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The next J6 hearing: how criminal was Trump's 187 minutes of inaction [1]
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Date: 2022-07-16
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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x Official notice:
The @January6thCmte will hold its next hearing on Thursday at 8PM ET.
The prime-time hearing is expected to examine the 187 minutes between then-President Trump leaving the stage after his Ellipse speech and his first public response to the Capitol attack. — Taylor Popielarz (@TaylorPopielarz) July 15, 2022
They should plan this hearing to last 187 minutes and mention at the end that "The time you have spent watching this hearing is the same amount of time that Donald Trump did nothing to stop his insurrectionists."
x “Knowing that this crowd is armed, he has a duty as president to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, to call off that mob and do everything he can to stop it. Instead, he sits idly by during those 187 minutes."
Seven counts of manslaughter?
https://t.co/dPsfL7rIUV — Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) July 14, 2022
One witness the panel could hear from is Sarah Matthews, a former White House press aide who resigned in the aftermath of Jan. 6. She has told the committee that a tweet Mr. Trump sent attacking Vice President Mike Pence while the riot was underway was like “pouring gasoline on the fire.”
Mr. Trump had tried unsuccessfully to pressure Mr. Pence to reject Congress’s official count of electoral votes to confirm Joseph R. Biden Jr. as the president-elect and was inside the Capitol as rioters breached the building chanting “hang Mike Pence.” The committee is also likely to play clips of the testimony of other witnesses who attempted to intervene with Mr. Trump during those more than three hours, including Pat A. Cipollone, the White House counsel. The committee has also said it received testimony from Keith Kellogg, a retired lieutenant general who was Mr. Pence’s national security adviser, about Mr. Trump’s refusal to condemn the violence as the mob engulfed the Capitol. www.nytimes.com/…
A recent PRRI poll revealed that a third of Republicans believe “true American patriots may have to resort to violence” in order to “save the country.”
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