Speaking during a Monday, January 6 appearance on Fox News Channel’s “The Ingraham Angle,” longtime political commentator and historian Victor Davis Hanson, a Hoover Institution Senior Fellow, told FNC host Laura Ingraham that the FBI is, in his view, “afraid” of Trump returning to office because of what he could expose about January 6.
Namely, Hanson commented on the FBI only recently released new footage of the individual who planted a pipe bomb on J6. He said, when Ingraham asked him about the matter, “I think they’re afraid the narrative changed over the four years, and they were afraid to release any information during the election. Now they feel that there’s a new administration and there might be some exposure or culpability.”
Further, Hanson argued that they worried Trump would respond to them as they would have responded to him in such a position, saying, “They’re afraid that if they were Donald Trump and they had suffered what they did to him, they would be very frightened the way they think. So they think Donald Trump is going to re-examine a lot of this. ”
Continuing, he argued that most of what was said about the event from the FBI, media, and others was just made up, and that the particularly awful accusations aren’t grounded in reality. He claimed, “A lot of the things they said, Laura, were abject lies. There were not four officers killed. There were not 10 people killed.”
Building on that, he noted what did happen, saying, “There was only one violent death, we think, and that was a Trump supporter, Ashli Babbitt. Then there was no need to hide Officer Byrd’s identity. Anytime an officer lethally shoots an unarmed person in this country, they’re identified. For some reason, they wanted to suppress that.”
Continuing on the same note, Hanson went on to add, “They wanted to suppress the FBI video. They wanted to suppress the information about Liz Cheney, maybe witness tampering, that’s alleged, They wanted to suppress some of the erosion of the evidence. They didn’t tell us how many people were charged.”
He then said, explaining the scope of the legal warfare on the J6ers, saying, It ended up [with] 1,500 felony charges. It was [an] almost 75% conviction rate. That never happens. Compare that with the 14,000 people that were arrested in 2020. Almost 90% of them were never charged or indicted. They were released. So there was a lot of things that they want to suppress.”
Trump, announcing his appointment of Kash Patel as FBI Director, said, “I am proud to announce that Kashyap ‘Kash’ Patel will serve as the next Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Kash is a brilliant lawyer, investigator, and ‘America First’ fighter who has spent his career exposing corruption, defending Justice, and protecting the American People.”
Trump added, “He played a pivotal role in uncovering the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax, standing as an advocate for truth, accountability, and the Constitution. Kash did an incredible job during my First Term, where he served as Chief of Staff at the Department of Defense, Deputy Director of National Intelligence, and Senior Director for Counterterrorism at the National Security Council. Kash has also tried over 60 jury trials. This FBI will end the growing crime epidemic in America, dismantle the migrant criminal gangs, and stop the evil scourge of human and drug trafficking across the Border.”
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