Rewriting history to fit their world view of things is a feature of the Repub party faithful. I wish the moderator would have asked them questions about the Civil War and the school shootings that happened in the USA. When they deconstruct the truth and the facts that they are in denial of in order to fell good, to feel safer and more secure in their contrived beliefs what they are actually doing is existentially threatening the principles of democracy that our nation is built upon.
That folks like this exist is a testament to the conditioning they've been put through by their political cadre and those folks who have spent untold millions of $$$ toward messing with these people's heads in order to corrupt the gov't into their control. This is what happens when there are a few very wealthy folks who use their wealth to lead the nation without having to be voted into office. I mean, just look at what they've done to the highest court in our nation and what they've managed to do in the states they've corrupted into their control. Autocracy here we come, or have we already arrived?
edit - When millions of folks have to lie to themselves and to live in a world of lies to justify their unfounded beliefs, it's all the proof we need to know that they need to be kept from being in control of the lives of the other folks who see things for what they factually are. Our very existence as a democracy depends on it.