Donald Trump Defies Belief With New Spin On We Fight Like Hell Speech From Jan. 6

Donald Trump attempted to spin his inflammatory speech ahead of the Jan. 6 insurrection into something much more mellow and measured on Friday night.

The former president, during an interview with Fox News ’ Laura Ingraham, claimed the incendiary address that whipped his supporters up into storming the U.S. Capitol in a bid to overturn the 2020 election was “extremely calming.”

“Honestly, I have nothing to hide,” Trump told Ingraham during a conversation about a federal appeals court’s refusal to let him block the release of records to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 violence.

“I wasn’t involved in that,” Trump declared. “And if you look at my words and what I said in the speech, they were extremely calming, actually.”

Instead, Trump claimed, the insurrection took place on Election Day, and the attack on the Capitol was just a protest.

Watch the claim here:

A transcript of Trump’s speech on Jan. 6 shows him ranting repeatedly about the “fake news media,” pushing the baseless conspiracy theory that the election was “rigged,” and vowing to “never give up” and “never concede.”

“Our country has had enough,” he said at one point. “You’ll never take back our country with weakness,” he added, encouraging supporters to “show strength” and “be strong.”

“And we fight. We fight like hell. And if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore,” he added. After the violence, Trump was impeached for the second time for inciting insurrection.