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Even a day after Jan. 6, Trump balked at condemning the violenceHe struggled to do it. Over the course of an hour of trying to tape the message, Trump resisted holding the rioters to account, trying to call them patriots, and refused to say the election was over, according to individuals familiar with the work of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack.
The public could get its first glimpse of outtakes from that recording Thursday night, when the committee plans to offer a bold conclusion in its eighth hearing: Not only did Trump do nothing despite repeated entreaties by senior aides to help end the violence, but he sat back and enjoyed watching it. He reluctantly condemned it in a three-minute speech the evening of Jan. 7 only after the efforts to overturn the 2020 election had failed and after aides told him that members of his own Cabinet were discussing invoking the 25th Amendment to remove him from office.
This is what he wanted to happen, Rep. Elaine Luria (D-Va.), who is scheduled to lead the questioning Thursday along with Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), said in an interview this week. You might have earlier on said, Was he incompetent? Was he someone who freezes in a moment when they cant react to something? Or was it exactly what he wanted to have happened? And after all of this, Im convinced that this is exactly what he wanted to have happen.
Committee aides on Wednesday dubbed the prime-time presentation the 187-minute hearing, a reference to the period between Trumps speech on the Ellipse on Jan. 6 before protesters marched to the Capitol and his remarks late that afternoon from the Rose Garden urging the rioters to go home. The hearing will focus heavily on Trumps inaction in the White House during that time, the aides said on a background call with reporters.
Emphasis mine.
More: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/07/20/even-day-after-jan-6-trump-balked-condemning-violence/
Stuart G
(38,453 posts)jmowreader
(50,567 posts)was remind about 20 Republican senators that Trump has photos of them fucking goats, which will get released if they dont vote to convict the bastard in the upcoming impeachment trial.
smb
(3,475 posts)msfiddlestix
(7,286 posts)I recall reading last week that someone said on tv to send ketchup packages to magat lardo sans context.
I didn't get it... what is the ketchup thingy in reference to?
smb
(3,475 posts)Trump threw lunch against the wall over Barr interview, Hutchinson says
Former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified on Tuesday that former President Trump was so upset that then-Attorney General William Barr dismissed claims of widespread election fraud that he threw his lunch at the wall in the West Wing dining room....
I first noticed there was ketchup dripping down the wall, and there was a shattered porcelain plate, Hutchinson testified to the House panel.....
msfiddlestix
(7,286 posts)msfiddlestix
(7,286 posts)gab13by13
(21,439 posts)I believe there will be bombshells tonight exploding all over Trump.
This is must watch TV, a buttered popcorn event, or at least that yellow stuff they call butter.
DownriverDem
(6,232 posts)What a great gift!
MuseRider
(34,135 posts)ancianita
(36,157 posts)gab13by13
(21,439 posts)Mine is coming up next week.
niyad
(113,612 posts)RestoreAmerica2020
(3,439 posts)Paz.
Novara
(5,857 posts)My birthday was around the first J6 hearing!
sdfernando
(4,947 posts)a day late for mine but I'll just consider it a belated gift.
dalton99a
(81,636 posts)The Greatest Show on Earth that he created
fightforfreedom
(4,913 posts)Including all the injuries and deaths that occurred during the attack. At the very least I believe Trump could be financially destroyed by all the civil lawsuits from all the police that were injured and died.
NO KIDDING !! We ALL knew he wanted it to happen. There is absolutely no question in anyone's mind who has half a brain cell. An egomaniac child wants attention. Well, he dam well got it.
twodogsbarking
(9,844 posts)PatrickforB
(14,594 posts)I know many on here don't like the death penalty, but to my mind Trump is directly responsible for at least 700,000 deaths because he lied about how bad the pandemic was going to be because a) he was told it was primarily affecting 'blue states,' and b) a pandemic could make him look bad for the upcoming election.
In addition, we had his two impeachments which showed how utterly corrupt and incompetent he was.
And, finally, we had his effort to overturn an election to stay in power, which culminated in an armed insurrection which, luckily, he was not allowed to lead, because we'd still be under martial law if the SS agents in the Beast had allowed him to be taken to the Capitol rather than back to the White House. Pence would be dead, and God only knows how many Democratic members of Congress would be dead or in federal prison right now.
At the VERY LEAST, Trump needs to spend the rest of his miserable life pacing a 6X6 federal prison cell, complete with a one piece stainless steel toilet. And in truth, for what he has done - the sheer heinousness of it all - hanging would be a catharsis. It would sure wake up the traitorous part of the Republican party. A hanging or two would really prime the pump to get them all singing like canaries. Or perhaps cawing like magpies...
wnylib
(21,656 posts)twodogsbarking
(9,844 posts)Emile
(23,023 posts)an hour before it starts.
Ligyron
(7,639 posts)From his friggin jail cell.
KS Toronado
(17,367 posts)"Do not try this at home people or the US Capitol."
"Learn from my Stupidity" "Buy my Book" djt
sdfernando
(4,947 posts)like tfg would ever say "learn from my stupidity" It would have to be ghost written like all the other ones.
wnylib
(21,656 posts)The biggliest failed steal in history. Never before has there been such a great failed steal.
MissB
(15,812 posts)With a glass of wine.