Donald Trump has spent recent months focusing on Jan. 6 rioters to an unsettling degree, offering them praise, support and vows of future pardons. A recent Associated Press report noted that the former president has positioned “the violent siege and its failed attempt to overturn the 2020 election as a cornerstone of his bid to return to the White House.” This coincided with a related Semafor report on the degree to which the Republican has put Jan. 6 rioters “at the heart of his campaign.
’” He added that an agent told him, “It’s better if you don’t,” at which point, in Trump’s story, he told the Secret Service, “All right, whatever you guys think is fine.” “That,” the former president concluded, “was the whole tone of the conversation.” In other words, what Trump sees as important was his demeanor at the time. A great many sources have given sworn testimony that he was irate on Jan.