The former president ignored pleas from aides and relatives to stop the mob, House committee members sayAs the Capitol was being attacked by rioters, former President Donald Trump remained a the dining room off the Oval Office, watching a television turned to Fox News, but took no action to stop the attack, Rep. Elaine Luria said during Thursday’s prime time hearing.
Trump stayed in the dining room from 1:25 p.m. the afternoon of Jan. 6, 2021, until 4 p.m., according to Luria, a Democrat from Virginia and a member of the House committee investigating the riot. Former White House counsel Pat Cipollone and others said in videotaped testimony that they knew of no phone calls to the secretary of defense, attorney general, the Department of Homeland Security, the National Guard, the FBI or anyone else who could act to bring the mob under control.
As the Pentagon called the White House, a witness who is remaining anonymous informed the committee that one White House lawyer, Eric Hershmann, told Cipollone that Trump did not want anything done.Download NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
Instead of focusing so much on Trump, why don't you focus on what this 'president' is doing to our country? Because just like in nazi Germany the press were trying to stay in the good graces of the government. In the end they all suffered the same fate.
Do you ever tell the truth?
Let me guess....he was watching the protest on TV! Always twisting words to make the headlines more salacious! YELLOW JOURNALISM!
Oh you missed when he put out a video on this platform telling people to go home and violence wasn't the answer but then twitter pulled it and banned him? That's right you were busy with the steele dossier and chasing a fake russian collusion story.
Throw the book at him. Clearly illegal.