Trump's triumphs extend to GOP rewriting history of Nov. 3 and Jan. 6: The Note

Many of Rep. Liz Cheney's colleagues are well along in crafting their own Trumpian and patently false narratives of both the election and the subsequent attack on Jan. 6.

The TAKE with Rick Klein The ouster of Rep. Liz Cheney might be the most visible manifestation of the Republican Party's embrace of former President Donald Trump's lies about the election. But his bigger triumph could be in rewriting the ugly history of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. On the very day Cheney was removed from leadership, a staggering array of Republicans cast doubt on what members of Congress themselves witnessed at the Capitol just four months ago. Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., said he never saw proof that rioters were actually Trump supporters. Rep. Jody Hice, R-Ga., took the opposite approach, arguing that "it was Trump supporters who lost their lives that day, not Trump supporters who were taking the lives of others" -- and saying a Capitol Police officer died that day of natural causes.