A critical investigation has shown that Former President Donald Trump spent January 6, 2022, at the Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, watching cable news and getting angry, Newsweek reported Friday.
Citing a friend of the former president, Newsweek said that Trump spent all day "stewing" at home while cable-news shows broadcast events commemorating the first anniversary of the Capitol riot.
And while he didn't watch all of the events, the friend told Newsweek, what he did see made him "furious."
Trump dubbed the events, led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and featuring a speech by President Joe Biden, as the "Biden-Pelosi show," according to the friend.
Another person close to Trump told Newsweek the former president's contempt for Biden was intensified by Biden's speech.
In a statement, the former president slammed Biden's speech as a piece of "political theater" to distract from his failures. He also said Biden used his name to "try to further divide America."
He accused Biden of trying to "deflect the incompetent job" he is doing. "That's what you get when you have a rigged Election," he said in another statement.
According to Newsweek, Trump's friends say the former president obsesses over debunked conspiracy theories about the election having been rigged. "The reason he is so fixated on the so-called stolen election is that he still can't believe he lost to that guy," one friend said.
He's also fixated on how the public views him concerning January 6, Newsweek said, "He pretty much obsesses about criticism 24/7," a friend told the media outlet.
Trump had initially planned to hold a news conference at Mar-a-Lago on the anniversary of the Capitol attack but abruptly canceled it two days before the event. As Insider previously reported, he blamed what he called the "total bias and dishonesty of the January 6th Unselect Committee of Democrats, two failed Republicans, and the Fake News Media."
But reports say family members and political allies had warned him the news conference would backfire. While playing golf at Mar-a-Lago, Sen. Lindsay Graham had advised that there would be little upside to holding it, Newsweek reported.
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