The committee investigating the January 6 riots shared testimony showing that the ex-president rejected pleas from even his family
“In the end, this is not, as it may appear, a story of inaction in a time of crisis, but instead it was the final action of Donald Trump’s own plan to usurp the will of the American people and remain in power,” said Democrat Elaine Luria, who co-led the Thursday hearing with Republican and fellow committee member Adam Kinzinger.
, the committee argued. In a now infamous video message shared to Twitter on the afternoon of 6 January, Trump told the rioters to disperse while also praising them.“Whatever your politics, whatever you think about the outcome of the election, we as Americans must all agree on this: Donald Trump’s conduct on January 6 was a supreme violation of his oath of office and a complete dereliction of his duty to our nation,” Kinzinger said. “It is a stain on our history.
Even the day after the insurrection, Trump refused to acknowledge he had fairly lost the election. The committeeof Trump’s address to the nation on January 7, in which the then-president took issue with various aspects of the script written by his team. While Trump’s advisers pleaded with him to take action on 6 January, a horrifying scene was unfolding at the Capitol. Trump’s vice-president, Mike Pence, was escorted out of the Senate chamber due to safety concerns and was demanding that the US military come to the Capitol to end the violence.House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy called Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, asking them to help stop the violence, former White House officials testified.
“Other leaders upheld their oaths to do the right thing,” Luria said. She later added, “President Trump did not then and does not now have the character or courage to say to the American people what his own people know to be true. He is responsible for the attack on the Capitol on January 6.”
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