Former US President Donald Trump sat for hours watching the 6 January attack on the US Capitol unfold on live television, ignoring pleas by his children and other close advisers to urge his supporters to stop the violence, witnesses have told a congressional hearing.
Former White House counsel Pat Cipollone was asked question after question in the recorded testimony about Trump's actions: did he call the secretary of defence? The attorney general? The head of Homeland Security? Mr Cipollone answered"no" to each query. "The mob was accomplishing President Trump's purpose, so of course he didn't intervene," Mr Kinzinger said.
Witnesses in the room were Matthew Pottinger, a deputy national security adviser under Mr Trump, and Sarah Matthews, a deputy press secretary in his White House. Both resigned in the hours following the riot. It has used the hearings to build a case that Mr Trump's efforts to overturn his defeat by Mr Biden in 2020 constitute dereliction of duty and illegal conduct, far beyond normal politics.
Demoratt and pinko lies RTE
Up Donald trump hope he gets in again
RTE spouting Democrat propaganda from the J6 showtrial.
yeah a real attack on democracy , like the real russia collusion. this is boring 😴
Kiwi
Out rightly condemned it the next day,and said'those who broke the law should be jailed' Keep believing the biased news,sure we'll be grand!🙄
'Person, man, woman, camera, tv, yester... Ah fuck'
Didn’t see any “accusations of lawlessness and corruption” in the piece. Totally misleading headline. What is true is that neither Liz Cheney nor Adam Kinzinger are representing voters that elected them to office, borne out by them not standing for re-election
It was the outtakes from the recorded statement his advisers grudgingly pushed him to make condemning the attacks that really stuck with me. “I don’t wanna say this election is over!”
Hard to see how all the schemes by Trump and his henchmen wont result in criminal charges.
Partial reporting at its finest. Can you tell us what Nacy or Biden was doing when cities where burning down over a nonsense race riot in the name of junkie criminal. Or what they where doing when the Southern border was and still is in chaos.
Sorry, violence? They clearly didn't see BLM riots, otherwise they would urge their supporters to stop looting and burning. Besides, protesters were led inside capitol by security guard.
This is pathetic.
“Donald Trump sat for hours watching“ television is not necessarily an indictment of him, that’s who he is. That is what he has always done. Thinking anything more of the man is to be living in a fantasy world
They are milking it big time, worried to lose the midterms.
Attack? 😂