Former President Donald Trump has canceled a news conference he had planned to hold at his Mar-a-Lago estate on the first anniversary of the Capitol riot.
Trump blamed the House select committee investigating the deadly insurrection and the media in his announcement on Tuesday canceling the presser.
‘In light of the total bias and dishonesty of the January 6th Unselect Committee of Democrats, two failed Republicans, and the Fake News Media, I am canceling the January 6th Press Conference at Mar-a-Lago on Thursday, and instead will discuss many of those important topics at my rally on Saturday, January 15th, in Arizona,’ Trump said in a statement released by his Save America PAC.
‘It will be a big crowd!’
Trump had announced the press conference on December 21. It was scheduled to take place at his private club in Florida on Thursday night. The White House on Sunday had announced that President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will speak on January 6.
Some Senate Republicans had expressed uneasiness around Trump holding a conference on the anniversary of day his supporters stormed the Capitol building to try to stop Congress from certifying the election for Biden.
‘Hopefully his comments will be helpful, not harmful,’ Republican Senator John Thune said of Trump on Tuesday.
Trump canceled his conference the same day that the House select committee sent a letter to his pal, Fox News host Sean Hannity, asking for voluntary cooperation in its inquiry.
Committee chair Bennie Thompson and vice chair Liz Cheney, one of the two Republicans on the bipartisan panel, wrote that Hannity ‘had relevant communications while the riot was underway, and in the days thereafter’.
In his statement on Tuesday, Trump continued to push the false claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him and slammed the committee.
‘This is the Democrats’ Great Cover-Up Committee and the Media is complicit,’ Trump said.
‘Why is the primary reason for the people coming to Washington DC, which is the fraud of the 2020 Presidential Election, not the primary topic of the Unselect Committee’s investigation? This was, indeed, the Crime of the Century.’
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