When it comes to January 6th, conspiracy theorists who are determined to deflect from the truth of the attack on Congress will spin up just about any story to point a finger away from Donald Trump’s mob. The tall tales tend to be pretty flimsy, though, and fall apart under the least bit of scrutiny.
Many of the theories revolve around claims that the attack was an ‘inside job’ or ‘false flag.’ It’s the notion that someone — Ray Epps, for example, or the FBI — actually orchestrated the attack. Police or security, these stories claim, let the mob in, and somehow that’s supposed to prove that 1) it’s a ‘deep state’ conspiracy, 2) the attackers are somehow not really to blame, and 3) the ultimate insider, the person who was actually the President of the United States at the time, is somehow exonerated.
Of course, the important fact that Federal law enforcement is in possession of the messages exchanged between militia members in advance of the attack, including plans, maps, and weapon caches, doesn’t seem to come up.
Still, Representative Adam Kinzinger turned to Twitter Saturday morning to address a wild story from media personalities Diamond & Silk, in which they believe that some people entering the Capitol relied on insiders to open a security door.
The video itself is from Newsmax with host Greg Kelly, and involves the suggestion that wearing an earbud indicates that a person must be a government agent, and opens with the idea that one individual was “instruct[ing] someone to disable the magnetic locks” on a door.
Sharing the clip, Diamond & Silk ask whether this is proof that the whole thing was an “inside job.”
Kinzinger responds, “Let’s talk about this,” and proceeds to break down exactly how wrong and ridiculous the whole notion is.
Thread: let’s talk about this. @DiamondandSilk (omg) are implying that this man looked up to some “control room” for someone to unlock the doors with some button. So the implication is that the Capitol WANTED to be attacked and Roy here is like “hey Dave open the door”.. https://t.co/2clgdhg4Sy
— Adam Kinzinger🇺🇦🇺🇸✌️ (@AdamKinzinger) July 23, 2022
But these doors aren’t being opened by the release of a magnetic lock operated from some control room, he explains. They’re emergency doors that have to be held for several seconds to open.
3) In fact it says on the doors something like “for emergency exit hold 5 seconds for alarm to sound and doors to unlock.” Of course insurrection Roy here is amped up, doesn’t see that sign, can’t open, and then does he look up to the “control room?!?” No…
— Adam Kinzinger🇺🇦🇺🇸✌️ (@AdamKinzinger) July 23, 2022
In fact, he says, the man on camera is actually speaking to another member of the mob, asking how to open the door and getting instructions — the same instructions that are actually available on the door in front of him.
P.s. during a supposed “false flag insurrection” would the guy need to look up to the camera to get the operators attention? How would that work? Wouldn’t the operator be ready to open doors if that was the plan?? Think one layer deeper and @DiamondandSilk lose their grift.
— Adam Kinzinger🇺🇦🇺🇸✌️ (@AdamKinzinger) July 23, 2022
“Think one layer deeper,” Kinzinger advises, “And Diamond & Silk lose their grift.”
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