ANALYSIS – The incessant drumbeat of the left's campaign to keep the Capitol riot in the news every day for nearly two years had some of its intended effect.
It probably helped persuade some voters not to pull the lever for those ‘dangerous' MAGA Republicans during the midterm elections.
It also may dissuade others not to vote for Trump or the GOP in 2024.
And some of that concern may be justified.
But the GOP and the right also failed miserably by not forcefully pushing the truth about the ‘other insurrection' – the one against Trump and the White House by violent leftists under the BLM flag in May/June 2020. (RELATED: Leading BLM-Backed Candidate Agrees to Plead Guilty)
I was a risk advisor to foreign TV news crews during both violent riots.
I also strongly condemned both, writing of the Capitol rioters at the time: “…many were goons and criminals, and yes, ‘terrorists.' No better than Antifa or BLM, or the #NotMyPresident rioters who disrupted Trump's Inaugural four years ago.”
I added of the violent Capitol rioters: “Whoever they were, they should be seen and treated as criminals. Arrested and prosecuted.”
This sentiment didn't apply to the hundreds who simply entered the Capitol non-violently, but that's another issue altogether. (RELATED: Massive Magnetically-Locked Doors to Capitol Rotunda Opened From Inside During Jan. 6 Riot – Defense Attorney)
Unfortunately, the left, colluding with the establishment media and Democrats in Congress and the White House, only ‘remember' one riot and erased that other one from history.
If they mention the violent BLM riot at the White House at all, they focus on Trump's Bible photo op the next morning at St John's Episcopal Church, the site across from the White House of an attempted arson the night before.
They also forget how they aggressively attacked any attempt by Trump, and federal and local authorities, to bring order to the violence.
I even had a Canadian TV news reporter claim to me months after the protests at the White House that they were totally peaceful.
She said this nonsense despite the fact that the violence was reported, albeit briefly.
And I had to forcibly intervene to protect one of her colleagues, a cameraman who was savagely beaten by two ‘BLM' assailants without justification, while the crew was simply changing batteries and reorganizing away from the main battle lines.
The cameraman fortunately was wearing a helmet at my suggestion and ‘only' suffered a mild concussion.
I personally witnessed hundreds of rioters almost break through the thin improvised line of U.S. Park Police and Uniformed Secret Service in the park while D.C. Metropolitan Police, for political reasons, assembled on the sidelines.
As a security expert, I was concerned that there weren't enough police to stop the large violent mob from crashing the fence at the White House, a concern apparently shared by the Secret Service who at one point that night rushed Trump to the protected underground bunker.
A claim Trump sadly denied.
I also witnessed everything described by CNN below and more.
As CNN reported at the time on May 31, 2020:
More than 60 US Secret Service Uniformed Division officers and special agents were injured starting Friday night through Sunday morning near the White House as protests rocked Washington, DC, following the death of George Floyd last week, according to a statement from the Secret Service.
The officers and agents were injured when protesters threw “projectiles such as bricks, rocks, bottles, fireworks and other items,” according to the statement. “Personnel were also directly physically assaulted as they were kicked, punched and exposed to bodily fluids.”
CNN teams were on hand for much of the protests and witnessed protesters throwing objects at officers and pulling temporary fencing away from them.
Eleven Secret Service employees were transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. A secret service officer suffered a head injury after being assaulted by BLM & far-left rioters trying to storm the White House. Dozens of other Secret Service agents were injured as well.
This was also a violent riot, or call it an insurrection, but in this case against President Trump, the Executive Branch, and the politically sacred space of the ‘People's House.'
Perhaps with GOP control of the House, we can see a real congressional investigation of this ‘other insurrection.'
The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the positions of American Liberty News.
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This riot was not in 2020, it was 2016. Get the dates right or you make a joke out of reporting real facts and look like a real idiot, worse than the fake news media who ignored this event.
Since Trump was elected in 2016 and inaugurated in 2017, the riot Mr. Crespo is referring to could not have occurred in 2016 since Trump was not in the White House yet. So get your own dates right.
Yes probe this Too with J6
Those west coast riots were more costly to the country than j6 happened to be. Those riots, looting, and burnt buildings, both private as well as public property were quickly swept under the carpet by the msm because they played to the moment of the phony blm. Now the woke crowd has the rest of the country so afraid of saying anything about the blacks that we are being force fed all the advertising showing blacks only, or mixes couples, or gays, and all for the less than 20% of our population. What they are accomplishing is to turn off the other 80% of the population to any real acceptance of their real problems, most of which are self inflicted.