Former United States President Donald Trump gave his first interview since leaving the White House on January 20 to talk about his friend. Rush Limbaugh, A popular conservative communicator killed, in a conversation in which he insisted on his unfounded allegations of fraud in the last election and has criticized the Republican Party.
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Trump, who is at his Mar-a-Llac golf club in Florida, spoke by telephone to the television network Fox News to praise the figure of Limbaugh, who interviewed him on several occasions.
“Rush believed we had won“And I, too, think we won substantially (the election), and Rush thought we had won, it was liquidated (from November 3 when the election was held), and a lot of people feel that way too,” he said. ‘exmandatari.
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“I don’t think this would have happened to any Democrat, you would have had riots everywhere if this had happened to Democrats, we do not have the same support at certain levels of the Republican (party) system“But we have great people among the Republicans,” he added. Rush felt we had won and was pretty angry about it. “
I don’t think this would have happened to any Democrat, you would have had riots everywhere if this had happened to the Democrats.
Ever since the media projections gave the Democrat Joe Biden as the winner of the presidential election four days after its holding, Trump has insisted on his allegations of election fraud without providing evidence and he failed to acknowledge his rival’s victory until after the lower house approved on January 13 the indictment to open a political trial against him for the assault on the country’s Capitol.
On January 6, hundreds of radical followers of Trump burst into Congress headquarters while a joint session of the two chambers was being held to ratify Biden’s victory in the elections.
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Minutes before the assault, the then outgoing president delivered an incendiary speech from the White house where he urged his supporters to march to the Capitol to “stop the theft” of the election.
This intervention served as a basis for Democrats to open a trial against him in the Senate, on charges of inciting insurrection, from which Trump was acquitted over the weekend, for not having enough votes to “condemn him.” “.
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As Trump is no longer president, he would have faced a possible disqualification from holding public office in the future. Since the assault on the Capitol, the former president, who was ubiquitous on Twitter during his tenure, has blocked their accounts on major social networks.
EFE