An attempt to ‘airbrush’ Capitol riots

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Since the Capitol Riots on January 6, 2021, there has been an active attempt by the Trump administration to put a lid on them, professor of US and International Politics at the UCD Clinton Institute Scott Lucas says.  #Trump #January6th

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00:00I just want to ask for your thoughts.

00:01Do you think there is an attempt—and I'm wondering if he's getting at the pardons

00:04here, but I'd like to get your thoughts—an attempt to airbrush what happened on that

00:08day from U.S. history?

00:11The attempt to airbrush January 6th, 2021 started on January 6th, 2021.

00:20That very same day, Donald Trump, having done nothing for hours, having allowed his supporters

00:27to rampage through the Capitol and issue their threats, when he finally was pushed

00:33by advisers to make a video statement, he called them patriots.

00:39He would later call this a day of love.

00:42That is an airbrushing.

00:43In fact, it's an inversion of what happened, where violence actually became some type of

00:49affection for country, where the threats to execute, in some ways, were expressions of

00:56admiration.

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