The reinvention of the attack on the US Capitol and Democracy. A day of Love!
MYTimes -
“—-Mr. Trump will be the metal-and-glass doors where protesters, inflamed by his lie that the 2020 election had been stolen from him, stormed the Capitol with clubs, chemical irritants and other weapons. To his left, the spot where roaring rioters and outnumbered police officers fought hand to hand. To his right, where the prostrate body of a dying woman was jostled in the bloody fray.
And before him, a dozen marble steps descending to a lectern adorned with the presidential seal. The same steps where, four years earlier, Trump flags were waved above the frenzied crowd and wielded like spears; where an officer was dragged facedown to be beaten with an American flag on a pole and another was pulled into the scrum to be kicked and stomped.
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Protesters in a skirmish, one of them hitting an officer with a flagpole.
Trump supporters fought with police officers as they tried to stop the certification of President Biden’s election.Credit...Christopher Lee
In the wake of the attack on the Capitol, Mr. Trump’s volatile political career seemed over, his incendiary words before the riot rattling the leaders of his own Republican Party. Myriad factors explain his stunning resurrection, but not least of them is how effectively he and his loyalists have laundered the history of Jan. 6, turning a political nightmare into a political asset.
What began as a strained attempt to absolve Mr. Trump of responsibility for Jan. 6 gradually took hold, as his allies in Congress and the media played down the attack and redirected blame to left-wing plants, Democrats and even the government. Violent rioters — prosecuted, convicted and imprisoned — somehow became patriotic martyrs.
This inverted interpretation defied what the country had watched unfold, but it neatly fit the persecution narrative that binds Mr. Trump to many of his faithful. Once he committed to running again for president, he doubled down on flipping the script about the riot and its blowback, including a congressional inquiry and two criminal indictments against him, as part of an orchestrated victimization.
That day was an American calamity. Lawmakers huddled for safety. Vice President Mike Pence eluded a mob shouting that he should be hanged. Several people died during and after the riot, including one protester by gunshot and four police officers by suicide, and more than 140 officers were injured in a protracted melee that nearly upended what should have been the routine certification of the electoral victory of Mr. Trump’s opponent, Joseph R. Biden Jr.
But with his return to office, Mr. Trump now has the platform to further rinse and spin the Capitol attack into what he has called “a day of love.” He has vowed to pardon rioters in the first hour of his new administration, while his congressional supporters are pushing for criminal charges against those who investigated his actions on that chaotic day.
When asked about the reframing of the Capitol riot, and whether Mr. Trump accepts any responsibility for what unfolded on Jan. 6, his spokeswoman, Karoline Leavitt, instead referred in a statement to the “political losers” who tried to derail his career and asserted that “the mainstream media still refuses to report the truth about what happened that day.” She added, “The American people did not fall for the Left’s fear mongering over January 6th.”
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Replies to: The reinvention of the attack on the US Capitol and Democracy. A day of Love!
Harris certifying the election. Exciting isn’t it.
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Projecting a bit?
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Of course, the author conveniently fails to omit
That Trump twice said to make your voices peacefully heard.
That Trump tried to get the House, Senate, the City of DC and the Pentagon to utilize the National Guard because the administration and our intelligence agencies had Intel that this had been planned for weeks.
All refused.
This is precisely why all people who have logic and common sense know the mainstream media is trash.
Then why did he send a mob there instead of telling them to go home? Why did he do nothing for hours
other than watch TV after the attack started? Why did he have a “War Room”across the street from the WH in a hotel?
Yes. These are facts that don’t fit the fictional narrative that the WANT to believe.
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AgaIn, you all refuse to accept fact and truth substituting them with BS all in the face
of video and recorded evidences, courtroom delivered evidence, he himself telling all of us his crimes and abuses - he’s been convicted of felonies, forced to pay hefty fines because of his thievery and sexual abuses and you’re still out there defending and supporting him.
I don’t know if you’re a moron or just brain dead.
That's a completely separate issue
The evidence is that the people who had the power to deploy the National Guard were all given the evidence that they needed to call out the guard and all refused. I don't know why you can't understand that.
Re: Jan. 6th…do you understand the purpose of the Willard Hotel “War Room”?
I certainly do…given that the attendees included Oath Keeper and Proud Boy leaders who eventually pleaded guilty to Seditious Conspiracy.
Don’t fall for Trump’s “Big Lie”…or anything he says.
Again, they are not separate issues. They all play part in the big hoax of DJT = the BIG LIE.
The 1/6 debates are a continued red-herring. The silly minutia to distract those doing their darned to say, “ya, see, there it is, proof that every fact and truth about him is someone else’s invention, the medias’, the democrats’, the RHINOS’, the gays, the anti-Christmas people, it couldn’t be him it’s Pelosi or Schumer” - all in the torch bearing of DJT -, you’ve repeated another lie about the National Guard strung in with thousands of other pieces of nonsense and nutty conspiracies to give grease to the rails of the “ya, see, I told ya so!” crowd.
Like your post. It’s just stupid - the insurrection happened - it really did and DJT with his pals created this. Along with all the other criminality and lies of DJT, he created it was not created by those who pointed it out.
And hence, your nervous breakdown continues. You are going to
lose your night mgr. job at Subway if you don't pull it together,sweetie.
it doesn’t get dumber than you. Even for MAGA morons, you’re at the bottom of the barrel.
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