A woke Historian has sparked fury online after comparing the January 6 riot to the Holocaust during an MSNBC appearance making the first anniversary of the violence at the Capitol.
During an MSNBC appearance on Thursday to mark the one year anniversary of the Capitol riots Rice University history professor Douglas Brinkley boldly compared the days events to that of the Holocaust - which saw 11 million people exterminated by the Nazis - Pearl Harbor and the September 11 attacks.
Brinkley told MSNBC anchor Craig Melvin that there is irreputable proof of what happened that day and history wont be kind those who try to downplay the events and evoked the Holocaust.
'But we have film footage of happened on January 6th, and we have proof,' Brinkley said. 'Dwight Eisenhower during World War II, made sure all the Holocaust camps were filmed. So we've got the film footage, so we're combating the conspiracy theorists, deniers and some, you know, Trumpeteers.'