Donald J. Trump on Friday sought to revise the history of the storming of the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob after a judge in the case released new details of the federal prosecution against him.
His attempts to reconstruct the events of January 6, 2021 have led to his supporters, who were arrested, convicted, and imprisoned for their actions at the Capitol, to the United States during World War II. The comparison was made on the same day as the Japanese American internment camp victims. World War II. And this followed Trump’s recent remarks declaring January 6th a “day of love.”
The former president’s comments about Jan. 6 and its aftermath came just weeks before Election Day, when unopposed voters in battleground states told pollsters that one of their biggest concerns was that the president was a threat to democracy. He was in the middle of saying that he considered it a threat.
On Friday, Trump took to his website Truth Social to amplify the conspiracy theory that the storming of the Capitol was orchestrated by the federal government, falsely claiming that widespread fraud cost the 2020 election. promoted the claim.
He reposted a meme posted by a user on Thursday. It stated, “January 6th will go down in history as the day the government staged a riot to cover up the fact that the election was fraudulent.” The words appeared over two images of people crowding outside the Capitol that day, waving American flags.
Earlier Friday, Trump lamented the treatment of those arrested in connection with the attack on a podcast hosted by conservative media figure Dan Bongino.
“Why are they still in custody?” Trump told Bongino. “No one has ever been treated like this. Frankly, it might have been the Japanese during World War II. They were held too.”
During that war, Japanese people were among the people imprisoned in concentration camps under the Alien Enemy Act of 1798, but Mr. He says he wants to use it for expulsion.
A Trump campaign spokesperson did not respond to an email requesting comment.
Voters primarily look back on Trump’s actions after the 2020 presidential election as dangerous. A July survey by The New York Times and Siena College found that half of potential voters said his actions amounted to a threat to democracy, and 44% said he had exercised his right to contest the election. I answered that I was just there.
And in a recent poll by polling firm PRRI, 53% of Americans, including 17% of Republicans, said Trump broke the law in an effort to remain in power after the 2020 election.
And for voters in key battleground states who are convinced Trump is on his way to victory in the final stages of the campaign, for undecided and persuasive voters, seeing him as a threat to democracy is It was in the top five concerns, with many specifically mentioning the events of January 6th.
On Friday, Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is overseeing the federal case against Trump brought by special counsel Jack Smith, unsealed a set of extensively redacted records. Trump’s lawyers object to the information being released within weeks of Election Day.
Mr. Trump’s lawyers unsuccessfully lobbied Judge Chutkan to force prosecutors to search for evidence from undercover agents implicated in the January 6 attack. The judge rejected that request, writing that Trump’s team was offering only “speculation.” That there were people like that.
Trump this week repeatedly presented the story of the Capitol attack, downplaying the violence that occurred and claiming he had no role in escalating the violence. Federal prosecutors say Trump coordinated efforts to overturn his 2020 election defeat and the violence that occurred on January 6, as Congress was certifying Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s victory in the Electoral College. He blames the incident for culminating in the incident.
The violence was carried out by Trump’s supporters, many of whom attended a nearby rally where Trump spoke and called on people to walk “peacefully” and “patriotically” to the Capitol. Ta. A few days ago, he urged people to come to Washington for the rally, posting on social media: “Get there, it’s going to be a blast!”
Trump told undecided voters at Univision City Hall this week that his supporters flocked to Washington that day out of anger over the election.
“They thought the election was fraudulent, that’s why they came,” Trump said at City Hall. “There were no guns there. We didn’t have any guns. The guys had guns, we didn’t. And when I say “we,” I mean these people walking out, and this is the whole thing. Just a small part, no one sees it, no one shows it. But it was a day of love from the perspective of millions and hundreds of thousands of people. ”
And at an event this week at the Chicago Economic Club, Trump said: “People were angry. People went there. And I tell you what, they never show it, the main scene in Washington is hundreds of thousands of people and I’ve never seen anything like that before. It was the largest group of people I’ve ever spoken to, and it was love and peace. And some of them went to the Capitol, and a lot of strange things happened there.”
