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Invasion of the Capitol
Still the “No Kings” protests. A statement by Donald Trump Jr. about his own father. Your list didn’t go very well.
More than 7 million people demonstrated last weekend against Donald Trump.
is the name of the movement. Because Trump is not a king. Organizers say it is an attempt to defend democracy and a rejection of the “monarchy” or “king” in power.
Donald Trump Jr. appeared this Tuesday to defend his father (the US president) and attack the Democrats.
Donald Trump’s eldest son praised – in a sarcastic way – the Democratic Party and said: “Congratulations, guys, you won. We don’t have kings.”
Following this speech, Donald Trump Jr. presented a list of examples that show that, indeed, his father is not a king.
And it was in the middle of this list that he presented an example that, as described by , is difficult for some critics to swallow.
His sentence was: “If he was a king, he probably would never have left office the first time.”
Donald Trump JR: If he was a king, he probably would have never left office the first time
– Acyn (@acyn)
Then. But what happened when Donald Trump left the White House in 2021? The.
The Congress of the United States of America was confirming Joe Biden’s victory in the presidential elections in November 2020, when the Capitol was invaded.
A group of supporters of Donald Trump, the previous president but defeated this time, began to force entry into the building (and many actually entered), dissatisfied with the result of the election.
O Donald Trump Jr. himself sent messages to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, for the father to stop quickly that attack.
“He must immediately condemn this. The Capitol Police publication is not enough,” wrote Donald Trump Jr., according to transcripts released during a House of Representatives investigation. And Mark Meadows agreed.
More: Donald Trump was elected president again last year, and when he returned to the White House, one of his priorities was to pardon everyone involved in the attack on the Capitol – including those who were convicted of attacking police officers.
Critical reactions on social media spread. HuffPost gathered a few: “They all conveniently remembered January 6th”, or “This goes beyond parody”, or “Uh…do you remember what he tried to do?”.
Or even the irony “Yes, Trump would probably have incited an insurrection or something. He would have put his henchmen in the Capitol. He would have tried to prevent electoral validation. That would have been bad.”
