Larry Wilson: Five years after, Trump tries to erase Jan. 6 history

Five years on from the worst assault against our republic and its (occasionally tarnished, true) institutions of democracy, the White House administration of the felonious Donald Trump is busying itself literally erasing from the historical record the magnitude of that crime, when thousands of alternately misguided or perverse Americans, egged on by their president, tried to overturn the results of a free and fair election in a violent attack on the United States Capitol.

On Jan. 6, 2021...