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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(137,388 posts)
Fri Jul 22, 2022, 03:07 PM Jul 2022

The Jan. 6 Committee's Closing Argument Was About Trump's Morality

As a violent mob of his supporters smashed through windows to enter the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, then-President Donald Trump did nothing.

As members of Congress and his vice president, Mike Pence, were forced to flee for their safety, Trump did nothing.

As members of Pence’s security detail were telling colleagues over the radio to tell their families they loved them, Trump did nothing.

In the final summertime hearing from the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack, the focus was on Trump’s inaction for more than three hours during the violence at the Capitol. After eight hearings detailing everything Trump had done that led to the attack, and framing it as potentially criminal, the committee spent this last hearing focused on what the former president didn’t do — and framed it as a moral failing.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-jan-6th-committees-closing-argument-was-about-trumps-morality/

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The Jan. 6 Committee's Closing Argument Was About Trump's Morality (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2022 OP
Exactly Going to Canada Jul 2022 #1
Hasn't it already been established that it SharonClark Jul 2022 #2
The pentagon was calling trump but he would not speak to them. onecaliberal Jul 2022 #3
That is why I have questions. Going to Canada Jul 2022 #4
Cipallone took the calls when trump wouldn't. Compel him to testify to the crimes he witnessed. onecaliberal Jul 2022 #5
Agree Going to Canada Jul 2022 #6

Going to Canada

(169 posts)
1. Exactly
Fri Jul 22, 2022, 03:12 PM
Jul 2022

Now they need to tell us who finally brought the NGuard to the Capitol? Why did it take so long? Was it Pence, Or the TFG? I want to know.

Going to Canada

(169 posts)
4. That is why I have questions.
Fri Jul 22, 2022, 04:19 PM
Jul 2022

The only person with authority to order the National Guard was the President, right? Was pence given the oath in order to make the decision. The 25'th can be given. Maybe that is what was on those lost texts. The government is not required to give this information. The next day, remember Marine One hovering over Mike Pence's home. Were they picking him up? We're they dropping him off? Why did it take three hours to get help?

 

onecaliberal

(36,594 posts)
5. Cipallone took the calls when trump wouldn't. Compel him to testify to the crimes he witnessed.
Fri Jul 22, 2022, 04:42 PM
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