{"id":1514634,"date":"2022-06-14T07:51:10","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T11:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1514634"},"modified":"2022-06-14T07:51:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T11:51:17","slug":"the-jan-6-democrats-have-a-point-about-trump-if-you-simply-ignore-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-jan-6-democrats-have-a-point-about-trump-if-you-simply-ignore-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"The Jan. 6 Democrats Have A Point About Trump (If You Simply Ignore Facts)"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-jan-6-democrats-have-a-point-about-trump-if-you-simply-ignore-facts%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1514634&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Bennie-Thompson.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>So the slam-dunk argument congressional Democrats have so far made during their <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/10\/the-j6-inquisition-is-an-obvious-soviet-style-show-trial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">obscenely boring Jan. 6 hearings<\/a> is that Donald Trump not only lied about voter fraud in the 2020 election but that he <em>knew<\/em> he lied. How can we as a nation look at ourselves in the mirror ever again after that shock revelation?<\/p>\n<p>Maryland Democrat Rep. Jamie Raskin, who sits on the Jan. 6 committee, summarized the conclusion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/06\/12\/raskin-trump-lost-2020-election-insurrection-00039016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">on Sunday<\/a>. \u201cI think we can prove to any reasonable, open-minded person that Donald Trump absolutely knew because he was surrounded by lawyers,\u201d he said on CNN.<\/p>\n<p>There you have it, ladies and gentlemen. Trump must have been willfully dishonest when he said over and over again that he lost the election because it was rigged and fixed to ensure his defeat. After all, his lawyers had told him it was a lie!<\/p>\n<p>The only problem with that open-and-shut case, to the extent that it\u2019s supposed to mean anything to anyone, is that it ignores the lawyers and aides who were telling Trump the opposite, plus the all-too-likely possibility that Trump simply didn\u2019t believe anyone who was telling him he had lost.<\/p>\n<p>None of this is new. Trump White House assistant Peter Navarro was <a href=\"https:\/\/peternavarro.com\/the-navarro-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">telling<\/a> the president he had won the election, even publishing a three-part report making the case that the race was stolen. Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani was <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/jan-6-hearing-testimony-intoxicated-154505784.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">telling him<\/a> he had won. Plenty of others inside and outside the administration were also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Rigged-Media-Democrats-Seized-Elections\/dp\/168451259X\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=28OW7OEF27TC3&#038;keywords=mollie+hemingway+rigged&#038;qid=1655144023&#038;sprefix=manscape%2Caps%2C106&#038;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">arguing<\/a> that state election laws had been illegally altered by lower courts, giving Democrats an unfair advantage.<\/p>\n<p>It was supposedly \u201cdevastating testimony\u201d (at least according to CNN\u2019s Jake Tapper) by former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr on Monday (previously recorded) when he recalled telling Trump in person that the Justice Department was unable to substantiate any widespread fraud that would have changed the outcome of the election.<\/p>\n<p>That story is three months old. Barr <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/william-barr-when-i-confronted-trump-about-election-fraud-11646323237\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recounted<\/a> it first in the Wall Street Journal during which he said he told the president he found no evidence of fraud and that the president was resistant: \u201cThere is a mountain of evidence,\u201d Trump said, according to Barr.<\/p>\n<p><em>But people told Trump he lost! So he knew he was lying!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not how lying works. The Justice Department swears at this very moment that \u201cwhite supremacy\u201d is our greatest domestic threat. I say it\u2019s not and I can tell you why I disagree. That doesn\u2019t make me a liar.<\/p>\n<p>And if it were in fact a \u201clie\u201d to charge that an election had been unfair, even stolen, we\u2019re going to need a few more special committees <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/now\/hillary-clinton-maintains-2016-election-160716779.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">just for Hillary Clinton<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A subsequent point Democrats are aiming for is that Trump had also stated even before the election that his loss could only occur if Democrats cheated, thus he must have had a diabolical plan all along. But guess who made the same assertion? Democrats! <\/p>\n<p>Back in August 2020, CNN hosted a segment with fire-breathing liberal Ana Navarro, Democrat Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina, and Democrat former Sen. Barbara Boxer of California. Here\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/the-election-will-only-have-been-fair-if-biden-wins-according-to-democrats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">what each of them said<\/a> in the span of five minutes:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only way he feels now he can win this against the Biden-Harris ticket is to straight out steal it, and he\u2019s doing it in plain sight, and we cannot let it happen.\u201d\u2014\u00a0Boxer<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis man is not going to win fairly. So why are we supporting crooked activity?\u201d\u2014 Clyburn (Yes, the James Clyburn who is credited with having <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/16\/clyburn-supreme-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201csaved\u201d<\/a> Biden\u2019s campaign.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[H]e\u2019s going to find every single way he can to steal this election, to rig this election in his favor.\u201d\u2014 Navarro<\/p>\n<p>Is it only worth an investigation when Republicans do it or\u2026?<\/p>\n<p>I get that Democrats are trying to make a broader case that Trump\u2019s election claims were part of a conspiracy that ultimately led to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/09\/13\/a-comparison-of-the-2017-inauguration-riot-2020-george-floyd-riots-and-2021-capitol-riot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the riot in the Capitol in 2021<\/a>, but if reaching that point first requires that they ignore the gaping holes in the fundamental assertion\u00a0that Trump purposefully lied to the public, the committee hearings are basically just re-runs of Lawrence O\u2019Donnell\u2019s programming of the past year.<\/p>\n<p>And we haven\u2019t even gotten started on the role that <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/01\/06\/the-jan-6-lesson-that-the-media-dont-want-to-learn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the pandemic hysteria and Black Lives Matter violence<\/a>, intentionally instigated and exacerbated by Democrats, played in the lead-up to Jan. 6. I\u2019m sure the committee will use at least <em>one day<\/em> to get into that. Surely!<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Eddie Scarry is the D.C. columnist at The Federalist and author of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Privileged-Victims-Americas-Fascists-Hijacked\/dp\/1642931454\">Privileged Victims: How America&#8217;s Culture Fascists Hijacked the Country and Elevated Its Worst People<\/a>.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the slam-dunk argument congressional Democrats have so far made during their obscenely boring Jan. 6 hearings is that Donald Trump not only lied about voter fraud in the 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1514634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1514634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1514634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1514634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1514634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}