Former US President Donald Trump offered his first interview on Wednesday since leaving the White House on January 20 to talk about his friend Rush Limbaugh, a late popular conservative communicator, in a conversation in which he insisted on his unfounded allegations of fraud in the past election and criticized the Republican Party.
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Trump, who intervened at his golf club in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, over the telephone on the television network Fox news to praise the figure of Limbaugh, who interviewed him several times.
Rush thought we won, and I also think we won substantially (the election), and Rush thought we won, it was over (as of November 3, when the election was held), and a lot of people think so too, ” said the former president .
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“I don’t think this would have happened to a Democrat, you would have had riots everywhere if that had happened to the Democrats, we don’t have the same support at certain levels of the Republican (party) system“But we have great people among the Republicans,” he added. Rush felt like we had won and he was pretty mad about it. “
I don’t think that would have happened to a Democrat, you would have had riots all over the place if that had happened to Democrats
Since the media projections, the Democrat gave Joe Biden as the winner of the presidential election four days after the celebration, Trump has pushed for his election fraud allegations without providing evidence and he began to recognize his rival’s triumph only after the House of Representatives approved on January 13 the charge to open a political trial against him for the assault on the Capitol.
On January 6, hundreds of radical followers emerged Trump stormed Congressional headquarters while a joint session of both houses was held to confirm Biden’s victory in the election.
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Minutes before the attack, the then outgoing president delivered an inflammatory speech from the White House where he called on his supporters to march to the Capitol to stop “the theft” of the election.
That intervention served as the basis for the Democrats to open a trial against him in the Senate, on the charge of provoking the uprising, which Trump was acquitted last weekend for not having enough votes to ‘condemn’ him. .
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Since Trump is no longer president, he would have faced possible suspension from public office in the future. Since the attack on the Capitol, the former president, who was ubiquitous on Twitter during his tenure, has their accounts have been blocked on the main social networks.
EFE