Former President Donald Trump, speaking out Thursday after the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in his appeal of the Colorado high court’s ruling to keep him off the state’s GOP primary ballot, said that if the Jan. 6, 2021, protests at the Capitol formed an “insurrection,” then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was to blame.
“I heard and I watched and the one thing I’ll say is they kept saying about what I said right after the insurrection … which I think was an insurrection caused by Nancy Pelosi,” Trump, the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, told reporters gathered outside his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, reports NBC News.
In addition, Trump told reporters that none of the Capitol protesters were using guns on Jan. 6, pointing out that only Ashli Babbitt was shot and killed.
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