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Trump refuses to say in TV interview how he watched Jan 6 attack unfold at U.S. Capitol

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By MICHELLE L. PRICE

Former President Donald Trump repeatedly declined in an interview aired Sunday to answer questions about whether he watched the Capitol riot unfold on television, saying he would “tell people later at an appropriate time.”

Trump, the current front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, refused to say on NBC's “Meet the Press” how he spent Jan. 6, 2021, once the insurrection began and whether he made phone calls as his supporters stormed the seat of American democracy.

“I’m not going to tell you. I’ll tell people later at an appropriate time,” Trump told moderator Kristen Welker after she asked if he spent that afternoon watching the attack on television in a dining room at the White House.

Trump's former aides have said he sequestered himself in the room off the Oval Office to watch, at times even rewinding and rewatching some parts.

In the interview, taped Thursday at Trump's golf club in New Jersey, Trump refused to say who he called as the violence unfolded. “Why would I tell you that?” he said.

Trump said in response to Welker's pressing him about his public silence during the violence that he had made “beautiful statements" on the day of the attack.

Trump's supporters, fueled by his lies about the 2020 presidential election, stormed the building as Congress prepare to certify the victory of Democrat Joe Biden. Trump is facing federal criminal charges for his efforts to overturn his loss in that election but he is not facing charges related to the insurrection.

Trump said he might consider pardoning some of the rioters charged for their actions that day.

More than 1,000 people have been charged with federal crimes related to the Jan. 6 riot and more than 600 have pleaded guilty or been convicted.

“I’m going to look at them, and I certainly might if I think it’s appropriate" to pardon them, the former president said.

Trump also said he would consider pardoning former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio, who was sentenced to 22 years in prison orchestrating a failed plot to keep Trump in power. Trump said Tarrio was treated “horribly," according to a full transcript of the NBC interview, which included parts that were not aired.

Trump is facing 91 criminal charges across four cases in federal and state courts related to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, the mishandling of classified documents and charges related to allegations of hush-money paid to cover up extramarital affairs. He has denied wrongdoing.

Trump was asked if he fears going to jail.

“No, I don’t really. I don’t even think about it. I’m built a little differently I guess,” he said.

As he pushed to overturn the election, Trump relied on a band of outside allies who undertook what federal prosecutors have called a “criminal scheme” to fraudulently overturn the 2020 results instead of relying on the advice of attorneys in the White House who urged him to accept his loss to Biden.

Trump was asked in the interview why he didn’t listen to those lawyers.

“I didn’t respect them,” Trump said.

“In many cases, I didn’t respect them. But I did respect others. I respected many others that said the election was rigged.”

Trump said he was listening both to his instincts and “different people” to guide his actions around the election's results.

The NBC appearance was Trump's first broadcast network interview since leaving office and marked Welker's debut show as host.

Trump also said he was pleased to hear Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent remarks praising Trump for suggesting that he were elected to the White House again, he would negotiate an end to Russia’s war in Ukraine. Putin on Tuesday said Trump’s statements were “good” and brought “happiness.”

“Well, I like that he said that. Because that means what I’m saying is right,” Trump said on NBC.

Trump said he had had a good relationship with Putin, something he has said several times before, and denied that any deal he would seek in Ukraine would be a win for Russia and allow it to keep territory it has seized.

“That’s something that could have been negotiated,” Trump said. He went on and said, “They could have made a deal where there’s lesser territory right now than Russia’s already taken, to be honest.”

Trump repeatedly declined to say whether he would support a federal ban on abortion and he criticized a ban on abortion after six weeks of pregnancy that was signed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, one of Trump's top rivals in the presidential primary.

“I think what he did is a terrible thing and a terrible mistake," Trump said.

Trump said he did not care whether abortion was ultimately banned at a federal level or settled by laws in each state. The U.S. Supreme Court, with the support of three justices appointed by Trump, last year overturned the federal right to an abortion.

“From a pure standpoint, from a legal standpoint, I think it’s probably better” to be handled at the state level, Trump said.

