Posted on 10/07/2021 4:40:00 PM PDT by RandFan
Fox News anchor Bret Baier described the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol carried out by supporters of former President Trump as a "dark day" for the country, one that he likened to "what we saw in 1876" amid a post-Civil War political crisis.
Baier appeared on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" on Wednesday to promote his new book on former President Ulysses S. Grant, which opens with the Jan. 6 riot in 2021.
“I was ending the book and putting all of these things together and I was covering Jan. 6 and covering all of the riot and all that was happening in real time," Baier, who anchored Fox News's coverage of the events on Capitol Hill that day, told Colbert.
"And in 1876, which was really the climax of this book, Grant as president makes a grand bargain and holds the country together as an election is contested. Louisiana, Florida, South Carolina refuse to move electors up, so he does this grand bargain with Republicans and Democrats to hold everything together."
Baier likened that post-Civil War crisis in American electoral politics to the 2020 presidential election, which he said was "another election where there were people very upset about it."
Trump and his surrogates repeatedly floated baseless conspiracies about voter fraud in the days that followed the election. Several people who participated in the rioting on Jan. 6 said Trump had "sent them" and expressed frustration with a "rigged" election.
"And that moment, that chaos, that dark day up in Washington is similar to what we saw in 1876," Baier said.
The attack on the Capitol sparked Trump's second impeachment in the U.S. House. He was later acquitted by the Senate.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers earlier this year established a congressional commission to investigate the events that led to the Jan. 6 attack, which has been widely condemned by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle.
Last month, Baier's Fox News colleague Chris Wallace told Colbert he has "purposely" kept lawmakers who have spread unfounded conspiracy theories about electoral fraud and suggested President Biden's win in 2020 was not legitimate off the Sunday news program he hosts.
"And [I] have purposefully not had them on, frankly, because I don't want to hear their crap," Wallace said.
Some leading Republican figures have attempted to distance themselves from the Jan. 6 attack or downplay its significance.
"I know the media wants to distract from the Biden administration's failed agenda by focusing on one day in January," former Vice President Mike Pence, who is seen as a potential candidate for president in 2024, said during an interview Monday on Fox News host Sean Hannity's program.
"They want to use that one day to try and demean the character and intentions of 74 million Americans who believed we could be strong again and prosperous again, and supported our administration in 2016 and 2020," he added.
FJB and all others who think they are above it all.
The provocateurs who were pictured climbing the wall at the capital should have been shot dead. Everyone else, the real Trump supporters should be criticized only for not doing anything to stop these people in their midst.
Let’s Go, Brett Baier!
Jan 6 merely indicates that there are people who don’t agree on stuff.
Bret Bair
LOL
He called Arizona for Biden 6 days before the erection.
What is this BS?!
You know what was like 1876?!
The summer of 2020 when the cities burned, stores were looted clean and the DNC sacked whole cities.
fox and fags..... he’s one of them
Huh? How old is he?
Drama Queen
Shut up Baird. Maybe his contract is due for renewal, so he’s saying things that may sound good to the Lachlan Murdoch and Paul Ryan faction of Fox News Inc.
Sounds like he’d be welcome at CNN or MSDNC. Don’t let the door hit you Bret.
Donna Brasiere wants to know what Bret really meant by the dogwhistle “Dark Day”?
How about blm and antifa murdering people and setting cities on fire? How about biden and company leaving Americans in afghanistan to die?
***Fox’s Bret Baier: Jan. 6 was a ‘dark day’ for US ‘similar to what we saw in 1876’ ****
Not hardly. The Indians won at Little Big Horn.
Want to keep your job, Brett?
Then you’ll read this statement about January 6....
January 6th 2020, the day mental health became an alarming
issue for much of the press and our nation’s leadership.
On a scale of from 1-10, these folks rate 1s and zeros.
Not to fear, they make up for it in propaganda points,
ranking from 97 to 99% pure propaganda in an attempt
to cover up their out of control treachery.
FALSE FLAG to the X.
It was as dark as Monday 27 February 1933, when the Nazis burned the Reichstag, the legislature of Germany. It was a sham fraud that was blamed on a scapegoat, for the purpose of consolidating totalitarian power in Germany. January 6th was essentially the same event, with Nancy Pelousy’s special touch of fraud.
It remains a dark day for that reason. The only question now, is whether we should mark that day or Tuesday, the 3rd of November, as the start of the Fascist takeover of the United States, and the Leftist imposed end of the Republic in America.
Sums up in one sentence why this guy is a phony and treasonous Derp State operative.
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