Jan. 6 'a friendly preview of what's to come': pro-Trump GOP hopeful

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy doubled down on his theory that government censorship caused the Jan. 6 attacks.

In earlier remarks to Tucker Carlson, Ramaswamy whitewashed former President Donald Trump's responsibility for inciting a riot on Jan. 6.

He explained his theory to Charlie Kirk on Monday.

"I think January 6th was the culmination of what you see when a culture censors people from speaking," the candidate opined. "We had lockdowns in this country, told you had to hide in your basement, stay locked down, while BLM and Antifa roamed the cities of this country freely, burning many of them to the ground."

He also faulted the suppression of a story about Hunter Biden ahead of the 2020 election.

"You were told that all of the grievances and vengeance that you wanted to get up on the table, you could do that through an election, through the democratic process," Ramaswamy recalled. "You couldn't even send that [article] on your social media accounts to individual people without being silenced."

The candidate repeated remarks he made at the Turning Point Action conference.

"And what I said on stage at the conference is you tell people they cannot scream, that is when they tear things down," he said. "And my concern, Charlie, is unless we reconcile ourselves with what the truth of the matter was that led to January 6th, that's really just going to be a friendly preview of what's to come in this country."

Ramaswamy said that he preferred not to see a "national divorce."

"And we're going to be sanctimoniously indicting one individual without actually taking a long, hard look in the mirror," he continued. "I think every American has to look, especially much of the left in this country that denounces January 6th and the supposed threats to our democracy. Everyone in this country has to take a long, hard look in the mirror and ask ourselves what role each of us played in getting to that day."

As a candidate, Ramaswamy has been careful to embrace Trump and his record.

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