Trump is rewriting the narrative around the Capitol siege
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06 Jan 2026, 5:17 pm
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Five years after he and his allies tried and failed to overturn the results of the 2020 election, President Donald Trump is using his time back in the White House to take a series of actions aimed at erasing or rewriting the Jan. 6, 2021, siege on the U.S. Capitol, with more likely to come.
Trump mass pardoned Jan. 6 rioters on his first day back in office. Justice Department officials and FBI agents involved in the massive investigation and prosecution were fired. Dozens of other supporters involved in efforts to overturn the election results have been pre-emptively pardoned.
A former Jan. 6 prosecutor said Trump’s actions — and the growing embrace of them by a broader swath of Americans — were “maddening.”
“I spoke with dozens and dozens of people who were there that day and who are still dealing with the trauma,” said the prosecutor, who was not authorized to speak publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. “It makes you feel crazy because you know what happened that day, but there is the chief executive nodding positively along to this narrative that they are trying to build.”
On the anniversary Tuesday, as pro-Trump demonstrators gathered near the Capitol, the White House launched a page on its official website dedicated to Trump’s narrative, claiming the protesters were peaceful in 2021 and it was the police response that escalated tensions. A timeline reads: “Stolen Election Certified,” and restated claims that former Vice President Mike Pence was trying to sabotage Trump when he refused to stop the certification of electoral votes.
On X, the former vice president said it was a "tragic day," but that it “became a triumph of freedom when, after Capitol Police quelled the violence, leaders in both chambers in both political parties reconvened the very same day and finished democracy’s work under the Constitution.”
White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said on Monday that it was the media that was still focused on the Capitol siege.
“The media’s continued obsession with January 6 is one of the many reasons trust in the press is at historic lows — they aren’t covering issues that the American people actually care about,” she said in a statement. “President Trump was resoundingly reelected to enact an agenda based on securing the border, driving down crime, and restarting our economy — the president is delivering.”
A federally funded compensation fund for Jan. 6 rioters was under discussion, Trump has said, “because a lot of the people in government really like that group of people.”
His administration has already paid nearly $5 million to the family of Ashli Babbitt, who was carrying a knife and was killed trying to jump through a broken window to the House Speaker’s Lobby.
Barry Silbermann, an attorney who represents some Jan. 6 defendants, said he has been in communication with the Justice Department about his clients’ claims under the Federal Tort Claims Act.
“President Trump has expressed willingness, but that has to translate into allocation of funds,” Silbermann said. “They had their lives unilaterally destroyed unfairly by a deep state within the Department of Justice that needs to be rectified.”
Some Republican senators are similarly threatening to sue the federal government for compensation after having learned their phone records were seized as part of special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
And Trump has said he is seeking “a lot of money” from the federal government because of Smith’s investigation.
“I was damaged very greatly, and any money that I would get I would give to charity,” he said.
In the months after the attack, Americans generally agreed on what had just happened; Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, called it a “terrorist attack.”
But that sentiment, especially among Republicans, has shifted over the years as Trump regained political power while continuing to claim the 2020 election had been stolen. By the time of the first anniversary of Jan. 6, Cruz said his remark had been “frankly dumb.”
The office of Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday that a plaque meant to honor the officers who protected lawmakers that day won’t be put up.
As the five-year federal statute of limitations for most of the crimes committed on Jan. 6 expires, some former defendants are now in positions of power. Yet others have been charged with new crimes or are struggling with legal, employment and housing issues.
Gina Bisignano, a cosmetologist in Beverly Hills, California, who initially reached a plea deal in her Jan. 6 case and testified against another rioter who said he was following Trump’s “marching orders,” said she believes people “absolutely” are more sympathetic to Jan. 6 defendants now than in the past. But while she appreciates Trump’s pardon, she said she still hasn’t been able to work as she was before her arrest.
“I can’t get my platform for teaching back,” Bisignano said in an interview.
Yet for some Capitol siege defendants, Trump’s actions haven’t gone far enough.
