“President Trump called the crowd, gathered the crowd and lit the flame. of this is attack.”
At the seventh hearing, the commission presented new information about the “abnormal” meeting in the Oval Office, which took place on December 18, 2020, after which then-President Donald Trump tweeted what Rep. Jamie Ruskin (D-MD) called an “explosive invitation”, urging supporters to come to D.C. on January 6. During his speech that day, Trump told the crowd to “march” to the Capitol and that they needed to “fight like hell.” Calls to action followed weeks of creation of trump false claims about results of elections.
“Well, in general, you know the president pissed everyone off up and told everyone head on down” Ayres said. who lost his home and his work. “So we basically just after what he said.
“While the violence was going on, President Trump failed take immediate action to stop the violence and order their supporters to leave the Capitol.”
Witnesses testify to Trump’s assassination over three hour ignore for in safety of his own vice president, responsible officers and joint session of Congress despite watching the violence unfold on Fox and receiving numerous requests from Republican aides and allies call off crowd.
And, according to never-before-seen video testimony shown during Thursday’s hearing, Trump is not place one call anyone of its law enforcement agencies or national security forces when the riot was unfolding.
“You will see that Donald Trump and his advisers knew that he in fact lost the election … President Trump put corrupt pressure on state legislators and election officials to change the election results.”
Several former Trump’s aides testified to the committee that they were trying to tell the then president about the lack of credible evidence. of significant electoral fraud and refused to agree with his plan to cancel the election.
“President Trump is doing in huge efforts to spread false and fraudulent information …and invested millions of dollars of campaign means deliberately distributed false information…”
Some theories have included blaming Dominion voting systems. of trump change votes Biden votes in large number, truck of ballots are sent from New York to Pennsylvania, while Georgia election officials scan dozens of of thousands of ballots for Biden who came from suitcase. (All of these claims have been debunked.)
“You will see that President Trump corruptly planned to replace the Attorney General of United States for the US Department of Justice to circulate it false stolen pre-election claims.
Richard Donoghue, Rosen’s deputy, testified that during the change of president, he and another senior Justice Department official official the then president said that they should “just say that the elections were corrupted, and give the rest [him] and Republican congressmen.
“…we will focus on President Trump’s attempts to pressure Vice President Mike Pence to refuse to tally the election results votes on January 6…in private as well as in public.”
Trump’s advisers have repeatedly told him that his plan for Pence cancel the election on January 6th was illegal, but he tried to do it anyway, and the committee showed the video of Capitol rioters express anger to Pence for not complying with Trump’s demands wish.
Committee also learned from testimony former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson said she heard her boss, Trump’s boss of Mark Meadows staffers say Trump seems to have agreed with offer from some rioters caught on record the day that pence should be hanged.
On Thursday, the committee showed just how critical security situation during the riots became for Pence and one White House Security official showed that the members of Pence’s guards began to say goodbye to their loved ones.
