DeSantis on January 6: ‘It Was Not an Insurrection,’ ‘to Say that They Were Seditionists Is Just Wrong’

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DESANTIS: "Well, I think it's ridiculous how much money that they pumped in for the Capitol Police. It was not an insurrection. These are people that were there to attend a rally, and then they were there to protest. Now it devolved, and it devolved into a riot. But the idea that this was a plan to somehow overthrow the government of the United States is not true, and it's something that the media had spun up, just to try to basically, you know, get as much mileage out of it and use it for -- for partisan and -- and for political aims. And so, I know there were a lot of people that were there, who were just there, and they didn't have any designs on doing anything. And so we just have to be honest about it. If somebody is honestly doing an insurrection against the U.S. government, then prove that that's the case and -- and I'd be happy to accept it. But all you're showing me is that there are a lot of protesters there, and it ended up evolving, you know, in ways that was unfortunate, of course, but to say that they were seditionists is just [wrong]."