After hours of silence, as a mob of his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, President Trump said in a tweeted video late Wednesday afternoon that his supporters should “go home,” but once again he repeated his fraudulent claim that the election was stolen.
“I know your pain. I know your hurt,” Trump said in a short video from the Rose Garden of the White House posted to social media. “We had an election that was stolen from us,” he said, repeating debunked claims that election fraud had ruined his fictitious “landslide election.”
“But you have to go home now,” he said. “We have to have peace. We have to have law and order. We don’t want anybody hurt.”
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