Rewriting January 6th: Republicans push false and misleading accounts of Capitol riot

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Noah Bookbinder
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A violent mob of Trump supporters, spurred on by false claims from Donald Trump that he had actually won the election and his calls for them to go to the Capitol, attacked our government on January 6. We cannot let efforts to distort these truths succeed.

Rewriting January 6th: Republicans push false and misleading accounts of Capitol riot
The efforts are aimed at muddying the clear picture of what occurred: A pro-Trump mob, mobilized by the former president’s false claims of a stolen election, stormed the seat of American government...
washingtonpost.com
7:52 AM · Mar 1, 2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/republicans-riot-false-accounts/2021/02/28/9230e3b6-784c-11eb-9537-496158cc5fd9_story.html

Instead of an attempt to overturn the election by radicalized Donald Trump supporters, it was a choreographed attack staged by antifa provocateurs. Rather than an armed insurrection, it was a good-natured protest spoiled by a few troublemakers.

And instead of a deadly event that put the lives of hundreds of lawmakers, police officers and others at risk, the riot was no big deal at all.

A legion of conservative activists, media personalities and elected officials are seeking to rewrite the story of what happened at the Capitol on Jan. 6, hoping to undermine the clear picture of the attack that has emerged from video and photo evidence, law enforcement officials, journalistic accounts and the testimonials of the rioters themselves: that a pro-Trump mob, mobilized by the former president’s false claims of a stolen election, stormed the seat of American government to keep Trump in power through violent means.

Six weeks after the attack, some are taking advantage of fading memories and unanswered questions to portray the riot in a different, more benign light. The effort comes as federal authorities begin prosecuting scores of alleged marauders, congressional committees seek to plug obvious security failures, and lawmakers consider establishing an outside commission to examine the matter.

On his top-rated Fox News Channel program last week, commentator Tucker Carlson told his audience that the attack did not constitute an “armed insurrection” and accused Democrats of a “relentless and coordinated” campaign to misrepresent the riot.

The next day, during the first public appearance of top Capitol security officials in charge during the riot at a Tuesday hearing, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) spent much of his allotted time reading a firsthand account from Jan. 6 suggesting the violence was perpetrated by a small cadre — including left-wing extremists — who were out of character in an otherwise jovial crowd.

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[niyad]

1. INSURRECTION. NOT "riot". Wapo, you are helping that effort by downplaying the reality.

[bottomofthehill]

2. This is what they do

Come up with revisionist history like the war of northern aggression or it was a war fought over states rights. The Civil War was fought because people, mostly in the south wanted to keep people enslaved.

The revisionist history will continue as long as we let the press push the narrative that there were very fine people on both sides.

[crickets]

3. Big Lie 2.0 has entered the chat. nt