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heaped praise on Jan. 6 insurrectionists as “warriors” over the weekend and falsely stated that police officers welcomed them into the U.S. Capitol during the 2021 riot.
“They were warriors but they were really more than anything else — they’re victims of what happened,” Trump, who is“All they were doing is protesting a rigged election. That’s what they were doing,” he continued, repeating his false claims about the 2020 presidential election. Trump also falsely claimed police officers urged hundreds of his supporters to storm the Capitol by telling them, “Go in, go in, go in, go in.”Trump: Those J6 warriors. They were warriors but they were really more than anything else— they’re victims of what happened. The police say go in. What a setup that was. You know what, that blows two waysThe claim that police officers or undercover federal agents helped orchestrate the Jan.
Still, Trump has sought to whitewash the events of Jan. 6 nearly four years after the attack, portraying the rioters as victims and vowing to pardon them if he is elected president again. At his rallies, Trump often plays a song recorded by Jan. 6 convicts and pays tribute to them. “He can’t claim to support law and order and at the same time support those who tried to upend our democracy,” former Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonellwhile they play a modified national anthem written by a convicted felon who attacked my co-workers. That’s not leadership; that’s betrayal.
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