‘You Were The President’: ABC’s Muir Pushes Back On Trump Attacking Harris Over Protests That Happened During His Term

Former President Donald Trump tore into Vice President Kamala Harris during Tuesday night’s debate hosted by ABC, accusing her of supporting the protests following the death of George Floyd in the summer of 2020.

Trump was asked about the prosecution of January 6th rioters and pivoted to blast Harris and the Black Lives Matter protestors, “When are those people going to be prosecuted? When are the people that burned down Minneapolis going to be prosecuted. Or in Seattle. They went into Seattle. They took over a big percentage of the city of Seattle. One of those people are going to be prosecuted. You might ask her that question.”

“You were the president,” noted moderator David Muir after Trump finished, returning to the discussion of January 6th.

“You were watching it unfold on television. It’s a very simple question. As we move forward toward another election. Is there anything you regret about what you did on that day?”

“I had nothing to do with that other than they asked me to make a speech. I showed up for a speech. I said, I think it’s going to be big. I went to Nancy Pelosi and the mayor of Washington, D.C., and the mayor put it back in writing, as you know. I said, you know, this is going to be a very big rally or whatever you want to call it. And again, it wasn’t done by me. It was done by others. I said, I’d like to give you 10,000 National Guard or soldiers. They rejected me,” Trump said, repeating a regular talking point.

Notably, then-President Trump was the sole commander of the DC National Guard and did not require the mayor of Washington DC or the speaker of the House to deploy the National Guard.

“Nancy Pelosi rejected me. It was just two weeks ago. Her daughter has a tape of her saying she is fully responsible for what happened. They want to get rid of that tape. It would have never happened if Nancy Pelosi and the mayor of Washington did their jobs. I wasn’t responsible for security. Nancy Pelosi was responsible. She didn’t do her job,” Trump continued.
“The question was about you as president, not about former Speaker Pelosi. But I do want Vice President Harris to respond here,” followed up Muir.

Harris said, “I was at the Capitol on January 6th. I was the vice president-elect. I was also an acting senator. I was there. And on that day, the president of the United States incited a violent mob to attack our nation’s capitol. To desecrate our nation’s capital. On that day, 140 law enforcement officers were injured and some died. And understand the former president has been indicted and impeached for exactly that reason.”

Watch the clip above via ABC.