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It is the biggest milestone to date in their efforts to rewrite the history of January 6, 2021.
By Jess Bidgood
Halfway through Thursday night’s presidential debate, moderators asked former President Donald Trump about the Jan. 6 scenario.
Amid all the attention on President Biden’s volatile performance, it has been easy to overlook Trump’s response.
Trump took the opportunity to turn the level of debate, the largest he has enjoyed since his presidency, into the newest theater in his years-long efforts to rewrite the history of Jan. 6, 2021. And on two occasions he ignored questions about whether to settle for the effects of the upcoming election before agreeing to do so only under certain conditions.
During several exchanges with Biden and moderators Jake Tapper and CNN’s Dana Bash, Trump downplayed the most damaging attack on the Capitol since the War of 1812, falsely blamed former Speaker Nancy Pelosi for security lapses that day and defended the more than 1,000 people charged. of fatal violence.
This is the latest step in Trump’s attempt to see if his persistent lies about Jan. 6 (a swap story he tells about a day that was once aimed primarily at far-right audiences) can also win over traditional voters.
And critics of the former president argue that, as troubling as Biden’s performance would have been, Trump’s endorsement on Jan. 6 and his refusal to unconditionally accept a democratic election are worse.
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