Trump claimed ‘I was not watching television’ on January 6, book says

Ex-president denied knowing his supporters were rioting and called them fucking crazy', Maggie Haberman writes in new book

Donald Trump denied knowing at the time the January 6 attack on the US Capitol started that a mob of his supporters - whom he privately called fucking crazy" - were rioting, the author of a forthcoming book on his chaotic presidency writes in what may stand as one of the most surprising, non-believable postscripts of his tenure in the Oval Office.

I didn't usually have the television on. I'd have it on if there was something. I then later turned it on and I saw what was happening," Trump told New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman for her forthcoming account Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America.