Otherwise, it could have been "absolutely a lovely day," Trump told Sean Hannity.
Repeating a claim
debunked a year ago, former President
Donald Trump insisted again this week that Speaker of the House
Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) had rejected the help of the National Guard last Jan. 6.
Fox News host
Sean Hannity asked the former president Thursday night if he had “authorized” the Guard to protect the Capitol building “in the lead-up” to Jan. 6, 2021. Trump responded: “One hundred percent, and attested to by many people. And they turned it down …
Nancy Pelosi turned it down ... and she’s in charge of the Capitol.”
There would have been “no problem whatsoever, but they turned it down, which tells you everything,” Trump claimed, also referring to Washington, D.C., Mayor
Muriel Bowser. “If not for those
Democrats ... you would not have had any problem. It would have just been absolutely a lovely day.”
Trump
did nothing to help for 187 minutes as he watched the violence unfold on TV in the White House, the Jan. 6 House Select Committee investigating the attack has said, citing firsthand testimony.
Why does Trump keep repeating the same old lies? What do you think?