Rep. Elaine Luria (D-Va.) released evidence Monday indicating that Trump refused to vilify the rioters who had stormed the Capitol in his name on Jan. 6, 2021.
According to video testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson, an aide to then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, Trump’s aides were pushing him to record another speech the day after the attack to quell talk of his impeachment or removal from office via the 25th Amendment.In one part of the video Luria posted, Jan. 6 committee investigators showed Ivanka Trump — Trump’s eldest daughter and a former senior presidential adviser — a draft document titled “Remarks on National Healing.
On the document were handwritten edits that Ivanka Trump identified as her father’s. He had apparently deleted any mention of the Justice Department prosecuting the rioters. Crossed out from the prepared remarks were these lines: “I am directing the Department of Justice to ensure all lawbreakers are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. We must send a clear message — not with mercy but with JUSTICE. Legal consequences must be swift and firm.
Also crossed out was this message to those who had committed the violence: “I want to be very clear: you do not represent me. You do not represent our movement.” At the beginning of the document, Trump had apparently also crossed out that he was “sickened” by the violence. Luria’s tweet was a reference to the committee’s prime-time hearing on Thursday, in which video outtakes from the Jan. 7 speech showed that Trump refused to say “the election’s over” and appeared frustrated, slapping the lectern with his palm multiple times while taping. He also hesitated to vilify the rioters in that speech, according to the outtakes.
John McEntee, former director of the White House presidential personnel office, testified that he was asked to “nudge” Trump along to ensure he delivered the Jan. 7 speech. When asked what gave him the impression that Trump was reluctant to give the speech, McEntee told the committee, “The fact that somebody has to tell me to nudge it along.”The House select committee investigating the Jan.
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