Nine months after claiming then-President Donald Trump showed “poor leadership in his words and actions” for the January 6th deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, Senator Charles Grassley accepted the former president’s endorsement for reelection at his “Save America” rally held in Des Moines this month.

Senator Grassley’s appearance at the October 9th rally came shortly after his confirmation of another election run for an eighth term in the Senate. Grassley tells KCII that former President Trump contacted him last spring to give him an endorsement, “It boils down to policy, not Trump, but policy. So many things that we worked together to bring good policy to the country.”

Grassley said last January in response to the riots that occurred at the U.S. Capitol in order to overthrow the certification of the presidential election results that then-President Trump must take responsibility for his destructive actions, and the perpetrators of that day’s violence must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Grassley says why he attended the October 9th rally, “First of all I was invited to speak to 23,000 Iowans for five minutes while he was flying in. I could never get 23,000 Iowans together, so that’s why I was there.”

You can hear more from Senator Grassley during a two-part Halcyon House Washington Page on air and at kciiradio.com.