The former president has previously pledged to pardon January 6 participants if he's reelected in 2024.
"[Ten] dead in California shooting, horrible gun wielding ANTIFA protest against our great police in Atlanta - Nothing will happen to them despite night of rage and destruction," Trump's post read."Yet our January 6th protestors, over a Rigged Election, have had their lives ruined despite nobody killed except true Patriot Ashli B. This situation will be fully rectified after 2024 Election.
The Atlanta protest that Trump referred to occurred on Saturday, with participants gathering to protest the recent police killing of activist Manuel Esteban Paez Terán on Wednesday. Terán, 26, had gotten into a verbal altercation with officers near the planned sight of a massive police training facility, colloquially known as"Cop City."
Former President Donald Trump is seen at the rally that preceded the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot. Trump on Sunday invoked a recent protest and mass shooting to defend participants of the insurrection.The Saturday protest began peacefully, but did briefly escalate to violence at one point, with attendees throwing rocks and fireworks, smashing windows, and setting a police car on fire, Reuters reported.
It is unclear, based on his Truth Social post and the available reporting on the incident, why Trump invoked the mass shooting and what he believes it had in common with the Atlanta protest and the Capitol riot.
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