“But I can live with it either way. It’s much more important, the number of weeks is much more important.”

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Kind of surprised he kept his mouth shut. I'll bet his lawyers finally got through to him.

15 ( +20 / -5 )

“I’m not going to tell you. I’ll tell people later at an appropriate time,” Trump told moderator Kristen Welker after she asked if he spent that afternoon watching the attack on television in a dining room at the White House.

Yup, he was definitely watching on TV cheering the insurrectionists on.

16 ( +22 / -6 )

I’m not going to tell you.

ex-45 must need to fabricate another big lie that even he can believe, he must believe his drone armies and cultists will parrot whatever he says, and by now might even recognize the majorirty of the world, excluding some parts of Moscow, know he's the most dishonest politician in US history; at lying he's number one. Did Mexico pay for his imaginary wall? Did Trump donate one penny of his presisdential pay to charity?

16 ( +19 / -3 )

he would “tell people later at an appropriate time.”

In court, under oath.

18 ( +23 / -5 )

Because "dancing with glee" wouldn't go over well with the 1 or 2 moderate voters left in the Republican party.

15 ( +19 / -4 )

Trump at his best!

Denying, telling lies, trying to b.s. people!

And of course always the same wordings:

"make a deal, terrible, terrible, rigged election, no respect for others, I'm not going to tell you, beautiful... blablabla"

It's about him he gets retired!

20 ( +25 / -5 )

Not sure why he's so coy. Just say you enjoyed seeing the MAGA base breaking into the Capitol to stop the transition of power.

Does he think he'll lose votes from his supporters or something? He owns them. They're both mindless and spineless and absolutely no threat to him or what he might say

15 ( +20 / -5 )

White House aides on the day said when Trump returned he sat in a room without lights on watching the riots on the TV.

16 ( +19 / -3 )

I mean, does it matter? The Dems got what they wanted….kind of…somewhat, so they want to add more fuel to the fire? I wouldn’t give these people the time of day and tell them anything at this point. It would just be used as a hit piece Anyway so….

White House aides on the day said when Trump returned he sat in a room without lights on watching the riots on the TV.

Allegedly.

-18 ( +7 / -25 )

Benedict Donald should be doing life in prison with the Proud Boys. He’s lucky he is a former president.

10 ( +15 / -5 )

"Former acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller told the House select committee investigating the Capitol Hill insurrection that former President Donald Trump never gave him a formal order to have 10,000 troops ready to be deployed to the Capitol on January 6, 2021, according to new video of Miller’s deposition released by the committee. "

"Pence — not Trump — asked Guard troops to help defend Capitol on Jan. 6, panel says"

12 ( +16 / -4 )

I mean, does it matter? The Dems got what they wanted….kind of…somewhat, so they want to add more fuel to the fire? I

It matters because Trump was still the President at the time and he supported and incited an insurrection and attempted to overturn an election he clearly lost.

And it does matter what he was doing - he was the one with the power to stop the insurrection, and he chose to let it continue.

Allegedly

ROFL

16 ( +20 / -4 )

“tell people later at an appropriate time.”

Always claiming to be sitting on something crucial but not able to reveal any details; his tax returns, how to end the war in 24 hours, irrefutable evidence the election was stolen.

Gotta keep his fans guessing.

10 ( +14 / -4 )

We have sworn testimony that he sat the watching it and did not a damn thing.

Because he wanted it to happen.

He wanted it to succeed.

He intentionally violated his Constitutional oath to protect the United States from all enemies foreign and domestic.

Because they were doing his bidding.

17 ( +21 / -4 )

Right up there with “I know that. I don’t even know that!”

8 ( +12 / -4 )

Smart move. Everything he says will be distorted and used against him.

-17 ( +5 / -22 )

Trump's daughter Ivanka on Jan 6 was begging him to do something.

11 ( +15 / -4 )

--White House aides on the day said when Trump returned he sat in a room without lights on watching the riots on the TV.

Allegedly.

So what's the real story?

