The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection will return to primetime Thursday night with an examination of former President Donald Trump’s failure to call off a violent mob of his supporters to overturn the 2020 election.
“I was honored to serve in the Trump administration and proud of the policies we enacted. As someone who worked in the halls of Congress, I was deeply disturbed by what I saw today. I’ll be stepping down from my role, effective immediately. Our nation needs a peaceful transfer of power.”
During an earlier hearing, committee member Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., said that Matthews and Meadows aide Ben Williamson both testified that Trump had been informed about the violence at the Capitol before he sent the tweet condemning Pence for refusing to interfere with Congress’s certification of Joe Biden’s legitimate victory in the Electoral College.
It read: “Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!”“I remember us saying that that was the last thing that needed to be tweeted at that moment,” she told the committee. “The situation was already bad.”The 2:24 p.m.
The hearings have also shown that this wasn’t the first time that day that Trump placed his vice president in the mob’s crosshairs. Despite having been repeatedly advised that he did not have the authority to reject legitimate Biden electors when Congress met to certify the vote on Jan. 6, Trump during his speech at the Ellipse repeatedly implored Pence to do exactly that, falsely painting Pence as his only hope for staying in power while urging the crowd to the Capitol to pressure him to act.
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