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"We were urging President Trump to tell his followers to be nonviolent on Jan 6. He refused." [1]
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Date: 2022-12-19
Et Tu, Hope? El Trumpo whines about 'weaponized thugs & tyrants' in the mirror.
Hope Hicks texted a colleague on the evening of Jan. 6 this about Trump's Pence tweet: “Attacking the VP? Wtf is wrong with him."
The J6 committee played video of Hicks' testimony, in which she said at the end of her tenure in the Trump White House, she became "increasingly concerned" that Trump's unfounded claims of widespread election fraud would tarnish his legacy as president.
When pressed on Trump's response to these concerns, Hicks said he was more worried that his legacy would be damaged by defeat.
"He said something along the lines of, 'Nobody will care about my legacy if I lose...The only thing that matters is winning,'" Hicks said.
In a separate video testimony played during Monday's hearing, Hicks said she suggested Trump issue a statement encouraging Jan. 6 protesters to be non-violent, but that he "refused."
"Mr. Herschmann had said he had made the same recommendation directly to the president and that he had refused," she said, referring to a White House lawyer.
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