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Media's 'HERO' Capitol Police officer CAUGHT in LIES about January 6

The government and media's January 6th lies are continuing to unravel. Recently, Blaze Media published an exposé into the truth about U.S. Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn's congressional testimony. The media has praised him as a hero who stood up to violent and racist rioters while protecting our lawmakers. And he even wrote a memoir about his experience. But after reviewing the evidence, including the CCTV footage from the day, Blaze Media investigative reporter Steve Baker came to a different conclusion. "The story that first made headlines is now an obviously disprovable lie," Glenn says. Glenn goes through the evidence that Dunn lied in his congressional testimony and the media just went along with it.

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GLENN: There is a story today, that is an exclusive, and shows you the kind of investigation work that we are -- are now committing to.

The United States Capitol police officer Harry Dunn, who was celebrated as a hero for his actions on January 6th, has made a public statement since. Earlier this year, President Joe Biden awarded him the presidential citizen's medal. To great fanfare. But the story that first made headlines is now an obviously disprovable lie.

Dunn alleged that he was called the N-word numerous times during the riot at the Capitol on January 6th. Almost the entirety of the media repeated his claim without any question. It features predominantly in his new memoir, new book, Standing My Ground.

A Capitol police officer's fight for accountability, and good trouble after January 6th.

Seemingly, no other word in the English language, when spoken by someone other than a black comedian, or a rapper, evokes more viscerally negative responses.

So taboo is the use of the N-word. That when anyone such as quotes the word in a news story or an interview, it has to be redacted.

In standing my ground, Dunn recounts how he and another black officer was approached by Buzzfeed reporter, a man who felt to tell their stories about that harrowing day, in which they were forced to endure racist abuse, including repeatedly being called the N-word. As they just tried to do the job of protecting the Capitol.

I sat down with one of my buddies, another black guy. And tears just started streaming down my face, he said. I said, what the F, man?

Is this even America?

What the F just happened? I am so sick and tired of this.

Soon he was screaming. So that everyone in the rotunda and his white colleagues, could hear what he had gone through.

He sat through the rotunda, at the end of the day. These are racist ass terrorists, he yelled out the rotunda. I got called the N-word, 15 times today!

Trump did this.

And all these F-ing people in our department that voted for him, how can summit him now? He said, I sat there in the rotunda, and I cried for about 15 minutes.

I just let it out.

Well, he went under oath, to tell this wonderful story.

TheBlaze media has been a -- acquired access to two FBI, 302 interview forms. They're marked unclassified. However, they're under the courts protective order, preventing them from being made public.

But in Dunn's first statement before the Congressional subcommittee on July 27th, he said, I'm a law enforcement officer, and I keep politics out of my job.

But in this circumstance, I responded, well, I voted for Joe Biden. Does my vote not count?

Am I nobody?

That prompted, he said, a torrent of racial epitaphs. A woman in a pink MAGA shirt yelled. You hear that guys. This N-word voted for Joe Biden.

Then the crowd of perhaps 20 people joined in, screaming, boo!

F-ing N-word.

No one had ever, ever called me the N-word while wearing the uniform of a Capitol police officer.

In the days following the attempted insurrection, other black officers shared with me, their own stories of racial abuse on January 6th. One officer told me, he had never in his 40 years of life, been called the N-word to his face.

But that streak ended on January 6th.

On Page 82 of the prepublication copy of Dunn's book acquired by Blaze Media, he gives a similar account of a racist chant from the lady in the pink MAGA shirt.

But on Page 157, Dunn writes, the chant was led by a woman in a pink magazine hat.

Despite that and other minor discrepancies in Dunn's telling, the biggest problem with the story is, that this is the most video recorded event in history. Not a single piece of evidence, video or audio, has even emerged to confirm that such a racially charged incident ever took place.

In the two and a half years since the events. With tens of thousands of hours of audio taken, and analyzed, from open source cell phone video. And DC metro police body-worn cameras. Nobody has produced, recorded evidence to corroborate Dunn's story.

Well, what about the Capitol rotunda, closed-circuit TV video.

