Despite All the Evidence, Nancy Pelosi Is Still Lying About Jan. 6

On Aug. 6, 2024, Nancy Pelosi’s new book, The Art of Power: My Story as America’s First Woman Speaker of the House, hit bookstores. The publication came two months after a damning video excerpt of a frantic Pelosi fleeing the Capitol on Jan. 6 surfaced on social media.

If the editors at Simon & Schuster noticed the disparity between the story told by Pelosi in her book and the unedited reality captured by Pelosi’s daughter Alexandra in her video, they kept their mouths shut. Two months before drop date, it was way too late to make corrections. (READ MORE: On the Biden Coup, the Post and the Times Disagree)

The editors likely figured no one would notice. Despite my interest in Jan. 6 — my book, Ashli: the Untold Story of the Women of  January 6, dropped in May — I only noticed thanks to my wife. A more tolerant soul than I, Joan was able to grind her way through the Pelosi audiobook and knew my interests well enough to play the following out loud:

Watching the insurrection, which Trump had instigated, begging him to provide the National Guard—as he did and which he refused to send—and taking into account my own worries about the basic security of Vice President Mike Pence, hiding inside the Capitol complex, and the important role he had to play, I knew we had to prevail.

We have accustomed ourselves to Democratic fictions — the word “insurrection” for starters — but Pelosi’s claim to have begged Trump to provide National Guard is a 180-degree rewrite of history, an epic lie of the “Poland attacks Nazi Germany” school.

Pelosi’s Lies Have Been Clearly Debunked

The Capitol was Nancy Pelosi’s responsibility. Trump could only offer to provide National Guard support, which he did. The evidence is clear. On March 8, 2024, the House Administration’s Subcommittee on Oversight Chairman Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) released a transcribed interview which proved as much.

The Jan. 6 Select Committee, the one fronted by Liz Cheney, conducted the interview in question with President Trump’s former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Anthony Ornato. (READ MORE: Treatment of Biden at Convention Exposes the Anti-Democrats)

“Mr. Ornato’s testimony proves what [Chief-of-staff Mark] Meadows has said all along,” attested Loudermilk. “President Trump did in fact offer 10,000 National Guard troops to secure the U.S. Capitol, which was turned down.” The specific offer was made to Washington mayor Muriel Bowser, who rejected it.

Loudermilk’s report sheds light on Liz Cheney’s decision to endorse Kamala Harris for president. “Cheney and her committee falsely claimed they had ‘no evidence’ to support Trump officials’ claims the White House had communicated its desire for 10,000 National Guard troops,” Loudermilk said.

Cheney and allies cannot afford to have this case reopened. Loudermilk continued, “The former J6 Select Committee apparently withheld Mr. Ornato’s critical witness testimony from the American people because it contradicted their pre-determined narrative.” Cheney, he added, personally participated in the Ornato interview.

Protected by the J6 committee’s mendacity, Pelosi felt safe to  claim in her book that she begged Trump for National Guard support after the “insurrection” started.

This claim is downright delusional on at least two counts. The first is that it was her staff’s responsibility to contact the Pentagon.

Even Pelosi Admitted She Had Screwed Up

Former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund tried to do just that. Within minutes of the first breach by Ray Epps and crew at 12:53 p.m., Sund called the House sergeant at arms, Paul Irving, demanding he request help from the National Guard.

Irving dithered. He told Sund he had to run the request up the chain to Pelosi. It was not until 2:09 p.m., more than 70 minutes after Sund’s initial call, that the Capitol Police Board took steps to have the National Guard deployed. (READ MORE: The Secret Democratic Cabal’s Openly Anti-American Agenda)

On Jan. 6, as she fled the Capitol, Pelosi admitted she had screwed up. Her own words put a lie to her presumably ghostwritten words in The Art of Power. In the backseat of her moving security vehicle, Pelosi snapped at her chief of staff Terri McCullough. “We take responsibility, Terri. We did not have any accountability for what was going on there, and we should have. This is ridiculous.”

At this point, Pelosi appears to answer a question McCullough asked earlier about the National Guard. “You’re going to ask me in the middle of the thing when they’ve already breached the inaugural stuff that should we call the Capitol Police. I mean the National Guard,” Pelosi scolded her. “Why weren’t the National Guard there to begin with?”

Pelosi continued, “No, it is not a question of how they had … They don’t know,” a frustrated Pelosi shot back. “They clearly didn’t know. And I take responsibility for not having them just prepare for more.” The “they” presumably refers to Irving and the Capitol Police Board. 

This brings us to count two against Pelosi’s credibility. In fact, Trump’s staff acted much more decisively than did hers. Loudermilk observed, “Once the Capitol was breached, the Trump White House pushed for immediate help from Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller and grew frustrated at the slow deployment of that help.”  

Even after the request from both the House and the White House, the Pentagon continued to slow walk the requests for help. In a blistering 36-page memo to the House J6 Committee, Col. Earl Matthews wrote, “LTGs [Walter] Piatt and [Charles] Flynn stated that the optics of having uniformed military personnel deployed to the U.S. Capitol would not be good.” From the Pentagon’s perspective, one wonders whether the optics for a Trump-instigated riot were better.

Although the same cannot be said for the military, Pelosi’s failure to respond on Jan. 6 was due almost surely to incompetence. The events of that day proved how totally dysfunctional was both the management of the Capitol and the operational leadership of the Capitol Police.

Since that fateful day, Pelosi and her colleagues have smothered her incompetence in a sea of lies, none more self-aggrandizing than this whopper, “Where did my calm come from? It came from prayers, strength, and the urgency to prevail.”

Calm? The Pelosi we see in the backseat of that fleeing vehicle is testy, hysterical, and — if her slurred words are any indication — quite possibly drunk. That America has survived at all these last four years borders on the miraculous.

Jack Cashill’s new book, Ashli: the Untold Story of the Women of  January 6, is available in all formats.

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