Republicans Are Gaslighting The Country About The Capitol Riot

[DonViejo]

03/06/2021 05:45 am ET Updated 1 hour ago

GOP lawmakers are desperately trying to deflect blame away from Donald Trump and themselves.

By Arthur Delaney and Amanda Terkel

Sure, the attack on the Capitol was bad, but did you hear about the attack on the White House last year?

The supposed siege of the president’s residence is the latest Republican deflection from the events of Jan. 6, when a pro-Donald Trump mob stirred up by Republican lies about voter fraud ransacked the U.S. Capitol.

Some Republicans, such as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.), have admitted what actually happened.

“They stormed the Senate floor. They tried to hunt down the speaker of the House. They built a gallows and chanted about murdering the vice president,” McConnell said in February. “They did this because they had been fed wild falsehoods by the most powerful man on Earth ― because he was angry he’d lost an election.”

But others are compiling a growing list of distractions, excuses and alternate theories of the day’s events, hoping that as time passes, the public forgets what actually went on. Here are some of the ways Republicans are trying to deflect blame:

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[dlk]

1. The "G" in GOP stands for gaslighting...

[notinkansas]

2. They can try, but there is so much video

of the criminality of that mob that people will not forget. They expose themselves as fools and liars. And possibly criminally complicit.

[Irish_Dem]

3. The GOP would get away with their lies if not for all the video.