Lydia is a HuffPost senior reporter in her hometown of San Francisco and a graduate of the University of Southern California's Annenberg School of Journalism. She has worked at HuffPost since 2013, when she was selected for that year's class of editorial fellows.
While speaking to the news media Thursday outside his Mar-a-Lago club and residence in Florida, the likely Republican presidential nominee rattled off an impressive number of lies about the deadly riot by Trump supporters in a matter of minutes.One of the most easily disproved bits of fiction he threw out is that “there were no guns” among the rioters. In reality, multiple people who stormed the Capitol were carrying firearms.
In one of his more head-scratching claims Thursday, Trump tried to lay the blame on one of the rioters’ top targets. Speaking to reporters Thursday, Trump also cherry-picked lines from his speech leading up to the riot in an effort to prove he didn’t call for violence. “You’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength and you have to be strong,” he also said.over a Colorado court’s decision to declare Trump ineligible to appear on the state’s ballot because he’d incited an insurrection. The decision cited a clause of the 14th Amendment that says anyone who took an oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution but then “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” against the country may not hold state or federal office.
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