11 ( +16 / -5 )

The Dems got what they wanted….kind of…somewhat, so they want to add more fuel to the fire?

NBC = The Dems?

You've got a seriously cartoonish view of the world.

10 ( +16 / -6 )

Everything he says will be distorted and used against him.

So unfair!

9 ( +15 / -6 )

Smart move. Everything he says will be distorted and used against him.

You have the right to remain silent. EVERY THING you say can and will be held against you in a court of law.

Every one of these tv interviews is getting In because they’re all confessions.

The idiot can’t help himself. It’s not going to be his lawyers fault. He did it to himself.

6 ( +11 / -5 )

So what's the real story?

Not sure, I don’t speculate.

Smart move. Everything he says will be distorted and used against him.

Exactly.

We have sworn testimony that he sat the watching it and did not a damn thing. 

You do know that a sworn testimony doesn’t mean you are telling the truth, you know that right? If you know anything about law as you claim you do, people lie all the time, regardless of the facts.

Because he wanted it to happen. 

He wanted it to succeed. 

So you’re another clairvoyant?

He intentionally violated his Constitutional oath to protect the United States from all enemies foreign and domestic. 

So why didn’t Pelosi assist him in helping him keep that oath.

Because they were doing his bidding.

Pelosi didn’t. Her intention from the optics of it didn’t seem like she wanted to help the President or the nation.

-16 ( +6 / -22 )

So unfair!

Did you think so when Stacy Abrams lost?

You've got a seriously cartoonish view of the world.

Wrong, that would be the Democrats front and center.

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“I’m not going to tell you. I’ll tell people later at an appropriate time,” Trump told moderator Kristen Welker after she asked if he spent that afternoon watching the attack on television in a dining room at the White House.

Add if he watched the Jan. 6 riots to Trump's tax returns, most beautiful health care plan ever, completion of the Wall to all the things Trump is keeping everyone in suspense about since he became president in 2016.

Another sign of the cult-like behavior of his followers, and promises never delivered.

I see most already picked up on this pattern.

Except his cultists of course. They are like those groups that are told a date for the apocalypse by their prophet and when that passes wait for the next date.

14 ( +19 / -5 )

You frequently speculate even claiming Trump is innocent of all four cases even before he has his trials. Lying with sworn testimony is perjury.

"State and federal penalties for perjury include fines and prison terms upon conviction. Federal law (18 USC § 1621), for example, states that anyone found guilty of the crime will be fined or imprisoned for up to five years."

Pelosi like many others was under siege on Jan 6.

10 ( +15 / -5 )

If he's going to pardon these felons, it is yet another of the 1000+ reasons why he is unfit for office.

11 ( +14 / -3 )

He did it. He’s guilty AF.

He’s going to be convicted.

If Enrique and Elmer Rhodes got 22 and 17 years respectively, deterrence, the rule of law and fairness dictated that the blob that instigated it get at least that.

7 ( +13 / -6 )

He blew up his entire defense by saying he wasn’t acting on advice from lawyers, that he was “the decider.” Haha. He’s digging his hole deeper and deeper with everything he says. The walls are closing in. He put himself in checkmate for a conviction.

This whole Trump & Company reality show is a comedy and a tragedy.

I hear the tuba from “Cub your Enthusiasm” in my mind after everything that comes out of his mouth.

At least he didn’t say his was ahead in the polls against Obama again or talk about starting WWII like the other day.

12 ( +16 / -4 )

bass4funk

I mean, does it matter?

For sure. If Trump had come out straight away and told his supporters to stop their insurrection and go home, things would be very different.

White House aides on the day said when Trump returned he sat in a room without lights on watching the riots on the TV.

Allegedly.

Well Trump had the opportunity to clear this up and he declined. So until he says different, I'll go with this explanation.

10 ( +14 / -4 )

You frequently speculate even claiming Trump is innocent of all four cases even before he has his trials.

Until proven guilty

Lying with sworn testimony is perjury. 

Yes, but again, it’s how the perjury is pursued, if at all.

