TFG loyalists push Jan. 6 fictions, but reality intrudes
WASHINGTON — Evidence of how contentious last year’s Jan. 6 riot remains in the public imagination could be found in a cramped room on the fifth floor of the Cannon House Office Building on Thursday afternoon.
For nearly an hour, reporters, photographers and conspicuously unmasked Republican aides all listened as Reps. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., and Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., two of former President Donald Trump’s closest supporters in the House, peddled unfounded conspiracy theories about the alleged involvement of federal law enforcement agencies in the violent attempt by pro-Trump rioters to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s victory.
The “fedsurrection,” as Gaetz has taken to calling it, implicated the FBI and those at the Justice Department supposedly set on covering it up. “They don’t answer the questions that can get to the truth,” Gaetz charged of the DOJ, which, in an unrelated matter, is investigating him in a sex trafficking scheme. Testimony from arrested rioters and evidence released by the House select committee investigating the riot have failed to convince many Republicans that Trump and his supporters were responsible for the attack or that it was even especially grave; 36 percent of Republicans say that the attack on the Capitol, which left five people dead, was “mostly peaceful,” despite ample evidence to the contrary.
A few Republicans have spoken up on behalf of reality, only to be knocked down for doing so. The day before the anniversary, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, whose objections to ratifying Biden’s win amplified what would have been that day’s routine proceedings, called last year’s riot a “terrorist attack.” That earned him a swift rebuke from Trumpists like Tucker Carlson, who has been sowing doubt about Jan. 6 on his nightly Fox News show.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-loyalists-push-january-6-fictions-but-reality-intrudes-230818880.html
Go chug-a-lug another fifth of booze and shut the fuck up Gaetz.
