“I think it was the largest crowd I’ve ever spoken to. It went from that point which is almost at the White House, to beyond the Washington Monument. It was wide. And it was a loving crowd, too, by the way“, says Trump, according to the audios published this Thursday by The Washington Post, which are an excerpt from a longer interview by two of his journalists.
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” There was a lot of love. I’ve heard that from all over the world. Many, many people have told me it was a loving crowd“, insisted Trump, who on January 6 was still president and refused – as he continues to do – to recognize the victory of now president Joe Biden.
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The former president made these assertions in a conversation in March with journalists. Carol Leonnig y Philip Rucker in order to su libro “I Alone Can Fix It”, which deals with the Republican’s tumultuous last year in office.
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These statements come at a time when Democrats battle for a select committee of the House of Representatives investigate the events that occurred on January 6, starring a mass of Trump supporters, after listening to the rally that the former president speaks of in his interview and in which he asked them to defend the electoral results that, according to him and without evidence, they must give him victory.
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The Democratic legislators wanted to investigate these facts with an independent commission but the Republicans frustrated this initiative in the Senate, where Biden’s party has a very narrow 50-50 majority and it is difficult to achieve the at least 10 Republican supporters you need to push through the key measures.
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Follow the disagreement on the investigation of the assault
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The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, rejected this Wednesday to two of the five proposed representatives by the leader of the Republican Party in the Lower House, Kevin McCarthy, to serve on that committee.
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After describing the veto of Pelosi as “an atrocious abuse of power”, McCarthy advanced that the party will not participate in the research if the Democrats don’t accept all the members he appointed.
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Six months after the assault on the Capitol, President Biden asked Congress on July 7 to investigate the incident, that “people of good will and courage” investigate the coup and its origins, while urging Democrats, Republicans and independents to work together.
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