Then he summarized the supposed crimes, simply, as “bullshit.”
His voice, however, projected clearly through powerful speakers as he rehashed the debunked allegations of massive fraud which he’d been propagating for months. From where I stood, at the foot of the Washington Monument, you had to strain to see his image on a jumbotron that had been set up on Constitution Avenue. Thousands of them had assembled on the Mall, in Washington, D.C., on the morning of January 6th, to hear Trump address them from a stage outside the White House. This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.īy the end of President Donald Trump’s crusade against American democracy-after a relentless deployment of propaganda, demagoguery, intimidation, and fearmongering aimed at persuading as many Americans as possible to repudiate their country’s foundational principles-a single word sufficed to nudge his most fanatical supporters into open insurrection.
