"They want to use that one day to try and demean the character and intentions of 74 million Americans who believed we could be strong again and prosperous again and supported our administration in 20."Īfter Trump left office, Pence had tried to distance himself from Trump about the insurrection, saying he and the former president would never see "eye to eye" about the day. "I know the media wants to distract from the Biden administration's failed agenda by focusing on one day in January," Pence said during a Monday interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity. Trump's statement comes after Pence, himself a major target of the insurrectionists' ire, attempted to downplay the bloody riot as little more than a protest by rightfully aggrieved Americans. High-ranking lawmakers, including then-Vice President Mike Pence, had to be evacuated to safety as some of the protesters threatened violence, including chants of " Hang Mike Pence," against those inside. Politics House panel subpoenas the organizers behind a rally that preceded the Capitol attack Capitol was egged on by Trump in the waning days of his single-term presidency, with protesters - some of whom waved anti-American flags - storming the Capitol building in an attempt to stop the certification of Biden's election victory.
The deadly January insurrection at the U.S. "The Unselect Committee of partisan Democrats, and two very weak and pathetic RINOs, should come to the conclusion after spending many millions of dollars, that the real insurrection happened on November 3rd, the Presidential Election, not on January 6th-which was a day of protesting the Fake Election results," Trump said in an unfounded, conspiratorial statement. Donald Trump and his then-running mate, Mike Pence, embrace as they shake hands after Pence's acceptance speech at the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland.įormer President Donald Trump continued to champion the lie that he was unfairly stripped of office in the White House race against President Biden, saying Wednesday that the "real insurrection" happened on Election Day 2020.
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