Donald Trump sent two interesting emails in the last 24 hours, messages that share a common theme. One is the focus of this article, Trump’s announcement that he will hold a “news conference” at Mar-a-Lago on Jan. 6, the first anniversary of the violence at the Capitol. But the other establishes useful context for that announcement, so we’ll begin with it.
A bit before 10 p.m., I received an email from Save America PAC, Trump’s fundraising committee that has been raking in cash since he lost the 2020 presidential election. As always, it was a prompt for me to give money, and in doing so the author (purportedly Trump himself) claimed that “the media and their Democrat partners spent YEARS lying about me to the American People and it turns out I was RIGHT all along.”
As evidence of this bold claim, the email offered a litany of things that “the Radical Left” now admitted Trump was right about. Such as that “hydroxychloroquine works” or that the coronavirus “came from a Chinese lab” or that “Lafayette Square was not cleared for a photo op.”
You should notice two things about these assertions. The first is that they’re entirely stale, dating back to June when conservative media seized upon a report about hydroxychloroquine as evidence that Trump had been right about the drug all along. He wasn’t, of course, which is why those who contract covid-19 — like Trump himself — don’t actually see it administered. But his team whipped up this list of “things Trump was proven right...
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