evidence: Trump compares Jan. 6 crowd to MLK’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech by Brett Samuels - 08/08/24 3:15 PM ET by Brett Samuels - 08/08/24 3:15 PM ET Former President Trump bragged Thursday that the crowd he addressed on Jan. 6, 2021, was the largest he’s ever spoken to and argued those who were arrested after storming the Capitol were being treated "very unfairly." [...] "The biggest crowd I’ve ever spoken before was that day," he continued. "And I’ll tell you, it’s very hard to find a picture of that crowd. … If you look at Martin Luther King, when he did his speech, his great speech, and you look at ours. Same real estate. Same everything. Same number of people, if not, we had more."