DONALD Trump has blamed Nancy Pelosi for the Capitol riot violence and said the pre-siege rally was a “lovefest.” The former president made the comments during an interview with Fox News, shortly after his almost two-hour-long CPAC speech. “The press doesn’t like to talk about it, but the real number was much, much bigger,” Trump […]
DONALD Trump has blamed Nancy Pelosi for the Capitol riot violence and said the pre-siege rally was a “lovefest.”
The former president made the comments during an interview with Fox News, shortly after his almost two-hour-long CPAC speech.
“The press doesn’t like to talk about it, but the real number was much, much bigger,” Trump said of the rally that took place on January 6 before his supporters overtook the Capitol.
“It was tremendous numbers of people, not the Capitol, I’m talking about the rally itself, and it was a lovefest, it was a beautiful thing.”
Following the rally, Trump supporters marched down to the Capitol as the Electoral College were voting on the result of the 2020 presidential election.
Trump claimed that he warned that there would be “hundreds of thousands of people” at his rally and said he requested 10,000 National Guard soldiers to be at the scene.
“They took that number, they gave it to people at the Capitol – which is controlled by Pelosi – and I heard they rejected it because they didn’t think it looked good, so you know that was a big mistake,” he said.
However, he later confirmed that he “hated” seeing the violence at the Capitol – which resulted in at least five deaths.
“I hate to see it, I think it’s terrible, I hate to see it, I will tell you that it’s very interesting however when you see Washington burning and you see Seattle burning and Portland burning and all these other places burning with Antifa and the radical left nothing seems to happen nobody seems to be bothered by that,” he suggested.
“And I hate to see that difference but I hated to see that sight at the Capitol, I hate to see any of that but it is a double standard.”
Just hours before, Trump was met with huge applause when he walked out on stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference in his first appearance since leaving office.
Walking out to ‘God Bless the USA,’ the CPAC crowd went wild for the former president and then chanted “USA” after the song ended.
“Do you miss me yet,” Trump asked the crowd as they cheered.
“In just one short month, we’ve gone from America first to America last.”
Trump continued also teased that he might run for president again in 2024.
“The incredible journey that we’ve begun together,” he said, “And it’s far from being over.”
“Our work is just getting started and in the end, we will win,” he said to a roaring crowd. “We’ve been doing a lot of winning.”
“We will be victorious and America will be stronger and greater than ever before.”
