{"id":1005,"date":"2026-06-04T07:36:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T07:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=1005"},"modified":"2026-06-04T07:36:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T07:36:50","slug":"trump-claims-violent-january-6-rioters-went-there-with-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=1005","title":{"rendered":"Trump claims violent January 6 rioters ‘went there with love’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Donald Trump told a reporter on Wednesday that the January 6th insurrection, which Trump instigated to overturn his defeat in the 2020 presidential election, was conducted by people who \u201cwent there with love.\u201d<\/p>\n

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After CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins asked Trump to confirm that his $1.8 billion slush fund to insurrectionists is indeed dead, Trump said he\u2019d need to check with his lawyers before attacking the people behind the fund.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs far as I’m concerned, it was a beautiful thing,\u201d Trump told Collins. \u201cIt was something I was \u2014 I didn’t make it, but I was \u2014 I heard that \u2014 I thought that was the greatest thing, because people like you have abused our people so badly. The fake news, like CNN, like the New York Times, and like others, have abused our people.\u201d<\/p>\n

After telling the assembled journalists to be quiet, Trump claimed that they \u201chave abused our people so badly, and you should be ashamed of yourself. You. You used to be a conservative. She was a conservative from Alabama \u2014 can you believe it? But CNN in particular \u2014 CNN does such false reporting. But now they have new ownership, so maybe it’ll straighten it out. I doubt it, but it’s hard to straighten garbage out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s reference to CNN\u2019s \u201cnew ownership\u201d involves David and Larry Ellison, the billionaire Oracle founder and his son, who have reportedly promised Trump they would fire journalists he dislikes much as they allegedly have gutted CBS News at his behest.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are people that are great people, that would \u2014 destroy their families, have been destroyed, many suicides,\u201d Trump wrote. \u201cThey committed suicide, people that went there with love. They went there with love.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added, \u201cYou know, when I made that speech earlier in the day \u2014 tremendous crowd. I hate to say it because they’ll say, \u2018Oh, I was wrong on the number,\u2019 but I believe it’s the largest crowd I’ve ever spoken to, by \u2014 by twice. The biggest crowd, I think, bigger than the inaugurations, bigger than anything. And there was so much love and friendship. It was the most amazing thing. People were crying.\u201d<\/p>\n

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After again insisting that he be allowed to finish, Trump concluded that \u201cthose people have been abused by you, and by others, and by the politicians, by the Democrats, and dumb people. They want to have open borders. They want to have transgender utilization of your children. They want to have men playing in women’s sports. They want to have high taxes. They turn down \u2014 you know, they fought us on the tax bill, and they fought us because they want people to pay high taxes. Because they’re crazy. There’s something wrong with them. There’s something wrong with you. It’s a shame.\u201d<\/p>\n

Users on X immediately blasted Trump\u2019s statements.<\/p>\n

Nothing says “love” like poop on Pelosi’s desk, a Capitol Police Officer getting his eye gouged, and a bespoke guillotine for the VP,” posted one critic on X, immediately after Trump’s claim went live.<\/p>\n

Similarly, another critic posted \u201ca day of love\u201d next to a GIF of the insurrectionists breaking down Capitol doors, and @JumboElliott76 posted: \u201cBragging about an attempted insurrection. We’re in the stupidest time.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Trump claims that his $1.8 billion slush fund no longer exists, insiders are skeptical. Trump created the fund by suing his own IRS for $10 billion and then having his own Justice Department, which was assigned to defend the IRS, reach a settlement with him. They rushed to do so before May 20th because the presiding judge demanded they appear before her by that date in order to make sure the deal was legal.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou only need to look at Donald Trump’s long history of lies\u2026 to disbelieve the notion that the settlement fund and everything associated with it is going to vanish,\u201d Norm Eisen, co-founder and board member of Democracy Defenders Action, said in a statement. \u201cWe are fighting to erase the slush fund. It’s a disgrace.\u201d Eisen added that forbidding the IRS from investigating Trump or his family is \u201cthe worst example of corruption in the history of the American presidency.\u201d<\/p>\n

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