Well, Blaze media has analyzed this. It does not include any audio, but the video also appears to lack any visual evidence confirming the event, as Dunn described it.

At the time and location, he claimed it occurred. In fact, the entire tie of the extensive hours of videos, that Blaze media has examined, reveal no such event.

This includes the end of Dunn's day. When he was supposed to have broken down. Crying in the Capitol. Shouting, why!

Instead, he's clearly visible, talking to numerous fellow officers.

But not only without tears, but sometimes smiling, and sharing a cell phone video.

Also, Blaze media did not find a single shirt fitting that description worn by anyone. Inside the building.

Analysts for a Blaze media, who spent hours pouring over the video recordings, looking for any individual, male or female, wearing a pink MAGA shirt, inside the Capitol building.

We can report conclusively, based on the many camera sources available, that a woman in a pink MAGA T-shirt is never seen near or a in Dunn's vicinity.

In fact, Blaze media did not find a single shirt, fitting that description, worn by anyone inside the building.

The sedition hunters, a self-described global community of open source intelligence investigators, working together to assist the US FBI and Washington, DC, Capitol Police. To find those who committed crimes at January 6th at the Capitol.

They had unprecedented access to open source since January 6th video footage. This group of left-leaning activist researchers has also failed to produce evidence of the N-word being used against a Dunn or any other black police officers of that day.

Hmm. Hmm.

What does that mean? I wonder.

Tonight, at 9 o'clock, I know there's so much going on.

But there's a lot we're missing.

You never let a good crisis go to waste. There's a lot of things that have come out in the last week, week and a half. That hmm.

You may not have seen. Because everyone was too busy talking about something else.

I told you, that we were watching those other hands.

And watch, we have. And we're gag to expose tonight.

What else has -- has been happening, since we were all distracted, with Israel?

What else has come out?

Wait until you hear the update on our pharmaceutical companies. Our government. And COVID.

A lot of stuff just happened to come out.

Huh. At a time when nobody would pay any attention. Huh.

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Salena Zito reveals WHY Trump said “Fight! Fight! Fight!”

“I have a new purpose,” then-candidate Donald Trump told reporter Salena Zito after surviving the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania. Salena joins Glenn Beck to reveal what Trump told her about God, his purpose in life, and why he really said, “Fight! Fight! Fight!”, as she details in her new book, “Butler: The Untold Story of the Near Assassination of Donald Trump and the Fight for America's Heartland”.

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GLENN: Salena, congratulations on your book. It is so good.

Just started reading it. Or listening to it, last night.

And I wish you would have -- I wish you would have read it. But, you know, the lady you have reading it is really good.

I just enjoy the way you tell stories.

The writing of this is the best explanation on who Trump supporters are. That I think I've ever read, from anybody.

It's really good.

And the description of your experience there at the edge of the stage with Donald Trump is pretty remarkable as well. Welcome to the program.

SALENA: Thank you, Glenn. Thank you so much for having me.

You know, I was thinking about this, as I was ready to come on. You and I have been along for this ride forever. For what?

Since 2006? 2005?

Like 20 years, right?

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah.

SALENA: And I've been chronicling the American people for probably ten more years, before that. And it's really remarkable to me, as watching how this coalition has grown. Right?

And watching how people have the -- have become more aspirational.

And that's -- and that is what the conservative populist coalition is, right?

It is the aspirations of many, but the celebration of the individual.

And chronicling them, yeah. Has been -- has been, a great honor.

GLENN: You know, I was thinking about this yesterday, when -- when Elon Musk said he was starting another party.

And somebody asked me, well, isn't he doing what the Tea Party tried to do?

No. The Tea Party was not going to start a new party.

It was to -- you know, it was to coerce and convince the Republican Party to do the right thing. And it worked in many ways. It didn't accomplish what we hoped.

But it did accomplish a lot of things.

Donald Trump is a result of the Tea Party.

I truly believe that. And a lot of the people that were -- right?

Were with Donald Trump, are the people that were with the Tea Party.


