“President Trump has denounced what happened, and I think everyone should have been unequivocal in condemning what happened, not just on January 6, but during the summer when their cities burned down,” Scalise said. .
‘You saw the left denounce January 6, like us. “They did not deny what happened in the summer,” he claims. “So let’s cross the line and say anyone who uses violence to settle political disputes, there is no place for it in America, and it should be unequivocally disputed.”
Scalise’s claims come in the wake of host Jon Karl’s interrogation over the Republican whip’s visit with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort over the weekend. Karl asked if Scalise had accepted Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election as legal. The former president has repeatedly questioned the legitimacy of the election, claiming without evidence that there was widespread fraud that led to his defeat.
“Yes, he’s the legitimate president,” Scalise admits to Biden. ‘But if you will ignore the fact that there were states that did not legislate their own laws, then the crux of the matter is that millions of people are still dissatisfied with and do not want to see it happen again. . ”
An argument put forward in some states by lawyers for the president was that changes in the voting procedures were caused by pandemics without the approval of the legislature.
Scalise said many Americans are concerned about whether the changes will be carried over to the next election.
‘I think this is the biggest frustration that a lot of people have, are the states not complying with the law, are they going to keep doing it in the future, or are we finally going to return to what the Constitution calls for our leaders? He said.