{"id":1188294,"date":"2022-01-04T19:04:10","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T00:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1188294"},"modified":"2022-01-04T19:04:15","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T00:04:15","slug":"donald-trump-cancels-jan-6-anniversary-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-cancels-jan-6-anniversary-press-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Cancels Jan. 6 Anniversary Press Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdonald-trump-cancels-jan-6-anniversary-press-conference%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1188294&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former President Donald Trump canceled plans to hold a press conference at Mar-a-Lago marking the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol late Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Trump made the announcement in a formal statement, arguing that the Congressional Select Committee investigation Jan. 6 was conducting a \u201cdishonest\u201d inquiry. Trump said he will instead address the storming of the Capitol during his rally on Saturday. The press conference <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/21\/trump-january-6-anniversary-conference\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">had been scheduled<\/a> for Thursday. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/14\/cnn-democrat-candidates-2024-presidential-election-joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: CNN Floats 11 Democratic Candidates Who Could Replace Biden In 2024)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn light of the total bias and dishonesty of the January 6th Unselect Committee of Democrats, two failed Republicans, and the Fake News Media, I am canceling the January 6th Press Conference at Mar-a-Lago on Thursday, and instead will discuss many of those important topics at my rally on Saturday, January 15th, in Arizona,\u201d Trump wrote, going on to claim that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi denied requests to use the National Guard to defend the Capitol leading up to the incident.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7250848\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7250848\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 JANUARY 06: Pro-Trump protesters gather in front of the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. A pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol, breaking windows and clashing with police officers. Trump supporters gathered in the nation\u2019s capital today to protest the ratification of President-elect Joe Biden\u2019s Electoral College victory over President Trump in the 2020 election. (Photo by Jon Cherry\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhy will Crazy Nancy Pelosi not provide her communications with the House Sergeant-at-Arms and the House Chief Administrative Officer, or promise to retain these vital messages, which many feel she has already destroyed\u2014perhaps illegally?\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s press conference <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/14\/paski-january-6-anniversary-biden-white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">would have competed<\/a> with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 own plans to mark the anniversary of the riot. Biden has repeatedly called the riot one of \u201cthe darkest days\u201d for American democracy. Both the Biden and Harris are scheduled to deliver remarks sometime Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The J6 Committee <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/28\/select-committee-capitol-riot-subpoenas-jim-jordan-scott-perry-pelosi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">has considered<\/a> subpoenaing Republican members of Congress who were in communication with organizers of the Trump rally that preceded the riot. The most likely subjects of subpoenas would be Pennsylvania Rep. Scott&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/january6th.house.gov\/news\/press-releases\/select-committee-requests-information-representative-perry\">Perry<\/a>&nbsp;and Ohio Rep. Jim&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/january6th.house.gov\/news\/press-releases\/select-committee-requests-information-representative-jordan\">Jordan,<\/a> who have already been contacted by the committee regarding their communications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we have the authority, and the lawyers are still looking at it, to pursue it, then we\u2019ll do it,\u201d chairman and Democratic Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/january-6-attack-investigation\/2021\/12\/27\/e2c37488-62d4-11ec-8ce3-9454d0b46d42_story.html?utm_source=piano&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=2906&amp;pnespid=r6t4AiNfNLoTw6fFqjq4EonUrxPyCpprN.G62.BvpBRmMIxb.odEtJ582zezij8DAu.EJscz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told<\/a> The Washington Post in late December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump canceled plans to hold a press conference at Mar-a-Lago marking the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol late Tuesday.Trump made the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1188294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1188294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1188294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1188294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1188294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}