Former President Donald Trump was given the opportunity to correct the record on an important event and he hit a home run.

CNN anchor and debate moderator Jake Tapper hit the former president with the incident at the Capitol on January 6, 2021 but that fastball did not get by him.

“I want to ask you about January 6, 2021. After you rallied your supporters that day, some of them stormed the Capitol to stop the constitutionally mandated counting of electoral votes. As president, you swore an oath to quote, preserve, protect, and defend, unquote, the Constitution. What do you say to voters who believe that you violated that oath through your actions and inaction on January 6, and worry that you’ll do it again?” the moderator said with what he likely thought was a gotcha question, but it did not work.

“Well, I don’t think too many believe that. And let me tell you about January 6. On January 6, we had a great border. Nobody coming through. Very few. On January 6, we were energy independent. On January 6, we had the lowest taxes ever. We had the lowest regulations ever,” the former president said.

“On January 6 were respected all over the world — all over the world, we were respected, and then he comes in and we’re now laughed at, like we’re like a bunch of stupid people, that what happened to the United States’s reputation under this man’s leadership is horrible — including weaponization, which I’m sure at some point you’ll be talking about, where he goes after his political opponent because he can’t beat them fair and square,” he said.

“You have 80 seconds left. My question was, what do you say to those voters who believed that you violated your constitutional oath through your actions and inaction on January 6, 2021, and worry that you’ll do it again?” the moderator said, but again the former president hit a homerun.

“Well, I didn’t say that to anybody. I said peacefully and patriotically, and Nancy Pelosi, if you just watched the news from two days ago — on tape to her daughter, who’s a documentary filmmaker, or so they say, but she’s saying, “Oh, no, it’s my responsibility. I was responsible for this.” Because I offered them 10,000 soldiers — National Guard. And she turned them down, and the mayor of — in writing, by the way, the mayor, in writing turned it down. The mayor of DC,” the former president said.

“They turned it down. I offered 10,000 because I could see. I had virtually nothing to do with it, they asked me to go make a speech. I could see what was happening. Everybody was saying they’re going to be there on January 6, they’re gonna be there. And I said, ‘You know what, that’s a lot of people coming.’ You could feel it. You could feel it too, and you could feel it. And I said, ‘They ought to have some National Guard or whatever,’ and I offered it to her, and she now admits that she turned it down. And it was the same day, she was, I don’t know. She can’t be very happy with their daughter because it made her into a liar. She said, ‘I take full responsibility for January 6,’” he said.