Donald Trump claimed that he gave a speech to his supporters that was "very calm" before the Capitol riot.
"I have nothing to hide," Trump told Laura Ingraham on Friday night, referring to the congressional panel investigating the Capitol riot.
"If you look at my words and what I said in the speech, they were very calm, actually."
In his speech on January 6, Trump repeated false claims that the 2020 election had been stolen from him and encouraged his followers to march to the Capitol.
You will never take back our country with weakness. "You have to be strong and you have to show it," Trump said in the speech.
We fight like crazy. If you don't fight, you're not going to have a country.
Jack Nicas is on January 6, 2021.
In an interview with Laura Ingraham on Friday, Trump said the events on January 6 were a protest and that the hundreds of arrested rioters were "innocent."
It was a protest. The election day was November 3rd. A lot of innocent people are being hurt. A lot of people are injured.
The January 6 select committee was trying to get a bunch of executive branch documents related to their investigation.
The former president had executive privilege over some of the documents.
The appeals court ruled against Trump's request to stop the committee from obtaining records.
Trump said he had nothing to hide, but was asserting executive privilege as a principle.
If it ever changes, and I think it will, then Biden won't be able to use it with respect to Hunter, and all of the things that are going on that are terrible. "I think he would want to see this upheld."
It's not clear what the former president was talking about.
Insurrectionists loyal to President Donald Trump broke into the Capitol in Washington.
AP Photo/John Minchillo
Liz Cheney is one of only two Republicans on the January 6 congressional committee.
She was called a "warmonger" by the former president.
He called it the un-select committee of Democrat partisans.
