Trump (2017-2021) told The Washington Post that he would have accompanied his ultra-loyal supporters as they marched to the Capitolthe US legislative headquarters, but was stopped before arriving by his security team.
“The Secret Service told me I couldn’t go. I would have gone there in a minuteTrump said, adding that it was the largest crowd he had ever spoken to.
Thousands of supporters of the Republican magnate overcame police checkpoints and stormed the Capitol last year in an effort to stop the legislative certification of his successor and the peaceful transfer of power after the Democrat Joe Biden won a decisive victory in 2020. Five people were killed in the riots, including a policeman.
But Trump was unrepentant for whipping up the crowd with unprovided claims that his victory was stolen through widespread fraud, though he was nonetheless clear in his condemnation of the violence that followed the rally by Republican loyalists.
Trump repeatedly boasted about the “tremendous” size of the crowd at his rally before the riots and glossed over his explosive rhetoric that ignited it.
“I don’t know what that means, but you see very few images. They don’t want to show images, the ‘fake news’ (false news, as Trump called the critical media, ndlr) don’t want to show images,” he said.
The former president defended his long silence during the incidents, shifting blame to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Democrat Nancy Pelosidespite the fact that she is not responsible for the surveillance at the Capitol and was herself a target of the mob.
What happened that January 6 is the subject of a thorough investigation by a special committee of Congress and also by the justice system.
More than 750 people were arrested in this historic investigation, including some leaders of far-right groups. To avoid trial, more than 200 defendants have pleaded guilty, of whom some 70 have already been sentenced in federal court. The most severe sentence was five years in prison.
Source: Ambito
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