Former President Donald Trump scoffed Monday at the Jan. 6 committee’s referral of four criminal charges against him over his role in the riot at the U.S. Capitol, saying “what doesn’t kill me makes me stronger.”
“These folks don’t get it that when they come after me, people who love freedom rally around me. It strengthens me,” Mr. Trump said in a statement.
He said Democrats on the committee recommended that the Justice Department charge him with crimes because they want to stop his campaign for president in 2024.
“The people understand that the Democratic Bureau of Investigation, the DBI, are out to keep me from running for president because they know I’ll win and that this whole business of prosecuting me is just like impeachment was — a partisan attempt to sideline me and the Republican Party,” he said.