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AP FACT CHECK: Trump's team glosses over his Jan. 6 tirade

by Calvin Woodward
| February 12, 2021 3:06 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump's legal team thoroughly distorted his remarks from the rally that prefaced the storming of the Capitol last month, seizing on the one instance when Trump spoke of peaceful protest in his “fight like hell” tirade of anger and grievance.

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