Continuing with some things we do know about January 6th:

• In addition, we know that on the morning of January 6, 2021, tens of thousands of Trump supporters gathered for a rally on The Ellipse, a park south of the White House, to show support for the President and protest what they believed were irregularities and election fraud that marred the 2020 election.
• We know that President Trump addressed the crowd and then encouraged them to march to the U.S. Capitol to protest “peacefully and patriotically.”
• We know that President Trump never incited the audience nor suggested anything other than peaceful demonstrations. Indeed, many of those present at The Ellipse had applied for and been issued permits by the Capitol Police to stage events and host speakers on the U.S. Capitol grounds that day—a common enough occurrence in Washington, D.C.
• Here is something else we know that the FAKE NEWS mainstream media has kept under wraps and not reported on: before Trump had even finished speaking, a separate and much smaller group had already gathered at the Capitol and breached the first set of outdoor barriers. As the main body of peaceful demonstrators made their way from The Ellipse to the U.S. Capitol grounds, confrontations between this smaller group and Capitol Police were already underway, and eventually a riot ensued. The demonstrators marching toward the Capitol had no way of knowing what was underway while they were still at The Ellipse watching Trump speak. And owing to the size of the Capitol grounds—some 23 acres—it was unclear to many, even upon arriving at the Capitol, what was happening.
• Much of what we have learned about this is from more than 40,000 hours of security footage that had been kept under seal by House Democrat leadership and excluded from the Select Committee’s inquiry. Among other things, it shows clearly that after the chaos had subsided, U.S. Capitol Police were ushering people into the building. One must presume that many of those who entered the Capitol during this period were unaware of the earlier clashes with police and assumed—because police were waving demonstrators along and, in some cases, even escorting them—that they were allowed to be there.
• We also know that Democrats deliberately lied when they claimed that Capital Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who died on January 7th, 2021, died due to blunt force trauma to the head with a fire extinguisher by Trump supporters. Security footage shows him walking around just fine on January 6th and never in any distress. The Washington DC medical examiner stated unequivocally that Officer Sicknick died of natural causes and that there was no evidence of any sort of blunt force trauma to his head. The security footage showing Officer Sicknick performing his duties as normal on January 6th was deliberately withheld by the Democrat-controlled Select Committee.
• We know that President Trump, in the days leading up to January 6th, demanded that 10,000 National Guard troops be deployed in advance of January 6th, but his demand was unilaterally rejected by the Capital Police Board, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, and Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser. And we know that Liz Cheney, the Democrat disguised as a Republican, deliberately concealed those facts by hiding an interview transcript that was produced by the very Select Committee she was serving on.
• Further, we know that someone at the Pentagon deliberately delayed deployment of the National Guard once everyone agreed they were indeed needed, and yet the Pentagon tried to cover up that salient fact.

Here are some things we do not yet know:

• Why is it that the two individuals most responsible for Capital security (House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser – both Democrats) barred any and all Republicans from participating in any discussion of Capital security plans. Republicans were deliberately kept in the dark by Democrats. Why?
• Even though the FBI, which was responsible for canvassing the Capitol grounds for potential security threats or breaches ahead of a major demonstration like the one planned for January 6, why is it they failed to do so? Even as of this writing, the FBI has not given a coherent reason as to why they breached this particular protocol. . . What’s the big secret?
• Then-FBI Associate Deputy Director Paul Abbate described the lack of canvassing as a “basic step that was missed” and told the Office of Inspector General that he would have expected a canvassing to have been conducted beforehand through what the FBI calls the issuance of an “intelligence collection product.” Such a product was issued for the January 20 inauguration, but not for January 6. Why not? Nobody is saying. . .
• The OIG report also revealed for the first time that the FBI had 26 confidential human sources, or informants, in the crowd that day. Why? They won’t say.
• Most of the informants went to the Capital on their own initiative, if we are to believe the report. But it is interesting to note that 3 of the 26 informants went into the U.S. Capital, an act that resulted in the other January 6 defendants receiving lengthy prison sentences. Yet none of the 3 were charged with any crime. Why not?

Because Republican attempts to get at the truth have been actively thwarted by Democrats, Americans have no reason to be confident that justice has been served.

And that, my friends, is the latest elephant in the room.