Trump’s former chief of staff calls out his ‘zero threat’ Capitol riot remark

Mick Mulvaney, former president Donald Trump’s chief of staff on Saturday called out the ex-president for downplaying and whitewashing the history of the Capitol attack.

Mulvaney had stepped down as Trump’s special envoy to Northern Ireland after the January 6 insurrection. He called Trump’s whitewashing comments “manifestly false.”

He said, “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,” reported CNN. 

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Adding further he said that it was not right for the former president to say there were no risks involved when people lost their lives. 

In an attempt to rewrite the history and truth about the Capitol attack, Trump while talking to Fox News kept reiterating that the election was stolen from him even though there was no proof of fraud. 

When Trump was asked about the increased security in and around the Capitol building, he said that it was a political manoeuvre” and “disgraceful”. 

“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. A lot of the people were waved in, and then they walked in and they walked out,” he said. 

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Mulvaney and two other officials had resigned from Trump’s administration following the attack. While the former chief of staff maintains that he “absolutely would” vote for Donald Trump if he decided to run for elections in 2024, he acknowledges that he will have to answer questions regarding his resignation. 

Mick said, “He’s still a major player in the Republican Party — there’s a lot of folks who were turned off by the last six weeks, and especially the riots, that he’s going to have to do some work to sort of build bridges back with, if he wants to run again.”