Pelosi like many others was under siege on Jan 6

Yeah, the left keep saying this.

https://thefederalist.com/2022/06/23/investigators-pelosi-responsible-for-jan-6-security-breakdown-at-u-s-capitol/

-18 ( +4 / -22 )

So much has already been published about Trump on Jan 6 and is well documented.

6 ( +11 / -5 )

Trump gets into trouble because frequently he does not listen to his lawyers.

8 ( +13 / -5 )

For sure. If Trump had come out straight away and told his supporters to stop their insurrection and go home, things would be very different.

He did tell them to go home and respect the police and leave peacefully and orderly and things weren’t different.

“I know how you feel, but go home and go home in peace. I know you’re in pain. I know you’re hurt,” 

“We had an election that was stolen from us. It was a landslide election, and everyone knows it, especially the other side. But you have to go home now. We have to have peace. We have to have law and order. We have to respect our great people in law and order. We don’t want anybody hurt,”

Well Trump had the opportunity to clear this up.

He did and has been trying to and this is the result, so at this point I wouldn’t say squat either because in the end, it doesn’t matter to the Dems.

-19 ( +5 / -24 )

He did it. He’s guilty AF. 

Not according to the US judicial system

He’s going to be convicted. 

Maybe

If Enrique and Elmer Rhodes got 22 and 17 years respectively, deterrence, the rule of law and fairness dictated that the blob that instigated it get at least that

Who knows, but I don’t believe so. Those men will not serve even 1/3 of their sentences at least not while the Dems are in charge of the government.

-17 ( +4 / -21 )

Trump is winning on all fronts and undoubtedly will be the President again next year! Good for him not answering that hacks question.

-15 ( +8 / -23 )

Trump is winning on all fronts and undoubtedly will be the President again next year! 

What’s to stop Kamala Harris from overturning the election? If Pence could do it why not? /s

11 ( +15 / -4 )

Trump was asked in the interview why he didn’t listen to those lawyers.

“I didn’t respect them,” Trump said

So much for the advice of counsel/ ineffective counsel" defense.

The moron just admitted that he was advised otherwise and chose to ignore that advice.

15 ( +18 / -3 )

bass4funk

For sure. If Trump had come out straight away and told his supporters to stop their insurrection and go home, things would be very different.

He did tell them to go home and respect the police and leave peacefully and orderly and things weren’t different.

He needed to do it quickly, that's the point. He waited and waited and waited.

He had finished his speech at 1:10pm and didn't tell them to go home until 4:20pm.

14 ( +16 / -2 )

Who knows,

You certainly don't. That much is certain.

but I don’t believe so. Those men will not serve even 1/3 of their sentences at least not while the Dems are in charge of the government.

As you've been consistently, objectively wrong in your predictions......

15 ( +19 / -4 )

I can't help but notice that the felon in chief's comb-over is as objectively ludicrous and increasingly thin as his defense.

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Trump refuses to say in TV interview how he watched Jan 6 attack unfold at U.S. Capitol

This was the first question that occurred to me on Jan. 6th and should have been one of the first questions he coulda, shoulda, woulda been made to answer on the very same day or on any following day in January, February, March when memories were still fresh, had it not been for the cowardly, craven content of America's ruling elite political establishment that was paralyzed by indecision about how to respond to the legal challenges posed by a loose Quannon Potus. From the get go it was obvious that close scrutiny of Trump's behavior (presumably watching the Capitol riot unfold on multiple screens while chomping on burgers and quaffing Diet-Cokes) would reveal the extent of his guilt by his singular neglect of duty and egregious violation of his oath of office. America's elite politicians must now all share the blame that we still do not know from Trump's own mouth how he spent his day on Jan. 6th.

13 ( +14 / -1 )

"saying he would “tell people later at an appropriate time.”

Yea...like he would release his tax returns later at an appropriate time.

