It was reported earlier today by the Daily Mail that Former President Donald Trump will hold a press conference from his Mar-a-Lago mansion in Florida on Jan. 6, he announced Tuesday.
Trump’s conference marks the one-year anniversary of the pro-Trump storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2020. Trump’s event is likely to clash with President Joe Biden’s White House, which has also announced plans to commemorate the Jan. 6 riots in its own event.
Biden has repeatedly called the attack one of the “darkest days” in history for American democracy. The attack has been thrust back to the forefront due to the impending anniversary as well as revelations that various Fox News hosts had urged Trump via text messages to condemn the attack on the day of the event.
Fox News hosts, including Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity, sent the impassioned messages to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, who’s brief cooperation with the congressional committee investigating the Capitol riots resulted in the messages becoming public.
The New York Post went on to report that “Why isn’t the [House] Unselect Committee of highly partisan political hacks investigating the CAUSE of the January 6th protest, which was the rigged Presidential Election of 2020?” Trump asked in an emailed statement. “Does anybody notice that they want to stay as far away from that topic as possible, the numbers don’t work for them, or even come close. The only thing they can do is not talk about it.” Trump reiterated his claims that election fraud cost him the key states of Pennsylvania, Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin and Michigan — and accused “Republican RINOs” in the last state of not wanting to pursue the matter. (The acronym refers to “Republicans in name only.”)
“In many ways a RINO is worse than a Radical Left Democrat,” he said, “because you don’t know where they are coming from and you have no idea how bad they really are for our country. The good news is there are fewer and fewer RINOs left as we elect strong Patriots who love America.”