“The pardons were great, but the pardons don’t erase everything that they did,” said Troy Smocks, who was convicted of making threats against lawmakers and tech executives during the riot and now wants the Trump administration to prosecute the prosecutors in his case.
An upcoming Justice Department report on the so-called weaponization against Jan. 6 rioters is expected to echo Trump’s and his supporters’ narrative.
Jared Wise, a former Jan. 6 defendant who is among those assisting with the project, was captured on video yelling “kill ’em"at officers protecting the Capitol. He was on trial when Trump announced his Jan. 6 pardons. Wise, a former FBI supervisory special agent, was hired to work under Ed Martin, a conservative activist and advocate for Jan. 6 defendants who is leading the project.
Former Jan. 6 defendant Brian Mock, who was convicted of assaulting police after a trial in which he represented himself, told NBC News that he met with Martin and complained about his prosecutor, Mike Gordon, whom the Trump administration later fired.
Along with Wise, other Trump Justice Department employees working on Jan. 6 matters include: Vance Day, who faced a series of ethical issues as an Oregon judge and was suspended from the bench; Jonathan Gross, a former Jan. 6 defense attorney who compared Capitol siege prosecutions to the Holocaust and helped spread conspiracy theories about the attack, including that it was instigated by the FBI; and Marshall Yates, the head of the FBI’s congressional affairs section, who was former Rep. Mo Brooks' chief of staff when Brooks, R-Ala., spoke at the Jan. 6 rally. Yates also worked for the Election Integrity Network, which is headed by a key figure in efforts to overturn the 2020, and he has said the “election objection did not go as we wanted” on Jan. 6.
Asked about Wise’s role, a Justice Department spokesperson said, “Jared Wise is a valued member of the Department of Justice, and we appreciate his contributions to our team.” He wasn’t available to comment. Reuters first reported Wise's role.
Inside Trump’s government, many prosecutors who worked on Jan. 6 cases — as well as those who were part of Smith’s team — have been fired or pushed out.
For those who know the cases best, the president's attempts to reframe what happened that day can be enraging.
A second former Jan. 6 prosecutor told NBC News that Trump and his allies seem “to genuinely believe that Jan. 6 was a peaceful, lawful gathering of well-intentioned patriots and that any violence or destruction that occurred that day stemmed from the acts of embedded antifa actors or provocation by law enforcement.” Those conspiracy theories about the riots can be debunked by even “a cursory glance at the video, photo and social media evidence,” said the prosecutor, who wasn’t authorized to speak publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
“The sky is blue, the Earth is round, and Jan. 6 was a historically violent day that will forever be a stain on this country’s history,” the prosecutor said. “Political convenience does not change the facts
Trump mass pardoned Jan. 6 rioters on his first day back in office. Justice Department officials and FBI agents involved in the massive investigation and prosecution were fired. Dozens of other supporters involved in efforts to overturn the election results have been pre-emptively pardoned.
A former Jan. 6 prosecutor said Trump’s actions — and the growing embrace of them by a broader swath of Americans — were “maddening.”
“I spoke with dozens and dozens of people who were there that day and who are still dealing with the trauma,” said the prosecutor, who was not authorized to speak publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. “It makes you feel crazy because you know what happened that day, but there is the chief executive nodding positively along to this narrative that they are trying to build.”
On the anniversary Tuesday, as pro-Trump demonstrators gathered near the Capitol, the White House launched a page on its official website dedicated to Trump’s narrative, claiming the protesters were peaceful in 2021 and it was the police response that escalated tensions. A timeline reads: “Stolen Election Certified,” and restated claims that former Vice President Mike Pence was trying to sabotage Trump when he refused to stop the certification of electoral votes.
On X, the former vice president said it was a "tragic day," but that it “became a triumph of freedom when, after Capitol Police quelled the violence, leaders in both chambers in both political parties reconvened the very same day and finished democracy’s work under the Constitution.”
White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said on Monday that it was the media that was still focused on the Capitol siege.
