{"id":25655,"date":"2022-12-21T12:09:27","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T12:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mydailyfreedom.com\/?p=25655"},"modified":"2024-01-31T10:40:55","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T14:40:55","slug":"trump-speaks-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/trump-speaks-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump breaks silence after Jan. 6 committee announces criminal referrals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump has finally broken his silence after the Democrat-controlled January 6 Committee announced this week that it would send three criminal referrals to the Justice Department following hearings and an alleged investigation into the riot at the U.S. Capitol Building.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reminder: Trump called for a smooth transition of power in this video&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"President Donald Trump releases video in response to the Capitol riot\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ENlL-Uru-cM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Trump said that the move makes him \u201cstronger,\u201d after the Jan. 6 committee made a decision to urge the Justice Department to prosecute him and some of his associates over their involvement in the Capitol riot and efforts to overturn the 2020 election, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/3781379-trump-responds-to-jan-6-criminal-referrals-it-strengthens-me\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Hill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is what Trump said on his Truth Social social media platform: \u201cThese folks don\u2019t get it that when they come after me, people who love freedom rally around me. It strengthens me. What doesn\u2019t kill me makes me stronger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Jan. 6 panel unveiled criminal referrals in its final public meeting hours, recommending that the DOJ prosecute Trump on charges of inciting an insurrection, conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to make a false statement, and obstruction of an official proceeding.<\/p>\n<p>Just hours after the panel\u2019s recommendations were formally made, Trump wrote: \u201cThe Fake charges made by the highly partisan Unselect Committee of January 6th have already been submitted, prosecuted, and tried in the form of Impeachment Hoax # 2. I WON convincingly. Double Jeopardy anyone!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump painted the probes as an effort to undercut his campaign. Trump did announce another run for the White House in 2024, but the insurrection charge could bar Trump from running for elected office again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe people understand that the Democratic Bureau of Investigation, the DBI, are out to keep me from running for president because they know I\u2019ll win and that this whole business of prosecuting me is just like impeachment was \u2014 a partisan attempt to sideline me and the Republican Party,\u201d said the former president.<\/p>\n<p>There were also comments at the meeting that Trump is \u201cunfit for any office,\u201d as Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), who is leaving Congress after she lost her primary election to a Trump-backed candidate, said.<\/p>\n<p>The panel\u2019s determination of his 187 minutes of inaction between the start of the riot and Trump\u2019s video message urging the rioters to \u201cgo home,\u201d was also rebuffed by Trump.<\/p>\n<p>An \u201cextreme dereliction of duty,\u201d is what Rep. Elaine Luria (D-Va.) called it, with other lawmakers calling Trump\u2019s inaction one of the panel\u2019s most shameful findings. A much-anticipated report on its findings will be released soon by the Jan. 6 panel before it is likely dissolved by majority Republicans in the next Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump has finally broken his silence after the Democrat-controlled January 6 Committee announced this week that it would send three criminal referrals to the Justice Department following hearings and an alleged investigation into the riot at the U.S. Capitol Building. Reminder: Trump called for a smooth transition of power in this video&#8230; &#8230; <a title=\"Trump breaks silence after Jan. 6 committee announces criminal referrals\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/trump-speaks-out\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump breaks silence after Jan. 6 committee announces criminal referrals\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":25486,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}