RedState Publishes, Then Retracts Bonkers Claim There Was No Capitol Riot
Up is down, forwards is backwards, and there was no rioting at during the Capitol Hill riots last week, claimed one right-wing writer before RedState yanked his article.
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Conservative website RedState on Monday published and then retracted an article that angrily and falsely declared “Enough! There Was No Riot, Insurrection or ‘Storming!’” at the U.S. Capitol last week.
“Let me be real clear. There was no riot in DC. There was no insurrection. There was no ‘storming’ of the Capitol Building,” wrote the piece’s author Mike Ford, a retired infantry office. “There was a peaceful rally. There was a largely peaceful protest that was marred by some bad acts by a very few people. There was and is, absolutely nothing to be traumatized or intimidated by. It’s time to tell the press, the politicians and even our pastors, stop the gaslighting.”
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