When President Donald Trump called a press conference on Monday to discuss how he would use emergency powers to federalize the D.C. police and deploy the National Guard, the knee-jerk anti-Trump media launched into complaining Trump was doing something dramatic about the crime-riddled District of Columbia.

But the most obnoxious spin was dragging the Jan. 6 riot into it, which they can’t help but burp out. CNN anchor Dana Bash lectured: “Just as we go to break, I should note that the most violent moment in recent history in D.C. was January 6th, and it was an attack on the United States Capitol by a lot of people who were doing it in the name of Donald Trump,” Bash said. “And it included the people who were hurt — included members of law enforcement.”

In a similar vein that night, MSNBC

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