Glenn Kirschner said Trump made a “sharply self-incriminating” statement during his Univision town hall about the U.S. Capitol riot.
Former President Donald Trump made a “sharply self-incriminating” statement during his Univision town hall on Wednesday, legal analyst and former U.S. assistant attorney Glenn Kirschner said Thursday.
Trump, the GOP nominee, fielded questions from undecided Latino and Hispanic voters during a town hall in Florida hosted by Spanish-language network Univision.
Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee, participated in a similar town hall hosted by the network last week. Both candidates have been courting key voting groups in swing states—with significant Latino and Hispanic populations in Nevada and Arizona.
Audience questions ranged from abortion to immigration to the January 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot.
In a YouTube video posted Thursday, Kirschner, a MSNBC legal analyst and frequent Trump critic, said the former president’s comments about the riot during the town hall were “sharply self-incriminating” because Trump used the “royal we” when describing the insurrection.
On January 6, thousands of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol building in an attempt to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory amid unfounded claims from Trump that the election was stolen from him via widespread voter fraud.
