Three months after a mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol to try to overturn his November election loss, about half of Republicans believe the siege was largely a non-violent protest or was the handiwork of left-wing activists "trying to make Trump look bad."
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Half of Republicans believe false accounts of deadly US Capitol riot: Reuters/Ipsos poll
A worker removes razor wire from the top of security fencing as part of a reduction in heightened security measures taken after the January 6th attack on the US Capitol in Washington, on Mar 20, 2021. (Photo: REUTERS/Joshua Roberts)
06 Apr 2021 05:45AM (Updated:
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WASHINGTON: Since the deadly Jan 6 insurrection at the US Capitol, former President Donald Trump and his Republican allies have pushed false and misleading accounts to downplay the event that left five dead and scores of others wounded. His supporters appear to have listened.
POLL-Half of Republicans believe false accounts of deadly U.S. Capitol riot-Reuters/Ipsos poll Reuters 3 hrs ago
By James Oliphant and Chris Kahn
WASHINGTON, April 5 (Reuters) - Since the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, former President Donald Trump and his Republican allies have pushed false and misleading accounts to downplay the event that left five dead and scores of others wounded. His supporters appear to have listened.
Three months after a mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol to try to overturn his November election loss, about half of Republicans believe the siege was largely a non-violent protest or was the handiwork of left-wing activists trying to make Trump look bad, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll has found.
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On Monday, Reuters published a supposedly damning report about Republicans’ attitudes on the January 6 Capitol riot. “Half of Republicans believe false accounts of deadly U.S. Capitol riot: Reuters/Ipsos poll,” the headline reads. The article cited a spokesperson from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) which brands mainstream conservative and Christian organizations “hate groups” and plots them on a map with the Ku Klux Klan who claimed the poll portends more violence.
“That is the biggest danger – normalizing this behavior,” Susan Corke, director of the SPLC’s Intelligence Project (the division of the SPLC that manages the “hate group” accusations), told Reuters. “I do think we are going to see more violence.”
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