If you asked people what the worst one-year period in recent American history was, it’s a good bet that many would choose roughly between January 2020 and January 2021.
Covid and the ensuing lockdowns. The recession that followed. Civil unrest. And an historic attack on the US Capitol that shook our democracy to its core.
Nearly all of it happened on President Donald Trump’s watch. But Trump and his allies are increasingly pitching an alternate version of history, one in which this was all overseen by Joe Biden.
Trump’s social-media post late Saturday night was one of the most striking examples of this revisionism.
“THE BIDEN FBI PLACED 274 AGENTS INTO THE CROWD ON JANUARY 6,” Trump claimed. “If this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be owed big apologies.”
This is not so, for a number of reasons.
The first – which we’ve written about already – is that even Trump’s own FBI director, Kash Patel, has said these agents were dispatched after the riot be
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