As I wrote to you last night, five years on from January 6, Donald Trump is trying to rewrite the history of the insurrection.
Joyce Vance at Civil Discourse:
The new page starts with the claim that, “President Trump took decisive action to pardon January 6 defendants who were unfairly targeted, overcharged, and used as political examples. They were not protected by the leaders who failed them. They were punished to cover incompetence.” It goes on to assert that his pardons ended “years of harsh solitary confinement, denied due process, and family separation for exercising their First Amendment rights.” The website fails to acknowledge that these criminal defendants were charged by grand juries, convicted at trial, or in many cases, convicted after they pled guilty, and had full appeal rights. Trump concludes: “The Democrats masterfully reversed reality after January 6, branding peaceful patriotic protesters as ‘insurrectionists’ and framing the event as a violent coup attempt orchestrated by Trump—despite no evidence of armed rebellion or intent to overthrow the government. In truth, it was the Democrats who staged the real insurrection,” which the website says was the certification of the 2020 election that the White House describes as “fraud-ridden” and for allegedly “weaponizing federal agencies to hunt down dissenters.” The courts resoundingly rejected Trump’s claims of a stolen election, with even the Supreme Court ruling against him.
The website turns to the blame game—trying to foist off responsibility for January 6 on Nancy Pelosi and Democrats—and offers a timeline that emphasizes Trump’s call for peaceful protest. A video taken by Pelosi’s daughter is included for the stunning proposition that she accepted blame for the attack on the Capitol. It’s selectively edited video and a debunked claim, indeed, an insincere one for the man who ignored pleas for help from members of his own party and watched the chaos unfold on television when he could have put a stop to it. As Pelosi’s office put it at the time, "Numerous independent fact-checkers have confirmed again and again that Speaker Pelosi did not plan her own assassination on January 6th.” But there it is, on the White House’s official website. In a speech this morning at the House GOP retreat, held at the newly renamed “Trump Kennedy Center,” Trump, referring to the speech he gave on the Ellipse five years ago, alleged that “the news never reported the words 'walk or march peacefully and patriotically to the Capitol.’” As far as I recall, those words were widely reported, along with everything else the president said and tweeted at the time, in full context. Trump’s claim that he called for an entirely peaceful protest that day is offset by Jack Smith's recent testimony that the evidence he compiled established Trump’s complicity. “The evidence here made clear that President Trump was by a large measure the most culpable and most responsible person in this conspiracy. These crimes were committed for his benefit. The attack that happened at the Capitol, part of this case, does not happen without him. The other co-conspirators were doing this for his benefit.”
Yesterday on the Trump Regime’s White House website, it created a page full of history revisionist myths about the January 6th Insurrection to mark the event’s 5-year anniversary.
The website contains revisionist propaganda casting the domestic terrorist insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol as the “heroes” who were facing “political persecution and wrongly puts the blame on the Democrats (esp. then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi [D-CA]) for the chaos instead of insurrection-inciter Donald Trump, whose lies about the 2020 election outcome fueled this violent day.
The Insurrection-Inciter is now sadly “President” of the USA again, because he wasn’t truly held accountable for inciting the mayhem and violence he caused that day.
See Also:
NCRM: ‘Stalin-Level Propaganda’: White House Ripped for ‘Alternative’ J6 History in New Report
Democracy Docket: Trump White House’s Jan. 6 website rewrites history to celebrate failed coup
