Harry Dunn, former Capitol Police officer Blaze News is investigating over his Jan. 6 claims, is running for Congress

Harry Dunn, the former Capitol Police officer Blaze News is investigating over his Jan. 6 claims, announced Friday that he's running for Congress.

What are the details?

Dunn is running as a Democrat for Maryland’s 3rd Congressional District seat, NBC News reported. The news network added that Dunn is joining a "crowded" primary field looking to replace retiring Democrat U.S. Rep. John Sarbanes.

Dunn on Friday posted the following campaign video to YouTube:

"On January 6th, I defended our democracy from insurrectionists as a Capitol Police Officer. Afterwards, President Biden honored me with the Presidential Citizens Medal. Today, I’m running for Congress to stop Trump's MAGA extremists & ensure it never happens again," Dunn said in the video's description.

“I do believe that we’re literally one election cycle away from the extinction of our democracy," Dunn added in a Thursday phone interview with NBC News ahead of his campaign announcement.

The news network noted that the winner of the Democratic primary for Maryland’s 3rd Congressional District seat would would be favored to win in November. Sarbanes won a ninth term in 2022 by 20 percentage points, NBC News reported, adding that President Joe Biden won the district by 26 points in 2020. The news network cited Daily Kos Elections calculations in its report.

While Dunn doesn't live in the 3rd District, he told NBC News he'd move there if he's elected. Dunn pointed to abortion, gun control, mental health, and crime as his campaign focal points, the news network reported.

"I believe at this moment I am the best person for this job because I physically — I spent the last 15 years of my life defending democracy," Dunn — who retired from the Capitol Police force Dec. 17 — told NBC News.

“My platform is democracy,” Dunn added to the news network.

Blaze News is continuing to investigate Dunn

As Dunn launches his congressional campaign, Blaze News' investigative journalist Steve Baker said Friday he's continuing to probe Dunn's claims about Jan. 6 and related issues:

The first thing everyone needs to know about our series on former USCP Officer Harry Dunn is that we are nowhere near finished. We’ve already shown that his N-word claims on J6 — which made him a media darling — didn’t happen. We’ve revealed the 180-degree turnabout between the two FBI interviews he gave about his interaction with four Oath Keepers that day. We’ve shown — irrefutably from the video evidence — that both Dunn and Special Agent David Lazarus not only contradicted each other in court testimony, but neither of the two told the truth under oath because what they each claimed took place couldn't have happened.

We’ve shown Dunn’s anger issues and his behaviors at the Capitol on J6 that caused higher-ranking officers to intervene. (More of that to come.) Only a week before Christmas, we revealed the identity of the person who wrote and distributed an anonymous, politically partisan letter on Capitol Police letterhead, with the cooperation of Rep. Jamie Raskin and members of the Capitol press pool. Then, the subsequent cover-up of the identity of the author and the suppression of his disciplinary report that followed. That author was none other than Officer Harry Dunn, and the cover-up goes straight to the top of Capitol Police leadership.

Unfortunately for now-Congressional candidate Dunn and those who have engaged in the cover-up of his many hidden indiscretions — on and off duty — our series on ‘A Day in the Life of Harry Dunn’ has only just begun.

Baker's first Jan. 6 analysis was published in October 2023, following countless hours in a House subcommittee office looking at frame after frame of Jan. 6 closed-circuit video — and it had him wondering: Did the security chief for then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi perjure himself in the Oath Keepers trial?

Soon after, the slow pace of getting an unrestricted look at everything recorded on video prompted Blaze Media editor in chief Matthew Peterson's appeal to House Speaker Mike Johnson to release all the videos. On Nov. 17, 2023, Johnson did just that.

Baker's investigative efforts also resulted in two additional analyses, both focusing on Dunn: "January 6 and the N-word that wasn't" and "Harry Dunn's account of January 6 does not add up. At all."

Meanwhile, Baker revealed last month that the U.S. Department of Justice will be charging him for the reporting he carried out on Jan. 6, 2021. Baker said he was originally told he had to self-surrender Dec. 19 but soon got a notice from the FBI that the date was postponed until after Christmas. Baker on Friday told Blaze News it looks like his self-surrender date will be in mid-January, but he said his attorneys are working to move it to early February in order to accommodate his travel and work schedule.

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