You may want to check your facts:
“There was never charges of insurrection or anything like that,” Trump said (47:09 timestamp). “But if there were, this would be the only insurrection in history where people went in as insurrectionists with not one gun… there wasn’t one gun that they found.”
However, court records
show, opens new tab at least five cases where carrying or possessing a firearm was part of the indictment. A
summary, opens new tab of the cases by the Justice Department as of Jan. 3 said 180 defendants were charged with entering a restricted area with a dangerous or deadly weapon, which includes firearms and other types of weapons.
WEAPONS PRESENT
Firearms, tasers and knives were some of the types of weapons used and carried on or around Capitol grounds by rioters, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the District of Columbia, which published the
status of prosecutions, opens new tab related to the Capitol attack as of Jan. 3, 2025 on its website.