Republicans distance themselves from Trump’s Jan. 6 ‘hostages’ description
By
Emily Jacobs
March 17, 2024 2:51 pm
Former President Donald Trump faced pushback on Sunday from some of his fellow Republicans for calling the Jan. 6 rioters being held in prison “patriots” and “hostages” over the weekend.
Trump opened his campaign rally for GOP Senate hopeful Bernie Moreno on Saturday by playing a recording of the national anthem sung by the Jan. 6 choir, a group of Capitol rioters currently serving time in a Washington D.C.-based prison. The former president went on to describe those singing as “unbelievable patriots.”
“You see the spirit from the hostages. And that’s what they are — hostages,” Trump said at his Dayton, Ohio, rally.
Republicans were pressed on the comments while appearing on Sunday shows the next morning, and a number were quick to distance themselves from Trump’s remarks.
“It’s very unfortunate in a time when there are American hostages being held in Gaza, that the President or any other leaders would refer to people that are moving through our justice system as hostages — it’s just unacceptable,” former Vice President Mike Pence ****sheep****said on CBS’s Face the Nation.
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