The Secret Service’s deletion of text messages is increasingly evolving into a scandal for the agency best-known for protecting the president. Democratic committee member Zoe Lofgren confirmed that two top officials who worked with Trump now have retained their own attorneys.
Donald Trump made during the violence of January 6 ever be trusted with any position of authority in our great nation again?”
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Monmouth poll found that fewer Republicans now see January 6 as an insurrection than did last year.
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Donald Trump, and then Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, asking the president to call off the mob..
“Think about that. Leader McCarthy, who was one of the president’s strongest supporters, was scared and begging for help. President Trump turned him down,” Adam Kinzinger said.
A week later, McCarthy went to see Trump at Mar-a-Lago.
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Reporters in the room said there was audible laughter after the video of Hawley running played. Hawley was the first senator to declare he would object to certifying the election.
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The hearing has restarted with more from Pat Cipollone’s interview. He is describing White House officials as near-unanimous in wanting the rioters out of the Capitol as it was being attacked.
“I can’t think of anybody, you know, on that day, who didn’t want people to get out of the Capitol,” Cipollone said.
Asked what the president wanted, Cipollone appeared to invoke executive privilege.
Mark Meadows said ‘Get Ivanka down here’, according to Cipollone
“Get Ivanka down here”. That’s what chief of staff Mark Meadows said as White House officials tried to figure out how to get Trump to stop the rioters at the Capitol, according to testimony from then-White House counsel Pat Cipollone.
“I remember him getting Ivanka involved, said ‘get Ivanka down here.’ He felt that would be important”, Cipollone said.
Ivanka Trump is, of course, the president’s daughter, who was an adviser in the White House and told the committee she never believed Trump’s claims the 2020 election was stolen.
It seems the House GOP twitter account has deleted tweets attacking Sarah Matthews and describing tonight’s testimony was “heresy”.
Matthews, who has described herself as a “lifelong Republican” and has worked as a staffer for the House GOP, was previously derided as a “pawn” in Nancy Pelosi’s “witch hunt.”
The Twitter account is run by Representative Elise Stefanik’s staff.
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The January 6 committee is now taking a 10-minute recess.
Just before they broke, several former top officials confirmed that they believed ensuring a peaceful transfer of power was among the president’s duties, including White House counsel Pat Cipollone, Ivanka Trump’s husband Jared Kushner and Keith Kellogg, Pence’s national security adviser.
“Rather than uphold his duty to the Constitution, president Trump allowed the mob to achieve the delay that he hoped with keep him in power,” congresswoman Elaine Luria said as the hearing’s first half concluded.
Official said Secret Service agents ‘called to say goodbye to family’
Secret Service agents feared for their lives as the Capitol was stormed, an unnamed White House security official testified to the committee.
“There’s a lot of yelling, a lot of… very personal phone calls over the radio,” the official said. Others “called to say goodbye to a family member”.
“I think there were discussions of reinforcements coming, but again, it is just chaos. They’re just yelling”, the official continued. “It sounds like that we came very close to either the service having to use lethal options, or worse.”