Doing his usual, anti-Trump thing, United States Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) appeared on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday, December 15 and, while on the program, freaked out and told host Jake Tapper that the protest that turned into a furious trespass into the Capitol on January 6, 2021 will remain seen “as a very dark day in American history.”
That came when the show’s host, Jake Tapper, clutched his pearls while bringing up Trump’s pledge to pardon the J6ers. Doing so, Tapper claimed that Romney had needed to flee to save his life on the day in question. He said, “Four years ago next month you were running for your life from the mob on January 6. And now the person that you said was responsible for that day is about to return to the White House.”
Continuing, Tapper got to the pardon pledge itself and claimed that the president-elect is trying to “whitewash” what happened. He said, “He says he’s going to pardon a lot of the people that have been convicted for the crimes committed on that day. What do you think the legacy of January 6 will be in the history books, given the fact that, as they say, history is written by the winners. Donald Trump won and there’s been this attempt to whitewash the whole thing?”
Romney responded in the most headache-inducing way imaginable: first, he declared that history would be written by the experts, or “scholars,” telling Tapper, “I’m not sure history is written by winners in this case, politics is written by by winners but the history books are typically written by scholars of one kind or another.”
Continuing, Romney took pains to present the J6ers in as bad a light as possible by listing off certain crimes. He said, “I think attacking the Capital of the United States of America, smearing feces on the wall, attacking police officers, injuring police officers that will be seen as being an abuse and a felony and and being wrong.”
Then, attacking “conspiracy theories” and getting to his line about it remaining being seen as a “dark day” for America, Romney said, “Who is responsible for it? There’ll be all sorts of conspiracy theories, but ultimately, uh, confessions and guilty verdicts sort of sort that out and it will be seen. I think, as a very dark day in American history.”
He then accused the Make America Great Again (MAGA) Movement of trying to “paper over” the day, describing the attempt to move on as “unfortunate.” Romney told Jake Tapper, “I think it’s unfortunate that that there are some in the MAGA world that that try and paper over it, but I don’t think it’s possible to do.”
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Concluding, he said, “I mean, this was an attack on on the symbol of democracy throughout the world, the United States Capitol and and an attack by a brutal mob. And people were injured, and and there was an effort to try and prevent the peaceful transfer of power. It was a very dark day in American history and it will be recorded as such.”
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