Former President Donald Trump lashed out Thursday at claims that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech had a larger crowd than his "Stop the Steal" rally on Jan. 6, 2021.
During a press conference at Mar-a-Lago, Trump was challenged on his insistence that there was a peaceful transfer of power after he lost the 2020 election.
"You didn't concede. January 6th was a violent attack," a reporter noted. "How is that a peaceful transfer of power?"
"I think the people that, if you look at January 6th, which a lot of people aren't talking about very much," Trump replied, "I think those people were treated very harshly when you compare them to other things that took place in this country, where a lot of people were killed."
Trump argued that no one was "injured" on Jan. 6.
"The biggest crowd I've ever spoken to, and I said peacefully and patriotically, which nobody wants to say, but I said peacefully and patriotically, the biggest crowd I've ever spoken to," he continued. "I don't know who's ever had a bigger crowd than I have, but I had it many times... Nobody's spoken to crowds bigger than me."
"If you look at Martin Luther King, when he did his speech, his great speech, and you look at ours, same real estate, same everything, same number of people," the former president added. "And they said he had a million people, but I had 25,000 people."
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"And you look at it, and you look at the picture of his crowd, my crowd, we actually had more people."
Trump, however, said he was "okay with it because I liked Dr. Martin Luther King."
