The brazen, mind-boggling Republican revisionism regarding Jan. 6? It never ends

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https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-01-05/trump-gop-allies-lie-about-jan-6-anniversary

The brazen, mind-boggling Republican revisionism regarding Jan. 6? It never ends
By Robin Abcarian
Jan. 5, 2022 3:05 AM PT

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And yet, the noxious gases had barely dissipated, the broken glass barely swept away when Republican revisionism began: Yes, a handful of people died and dozens of law enforcement officers were seriously injured in hand-to-hand combat described as “medieval,” but it wasn’t Trump’s fault. Maybe the rioters weren’t even pro-Trump.

“Republicans do not join protest mobs,” opined Rush Limbaugh the next day. “They do not loot and they don’t riot. ... But a tiny minority of these protesters, and undoubtedly including some antifa Democrat-sponsored instigators, did decide to go to the Capitol to protest.”

Before the month was out, McCarthy had slouched his way to Mar-a-Lago to regain the good graces of his lord and master. By October, McCarthy was actively trying to undermine the work of the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack, threatening to punish telecommunication companies who comply with the committee’s request to preserve phone records of a group of Republican members of Congress involved with the Trump rally that preceded the attacks.

Like so many who have wriggled under Trump’s thumb, former Vice President Mike Pence, whose life was in actual jeopardy on Jan. 6 because he refused to cheat for Trump, has decided his integrity is dispensable after all:

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