18 ( +18 / -0 )

What relevance is there about watching it. Would there be more relevance about not watching and retiring to the green office to practice his putting? Like what American didn’t watch events unfold ? If the media play the strategy of not giving Trump any publicity either negative or positive the American political scene would have seen the last of Trump. No, they went in hard with any Negativity about him and his family which shows today how it as backfired and only made him more popular.

-15 ( +2 / -17 )

You where upset Bob when Dems pulled the same thing after Trump won in 2016? Of course you weren’t, because your a hypocrite!!

No and no.

I know you think the j6 event was worse than Pearl Habor! Only true sociopaths could make such statements.

You need to listen to yourself or at least think before pushing the post button.

8 ( +12 / -4 )

Former President Donald Trump repeatedly declined in an interview aired Sunday to answer questions about whether he watched the Capitol riot unfold on television, saying he would “tell people later at an appropriate time.”

Well that's a first - every other interview he has done jas just added to the charge sheet....

Haven't seen this interview yet but I sure wish someone would put Trump on the spot and ask him these questions;

"Your attorney submitted a certified letter verifying that no classified documents remain at Mar-A-Lago, but then the FBI found 184 more one month later....why did you direct your attorney to lie in writing?"

"You have at various times said that you declassified all the classified documents, and then later said that you took no classified documents, only empty folders. Yet you were caught on tape bragging about a classified war-plan you said was "Secret" and also admitted that you could not declassify it. However, you told Sean Hannity last week that you again declassified everything. Which is the truth?"

"Why did you direct your aide and MAL property manager to move classified boxes out of storage in violation of a subpoena and then direct them to erase the video tapes showing them committing that crime?"

"Witnesses have testified that you were aware of or directed a scheme to get unauthorized access to a Georgia polling location in Coffee County, and that there are texts and emails showing you and your associates planned to plant fake evidence of fraud on voting machines...isn't planting evidence a crime?"

"John Eastman has been named as a indicted co-conspirator for his scheme to draft fake, fraudulent electors to replace the certified ones provided by the states. Eastman admitted to Greg Jacob, Vice President Mike Pence’s counsel on Jan. 4, 2021 that he told you that his plan to thwart the counting of the Electoral College violated federal statute. Why did you agree with and implement a scheme that you knew was a violation of federal law?"

He'd melt down into a big puddle of orange goo....

11 ( +15 / -4 )

“You need to listen to yourself or at least think before pushing the post button.”

Really Bob are you trying to actually deny that the Trump Hating media never made such statements? That the Biden White House never made such statements? That individuals like yourself never made such statements?

I’m looking forward to coming here next November after Trump wins the Presidency again just to watch you all loose your minds! It will be so Hilarious to watch!

-13 ( +4 / -17 )

"You won't say if you were watching the insurrection on tv during the 181 min.

All we have is your tweet castigating Mike Pence. You took no phone calls. There is no record on the White House switchboard of incoming or out going calls. The White House photographer was denied entry to the dining room you were holed up in. Your own son couldn't get you on the phone.

You're not willing to say if you were watching the insurrection in real time (some witnesses have said you went so far as to rewind some footage and watch it again.), so let me ask you a different question.

What the Hell WERE you doing for 3 hours while your supporters stormed the barricades, beat cops, chanted "hang mike Pence!" and smeared feces on the walls of Congress? "

12 ( +15 / -3 )

For sure. If Trump had come out straight away and told his supporters to stop their insurrection and go home, things would be very different.

He did tell them to go home and respect the police and leave peacefully and orderly and things weren’t different.

He needed to do it quickly, that's the point.

He absolutely did

He waited and waited and waited.

Give me a break as if the Dems would have given him credit for that. Lol

He had finished his speech at 1:10pm and didn't tell them to go home until 4:20pm.

Maybe if Pelosi would have granted his request and called in the Capitol police, we could have avoided all of this.

-16 ( +1 / -17 )

He did tell them to go home and respect the police and leave peacefully and orderly

After the mob had already done its damage.

Make a note: there's such a thing as time. There's a before, during, and after for any event.

Trump didn't do a damn thing to stop the insurrection for almost three hours.

