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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Edward Helmore

Trump claimed ‘I was not watching television’ on January 6, book says

Former president Donald Trump speaks at a rally, on 23 September, in Wilmington, North Carolina.
Former president Donald Trump speaks at a rally, on 23 September, in Wilmington, North Carolina. Photograph: Chris Seward/AP

Donald Trump denied knowing at the time the January 6 attack on the US Capitol started that a mob of his supporters – whom he privately called “fucking crazy” – were rioting, the author of a forthcoming book on his chaotic presidency writes in what may stand as one of the most surprising, non-believable postscripts of his tenure in the Oval Office.

“I didn’t usually have the television on. I’d have it on if there was something. I then later turned it on and I saw what was happening,” Trump told New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman for her forthcoming account Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America.

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