SALENA: That's absolutely right.

So that was the inception.

So American politics has always had movements, that have been just outside of a party. Or within a party.

That galvanize and broaden the coalition. Right? They don't take away. Or walk away, and become another party.

If anything, if there is a third party out there, it's almost a Republican Party.

Because it has changed in so many viable and meaningful ways. And the Tea Party didn't go away. It strengthened and broadened the Republican Party. Because these weren't just Republicans that became part of this party.

It was independents. It was Democrats.

And just unhappy with the establishment Republicans. And unhappy with Democrats.

And that -- that movement is what we -- what I see today.

What I see every day. What I saw that day, in butler, when I showed I happen at that rally.

As I do, so many rallies, you know, throughout my career. And that one was riveting and changed everything.

GLENN: You made a great case in the opening chapter. You talk about how things were going for Donald Trump.

And how this moment really did change everything for Donald Trump.

Changed the trajectory, changed the mood.

I mean, Elon Musk was not on the Trump train, until this.

SALENA: Yeah.

GLENN: Moment. What do I -- what changed? How -- how did that work?

And -- and I contend, that we would have much more profound change, had the media actually done their job and reported this the way it really was. Pragmatism

SALENA: You know, and people will find this in the book. I'm laying on the ground with an agent on top of me.

I'm 4 feet away from the president.

And there's -- there's notices coming up on my phone. Saying, he was hit by broken glass.

And to this take, that remains part of this sibling culture, in American politics.

Because reporters were -- were so anxious to -- to right what they believed happened.

As opposed to what happened.

And it's been a continual frustration of mine, as a reporter, who is on the ground, all the time.

And I'll tell you, what changed in that moment.

And I say a nuance, and I believe nuance is dead in American journalism.

But it was a nuance and it was a powerful conversation, that I had with President Trump, the next day. He called me the next morning.

But it's a powerful conversation I had with him, just two weeks ago.

When he made this decision to say, fight, fight, fight.

People have put in their heads, why they think he said it. But he told me why he said that. And he said, Salena, in that moment, I was not Donald Trump the man. I was a former president. I was quite possibly going to be president again.

And I had an obligation to the country, and to the office that I have served in, to project strength. To project resolve.

To project that we will not be defeated.

And it's sort of like a symbolic eagle, that is always -- you know, that symbol that we look at, when we think about our country.

He said, that's why I said that. I didn't want the people behind me panicking. I didn't want the people watching, panicking.

I had to show strength. And it's that nuance -- that I think people really picked up on.

And galvanized people.

GLENN: So he told me, when he was laying down on the stage.

And you can hear him. Let me get up. Let me get up.

I've got to get up.

He told me, as I was laying on the stage. I asked him, what were you thinking? What was going through your head? Now, Salena, I don't know about you.

But with me. It would be like, how do I get off the stage? My first was survival.

He said, what was going on through his mind was, you're not pathetic. This is pathetic.

You're not afraid. Get up.

Get up.

And so is that what informed his fight, fight, fight, of that by the time that he's standing up, he's thinking, I'm a symbol? Or do you think he was thinking, I'm a symbol, this looks pathetic. It makes you look weak.

Stand up. How do you think that actually happened?

SALENA: He thinks, and we just talked about this weeks ago. He -- you know, and this is something that he's really thought about.

Right? You know, he's gone over and over and over. And also, purpose and God. Right? These are things that have lingered with him.

You know, he -- he thought, yes.

He did think, it was pathetic that he was on the ground. But he wasn't thinking about, I'm Donald Trump. It's pathetic.

He's thinking, my country is symbolically on the ground. I need to get up, and I need to show that my country is strong.

That our country is resolute.

And I need people to see that.

We can't go on looking like pathetic.

Right?

And I think that then goes to that image of Biden.

GLENN: You have been with so many presidents.

How many presidents do you think that you've personally been with, would have thought that and reacted that way?

SALENA: Probably only Reagan. Reagan would have. Reagan probably would have thought that.

And if you remember how he was out like standing outside.

You know, waving out the window. Right?

