Trump Swears He Has Nothing To Hide As He Fights January 6th Committee

During a recent interview where he claimed that his speech at the January 6th Stop The Steal rally was "extremely calming," Donald Trump made the obviously false statement that he has nothing to hide about that day. If this were the case, he wouldn't be fighting with all of his might to prevent the January 6th committee from getting his communications and other documents from that day, as well as encouraging others to not cooperate. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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During an interview with Laura Ingraham late last week, Donald Trump swore up and down that he has nothing to hide about the events of January 6th, nothing to hide. In fact, this is what he said. He said, honestly, I have nothing to hide. I wasn't involved in that and if you look at my words and what I said in the speech, they were extremely calming, actually. So that was your job at the January 6th Stop the Steal rally, to go out there and calm the people down? Is that why you said, quote, if you don't fight like hell, you're going to, you're not going to have a country anymore? If you don't fight like, hell, you're not going to have a country anymore. Is that a calming phrase to anybody here? Like, do you hear that and you think, oh, good, good. No, that's a call to action. I mean, honestly, in the eyes of the law, they would probably view that as a call to action. If you don't fight like, hell, you're not going to have a country anymore.

But this little interview that Trump did with Laura Ingraham has obviously taken on a whole new light recently after it was revealed that Laura Ingraham was one of those Fox news hosts that was texting the White House, begging them to stop the insurrection. You know, some texts begging to send in the National Guard, do something, stop this, put an end to it. Oh, I bet Laura Ingraham When she sat down with Donald that day, didn't think those text messages were gonna come back up. Did she? Because she has completely destroyed what little credibility she may have had on this particular issue. Donald Trump's words that day were not calming. He absolutely has something to hide. He wouldn't be suing to stop the release of any of his communications if he didn't have something to hide. He has his lawyers arguing in court, some of the dumbest legal arguments we've ever heard, trying to claim that a former president has more power of executive privilege the than a sitting president, absolutely brain dead legal arguments. And it's all because Trump doesn't want his communications revealed because clearly he has something to hide.

And in the last two weeks alone, we have gotten a treasure trove of new information that all goes right back to the office of the president himself via his chief of staff, Mark Meadows. And I'm sure again, Mark Meadows, wasn't ready for all of this information to become public. Guy just wanted to sell some books. Oh, now you've got so many more problems to worry about than your book sales, right, Mark? You know, no longer worried about whether or not you're gonna make it on that best-sellers list. Now you're worried about whether or not you're gonna go to prison for helping foment an insurrection here in the United States, which honestly, I do believe that you, you should be going to prison for that. Nevertheless, Trump is still out there trying to downplay this, trying to rewrite history and alter his role in all of this. I was calming. I was extremely calming to all of these people. You literally told them to go fight like hell. Fight like hell, that's not calming. That is in fact a call to action and hopefully the court system sees it that way too.