Trump to WaPo: I wish I’d marched with the crowd on January 6 – By Ed Morrissey (Hot Air) / April 7, 2022
This raises one question above all others, which is … why did Donald Trump give an interview to the Washington Post? One would think that the Beltway’s main broadsheet would be considered by Trump to be the epitome of “fake news,” and yet Josh Dawsey got an exclusive for the Post that dropped this morning.
And that might actually be the biggest news out of the interview. The only other eyebrow-raising revelation by Trump is that he regrets not leading the march to the Capitol on January 6 and wishes he’d get more credit for the size of the crowd:
Former president Donald Trump voiced regret Wednesday over not marching to the U.S. Capitol the day his supporters stormed the building, and he defended his long silence during the attack by claiming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and others were responsible for ending the deadly violence.
“I thought it was a shame, and I kept asking why isn’t she doing something about it? Why isn’t Nancy Pelosi doing something about it? And the mayor of D.C. also. The mayor of D.C. and Nancy Pelosi are in charge,” Trump said of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot in a 45-minute interview with The Washington Post. “I hated seeing it. I hated seeing it. And I said, ‘It’s got to be taken care of,’ and I assumed they were taking care of it.” …
