Donald Trump accidentally blew up his Jan. 6 defense during an interview with Fox News host Greg Gutfield, according to an analysis. The former president told the late-night talk show host Wednesday about a phone call he supposedly made to Tim Walz, who is now Kamala Harris' running mate, several years ago where he claimed the Minnesota governor asked for help dispersing hostile protesters carrying American flags – and Washington Post columnist Philip Bump noted that Trump understood the power he has over his supporters.
"This was during the riots and everything," Trump told Gutfeld. "They were MAGA people, you know, they like the American flag, all right, and they also had Trump [flags]." Walz asked Trump, who was president at the time, to tell the protesters he was their friend, so he got on Twitter and asked them to stand down.
"I put out a statement: 'He's a good man, the governor. He's on our side. I don't, I didn't know him, but I didn't want him to get hurt,'" Trump said, "and everybody put down their flags and they left.
It was sort of a beautiful thing in a lot of ways." Walz said in 2021..
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