A day after an angry mob of his supporters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, then-President Donald Trump filmed a three-minute video in the East Room of the White House condemning the violence. It took him nearly an hour to tape the message.
, Trump is seen on camera on Jan. 7, 2021, struggling to condemn the rioters for the deadly siege that occurred the day before.
“I’d like to begin by discussing the heinous attack yesterday,” Trump said at one point in a video shown by the panel. “‘Yesterday’ is a hard word for me.”The then president struck the podium multiple times in frustration. He also refused to concede that the election was over. “This election is now over. Congress has certified the results,” Trump said before stopping. “I don’t want to say the election is over. I want to say Congress has certified the results without saying the election is over, OK?”
The hearing was mostly focused on what Trump was doing on Jan. 6, 2021, while a violent mob breached the Capitol building as Congress was in the process of certifying Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory — with former aidesproviding intimate details of the 187 minutes that transpired between his speech at the “Stop the Steal” rally at the Ellipse and when he finally released a video statement urging his supporters to go home.
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