In rambling remarks delivered Tuesday, a day after he was formally licensed because the president-elect, Donald Trump trotted out a luxurious actual property developer from Dubai who mentioned he needs to spend money on U.S. information facilities. Trump then pivoted to different complaints, together with the identify of the Gulf of Mexico and apparently blaming Hezbollah for the violent pro-Trump mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Hussain Sajwani, an Emirati billionaire and the founding father of DAMAC group, spoke briefly on the prime of the press convention, telling reporters he intends to speculate $20 billion in information facilities “catering to AI” throughout the U.S.
Neither Trump nor Sajwani supplied specifics past a obscure “first phase” that may happen in Texas, Arizona, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan and Indiana.
Trump took questions from reporters close to the tip of the roughly hour-long remarks, throughout which he pledged to make “major pardons” for individuals convicted of collaborating within the Jan. 6, 2021, rebel on the U.S. Capitol.
Requested if he intends to pardon anybody convicted of violent offenses for his or her actions that day, Trump dodged — as a substitute showing accountable each the FBI and Hezbollah, an Iran-backed militant group in Lebanon, for the violence.
“We have to find out about Hezbollah, we have to find out about who, exactly, was in that whole thing,” Trump mentioned. “Because people that did some bad things were not prosecuted.”
“People that were doing some bad things weren’t prosecuted,” he continued, “and people that didn’t even walk into the building are in jail right now.”
A HuffPost evaluation of Jan. 6 instances discovered that 83% of these sentenced to no less than a yr in jail dedicated acts of violence.
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Trump later falsely claimed that “the only one who was killed” that day was Ashli Babbitt, who was shot whereas trying to enter the Speaker’s Foyer exterior the Home chamber, the place members of Congress had been being evacuated.
The truth is, a number of individuals died in reference to the pro-Trump assault, together with 5 law enforcement officials.
The president-elect’s press convention additionally included what seemed to be a stream-of-consciousness sequence of tangents, which included pledging to “expedite” environmental approval for companies trying to spend $1 billion or extra, and calling America “a horrible place” due to the time it takes to rely votes in a presidential election.
Trump additionally bragged about eradicating 5,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan as president whereas concurrently voicing outrage at President Joe Biden’s ban on oil and gasoline drilling in federal waters.
“We had 5,000 people in the Middle East. I took them out,” he mentioned. “Now … we have people that I can rely on, but the 625 million acres, people can’t realize, that’s like the whole ocean. … It’s like, it feels like the whole ocean.”
Trump then complained about electrical heaters, low-flow water fixtures and the working settlement for the Panama Canal. He declined to say he wouldn’t use navy pressure to aim to take management of the Panama Canal or Greenland.
Persevering with on that thread, Trump promised to rename the Gulf of Mexico as a result of “we do most of the work there.”
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“We’re going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America,” he mentioned.
