Lara Trump made a series of contradictory claims to cast blame for Jan. 6 away from her father-in-law and onto House speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Donald Trump's daughter-in-law appeared Wednesday evening on Fox News, which pays her as a contributor, to defend the twice-impeached one-term president from the House select committee investigating the deadly U.S. Capitol riot.
"These people know, whether it's Adam Schiff, whether it's Liz Cheney, whether it's [Adam] Kinzinger, they all know that Donald Trump didn't orchestrate this whole thing," Lara Trump said. "He didn't tell people to go to the Capitol and break in. He said, 'Let's peacefully and patriotically make our voices heard.'"
However, Lara Trump seemed to suggest the former president had an inkling that something bad was afoot but Pelosi was to blame for the violence that erupted when his supporters tried to block the certification of Joe Biden's election win.
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"But he tried to warn them, so many people tried to warn Nancy Pelosi," she said, "so why didn't they have the adequate security there?"
Her claims were ripped apart on social media.
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Lara is only a Trump by marriage, but she has the entitled-grifter thing down pat.https://twitter.com/factandrumor/status/1471446013999300609\u00a0\u2026— Harry Turtledove (@Harry Turtledove) 1639663147
How coincidental is that? It's pretty much the same thing we said when he won in the first place. Except there's still a good chance it was true in 2016.— joel (@joel) 1639631204
You did. I did. Anyone with any brains knew what was coming. It was clear enough. Resisters wisely heeded the warnings to stay away on 1/6.\n\nYet somehow, law enforcement agencies never saw it coming.— Steve (@Steve) 1639658185
It certainly looks like the President had the authority to deploy the DC National Guard. If he knew ahead of time that violence would erupt, as Lara Trump says he did, why didn't HE deploy the National Guard?\n\nhttps://www.justsecurity.org/74098/why-d-c-s-mayor-should-have-authority-over-the-d-c-national-guard/\u00a0\u2026pic.twitter.com/ynVoj2X6WY— Robin Messing (@Robin Messing) 1639663755
It always amazes me how easily the entire Trump family can flat out lie, gaslight and deflect. I don\u2019t know how these people live with themselves! \nLara Trump is lying!pic.twitter.com/OCjzMb0qlP— OUT OF FUQS QWEEN \ud83d\udcac (@OUT OF FUQS QWEEN \ud83d\udcac) 1639662602
The Trump-Vichy GOP treason party.\n\nArrest Lara Trump NOW!pic.twitter.com/S9W0Yv6O6n— Patrick Way (@Patrick Way) 1639659577
Trump told his mob to march down to the Capitol and that he'd be right there with them. Then he ran off w the SS to watch it on TV...we all heard/saw him do it.\n\nLara Trump assumes America is as stupid as Fox viewers.https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1471308742088028166\u00a0\u2026— J Blue (@J Blue) 1639662193
@LaraLeaTrump There is video of your father-in-law riling up the crowd and sending them to the Capitol and telling them he would march with them! You are only making yourself look like a pathetic liar. I thought you Trumps were "tough". Lying cowards is more like it! #Lara Trump— truthteller4eva (@truthteller4eva) 1639662692