12 ( +14 / -2 )

You certainly don't. That much is certain.

Neither do you, that’s a definite given.

As you've been consistently, objectively wrong in your predictions......

And you as well in the end.

-15 ( +2 / -17 )

Really Bob are you trying to actually deny that the Trump Hating media never made such statements? That the Biden White House never made such statements? That individuals like yourself never made such statements?

I’m denying that I made such statements. Go ahead and quote me if I did. But you can’t. And you have the nerve to talk about ‘facts’. Shameless.

5 ( +9 / -4 )

He did tell them to go home and respect the police and leave peacefully and orderly and things weren’t different.

AFTER 3 hours of doing nothing.

After he was told that he risked criminal charges (they got that part right).

After it was obvious that the in showers going to fail.

And he never called out the guard. Pence did that.

Trump intentionally took no action.

And he has no defense.

7 ( +11 / -4 )

Go Trump 24, drain that swamp.

Apparently it’s impossible to drain the swamp in only one term. So even if he were to become President again it wouldn’t happen.

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Trump didn't do a damn thing to stop the insurrection for almost three hours.

Neither did Pelosi.

Of all the weak and shameful (or should I say shameless) deflections, this one is the worst.

That somehow the victim of the insurrection is to blame for not defending itself.

Its like blaming the victim of a sex-offender (something Trump would be very familiar with) for being out too late.

Its a lazy weak dodge to mask as poorly as the comb-over the fact that Trump has no defense because he's guilty AF.

12 ( +13 / -1 )

Trump told his MAGA supporters to fight like hell and march on the Capitol Building. We all know what happened next.

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Former President Donald Trump said that he received counsel from numerous people shortly after the 2020 election but that it was his decision to push the false claim he won the presidency and try to overturn the results.

“It was my decision, but I listened to some people,” Trump told NBC’s “Meet the Press” in an interview that aired Sunday.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-says-decision-try-overturn-174422967.html

Well, there it is....just one more confession that Jack Smith can use to nail him to the wall...

Trump ADMITTED that he was the "decider" to implement the "Green Bay Sweep" - John Eastman's ILLEGAL scheme to use fake, fraudulent elector lists to change the election results.

A scheme that Eastman ADMITTED to VP Pence's counsel was a VIOLATION OF FEDERAL STATUTE and that he TOLD TRUMP...

So Trump knew he lost since he was told by his own WH Counsel Pat Cipollone and hand-picked AG Bill Barr that there was no massive fraud, but chose to listen to and implement a scheme to overthrow the election results that its author Eastman admitted violated federal statute...even after being told it was ILLEGAL...

Our MAGA-friends can live in their far-right fantasy land - but reality is going to intrude on their delusions very quickly. The sooner they realize this the better....

7 ( +12 / -5 )

unfortunately for the trump hating individuals like you it’s kinda hard to believe anything you say. 

I don’t hate 45 or his supporters. They’re pathetic and sadly comical. But I don’t hate anyone. The only people using words like hate and angry in these threads are his supporters. Projection.

A lot of people do dislike 45 though, the majority actually. Which explains why he keeps losing and is always whining about how unfair everything is.

I’ve said this a hundred times, something you can actually quote me on; he will not be 47. It’s just not going to happen.

10 ( +13 / -3 )

Trump told his MAGA supporters to fight like hell and march on the Capitol Building. We all know what happened next.

He also told them to stand down. Can’t be omitted for the records, that quite is important because it tells the state of mind of the President, had he not said that, he would be in trouble I would imagine.

Of all the weak and shameful (or should I say shameless) deflections, this one is the worst.

Then don’t deflect.

That somehow the victim of the insurrection is to blame for not defending itself.

Got a problem with genders, kind of confusing us there guy. Who are you talking about?

Its like blaming the victim of a sex-offender (something Trump would be very familiar with) for being out too late.

If the allegations are true.

Its a lazy weak dodge to mask as poorly as the comb-over the fact that Trump has no defense because he's guilty AF.

Not in the US judicial system, that is what makes America truly great.