“The media’s continued obsession with January 6 is one of the many reasons trust in the press is at historic lows — they aren’t covering issues that the American people actually care about,” she said in a statement. “President Trump was resoundingly reelected to enact an agenda based on securing the border, driving down crime, and restarting our economy — the president is delivering.”
A federally funded compensation fund for Jan. 6 rioters was under discussion, Trump has said, “because a lot of the people in government really like that group of people.”
His administration has already paid nearly $5 million to the family of Ashli Babbitt, who was carrying a knife and was killed trying to jump through a broken window to the House Speaker’s Lobby.
Barry Silbermann, an attorney who represents some Jan. 6 defendants, said he has been in communication with the Justice Department about his clients’ claims under the Federal Tort Claims Act.
“President Trump has expressed willingness, but that has to translate into allocation of funds,” Silbermann said. “They had their lives unilaterally destroyed unfairly by a deep state within the Department of Justice that needs to be rectified.”
Some Republican senators are similarly threatening to sue the federal government for compensation after having learned their phone records were seized as part of special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
And Trump has said he is seeking “a lot of money” from the federal government because of Smith’s investigation.
“I was damaged very greatly, and any money that I would get I would give to charity,” he said.
In the months after the attack, Americans generally agreed on what had just happened; Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, called it a “terrorist attack.”
But that sentiment, especially among Republicans, has shifted over the years as Trump regained political power while continuing to claim the 2020 election had been stolen. By the time of the first anniversary of Jan. 6, Cruz said his remark had been “frankly dumb.”
The office of Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday that a plaque meant to honor the officers who protected lawmakers that day won’t be put up.
As the five-year federal statute of limitations for most of the crimes committed on Jan. 6 expires, some former defendants are now in positions of power. Yet others have been charged with new crimes or are struggling with legal, employment and housing issues.
Gina Bisignano, a cosmetologist in Beverly Hills, California, who initially reached a plea deal in her Jan. 6 case and testified against another rioter who said he was following Trump’s “marching orders,” said she believes people “absolutely” are more sympathetic to Jan. 6 defendants now than in the past. But while she appreciates Trump’s pardon, she said she still hasn’t been able to work as she was before her arrest.
“I can’t get my platform for teaching back,” Bisignano said in an interview.
Yet for some Capitol siege defendants, Trump’s actions haven’t gone far enough.
“The pardons were great, but the pardons don’t erase everything that they did,” said Troy Smocks, who was convicted of making threats against lawmakers and tech executives during the riot and now wants the Trump administration to prosecute the prosecutors in his case.
An upcoming Justice Department report on the so-called weaponization against Jan. 6 rioters is expected to echo Trump’s and his supporters’ narrative.
Jared Wise, a former Jan. 6 defendant who is among those assisting with the project, was captured on video yelling “kill ’em"at officers protecting the Capitol. He was on trial when Trump announced his Jan. 6 pardons. Wise, a former FBI supervisory special agent, was hired to work under Ed Martin, a conservative activist and advocate for Jan. 6 defendants who is leading the project.
Former Jan. 6 defendant Brian Mock, who was convicted of assaulting police after a trial in which he represented himself, told NBC News that he met with Martin and complained about his prosecutor, Mike Gordon, whom the Trump administration later fired.
Along with Wise, other Trump Justice Department employees working on Jan. 6 matters include: Vance Day, who faced a series of ethical issues as an Oregon judge and was suspended from the bench; Jonathan Gross, a former Jan. 6 defense attorney who compared Capitol siege prosecutions to the Holocaust and helped spread conspiracy theories about the attack, including that it was instigated by the FBI; and Marshall Yates, the head of the FBI’s congressional affairs section, who was former Rep. Mo Brooks' chief of staff when Brooks, R-Ala., spoke at the Jan. 6 rally. Yates also worked for the Election Integrity Network, which is headed by a key figure in efforts to overturn the 2020, and he has said the “election objection did not go as we wanted” on Jan. 6.
Asked about Wise’s role, a Justice Department spokesperson said, “Jared Wise is a valued member of the Department of Justice, and we appreciate his contributions to our team.” He wasn’t available to comment. Reuters first reported Wise's role.
