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Chris McGreal

Republicans try to reframe January 6 as a sightseeing tour – will it work?

Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who said he hates Trump ‘passionately’, said the January 6 attack was ‘mostly peaceful chaos’.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who said he hates Trump ‘passionately’, said the January 6 attack was ‘mostly peaceful chaos’. Photograph: Lev Radin/Pacific Press/Rex/Shutterstock

It might be thought that Republicans would prefer not to remind Americans of the day their president nearly destroyed US democracy.

But the party’s right wing is going all in to rewrite the history of the 6 January 2021 storming of the Capitol by Donald Trump’s supporters, and to make political martyrs of those imprisoned for assaulting police officers and sending politicians fleeing as the mob attempted to stop Congress from endorsing Joe Biden’s election victory.

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