Trump says files deleted by Jan 6 committee ‘exonerated me completely’

 Former President Donald Trump on Monday said the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, "would not have existed" if then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., accepted his "offer" for security in the days leading up, and that the more than 100 files deleted by Democrats "exonerated" him "completely."

Trump was reacting to an exclusive Fox News Digital report revealing that the former House Select Committee on Jan. 6, led by Democrats, deleted 117 encrypted files from its probe just days before Republicans took over the majority of the House of Representatives.

"The whole Committee of Political Operatives, Thugs, and Misfits was a SCAM set up to injure and defeat your Favorite President, Donald J. Trump," Trump posted on his Truth Social, reacting to the revelations. "They’ve deleted and destroyed almost everything, because it exonerated me completely, and was very bad for Crazy Nancy Pelosi and other Fascists and Communists."

It showed that Pelosi was in charge of Security at the Capitol, and she rejected my offer of 10,000 Soldiers or National Guard Troops prior to January 6th," Trump continued. "Had she accepted, January 6th would not have existed!"

Trump has claimed since 2021 that days before the Capitol riot, he suggested deploying the National Guard to the Capitol due to intelligence the government was receiving regarding activities on Jan. 6.  Trump has said Pelosi had authority over the Capitol, and he suggested National Guard troops deploy "three days in advance." Trump said "she turned it down."

"The mayor of D.C. gave us a letter saying that she turns it down. OK, we have it. Nancy Pelosi also was asked, and she turned it down. The police commissioner of Capitol police …" Trump said in an NBC interview last year. "Wait, a minute," he pressed on, "Capitol police said that he wanted it, and Nancy Pelosi wouldn't accept it. She’s responsible for Jan. 6."