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Right-wing media claim evidence that January 6 violence was planned in advance exonerates Trump
We have to keep in mind that the insurrectionists did not just come out of nowhere and they did not radicalize themselves. Likewise, Trump would not have been able to do a fraction of the damage his has without a huge right wing media infrastructure that is untethered to the truth. Even in the aftermath of the attack, you still have Newsmax, OAN and Fox competing for the RW and racist demographic.
https://www.mediamatters.org/january-6-insurrection/right-wing-media-claim-evidence-january-6-violence-was-planned-advance
President Donald Trump’s defenders in right-wing media are now attempting to deny his role in inciting the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol by pointing to evidence that the violence was planned in advance.
On January 6, a pro-Trump mob attacked the Capitol in an attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Seven days later, Trump was impeached for his role in inciting the violence, becoming the only president in American history to be impeached twice.
Now, Trump’s allies in right-wing media are suggesting that his speech calling for his supporters to march on the Capitol just before the insurrection could not have incited the mob because recent reporting reveals that the attack may have been planned ahead of the rally.
This impeachment defense obscures the dangerous rhetoric Trump used during his January 6 speech, in which he told the crowd that “if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.” More broadly, it ignores the months both Trump and right-wing media spent feeding the lie that the election had been “stolen," which was also cited in his article of impeachment.
On January 6, a pro-Trump mob attacked the Capitol in an attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Seven days later, Trump was impeached for his role in inciting the violence, becoming the only president in American history to be impeached twice.
Now, Trump’s allies in right-wing media are suggesting that his speech calling for his supporters to march on the Capitol just before the insurrection could not have incited the mob because recent reporting reveals that the attack may have been planned ahead of the rally.
This impeachment defense obscures the dangerous rhetoric Trump used during his January 6 speech, in which he told the crowd that “if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.” More broadly, it ignores the months both Trump and right-wing media spent feeding the lie that the election had been “stolen," which was also cited in his article of impeachment.
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