As a result of the Capitol Hill incident on January 6, Donald Trump has spoken out against the report, claiming there is no proof of his involvement and that it excluded material to support its findings. In a video answer made available on Friday, he said that the investigation’s sponsors had made false claims and criticized them for failing to present any concrete proof that he or anybody connected to him had intended to use violence.
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The House Select Committee’s eagerly awaited 845-page report, which was published on Thursday, came to the conclusion that former President Donald Trump was “the principal cause” of the deadly Capitol riot last year. Beyond simple criticism, a new suggestion was made on Monday, calling for Mr. Trump to face criminal charges for his role in interfering with an official investigation and, among other violations, encouraging or supporting insurrection. Although it is unclear whether he will face justice, the Department of Justice may soon get their chance as they wait for this crucial decision from high-ranking officials.
In response, Trump claimed that for two years, “the American people have been assaulted with lies from the partisan witch hunt known as the Unselect Committee on January 6,” in an exclusive video made available to the Daily Caller.
The ex-president claimed that the committee left out the passages from his remarks encouraging “protesters to make their opinions heard peacefully and patriotically,” from a tweet telling them to “go home with love and in peace,” and from a speech in which he called for “law and order.”
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Speaker Pelosi and the mayor of Washington, D.C. discouraged President Trump from deploying a sizable number of National Guard troops ahead of the Capitol protests, which many believe may have prevented some of the violence seen at these events.
“If they had listened to me, my recommendation, none of this would have happened, and you wouldn’t have heard about January 6 as you know it,” he added.
Then he referred to Cassidy Hutchinson’s claims that he reached for the steering wheel in order to go to the Capitol as a “absurd and debunked narrative.”
“The committee barely discussed the catastrophic security failures at the Capitol, and they didn’t discuss the other thing, the reason why everybody went there: the election, which was a corrupt disaster. They did not discuss why the doors were flung wide open … and they didn’t discuss the role of federal informants,” he continued.
“The events of January 6 were not an insurrection. They were a protest that tragically got out of control, and which the left has been weaponizing ever since, to censor, spy on and persecute American citizens. The entire phony hoax is about taking away your speech, taking away your vote and taking away your freedom,” Trump said.
“The Unselect Committee will go down in history as a con job and a disgrace. They want to stop us from taking back our country, but they will fail, they will not win. We will make America great again,” he concluded.
