CNN anchor Abby Phillip said during her network's special coverage of the election certification that millions of people in this country don't believe President-elect Donald Trump “even if it's obvious and provable.” “It's a big problem to want to believe something even if it's a lie,” he said.
“It's actually not surprising that Trump was able to do it because the very fact that the jib happened in the first place is evidence of his political power,” Philip said. Those guys are there because of him. In the video we just played, he said, “The election was stolen from us.” Even as people were breaking into the Capitol, he said. Mr. Trump never backed down from the fundamental lies at the heart of January 6th, and he still hasn't. ”
She continued, “So I think January 6th is symptomatic of a broader problem, and that is that there is no way in this country that what President Trump says, even when it's an obvious and provable lie.” “Then there are millions of people willing to believe anything.”
Phillip continued, “I think for Congress, there are some members of Congress, including some in the chamber today, who are supporting Trump and trying to continue gaslighting the country about what happened that day. What happened. When we saw with our own eyes, there are people like that who claim that this was primarily peaceful, and there are still people in power. There's a lot of things they want to do in Congress to try to codify this idea that January 6th wasn't violent, so the next four years are going to be very different in their attempts both in terms of rhetoric and in terms of public actions. I think it's going to be heavily influenced, and probably everything they say and do is going to drive that forward, and we need to be aware of that and be wary of it, because the rest of us who live in the real world. people, january 6 Because we look at what happened today. We see hundreds of people being charged with violent crimes. That's the truth. Even if Congress… They may try to make some sort of statement that it was a powerful day, but that doesn't change what happened as we all know it.”
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