Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi admitted she was responsible for not securing the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in video footage taken in the aftermath, the American Military News reported. Former President Donald Trump, who was blamed for the uprising, expressed sympathy for Pelosi's daughter who captured the footage.
Democrats have been hammering Trump about allegedly inciting the riot that day. Newly released footage taken by Alexandra Pelosi has revealed that Nancy Pelosi knew she had a hand in the debacle, and Trump took to Truth Social to share how it happened.
"BIG NEWS: Nancy Pelosi has been EXPOSED on tape, during her daughter’s documentary, saying she, and she alone, is 'responsible' for the events of January 6th, 2021. Can you imagine how that poor and loving daughter has suffered for allowing the TRUTH to get released?" Trump wrote on Wednesday.
In June, the House Oversight Committee released never-before-seen footage of Pelosi speaking to her Chief of Staff Terri McCullough in the aftermath of the event, Fox News reported. "We have responsibility, Terri," a masked Pelosi said.
"We did not have any accountability for what was going on there. And we should have," she added
"This is ridiculous. You’re going to ask me in the middle of the thing when they’ve already breached…that, should we call the Capitol Police? I mean, the National Guard? Why weren’t the National Guard there to begin with?" Pelosi lamented.
McCullough attempted to assuage her guilt by saying the Capital Police had it all in hand. "They clearly didn’t know, and I take responsibility for not having them just prepared for more." Pelosi shot back.
🚨 Since January 6, 2021, Nancy Pelosi spent 3+ years and nearly $20 million creating a narrative to blame Donald Trump.
NEW FOOTAGE shows on January 6, Pelosi ADMITTED:
"I take responsibility."
WATCH: pic.twitter.com/95a0totTWB
— Oversight Subcommittee (@OversightAdmn) June 10, 2024
Even as Pelosi admitted to her failures on film, she implicated Trump's supporters. "It’s stupid that we should be in a situation like this, because they thought they had what- they thought these people would act civilized?" Pelosi said.
"They thought these people would give a damn? What is it that is missing here in terms of anticipation? They give us a piece of paper that says walk through the tunnel, don’t walk outside. That’s your preparation?" the then-House Speaker added.
The competing narratives somehow fit nicely into an agenda Nancy Pelosi created from the event in the years after. Georgia GOP Rep. Barry Loudermilk railed against Pelosi and the House's January 6 select committee for holding back on the revelations in this footage.
"As Nancy Pelosi was being evacuated from the Capitol on January 6, 2021, she admitted that, as Speaker of the House, she was ultimately responsible for the security failures and for not having the National Guard at the Capitol that day. Then, she proceeded to spend nearly 20 million of taxpayer dollars for her Select Committee to blame President Trump for her failures," Loudermilk, chairman of the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight, said.
Pelosi's admission on the day of the riot reveals that there was more to the story than the narrative she has been pushing to smear Trump. Unfortunately for Nancy Pelosi, her daughter captured footage of her telling the truth that undermines her case against Trump.
