Former President Trump responded publicly Friday night to the final report released by the House Jan. 6 committee, attacking the committee and refuting its findings.
Former President Donald Trump announces he is running for president for the third time at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., Nov. 15, 2022. The Democratic-controlled House Ways and Means Committee on Tuesday voted to release former President Donald Trumpâ™s tax returns, raising the potential of additional revelations in the coming days related to the finances of the longtime businessman who broke political norms by refusing to voluntarily make public his returns as he sought the presidency.
Trump, in the five-minute video, repeatedly downplayed the deadly events of Jan. 6 and pushed multiple unproven conspiracy theories surrounding it -- including that the doors to the Capitol were "flung open for people to walk in" and that "federal informants" played a role in the violence. "The events of Jan. 6 were not an insurrection," Trump said. "They were a protest that got tragically out of control."The former president also pushed back on the committee's conclusion that he did not respond to the riot for 187 minutes, saying he issued two tweets "within 25 minutes of the Capitol bridge, and another statement 30 minutes after that."
The committee's report, however, said that "evidence showed that neither of these tweets had any appreciable impact on the violent rioters."Trump also repeated his claim that he had "urged the deployment of 10,000 to 20,000 National Guard troops" before the riot -- a claim that the committee directly refuted in its"The select committee found no evidence of this," the report said.
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