Trump Rallies & Interviews Catch-All | Trump - “just stop talking about that”

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Confronted With Facts on Fox News, Trump Claims Ignorance​

In an interview that aired Sunday, Donald Trump defended his recent falsehoods about immigrants and the Capitol riot by claiming, implausibly, that he did not know or had “not heard” the truth.

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Trump Defends Falsehoods About Haitian Immigrants and Jan. 6 on Fox News

In an interview that aired Sunday, Donald Trump defended his recent falsehoods about immigrants and the Capitol riot by claiming, implausibly, that he did not know or had “not heard” the truth.
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“… On one point, though, he stuck by his words with no deflection or equivocation: He absolutely believed, he said, that his political opponents were an “enemy from within” who posed a greater threat than foreign adversaries. …”
 
“… Mr. Kurtz questioned Mr. Trump’s recent description of Jan. 6 — … as a “day of love,” and asked whether the former president understood why Americans saw it as a dark day.

Mr. Trump didn’t back down from the description, and when Mr. Kurtz pushed back — noting that hundreds of people had pleaded guilty or been convicted, and that many were charged with assaulting police officers — Mr. Trump immediately deflected to another topic. He then claimed that nobody was killed on Jan. 6 and that “nobody had guns here either.”

Several people died as a result of the riot at the Capitol, and Mr. Kurtz pointed out that some of the rioters were armed. In his response, Mr. Trump professed ignorance, though that fact has been extensively documented.

“Well, really? I’d like to know. You mean in the rally or they had some guns at their home?” he said. “Really? Well, I have not heard that at all. No, I don’t think so. They had no guns.” …”

 
Hey, Peggy Noonan, you might be interested in this response by Trump:

“… Mr. Trump’s critics point to the remarks as evidence that he will use the government to target his political rivals. Mr. Kurtz said it was “a pretty ominous phrase, if you’re talking about other Americans.”

“I think it’s accurate. I mean, I think it’s accurate,” Mr. Trump replied.

Some of Trump’s allies have tried to insist that Mr. Trump is applying the phrase to undocumented immigrants. On Sunday, he again made it explicitly clear that he was speaking about his political opponents.

Mr. Kurtz asked who the “enemy from within” was, and Mr. Trump identified Representative Adam Schiff of California and the former House speaker Nancy Pelosi.

“They are to me the enemy from within,” he said. …”
 
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