Jan. 6 Hearing Depicts Donald Trump as Content to Let the Riot Rage

Wall Street Journal ^ | July 22, 2022 | Scott Patterson

[karpov]

President Donald Trump spent hours in front of a television at the White House watching the attack on the Capitol unfold on Jan. 6, 2021, ignoring pleas from staff, supporters and family to call off the rioters—and even at times encouraging them—according to testimony Thursday at a prime-time hearing of the House committee investigating the attack.

“The case against Donald Trump, in these hearings, is not made by witnesses who are his political enemies,” said Rep. Liz Cheney (R., Wyo.), the committee’s vice chair, at the close of the hearing, the eighth and last of the current series. “It is instead a series of confessions by Donald Trump’s own appointees, his own friends, his own campaign officials, people who worked for him for years, and his own family.”

In a series of messages on his Truth Social social-media network after the hearing, Mr. Trump challenged the testimony. He called Ms. Cheney, a longtime political foe, a “sanctimonious loser” and said the committee presented “so many lies and misrepresentations.”

In more than two hours of recorded and live testimony, led by Reps. Elaine Luria (D., Va.) and Adam Kinzinger (R., Ill.), the committee portrayed a president sitting idly by, watching the events on television as he contemplated his own fate, while aides, family members and security officials grew increasingly fearful and pleaded for him to take action to quell the violence.

That violence continued for 187 minutes between Mr. Trump’s speech at the Ellipse near the White House and the release of his video message asking protesters to go home.

The committee played a recording of an interview with an unnamed security official working at the White House on Jan. 6 who testified that the Secret Service detail for Mike Pence grew increasingly worried as the attack escalated in the afternoon

[libertylover]

That’s because they are agenda-driven, not truth-driven. Most of Big Media is as well.

[dfwgator]

The Issue is never The Issue. The Issue is always The Revolution.

[Alberta's Child]

Did the Capitol Police ever request help from the White House?

Nothing President Trump did that day would have been seen as anything other than an "insurrection" against a bunch of feckless misfits in Congress.

[gitmo]

What riot?

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

The Dems and RINO's have blown this massively out of proportion - the whole "insurrection" label is ridiculous.

That being said, Trump handled this stupidly at the time, and it has cost him.

[Gary from Dayton]

Enjoy your disappearing life savings and your high energy costs.

[PerConPat]

I'm wondering if ADX Florence is secure enough to satisfy Liz et al..For instance, do they fit inmates with iron masks? /sarc

[ConservativeMind]

Huh? Pelosi had the authority to quell what was happening, Trump was talking and his audience was with him, he told everyone to leave peacefully before he ended his speech, and the Capitol Police warmly let the protesters in and stood right there, the House was not in session at that time and the only persons killed were protesters.

Please tell us what is up your butt.

[ConservativeMind]

Idiotic! He gave thousands to Pelosi several days earlier.

She refused them!

[neverevergiveup]

Would you have been against the Boston Tea Party?

[ConservativeMind]

That family shoots their friends—literally.

[TigersEye]

If the President does not act to quell a riot it's because he supports the riot. I will vote for anyone but Trump in the primaries and will sit out the general if he is the nominee.

I can't believe you're pushing leftist tripe like this on FR.

[ronnie raygun]

After they refused his help

[Proudcongal]

What is Trump, their mother?

[ohioman]

Do us a favor and sit out the primaries. No one here gives a rip about a Never Trump doofus such as yourself.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Riots? Like the ones in DemocRat-controlled cities all across the US?

[clearcarbon]

"Jan. 6 Hearing Depicts Donald Trump as Content to Let the Riot Rage"

If marxist democrat operatives were coordinating a riot than there was not a lot President Trump could do to manage it, especially if the FBI was stampeding the crowd into the Capitol Building.

[A_Former_Democrat]

Speaking of letting real riots rage

How bout those Dim mayors in summer of 2020?

[Unrepentant VN Vet]

...Liz will have the time to finally visit her state and her constituents…

I don't know if that many folks down in Wyoming would be disappointed if "Liz" just stayed the hell in DC with all of her friends. Permanently.

The reception she got the last time she was there was only a step or two away from getting a ride out of town on a rail. (From the actual voters there at least. The local media still loves anything the DS serves up but they're about as popular as Liz...or a dose of STD.)

[Hoosier-Daddy]

Seattle, Portland, etc. all burned. When do the Democrat get held responsible?