Donald Trump’s presidential victory and smothering rhetoric have recast the events of that infamous day
FOrmer leader of the Proud Boys militia, Enrique Tarrio, arrives at Miami International Airport after he had received a presidential pardon from Donald Trump. 'That day will now be viewed through the frame of a victory: this is the vision of a world where Trump has never lost and where"J6ers” are heroic loyalists.
Many versions of the tragic event were forged and disseminated, so radically different from each other that they cannot be passed off as the product of misremembrance. By the 1970s, even the date on which Trastulli was killed had been shifted – it was said to have actually happened during street fighting after 2,000 workers were laid off.
By contrast, social media flooded with support for the rioters and some mainstream media also gave voice to alternative narratives in which those who rioted were mythologised.
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