January 6 has become a date of hallowed pagan sacredness to the ruling class " a supposed talisman marking chaos, a shorthand for "threats to democracy." But the media, predictably, has focused on the wrong January. And the wrong threat. Because the real January 6 " the one that changed everything " wasn't in 2021. It happened four years earlier, in 2017. Not at the Capitol, but rather in a glass-walled conference room on the 26th floor of Trump Tower. That morning, President-elect Donald J. Trump received a classified briefing from top intelligence officials " a routine, transitional step for any incoming commander in chief. But what he got wasn't intelligence. It was a malicious setup, a trap.
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