Former President Trump abruptly cancels a press conference scheduled for the first anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, blaming the House committee investigating the riot for his decision.
"In light of the total bias and dishonesty of the J6 Unselect Committee of Democrats, two failed Republicans, and the Fake News Media, I am canceling the Jan 6th Press Conference at Mar-a-Lago on Thursday, and instead will discuss many of those important topics at my rally," Trump said in a statement.
"No one understands it," a former Trump adviser said earlier this week in an interview, trying to explain Trump's earlier decision to hold the news conference."It's all about his ego."With House Republicans confident that they are poised to take control of Congress in November's midterm elections, Trump's plan to counterprogram against official Washington's commemoration of the attempted insurrection represented a potential liability.
A majority of Americans — 60 percent — said Trump's level of responsibility for the Jan. 6 attack was either a"great deal" or a"good amount," according to a Whatever misgivings fellow Republicans had about the news conference — at which Trump was expected to prosecute the moot and dishonest case that he won — he did not attribute his decision to resistance among his allies or within the broader GOP.
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