Republicans Don’t Want to Talk About Jan. 6. Trump Can’t Help Himself.

The New York Times ^ | Sept. 14, 2024, 5:03 a.m. ET | Charles Homans, Alan Feuer

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Donald J. Trump has made his revisionist account of the Capitol attack the foundation of this campaign, even when there is little political advantage.

When a moderator asked Donald J. Trump about Jan. 6, 2021, at the presidential debate, the former president slipped immediately into a now-familiar revisionist history of the attack on the U.S. Capitol.

He falsely claimed that he had nothing to do with the assault, blaming it on former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the police officers who protected the building that day against a mob of his supporters.

But then Mr. Trump made a brief but telling remark: He used the pronoun “we” to describe some of the rioters, grammatically placing himself among those who have been charged with storming into the Capitol.

“We didn’t do —” Mr. Trump started to say before he began again: “This group of people that have been treated so badly.”

It was a fleeting moment, but one that captured Mr. Trump’s reluctance to part ways with the final explosive act of his presidency, even in a general election in which it offers little political upside.

For years, Mr. Trump has helped craft an alternate history of that day, one in which the violent attack was a “love fest,” the jailed rioters were “hostages” and their prosecution was a part of a larger story of persecution — of both Mr. Trump and his supporters — that has been at the core of his argument for a return to the presidency.

But as he courts voters beyond his loyal base ahead of the November election, he and his campaign have engaged in an awkward push and pull over how closely to associate with the riot’s legacy. A recording of jailed Jan. 6 defendants singing the...

[Jacquerie]

The dirtbag Christopher Wray still hasn’t come clean on how many agents, provocateurs, contractors, enablers and embeds the government employed to stir things up on J6.

I’m as disgusted with Congress for not confronting the multitude of crimes committed by rats as I am with the government itself.

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

Republicans talk about Jan 6 all the time. The NYT just doesn’t understand the meaning of “Fedsurrection,” so they don’t understand the discussion.

[faithhopecharity]

indeed
calling our current regime a Banana Republic does a great disservice to both Bananas and Republics

[ransomnote]

Gosh, let’s just forget the Biden regime arrested lawful protesters and threw them in a gulag, prosecuted them to bizarre extremes just for attending. No wonder the Rhinos want to forget that.

[GrumpyOldGuy]

No.

[Ge0ffrey]

It wasn’t an insurrection!

[rktman]

Somebody needs to FC the times and their 🐂💨💩

[JimRed]

Cose to half the country’s citizens are unaware that those who initiated the violence, many before the conclusion of President Trump’s rally speech, were ANTIFA and Occupy infiltrators dressed in Trump gear, along with three-letter government agency employees.

That word has to get out.

[clearcarbon]

"Republicans Don’t Want to Talk About Jan. 6. Trump Can’t Help Himself."

Sure they do. The topics about lawfare, free speech, and political prisoners come up often.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Republicans would LOVE to have an honest conversation about J6 and the Soviet-style two-tiered injustice inflicted on all those people in prison for doing nothing wrong.

[JimRed]

Cose to half...

CLOSE to half, of course.

[mbrfl]

The left can continue believing J6 is a winning issue for them and a losing issue for Republicans. They do so at their own peril.

[poinq]

Jan 6 was a scam on the American people. People should go to jail for life because of what they did to some people. The FBI should be dismantled. A huge travesty of justice.

[Tom in Seattle]

As much as I agree with him, Trump needs to stop talking about Jan 6th. His standard answer when asked about Jan 6th should be, “Next question.”

[cowboyusa]

They would have kept on him, it was a np win sinsrio.

[Rdct29]

Imagine the New York Shit Stain accusing Trump of revisionist history. They are such a joke. They will be crying like babies when they realize most people don't believe Nancy Piglosi and the other rats on the J6 committee. Insurrection my ass. What a joke.

[Skwor]

Care to elaborate on why my belief the NYT is a garbage publication?

What exactly is your point saying that I, who believes the New York Times article is garbage. am somehow the same as the NYT?