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Crazed Trump Shamefully DEFENDS Capitol Rioters on Live TV, ‘They are Waving the American Flag and They Love Our Country’

Just when you think Donald Trump can’t go any lower…that he has finally reached the bottom, he goes even lower.

On Thursday night Trump said that there was “zero threat” during the Jan. 6 insurrectionist riot at the U.S. Capitol, bizarrely claiming that the rioters had “great relationships” and were “kissing the police” throughout the siege.

Now, I have probably watched hours of videos from that horrible day. Never once did I see one of the rioters hugging or kissing law enforcement. I saw some selfies, but no hugging or kissing. And I am pretty sure the late Brian Sicknick would like a few words with Trump, if he wasn’t six feet under due to the insurrection.

Calling into Fox News host Laura Ingraham’s show to react to President Joe Biden’s first press conference, the ex-president instead spent most of the time fixated on his own personal grievances, such as continuing to repeat the Big Lie that the 2020 election was “stolen” from him.

At one point in the interview, however, Ingraham asked Trump about the Department of Homeland Security cracking down on domestic violent extremism and whether he was concerned that the “DHS is going after people who may be your supporters.”

Angry and fast-talking Trump immediately brought up Black Lives Matter and antifa, complaining that “they don’t go after those people” who “burn down our cities” while simultaneously defending right-wing extremists.

“But they go after people, I guess you would call them lean toward the right, and they wave American flags—in many cases, they are waving the American flag—and they love our country,” Trump exclaimed. “And to those people, they are arresting them by the dozens but they don’t go after Antifa.”

Ingraham then brought up the large National Guard presence that has surrounded the Capitol since the seditious riot that took the lives of five people — including Capitol Police Officer Sicknick — and left over 100 police officers injured.

“Are you concerned that the U.S. Capitol after January 6th has become a fortress?” Ingraham asked the ex-president. “Protecting the Capitol from the people who are supposed to actually be the ones in charge here, not the people who are sitting in the Capitol and surrounding themselves by razor wire.”

Trump, who was impeached for inciting the MAGA mob to storm the Capitol and prevent Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s election, called the response to the riots “disgraceful” before going into full gaslighting mode with a rather shocking statement.

“It was zero threat, right from the start, it was zero threat.”

“Look, they went in, they shouldn’t have done it,” he continued. “Some of them went in, and they are hugging and kissing the police and the guards, you know, they had great relationships, and a lot of the people were waved in, and then they walked in and they walked out.”

Referencing the hundreds of arrests and charges that have resulted from the Capitol insurrection, Trump did concede that “some things should happen to them” before once again shifting his attention back to antifa and BLM.

“But when I look at antifa, in Washington even, with what they did to Washington and what they did to other locations and the destruction, and frankly, the beating up of people, and nothing happens to them whatsoever, why aren’t they going after antifa?!” Trump yelled.

Ingraham, for her part, tried to do a bit of clean-up for the former president, helpfully leading Trump along the way.

“But you would say that people who commit crimes, regardless of what their political affiliations are, should be prosecuted,” she asked. “Your complaint is that the individuals committing the crimes in Portland and Minneapolis, et cetera, are not being prosecuted. I want to clarify that, Mr. President.”

Trump, getting the hint, replied: “Absolutely! What you said is exactly right. I hope that is what I said, too.”

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