Trump compares rioters to internment camp victims

WEB DESK: On the backdrop of further evidence being unsealed, relating to the 165-page motion on the former United States president’s involvement in the January 6th riots, Donald Trump once again tried to change the narrative, painting his supporters as victims.

In September, a 165-page motion was release by Jack Smith which detailed how Trump planned to undermine the 2020 US election. The Judge presiding over the case released over 1800 pages of evidence relating to the motion, despite Trump’s requests to delay the unsealing of evidence until after the election on the basis that it was “election interference.”

“The most evil person” and “a sick puppy” was how Trump described Judge Tanya Chutkan and special counsel Jack Smith respectively. He did so on right wing media personality, Dan Bongino’s podcast.

In the same interview, Trump tried to frame the rioters of January 6 as victims, drawing comparisons to the Japanese held in internment camps in world war two.

“Nobody’s ever been treated like this. Maybe the Japanese during the Second World War, frankly. They were held, too,” the former president said. The Aliens Enemies Act of 1798 was used to hold Japanese people in such camps.

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According to the act, the president is able to give the directive for all natives or citizens of a country the US is at war with to be “apprehended, restrained, secured, and removed,” as long as they are at least 14 years old and male.

Using such a comparison to paint rioters as victims was at odds with Trump’s previous statements at a rally in Aurora, Colorado, where he advocated for the act in order to “dismantle every migrant criminal network operating on American soil.”

Earlier in the week in Florida, Trump tried to frame the January 6 rioters as peaceful, stating that “there were no guns down there. We didn’t have guns. The others had guns, but we didn’t have guns.”

The Capitol Rioters were in fact armed, a fact known thanks to photographic and video evidence showing people with guns, stun guns, batons, knives, baseball bats, and chemical sprays. However, Trump tried to distance himself from those people, specifying who he meant when he said “we” didn’t have guns.

“This was a tiny percentage of the overall, which nobody sees and nobody shows,” said Trump in Florida, while trying to sway an undecided voter.

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It “was a day of love from the standpoint of the millions, it’s like hundreds of thousands,” the Republican presidential nominee added right after. The capitol riots on January 6 resulted in the death of five people.