The new Jan. 6 video, and the other baseless GOP claim about Pelosi

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Scalise's office says he was focused on what happened before Jan. 6, rather than the baseless claim that Pelosi delayed National Guard on Jan. 6 itself.

But Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) stands by raising the latter.

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Analysis | The new Jan. 6 video, and the other baseless GOP claim about Pelosi
Republicans have baselessly suggested Pelosi might have delayed the National Guard on Jan. 6. But new video shows her quite keen to get the Guard in, and the claim didn't make much sense before,...
12:18 PM · Oct 14, 2022

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Ever since the dust settled on the Capitol insurrection, Republicans have sought to avert the public’s gaze from Donald Trump. Their preferred target: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), and her actions both before and during Jan. 6, 2021.

Their claims and suggestions about her actions that day have been debunked before. And on Thursday, the committee played new video that undercuts a related claim.

The main claim about Pelosi has been that she denied National Guard assistance before Jan. 6. Except there remains no evidence of that. As fact-checkers at The Washington Post and elsewhere have noted, Pelosi doesn’t control the National Guard. And the House sergeant-at-arms has testified that he made no such request to Pelosi ahead of Jan. 6.

“It was not until the 6th that I alerted leadership that we might be making a request,” then-sergeant at arms Paul Irving testified.

Some top Republicans have occasionally offered a different but related version of that main claim: that Pelosi might have delayed the National Guard even after the unrest began.

This claim is also baseless. And the Jan. 6 committee on Thursday played new video showing Pelosi and other leading Democrats were indeed quite keen on getting the National Guard in. In multiple scenes, they are shown pushing hard for a response as the Capitol is besieged.

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[onecaliberal]

1. The FBI and Secret Service not only delayed, but failed the congress in order for them to give the

coup a chance to succeed.

[gratuitous]

2. They can't stand the truth about Chee-toh Jesus

So they make up lies about Nancy Smash.