Five years ago today, a large mob of MAGA Americans stormed the U.S. Capitol, broke by barricades, brutally assaulted law enforcement officials, scaled partitions, broke into and vandalized the places of work of presidency officers, and threatened the very lives of legislators, all in an try to cease the certification of votes in a free and honest election that their messiah misplaced. These home terrorists dedicated these offenses as a result of they took at face worth round the clock propaganda unfold by the president of the United States a couple of rigged election, who offered zero proof to substantiate his claims, which had been denied, debunked and denounced by dozens of judges throughout decrease courts, appellate courts and the Supreme Court, the former head of election cybersecurity — whom Trump fired for refusing to associate with his lie — Trump’s personal attorney general, his personal vice president, and the Department of Justice.
And day-after-day since Jan. 6, 2021, President Donald Trump has been making an attempt his hardest to rewrite and redefine the assault itself in addition to his bid to undermine democracy, which demonstrably led to it. Trump’s many makes an attempt to reframe the occasions of Jan. 6 are one thing I’ve written about before, however that was a number of months in the past, and, once more, Trump not often lets even a day go by with out mendacity about Jan. 6 and mendacity concerning the lie that impressed it. So, on this present day — the fifth anniversary of the terrorist assault Trump is instantly chargeable for — we at InformationOne are offering a complete listing of how Trump has backed his revisionist historical past concerning Jan. 6 because the begin of his second time period.
Let’s get into it, lets?
Trump pardoned all Jan. 6 offenders on day 1
On Jan. 20 of this 12 months, simply hours after he was sworn in for his second time period, Trump pardoned around 1,500 Jan. 6 defendants and commuted the sentences of the opposite 14. Many of these Trump pardoned had prison information for offenses including rape and domestic violence; dozens of them have been rearrested for alleged crimes associated and unrelated to Jan. 6 since they had been legally absolved by the president, and one of them was killed by an officer whereas resisting arrest only one week after Trump issued his sweeping pardons.
But my level isn’t even that Trump blindly pardoned people who find themselves and proceed to be risks to society. As I wrote beforehand, “he didn’t free the Jan. 6 prisoners for his or her profit, he freed them as a result of their freedom, in his thoughts, legitimizes what they did and, by extension, what he did.”
Trump contemplated paying reparations to Jan. 6 convicts
Just just like the president’s pardon of Jan. 6 convicts served as a symbolic pardon of himself, his earlier suggestion that these he pardoned may be owed restitution was additionally about presenting Jan. 6 as something apart from the Trump-inspired terrorist assault that it was.
“Loads of the individuals which might be within the authorities now speak about it as a result of a variety of the individuals in authorities actually like that group of individuals,” Trump said, referencing Jan. 6 rioters throughout an look on NewsMax again in March. During the interview, he floated the concept of making a “compensation fund” for the individuals who tried to violently overthrow the federal government to maintain their wannabe dictator in workplace, or as Trump described it, they protested “peacefully and patriotically.”
I’m unsure if it’s cognitive decline, delusion, or simply his nature as a compulsive liar, but it surely’s virtually as if Trump is totally unaware that we will all see what’s on our screens.
Anyway, transferring proper alongside…
Somehow, Jan. 6 was Biden’s fault
I introduced this one up not too long ago, throughout our two-part series, chronicling the dumbest moments of 2025. Still, it’s price reminding America that, just some months in the past in October, our sitting president seemingly forgot who was nonetheless the sitting president on Jan. 6, 2021. This is the one conceivable motive I can consider for why he was out right here claiming “the Biden FBI” was sent to the U.S. Capitol, presumably to stage the riot, or — you understand — the act of protesting “peacefully and patriotically.”
Actually, there’s another excuse Trump might need conveniently forgotten that President Joe Biden wasn’t inaugurated till Jan. 20 of 2021, and pivoted to bolstering his supporters’ conspiracy theories concerning the feds infiltrating the Jan. 6 crowd and inflicting the riot: he is aware of his supporters are silly and can settle for his revisionist historical past with out bothering to make a remark of how inaugurations, transfers of energy and calendars work.
Or possibly the explanation Trump can seamlessly go from claiming there was no riot to claiming there was a riot, but it surely was by some means staged by his future presidential successor, is that he and his supporters are only a gaggle of idiots, residing in a bubble of buffoonery.
Trump continues to be mendacity concerning the 2020 election being rigged
Months earlier than Trump desecrated what was meant to function a “residing memorial” to assassinated President John F. Kennedy by tacking his title onto the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Trump paid a go to to the middle in May and said this:
“And then they rigged the election, after which I mentioned, ‘You know what I’ll do? I’ll run once more and I’ll shove it up their ass. So if they might’ve left us alone, and wouldn’t have cheated on the election, and wouldn’t have rigged it, I might’ve been retired proper now. I might’ve been fortunately doing one thing else. And as an alternative, they’ve me for 4 extra years. Can you imagine that?”
Again, neither Trump nor his authorized workforce ever offered a single shred of tangible proof that the 2020 election was rigged, regardless of his many promises to, in some unspecified time in the future in time, present “irrefutable” and “conclusive” proof, together with simply earlier than Election Day 2024, when he said he had “many various papers” to substantiate his claims. He was nonetheless singing the identical tune as not too long ago as final month, when he mentioned, “It was a rigged election. It’s gonna come out over the subsequent couple months too, loud and clear. Because we’ve all the knowledge.”
Hell, Trump had a complete discipline day together with his election fraud propaganda in August.
From PBS:
Trump despatched a fundraising attraction in August that mentioned his victory wanted to be “TOO BIG TO RIG” by the Democrats.
He works comparable speaking factors into rallies and interviews.
“We should vote and we’ve to guarantee that we cease them from dishonest, as a result of they cheat like canine,” Trump said Aug. 3 in Atlanta.
“Watch for the voter fraud, as a result of we win with out voter fraud, we win so simply,” he mentioned Sept. 6 to the Fraternal Order of Police.
“Anytime you’ve got a mail-in poll, there’s going to be large fraud,” he instructed Dr. Phil McGraw on Aug. 27.
Trump vowed “long-term prison sentences” for election “cheaters.” At a Sept. 13 rally in Las Vegas, he mentioned, “We have a very good lead, however we’ve acquired to watch out as a result of bear in mind, they cheat like hell.”
Trump summarized his considerations into one rant in an interview with conservative radio host Wayne Allyn Root: “We have a rigged election. We have unhealthy borders, we’ve very unhealthy elections. We have a nasty voting system. We have mail-in ballots.”
Trump persistently demonstrates his perception that if he repeats a lie typically sufficient, it turns into fact, however that is about extra than simply that. This is about Trump making an attempt to take management of his legacy by divorcing it from actuality.
On that observe, I’ll go away you with what I wrote the primary time I wrote about Trump making an attempt to rewrite Jan. 6:
“Trump can’t have historical past remembering him because the bumbling commander-in-chief who responded to shedding an election by launching a propaganda marketing campaign that finally impressed criminals to assault the U.S. Capitol, bodily assault law enforcement officials, and try to forcefully overturn a authorized and honest election. A president like that would definitely be remembered by goal historians as one in all America’s worst, not finest.”
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