if you have any memory of the Soviet Union, you can remember that when Moscow was in its ascendancy in that region of the world, their plan included a revision of history. They rewrote chapters of history to make themselves look stronger and better and smarter and more powerful than they ever were. And we used to mock that in the West and say: Don't they know that history speaks for itself? The facts speak for themselves. They did it time and again. It was usually the product of authoritarian rule, where one man-- strongman--would want his version of history to be written in the books and taught to the children. Last week, we saw an exercise in Soviet revisionism in, of all places, Salt Lake City, UT. The Republican National Committee met in Salt Lake City, UT, for a national conference, and representatives came from all over the United States. What they did to start that conference off was to censure two Republican House Members, Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger from Illinois. To me, it was the lowest of low tactics to attack these two individuals who are making a bipartisan effort with the January 6, 2021, House committee to get to the bottom of what happened that day and who was responsible for it.…
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