The committee investigating the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021 presented evidence that the former US president,Donald Trump planned for several days to provoke his followers to go to Congress, and evidence was also shown that his close circle met with the ultra groups that participated.
The committee investigating the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021 presented evidence on Tuesday that the then US president Days before Donald Trump planned to incite his followers to go to the headquarters of Congress and that his close circle met with the ultra groups that participated.
Trump wrote a tweet that he did not send but that message, which is preserved by the National Archives, is enough, according to the committee, to show that both Trump and his advisers were interested in encouraging the masses.
The appeal of the Republican leader advanced that he was going to give a speech that day in the morning, asking to arrive soon before the expected crowds, and then urging people to go to the Capitol, where the votes that led to the election were being certified. inauguration of Democrat Joe Biden.
The open-door audience reflected how far-right groups such as the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys, who led that protest, had coordinated with each other and how people trusted by Trump were in contact with them.
Days before the National Security Adviser, Michael Flynn will participate in an Oval Office meeting that discussed how to reverse the election result, he was photographed outside the Capitol with leading members of the Oath Keepers.
Also, his former collaborator Roger Stone used an encrypted chat to coordinate efforts once morest that vote just two days following the polls closed, called “Friends of Stone” and in which members of both organizations participated.
Tuesday’s hearing the seventh of the committee, focused as much on those links as on the crazy meeting on December 18, 2020 in the Oval Office, following which Trump published the tweet in which he advanced that there was going to be a protest on January 6 in Washington and encouraged to attend because it was going to be “wild”.
In that meeting there were insults, accusations of disloyalty and an attempt by Trump to issue an executive order to give attorney Sidney Powell powers to seize voting machines and thus recount the ballots, according to Democratic legislator Jamie Raskin, committee member.
Common sense finally won out. “I don’t even understand why we have to tell you that it’s a bad idea, a terrible idea for the country,” Pat Cipollone, a former White House lawyer who told Powell.ue fought once morest the efforts of the then president to reverse the result of the elections.
The committee, however, ruled out on Tuesday that Trump was manipulated to ignore his closest advisers and believe that there was electoral fraud.
“He is a 76-year-old man, not an impressionable child, and like everyone else in this country, he must be responsible for his own actions and decisions.. He had access to detailed and specific information that showed the election was not a robbery.” said legislator Liz Cheney, one of the two Republicans who are part of the committee and who is opposed to the former president.
Trump messages
For this reason, it was criticized that he continued with his complaints and it was made clear that his different messages were interpreted as a call to protest and even to arms, since the extremists spoke openly on the internet of going to the capital armed.
One of them was Stephen Ayres, who entered the Capitol. “I clung to every word of Trump,” he said in his speech on Tuesday, where he claimed to be convinced that the election had been a fraud and that the then Republican president was going to be with the people at the January protest.
The messages that circulated on social networks, most of them of a violent nature, even spoke of celebrating a “red wedding”, something that, as Raskin recalled on Tuesday, serves to speak in code of a massacre.
The meetings in the White House to try to keep Trump in power had been varied: on December 21, according to the committee, there was another in which eleven Republicans participated and in which Vice President Mike Pence was pressured to help to flip the results.
The committee promises new revelations in upcoming hearings: As revealed by Cheney, Trump tried to call a witness who has not yet testified, although the latter refused to answer and instead warned his lawyer regarding that attempt.
