'They admitted guilt': Columnist appalled by MAGA's attempts to rewrite Jan. 6 history

With Donald Trump the clear Republican frontrunner as 2024 draws closer, his supporters are urgently attempting to re-write the history book involving the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, Philip Bump writes in his latest op-ed for The Washington Post.

In order to absolve Trump from his apparent role in sparking the riot, some of his fans are constructing a narrative that the riot was driven mostly by federal informants and left-wing actors. One of those pushing that narrative is Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who claimed on a recent podcast that “nobody could tell me that those were Trump supporters” who were rioting on Jan. 6 — and that she believes “they were Antifa" and "[Black Lives Matter] rioters.”

"There’s no evidence of this at all. In fact, it defies any logic. For Greene, though, this is a long-held argument. During the riot itself, she texted White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to tell him that she and others 'think they are Antifa … [d]ressed like Trump supporters.'

"Of course, that was about 90 minutes after she’d texted Meadows to exhort him to '[p]lease tell the President to calm people[.] This isn’t the way to solve anything,'" Bump writes.