This extraordinary rewriting of the Jan. 6 attack is not the first revision attempted by some Republicans.
The Republican National Committee voted Friday to censure GOP Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for their participation in the committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol carried out by the supporters of then-President Donald Trump. In the process, it also attempted to reframe the events of that day as "legitimate political discourse."
Initially, many Republican lawmakers condemned the riot, which injured 150 police officers and was blamed for the deaths of nine people. In the days that followed, however, some in the party attempted to blame left-wing protesters for the chaos. When that narrative failed to take hold, Fox News host Tucker Carlson embarked on a missionProtesters clash with Capitol Police on Jan. 6, 2021.
For the RNC, the decision to censure Cheney and Kinzinger and to seek to absolve those who took part in the events of Jan. 6 mirrors the thinking of Trump, the man who was impeached for "incitement of insurrection" for his role in that chapter of American history.indicated that if he were elected to a second term, he would issue blanket pardons to those who were charged and convicted in a court of law in connection with the riot.
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