Former President Donald J. Trump speaks about filing a class-action lawsuits targeting Facebook, Google and Twitter and their CEOs, escalating his long-running battle with the companies following their suspensions of his accounts, during a press conference at the Trump National Golf Club on Wednesday, July 07, 2021 in Bedminster, NJ. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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Asked by a reporter about what he did to stop the Capitol riot and why he wasn’t able to prevent it happening, Trump ignored the question and instead focused on Babbitt.“There were no guns in the Capitol except for the gun that shot Ashli Babbitt,” Trump said, “And nobody knows who that man was.”But Trump immediately contradicted himself by claiming that he knows who it was, and claimed that if the person shot had been a Democrat or a Biden supporter, the identity of the officer would be known by now.
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