Donald Trump Reacts To Damning Jan. 6 Committee Final Report

Former President Donald Trump denounced Thursday’s final report of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection as “highly partisan.”

In a post on his Truth Social account, Trump sought to deflect blame for the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol by attacking outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and calling the deadly riot a “protest.”

“The highly partisan Unselect Committee Report purposely fails to mention the failure of Pelosi to heed my recommendation for troops to be used in D.C., show the ‘Peacefully and Patrioticly’ words I used, or study the reason for the protest, Election Fraud. WITCH HUNT!” he wrote.

Many Republicans, including Trump, have long sought to lay the blame on Pelosi for security failures on Jan. 6 even though she was not responsible for the U.S. Capitol Police and has no authority to call in the National Guard in the District of Columbia. Her own life and the lives of her staff were also at risk during the storming of the Capitol.