Trump deflects blame for Jan. 6 silence, says he wanted to march to Capitol

[brooklynite]

Source: Washington Post

PALM BEACH, Fla. — 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. “I hated seeing it. I hated seeing it. And I said, ‘It’s got to be taken care of,’ and I assumed they were taking care of it.”

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.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/07/trump-interview-jan6/

[COL Mustard]

1. How can you tell when T***p is lying?

His lips are moving.

[wnylib]

28. It's his skill at twisting facts to fabricate

new views that has allowed him to get away with so much for so long. It's his "greased eel" slippery approach to reality.

He reminds me of Don Quixote whose delusions suck other people into his reality. But in the book this behavior is a humorous satire on society. In real life, when done diberately, it's a gas lighting menace to society.

[Frustratedlady]

2. Good Lord! Trump is getting worse with his lying.

Nancy Pelosi to blame? Nancy was in the process of saving her own life, let alone those under her responsibility.

Boy, he had to dig deep for that lie.

Oh, I see...both are women. That makes sense in Trump world.

[mpcamb]

32. He was sorry "over not marching to Capitol"... No golf cart available?

[Walleye]

3. Blames it on two women of course

[FailureToCommunicate]

11. "Why didn't those two gals clean up the mess I made?!?!"

[Walleye]

12. There ya go. That's it exactly

[agingdem]

14. Spoken to Ginni Thomas????..Trump took instructions from her!!!

January 6...to paraphrase Liz Cheney...Donald Trump/Ginni Thomas "YOU FUCKING DID THIS"...and to Marsha Blackburn..."define woman"..Nancy Pelosi/Muriel Bowser....."define monster"...Donald Trump/Ginni Thomas

Why the hell is anyone covering this confluence of vomitous lies???

[BeyondGeography]

4. Sounds more scattered than usual

Squirmy, IMO.

[lastlib]

9. "Lost King of Babble-On"........babbles on.....

[XacerbatedDem]

5. Right!?!?

It's always up to somebody else to clean up his messes, apparently even if he was president at the time. What a load of BS.

[PatSeg]

6. Oh my god!

He would have been better off not speaking at all, but he is inherently incapable of keeping his mouth shut. How does he think anything he said makes him look better?

Classic Trump - take credit for all things good and pass the blame for all things bad.

[Mr. Ected]

7. Fifteen months later and this is the best he could come up with?

If justice ever arrives and this is his defense, the Orange Foolius is going down.

[brush]

8. What a pitiful, pathetic loser. Blaming others when he...

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was commander-in-chief. All he had to do was get on the phone and call up the Nat'l Guard.

The sorry sob, does he actually think we believe that he wasn't reponsible, that this new lie will work?

[Bev54]

29. As George Conway pointed out tfg said previously, he had article ll which

gave him the power to do whatever he wanted, as president.

[Ray Bruns]

10. yea right.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the party of personal responsibility.

[SomewhereInTheMiddle]

13. The buck stops ... over there!

...waaay over there!

[cayugafalls]

15. Did the Post reporter call bullshit? If not, this is the F'ING problem! No one calls him on his shit

A simple, "Well, Mr. TFG, you were TFG, it was YOUR responsibility to call it off, not theirs".

Or perhaps a more succinct, "BULLSHIT, Mr. TFG"!

Print that.

[Jetheels]

35. The apologists (or silence), are as unnerving as the crimes.

[BigmanPigman]

16. A twisted take on history, just like his BBF Putin.

[amuse bouche]

17. Still detest the imbecile....always have..always will

[niyad]

18. Hey, wapo, it is the TWICE-IMPEACHED former president.

[Pepsidog]

19. Trump walking to the Capitol is a joke and then blames Pelosi. Coward!!

[Rebl2]

20. The fact

that he says it was Pelosi and DC mayor responsibility to stop this attack & clean up his mess is unbelievable! WTF. You were the president at that moment you dummy and it was YOUR responsibility to stop this attack!!! 🤬

[KS Toronado]

21. "and I assumed they were taking care of it."

I like Presidents who take charge of situations/problems, and assume nothing.

[Wounded Bear]

22. "That's not my job!"

[Paladin]

23. Nice to see his skills at lying are deteriorating.

Would be nice to see him paying some sort of price for what he's done to this country. I'm not holding my breath for that to happen.

[Turbineguy]

24. I'm sorry too

he could be under arrest already.

[DemUnleashed]

25. 2 points

2 points:

1) he hated seeing it....just hated it. So was that before or after you said you loved those people and they were very special people??

2) I want to know what those insurrectionists think now about Trump now saying he hated it

This guy is the biggest liar there is...truly unbelievable!! I hate him so much!!!

[Achilleaze]

26. Once a Republican draft dodger, then always...

a lying cowardly Republican draft dodger.

No one is surprised that TFG whimped out. Or that now he is whining about it.

[sop]

27. Next lie: "Only I could have stopped the 1/6 insurrection...had the SS let me march to the Capitol."

[TomWilm]

30. The journalist is given TFG all the rope needed ...

... it is up to the reader to use it properly.

[KPN]

31. Wow! The idea that tfg's sheep believe this crap or that repugs in Congress and on federal courts

will support this ridiculously immature and absent-of-intellect grift is unfathomable. It's no more cerebral, rational or credible than a comic book. Have we really sunken this low?

All I can say, is Come On! This guy needs to be hung up publicly by his balls. And soon ... he's a frigging metastatic cancer! Excise him now! Pair him with Putin and excise them both; our world hangs in the balance.

ps -- I'm quite serious in my view about this, though I could accept a lesser form of controlling the beast once and for all as long -- so long as it comes before it's too late in my lifetime.

[Catherine Vincent]

33. What a lying sob

Trump and the rethuglicans started the talking point of Pelosi being in charge of the national guard is such bs. Why does the press allow them to continue with this bs and not point out this lie?

[turbinetree]

34. Just like his fucking bone spurs got in the way during the Vietnam draft.....

just lock this fucker up already.....

I guess he had a cardboard cut standing on the treasonous inspired stage.....

[myohmy2]

36. laryngitis...

...

[louis-t]

37. I'm sure he had a flare-up of bone spurs.

Otherwise he would have marched that mile and a half.....