Inside Trump’s government, many prosecutors who worked on Jan. 6 cases — as well as those who were part of Smith’s team — have been fired or pushed out.
For those who know the cases best, the president's attempts to reframe what happened that day can be enraging.
A second former Jan. 6 prosecutor told NBC News that Trump and his allies seem “to genuinely believe that Jan. 6 was a peaceful, lawful gathering of well-intentioned patriots and that any violence or destruction that occurred that day stemmed from the acts of embedded antifa actors or provocation by law enforcement.” Those conspiracy theories about the riots can be debunked by even “a cursory glance at the video, photo and social media evidence,” said the prosecutor, who wasn’t authorized to speak publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
“The sky is blue, the Earth is round, and Jan. 6 was a historically violent day that will forever be a stain on this country’s history,” the prosecutor said. “Political convenience does not change the facts
Fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack brings fresh division to the Capitol
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On the fifth anniversary of Jan. 6, 2021, there is no official event to memorialize what happened that day, when the mob made its way down Pennsylvania Avenue, battled police at the Capitol barricades and stormed inside, as lawmakers fled. The political parties refuse to agree to a shared history of the events, which were broadcast around the globe. And the official plaque honoring the police who defended the Capitol has never been hung.
Instead, the day displayed the divisions that still define Washington, and the country, and the White House itself issued a glossy new report with its own revised history of what happened.
Trump, during a lengthy morning speech to House Republicans convening away from the Capitol at the rebranded Kennedy Center now carrying his own name, shifted blame for Jan. 6 onto the rioters themselves.
The president said he had intended only for his supporters to go “peacefully and patriotically” to confront Congress as it certified Biden's win. He blamed the media for focusing on other parts of his speech that day.
At the same time, Democrats held their own morning meeting at the Capitol, reconvening members of the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack for a panel discussion. Recalling the history of the day is important, they said, in order to prevent what Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., warned was the GOP's “Orwellian project of forgetting.”
And the former leader of the militant Proud Boys, Enrique Tarrio, summoned people for a midday march retracing the rioters' steps from the White House to the Capitol, this time to honor Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt and others who died in the Jan. 6 siege and its aftermath. More than 100 people gathered, including Babbitt's mother.
Tarrio and others are putting pressure on the Trump administration to punish officials who investigated and prosecuted the Jan. 6 rioters. He was sentenced to 22 years in prison for seditious conspiracy for orchestrating the Jan. 6 attack, and he is among more than 1,500 defendants who saw their charges dropped when Trump issued a sweeping pardon on his return to the White House last year.
They should be fired and prosecuted,” Tarrio told the crowd before they arrived at the Capitol, confronted along the way by counter-protesters, and sang the National Anthem.
The White House in its new report highlighted the work the president has already done to free those charged and turned the blame on Democrats for certifying Biden’s election victory.
Echoes of 5 years ago
Thebstunning capture of Venezuela's president, Nicolás Maduro, and Trump's plans to take over the country and prop up its vast oil industry, a striking new era of American expansionism.
“These people in the administration, they want to lecture the world about democracy when they're undermining the rule of law at home, as we all will be powerfully reminded,” House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York said on the eve of the anniversary.
House Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana, responding to requests for comment about the delay in hanging the plaque honoring the police at the Capitol, as required by law, said in a statement on the eve of the anniversary that the statute "is not implementable," and proposed alternatives “also do not comply with the statute.”
Democrats revive an old committee, Republicans lead a new one
At the morning hearing at the Capitol, lawmakers heard from a range of witnesses and others — including former U.S. Capitol Police officer Winston Pingeon, who said as a kid he always dreamed of being a cop. But on that day, he thought he was going to die in the mayhem on the steps of the Capitol.
"I implore America to not forget what happened," he said, “I believe the vast majority of Americans have so much more in common than what separates us.”
Also testifying was Pamela Hemphill, a rioter who refused Trump’s pardon, blamed the president for the violence and silenced the room as she apologized to the officer sitting alongside her at the witness table, stifling tears.
