Nolte: White House Website Lays Blame for January 6 on Democrats
The column recounts the White House website’s accusations that Pelosi was responsible for security failures before January 6.

SOURCE CHECK
TAP FOR WHYBreitbart is an established, identifiable publisher, but this is an openly partisan opinion column rather than independently reported news. The piece relies heavily on claims attributed to the White House website and offers little independent verification or counterargument.
- Source type — Opinion-first partisan publisher; the article is explicitly an opinion column.
- Transparency — The publisher and named author are clearly identified.
- Author attribution — A named author is accountable for the commentary.
- Editorial standards — The article advances a strong partisan interpretation and provides limited independent sourcing.
The column identifies the White House website as the source for several claims and includes Nolte’s own view, but supplies little independent evidence, limited context, and no meaningful opposing perspective.
HOW WE SCORE ↗The column presents the administration’s accusations and Nolte’s defense of Trump, but does not include a response from Pelosi, Democrats, or other sources offering a competing account. Its language is openly polemical.
- Counterarguments presented — The article does not provide a substantive response from the people or groups it criticizes.
- Loaded language — Repeatedly uses pejorative and approving language in the author’s voice.
- Source diversity — Most factual claims are attributed to the White House website, with no independent sources presented.
The column strongly endorses the Trump administration’s account, describes Democrats as having exploited security failures, and uses approving language for Trump while disparaging Pelosi and the left.
- Language tone — Uses strongly evaluative language, including “disgraced,” “corrupt,” and “fearless.”
- Framing — Adopts the White House account as a corrective and characterizes the opposing account as a set of lies.
- Source selection — Relies primarily on the White House website’s claims and the author’s own judgment.
John Nolte describes a White House website’s account of January 6 that blames Democrats and Nancy Pelosi for security failures and disputes the characterization of the event as an insurrection. He endorses the website’s defense of President Trump’s pardons of January 6 defendants.
Nolte says the Trump administration is using the White House website to present its account of January 6 and criticize Democrats’ handling of the event. He reports that the site accuses Pelosi of failing to arrange National Guard deployment and describes her committee’s work as a partisan effort to blame Trump. The article attributes claims about Pelosi’s recorded comments and Trump’s offer of troops to the website’s account.
Nolte also says the site disputes the description of January 6 as an insurrection and blames Democrats for the election certification and subsequent prosecutions. He acknowledges that some people engaged in serious misconduct and says those who used violence should be held accountable, but argues that Trump was right to pardon the defendants.
Community verdict
VOTING CLOSEDNo good or bad look here
This story reports what happened without casting Pelosi in a good or bad light, so readers don’t rate it and it doesn’t count toward Pelosi’s record.
People in this story
SWIPE →Representative criticized by the White House website over January 6 security failures
President whose January 6 response and pardons the column defends
Trump's version of this story ↗Part of a bigger story
4 OUTLETSThe White House launched a website for the fifth anniversary of January 6 that challenges Democrats’ account and assigns them, including Nancy Pelosi, responsibility for Capitol security failures. Left-leaning outlets treat the site as a disputed account, rebutting its claims about Pelosi’s remarks and authority and challenging Trump’s claims about National Guard troops and the 2020 election. Right-leaning outlets mostly present the website as a counter to Democrats’ account and emphasize its case assigning Pelosi responsibility, with some also highlighting the video and defense of Trump’s pardons.
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