This is disgraceful. Trump and his cult are denying and warping what happened.
The dominant voice in the GOP has now embraced the Capitol rioters: https://t.co/ffN0Ut48UE
— Blake News (@blakehounshell) July 11, 2021
We are deep into evolution of pro-Trump thought from
— David Frum (@davidfrum) July 9, 2021
"January 6 was not Trump's fault"
through
"January 6 was less bad than Democrats say"
to now
"January 6 was understandable"
to soon
"January 6 was good, let's do it again."
"There was such love at that rally … the love in the air, I've never seen anything like it" — Trump has completely rewritten the history of the deadly January 6 insurrection he instigated pic.twitter.com/wpX4fvXaqT
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 11, 2021
The insurrection is being recast as a patriotic uprising; the rioters are being transformed into heroes and martyrs. This sends a clear signal to groups like the Proud Boys about the future: Stand by to fight again — because there might be a next time. https://t.co/7vv2JFTZlb
— Charlie Sykes (@SykesCharlie) July 11, 2021
TRUMP LIED repeatedly today about the January 6 insurrection. Here's my quick tally from his interview with @MariaBartiromo, who enabled these lies. He lied about his comments at the rally, the violence of the crowd, and Babbitt's death, and more. Just absolutely shameless. pic.twitter.com/StAd2Aw8bd
— Marshall Cohen (@MarshallCohen) July 11, 2021
TRUMP, in 2017, on Charlottesville:
— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) July 11, 2021
"You had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides."
TRUMP, today, on the Jan. 6 rally:
"These were peaceful people, these were great people." https://t.co/qwl8ocyi81
1. Trump is, right before our eyes, rewriting Jan. 6 into a stabbed-in-the-back narrative, with Ashli Babbitt as a Horst Wessell style martyr. And Fox, once hesitant, is now on board out of fear they're losing audience to NewsMax and OAN. https://t.co/PgWs0nobGn
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) July 11, 2021
Sad! 