While he's since expressed solidarity and support for the mob of rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on his behalf in January 2021, Donald Trump was allegedly concerned with the optics of how his own supporters looked while the riot was ongoing.
That's according to a newly released interview from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots, who spoke with former White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham on May 18.
Grisham told the committee that she heard from "several people in the West Wing" that, as the riots began to unfold and footage began to be shared on television, Trump was taking it in from the White House, and making comments "that these people looked very trashy."
"I don't know if he expected them to be wearing full suits of like Roman armor and that would have made them not trashy," she added, "But he did feel they looked trashy, but he loved how they were fighting for him."
"I heard from several people in the West Wing, more on the military aide or Secret Service side, and then a couple just people, but that he was sitting in the dining room, and he was...
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