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Nevilledog

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Mon Apr 5, 2021, 12:17 PM Apr 2021

Half of Republicans believe false accounts of deadly U.S. Capitol riot: Reuters/Ipsos poll



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Reuters: 3 months after MAGA mob stormed the Capitol to try to overturn his Nov. election loss, “about half of Republicans believe the siege was largely a non-violent protest or was the handiwork of left-wing activists “trying to make Trump look bad.”

Half of Republicans believe false accounts of deadly U.S. Capitol riot: Reuters/Ipsos poll
Since the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, former President Donald Trump and his Republican allies have pushed false and misleading accounts to downplay the event that left five dead...
reuters.com
4:52 AM · Apr 5, 2021


https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-politics-disinformation/half-of-republicans-believe-false-accounts-of-deadly-u-s-capitol-riot-reuters-ipsos-poll-idUSKBN2BS0RZ

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Since the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, former President Donald Trump and his Republican allies have pushed false and misleading accounts to downplay the event that left five dead and scores of others wounded. His supporters appear to have listened.

Three months after a mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol to try to overturn his November election loss, about half of Republicans believe the siege was largely a non-violent protest or was the handiwork of left-wing activists “trying to make Trump look bad,” a new Reuters/Ipsos poll has found.

Six in 10 Republicans also believe the false claim put out by Trump that November’s presidential election “was stolen” from him due to widespread voter fraud, and the same proportion of Republicans think he should run again in 2024, the March 30-31 poll showed.

Since the Capitol attack, Trump, many of his allies within the Republican Party and right-wing media personalities have publicly painted a picture of the day’s events jarringly at odds with reality.

Hundreds of Trump’s supporters, mobilized by the former president’s false claims of a stolen election, climbed walls of the Capitol building and smashed windows to gain entry while lawmakers were inside voting to certify President Joe Biden’s election victory. The rioters - many of them sporting Trump campaign gear and waving flags - also included known white supremacist groups such as the Proud Boys.

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Half of Republicans believe false accounts of deadly U.S. Capitol riot: Reuters/Ipsos poll (Original Post) Nevilledog Apr 2021 OP
Did most people who were there actually engage in physical violence ... probably not ... Hugh_Lebowski Apr 2021 #1
 

Hugh_Lebowski

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1. Did most people who were there actually engage in physical violence ... probably not ...
Mon Apr 5, 2021, 12:54 PM
Apr 2021

But that's going to be the case in the vast majority of protests that are properly labeled 'violent protests'.

It's always only a certain % of people who actually engage in violence.

Basically if anyone is violent, it's a violent protest. So, 'largely non-violent' is probably technically true by one definition, but clearly not true in the normal definition people use (or ones that these same people would use if it were the other 'side' that was involved.

But these people live in a fantasy world. As evidence by the fact that some percent actually believe the violence was perpetrated by 'enemies of Trump'. This group are seriously fucking stupid people.

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