“I can’t allow them not be recognized, to be lied about,” Hemphill said about the police who she said also saved her life as she fell and was trampled on by the mob. “Until I can see that plaque get up there, I'm not done."
Among those testifying were former Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, who along with former Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming were the two Republicans on the panel that investigated Trump's efforts to overturn Biden's win. Cheney, who lost her own reelection bid to a Trump-backed challenger, did not appear. Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi urged the country to turn away from a culture of lies and violence that she said sends the wrong message about democracy.
Republican Rep. Barry Loudermilk of Georgia, who has been tapped by Johnson to lead a new committee to probe other theories about what happened on Jan. 6, rejected Tuesday's session as a "partisan exercise" designed to hurt Trump and his allies.
Many Republicans reject the narrative that Trump sparked the Jan. 6 attack, and Johnson, before he became the House speaker, had led challenges to the 2020 election. He was among some 130 GOP lawmakers voting that day to reject the presidential results from some states.
Instead, they have focused on security lapses at the Capitol — from the time it took for the National Guard to arrive on the scene to the failure of the police canine units to discover the pipe bombs found that day outside Republican and Democratic party headquarters. The FBI arrested a Virginia man suspected of placing the pipe bombs, and he told investigators last month he believed someone needed to speak up for those who believed the 2020 election was stolen, authorities say.
“The Capitol Complex is no more secure today than it was on January 6,” Loudermilk said in a social media post. “My Select Subcommittee remains committed to transparency and accountability and ensuring the security failures that occurred on January 6 and the partisan investigation that followed never happens again."
Instead, the day displayed the divisions that still define Washington, and the country, and the White House itself issued a glossy new report with its own revised history of what happened.
Trump, during a lengthy morning speech to House Republicans convening away from the Capitol at the rebranded Kennedy Center now carrying his own name, shifted blame for Jan. 6 onto the rioters themselves.
The president said he had intended only for his supporters to go “peacefully and patriotically” to confront Congress as it certified Biden's win. He blamed the media for focusing on other parts of his speech that day.
At the same time, Democrats held their own morning meeting at the Capitol, reconvening members of the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack for a panel discussion. Recalling the history of the day is important, they said, in order to prevent what Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., warned was the GOP's “Orwellian project of forgetting.”
And the former leader of the militant Proud Boys, Enrique Tarrio, summoned people for a midday march retracing the rioters' steps from the White House to the Capitol, this time to honor Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt and others who died in the Jan. 6 siege and its aftermath. More than 100 people gathered, including Babbitt's mother.
Tarrio and others are putting pressure on the Trump administration to punish officials who investigated and prosecuted the Jan. 6 rioters. He was sentenced to 22 years in prison for seditious conspiracy for orchestrating the Jan. 6 attack, and he is among more than 1,500 defendants who saw their charges dropped when Trump issued a sweeping pardon on his return to the White House last year.
They should be fired and prosecuted,” Tarrio told the crowd before they arrived at the Capitol, confronted along the way by counter-protesters, and sang the National Anthem.
The White House in its new report highlighted the work the president has already done to free those charged and turned the blame on Democrats for certifying Biden’s election victory.
Echoes of 5 years ago
Thebstunning capture of Venezuela's president, Nicolás Maduro, and Trump's plans to take over the country and prop up its vast oil industry, a striking new era of American expansionism.
“These people in the administration, they want to lecture the world about democracy when they're undermining the rule of law at home, as we all will be powerfully reminded,” House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York said on the eve of the anniversary.
House Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana, responding to requests for comment about the delay in hanging the plaque honoring the police at the Capitol, as required by law, said in a statement on the eve of the anniversary that the statute "is not implementable," and proposed alternatives “also do not comply with the statute.”
Democrats revive an old committee, Republicans lead a new one
At the morning hearing at the Capitol, lawmakers heard from a range of witnesses and others — including former U.S. Capitol Police officer Winston Pingeon, who said as a kid he always dreamed of being a cop. But on that day, he thought he was going to die in the mayhem on the steps of the Capitol.
