MSNBC’s Tim Miller Still Falsely Claiming Pro-Trump Activists Killed Cops During 1/6 Riot

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MILLER: “But these days these untruths become true in the right-wing ecosystem faster than you can snap your fingers. So you do need to address them immediately and push back immediately or they take on this life of their own and people will never let go of them. And to answer your question to Frank about how these lies become true, in the conspiracy world this notion of motivated reasoning is so powerful. We all have motivated reasoning. Something happens and we want to take this new piece of information and use it to confirm our own priors, our own beliefs and make what we already think seem true and make the other side seem bad. If you want a conspiracy about January 6th, and somebody — you don’t want to think, my team, the MAGA guys, we were the ones who stormed the Capitol. We killed cops. We are domestic terrorists, we are the bad guys. You don’t want to think about yourselves as the bad guys. Right? When someone tells you, actually it was Antifa, you go, okay, great.”