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Trump sheds fresh light on what he intended to do on Jan. 6 [View all]
More than three years later, Donald Trump now admits that he told the Secret Service to let him join Jan. 6 rioters as they went to the U.S. Capitol.
Link to tweet
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-sheds-fresh-light-intended-jan-6-rcna150351
But the presumptive GOP nominee hasn’t just focused on his bond with suspected and convicted insurrectionists; Trump has also shed fresh light on his own actions and intentions related to the assault on the Capitol. NBC News reported:
The former president’s point was to push back against Cassidy Hutchinson’s 2022 testimony, when the former aide described a scene, which had been described to her by Tony Ornato, in which Trump went a little berserk after his Secret Service detail told him he was being taken back to the White House after his speech at the Ellipse, not to the Capitol.
At his rally in Wisconsin, Trump described different details, but effectively confirmed the underlying claim.
......And, by his own admission, he wanted to join them.
As for what Trump intended to do if he got his way — which is to say, if the Secret Service followed his directive and brought him to Capitol Hill — as we’ve discussed, it’s probably safe to say that once he was inside the halls, presidential oratory wasn’t the plan. It’s not like Trump intended to use his powers of persuasion to convince members of Congress to ignore the election results and give him illegitimate power he hadn’t earned.
It’s more likely he had a different kind of confrontation in mind, which is precisely what makes the acknowledgements such as the one he made yesterday important.
Former President Donald Trump acknowledged Wednesday that he told the Secret Service he wanted to go to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, depicting a different tone of an event that became a contentious detail of a former White House aide’s testimony before the House committee that investigated the attack.
The former president’s point was to push back against Cassidy Hutchinson’s 2022 testimony, when the former aide described a scene, which had been described to her by Tony Ornato, in which Trump went a little berserk after his Secret Service detail told him he was being taken back to the White House after his speech at the Ellipse, not to the Capitol.
At his rally in Wisconsin, Trump described different details, but effectively confirmed the underlying claim.
Link to tweet
......And, by his own admission, he wanted to join them.
As for what Trump intended to do if he got his way — which is to say, if the Secret Service followed his directive and brought him to Capitol Hill — as we’ve discussed, it’s probably safe to say that once he was inside the halls, presidential oratory wasn’t the plan. It’s not like Trump intended to use his powers of persuasion to convince members of Congress to ignore the election results and give him illegitimate power he hadn’t earned.
It’s more likely he had a different kind of confrontation in mind, which is precisely what makes the acknowledgements such as the one he made yesterday important.
This admission will be used when the Jan. 6 case goes to trial
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