Trump and the “J6 Prison Choir” released “Justice for All,” featuring the former president reciting the Pledge of Allegiance cut with the inmates singing the national anthem.
he would issue full pardons and a government apology to Jan. 6 rioters. He also claimed on a conservative radio show in the fall that he was financially supporting some of the Jan. 6 defendants, though his representatives did not respond to a request seeking to clarify how.“I am financially supporting people that are incredible and they were in my office actually two days ago, so they’re very much in my mind,” Trump told conservative radio host Wendy Bell in September.
The House select committee that investigated the insurrection focused much of its efforts on linking Trump’s actions and baseless claims of widespread election fraud with the subsequent violence at the Capitol. For instance, one of his tweets on Dec. 19, 2020 — “Statistically impossible to have lost the 2020 Election. Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!” — was later cited by far-right militant groups as an invitation to travel to Washington to overturn the election results.
The House impeached Trump in 2021 for inciting an insurrection, but the Senate acquitted him. Trump and many of his supporters have since downplayed the severity of the attack. Hard-right members of Congress, including Reps. Louie Gohmert , Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene , haveMariana Alfaro contributed to this report.
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