Donald Trump made his first live statements to the media regarding the attempted coup at the Capitol last Wednesday and his impending second impeachment vote in the House this week, showing little regret for his role in inciting the violence that killed five people.

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During a brief statement as he left the White House to board Marine One on the way to Joint Base Andrews, Trump claimed that “We want no violence.  Never violence,” although he’s been stoking his followers to do anything in their means to overturn the November election, which he lost to President-elect Joe Biden.

Trump also whined that the upcoming impeachment vote in the House, which charges him with one count of incitement of insurgency, is “really a continuation of the greatest witch hunt in the history of politics” that will call more unrest and anger.

Later, Trump took some time on the tarmac while moving from Marine One to Air Force One to address the press again.  Trump is traveling to Texas to tour the Alamo and to have a photo op at one spot where some of the 45-miles of his beloved border fence is built.

He did not state if Mexico paid for the fence, but he did start comparing Wednesday insurgent attack at the Capitol to the Black Lives Matter protests that swept the nation this summer, spurred by the death of number of unarmed Black people at the hands of police.

MSNBC was the only network to carry the tarmac comments live.  Trump claimed that his speech about the attempted coup at the Capitol was “analyzed, and people thought that what I said was totally appropriate.”

Trump then went on to try to compare, disingenuously, the insurrection at the Capitol to the BLM protests in Portland and Seattle, at which time MSNBC cut away from Trump, saying Trump, “as he occasionally does–as he often does–veers away from the truth.”