Hard-core MAGA
representative Lauren Boebert is trying to conflate the conditions that
preceded Trump’s federal takeover of Washington, D.C., with those of the January
6 insurrection.
Boebert went on a
strange tangent at a congressional hearing on Wednesday, comparing the two
events in an attempted “gotcha” of liberals who disapproved of Trump’s federal
takeover of the nation’s capital.
“As far as taking issue
with the National Guard having a temporary presence to get your city, this
city, our nation’s beautiful capital, under control and safe—I didn’t hear any
problems from Washington, D.C. residents or or my colleagues on the other side
of the aisle when 20,000 national guards came in and surrounded the Capitol
Building and prohibited your first amendment right to petition your government
with your grievances,” the representative from Colorado said.
“I didn’t see an
uprising there. We weren’t happy about the fences. And the hundreds of miles of
barbed wire surrounding our nation’s Capitol … keeping you out of the people’s
house. But now they’re here to help and keep you safe, and that’s somehow an
issue?”
Boebert: As far as taking issue with the national guard having a temporary presence in DC, I didn’t hear any problems from DC residents or Democrats when 20k national guard came in and surrounded the Capitol and prohibited your first amendment rights to petition your government.… pic.twitter.com/IwC5W5YkRj
— Acyn (@Acyn) September 10, 2025
It doesn’t matter how
loud or how confidently Boebert says it. This is a stupid, deceitful
misrepresentation of what actually happened on January 6, 2021, and why President
Donald Trump called in the National Guard for his military crackdown on D.C.
On January 6, the
National Guard was called in because a mob of over a thousand people, including
far-right militia groups armed with guns and pipe bombs, stormed the Capitol
Building, scaling walls, breaking windows, brutally attacking police officers, and
threatening to kill legislators.
Meanwhile, the true
catalyst for the National Guard’s recent deployment in D.C. was a former
DOGE bro, Edward Coristine, a.k.a. “Big Balls” getting mugged—an event nowhere near as dire
or dangerous as the insurrection.
Those two events are
nowhere near the same.
Boebert is also
exaggerating the scope and scale of the January 6 deployment, as those 20,000-odd troops took almost a month to fully deploy, with only around 1,000 arriving
on the date itself, and well after most of the rioting had cleared.
Boebert’s comments drew
sharp criticism, and quickly.
“A violent
insurrectionist coup attempt where police were mercilessly beaten and
politicians were hunted through the Capitol was not ‘petitioning the
government,’” one X user wrote in Boebert’s comment section. “Yes, the National
Guard was deployed to protect the Capitol from psychopaths who couldn’t handle
losing an election.”
This January 6
revisionism has been rampant since Trump returned to office
and pardoned virtually every insurrectionist, from average QAnon
kooks to violent Oath Keepers. Boebert acting like the January 6
insurrectionists politely knocked on the door of the Capitol and asked
to have a nice meeting is just another example of that.
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