The Washington Post’s Josh Dawsey held a 45-minute interview with Trump at Mar-a-Lago, wherein the ex-president offered no contrition for calling his supporters to Washington after pushing his false claims against his 2020 election loss. Trump used the interview to brag about his January 6th crowd size, glossed over his incendiary rhetoric that day, and expressed regret that he didn’t march with his supporters to the U.S. Capitol on the day they violently stormed the building.
Trump also used the interview to blame Pelosi for the situation that unfolded on the Capitol, even though she was targeted by the mob and, in fact, was not in charge of the Capitol Police that day. He also assigned some of the blame to Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, even though the Post noted that her team “furiously tried to reach Trump’s team that day.”