Posted on 04/21/2023 5:20:26 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (AP) — The song is simple and tinny, but that hasn’t stopped it from being embraced by former President Donald Trump and his allies in their campaign to rewrite the history of the deadly Capitol riot.
The tune, “Justice for All,” is the Star-Spangled Banner, and it was sung by a group of defendants jailed over their alleged roles in the January 2021 insurrection. Recorded over a prison phone line, the national anthem sounds more like a dirge than celebration and is overlaid with Trump reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.
Despite its low fidelity, “Justice for All” has garnered a lot of fans. Trump, a Republican, played it at a recent rally in Waco, Texas, as images of Capitol rioters flashed behind him on a big screen, and the $1.29 song last month briefly vaulted to No. 1 on iTunes, supplanting such recording artists as Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift.
Experts on extremism and propaganda say the song is another example of how Trump and his most ardent allies are trying to gloss over an avalanche of evidence proving the Capitol riot was anything but an act of patriotic resistance.
And it shows how such revisionists have dug deep into authoritarian playbooks that rely heavily on the use of national identity to sway public opinion. In this case, Trump and his allies are ironically relying on America’s most patriotic song in their efforts to whitewash an insurrection that contributed to five deaths and left more than 120 police offices injured, experts said.
“We should not be surprised that this propaganda is effective, but it is shocking to see this in this country,” said Federico Finchelstein, chair of the history department at the New School for Social Research in New York, an expert in authoritarian disinformation.
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Texas wasn’t a battleground state... the cheats wouldn’t target it.
obviously.
Was Georgia?
2020 General Election Risk-Limiting Audit
Wisconsin?
Wisconsin audit finds 2020 election was secure
Arizona?
Arizona election audit: Final report finds no Maricopa County data issues
Which battleground states that didn't have an audit were you thinking of?
That was played just before Trump’s speech at the rally I attended last month. It’s not “tinny” and it was received quite enthusiastically.
Thread on elections
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1648462770936115202.html
2020 wasn’t the only election jizzed
There are reports that all voter rolls are in China
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