Baier is promoting a book….
His above comment was made by the Fox talking head on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert of all places also….
Hmmmmm?
Fox News anchor Bret Baier described the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol carried out by supporters of former president Trump as a “dark day” for the country, one that that he likened to “what we saw in 1876” amid a post-Civil War political crisis.
Baier appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Wednesday to promote his new book on former president Ulysses S. Grant, which opens with the Jan. 6 riots in 2021.
“I was ending the book and putting all of these things together and I was covering January 6 and covering all of the riot and all that was happening in real time,” Baier, who anchored Fox’s coverage of the breaking news on Capitol Hill that day, told Colbert.
“And in 1876, which was really the climax of this book, Grant as President makes a grand bargain and holds the country together as an election is contested, Louisiana, Florida, South Carolina, refuse to move electors up so he does this grand bargain with Republicans and Democrats to hold everything together.”
Baier likened that post-Civil War crisis in American electoral politics to the 2020 presidential election, which he said was “another election where there were people very upset about it.”
Trump and his surrogates repeatedly floated baseless conspiracies about voter fraud in the days that followed the election. Several of the Trump supporters who participated in the rioting on Jan. 6 said Trump had “sent them” and expressed frustration with a “rigged” election.
“And that moment, that chaos, that dark day up in Washington is similar to what we saw in 1876,” Baier said…..
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