On the fifth anniversary of the Capitol attack, the White House publishes a website saying it didn't happen.

There is a video. There has always been a video. There are thousands of videos. There is footage shot by Capitol Police body cameras, by network cameras, by C-SPAN cameras, by cell phones held by the people who broke the windows. There are sworn affidavits. There are court rulings. There are convictions. There are funerals.

On January 6, 2026, the official website of the executive branch of the United States government published a page saying it did not happen.

The page calls the day infamous, yes. It calls the riot at the Capitol peaceful protest. It says zero law enforcement officers lost their lives. It blames the police. It blames the previous Speaker of the House. It says there was no evidence of armed rebellion.

Hon. Officer Brian Sicknick died from strokes the day after he was assaulted defending the Capitol. His family is on the public record. Three other officers who responded that day later took their own lives. The Capitol Police union has, every year for five years, held a memorial. Their dead are real. The website says they are not.

This is not a debate about politics. This is a debate about whether the federal government can be trusted to publish a true sentence about a thing that happened five years ago.

You ever notice how the people who say I never lie are also the ones who, every fifteen seconds, can’t get the simple stuff straight. Like whether somebody died. The kind of fact that the family checks first thing in the morning to make sure the sentence about the loved one still says the loved one was real.

The page also names former House Speaker Pelosi as instigator of the violence. There is zero documentary support for this. Multiple congressional reports, including the bipartisan one with sworn testimony, attribute the day to the rally that preceded it, the speech that preceded the rally, and the man who gave the speech.

Five years on, with the building rebuilt, with the rioters pardoned, with the survivors mostly retired, the official answer of the United States government to what happened on January 6, 2021 is a webpage saying nothing happened. Mrs. Pennington had a chart for that, too, she called it gaslighting, she said it was when somebody tells you the room is dark with the lights on.

That ought to concern you.