In a lengthy new interview he sat down for at his Florida Mar-a-Lago home/resort with Washington Post reporter Josh Dawsey, Trump stood more firmly behind his January 6th behavior and conduct than he perhaps ever has, when he openly and publicly expressed his regret for not physically marching to the United States Capitol with his supporters who would go on to violently storm the building on that fateful day, before turning to lay the blame for the entire attack at the feet of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi once again.
Dawsey held a 45-minute-long interview with the disgraced, one-term, twice-impeached former president at Donald’s Florida golf club, where not only did Trump refuse to express any regret or guilt for what his supporters did at the nation’s Capitol on that infamous, violent day, or his personal calls for them to show up to Washington in the first place, but went so far as to express his own regret for not joining them in their march to the building. Trump instead used the interview to openly brag about the crowd size he brought in during his January 6th “Stop the Steal” rally that took place just hours ahead of the violent attack, while completely sidestepping the rhetoric and behavior he employed that day that led to the Capitol siege.
The Washington Post reports:
In fact, Trump said he deserved more credit for drawing such a large crowd to the Ellipse — and that he pressed to march on the Capitol with his supporters but was stopped by his security detail. ‘Secret Service said I couldn’t go. I would have gone there in a minute,’ he said.
The former president praised organizers of the rally, some of whom have now received subpoenas from federal authorities, and repeatedly bragged about the size of the crowd on the Ellipse, when questioned about the events of Jan. 6.
‘The crowd was far bigger than I even thought. I believe it was the largest crowd I’ve ever spoken to. I don’t know what that means, but you see very few pictures. They don’t want to show pictures, the fake news doesn’t want to show pictures,’ he said. ‘But this was a tremendous crowd.'”
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In addition to his display of pride in what took place that day, Trump also utilized the interview to once again place the blame for the violent attack against the Capitol on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — despite the fact, of course, that Pelosi was one of many who was personally targeted by Trump’s supporters that day and was not, in any way, in charge of the Capitol police. Trump also put additional blame on Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, in spite of the fact that the Post reports Bowser and her team “furiously tried to reach Trump’s team that day.”
“I thought it was a shame, and I kept asking why isn’t she doing something about it? Why isn’t Nancy Pelosi doing something about it? And the mayor of D.C. also. The mayor of D.C. and Nancy Pelosi are in charge,” Trump said during the interview. “I hated seeing it. I hated seeing it. And I said, ‘It’s got to be taken care of,’ and I assumed they were taking care of it.”
Now someone explain to me why this guy hasn’t been arrested yet.
Read the full report from the Washington Post here.
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