Revolver's Top Jan. 6th January 6th Investigative Stories
On January 6th, the regime media, and even much of the Republican Party, immediately declared the Capitol riots an “armed insurrection,” an assault on democracy, and the worst day for the republic since Pearl Harbor or even the Civil War.
For months, Revolver has been doing the investigative work that America’s hundreds of other news outlets are too corrupt or too cowardly to perform themselves. We have watched the tape, read the indictments, dissected the news reports, and punctured the narratives.
By now, the sum total of our work is long enough to fill a short book. So here, we have collected all of our 1/6 reporting into a single spot, with short summaries for ease of reference.
MAGA Blood Libel: Why Are They Hiding The Medical Report?
Where it all began. In the days after the Capitol incursion, deceased Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick became the Little Saint Hugh of anti-Trumpism. Outlets from the New York Times to the USA Today pushed the narrative that justified the largest criminal manhunt in U.S. history: That Sicknick was bludgeoned to death by a mob of violent Trump supporters.
The famous “fire extinguisher” myth was debunked quickly, yet for weeks on end no further details came out. Why, Revolver asked, did authorities seem so hesitant to release any autopsy of Sicknick? Why was the press reporting Sicknick’s death before his family even knew about it, and in fact, before Sicknick was even actually dead? Why did “Sicknick was killed by a MAGA mob” gradually become “Sicknick died after physically engaging a MAGA mob”? With this first piece, Revolver began the process of blowing 1/6 wide open.
Capitol Mystery: Who’s Blocking the Evidence?
After Revolver’s first report, the Times updated its primary article on Sicknick’s death to note that “new information has emerged” that “questions the initial cause” of Sicknick’s death, an elaborate way of admitting they had initially presented outright fabrications as gospel truth. But in an effort to head off too many questions, outlets like Media Matters and TPM warned that Revolver was part of a brewing “Sicknick truth” movement. While the regime media fought hard to embed a particular narrative in the public’s mind, Revolver noticed the peculiar slowness with which serious criminal evidence was being introduced to the public. Very soon, it would become clear why the FBI wasn’t releasing much evidence: Because what they had was embarrassingly weak.
Capitol Mystery: New Evidence Likely Clears MAGA of “Murder” Charge
Three weeks after Revolver‘s initial report, the first big breakthrough came. Newly-leaked information revealed that any effort to turn Sicknick’s death into a murder charge was doomed. The “fire extinguisher bludgeoning” was reduced to a non-lethal attack with a non-lethal weapon resulting in non-lethal charges against the perpetrator. The press strongly implied that this non-lethal weapon was bear spray, but as Revolver pointed out, no actual evidence confirmed that implication. Future developments would once again prove Revolver correct.
FBI’s Ridiculous “Capitol Siege Pipe Bomb” Video Is An All-Out Assault on Common Sense
Having exposed the sham of the Sicknick blood libel, Revolver moved on to another flimsy pillar of the establishment’s “armed insurrection” narrative of 1/6. Since no guns were actually confiscated at the scene of the incursion, and the only shot fired was by an unnamed officer into the neck of (unarmed) Ashli Babbitt, the claim that 1/6 constituted an armed revolt relied heavily on the claim that insurgents planned in advance to place pipe bombs around the Capitol.
Once again, it fell to Revolver to ask the key questions: With the FBI having so much access to cell phone data, how could they not use that phone data to find the pipe bomb suspect? How could the suspect leave no DNA evidence at all while building their bomb? With so many surveillance cameras around the Capitol, why could the FBI only produce barely two minutes of footage for the public? And most importantly of all, why did the FBI withhold the full versions of the tapes it did release to the public? The FBI’s behavior made no sense if it wanted to catch a criminal suspect… but it made a lot of sense if their primary goal was milking 1/6 to fuel a long-term anti-MAGA narrative.
