“Donald Trump on Monday responded to Mike Pence’s contention that history will hold him accountable for the January 6 attack on Congress, saying the deadly attack was his former vice-president’s fault.”
“Had he sent the votes back to the legislatures, they wouldn’t have had a problem with January 6, so in many ways you can blame him for January 6,” Trump told reporters on a flight to Iowa for a campaign appearance.
He was referring to his attempt to have Pence, in his role as Senate president, refuse to certify election results in battleground states, on grounds of supposed electoral fraud, thereby overturning Trump’s conclusive defeat by Joe Biden.
Trump added: “Had he sent them back to Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona … I believe, number one, you would have had a different outcome. But I also believe you wouldn’t have had ‘January 6’ as we call it.”
“The January 6 committee outlined how Pence refused to go along with Trump’s plan to block certification, after advisers told him he did not have the authority to do so.
On the plane to Iowa on Monday, Trump falsely claimed again Pence “had the right” to refuse to certify results.”
Is this your truth?
Yes, very good point here. We have Trump himself saying the Pence provoked the January 6th attack by not rejecting the election results and says you can "blame him for January 6". So, apparently even Trump thinks January 6th attack was bad enough to require blaming somebody, and as usual, he knows who should be blamed.
What??? I thought the right-wing reality deniers on this thread were saying the January 6th invasion of the Capitol Building was just like Gilligan's Island, a three-hour tour, lots o' laffs, etc. I mean, most of Tucker's video is just peaceful tourists, so why is Trump assigning blame?