by Noah Rothman
This odious document should never have been published, much less on the taxpayer-funded White House website.
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Police clear the U.S. Capitol building with tear gas as protesters gather outside in Washington, D.C., January 6, 2021.
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It would be one thing if the Trump administration were merely peddling in its spare time a self-serving revisionist history of the January 6 riot so libelous, so brazen in its contempt for established record that it would have made a Soviet propagandist blush. It’s quite another to enlist all of us in that project by committing taxpayer dollars to it, disseminating the president’s alternative version of events on digital public property.
The former is despicable. The latter is obscene.
About the Author
Noah Rothman is a senior writer at National Review. His third book, Blood and Progress: A Century of Left-Wing Violence, was published by Hachette in May 2026.
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It would be one thing if the Trump administration were merely peddling in its spare time a self-serving revisionist history of the January 6 riot so libelous, so brazen in its contempt for established record that it would have made a Soviet propagandist blush. It’s quite another to enlist all of us in that project by committing taxpayer dollars to it, disseminating the president’s alternative version of events on digital public property.
The former is despicable. The latter is obscene.
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About the Author
Noah Rothman is a senior writer at National Review. His third book, Blood and Progress: A Century of Left-Wing Violence, was published by Hachette in May 2026.
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