A clip showing a group of women’s reaction to Donald Trump answering a question about January 6 during a town hall hosted by the Spanish network Univision has gone viral.
The former president fielded questions from undecided Hispanic voters on Wednesday, after Kamala Harris did the same last week, as both candidates hit the home stretch of the presidential race with less than three weeks to go until the election on November 5.
A snippet of the town hall has been shared online multiple times, showing three women in the audience looking unimpressed at one of Trump’s answers, with a MediasTouchpost about it being viewed more than 900,000 times.
It came after Ramiro González, a 56-year-old construction worker with Cuban heritage, who was born in New Jersey and lives in Tampa, Florida, told Trump he is a former Republican who is no longer registered.
“I want to give you the opportunity to try and win back my vote,” González said to Trump, “your action and maybe inaction, during your presidency and maybe the last few years, sort of, was a little disturbing to me.”
He said: “What happened during January 6, and the fact that you know, you waited so long to take action while your supporters were attacking the Capital.”
Trump answered: “You had hundreds of thousands of people come to Washington. They didn’t come because of me, they came because of the election—they thought the election was a rigged election and that’s why they came.”
“Some of those people went down to the Capital. I said peacefully and patriotically, nothing done wrong at all, nothing done wrong. Action was taken, strong action,” he said.
It was when Trump appeared to have said, “Ashli Babbitt was killed, nobody was killed,” that the women’s reaction was captured.
All three women can be seen sitting with their arms folded while listening to the former president speak, with the one on the far left moving her head up and widening her eyes at the point where Trump seemed to contradict himself.
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Babbitt was an unarmed protester who was shot dead by a U.S. Capitol Police officer while she was climbing through a broken window in a hallway on January 6, 2021.
Trump has previously said Babbitt was the only person who died on January 6, though reports have linked at least four other deaths to the events of the day.
Brian Sicknick was part of the Capitol Police force who died the next day. Although it was originally reported that he died after being beaten by rioters, it was later found out that he suffered two thromboembolic strokes, was placed on life support, and died on January 7 from natural causes.
Kevin Greeson was a Trump supporter who suffered a heart attack during the riots.
Rosanne Boyland died from a drug overdose, according to the D.C. Medical Examiner’s Office.
Benjamin Philip was the founder of a pro-Trump website called Trumparoo and suffered a stroke while at the rally.
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Another visible reaction came from González himself, who appeared to respond to Trump saying January 6 was “a day of love from the standpoint of the millions—it’s like hundreds of thousands—it could have been—the largest group I’ve ever spoken to before.”
When Trump said “a day of love,” González can be seen furrowing his brow and moving his head from one side to the other.
The former president was met with seemingly hostile responses from some members of the audience right from the start of the town hall.
When Trump first walked into the venue, several attendees could be seen not clapping, although the majority of the crowd welcomed him with applause.
