"They're coming after me because I'm standing up for you," Trump said at the Prescott Valley Save America rally, where he was campaigning for the candidates he's backing in Arizona's races, including Kari Lake for governor, Blake Masters for the U.S. Senate, and a new endorsement for Eli Crane, who is campaigning for the state's 2nd District congressional seat.
Trump announced he watched the committee's prime-time hearing Thursday when the testimony and proof centered on his actions during the violence at the Capitol. He denounced the proceedings as a "hoax" and mocked former deputy press secretary Sarah Matthews for testifying regarding her reaction to the Jan. 6 incidents.
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"I watched this hoax last night where a young lady said, 'Oh, I'm so heartbroken,'" Trump announced. "But three weeks after Jan. 6, she wrote us a letter saying, 'Oh, I loved working for the president. He's so great.'"
Trump also slammed former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony from a previous hearing, in which she stated he attempted to make his Secret Service detail take him to the Capitol.
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"Can you imagine this made-up story?" he stated. "It is total fiction, and I say thank God for the great people in the Secret Service because they put out a statement that it wasn't terrible."
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"Then she had me throwing food in the White House. I don't throw food in the White House. I don't throw food anywhere. I eat the food, which is a problem. I'd probably be better off if I threw it."
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Yet the committee's participants won't bring in the Secret Service detail, which wants to testify, announced Trump.
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"It's just a horrible thing that's going on in our country," he stated. "It's sick, and the fake news media is totally complicit. These are very dishonest people."
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Trump stated that if he declared he wasn't running, the media and Democrats "would go on to the next victim, but that's not what I do," but he "can't do that because I love this country, and I love you."
He further explained the audience that he had a "very good and luxurious life before entering the wonderful world of politics."
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"I'm doing it for you, and it's my honor to do it," he stated. "Because if I don't do it, I truly believe our nation is doomed to become another Venezuela or become another Soviet Union or become another large-scale version of Cuba, where all is lost, and there is no hope."
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