Former President Donald Trump was confronted by a voter during a town hall on Wednesday over his “inaction” during the January 6, 2021 Capitol riots.
During a town hall hosted by the Spanish-language television network Univision, a 56-year-old construction worker from Florida berated Trump’s “disturbing” record in office.
“I am a Republican, no longer registered,” he said. “I want to give you the opportunity to try to win back my vote, okay? Your action and maybe inaction during your presidency and the last few years sort of was, you know, a little disturbing to me.”
The man continued:
What happened during January 6 and the fact that you waited so long to take action while your supporters were attacking the Capitol; coronavirus, I thought the public was misled during coronavirus and that many more lives could’ve been saved if we would have been informed better; and also people in your administration who don’t support you. I’m curious how people so close to you and your administration no longer want to support you, so why would I want to support you?
He added, “Your own vice president doesn’t want to support you now.”
Trump replied:
The people that don’t support, a very small portion. We have a tremendous, about 97% of the people in the administration support me, but because it’s me, somebody doesn’t support, they get a little publicity. The vice president, I disagree with him on what he did. I totally disagree with him on what he did. Very importantly, you had hundreds of thousands of people come to Washington. They didn’t come because of me, they came because of the election. They thought the election was a rigged election and that’s why they came. Some of those people went down to the Capitol. I said, “peacefully and patriotically,” nothing done wrong. At all. Nothing done wrong. And action was taken, strong action. Ashli Babbitt was killed, nobody was killed, there were no guns down there, we didn’t have guns. The others had guns, but we didn’t have guns, and when I say “we,” these are people that walked down, this was a tiny percentage of the overall.
The former president concluded, “But that was a day of love from the standpoint of the millions– it’s like hundreds of thousands, could’ve been the largest group I’ve spoken before.”
Watch above via Univision.
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