Trump's latest Jan. 6 grift poses a hidden challenge to Democrats

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Greg Sargent
@ThePlumLineGS
Just vile: Trump and his allies are planning a huge propaganda blitz against the 1/6 hearings. At the highest levels of the GOP and conservative movement, it's becoming dogma that the insurrection in no way constituted a grave offense against our country:

washingtonpost.com
Opinion | Trump’s latest Jan. 6 scam poses a hidden challenge to Democrats
Why the Jan. 6 committee hearings may struggle to achieve a major breakthrough moment.
9:22 AM · Jun 3, 2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/03/trump-scam-response-jan-6-committee-hearings/

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Now that the House committee examining the Jan. 6 insurrection has announced the first of six hearings set to begin next week, former president Donald Trump and his allies are gearing up for a major media push in response. Axios describes this as a “counterprogramming” of the committee’s presentation.

That’s a polite way to say that Trump’s propagandists will flood the media zone with a rancid gush of disinformation and lies, designed to dupe GOP voters into seeing themselves as the hearings’ victims and to pollute the information environment so the media activates its worst both-sides instincts.

The stench of grift is strong here. Per Axios, GOP leaders and conservative groups will coordinate their mighty messaging across many right-wing media platforms to delegitimize the hearings. That sounds formidable, but the ruse is to project swagger at a time when Democrats will command the national spotlight with a powerful tale of Trumpian violence and treachery.

Yet this effort does point to a big challenge Democrats face with these hearings: It shows that large swaths of the GOP and conservative establishment have fundamentally invested in full-blown denial that Trump’s effort to destroy our constitutional order requires any serious national reckoning.

That, in turn, could make a meaningful breakthrough harder for these hearings to achieve.

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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Either these hearings get the attention of the SLEEPING 50-70 million of us who

still see no reason to vote, or it doesn't.

[vlyons]

2. What we need are indictments

with a judge, who orders no comments to the press or online media platforms.

[Karadeniz]

3. If the main channels carry any of their propaganda, I hope it's to explain how it's disinformation.

[agingdem]

4. Oh how I hate crap headlines like this...

Greg Sargent should know better than to give the GOP clown show any validity at all…shame on him!!!

[kentuck]

5. Except they don't yet know all the information that might come out?

It's difficult to respond to something that is not yet public.

[fightforfreedom]

6. Fuck Trump and all his traitors.

Fuck Trump voters, Fuck Fox. All their bullshit propaganda will be more proof they are guilty. Look at Navarro.

[brooklynite]

7. "across many right-wing media platforms"

All that will do is reinforce the beliefs of RWers who already support Trump. Won't change anyone else's opinion.