Reposted from Julie Kelly's "Declassified" 2/4/2025. "An Open Letter to President Trump" by David Fisher
The Progressives at the DOJ take over
For several weeks post-January 6, left-wing commentators speculated that the “protest gone wild” at the Capitol was actually a seditious conspiracy, i.e., a pre-planned plot by right-wing militias to “attack the Capitol.” When FBI and DOJ sources anonymously leaked to the media in the summer of 2021 that there was no evidence to support “seditious conspiracy” charges against any J6ers, Progressives across the country wigged-out. In response, the DOJ and FBI literally launched a second investigation to find evidence—any evidence—to support the political narrative of a seditious conspiracy that involved right-wing militias pre-planning an attack on “our Democracy.”
The conspiracy that never was.
Under political pressure, the DOJ filed seditious conspiracy and related charges against a dozen Oath Keepers and Caldwell in January 2022, alleging an 8-week, post-election plot to forcibly stop the certification of Joe Biden as President of the United States.
What the DOJ actually did was reverse engineer a conspiracy by selectively editing political hyperbole contained in social media messages and tying it to the fact that Congress was forced to evacuate the Capitol. For example, the oft-stated “We need to take our country back” was, according to the Progressive prosecutors, code for “Let’s attack Congress.” On my cross-examination, the FBI’s lead agent admitted that of the hundreds of witnesses that had been interviewed who were familiar with Caldwell and the Oath Keepers, not one person was aware of any pre-planned plot to disrupt Congress on January 6, let alone an armed attack on Capitol Hill. The “seditious conspiracy” was not based upon solid evidence, but rather the hypothesis of a group of progressive millennial DOJ prosecutors who were virulently anti-Trump.