NBC's @oneunderscore__ said "Please realize that in six months, there will be a part of pro-Trump media that becomes full 1/6 Truthers." I decided to turn on One America News, and I saw that it's already happening. On one of the president's favorite channels.
I watched ten random minutes of @OANN in the 10am hour and heard the pro-Trump riot sanitized as "the Capitol Hill incident;" heard it was a "very small crowd" of "troublemakers;" heard the scene was "nothing like" a war zone; and heard "there were clearly agitators in there."
"Antifa did it" lie is big on OAN. TWICE today, anchors said these exact words: "A self-described member of Antifa from New York is facing charges for allegedly stabbing 2 people during the protest at the Capitol." That happened in ALBANY, NEW YORK. But they made it sound like DC
In a pre-taped segment that has aired *at least 12 times* on OAN, 2 Trump apologists insisted that Capitol "troublemakers" couldn't have possibly heard Trump's speech, thus he's innocent. "Treat these two events as completely separate." Based on bad-faith reading of the timeline.
While the rest of America sees new videos of the treasonous ransacking of our Capitol, right-wing TV sees the opposite. These channels minimize the crimes, make excuses, divert blame, try to absolve Trump, and obsess over "Big Tech" instead. 1/6 trutherism is already underway.
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