It's been five years since the events at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and Democrats are still trying to cast the day as one of the worst since the Civil War.
But former Pentagon Insider Casey Wardynski, who has first-hand, behind-the-scenes experience with January 6, tells a different story.
Bringing his insight as a former assistant secretary of the U.S. Army, West Point graduate and superintendent of Huntsville City Schools, he recently joined "1819 News: The Podcast" to discuss what went down all those years ago and the political dynamics that dominate Washington's entrenched bureaucracy.
"January 6, I would tell you, is important. The lead-up to that, of course, was the [George] Floyd riots. One day, everything's cool in America; the next day, we've got riots everywhere. And it was awful in Washington," he said.
After that, Wardynski said the Pentagon "lost its mind," pushing diversity initiatives and worrying about "optics" over protecting the American people.
"January 6 unfolds. D.C. [National] Guard doesn't show up. I was very disturbed by that whole thing, you can imagine. I came home, and I'm like, if Trump runs again, he's got to have a better bunch," Wardynski said, referring to the officials under the president who failed to act, or worse, wanted the riot to happen.
"January 6 isn't over. Those people are still around. They're still in the Army. They're still at Defense. They're still no damn good," Wardynski continued. "And we don't know really what January 6 was about. But I have my own ideas. And I would tell you, I think the Army was already there. And that's why they didn't need the Guard. I think some folks in the Army were probably misled by General [Mark] Milley and were there with the purpose of riling up that crowd using some Army technology called infrasound… I can't prove it, but I've now seen enough, and I've heard enough that I think that's a logical explanation, and somebody needs to dig into it.
He added, "They said Trump was a kook. He may do a coup right around the election. They put that crap in 'Time' magazine about what they were going to do about making sure he never became president. And they moved it to January 6th. And maybe the icing on the cake was we can create a situation where enough people get killed that we can get rid of the Second Amendment."
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