Retired Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré, who led a review of security failures around the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, said Tuesday that the riot was fueled by propaganda after former President Donald Trump fed his supporters “a little BS.”
“Guy who keeps lying about having a horse. He keeps telling people he has a horse and somebody will give him a saddle.”
I don’t understand his reasons for using ‘little’, but otherwise, of course, Gen. Honore is spot on. However, again, Mr. Trump’s fanciful lies only worked because his supporters wanted to believe them.
I agree - it was more than just ‘a little BS’.
It was a whole steaming pile of it.
He gave them an excuse to wallow in their worse impulses.
said Tuesday that the riot was fueled by propaganda after former President Donald Trump fed his supporters “a little BS.”
Did it took the general three months to figure that out? Good it was just a little.
Even so, the willingness of so many Republicans to believe the big lie that the ‘election was stolen’ with zero evidence is still somewhat shocking to me. It’s just being taken as an article of faith.
I know it’s probably just General Honore’s speaking style and he doesn’t mean it literally, but the use of the term “little” is unfortunate. It isn’t called the Big Lie for nothing.
I believe that article of faith goes back to Illinois in 1960.
I used to make business calls on folks in the Chicago area who were of the age to be activists in the 50s - enthusiastic Eisenhower and Dirksen supporters - and the topic of voting machines from Republican precincts being dumped by Richard Daly to the bottom of Lake Michigan to deny Nixon the presidency was an article of faith.
I think the “little” is there on purpose. {Individual-1] didn’t tell them to assault police officers, vandalize the building and try to take the government over violently. But he gave them a thousand reasons, most small big lies cloaked in little truths to let his supporters make their own conclusions. And they followed suit. In the same way we have people denying the facts on COVID, the experts were marginalized enough by the constant beating on them to allow small cherry picked data points to be used as sledge hammers to spin the situation to [Individual-1]'s advantage. It was all FUD, 24/7 coming from his administration.
Trump fed his supporters “a little BS.”
The general’s assessment is off by several orders of magnitude, galactically so.
But they created evidence. Not real evidence, not factual evidence. What do you think FOX, OAN and NEWSMAX are all about. In those minds, they have evidence just by the doubt being driven over and over again. Drilling down to real information, parsing out the lies and how this all came about is not in the mix when they created an ecosystem in which the conventional wisdom is there was fraud. Many, many people have said…
Exactly. That article of faith was built to a point it is just accepted as true.
Oh well , ok, well said I guess…
its semantics…had he called it a big lie…people shrug and go on… calling it ‘little lies’…gets the hair up…like it has here.
When you look at the tone and substance of articles recently published by The Hill you may want to disregard their work. They are really going down a rabbit hole.
Cue the pearl clutching and outraged squealing from the Usual Members of the Congressional #TreasonCaucus
A little BS…chock full of prions. That’s why they’ve all succumbed to Mad Cow disease.
All this tap dancing–which screams “reasonable doubt”–is why Civil Litigation will topple Trump in a different way.
Civil Litigation has a much lower bar.
That poor horse.
