The house of representatives committee who investigates the storming the capitol has accused Trump this Thursday of being at the center of a multiple conspiracy to annul his defeat to Biden in the 2020 electoral contest. As the Committee showed, the former president of the United States decided not to stop the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021 because it suited him and instead spent the afternoon watching it on television. “He was the only person in the world capable of stopping the crowd. He could not be mobilized by his aides or his allies. He ignored the desperate pleas of his own family, including (his children) Ivanka and Donald Jr.”, he said. the chairman of that committee, Democrat Bennie Thompson.
The committee has presented audio and video evidenceas well as live testimony of two former White House officials, delving into Trump’s inaction during a crucial period of more than three hours between end of their previous rally to the riots near the White House and its eventual call on Twitter for the crowd to go home.
In this sense, the representative Elaine Luriaa Democrat from Virginia and a member of the committee, has claimed that Trump was brought back to the White House after his speech and stated that “within 15 minutes of leaving the stage,” a White House adviser told Trump that the Capitol was under attack. Secondly, sarah matthewsTrump’s former deputy press secretary, has testified that the former president could have made a statement to americans and stop the violence “almost instantly” if he wanted to. And in less than a minute: the time it takes to go from the private dining room in the west wing to the media room. He has also testified that Trump was reluctant to send a message of peace to the rioters. It was his daughter who convinced him to use that other formula.
Is new sessionbroadcast during prime time, was the eighth and last, until September, of this series of public interrogations started a month ago. The focus was on the 187 minutes that have passed since Trump harangued the crowd to make themselves heard in the Capitol until at 4:17 p.m. that afternoon posted a video on Twitter where he told them for the first time that they had to leave the Congress building. In total, some 10,000 people participated in the protest – most of them Trump supporters – and about 800 broke into the building while the victory of Democrat Joe Biden in the November presidential elections was being formally certified. There was five dead and about 140 officers injured.
For the committee the 187 minutes examined provide a clear example of abandonment of power by the former president, who until the aforementioned video had published a tweet to criticize that his vice president, Mike Pence, refused to annul the elections, and two to ask the protesters to be peaceful and respect the law.
What was Trump doing during the assault on Capitol Hill?
President I was then in the White Househaving failed to convince his drivers to take him to the Capitol, as recalled today and recounted on June 28 by a key witness in this political investigation, Cassidy Hutchinson, aide to the then presidential chief of staff, Mark Meadows. If he had appeared, according to a security agent, it would have ceased to be a public demonstration to become “something else.” “I don’t know if you want to use the word insurrection, coup or whatever,” he told the committee.
But I was following the altercations in the conservative network Fox News and instead of heeding his advisers and mobilizing the forces of order called his lawyer, Rudy Giulani, and senators who were inside the Capitol to encourage them to delay the certification of the electoral results. While the mob was already inside the building, there were agents of the Vice President, Mike Pence, who according to a security official began to fear for their lives and called their relatives to say goodbye.
Among those worried about how the situation was deteriorating and its implications was the leader of the Republicans in the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, who asked Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to intercede. On January 7, the former president still refused to close the elections. The committee hoped to have a number of secret service text messages sent on January 5 and 6 and that they could have offered more details, but he has only received one.
The rest were deleted as part of a previously planned system migration and according to the media cannot be recovered. This Thursday it has been known that the Department of Homeland Security has launched a criminal investigation into that removal and has asked the Secret Service to cease theirs so that there is no interference. Previous hearings had served to determine links between the former president and his circle with supremacist groups that led the protest and to influence that Trump’s closest entourage repeatedly stressed that his theory of election theft was unfounded. The First Lady, Melanie Trumpnoted this Thursday on Fox News that she did not immediately condemn the violence triggered because that afternoon he was working and no one informed her of the altercations.
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