January 6 Narrative Collapse: Assault Charges Spell Problems for DOJ, FBI in Officer Sicknick Case
In mid-March, federal authorities charged Julian Khater and George Tanios with assaulting a police officer after Khater allegedly used bear spray on Officer Sicknick. All kinds of outlets, even “conservative” ones, presented this as providing more clarity about the “assault” on the Capitol on 1/6. But as Revolver explained, the truth was the opposite. The charges against Khater and Tanios were so weak that they actually disproved the notion of any serious attack on Officer Sicknick. Not only that, but the federal indictment declined to show any video, or even still frames, of Officer Sicknick being sprayed. The very plausible interpretation: The FBI couldn’t even back up its own flimsy “assault” case, but was bringing it anyway to prop up the greater narrative of a murderous assault on a Capitol Police officer. And in the process, it was ruthlessly threatening two men with up to 60 years in prison, more than the typical murderer gets, for a “crime” that would plausibly be a misdemeanor if it took place on the streets of Portland.
So-Called “Assault Video” Creates Big Problems for Prosecutors in Sicknick Capitol Riot Death Case
In the wake of Revolver’s criticisms, the video the FBI was so eager to conceal finally leaked. And it was, naturally, exactly as bad for the prosecution as Revolver suggested. Using digital forensics, Revolver was able to debunk the New York Times’s claim that the video showed Julian Khater using bear spray on Officer Sicknick. In, fact the video shows no spray coming out at all. Not only that, but the FBI may plausibly have mixed up Khater, who was standing a long distance away from Sicknick, with a completely different man in the crowd wearing a similar hat.
Every fact in the video confirmed what Revolver had previously argued: That the FBI was grossly inflating a weak case in an effort to intimidate and terrify the MAGA movement, and bolster the shaky narrative of a January 6 “insurrection.”
Twenty-seven days after Revolver delivered the truth, the regime media and the Department of Justice had to admit defeat. After the long-awaited autopsy confirmed that Officer Sicknick died of natural causes, and there was no evidence he inhaled any chemicals, the DOJ was also forced to abandon its bear spray theory completely.
Supposedly, this left them only with the claim that Sicknick was pepper-sprayed, but Revolver quickly pointed out the the DOJ’s major problem: There was no evidence at all presented of Julian Khater, or anybody else, ever using pepper spray on Sicknick.
January 6th Commission is Coming … Here’s How MAGA Can Use it To Beat Dems at Their Own Game
Contra the above title, a January 6 commission isn’t confirmed yet, but Democrats are still working to pass it out of the House. Here, Revolver laid out the strategy Republicans should pursue if such a commission is created. Many Republicans have talked about refocusing any investigation on the BLM/antifa riots of 2020. Revolver believes this would be a mistake, though, as it would implicitly accept the regime narrative of 1/6. Instead, Republicans should use a January 6 commission to bring a laser-like focus to every unexplained detail of that day.
Force the FBI, DOJ, and every other relevant agency to tell the truth about any informants and agents they had in the crowd. Find out why Officer Sicknick’s autopsy took months to complete. Demand to know why security was so lax, almost deliberately so. Learn the full story of the FBI’s half-baked pipe bomb investigation, and get access to all the video footage that has been withheld from the public so far. Junk the regime’s precious narrative and demand the truth.
Unindicted Co-Conspirators in 1/6 Cases Raise Disturbing Questions of Federal Foreknowledge
This is the piece that started it all — and re-oriented the entire national conversation about January 6 from dead-end distractions to the darkest question that unlocks the truth of what kind of country we really live in: what role did the federal government and its agents play in instigating January 6th? The piece above raises this very question with a detailed look at the charging documents of the Oath Keepers militia members. What we found was an astonishing case of selective non-prosecution, whereby trivial actors are slapped with serious charges, and more senior members who engaged in much more egregious behavior are not charged at all.
This is the very first piece of reporting that mentions the federal agent and informant-infiltrated “Michigan Kidnapping Plot” in light of the alleged insurrection of January 6th.
This next bombshell follows up on the reporting of the previous piece with a deep dive into a specific individual: Stewart Rhodes, the founder and leader of the Oath Keepers militia group. Through an extensive look at Rhodes’ background, as well as Rhodes’ ubiquitous presence in the charging documents of indicted Oath Keepers, Revolver shows that Rhodes is perhaps the most astonishing example of selective non-prosecution. The federal government is protecting Mr. Rhodes, and we would like to know why. If it turns out that the founder and leader of the biggest bogey-man militia group associated with Jan 6 is himself a federal agent or informant, it would be devastating to the official narrative of January 6, and amount to one of the biggest scandals in American history.
