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From: js@phendrie.con

Former President Donald Trump told reporters he wanted the same thing that
members of the mob during the violent Jan. 6 Capitol riot wanted: overturning
the election of President Joe Biden.

“Personally, what I wanted is what they wanted,” Trump said of the rioters,
according to an article Monday in Vanity Fair that excerpts the new book “I
Alone Can Fix It,” by Washington Post journalists Carol Leonnig and Philip
Rucker.

The former president downplayed the deadly violence at the Capitol that day,
while repeating several lies and erroneous claims about the integrity of the
election, according to the article.

“They showed up just to show support because I happen to believe the election
was rigged at a level like nothing has ever been rigged before,” Trump told
the
two reporters during an interview in late March at his Mar-a-Lago resort in
Florida.

“There’s tremendous proof. There’s tremendous proof. Statistically, it
wasn’t
even possible that [Biden] won. Things such as, if you win Florida and Ohio and
Iowa, there’s never been a loss,” he said.

Trump also claimed in the interview that Capitol Police welcomed members of the
mob that day into the halls of Congress, and warmly greeted them after
thousands
of his supporters marched from a rally outside the White House, where he had
urged them to fight against the confirmation of Biden’s win by Congress.

“In all fairness, the Capitol Police were ushering people in,” Trump said.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/19/trump-says-he-and-capitol-rioter
-wanted-same-thing-overturning-biden-win.html

Other than admitting that the insurrectionists were carrying out his wishes,
every word Trump said was a lie.

   * there is no proof of vote fraud — literally zero
   * the election was not "rigged"
   * it was not "statistically" impossible that Biden won
   * the Capitol police did *not* usher people into the Capitol

Trump lied, *except* in admitting that he sent the insurrectionists.  He not
only sent them, but he summoned and organized them and financed them.

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