Donald Trump didn't get it on January 6

You have to go home now. We need peace, law and order. We respect our people. We lost an election by a landslide.

The election was a fraud, but we can't enter into this situation by playing into the hands of these people. This is a very tough time.

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On January 6, several people were killed and over 100 police officers were wounded during an armed insurrection in the Capitol.

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Besides repeating the same lies about the election ("We had an election stolen from us") that spurred the insurrection, Trump said he loved them.

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In a speech the next day, Trump expressed his support for the rioters even more explicitly.

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Trump's speech was brief (under three minutes) and largely conciliatory. "We are at a moment of reconciliation and healing," he said.

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Rather than raising questions about the elections, he would have praised the people who had taken over the Capitol the previous night.

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Trump, according to former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows aide Cassidy Hutchinson, would have ordered the rioters to hang Pence.

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I don't get it now. And he's very likely to be the Republican nominee for president in 2024.

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