Donald Trump enjoys playing the J6 Prison Choir at his gatherings.
Now he’s celebrating his Billboard success with the band in front of donors.
Trump bragged during a posh private lunch at his Mar-a-Lago Club on Saturday that a recording he made with the group of individuals imprisoned on charges related to the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol 2021 had reached number one on Billboard’s digital song chart. Sales table.
The Republican National Committee is hosting a spring retreat for major donors at the luxury oceanfront Four Seasons hotel in Palm Beach, and over the weekend, attendees were invited to lunch with Trump at his neighboring Mar-a-Lago estate.
During the lunch, Trump presented a framed plaque commemorating the Billboard hit for the J6 Prison Choir’s song “Justice for All,” according to two sources at the event and a photo shared with USA TODAY.
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The Trump campaign said in minutes of the meeting sent to reporters that Trump’s daughter-in-law and RNC co-chair Lara Trump “presented President Trump with a Billboard Music Award for the No. 1 song ‘Justice for All’ “.
The recording was commercialized on March 3, 2023. It features Trump saying the “Pledge of Allegiance” while the prison choir sings the “Star-Spangled Banner.”
In the photo shared with USA TODAY, the former president and Lara Trump pose next to the framed billboard on Saturday.
“He said something like this: I was approached to help, I did it as a favor, I didn’t think much of it, and the next thing I know, It’s topping the charts! I mean, can you believe it? It was higher than Taylor Swift!” » a person at the luncheon told USA TODAY.
Another person at the lunch who saw Trump with the framed notice on Billboard said: “I’m not sure what it was, it was music related. I had no idea. I didn’t I’ve never heard of that.”
Patriotism and “God Bless America”
“It was like a reward that he was delighted with,” the person added. “It was Americana, it was patriotism, it was Trump aligning with God Bless America.”
The recording is part of Trump’s effort to whitewash what happened when a mob of his supporters stormed the Capitol to stop Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s victory.
The attack on the Capitol led to Trump’s second impeachment and contributed to the filing of criminal charges against the former president for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
Yet Trump embraced the Jan. 6 defendants on the campaign trail, calling them “incredible…
