Show me proof and I'll change my mind on Jan. 6 insurrection

I rarely buy into conspiracy theories. Until recently, I didn’t believe that there was evidence to prove that the 2020 presidential election was riddled with voter fraud and election interference but when real, indisputable evidence is presented, I have to be willing to admit I am wrong and recant earlier incorrect assumptions.

“The Justice Department,” according to The Week, ABC News and other sources “confirmed it was investigating fake certificates containing slates of pro-Trump electors that were sent from seven swing states won by Joe Biden falsely indicating Trump won where he did not. Multiple sources have traced certificates signed by Republican state officials back to recruitment efforts spearheaded by Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani.” John Eastman, another Trump lawyer, “pressured Mike Pence to use the certificates to halt the electoral count.” Fourteen different people signed the certificates from seven different states some of them were not even electors. All of the documents are fraudulent and being investigated. This is an obvious conspiracy traced back to the White House.

In the 770 pages of internal Trump administration documents, many which were torn up, a draft was discovered of an executive order calling the National Guard to seize voting machines based on false claims of election interference.

I am willing to change my belief that the January 6 insurrection was caused by a bunch of lunatic right-wing radicals to a belief that the FBI and Antifa were the majority of people in the crowd causing the violence just as soon as real evidence is provided for that. Until then I will believe the Oath Keepers, Proud Boys and groups like them were incited by Trump’s “fight like hell” cheer. Show me real proof of anything other than that from the Justice Department and I will reconsider my view.

BETTY GARDNER

Priest River