-17 ( +3 / -20 )

Tell me something, if the roles were reversed who do you think they would blame Pelosi or Trump?

Maybe if Pelosi would have granted his request and called in the Capitol police, we could have avoided all of this.

Those men will not serve even 1/3 of their sentences

Who knows? It’s a good thing you ‘don’t like to speculate’.

14 ( +16 / -2 )

Read Trump's Jan. 6 Speech, A Key Part Of Impeachment Trial

"We fight like hell. And if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore," he said.

https://www.npr.org/2021/02/10/966396848/read-trumps-jan-6-speech-a-key-part-of-impeachment-trial

10 ( +13 / -3 )

https://thefederalist.com/2022/06/23/investigators-pelosi-responsible-for-jan-6-security-breakdown-at-u-s-capitol/

Do you even know how to link bro? It has been brought up often and makes a moderated discussion among diverse opinions pointless, like the first Trump-Biden debate.

I do not post my articles from The Daily Worker because it is obviously strongly leftist and try to post links from sources that cite widely agreed upon data and statistics and have a reputation for some veracity.

To "prove" that the "left" who you say is Nancy Pelosi was responsible for Jan 6 you cite a website owned by a hard right Trump supporter, who in 2020, received at least $200,000 in COVID-19 relief funds from the Paycheck Protection Program in corporate welfare from Trump, a site that has a column for "Black Crime", that has been blocked for COVID conspiracies, and of course are election deniers.

Very weak and no game.

11 ( +13 / -2 )

Trump in his Jan 6 never once said "stand down".

8 ( +12 / -4 )

He does have an ongoing court case on the matter so it makes sense he would be tight-lipped.

4 ( +5 / -1 )

Read Trump's Jan. 6 Speech, A Key Part Of Impeachment Trial

"We fight like hell. And if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore," he said.

Or this part…

“go home and go home in peace.“

“But you have to go home now. We have to have peace. We have to have law and order. We have to respect our great people in law and order. We don’t want anybody hurt,”

-14 ( +2 / -16 )

“go home and go home in peace.“

That is not in Trump's Jan 6 speech which I linked to.

The word "home" is only mentioned 8 times during the speech.

5 ( +9 / -4 )

The speech he told supporters to "peacefully and patriotically" march or walk to the Capitol?

-1 ( +4 / -5 )

Indeed. In spite of his best efforts to delay a trial, poison the jury pool and escape judgement, he's going to be tried by a jury of his peers.

And if it doesn’t go the way YOU want you’re going to have a fit, right?

He's going to be convicted because he has no defense.

Because you say so or you want it to be so?

He's going to die in prison because he's guilty AF.

No, he absolutely won’t. Lol

And that's what makes America truly great. 

That’s what the left thinks and once the GOP retake the WH will Dems still think so?

Wannabe tin-pot dictators are not above the law

As you this administration, poll numbers continue to spiral downward out of control.

The word "home" is only mentioned 8 times during the speech.

But it was mentioned, lucky for him, that helps him.

-13 ( +2 / -15 )

Trump's Jan 6 speech

And we fight. We fight like hell. And if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore.

Our exciting adventures and boldest endeavors have not yet begun. My fellow Americans, for our movement, for our children, and for our beloved country.

And I say this despite all that's happened. The best is yet to come.

So we're going to, we're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue. I love Pennsylvania Avenue. And we're going to the Capitol, and we're going to try and give.

The Democrats are hopeless — they never vote for anything. Not even one vote. But we're going to try and give our Republicans, the weak ones because the strong ones don't need any of our help. We're going to try and give them the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.

So let's walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.

I want to thank you all. God bless you and God Bless America.

Thank you all for being here. This is incredible. Thank you very much. Thank you.

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Go Trump 2024!

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next November is in 2023.

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Hopefully he didn't watch it on CNN

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Russian collusion, stolen elections 2016.

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bass4funk

   The word "home" is only mentioned 8 times during the speech.

> But it was mentioned, lucky for him, that helps him.

