Posted on 07/22/2022 6:25:10 AM PDT by 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
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WAIT A MINUTE...
In one breath they claim he is CONTENT to let the riot rage...and in another breath:
HE WAS A RAGING MANIAC TRYING TO CHOKE A SECRET SERVICE AGENT.
Lis is a true Lunatic.
The complete passage — hardly mentioned by Democrats at the hearings or the news media covering them — is worth absorbing in its entirety. "Mr. Miller and GEN Milley met with the President at the White House at 5:30 p.m.," the IG reported. "The primary topic they discussed was unrelated to the scheduled rally. GEN Milley told us that at the end of the meeting, the President told Mr. Miller that there would be a large number of protestors on January 6, 2021, and Mr. Miller should ensure sufficient National Guard or Soldiers would be there to make sure it was a safe event. Gen Milley told us that Mr. Miller responded, 'We've got a plan and we've got it covered.'"
Kamala Harris gets to openly support riots. Nancy Pelosi gets to openly support riots. Even David Dinkins gets to let the “demonstrators vent” in Crown Heights. Donald Trump, however, has to make like Wyatt Earp, or else he’s the ringmaster. When will the opponents of Kavanaugh’s nomination be locked up for 18 months on nothing charges?
>> “If the President does not act to quell a riot it’s because...”
Are you quoting the article, or is that your personal sentiment?
I thought Trump tried to steal a tank and join the nuclear bomber attack against the capital? Lez needs to keep her story straight
From the sick left that told us there were NO roots in 2020.
Sounds like slander to me !
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