![]() "A profound moment of reckoning for America," said Rep. The panel is arguing that the defeated president's lies about a stolen election and attempts to overturn Joe Biden's election victory fueled the attack and have left the United States facing enduring questions about the resiliency of its democracy. 6, 2021, despite pleas from aides, allies and even his family. The panel is diving into the 187 minutes that Trump failed to act on Jan. The hearing room was packed, including with several police officers who fought off the mob that day. Plunging into its second prime-time hearing on the Capitol attack, the committee vowed close scrutiny of Trump’s actions during the deadly riot, which the panel says he did nothing to stop but instead "gleefully" watched on television at the White House. "Our investigation goes forward," said Thompson testifying remotely as he isolates after testing positive for COVID-19. This was probably the last hearing of the summer, but the panel said they will resume in September as more witnesses and information emerges. "He lied, he bullied, he betrayed his oath," charged Thompson, D-Miss.Īfter months of work and weeks of hearings, committee co-chair Liz Cheney of Wyoming said "the dam has begun to break" on revealing what happened that day, at the White House as well as in the violence at the Capitol. 6 committee saying Trump as president did "everything in his power to overturn the election" he lost to Joe Biden, including before and during the deadly Capitol attack. He did not call to offer assistance."Ĭhairman Bennie Thompson opened Thursday’s prime-time hearing of the Jan. Luria said Trump "did not call to issue orders. "The only description that I received was that the president was upset, and that he was adamant about going to the Capitol and that there was a heated discussion about that," Robinson said. Mark Robinson who told the committee that Trump was well aware of the number of weapons in the crowd of his supporters but wanted to go regardless. She said the panel had received testimony the confirming the powerful previous account of former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson of an altercation involving Trump as he insisted the Secret Service drive him to the Capitol.Īmong the witnesses testifying Thursday in a recorded video was retired District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department Sgt. Trump had dispatched the crowd to Capitol Hill in heated rally remarks at the Ellipse behind the White House, and "within 15 minutes of leaving the stage, President Trump knew that the Capitol was besieged and under attack," said committee member Elaine Luria, D-Va. 6 investigating committee Thursday night. The hearing aimed to show a "minute by minute" accounting of Trump's actions that day and how rather than stop the violence, he watched it all unfold on television at the White House.Īn irate Trump demanded to be taken to the Capitol after the supporters he sent laid siege, well aware of the deadly attack and that some in the mob were armed but refusing to call it off as they fought to reverse his election defeat, witnesses told the Jan. This version includes some censored profanity. New video of the Capitol Riot, including alleged crimes by the Proud Boys and others, shown at the congressional hearing on June 9.
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