Trump, Who Celebrated Jan. 6, Cheers Crackdown on College Protesters

Let’s start today’s newsletter with a brief news quiz.Who said this, in reference to the clearing of protests on Columbia University’s campus last week?“The police came in. In exactly two hours, everything was over. It was a beautiful thing to watch.”And who said this, in reference to the attempted insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021?“It was a beautiful day.”The answer in both cases, of course, is former President Donald Trump, who is wielding self-serving and frequently inaccurate stories about both events as tools in his presidential campaign. He has denounced…