Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) called to “defund the justice system” and denied an “insurrection” happened on Jan. 6, 2021, and defended the convicted and accused rioters being held in a Washington D.C. jail.
The Associated Press notes that Greene and other Republicans are trying to portray Jan. 6. rioters as victims:
In actions and legislation, the Republicans are seeking to portray perpetrators of the Capitol riot as victims of zealous federal prosecutors, despite many being convicted of serious crimes.
As Trump calls for the Jan. 6 defendants to be pardoned, some House Republicans are attempting to rebrand those who stormed the Capitol as “political prisoners.” The result is alarming to those who recognize a dangerously Orwellian attempt to whitewash recent history…
The country has been here before — in the aftermath of the Civil War, when the Lost Cause movement sought to reframe the battle over ending slavery in the U.S. as one of states’ rights, and again in the years following the Civil Rights movement as critics of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. questioned his transformative legacy.
(Sources: Twitter, Associated Press)