Donald Trump took aim at the Jan. 6 committee during a speech in Arizona Friday evening, painting the ongoing investigation as a conspiratorial witch hunt designed to permanently blacklist him from politics.
Trump then railed against his former deputy press secretary Sarah Matthews, one of the committee’s witnesses, accusing her of being an attention-seeking hypocrite. “I watched this hoax last night where this young lady said, ‘Oh, I’m so heartbroken,'” he said,. “But, three weeks after January 6th, she wrote us a letter saying, ‘Oh, I loved working for the President. He’s so great.'”
He also attacked the credibility of Cassidy Hutchinson, the aide to former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows whosegave damning insight into the inner workings of the Trump administration in the days leading up to Jan. 6. “I mean, I’m the President of the United States.
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