After he was shot.

GLENN: At the hospital, right.

SALENA: Had he not been knocked out, unconscious, you know, he probably would have done the same thing.

Because he was someone who deeply believed in American exceptionalism.

And American exceptionalism does not go lay on the ground.

GLENN: And the symbol.

Right. The symbol of the presidency.

SALENA: Yeah. Absolutely. And I think that affects him today.

GLENN: So let me go back to God.

Because you talked to him the next day. And your book Butler.

He calls you up.

I love the fact that your parents would be ashamed of you. On what you said to him.

The language you used. That you just have to read the book.

It's just a great part.

But he calls you the next morning. And wants to know if you're okay.

And you -- you then start talking to him, about God.

And I was -- I was thinking about this, as I was listening to it. You know, Lincoln said, I wasn't -- I wasn't a Christian.

Even though, he was.

I wasn't a Christian, when I was elected. I wasn't a Christian when my son died.

I became a Christian at Gettysburg.

Is -- is -- I mean, I believe Donald Trump always believes in God, et cetera, et cetera.

Do you think there was a real profound change at Butler with him?


SALENA: Absolutely. You know, he called me seven times that day. Seven times, the take after seven.

GLENN: Crazy.

SALENA: Talked about. And I think he was looking for someone that he knew, that was there. And to try to sort it out.

Right? And I let him do most of the talking. I didn't pressure him.

At all. I believed that he was having -- you know, he was struggling. And he needed to just talk. And I believed my purpose was to listen.

Right? I know other reporters would have handled it differently. And that's okay. That's not the kind of reporter that I am.

And I myself was having my own like, why didn't I die?

Right?

Because it went right over my head.

And -- and so I -- he had the conversation about God.

He's funny. I thought it was the biggest mosquito in the world that hit me.

But he had talked profoundly about purpose. You know, and God.

And how God was in that moment.

It --

GLENN: I love the way you -- in the book, I love the way you said that as he's kind of working it out in his own he head.

He was like, you know, I -- I -- I always knew that there was some sort of, you know -- that God was present.

He said, but now that this has happened.

I look back at all of the trials.

All of the tribulations. Literally, the trials.

All of the things that have happened. And he's like, I realized God was there the whole time.

SALENA: Yes. He does. And it's fascinating to have been that witness to history, to have those conversations with him. Because I'm telling you. And y'all know, I can talk. I didn't say much of anything.

I just -- I just listened. I felt that was my purpose, in that moment.

To give him that space, to work it out.

I'm someone that is, you know, believes in God.

I'm Catholic. I followed my faith.

And -- and so, I thought, well, this is why God put me here. Right?

And to -- to have that -- to hear him talk about purpose, to hear him say, Salena. Why did I put a chart down?

I'm like, sir. I don't know. I thought you were Ross Perot for a second.

He never has a chart. And he laughed. And then he said, why did I put that chart down?

By that term, I never turned my head away from people at the rally. That's true.

That relationship is very transactional. It's very -- they feed off of each other.

It's a very emotive moment when you attend a rally. Because he has a way of talking at a rally. That you believe that you are seeing.

And he said, and I never turn my head away.

I never turn my head away.

Why did I turn my head away?

I don't remember consciously thinking about turning my head away. And then he says to me, that was God, wasn't it?

Yes, sir. It was. It was God.

And he said, that's -- that's why I have a new purpose.

And so, Glenn. I think it's important, when you look at the breadth of what has happened, since he was sworn in.

You see that purpose, every day.

He doesn't let up.

He continues going.

And it brings back to the beginning of the book.

Where you find out, that there was another president that was shot at in Butler.

And that was George Washington. And how different the country would have been, had he died in that moment.

And now think about how different the country would be, had President Trump died in that moment. There would be --

GLENN: We're talking to -- we're talking to Salena Zito. About her new book called Butler. The assassination attempt on President Trump. And it is riveting.

And, you know, it is so good. I wish the press would read it. Because it really explains who we are, who Trump supporters are. Who are, you know, red staters. It is so good at that. She's the best at that.