Former President Trump said Friday that no Japanese American who was incarcerated during World War II was treated worse than those jailed for storming the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. He claimed that no one had received it.
President Trump appeared on “The Dan Bongino Show,” despite a June Supreme Court ruling that found the obstruction law used to indict numerous rioters was improperly applied. He questioned why those charged with the January 6th actions were still being detained.
“The other thing is, you know, they actually won in the Supreme Court, the Fisher case and various cases,” Trump said. “Why are they still being held? No one has ever been treated like this. Frankly, they could have been Japanese in World War II. But you know… As expected, they were also detained.”
President Trump continued to attack the House committee that investigated the events of January 6, calling it “a very sad day in the life of this country.”
Approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans took place in a concentration camp During World War II, after then-President Franklin Roosevelt issued an executive order. The treatment of Japanese Americans during this period has been widely condemned in the decades since, with President Biden calling it “one of the most shameful periods in American history.”
On January 6, 2021, a pro-Trump mob violently clashed with law enforcement at the Capitol in an attempt to stop the certification of President Biden's 2020 victory. The riots came after President Trump spent weeks claiming his loss was fraudulent.
of Justice Department indicts There were approximately 1,500 defendants connected to the storming of the Capitol that day. Approximately 550 people have been charged with assaulting, resisting or obstructing an officer or employee.
The Justice Department announced that nearly 900 people have pleaded guilty to various federal charges in connection with the January 6 incident.
President Trump himself has been charged with trying to stay in power, but in recent days he has repeatedly downplayed the attack on the Capitol. At a Univision town hall event, he told a constituent concerned about the events of January 6 that today was a “day of love.”
The former president insisted in an interview Tuesday with Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait that there was a peaceful transfer of power in 2020 as he ultimately left office.
