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President-elect Donald Trump made numerous false claims during a wide-ranging Tuesday news conference in Florida, many of them related to foreign affairs and international trade. Here is a fact check of some of these claims.
Guns on January 6
Trump repeated his long-debunked claim that none of the rioters at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, were armed with a gun, saying that even if rioters had been charged with insurrection, “this would be the only insurrection in history where people went in as insurrectionists with not one gun…And let me tell you, the people that you’re talking about have a lot of guns in their home for hunting and for shooting and for entertainment. A lot, of lot of good reasons. But there wasn’t one gun that they found.”
Facts First: Trump’s claim is false. Multiple people who illegally entered Capitol grounds during the January 6 riot were armed with guns, plus a wide variety of other weapons.
We may never get a complete inventory of the concealed guns the rioters possessed on January 6, since nearly all of the rioters were able to leave the Capitol without being detained and searched. But it has been proven in court that at least some of the people who illegally entered Capitol grounds had guns.
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