“It was totally unnecessary and incredibly unfortunate,” top Trump advisor Hope Hicks testified about the violent protests of Jan. 6.
from being tarnished by the mob protest that he himself had encouraged during a speech earlier in the day at a rally a few blocks away.
Within minutes, she said, she rushed to the Oval Office, through a pantry and into the president’s private dining room, where she urged him to send out a tweet. When the violence continued, she helped him draft another. “It was important to underscore the goal,” she told the committee. “Here he says, you know, very specifically, 'No violence!' with an exclamation mark.
But Trump Jr. told committee investigators he didn’t recall talking to anyone at the White House or Trump’s inner circle to get his father to do more that day, including his sister Ivanka Trump, who was a senior advisor to the president at the time. And asked whether he talked personally with his father as the Jan. 6 events were unfolding, Trump Jr. said, “Not to my recollection, but, you know, you could obviously check the White House call logs or my phone.
Cassidy Hutchinson was used to working for a mercurial president when she worked at the White House as a top aide to Meadows. But the wear and tear hit her hardest in the months after leaving the job, worrying she hadn’t done enough to prevent the Capitol attack.
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