Latest Jan 6 Revisionism by the GOP, An Epic Failure

Latest shot at Jan. 6 revisionism by MTG and Senator Mike Lee of Utah, GOP fails in epic way

It appears the Repug conservatives are now in the second stage of their Jan. 6 misinformation campaign, under new House Speaker Mike Johnson.

And they’re stumbling out of the starting blocks.

the first stage occurred under then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who handed thousands of hours of Jan. 6 security footage to then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson. That effort failed to stir the pro-insurrectionist sympathy that the GOP seems to be after.

Republicans took another stab at it over the weekend, with Johnson announcing Friday that he will publicly release more than 40,000 hours of Jan. 6 footage. Two Republicans — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Sen. Mike Lee of Utah — then took to social media to push false claims that one of the rioters was an FBI agent in disguise.

Lee reshared a post on X from a convicted Jan. 6 rioter, who was spreading a debunked conspiracy theory that another rioter had been seen flashing an FBI badge at the Capitol.

“I can’t wait to ask FBI Director Christopher Wray about this at our next oversight hearing,” Lee wrote on X. “I predict that, as always, his answers will be 97% information-free."

Greene shared the screen grab, too — and took the performative outrage even further, calling on the new House speaker to create another Jan. 6 committee and saying that criminal prosecutions “MUST happen under a Trump DOJ.”

In her original post, Greene conveniently claimed “That’s a law enforcement badge in his hand while disguised as a Trump supporter in a MAGA hat,”

 

Netizens have noted that the rioter in question, Kevin Lyons, appears to have been carrying a vaping device, not a badge.

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So this wasn’t some government plant. He was a self-identified numbskull who rode a wave of MAGA fury to prison.

While Greene had to edit her original post. Senator Mike Lee has failed to apologize for recently tweeting a thoroughly debunked Jan. 6 conspiracy theory.