220;I’ve been waiting for this. For trespassing on the Capitol grounds, I’m going to punch him out. And I’m going to go to jail, and I’m going to be happy.&#8221;
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“I hope he comes, I’m going to punch him out &#8230; I’m going to punch him out, I’m going to go to jail, and I’m going to be happy.”
— House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s just-revealed response to the prospect of former President Trump potentially marching to the Capitol on January 6th. <a href="https://t.co/XePdjploDg">pic.twitter.com/XePdjploDg</a>
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Pelosi&#8217;s comments were reminiscent of one of the greatest American actors in the last 50 years — the aforementioned De Niro.
In 2016, before Trump even won the election, the two-time Academy Award winner released a monologue making disparaging comments about the then-GOP nominee and expressing his desire to knock his lights out.
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&#8220;I mean he&#8217;s so blatantly stupid,&#8221; the &#8220;Raging Bull&#8221; star said. &#8220;He&#8217;s a punk. He&#8217;s a dog. He&#8217;s a pig. He&#8217;s a con, a bulls*** artist, a mutt who doesn&#8217;t know what he&#8217;s talking about, doesn&#8217;t do his homework, doesn&#8217;t care &#8230; he&#8217;s an idiot.&#8221;
Then — just as  Pelosi said more than four years later — the Hollywood actor claimed he wanted to throw a haymaker at Trump&#8217;s mean mug.
&#8220;It makes me so angry that this country has gotten to this point that this fool, this bozo has wound up where he has. He talks how he wants to punch people in the face,&#8221; De Niro claimed. &#8220;Well, I&#8217;d like to punch him in the face.&#8221;
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De Niro, of course, pretends to be a fighter in the movies. Pelosi pretends to be one in D.C.
De Niro is widely respected and wields power in his field. Pelosi has a stranglehold on the Democratic Party and is a skillful politician — even if her policies don&#8217;t benefit the American people.
While they both might be — objectively speaking — good at their jobs and advancing their own interests, that doesn&#8217;t actually make them the tough guys they play on the big screen.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
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According to footage released by Alexandra Pelosi, a documentary filmmaker and the daughter of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the House speaker boasted that she would &#8220;punch&#8221; former President Donald Trump if he traveled from the White House to the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Pelosi was responding to her chief of staff informing her that the Secret Service “dissuaded [Trump] from coming to Capitol Hill,” <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/13/politics/pelosi-jan-6-capitol-riot-video/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a> reported.
“If he comes, I’m going to punch him out,” Pelosi bragged to aides. “I’ve been waiting for this. For trespassing on the Capitol grounds, I’m going to punch him out. And I’m going to go to jail, and I’m going to be happy.”
Pelosi’s habit of bellicose language regarding Trump predated the January 6 remarks. In July 2020, the day after an interview in which President Trump indicated he might not accept the results of the November election, Pelosi <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8542299/Nancy-Pelosi-says-Trump-FUMIGATED-White-House-refuses-accept-defeat.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told MSNBC</a> that if Trump would not leave the White House, he would be “fumigated out.”
<a href="https://dailywire.com/news/watch-pelosi-says-if-trump-wont-leave-white-house-he-will-be-fumigated-out/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Speaking</a> on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Pelosi said, “The fact is, whether he knows it yet or not, he will be leaving. Just because he might not want to move out of the White House doesn&#8217;t mean we won&#8217;t have an inauguration ceremony to inaugurate a duly-elected President of the United States.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m second in line to the presidency and just last week I had my regular continuation of government briefing,&#8221; Pelosi continued. &#8220;This might interest you because I say to them, ‘This is never going to happen. God willing it never will.&#8217; But there is a process. It has nothing to do with the certain occupant of the White House doesn&#8217;t feel like moving and has to be fumigated out of there because the presidency is the presidency. It&#8217;s not geography or location.&#8221;
As far as Alexandra Pelosi’s view of her mother, <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/watch-pelosis-daughter-her-mom-shell-cut-your-head-hank-berrien/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">there&#8217;s this</a>, from January 2019. Speaking on CNN’s “New Day,” Alexandra Pelosi bragged about her mother’s toughness, saying, “She’ll cut your head off and you won’t even know you’re bleeding.”
Pelosi was asked about her mother’s impending discussions with former President Trump regarding the government shutdown.
Host John Berman started by asking, “If you can tell us what Speaker Pelosi thinks about going in —”
Pelosi stated, “John, we have known you for two decades. Do you think I’m the kind of person who is going to come on CNN and talk about my mother? Is that who you think I am?”
Berman persisted, “I’m asking you, you were a fantastic political reporter. How much does she approach meetings with President Trump, A, and B, just what are your feelings about this person, who you know quite well, becoming speaker of the House for a second time?”
Alexandra Pelosi continued, “She’ll cut your head off and you won’t even know you’re bleeding. That’s all you need to know about her. No one ever won betting against Nancy Pelosi.”

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Pelosi Sneered At Trump On Jan. 6: ‘I’m Going To Punch Him Out’

Pelosi Sneered At Trump On Jan. 6: 'I'm Going To Punch Him Out'

The U.S. House committee investigating the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/january-6-committee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 6, 2021</a>, riot at the U.S. Capitol voted unanimously Thursday afternoon to subpoena former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a>.
The lawmakers issued the subpoena to question Trump about his alleged role in the events that led up to some of the violence that unfolded that afternoon.
“The central cause of Jan. 6 was one man, Donald Trump, who many others followed,” said Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), the vice chairwoman of the committee. “President Trump had a premeditated plan to declare that the election was fraudulent and stolen before Election Day.”
Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-MS) said that the panel had an &#8220;obligation&#8221; to hear from the former president.
&#8220;This is a question about accountability to the American people,&#8221; Thompson said. &#8220;He must be accountable. He is required to answer for his actions.&#8221;
Trump responded on social media to being subpoenaed by the committee by questioning the timing of their vote.
&#8220;Why didn’t the Unselect Committee ask me to testify months ago?&#8221; Trump wrote. &#8220;Why did they wait until the very end, the final moments of their last meeting? Because the Committee is a total &#8216;BUST&#8217; that has only served to further divide our Country which, by the way, is doing very badly &#8211; A laughing stock all over the World?&#8221;
Politico noted that there are numerous factors that could prevent the committee from being able to compel Trump&#8217;s cooperation with the subpoena.
The report <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/13/jan-6-committee-trump-threat-00061454">said</a> that one factor cutting against the committee&#8217;s push to get Trump to cooperate was the fact that there are legal issues regarding separation of powers. Another issue was that even if the committee is legally able to force Trump to cooperate, by the time the litigation is over the committee would be over with the new Congress starting in January.
There is little precedent for such a move against a former president, which would raise thorny separation of powers issues that have rarely, if ever, been litigated.
This is a breaking news story; refresh the page for updates.

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