Crowd’s ‘visibly disgusted’ reaction goes viral as Trump claims January 6 was a ‘Day of Love’ in Hispanic town hall

The audience at a town hall looked angry as former President Donald Trump described Jan. 6 as a “day of love” and tried to minimize the severity of the violent clash at the Capitol.

Questioner Ramiro Gonzalez, a Republican construction worker from Tampa, said he wanted to give Trump “an opportunity to try to win my vote back,” then issued a series of blunt statements during Univision’s town hall this week.

Trump’s response sparked a public backlash that has occurred ever since gone viralsaying that ‘nothing wrong was done’ that day, with one site saying the public ‘visibly showed their disgust’ and receiving almost 3 million views.

The Kamala Harris campaign later posted about it on X, in a post that zooms in on the surprised expressions of spectators during the broadcast of the Spanish-language channel.

The questioner thanked Trump and said he would appreciate an answer after asking about “your action and perhaps your inaction during your presidency and in recent years.”

“You waited so long to take action while your supporters were attacking the Capitol,” Gonzalez asked him. He said he thought the public was “misled” about the coronavirus, as were “people in your government who don’t support you.”

“Why would I want to support you…your own vice president doesn’t want to support you,” he said.

Trump gave a lengthy answer as his questioner looked on. A quick camera shot during his response caught the eye of a string of female voters. One woman snapped her head when Trump talked about the January 6 toll.

Trump began his response by gently admonishing Vice President Mike Pence, who refused his calls to reject votes certified by states Trump lost. Pence has said he will not vote for Trump and has declined to endorse him.

“The vice president, I don’t agree with him on what he did,” Trump said. ‘I I totally disagree with him about what he did. Very importantly, hundreds of thousands of people came to Washington. They didn’t come because of me, they came because of the election,” Trump said.

“They thought the elections were rigged and that’s why they came. Some of those people went to the Capitol. I said, ‘peaceful and patriotic,’ nothing wrong has been done at all,” he continued.

A camera panning around the audience captured stern reactions as Trump gave his response

Trump said ‘nothing wrong was done’

According to the Justice Department, 140 law enforcement officers were injured in the melee that day

The Kamala Harris campaign posted an image of a woman’s apparently skeptical reaction during Trump’s Jan. 6 response

‘Done nothing wrong. And action was taken – strong action. Ashli ​​Babbitt was killed, no one was killed,” Trump said as a camera watched the crowd.

One woman in a striped shirt cringed and shook her head at the comment, while two other women stared into space.

“There were no weapons there, we had no weapons. The others had weapons, but we had no weapons. When I say ‘we’ these are the people who walked down, this was a small percentage of the total.”

‘This was a small percentage of the total – which no one sees and no one shows. But that was a day of love and the point of view of millions – it’s like hundreds of thousands,” Trump said. He called it “the largest group I’ve ever talked to.”

The The Ministry of Justice said this That day, 140 officers were attacked, approximately 80 from the Capitol Police and 60 from the DC Metropolitan Police.

More than 1,265 suspects have been charged.

The issue of deaths is complicated.

Officers shot Trump supporter Ashli ​​Babbitt as she was steps away from the House chamber as rioters tried to force their way through a locked door. U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who was attacked by the mob, died on January 7. Two police officers died by suicide in the immediate aftermath.

Roseanne Boyland’s death may have been caused by a stampede, Kevin Greeson died of a heart attack and Trump supporter Benjamin Philips died of a stroke.

The viral moment is just the latest periodic moment around January 6 to insert itself into the campaign, including during the vice presidential debate, when Senator JD Vance refused to say President Biden won the election.

During a Bloomberg News interview this week, Trump pushed back when his interviewer told him that the end of his term was the “worst transition of power” in a long time.

‘I left the morning I was supposed to leave. I went to Florida and you had a very peaceful transfer,” Trump said.

“And some people went to the Capitol, and a lot of strange things happened there. “There’s a lot of strange things happening where people are being sent into the Capitol by police,” he added.