Former President Donald Trump brushed back new criticism of his actions on Jan. 6, 2021, and said the Capitol protests were the fault of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser.
“I’m the one that tried to stop it. I offered 10,000 soldiers, and Nancy Pelosi turned me down. So did the mayor of Washington. She turned me down in writing,” Trump said in a remarkable interview with Time magazine.
Trump also decried a “two-tier system” of justice that has targeted Jan. 6 protesters but not those tied to Black Lives Matter violence, and he promised to consider pardons for most of the nearly 1,000 tried or convicted in the Capitol riots.
“I would consider that, yes,” Trump said in comments that should be reassuring to those tied up in the
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