Trump on Meet the Press January 6
President Trump has now laid out on NBC's Meet the Press how the FBI carried out what he described as an inside job on January 6th. Host Kristen Welker begins to show clear signs of panic during the exchange. Trump states that they had FBI agents ushering them in and that the participants were being ushered in. Welker responds that there is no evidence of that. Trump replies that they were dirty.
Transcript (en)
They had FBI agents ushering them into the building. They had FBI go into the building. Those people walking around, they're looking, oh, isn't this nice? They weren't in... They were being ushered into the building. There's no evidence of that, sir. You had a bunch of dirty cops, and frankly, what they did was weaponization of our government. But, sir, there's no evidence of that. More than 1,000 people... No, there's none. You know what you do? Try looking at the tapes one time. Would you take it off the table? Look at the tapes one time. Okay, but 172 people did plead guilty guilty to assaulting police officers. You know why they pled guilty? Should they be exempt? Because they told they were going to jail for 15 years if they didn't. Should they? They pled guilty because they were frightened. They went down. They were ushered into a building. Many of them were arrested without even going into the building. Would you be okay with them receiving taxpayer dollars? The people were destroyed by dirty cops and by weaponization. Many of those people should be compensated. Now, with With that being said, as I understand it, the weaponization fund was going to set up a group of people, people that could be picked by anybody, fair people, smart people, and they will go on an individual case basis. Now, I don't know what's going to happen with the weaponization fund. I love the idea because people like you, the fake, dirty press, the crooked press, people like stupid Biden. He's not smart enough to know what's going on. But people that surrounded him, surrounded his beautiful, resolute desk in the Oval Office, what they did to the lives of people, they destroyed people. They sent people to jail who did nothing wrong. Just to be very clear, there's no evidence of what you're saying. But let me ask you about Todd Blanche. Listen to me. Listen to me. Let's talk about Todd Blanche. There's tremendous evidence. There's nothing but evidence.
