The January 6 committee reveals how 'the craziest meeting of the Trump presidency' and a late-night tweet from the former president encouraged extremists and conspiracy theorists to storm the Capitol and mount an insurrection.
"Where is the evidence?" Mr Cipollone recalled asking, in a video snippet from his recent closed-door interview.
In the early hours of December 19, 2020, "President Trump turned away from both his outside advisers' most outlandish and unworkable schemes and his White House Counsel's advice to swallow hard and accept the reality of his loss", Mr Raskin said.unleash a political firestorm and change the course of our history as a country.
"The time for action is now. Where were you when history called? Where were you when you and your children's destiny and future was on the line?"testified that the platform had discussed moderating Donald Trump after the Proud Boys rallied around his "stand back and stand by" comment, made during a live presidential debate.
Former national security adviser Michael Flynn had addressed Trump supporters at a rally to protest against the results of the election weeks earlier, in December 2020. Stephen Ayres, January 6 rioter, told the committee he had believed the election was being stolen and that the president had called on his supporters to act.
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