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TRUMP’S CROWDS DON’T WANT TO MOVE ON FROM JAN. 6. THEY WANT RETRIBUTION FOR HIM.

“I watched it on TV that day, and I said this is a complete joke.”



Barbara LaGow, 58, is part of a significant swath of the Republican electorate
who believes that Jan. 6 was likely part of an effort to politically harm Trump.
| Myah Ward/POLITICO

By Myah Ward

01/05/2024 10:19 PM EST

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MASON CITY, Iowa — Donning a red puffer coat and a “Make America Great Again”
hat, Barbara LaGow smoked a cigarette while waiting in a long line on a cold
night to hear Donald Trump speak.

The 58-year-old had driven more than two hours from Minnesota on Friday to come
to the former president’s rally at the North Iowa Events Center. But it was
worth it, she said. Trump was “cheated out of the last election.” She wanted to
show support for him ahead of the coming one.



Trump’s swing through Iowa marked the unofficial start of his final caucus
sprint. But there was a broader, more meaningful backdrop to Friday’s event, one
underscored by LaGow’s comments.



The former president was delivering remarks on the eve of the three year
anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection that he helped instigate before leaving
office. For a short while, that day seemed as if it might be his final political
chapter, a transgression that Republicans would simply not tolerate. Instead,
for LaGow and others here to watch Trump, it became a source of sympathy for the
man.

“There was no insurrection. I believe he’s being framed. I really don’t believe
he did anything he shouldn’t have done. He asked people to go peacefully
protest. And that was it,” she said. “I believe the FBI did have something to do
with it … The whole thing just smacks. It smells bad.”

LaGow is part of a significant swath of the Republican electorate who believes
that Jan. 6 was likely part of an effort to politically harm Trump. A recent
Washington Post-UMD poll found 34 percent of Republicans falsely believe the FBI
organized the Capitol attack.

Not all of Trump’s supporters in Iowa were willing to go quite so far as to
excuse the rioters. But none said they believed Trump shouldered any of the
blame.

“There was no insurrection on his part at all,” said Gayle Lasley, 69, who drove
an hour to attend her first Trump rally and plans to support him in the caucus
next week. “It was highly exaggerated. I think some people did some things they
shouldn’t have and those who were arrested,” but added that it’s been taken “way
too far.”

Trump gear lines tables parallel to the long line of supporters waiting to enter
the events center. | Myah Ward/POLITICO

Trump, for his part, has pushed conspiracies around Jan. 6 repeatedly. At an
earlier rally in Sioux City on Friday, he declared that “there was Antifa and
there was FBI,” at the riot. He also said that those who had been imprisoned for
their roles that day were “hostages.” Nobody, he added, “has been treated ever
in history so badly as those people.”




Those who attended Trump’s rallies on Friday took their cues from him, including
Ryan Sloth, 46, who lives thirty minutes outside of Mason City.

“I watched it on TV that day, and I said this is a complete joke. I could tell
from the beginning that this was a setup. Plain as day. There’s no way all those
officers, no cops stopped it,” Sloth said. “And it’s infuriating to see those
people still in jail. If we were there, we would’ve been checking things out.
People are still in jail for that. It’s a shame.”

As for who he believes set Trump up, Sloth had his suspicions.

“The Democratic Party,” he said. “I don’t know who in particular, but somebody
got the plans. I don’t know who’s pulling the strings.”

Another man, who would only reveal his first name, Michael, was more specific
with his accusations. “It was all a set-up,” he said. “[Joe] Biden planted
people in there.”

The whitewashing of Jan. 6 has been a yearslong project of Trump and his allies.
And it’s been one of the more central elements of his race to win back the
presidency.

Trump’s first rally of the 2024 presidential cycle in Waco, Texas opened with
him putting his hand over his heart as “Justice for All,” played over
loudspeakers. The song is a mashup of the national anthem sung by a choir of
Jan. 6 defendants and Trump reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. As the music
played, footage of people storming the Capitol was projected on jumbo screens
behind the ex-president.

Michael, who declined to provide his full name, thinks Jan. 6 “was all a
set-up.” | Myah Ward/POLITICO

“Our people love those people,” Trump said to a cheering Waco crowd when the
song ended. He hasn’t let up since.

Trump, who is facing four criminal prosecutions including two cases related to
his actions on Jan. 6, has vowed to pardon a “large portion” of the Jan. 6
defendants if he returns to the White House. He turned Ashli Babbitt, a woman
who was fatally shot while invading the U.S. Capitol, into a MAGA martyr — one
who he frequently references at his rallies and events. And he has claimed the
“unfair” imprisonment of Jan. 6 rioters is an example of how the Biden
administration has weaponized the justice system.

“When people who love our country protest in Washington, they become hostages
and prisoners unfairly imprisoned for long periods of time,” Trump said at a
rally in Reno, Nevada, in December. “We are a third world nation that has
weaponized its law enforcement against the opposing political party like never,
ever before.”

Trump’s eagerness to recast Jan. 6 rather than bury its memory has agitated
elected Republicans, many of whom look on that day with anger and shame. But its
potency with the party’s base is hard to dispute. Few of Trump’s primary
opponents have attacked him consistently or with vigor for his actions leading
up to or on that day. Only a handful of congressional Republicans supported his
impeachment over it. Virtually all of them have been critical of the criminal
cases he faces because of it.

The dynamics are wholly different on the Democratic side of the aisle, where
operatives and candidates are eager to see the coming campaign turn into a
relitigation of that day. Hours before Trump spoke on Friday, Biden delivered a
speech of his own. The setting, Valley Forge, and content were designed
specifically to place Jan. 6 and broader threats to democracy at the center of
the race ahead.

“We nearly lost America — lost it all,” Biden said. “We all know who Donald
Trump is,” he added. “The question we have to answer is who are we?”

Meridith McGraw contributed to this report.


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