His posts on Truth Social in the last few days show him ranting and raging—and lying about the Jan. 6th Committee.
Even before the House January 6th Committee held its final hearing; before it called for the filing of criminal charges against him; before it produced its voluminous report detailing the findings from its massive 18-month investigation into his efforts to subvert the result of the 2020 election; before the acquisition of his tax returns revealed that he had somehow managed to avoid a mandatory audit while lying for years about being under continual audit, Donald Trump was crying a river about the unfairness of it all.
Early in the morning on December 17, the standard-bearer of the Republican party took to his social media platform, Truth Social, to say:
Our Country is SICK inside, very much like a person dying of Cancer. The Crooked FBI, the so-called Department of “Justice,” and “Intelligence,” all parts of the Democrat Party and System, is the Cancer. These Weaponized Thugs and Tyrants must be dealt with, or our once great and beautiful Country will die!!!
Good morning to you, too, Mr. Ex-President.
There was, of course, more of this in the days ahead, as there will be day after day, week after week. On Christmas Eve, Trump proclaimed, “I had almost nothing to do with January 6th. FREE SPEECH!” On Christmas Day, he delivered a typically frantic and foul-tempered rant—“Merry Christmas to EVERYONE, including the Radical Left Marxists that are trying to destroy our Country”—that quickly became a meme when juxtaposed with President Biden’s ruminative Christmas message:
Biden’s Christmas message vs. Trump’s Christmas message. pic.twitter.com/LigqGNcFYG
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) December 25, 2022