Trump Tries to Rewrite History of Jan. 6 in Campaign’s Final Stretch

• Oct. 18, 2024, 10:19 p.m. ET

Donald J. Trump connected Friday tried to revise the past of the deadly onslaught connected the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob, arsenic caller details successful the national prosecution against him were made nationalist by the justice successful the case.

His effort to recast the events of Jan. 6, 2021, came connected the aforesaid time that helium compared his supporters who were arrested, convicted and imprisoned for their actions astatine the Capitol to the victims of the Japanese internment camps successful the United States during World War II. And it followed a caller remark successful which Mr. Trump declared Jan. 6 a time of “love.”

The erstwhile president made his comments astir Jan. 6 and its aftermath astatine a clip when, conscionable weeks earlier Election Day, uncommitted voters successful battleground states archer pollsters that among their apical concerns is that they presumption him arsenic a menace to democracy.

On Friday, connected his website Truth Social, Mr. Trump amplified a conspiracy mentation that the onslaught connected the Capitol was staged by the national government, and helium promoted his mendacious claims that wide fraud outgo him the 2020 election.

He reposted a meme that a idiosyncratic had primitively posted connected Thursday, which read: “January 6 volition spell down successful past arsenic the time the authorities staged a riot to screen up the information that they certified a fraudulent election.” Those words appeared implicit 2 images of radical swarming the extracurricular of the Capitol gathering that time and waving American flags.

Earlier connected Friday, connected a podcast hosted by the blimpish media fig Dan Bongino, Mr. Trump lamented however those arrested successful transportation with the onslaught person been treated.