How Pro-Trump Forces Pushed a Lie About Antifa at the Capitol Riot
On social media, on cable networks and even in the halls of Congress, supporters of Donald J. Trump tried to rewrite history in real time, pushing the fiction that left-wing agitators were to blame for the violence on Jan. 6.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/01/us/politics/antifa-conspiracy-capitol-riot.html?
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After a meandering speech at CPAC, the former president’s first public address since leaving office, Trump called into the safe space of Fox News Sunday night to sound off on the Jan. 6 rally that incited a crowd of his supporters to storm the Capitol, resulting in five deaths and millions of dollars in property damage.
“Do you get how bad it was, and is there anything looking back on it now that you would have done differently that day?” host Steve Hilton asked Trump.
Without answering the question, Trump boasted about the size of the crowd.
“It was tremendous numbers of people, not the Capitol, I’m talking about the rally itself. It was a love fest. It was a beautiful thing,” Trump said.
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