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The White House has served up a revisionist history of the Jan. 6 insurrection, blaming Democrats and the Capitol Police for the violence that left 140 police officers injured and five dead.
On the fifth anniversary of the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, a new page on the official White House website spells out a timeline of the day's events that's radically at odds with reality.
It claims it was the Democrats “who staged the real insurrection by certifying a fraud-ridden election,” and accuses then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi of “security lapses.”
