Trump Returns To Twitter, Finally Condemns Violent Riot

President Donald Trump returned from his forced Twitter hiatus on Thursday with a nearly three-minute video in which he finally condemned the violence his supporters carried out at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.

“Like all Americans, I am outraged by the violence, lawlessness and mayhem,” he said. It was a far cry from the supportive messages he sent to the rioters acting in his name the day before, when he told them, “We love you, you’re very special.”

The outgoing president also acknowledged that “a new administration will be inaugurated on January 20,” the closest he’s come to conceding the election to President-elect Joe Biden. Trump said his months-long crusade to overturn the election results was merely an effort “to ensure the integrity of the vote.”