Former Trump White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney countered his former boss’s claims that the January 6th domestic terrorists who attacked the Capitol were “zero threat” and “hugging and kissing” police, claims Donald Trump made on Fox News earlier this week.
Appearing on CNN’s “Newsroom,” Mulvany called Trump’s claims “manifestly false,” noting that the attackers killed one police officer and injured 140 more. Two other police officers took their own lives in the aftermath of the attack.
“I was surprised to hear the President say that. Clearly there were people who were behaving themselves, and then there were people who absolutely were not, but to come out and say that everyone was fine and there was no risk, that’s just manifestly false — people died, other people were severely injured,” Mulvaney said. “It’s not right to say there was no risk, I don’t know how you can say that when people were killed.”
“It was zero threat, right from the start, it was zero threat. Look, they went in, they shouldn’t have done it. Some of them went in, and they are hugging and kissing the police and the guards, you know, they had great relationships,” Trump told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham Thursday night. “A lot of the people were waved in, and then they walked in and they walked out.”
Ingraham cut Trump off from propagating debunked claims that the election was stolen from him through fraudulent voting and corrupt officials.