Veteran Colorado news anchor Kyle Clark ended his broadcast on Monday night, the four-year anniversary of the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol, with a warning about historical revisionism.
“As Coloradoans await pardons from President-elect Donald Trump for storming the Capitol and attacking police on January 6th. As Trump rewrites history, memory-holing the violence, calling it a day of love instead, it’s worth saying out loud you don’t need the government’s permission to remember the truth, to remember what you saw and heard that day,” Clark began, adding:
When Trump supporters stormed the Capitol and attacked law enforcement in a failed attempt to stop the certification of an American election and keep him in power. You saw it in real time. There are tens of thousands of hours of video footage that led to all those convictions. You watched it happen.A president has the power to wipe clean criminal records, but not wipe clean minds and memories. But I’d also encourage you not to get so lost in remembering the last attempt to overthrow American democracy that you don’t think seriously about the next one.
He ended by pointing out the rhetoric surrounding January 6th on the right that he always found the most “chilling” as it included a threat for future such attacks. “Because of all the justifications for the January 6th attack on the Capitol, one has always stood out to me
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