Ex-GOP Lawmaker Predicts What Trump’s Going To Start Doing On Day 1 | EUROtoday

Donald Trump goes to begin revising historical past to go well with himself as quickly as he takes workplace, former Rep. David Jolly (Fla.) predicted over the weekend.

“I think one of the things Donald Trump wants to do this term, starting on day one, is rewrite history,” Jolly, who served as a Republican in Congress however later renounced his affiliation with the GOP, advised MSNBC’s Alex Witt. “We’re going to see it on COVID, having RFK Jr. there. We’re going to see it on Russia, having Tulsi Gabbard there. We’re going to see it with a lot of the prosecutions by having Kash Patel there, should these people get confirmed.”

Jolly was referring to Trump’s picks for well being secretary, nationwide intelligence director and FBI director respectively. Critics have sounded the alarm over Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vaccine skepticism, Gabbard’s sympathetic views towards Russia, and Patel’s fondness for harmful conspiracy theories and his fixation on Trump’s supposed enemies.

“I think we’re also going to see a retelling of January 6,” Jolly went on. “And the question is, does that start with his inauguration speech? Or is it something that happens by way of pardons? Or is it a prosecution — an attempted prosecution — of Liz Cheney?”

“I do think Donald Trump wants to rewrite history,” he concluded. “And to do that, he’s going to force upon the American people a narrative that largely is untrue, but that he hopes, with conservative media’s influence, he can win out with.”

Trump has vowed to pardon individuals convicted for taking part within the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol, an try to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Trump’s favor.

Even although the vast majority of these serving substantial jail time dedicated violent crimes, together with assaulting regulation enforcement officers, the president-elect has referred to them as “peaceful January 6 protesters” and “hostages” who have been unfairly prosecuted.

He’s additionally made threatening feedback about former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), warning that she “could be in a lot of trouble” for serving on the House panel that investigated the assault. He’s mentioned that he believes members of the panel “should go to jail.”

Trump has a penchant for revisionist historical past, with a sample of strolling again guarantees, deflecting blame for his failures and dubiously taking credit score for successes. He pledged throughout his 2024 marketing campaign to scale back the costs of “everything,” however has already admitted since his victory that it’s “hard to bring things down once they’re up.”