During his rambling inaugural press conference as a convicted felon, former President Donald Trump delivered a frenzied reenactment of the alleged January 6 motorcade incident, wherein he was purported to have made a grab for the steering wheel.
On Friday morning, Trump convened what was promoted as a press conference — marking his first since the jury in the Stormy Daniels hush money trial returned “guilty” verdicts on all 34 felony counts the day before, thereby becoming the inaugural ex-president to attain convicted felon status.
Trump spoke for 33 minutes, during which he launched into a familiar barrage of attacks and falsehoods, experimented with new material, veered from one topic to another, and fielded no questions.
One tangent saw him theatrically recounting an exaggerated rendition of Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony regarding an alleged tantrum Trump threw in the motorcade on Jan. 6:
So they have testimony to all of that, that I did not attack the Secret Service agent in the front of the car.
You know, these are strong people. And I supposedly went to the driver and I grabbed him around the neck! And he rebuffed me!
And then I went to the other guy, who I think is a black belt in karate, and he’s slightly younger than me, maybe 35 years, 40 years, 50 years.
And I grabbed him around the neck and said–.
He’s a black belt in karate. They know how to get somebody from around their neck. They would have gone like this and that would be the end of that!
Actually, I had a friend that said you shouldn’t dispute that. That makes you look like the toughest cookie we’ve ever seen. You should have let that go on.
But the fact is, it never happened. It was all made up.
And that was proven to be made up. It proved to be a false story.
And they deleted and destroyed all of that information, every ounce of it. We’re dealing with a corrupt government. We have a corrupt country.
