Former President Trump on Wednesday defended his actions on Jan. 6, 2021, and said protesters who descended on Washington, D.C., that day had “love in their heart.”
Trump was asked at a CNN town hall whether he had any regrets about his conduct on Jan. 6, when rioters violently stormed the Capitol to try and stop the certification of the 2020 election. The riots followed a speech by Trump outside the White House in which he repeated debunked claims that the 2020 election was fraudulent.
“I’ve never spoken to a crowd as large as this,” Trump said of that day. “That was because they thought the election was rigged. And they were there proud. They were there with love in their heart. That was an unbelievable and it was a beautiful day.”
Trump repeated a series of talking points that have been debunked by some of his own former officials in testimony to the House panel that investigated the Jan. 6 riots, including that then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was slow to call for military help that day.
At one point, moderator Kaitlan Collins pressed Trump and why it took him so long to cal on his supporters to stand down at the Capitol. The former president pulled a document from his jacket pocket that had printed out copies of his tweets from that day.
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The former president spent much of the early portion of Wednesday’s town hall repeating debunked claims that the 2020 election was rigged and that there were fraudulent votes in major cities like Atlanta, Detroit and Philadelphia, all located in states he lost in 2020. Several lawsuits brought by Trump and his lawyers over the 2020 election were dismissed.
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Only saw clips from this Trump rally, but as usual in these rallies, he lied and said things that were totally off the rails. I guess the rioters showed their love by beating the police, threatening House members and damaging property. Particularly touching was the noose for Mike Pence.
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