Trump Rips Jan. 6 Final Report, Blames Pelosi, Says He Called for Peace

Former President Donald Trump has lashed out at Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi following the release of the House January 6 committee's final report.

The panel investigating the deadly January 6, 2021, siege on the U.S. Capitol released the final report Thursday evening.

The report says that Trump was the "Central cause" of the attack, with the former president having launched "a multipart plan to overturn the 2020 presidential election.”

Trump denounced the 845-page document as a "Highly partisan" aspect of a political "Witch hunt" almost immediately after it was released.

The former president also claimed that Pelosi had ignored his "Recommendation for troops to be used" in Washington, D.C., on January 6, while arguing that he had insisted his supporters act "Peacefully" before they stormed the Capitol.

"The highly partisan Unselect Committee Report purposely fails to mention the failure of Pelosi to heed my recommendation for troops to be used in D.C., show the 'Peacefully and Patrioticly' [sic] words I used, or study the reason for the protest, Election Fraud," Trump said in a post to Truth Social.

Although Trump and his allies have repeatedly claimed that he requested troops to protect the Capitol on January 6, there are no records that indicate the former president actually made the request, according to PolitiFact.

Multiple Trump administration officials testified to the January 6 committee that they never heard the former president make a request for troops before or during the attack.

According to the January 6 committee's final report, Paul Irving, who was then serving as the House sergeant-at-arms, told then-Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund that he did not "Like the optics" of calling in the National Guard.

According to the report, no similar briefing was given to Pelosi.

Trump's reference to his use of the word "Peacefully" recalls his speech to supporters at the Ellipse on January 6, just before the riot took place, when he urged the crowd to march to the Capitol to "Peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.”

On Monday, the January 6 committee recommended that the Department of Justice charge Trump with four crimes in the Capitol attack, including insurrection, which could legally block him from holding office again.