Editorial: Jan. 6 insurrection was the result of a continuing war on truth
by The Times Editorial Board, Los Angeles Times
Jan 07, 2022
2 minutes
At first the lies were little, and laughable. The day after his 2017 inauguration, for example, President Trump falsely claimed that the crowd on the National Mall was so large that it extended from the Capitol steps to the Washington Monument. It was untrue, but so what?
But in that lie were ominous hints of what was to come. Trump promptly branded those who reported the facts as the
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