"I implore America to not forget what happened," he said, “I believe the vast majority of Americans have so much more in common than what separates us.”
Also testifying was Pamela Hemphill, a rioter who refused Trump’s pardon, blamed the president for the violence and silenced the room as she apologized to the officer sitting alongside her at the witness table, stifling tears.
“I can’t allow them not be recognized, to be lied about,” Hemphill said about the police who she said also saved her life as she fell and was trampled on by the mob. “Until I can see that plaque get up there, I'm not done."
Among those testifying were former Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, who along with former Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming were the two Republicans on the panel that investigated Trump's efforts to overturn Biden's win. Cheney, who lost her own reelection bid to a Trump-backed challenger, did not appear. Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi urged the country to turn away from a culture of lies and violence that she said sends the wrong message about democracy.
Republican Rep. Barry Loudermilk of Georgia, who has been tapped by Johnson to lead a new committee to probe other theories about what happened on Jan. 6, rejected Tuesday's session as a "partisan exercise" designed to hurt Trump and his allies.
Many Republicans reject the narrative that Trump sparked the Jan. 6 attack, and Johnson, before he became the House speaker, had led challenges to the 2020 election. He was among some 130 GOP lawmakers voting that day to reject the presidential results from some states.
Instead, they have focused on security lapses at the Capitol — from the time it took for the National Guard to arrive on the scene to the failure of the police canine units to discover the pipe bombs found that day outside Republican and Democratic party headquarters. The FBI arrested a Virginia man suspected of placing the pipe bombs, and he told investigators last month he believed someone needed to speak up for those who believed the 2020 election was stolen, authorities say.
“The Capitol Complex is no more secure today than it was on January 6,” Loudermilk said in a social media post. “My Select Subcommittee remains committed to transparency and accountability and ensuring the security failures that occurred on January 6 and the partisan investigation that followed never happens again."
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08 Jan 2026, 8:36 pm
It's so outrageous that Trump was not only allowed to run but become president again after January 6th that I can't even find the words to properly convey just how outrageous it is. This reality is so absurd and twisted I have to wonder if we're all in the Bad Place.
The USA is a remarkable failure that it couldn't stop this. And I mean both the leadership that failed to hold him accountable and also the populace that let him win either by voting for him or by voting third party/staying home.
And this isn't even the only reason that he never should have ever been in power. There are so many reasons I could write a book just by listing them, not even describing them. How remarkable of a failure this is, well again, I point out that maybe we're in the Bad Place.
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08 Jan 2026, 9:02 pm
Harmonie wrote:
It's so outrageous that Trump was not only allowed to run but become president again after January 6th that I can't even find the words to properly convey just how outrageous it is. This reality is so absurd and twisted I have to wonder if we're all in the Bad Place.
The USA is a remarkable failure that it couldn't stop this. And I mean both the leadership that failed to hold him accountable and also the populace that let him win either by voting for him or by voting third party/staying home.
And this isn't even the only reason that he never should have ever been in power. There are so many reasons I could write a book just by listing them, not even describing them. How remarkable of a failure this is, well again, I point out that maybe we're in the Bad Place.
The USA is a remarkable failure that it couldn't stop this. And I mean both the leadership that failed to hold him accountable and also the populace that let him win either by voting for him or by voting third party/staying home.
And this isn't even the only reason that he never should have ever been in power. There are so many reasons I could write a book just by listing them, not even describing them. How remarkable of a failure this is, well again, I point out that maybe we're in the Bad Place.
And all because some people believe that white, straight, cis, Christian males are being "persecuted". Plus add a dash of neo-McCarthyism and a generous helping of the "welfare queen" narrative, and this is what happens.
Trump and especially Abbott are screwing me over at every turn.
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19 Jan 2026, 1:51 am
Trump can try rewriting history as much as he likes, but the truth will always be the truth. Millions of Americans saw what happened on their TV sets that day, and try as Trump might, he will never be able to gaslight all of us.
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