Former President Donald Trump on Friday compared the people jailed on
charges that they stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to the more
than 120,000 people of Japanese origin incarcerated on U.S. soil during
World War II.

�Why are they still being held? Nobody�s ever been treated like this,� he
said in an interview with conservative commentator Dan Bongino. �Maybe the
Japanese during Second World War, frankly. They were held, too.�

The GOP presidential nominee has consistently tried to play down the
storming of the Capitol by his supporters who tried to overturn his 2020
election loss, portraying it earlier this week as a �day of love.� About
140 officers were injured that day, making it likely the largest assault
of American law enforcement in a single day. Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt
was shot and killed by police.

Trump has previously said the rioters have been �horribly treated� and has
referred to those still jailed as �hostages� and �victims,� repeatedly
calling for their release and suggesting he would pardon them if re-
elected.

Trump�s Democratic opponent Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday
accused him of gaslighting the public regarding Jan. 6.

The federal government incarcerated an estimated 120,000 people with
Japanese ancestry, including U.S. citizens, following a February 1942
order signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. A 1983 congressional
commission concluded the detentions were a result of �racial prejudice,
war hysteria and failure of political leadership,� and the U.S. government
formally apologized and paid $20,000 in reparations to each victim five
years later.

�Japanese Americans are not and should not be compared to insurrectionists
who committed major crimes and in which people were hurt and killed,� said
Sharon Yamato, the daughter of former Japanese Americans who were
incarcerated. �And I think that that is just so horrible to try to even
make that comparison or allege that there�s any similarities between the
two.�

Trump claimed the Jan. 6 defendants �won in the Supreme Court,� referring
to a ruling from this past June that limited a federal obstruction law
that had been used to charge hundreds of Capitol riot defendants as well
as the former president himself.

The Supreme Court opinion that Trump claims should have freed the rioters
was authored by Chief Justice John Roberts. In a 6-3 ruling, the high
court held that the charge of obstructing an official proceeding must
include proof that defendants tried to tamper with or destroy documents.
But the overwhelming majority of the approximately 1,000 people who have
been convicted of or pleaded guilty to Capitol riot-related federal crimes
were never charged with obstruction and will not be affected by the
outcome.

Trump also was charged under that statute by special counsel Jack Smith�s
team, which has also said the ruling should not have any bearing on its
prosecution of Trump on charges that he plotted to overturn the 2020
election.

Trump has maintained that he only encouraged supporters to protest
�peacefully.� In a speech on the White House Ellipse that morning, Trump
told the crowds to march �peacefully and patriotically� to the Capitol.
But he also used far more incendiary language when speaking off the cuff.
He said �We fight like hell. And if you don�t fight like hell, you�re not
going to have a country anymore.�

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Pelosi Self-Enrichment Club wrote:
> Trump has maintained that he only encouraged supporters to protest
> “peacefully.” In a speech on the White House Ellipse that morning, Trump
> told the crowds to march “peacefully and patriotically” to the Capitol.

Yes he did:

"We have overwhelming pride in this great country and we have it deep in
our souls. Together, we are determined to defend and preserve government
of the people, by the people and for the people.

Our brightest days are before us. Our greatest achievements, still away.

I think one of our great achievements will be election security. Because
nobody until I came along had any idea how corrupt our elections were.

And again, most people would stand there at 9 o'clock in the evening and
say I want to thank you very much, and they go off to some other life.
But I said something's wrong here, something is really wrong, can have
happened.

And we fight. We fight like hell. And if you don't fight like hell,
you're not going to have a country anymore.

Our exciting adventures and boldest endeavors have not yet begun. My
fellow Americans, for our movement, for our children, and for our
beloved country.

And I say this despite all that's happened. The best is yet to come.

So we're going to, we're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue. I love
Pennsylvania Avenue. And we're going to the Capitol, and we're going to
try and give.

The Democrats are hopeless — they never vote for anything. Not even one
vote. But we're going to try and give our Republicans, the weak ones
because the strong ones don't need any of our help. We're going to try
and give them the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back
our country.

So let's walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.

I want to thank you all. God bless you and God Bless America.

Thank you all for being here. This is incredible. Thank you very much.
Thank you."
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