What they said then vs. what they say now about January 6th

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Charlie Sykes
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As the GOP and its right-wing media chorus ret-con 1/6, here’s the historical record.

What they said then vs. what they say now.

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What They Said Then
A flashback to January 6
morningshots.thebulwark.com
7:50 AM · Jan 5, 2022

https://morningshots.thebulwark.com/p/what-they-said-then

No, Donald Trump will not be holding a press conference on the one-year anniversary of his January 6 Insurrection. But the historical revisionism and truth-mauling will, of course, continue, as the GOP desperately tries to memory-hole what happened a year ago.

Trump’s presidency ended in disgrace and disarray. Aides and cabinet members resigned. In the 24 hours after the Insurrection, he was abandoned by one ally after another. As Mona Charen writes in today’s Bulwark, “January 6th should have been the point of no return, the pivot point at which even the most blinkered sugarcoaters of Trumpism recoiled in disgust from what they had wrought.”

But it wasn’t. Instead we were subjected to a parade of mind-bending rationalizations, reversals, silence, and surrenders. The GOP and its media allies continue to dodge, deflect, and minimize the enormity of the event; and they have convinced much of their base to either look the other way, or actually applaud the assault on our seat of government.

Still, it’s worthwhile, I think, to recall what they said at the time. So, before the GOP and its right-wing media chorus ret-con 1/6, here’s the historical record. Feel free to bookmark, print out, and share.

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