This ground-breaking piece continues our extensive coverage of Stewart Rhodes within the context of the politicized, sham January 6 Committee. Indeed, we point out the curious, seemingly deliberate and willful lack of interest in Stewart Rhodes by the Committee and uncover some troubling aspects of Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson’s past. Since publication, perhaps as a result of the pressure generated by this piece, the Committee has issued a subpoena for Rhodes. So far nothing has come of it and the questions presented in the piece remain as damning and pressing as ever.
New York Times Confirms Revolver’s Claim of FBI Involvement In 1/6… But What Are They Still Hiding?
You know things are looking bad for the FBI when the New York Times is doing damage control pieces admitting Revolver News was right. Unlike our bombshell investigative pieces, this piece is chiefly analytical, and takes a look at the conflicting strategies and interests of the FBI and Congressional Democrats and the media. Congressional Democrats and the media want to continue with the sham accusation that Trump and his inner circle planned January 6th. But pressing this inquiry too far risks exposing not anything nefarious on the part of Trump and his friends, but rather by the FBI and other government agents itself.
Revolver’s reporting has created quite the bind for the enemies of the American people who happen to control America. Read more to find out just how tangled this web really is.
This piece explores the bizarre prosecution of Green Beret Oath Keeper Jeremy Brown for a trivial trespassing charge. Why would the feds wait over half a year to hit this individual, who did not enter the Capitol itself, for the charge of trespassing on Capitol grounds? The situation is still more suspicious when we consider that this particular individual presented video of what he claims to be JTTF agents attempting to recruit him as an informant on January 6th — he refused. Is the charge possible retaliation?
And if the feds are willing to charge Brown with a trivial offense of standing on Capitol grounds, what is their excuse for neglecting an easy lay-up indictment of Oath Keepers founder and leader Stewart Rhodes, who appears in several pictures to be standing well within the restricted zone himself?
Enter Ray Epps — the only individual found in the mountains of video evidence from January 6th who explicitly called for a mission to “go into the Capitol.” This bombshell piece shows extensive video footage of Epps recruiting others for this bizarre mission, and following up on his intentions on January 6th. We show Epps at the very first breach site of the Capitol grounds, whispering into another individual’s ear two seconds before that same individual goes on to perform the first and decisive breach.
So who is Ray Epps? This piece answers this question with a deep dive into Epps’ background and his affiliation with Stewart Rhodes (mentioned in previous reports). We note that a day after Revolver published our bombshell report on Rhodes, the FBI scrubbed Epps’ name and face from its public “most wanted” database. Now, the FBI claims to not know who Epps is. Epps to this day remains unindicted and unsearched. Curiously, the January 6 Committee has exhibited just as little interest in this individual as the FBI has, despite Epps appearing to be the key orchestrator of the initial breach of Capitol grounds.
Read more from this ground breaking report that made Ray Epps a household name in our next piece…
And finally, the Supernova — the mega-viral piece endorsed by Trump, multiple members of congress, and journalists of all stripes. This bombshell piece follows up on reporting on Ray Epps with in-depth video footage of Epps and a number of other mysterious actors who all played a decisive role in turning January 6 from a rally into a riot. We meet the colorful cast of characters who methodically removed fencing near the Capitol before the Trump rally-goers even arrived. We meet individuals like “ScaffoldCommander,” who encouraged the crowd to “move forward” and “fill up the Capitol” at decisive moments. We meet another individual who cut fencing who had been apprehended by law enforcement the previous day for his presence in a van full of explosives and firearms outside of the Department of Justice.
The curious thing: all of the individuals covered in this report are — like Epps and like Stewart Rhodes — unindicted. Curious indeed.
Believe it or not, Revolver’s ground breaking coverage of 1/6 did not start with our national narrative-shaping report drawing attention to federal involvement. Our previous reporting from the first half of the year exposed the mainstream media’s blood libel against Trump supporters (suggesting that 1/6 rioters had killed Officer Brian Sicknick). In other reports, Revolver’s sophisticated image analysis vindicates George Tanios, a man hit with serious conspiracy charges on the basis of flimsy evidence he had conspired to assault officers. We also conducted a deep dive investigation into the so-called pipe bombs that were planted around the Capitol — the FBI has been very cagey on this topic ever since. Why doesn’t the FBI want to find out who planted those pipe bombs? This and much more in this must-read bonus series.
