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President Donald Trump speaks at The Ellipse near the White House on January 6, 2021, shortly before a mob of his supporters, fueled by his lies about voter fraud, attacked the US Capitol. Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images
Shortly after the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, the political right spent a lot of time parsing whether the word “insurrection” was an apt description of the day’s events.
Today, President Donald Trump’s Justice Department is apparently sanctioning its own prosecutors for calling January 6 a mere “mob of rioters.”
It’s difficult to fully convey just how brazen Trump’s efforts to rewrite the history of the day have become. He’s spent years trying to turn people who launched the worst attack on the US Capitol in two centuries into sympathetic figure
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