Posted on 06/02/2022 9:42:06 AM PDT by American Number 181269513
Within minutes of the US Capitol breach on January 6, 2021, messages began pouring into the cell phone of White House chief of staff Mark Meadows. Among those texting were Republican members of Congress, former members of the Trump administration, GOP activists, Fox personalities – even the President’s son. Their texts all carried the same urgent plea: President Donald Trump needed to immediately denounce the violence and tell the mob to go home.
“He’s got to condem (sic) this shit. Asap,” Donald Trump Jr. texted at 2:53 p.m.
“POTUS needs to calm this shit down,” GOP Rep. Jeff Duncan of South Carolina wrote at 3:04 p.m.
“TELL THEM TO GO HOME !!!” former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus messaged at 3:09 p.m.
“POTUS should go on air and defuse this. Extremely important,” Tom Price, former Trump health and human services secretary and a former GOP representative from Georgia, texted at 3:13 p.m.
“Fix this now,” wrote GOP Rep. Chip Roy of Texas at 3:15 p.m.
One of the key questions the January 6 House committee is expected to raise in its June hearings is why Trump failed to publicly condemn the attack for hours, and whether that failure is proof of “dereliction of duty” and evidence that Trump tried to obstruct Congress’ certification of the election.
The Meadows texts show that even those closest to the former President believed he had the power to stop the violence in real time.
CNN obtained the 2,319 text messages Meadows selectively handed over to the January 6 committee in December before he stopped cooperating with the investigation. According to a source familiar with the committee’s investigation, the texts provide a valuable road map and show how Meadows was an enabler of Trump, despite being told there was no widespread election fraud.
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Anything to distract from the fantastic job Brandon is doing.
there was no violence on the protesters end...
So Trump was supposed to rush from the platform area, go into the Capital building with a bullhorn, “Hey you guys knock it off”?
The Meadows texts show that even those closest to the former President believed he had the power to stop the violence in real time.
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I would call BS, but that is gender specific.
So? Bovine Scat?
CNN “exclusive” huh?
Is there such a thing as a “CNN exclusive” which is not totally made up?
Nope.
Why even post this nonsense here?
How, by telling all democrats/blm/anteefy, and other nuts, to please stay away.
President Trump was NOT inviting anyone to enter the building.
The only real violence I saw was when The cop shot Ashley to death. Everything else was “mostly peaceful” and a “summer of love”
Could they have stopped the shooting of Ashli Babbit? I humbly suggest maybe the officer who shot her had more control than anyone else. But somehow he is not being charged.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3EIgmdRPXk&t
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWW38O4QnmM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=394IkSifQEw
“Anything to distract from the fantastic job Brandon is doing”
Yep and unfortunately there’s probably going to be more mass shootings for the same reason.
Violence my ass. A couple drunks pissing on Pelosi’s laptop isn’t “violence.” Get a life.
What ‘violence’?
You mean like the violence during the months of the ‘summer of love’ - that ‘violence’?!
didnt twitter delete his tweet?
Agree, can we please stop treating CNN like they are a legitimate news organization?
Swinging clubs is.
And the democratic party had the power to stop the burning a looting of our cities. Tben Charge nancy with dereliction of duty. Along with sh*thead, i mean schumer, and a few other leading democraps.
Wasn’t President Trump running behind schedule that day with the speech starting and ending late? But didn’t the entry into the Capitol take place around the scheduled end time? Looks like the agent provocateurs from the FBI didn’t get the reschedule information.
Maybe Trump, as President, should have ordered the FBI to stand down and quit attacking people. /sarc
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