Trump called on January 6, the day his supporters led a failed insurrection, “a day of love”
Former President Donald Trump said on Wednesday January 6, 2021 – the day his supporters occupied the congress in a failed insurrection to try to prevent legislators from certifying the electoral victory of Joe Biden – was a “day of love”.
Trump made the confusing complaint at a television town hall organized by Indivision.
Ramiro González, a Tampa construction worker, told Reunion that he had degenerated as a republican because he had found Trump's “inaction” on January 6 and the “disturbing” Covid-19 pandemic. He asked Trump to go up his controversial behavior during the attack on the American Capitol – and the fact that many of his own former administration officials no longer support him – with why he should be re -elected.
Trump began by saying that “97%” of people from his previous administration still support him, while recognizing that senior officials like his former vice-president, Mike Pence, said they would not vote for him.
Then, he started a generally disjointed response to contact January 6, when he sadly informed a gathering of his supporters in Washington, DC, that “if you do not fight like hell, you will no longer have a country” before exhorter to walk on the Capitol while the Congress certifying the 2020 presidential vote.
“Very important, you have had hundreds of thousands of people in Washington,” said Trump about the rally estimated 53,000 people attended. “They did not come because of me, they came because of the elections. They thought that the elections were a rigged election and that is why they came. ”
Trump continued to suggest that his supporters, who caused millions Dollars of damage, had been peaceful: “There were no weapons there. We had no firearms, the others had weapons, but we had no firearms.”
He then declared the day when a Lovefest – even if a demonstrator was fatally killed by the Capitol police, a police officer was fatally attacked and a number of other deaths followed.
“When I say” we “, these are people who went down, it was a small percentage of the whole, that nobody sees and that no one shows, but it was a day of love from the point of view of the millions-it is like hundreds of thousands, it could have been the biggest group before before,” he added, exaggerating the size of the crowd again.
Trump boasted that the Democrats “could not get me because of the fact that I said” everything must be peaceful and patriotic “.
Trump was referring to the time, at 12:16 pm, when he declared to the rally on January 6: “I know that everyone here will soon head to the Capitol building to make the voice peacefully and patriotic.”
Evidence presented During a house panel in 2022, showed that after leaving the event, Trump returned to the White House and saw the violent riots take place at the Capitol on television, doing nothing to stop them for hours.
