If the Jan. 6 Capitol Riot Had Never Happened, Trump Still Attempted a Self-Coup

In the three years since then-President Donald Trump—unable to accept he was defeated in a fair contest in which numerous investigations and Republican election officials found no significant voter fraud—incited a riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, his MAGA followers have gone through various states of grief.

First, they insisted that the rioters—who viciously beat police officers, chanted things like “Where’s Nancy?” and “Hang Mike Pence,” and ransacked the House Speaker’s office—were actually Antifa supersoldiers planting a false flag.

Later, Trump cultists adopted the line that “the protesters were right to be angry”—pointing to the ridiculous, lie-filled documentary 2,000 Mules as indisputable evidence the election was stolen by a vast deep state conspiracy (it was not).

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