House Democrats’ efforts to convict former President Donald Trump in the Senate’s impeachment trial this week are not the focus of the federal government, Donald Trump Jr. told “Hannity” on Tuesday.
“Aren’t we in the middle of a pandemic?” the president’s eldest son asked host Sean Hannity. “I thought these senators might have something better to do. Maybe they really fought for the American people, for a change. Maybe they really started the job of helping us to overcome this pandemic.”
Trump Jr. noted that the new government has so far neglected to provide coronavirus aid to the public, while killing jobs through Biden’s executive climate action and opened the country’s borders without any security guidelines on the spread of the virus.
“Double standards are insane and perhaps the United States Senate should focus on that, not its absurdities,” he said.
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Trump Jr. later compared his father’s much-criticized rhetoric and the Capitol disturbances to previous statements by Democratic officials and the disturbances that affected several U.S. cities last year.
“You kind of highlighted all the hypocrisy that we saw during 10 months of riots, looting, arson, kind of expensive politics,” he told Hannity. “Frankly, whatever my father said on January 6 was mild in comparison, but if you take his speech and compare it to literally any improvised speech ever made in the history of politics, you will see absolutely no deviation.”
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In the future, Trump Jr. added, Republicans “need to play hard if they [Democrats] playing hard.
“We turned the other cheek when they slapped us in the face and laughed at winning all the important fights along the way.”