Wrong. I posted a link to a transcript of Trump's speech and you can use a "search in page" to find the word "home". Which only appears 8 times. Gotya.

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Trump is going to prison. I might even go visit him from Japan.

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next November is in 2023.

November 2023 is this November.

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The continued focus on Jan. 6 despite all else that is going on and all the other riots where deaths occured is insane. The Congressmen who got a taste of the sentiments of the America public think they too special to have any heat the rest of us get, as they keep worrying about this while doing nothing about kids in cages at the border for example, and sending so much money to Ukraine while homeless people pile up on the streets of America.

Their continued focus and insane attempts to pin this all on Trump, and other things too, through wonton abuse of the legal system, are only making Trump more popular and recreating the contitions of discontent which led to Jan. 6. in the first place. They setting the stage for much worse than Jan. 6.

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“next November is in 2023.”

Go figure you would write something this. Wow is that your gotcha moment?

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He watched it on TV with a box of chicken on his lap.

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The photo of a man in an overcoat who knows he's gonna have to move house very soon, but who has already supped bigly from the poison chalice of power, the Kool-Aid that never fails to cause mental derangement in most mortals made of weak clay. America is now living with the consequences of allowing a man manifestly unfit to serve become Potus and plunging the country into a chaos like nobody has ever seen before.

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Wrong. I posted a link to a transcript of Trump's speech and you can use a "search in page" to find the word "home". Which only appears 8 times. Gotya.

Nope, you didn’t. Trump saying goes home destroys the lefts argument that he intentionally wanted a protest to get out of hand. That sentence “go home, go in peace” stands on its own, now Smith has to disprove Trump didn’t mean it or unconsciously, said it, because he knew he was going to get caught, either way he has to show, intent, and if he can’t do that, game over.

Checkmated!

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Trump is going to prison. I might even go visit him from Japan.

You won’t have to, he’s not going.

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Trump refused to talk, meaning what exactly?

Answering that puerile question with an answer is not even needed!

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bass4funk

you need to read the transcript of Trump's Jan 6 speech if you want to quote from it.

“go home, go in peace” does not appear in his speech. He told his supporters to walk to the Capitol Building.

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You won’t have to, he’s not going.

Yes, he is. He is going to be locked up like a lying hyena in a zoo. We shall watch him thru a window, scratching he bald head when that wig shrivels up and he will loose white as a sheet when his orange fades. What a deserved sight it will be!

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you need to read the transcript of Trump's Jan 6 speech if you want to quote from it.

Dude, I don’t need to, for the last 2 years you guys have talked about it non-stop 24/7, 365 days, and from dusk until dawn. We all know in our sleep because it’s the ONLY thing the left talks about.

“go home, go in peace” does not appear in his speech.

ahhh the Dems omitted it again…

https://youtu.be/ME46AWvgrow?si=e5IYmD81n6q2gE5N

He told his supporters to walk to the Capitol Building.

And told them to go home. Jack Smith, good luck.

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Yes, he is.

No, he won’t.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-not-going-to-prison-capitol-riot-consequences_n_61d638cbe4b0c7d8b8ababcd

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bass4funk

Nope, you didn’t. Trump saying goes home destroys the lefts argument that he intentionally wanted a protest to get out of hand. That sentence “go home, go in peace” stands on its own,

It was far too late.

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You can always gauge the desperation of our Trump supporters here by their level of faux bravado...

It's somewhat off the scale today...and with good reason...

Trump admitted in his Meet the Press interview that he was the "final decider" to implement the plan its author John Eastman confessed to being a "violation of federal statute"....

And VP Pence's counsel, Greg Jacob, testified under oath that Eastman admitted to him it was illegal and that he also told Trump is was illegal...

And now today, Trump admitted on national TV that it was he, and only he, that "decided" to implement this illegal plan...

The desperation, misery, and despair in MAGA-world just reached "Level Orange"....expect more "Trump faux rah-rah" as the painful reality of Trump's multiple convictions and jail sentences get's nearer and nearer...

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