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 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2021/1/1611249784996.png" alt="Crowd a the Jan. 6 Trump rally in Washington- photo courtesy CSPAN" />
 <figcaption>Crowd a the Jan. 6 Trump rally in Washington- photo courtesy CSPAN</figcaption>
 </figure>KANSAS CITY (AP) — A Kansas City area McDonald's restaurant owner who attended the Washington rally that spawned a deadly assault on the U.S. Capitol is apologizing after he wrote on social media that he was “glad" he didn't miss the “HISTORICAL DAY."Jim Wagy said in a statement issued Wednesday that he was not part of the mob that attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6 after a rally in which Republican Donald Trump repeated unsubstantiated claims that the presidential election he lost to Democrat Joe Biden was rigged, The Kansas City Star&nbsp;<a href="https://www.kansascity.com/news/business/article248644485.html">reports</a>.“I apologize for, and sincerely regret, the comments I made. At the time of my posts, I did not understand the totality of the devastation caused by the terrible attack on the Capitol,” said Wagy, who owns and operates eight restaurants.On Facebook, Wagy said he took a 21-hour bus ride to Washington “to peacefully protest election fraud.”“It was a HISTORICAL DAY in our history! I’m glad that I didn’t miss it!!!” he wrote on his Facebook account, which has since been deleted. He also described it as an “EPIC adventure."As a franchisee, Wagy is not an employee of McDonald’s, but the chain did denounce his rhetoric, describing it as “troubling and offensive."

KC restaurant owner who attended Trump rally apologizes