Former acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller, who appeared on cable network Showtime’s VICE on Thursday, blamed President Trump for the Jan. 6 riots at the Capitol, U.S. media outlet Breitbart News reported.
Host Sebastian Walker, an investigative journalist and Emmy Award-winning journalist, conducted the interview in a chapel, complete with incendiary background Music, and the transcript is below.
Walker asked Miller on the show, “Did you hear President Trump’s speech this morning? What did you hear him say and what did you think of it?”
Miller said, “It was worrisome.”
Walker went on to ask, “When you heard Trump say, ‘We’re going to go down Pennsylvania Avenue,’ ‘Take our country back,’ were those the words that worried you a lot? “
Miller replied, “Yes. But you also have to realize that Trump has had a lot of these comments spewed out over the years before that.”
Walker seized on the lead, “But on a day when the vote is about to be certified by Congress, rhetoric like this from Trump is particularly good at setting off alarm bells in your head.”
Miller said, “Right.”
Walker asked, “Do you think President Trump is responsible for what happened on Jan. 6?”
Miller said, “That I don’t know, but there seems to be a causal relationship. Would anyone have marched on the Capitol and occupied the Capitol without President Trump’s speech? I think it’s almost pretty certain that it wouldn’t have happened. Yes, it does correlate. So now the question is, did Trump know at the Time that he was provoking this group of people to go and do that? That, I don’t know.”
The Breitbart News said President Trump told participants of the Jan. 6 protest to “peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.”
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