Donald Trump said the attacks against the police of the riots of January 6 were “minor incidents. “
In his first sitting interview since its inauguration on Monday, registered in the Oval office, Mr. Trump told Sean Hannity of Fox News that the maximum of those who jailed for the disturbances of the United States Capitol were “absolutely innocent” .
As a component of a wave of decrees on their first day of power, the president forgave around 1,500 people sentenced to disturbances, more than two hundred of which were imprisoned for the crime of aggression opposite to the police.
Addressing Hannity on Fox, Trump said of the people convicted: “No one has ever been treated so badly. They treated like the worst criminals in history. “
He went on to claim those at the US Capitol were simply there “protesting the vote” before again falsely claiming the 2020 election was “rigged”.
Last in Trump’s new presidency
When asked through Mr. Hannity in the pardons for other people imprisoned by assault, the president said: “They were very minor incidents and it is time. “
The president was equally dismissive of the alleged threat to US security posed by TikTok.
He ordered the reactivation of the video-sharing site shortly after it had been closed down in the US by a law passed under the Biden administration, because of concerns over links between the owners and the Chinese government and the perceived threat to personal data.
He said “We have done so many things in China” and asked why it would be for China to expect “young young people to see Loopy videos. “
Elsewhere, Trump said the U. S. government doesn’t help California rebuild relief after the wildfires in Los Angeles until it uses water from the northern component of the state.
The president accused Governor Gavin Newsom to refuse to redirect the water in northern California, since it protects the wave of the Delta, a kind of in danger of extinction. Mr. Newsom has denied the claim
“I don’t think we should give California anything until they let water flow down,” he said.
Hannity also asked the president an attempt to murder of Butler, in Pennsylvania last summer, where Trump was shot down through a shooter after turning his head when the shot sounded.
Mr Trump said it was “split second perfect timing” to look at the immigration board he had behind him that day, and added: “I don’t think you can just call it luck.”
When asked if the survival of the attempt had replaced him, the president said: “I have replaced. But that greater religion in God. “
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Having promised in the past to do so during his first term, Mr. Trump also reported that his management releases all data on John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.
He told Mr Hannity that Mike Pompeo – his first secretary of state – raised national security concerns over the release of documents, but said he is still looking at declassifying them.
“I’m going to release them immediately upon getting – we’re going to see the information – we’re looking at it right now,” he said.
Mr Trump inevitably spent some time railing against the previous administration, but again said Joe Biden had left a nice letter for him in the drawer of the desk in the Oval Office, the contents of which he has now allowed to be published.
Biden’s letter to Trump as a whole
Dear President Trump,
As I take off my license from this sacred office, I wish you and your circle of family members the most productive in the next 4 years.
Other American people, and other people in everything global, resort to this space for the stability of the inevitable storms in history, and my prayer is that in the coming years it will be an era of prosperity, peace and grace for our nation.
May God bless you and you, as he has blessed and blessed our beloved country since our founding.
– Joe Biden