Donald Trump goes to start out revising historical past to swimsuit himself as quickly as he takes workplace, former Rep. David Jolly (Fla.) predicted over the weekend.
“I feel one of many issues Donald Trump needs to do that time period, beginning on day one, is rewrite historical past,” Jolly, who served as a Republican in Congress however later renounced his affiliation with the GOP, told MSNBC’s Alex Witt. “We’re going to see it on COVID, having RFK Jr. there. We’re going to see it on Russia, having Tulsi Gabbard there. We’re going to see it with a variety of the prosecutions by having Kash Patel there, ought to these individuals get confirmed.”
Jolly was referring to Trump’s picks for well being secretary, nationwide intelligence director and FBI director respectively. Critics have sounded the alarm over Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vaccine skepticism, Gabbard’s sympathetic views towards Russia, and Patel’s fondness for dangerous conspiracy theories and his fixation on Trump’s supposed enemies.
“I feel we’re additionally going to see a retelling of January 6,” Jolly went on. “And the query is, does that begin along with his inauguration speech? Or is it one thing that occurs by the use of pardons? Or is it a prosecution — an tried prosecution — of Liz Cheney?”
“I do assume Donald Trump needs to rewrite historical past,” he concluded. “And to try this, he’s going to drive upon the American individuals a story that largely is unfaithful, however that he hopes, with conservative media’s affect, he can win out with.”
Trump has vowed to pardon individuals convicted for collaborating within the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol, an try and overturn the 2020 presidential election in Trump’s favor.
Though nearly all of these serving substantial prison time dedicated violent crimes, together with assaulting legislation enforcement officers, the president-elect has referred to them as “peaceable January 6 protesters” and “hostages” who had been unfairly prosecuted.
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He’s additionally made threatening comments about former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), warning that she “could possibly be in a variety of hassle” for serving on the Home panel that investigated the assault. He’s mentioned that he believes members of the panel “ought to go to jail.”
Trump has a penchant for revisionist historical past, with a sample of strolling again guarantees, deflecting blame for his failures and dubiously taking credit for successes. He pledged throughout his 2024 marketing campaign to cut back the costs of “every thing,” however has already admitted since his victory that it’s “arduous to carry issues down as soon as they’re up.”
