DALLAS, Texas (TEXAS TRIBUNE) - Former President Donald Trump downplayed the seriousness of the Jan. 6 insurrection — an attack that led to five deaths and cost millions of dollars in damages to the U.S. Capitol — during stops in Houston and Dallas this weekend.
“What happened on Jan. 6 was a protest against a rigged election, that’s what it was,” Trump said to cheers Sunday at American Airlines Center in Dallas. “This wasn’t an insurrection.”
During a four-stop tour with former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly revisiting his presidency, Trump hammered on the false insistence that he, in fact, won the 2020 election — even after multiple failed legal attempts by Trump to challenge the election results and his own attorney general’s assurance that the election was accurate and secure.
In his remarks, Trump said he wished lawmakers had more protection during the Jan. 6 attack and that he asked for 10,000 National Guard troops to be present at the Capitol that day — a claim that has been debunked.
The former president made no mention of the revelation last week that several Fox News hosts implored his former chief of staff through text messages to urge Trump to call off the rioters.
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