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applegrove

(118,020 posts)
Tue Jan 4, 2022, 08:03 PM Jan 2022

Trump Cancels January 6 News Conference

Trump Cancels January 6 News Conference

January 4, 2022 at 6:25 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 126 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2022/01/04/trump-cancels-january-6-news-comference/

"SNIP......

Former President Donald Trump announced he is scrapping a planned news conference on the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, The Hill reports.

Trump blamed the House select committee charged with investigating the Jan. 6 riot for the cancellation.

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applegrove

(118,020 posts)
2. I wonder if statistics like this had anything to do with it:
Tue Jan 4, 2022, 08:05 PM
Jan 2022
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216211269

That makes almost 80% of Americans who want to see some or more jail time for Jan 6 insurrectionists.

brewens

(13,397 posts)
5. I didn't see any way his little show wouldn't make things worse. I was looking forward to it
Tue Jan 4, 2022, 08:19 PM
Jan 2022

actually. I wouldn't have watched it live though.

alittlelark

(18,886 posts)
6. BWaaaaa Waaaaa Waaaaaaa translating....
Tue Jan 4, 2022, 08:50 PM
Jan 2022

His 'Depends' are full and DU does not seem to have the 'turd' emoji, ??!!?

I bet a lawyer he would flee the country a year after leaving office.............. I still have a week or so


Yeah, it's for a hot dog lunch - but I still have faith

Mad_Machine76

(24,355 posts)
7. I think that this is his way of getting the attention
Tue Jan 4, 2022, 08:55 PM
Jan 2022

He figured he wouldn’t be getting on 1/6? And he probably delivered the same message he was going to put out anyway. And now everybody is covering it.

LetMyPeopleVote

(143,999 posts)
8. Trump canceled Jan. 6 event as 'it was becoming clear he wasn't likely to get live TV coverage'
Tue Jan 4, 2022, 09:32 PM
Jan 2022

TFG was not going to get live TV coverage




On Tuesday, former President Donald Trump announced he was pulling the plug on a press conference he was scheduled to give on the first anniversary of the January 6 Capitol insurrection, not even a week after formally announcing it would be taking place.

According to Maggie Haberman of The New York Times, one of the reasons for the cancelation is that Trump's advisors and associates privately told him that the press conference would be a mistake — and that he would probably not get his event covered live, something that he reveled in throughout his TV career and as president.
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