Six Hours of Paralysis: Inside Trump's failure to act after a mob stormed the Capitol WaPo

[sagesnow]

By
Ashley Parker,
Josh Dawsey and
Philip Rucker
Jan. 11, 2021 at 10:21 p.m. CST

"Hiding from the rioters in a secret location away from the Capitol, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) appealed to Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser. Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) phoned Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter.

And Kellyanne Conway, a longtime Trump confidante and former White House senior adviser, called an aide who she knew was standing at the president’s side.

But as senators and House members trapped inside the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday begged for immediate help during the siege, they struggled to get through to the president, who — safely ensconced in the West Wing — was too busy watching fiery TV images of the crisis unfolding around them to act or even bother to hear their pleas.

“He was hard to reach, and you know why? Because it was live TV,” said one close Trump adviser. “If it’s TiVo, he just hits pause and takes the calls. If it’s live TV, he watches it, and he was just watching it all unfold.”"
://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-mob-failure/2021/01/11/36a46e2e-542e-11eb-a817-e5e7f8a406d6_story.html

[BlueNProud]

1. Paralysis? How about willful dereliction of duties.

[Vivienne235729]

4. Yep. I was going to say the exact thing. He wasn't paralyzed. He planned it

And was sitting back enjoying it. Hell, his kids were having a party somewhere watching it on the news. They all knew and were celebrating it.

[exboyfil]

2. Remember Benghazi and how Hillary Clinton

was supposed to magically get troops there. Trump couldn't even get them from across town.

[robbob]

3. He was cheering them on.

[gratuitous]

5. He abandoned his post in the face of the enemy

It seems to me there's a word for that . . .

[GusBob]

6. Are you sure?

Seems as if the rioters were not HIS enemy

He was on duty for his militia