{"id":1048989,"date":"2024-10-16T22:50:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T02:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1048989"},"modified":"2024-10-17T09:06:56","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T13:06:56","slug":"%f0%9f%9a%a8-donald-trump-called-the-violent-january-6-insurrection-he-rallied-a-day-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/%f0%9f%9a%a8-donald-trump-called-the-violent-january-6-insurrection-he-rallied-a-day-of-love\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udea8 Donald Trump Called the Violent January 6 Insurrection He Rallied a \u201cDay of Love\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In response to Donald Trump calling the violent January 6 insurrection a \u201cday of love\u201d at tonight\u2019s Univision town hall, <\/em>DNC Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd released the following statement: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe violent January 6 insurrection was not a \u2018day of love\u2019 \u2014 it was a dangerous attack on our democracy that Donald Trump incited when he rallied his supporters to march on the Capitol. Trump is doubling down on his campaign of revenge and retribution, promising to pardon rioters and pushing dangerous election denialism while his VP pick JD Vance follows his lead in whitewashing the insurrection. Make no mistake: democracy is on the ballot, and Trump has made very clear he\u2019ll gladly put it at risk again for his own selfish gain.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\ud83d\udea8NEW: Donald Trump gushed over the violent insurrection he rallied on January 6, praising it as a \u201cday of love.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Donald Trump<\/a>: \u201cNothing done wrong at all. Nothing done wrong. […] That was a day of love.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump \u2014 who has previously called January 6 a \u201cbeautiful day\u201d \u2014 continues to praise and promise pardons for the rioters, who he calls \u201chostages\u201d and \u201cpatriots\u201d that were \u201ctreated unfairly.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump<\/a>: \u201cJanuary 6, it was the largest crowd I\u2019ve ever spoken to. And they were there proud, they were there with love in their heart. That was an unbelievable \u2014 and it was a beautiful day.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rachel Scott, ABC News<\/a>: \u201c140 police officers were assaulted [on January 6].<\/strong> Their injuries included broken bones, at least one officer lost an eye, one had two cracked ribs, two smashed spinal discs, another had a stroke. Were the people who assaulted those 140 officers, including those I just mentioned, \u2018patriots\u2019 who deserve pardons?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Trump refuses to answer]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scott: \u201cBut sir, my question is on those rioters who assaulted officers. Would you pardon those people?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Donald Trump: \u201cOh absolutely I would. <\/strong>If they\u2019re innocent, I would pardon them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scott: \u201cThey\u2019ve been convicted.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hill<\/a>: \u201cTrump describes imprisoned Jan. 6 rioters as \u2018hostages\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump<\/a>: \u201cThose people were treated very harshly [\u2026] nobody was killed on January 6. But I think that the people on January 6 were treated very unfairly<\/strong> [\u2026] they were there to complain about an election, and you know it\u2019s very interesting, the biggest crowd I\u2019ve ever spoken to.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cTrump vows pardons, government apology to Capitol rioters if elected\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

TIME<\/a>: \u201cTrump has sought to recast the insurrectionist riot as an act of patriotism. \u2018I call them the J-6 patriots,\u2019 Trump tells TIME. When asked whether he would consider pardoning every one of them, he says: \u2018Yes, absolutely.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NBC News<\/a>: \u201cFormer President Donald Trump promised Wednesday night that if he is elected he will pardon a \u2018large portion\u2019 of the people convicted of federal offenses for their participation in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

JD Vance continues to downplay the violence on January 6, even saying Trump \u201chad every right\u201d to encourage the mob that stormed the Capitol \u2013 which he says was \u201cnot on [Trump].\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

JD Vance<\/a>: \u201c[Donald Trump], of course, he had every right to encourage people to protest peacefully, and the fact that a few knuckleheads went off and did something they shouldn\u2019t do, that\u2019s not on him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hill<\/a>: \u201cJD Vance says he is \u2018skeptical\u2019 Pence\u2019s life was in danger on Jan. 6\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politico<\/a>: \u201c[Vance] downplayed the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol<\/strong>, when Pence was forced to evacuate the building as rioters called for his hanging.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, who is vowing to be a dictator on \u201cday one,\u201d told voters they \u201cwon\u2019t have to vote anymore\u201d if he\u2019s elected president. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Atlantic<\/a>: \u201cTrump Says He\u2019ll Be a Dictator on \u2018Day One\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump<\/a>: \u201cYou won\u2019t have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what \u2013 it will be fixed, it will be fine. You won\u2019t have to vote anymore.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump is still pushing lies about his loss by over 7 million votes in the 2020 election. Vance is right there with him, even refusing to commit to accepting this November\u2019s results.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Associated Press<\/a>: \u201c[Trump] is flooding the airwaves and his social media platform with distortions, misinformation and unfounded conspiracy theories about his defeat.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NBC News<\/a>: \u201cRe-litigating the 2020 election, repeating false claims it was stolen and casting aspersions on the security of mail voting remain major fixtures for [Trump] on the stump.<\/strong> [\u2026] He regularly refers to the 2020 election as \u2018rigged\u2019 on his social media channels.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HuffPost<\/a>: \u201c[Vance] said he would accept a Biden win only if he considered the election to be legitimate. [\u2026] Vance\u2019s comments illustrate a new tactic by Republican lawmakers, who are now placing conditions on accepting election results.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201cJ.D. Vance Says He Would Accept the Election Results, With a Caveat\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vance<\/a>: \u201cI think the entire post-2020 thing would have gone a lot better if there had actually been an effort to provide alternative slates of electors<\/strong>, and to force us to have that debate. I think it would\u2019ve been a much better thing for the country. [\u2026] [Trump] was trying to take a constitutional process to its natural conclusion.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think it would\u2019ve been extraordinarily disappointing to a whole host of people that I care a lot about if Trump had just taken it [and conceded the 2020 election before January 6].\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vance<\/a>: \u201cNo real Republican with any credibility in the party is still blaming [Trump for January 6].\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ABC News<\/a>: \u201cJD Vance says [he] wouldn\u2019t have certified 2020 race until states submitted pro-Trump electors\u201d<\/strong>

New York Times<\/a>: \u201c[Vance] has said that, unlike Vice President Mike Pence in 2020, he would have helped Mr. Trump overturn the results<\/strong>, by accepting Trump electors that had not been elected by voters.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In response to Donald Trump calling the violent January 6 insurrection a \u201cday of love\u201d at tonight\u2019s Univision town hall, DNC Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd released the following statement:  \u201cThe violent January 6 insurrection was not a \u2018day of love\u2019 \u2014 it was a dangerous attack on our democracy that Donald Trump incited when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\ud83d\udea8 Donald Trump Called the Violent January 6 Insurrection He Rallied a \u201cDay of Love\u201d - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/\ud83d\udea8-donald-trump-called-the-violent-january-6-insurrection-he-rallied-a-day-of-love\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-10-17T02:50:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-10-17T13:06:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image.png?w=1024\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/%f0%9f%9a%a8-donald-trump-called-the-violent-january-6-insurrection-he-rallied-a-day-of-love\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/%f0%9f%9a%a8-donald-trump-called-the-violent-january-6-insurrection-he-rallied-a-day-of-love\/\",\"name\":\"\ud83d\udea8 Donald Trump Called the Violent January 6 Insurrection He Rallied a \u201cDay of Love\u201d - 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