MSNBC Accuses Trump Of “Rewriting History” About January 6 — While Doing It Themselves

MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace and New York Times reporter Glenn Thrush used a recent segment to accuse Trump of “rewriting history” on January 6 — while proving the media is the one doing exactly that.

On the October 23, 2025 episode of Deadline: White House on MSNBC, host Nicolle Wallace brought on Glenn Thrush of The New York Times — two longtime Democratic insiders using a “news” segment to enforce each other’s political talking points. What followed wasn’t journalism; it was a partisan conversation between two Democrats pretending to analyze the news while defending their party’s narrative.

Thrush said:

“Well, Trump doesn't give people any choice. I mean, he is pursuing a campaign of vengeance against people. And by the way, there's a lot of folks on the Hill. I'm old enough to remember — actually, a two-year-old would be old enough to remember — Lindsey Graham telling Donald Trump to forget about January 6th and move on with his life, right? He is not doing so. And now he has an entirely compliant FBI. More than compliant. Kash Patel, the FBI director, is somebody who essentially created an enemies list or a list of targets based on Trump’s grievances, who are now compliant with his agenda to go after political opponents and people he describes as personal enemies...Trump is bending the steel of the system...”

He continued:

“This is not just sort of about vengeance, achieving vengeance. It's about rewriting history. And I think that’s what Smith was trying to say in his George Mason speech — that by moving the priorities of the government to go after the individuals who prosecuted these cases, you are in a sense attempting to rewrite history, to say that what they did on January 6th was not only legal, but justified.”

What Thrush means by “rewriting history” goes beyond politics — it’s about controlling how the story of January 6 will be remembered, told, and ultimately written into history books. He’s suggesting that if Trump’s administration investigates or removes the prosecutors behind the January 6 cases, it would make those prosecutions appear wrong and the defendants appear justified. In his framing, that would change the moral meaning of January 6 itself.

Thrush is saying that Trump is using government power to punish those who investigated him and to change how Americans view January 6 — to make the the protesters look like the good guys, and the prosecutors look corrupt or wrong. But the reality is that the media has already written its own version of January 6 — one that overlooks evidence, ignores political motives, and dismisses selective prosecutions.

This isn’t reporting — it’s political messaging for the Democratic Party. Wallace and Thrush aren’t investigating power; they’re defending it. They accuse Trump of bending the system, yet ignore how Democrats have twisted justice for years to target their opponents, censor dissent, and protect their own corruption.

The most revealing part of their exchange isn’t about vengeance — it’s their belief that Democrats and the media should control how history is written. When Thrush says Trump is “rewriting history,” what he really means is that anyone who challenges the left’s version of events must be silenced. They want to decide which facts make it into the record and which ones disappear — who gets blamed, who gets protected, and what future generations are taught to believe.

Thrush isn’t recording history; he’s trying to shape it — turning political spin into what the public eventually accepts as “truth."