The meme has been liked nearly 9,000 times and shared 2,400 times as of Monday. In reaction to Mr Trump’s repost, journalist Aaron Rupar sarcastically wrote on Twitter: “rubbing my last 2 brain cells together as I try to remember who ran the government on January 6.”

The former president shared the meme despite a House committee that investigated January 6 declaring Mr Trump the “central cause” of the day’s events. “None of the events of January 6th would have happened without him,” the House panel wrote in its final report.

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    I mean, technically, yeah… if by “the Government” you mean “the President”.

    From tweeting on December 19th: “Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there! Will be wild!”

    https://www.npr.org/2022/07/13/1111341161/how-trumps-will-be-wild-tweet-drew-rioters-to-the-capitol-on-jan-6

    To the actual speech that day demanding they take back the government and that he would march with them…

    https://www.npr.org/2021/02/10/966396848/read-trumps-jan-6-speech-a-key-part-of-impeachment-trial

    “Because you’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength and you have to be strong. We have come to demand that Congress do the right thing and only count the electors who have been lawfully slated, lawfully slated.”

    or:

    “And we fight. We fight like hell. And if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.”

    ending with:

    "We’re going to try and give them the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.

    So let’s walk down Pennsylvania Avenue."

    So… Trump lured everyone there 1/2 a month ahead of time, gave a speech telling everyone that you have to be strong and fight or you won’t have a country anymore, then turned everyone loose on Congress…

    “bUt It WaS ThE GOveRnMenT!!”

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        Yeah! Was he Donald Trump – the person – president? Or was it “Donald Trump” the legal entity? Is his name capitalized on the documents? Was his presidency valid under maritime law?

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            Gold fringes on the flag of the country “Donald Trump” was president of? Damn it! We’ve been bamboozled! We aren’t even living in the real United States! We were the sheeple all along, just like they were trying to tell us!

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              His name is an anagram for “L pond mud rat”. That park is only about 2 hours from D.C., maybe there’s a clue to be uncovered there. Going to need some more yarn and pushpins for my bulletin board to put it all together and it could just be an old rant dump.

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          I believe a lot of them write their names differently as the legal entity, like: ©Donald Trump™

          I didn’t expect to see sovereign citizen stuff on this post!