Former President Donald Trump returned to Capitol Hill to speak with Republican lawmakers for the first time since the Jan. 6 attacks three years ago — and Democratic lawmakers are enraged at the disrespect, according to Axios.
"Trump huddled with House Republicans on Thursday morning at the Capitol Hill Club, just blocks away from the Capitol," reported Andrew Solender and Stephen Neukam. "In wide-ranging remarks, Trump praised his loyalists and slammed Republican detractors, especially those who voted to impeach him over Jan. 6. The former president is set to meet with Senate Republicans on Capitol Hill later on Thursday."
Among the Democrats speaking out are Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), who said Trump "should be returning to the Hill to apologize to the nearly 150 officers who were injured and wounded by the attack that he unleashed against us," and Rep. Becca Balint (D-VT), who called Trump's meeting "insulting for the men and women who protected the Capitol with their lives to have to watch him come up to the Hill and pretend the insurrection never happened."
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Meanwhile, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) accused Trump of going to Capitol Hill to "hang out with the very same MAGA extremists who acted as his proxies on January 6th."
Sources at the meeting, where Trump sought to outline his vision for a second term, said that he "rambled" like a "drunk uncle" through much of the event.
One of the most notable things to come out of the meeting was that Trump reportedly trashed the city of Milwaukee — a key swing-state population center the Republican Party selected as the site of this year's national convention — as a "horrible city," which left Republicans in Wisconsin scrambling to clean up after his comments.
