When the president of the United States invite people to come on a particular day and in that invitation says it’s going to be wild, that causes the committee and a lot of other patriotic Americans real concern because in America, we’re supposed to settle our differences at the ballot box. Not with an insurrection or anything like that.
Thompson expresses concern over the implications of the former president's invitation to the January 6th event.
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