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Trump Immediately Responds to Jan. 6 Committee Report Blaming Him for Riots

Trump attempted to deflect blame onto Nancy Pelosi for failing to call in “troops”—and doubled down on his false claims of election fraud.

Former President Donald Trump has posted a five-minute video on Truth Social blasting the Jan. 6 investigation, a day after his almost-immediate response to the House Select Committee’s full report. In the video, posted on Truth Social, the twice-impeached former president suggested Nancy Pelosi and the D.C. police were to blame for the insurrection, claiming they refused to deploy National Guard troops for the event and “if they’d listened to me … none of this would’ve happened.” He went on to repeat his oft-used claim that he was the victim of a “hoax.” A day earlier, Trump had accused committee members of engaging in a “WITCH HUNT” in a fiery post on his social media platform, Truth Social. “The highly partisan Unselect Committee Report purposely fails to mention the failure of Pelosi to heed my recommendation for troops to be used in D.C., show the “Peacefully and Patrioticly” words I used, or study the reason for the protest, Election Fraud. WITCH HUNT!” he wrote. Read the committee’s full report here.