Confronted by a Republican voter about the Jan. 6 riot, Trump says 'nothing' was done wrong that day [View all]
Source: NBC News
Oct. 16, 2024, 7:25 PM EDT
Donald Trump on Wednesday shrugged off the idea that his conduct on Jan. 6, 2021, should cost him the backing of Republican voters after a former supporter confronted him at a televised town hall and said he would not cast a ballot for the former president because of his actions that day. In his response at the Univision event, Trump also distanced himself from the attack on the Capitol while minimizing the damage done by a mob of his supporters.
"Nothing done wrong at all," Trump said in a lengthy response after a Republican voter from Florida said he had lost his vote because of his responses to the riot and the Covid pandemic. The voter also questioned why he should support Trump when so many people who held high positions in his administration, including former Vice President Mike Pence, weren't backing him this year.
Trump said only "a very small portion" don't support him. "But because it’s me, somebody doesn’t support they get a little publicity," he said. "The vice president, I disagree with him on what he did. I totally disagreed with him on what he did," Trump said, apparently referring to Pence's refusal to comply with his demands that he prevent Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s election win on Jan. 6.
He then argued that the thousands of supporters who went to Washington for Jan. 6 were not there because of him, even though he tweeted on Dec. 19, 2020: “Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild.” "They didn't come because of me," Trump said Wednesday. "They came because of the election. They thought the election was a rigged election, and that's why they came." In 2020, and in the years since then, Trump has falsely claimed that the election was stolen. Many of those charged in the Jan. 6 riot have cited his election lies.
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