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Former president Donald Trump voiced regret Wednesday over not marching to the U.S. Capitol the day his supporters stormed the building, and he defended his long silence during the attack by claiming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and others were responsible for ending the deadly violence.

“I thought it was a shame, and I kept asking why isn’t she doing something about it? Why isn’t Nancy Pelosi doing something about it? And the mayor of D.C. also. The mayor of D.C. and Nancy Pelosi are in charge,” Trump said of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot in a 45-minute interview with The Washington Post.

The 45th president has repeatedly deflected blame for stoking the attack with false claims that the 2020 election was stolen, and in the interview, he struck a defiant posture, refusing to say whether he would testify before a congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 assault. Trump said he didn’t remember “getting very many” phone calls that day, and he denied removing call logs or using burner phones.

Trump also said he had spoken during his presidency with Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. A seven-hour gap in Trump’s phone records on Jan. 6, and Thomas’s texts to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows urging the White House to fight the election results, have both come under scrutiny by the Jan. 6 committee.

Some Schmo wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 08, 2022 12:55 pm

This is the kind of thing that makes me not wonder about Trump, but the people who admire him. He's clearly a damned child, and yet his followers think he's "strong." Being a whiny, irresponsible asshole is not strong.

I cannot understand admiring Trump unless something is seriously wrong with you. It's not policy or ideological differences here. He is an obvious nut case and douche bag, and if a person likes him despite that or thinks he did a good job as President, they are screwed up.

Some Schmo wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 08, 2022 12:55 pm

It doesn't make me optimistic about humanity.

Some Schmo wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 08, 2022 12:55 pm

I cannot understand admiring Trump unless something is seriously wrong with you. It's not policy or ideological differences here. He is an obvious nut case and douche bag, and if a person likes him despite that or thinks he did a good job as the President, they are screwed up.