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Trump doesn't recall Jan. 6 and the transition of power as well as he should [View all]
Donald Trump didn’t just lie about his Jan. 6 crowd size, he also insisted there was a peaceful transition of power after 2020. If only that were true.
Link to tweet
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-doesnt-recall-jan-6-transition-power-well-rcna165950
What’s more, as part of the same set of remarks, the former president added: “Nobody was killed on Jan. 6.” That wasn’t true, either.
But perhaps the most striking lie was Trump’s comments on the transfer of power. The Associated Press reported:
It’d be great if that were true. It wasn’t.
Not only did an insurrectionist mob, fueled by Trump’s lies and conspiracy theories, attack the Capitol two weeks before Inauguration Day, but as the defeated Republican grudgingly exited the White House — refusing to attend his successor’s swearing-in — military personnel and police officers patrolled the streets of Washington, fearing additional potential violence from Trump’s followers.
I’m reminded of remarks former Rep. Liz Cheney delivered in June 2022, as the bipartisan Jan. 6 committee began its public hearings, and the Wyoming Republican made an appeal to the public.
“Remember the men and women who have fought and died so that we can live under the rule of law, not the rule of men,” Cheney said. “I ask you to think of the scene in our Capitol rotunda on the night of Jan. 6. There, in, a sacred space in our constitutional republic, the place where our presidents lie in state, watched over by statues of Washington and Jefferson, Lincoln and Grant, Eisenhower, Ford and Reagan, against every wall that night encircling the room, there were SWAT teams, men and women in tactical gear with long guns deployed inside our Capitol building.
“There in the rotunda, these brave men and women rested beneath paintings depicting the earliest scenes of our Republic, including one painted in 1824 depicting George Washington resigning his commission, voluntarily relinquishing power, handing control of the Continental Army back to Congress. With this noble act, Washington set the indispensable example of the peaceful transfer of power. What President Reagan called, ‘nothing less than a miracle.’ The sacred obligation to defend this peaceful transfer of power has been honored by every American president — except one."
But perhaps the most striking lie was Trump’s comments on the transfer of power. The Associated Press reported:
Trump was asked about Biden’s comments in a CBS interview that he was “not confident” there would be a peaceful transfer of power if Trump were to lose. “He should have brought this up at the debate if he had a problem. Of course there’ll be a peaceful transfer, and there was last time.”
It’d be great if that were true. It wasn’t.
Not only did an insurrectionist mob, fueled by Trump’s lies and conspiracy theories, attack the Capitol two weeks before Inauguration Day, but as the defeated Republican grudgingly exited the White House — refusing to attend his successor’s swearing-in — military personnel and police officers patrolled the streets of Washington, fearing additional potential violence from Trump’s followers.
I’m reminded of remarks former Rep. Liz Cheney delivered in June 2022, as the bipartisan Jan. 6 committee began its public hearings, and the Wyoming Republican made an appeal to the public.
“Remember the men and women who have fought and died so that we can live under the rule of law, not the rule of men,” Cheney said. “I ask you to think of the scene in our Capitol rotunda on the night of Jan. 6. There, in, a sacred space in our constitutional republic, the place where our presidents lie in state, watched over by statues of Washington and Jefferson, Lincoln and Grant, Eisenhower, Ford and Reagan, against every wall that night encircling the room, there were SWAT teams, men and women in tactical gear with long guns deployed inside our Capitol building.
“There in the rotunda, these brave men and women rested beneath paintings depicting the earliest scenes of our Republic, including one painted in 1824 depicting George Washington resigning his commission, voluntarily relinquishing power, handing control of the Continental Army back to Congress. With this noble act, Washington set the indispensable example of the peaceful transfer of power. What President Reagan called, ‘nothing less than a miracle.’ The sacred obligation to defend this peaceful transfer of power has been honored by every American president — except one."