5 years in the past in the present day, a large mob of MAGA People stormed the U.S. Capitol, broke via barricades, brutally assaulted law enforcement officials, scaled partitions, broke into and vandalized the workplaces of presidency officers, and threatened the very lives of legislators, all in an try and cease the certification of votes in a free and truthful 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 USA 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 Courtroom, the former head of election cybersecurity — whom Trump fired for refusing to go together with his lie — Trump’s personal lawyer normal, his personal vp, and the Division of Justice.
And on daily basis since Jan. 6, 2021, President Donald Trump has been attempting 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 earlier than, however that was a number of months in the past, and, once more, Trump hardly ever lets even a day go by with out mendacity about Jan. 6 and mendacity in regards to the lie that impressed it. So, on this present day — the fifth anniversary of the terrorist assault Trump is instantly accountable for — we at NewsOne are offering a complete listing of the way 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 round 1,500 Jan. 6 defendants and commuted the sentences of the opposite 14. A lot of these Trump pardoned had legal data for offenses together with rape and home 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 in every of them was killed by an officer whereas resisting arrest only one week after Trump issued his sweeping pardons.
However 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
Similar to the president’s pardon of Jan. 6 convicts served as a symbolic pardon of himself, his earlier suggestion that these he pardoned could be owed restitution was additionally about presenting Jan. 6 as something aside from the Trump-inspired terrorist assault that it was.
“A whole lot of the folks which are within the authorities now discuss it as a result of a whole lot of the folks in authorities actually like that group of individuals,” Trump stated, referencing Jan. 6 rioters throughout an look on NewsMax again in March. Throughout 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 are able to all see what’s on our screens.
Anyway, shifting proper alongside…
One way or the other, Jan. 6 was Biden’s fault
I introduced this one up lately, throughout our two-part collection, chronicling the dumbest moments of 2025. Nonetheless, it’s value reminding America that, only a few months in the past in October, our sitting president seemingly forgot who was nonetheless the sitting president on Jan. 6, 2021. That is the one conceivable motive I can consider for why he was out right here claiming “the Biden FBI” was despatched to the U.S. Capitol, presumably to stage the riot, or — you recognize — the act of protesting “peacefully and patriotically.”
Truly, there’s one more reason 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 perhaps the rationale Trump can seamlessly go from claiming there was no riot to claiming there was a riot, but it surely was one way or the other staged by his future presidential successor, is that he and his supporters are only a gaggle of idiots, dwelling in a bubble of buffoonery.
Trump continues to be mendacity in regards to the 2020 election being rigged
Months earlier than Trump desecrated what was meant to function a “dwelling memorial” to assassinated President John F. Kennedy by tacking his identify onto the John F. Kennedy Middle for the Performing Arts, Trump paid a go to to the middle in Could and stated this:
“After which they rigged the election, after which I stated, ‘You realize 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. Are you able to consider that?”
Once more, neither Trump nor his authorized group ever offered a single shred of tangible proof that the 2020 election was rigged, regardless of his many guarantees 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 stated he had “many various papers” to substantiate his claims. He was nonetheless singing the identical tune as lately as final month, when he stated, “It was a rigged election. It’s gonna come out over the following couple months too, loud and clear. As a result of we’ve got all the knowledge.”
Hell, Trump had a complete discipline day along with his election fraud propaganda in August.
From PBS:
Trump despatched a fundraising enchantment in August that stated his victory wanted to be “TOO BIG TO RIG” by the Democrats.
He works comparable speaking factors into rallies and interviews.
“We have now to vote and we’ve got to make it possible for we cease them from dishonest, as a result of they cheat like canine,” Trump stated Aug. 3 in Atlanta.
“Look ahead to the voter fraud, as a result of we win with out voter fraud, we win so simply,” he stated Sept. 6 to the Fraternal Order of Police.
“Anytime you may have a mail-in poll, there’s going to be large fraud,” he advised Dr. Phil McGraw on Aug. 27.
Trump vowed “long-term jail sentences” for election “cheaters.” At a Sept. 13 rally in Las Vegas, he stated, “We have now a very good lead, however we’ve received to watch out as a result of bear in mind, they cheat like hell.”
Trump summarized his issues into one rant in an interview with conservative radio host Wayne Allyn Root: “We have now a rigged election. We have now unhealthy borders, we’ve got very unhealthy elections. We have now a foul voting system. We have now 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. That is about Trump attempting to take management of his legacy by divorcing it from actuality.
On that notice, I’ll depart you with what I wrote the primary time I wrote about Trump attempting to rewrite Jan. 6:
“Trump can’t have historical past remembering him because the bumbling commander-in-chief who responded to dropping 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 and forcefully overturn a authorized and truthful election. A president like that would definitely be remembered by goal historians as one in every of America’s worst, not greatest.”
SEE ALSO:
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