Trump Appears To Blame Hezbollah For Pro-Trump Violence On Jan. 6

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : In rambling remarks delivered Tuesday, a day after he was officially certified as the president-elect, Donald Trump trotted out a luxury real estate developer from Dubai who said he wants to invest in U.S. data centers.
52% : Hussain Sajwani, an Emirati billionaire and the founder of DAMAC group, spoke briefly at the top of the press conference, telling reporters he intends to invest $20 billion in data centers "catering to AI" across the U.S.Neither Trump nor Sajwani offered specifics beyond a vague "first phase" that will take place in Texas, Arizona, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan and Indiana.
48% : "We have to find out about Hezbollah, we have to find out about who, exactly, was in that whole thing," Trump said.
46% : Continuing on that thread, Trump promised to rename the Gulf of Mexico because "we do most of the work there.""We're going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America," he said.
41% : Trump took questions from reporters near the end of the roughly hour-long remarks, during which he pledged to make "major pardons" for people convicted of participating in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
25% : Trump later falsely claimed that "the only one who was killed" that day was Ashli Babbitt, who was shot while attempting to enter the Speaker's Lobby outside the House chamber, where members of Congress were being evacuated.
19% : Asked if he intends to pardon anyone convicted of violent offenses for their actions that day, Trump dodged -- instead appearing to blame both the FBI and Hezbollah, an Iran-backed militant group in Lebanon, for the violence.
19% : "Trump then complained about electric heaters, low-flow water fixtures and the operating agreement for the Panama Canal.
16% : Trump then pivoted to other complaints, including the name of the Gulf of Mexico and apparently blaming Hezbollah for the violent pro-Trump mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
5% : Trump also bragged about removing 5,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan as president while simultaneously voicing outrage at President Joe Biden's ban on oil and gas drilling in federal waters.

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