'People died. Other people were severely injured. To say there was no risk is just wrong,' said Trump's former chief of staff.
On Thursday, Trump slammed the Capitol security measures that were put in place in the aftermath of the deadly January 6 insurrection, which left five people dead including a Capitol police officer."I think it's disgraceful—it looks, for the world to watch—absolutely, it's a political maneuver that they're doing. It was zero threat right from the start, it was zero threat," he said.on Saturday."I was surprised to hear the president say that," he said.
Former President Donald Trump walks along the West Wing Colonnade with acting White House chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney before departing from the White House on January 13, 2020 in Washington, DC.He added:"To come out and say that everybody was fine and there was no risk is just, that's manifestly false," he said."People died. Other people were severely injured. To say there was no risk is just wrong.
Mulvaney explained that he watched the riots unfold live on television and saw violence take place."There are videos of folks behaving themselves and protesting peacefully. But they should not have been there. And it's not right to say there was no risk. I don't know how you can say that when people were killed," he said.
On January 6, Mulvaney tweeted,"The President's tweet is not enough. He can stop this now and needs to do exactly that. Tell these folks to go home." Trump delivered his strongest criticisms against his supporters who stormed the Capitol building one week after the incident."I want to be very clear. I unequivocally condemn the violence that we saw last week. Violence and vandalism have absolutely no place in our country, and no place in our movement," he said in a video shared by the official White House