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Next Jan. 6 Hearing Will Examine 187 Minutes When Trump Did Nothing To Quell Capitol Riot
The next hearing by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection is expected to focus on the three hours when then-President Donald Trump did nothing to quell the violence, despite several entreaties to take action, as his supporters raged through the U. S. Capitol.
The hearing is scheduled to begin at 8 p. m. EDT Thursday.
“We’ll talk about what was going on in the White House while the Capitol was being overrun, and basically we will show what the president — as best we can put together — was doing all that time. Or not doing,” Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), chair of the committee, said earlier this week.
House committee member Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) appeared to offer a preview of the key message of the hearing last Sunday when she said that Trump’s White House counsel Pat Cipollone told investigators about Trump’s “dereliction of duty” during the insurrection.
According to accounts, Trump spent the afternoon of Jan. 6, 2021, in the White House, enthralled by TV coverage of the violence as his supporters battered police and rampaged through the Capitol, with some calling to “hang” then-Vice President Mike Pence for not following his boss’s entreaty to throw out the 2020 presidential election results.
After telling his supporters at a rally earlier that day to march to the Capitol and “fight like hell,” Trump “gleefully” watched the violence unfold on TV from the White House dining room, his former press secretary Stephanie Grisham told CNN. He gushed: “Look at all of the people fighting for me,” she recounted.
Trump “hit rewind” for some sections of the riot on a recorded TV program to watch them again, said Grisham, who was first lady Melania Trump’s press secretary and chief of staff at the time.
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“We conclude that Donald Trump and his supporters had their day in court and failed to produce substantive evidence to make their case,” the group wrote.
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