He fiddled (with his remote) as his cult tried to burn down the country
We will learn more as subsequent Jan. 6 hearings roll out more damning facts from that day and before. There is an hours-long gap in White House phone records from the day of the Trump insurrection, although we know Donald Trump watched the violence on TV and made and received calls during that time.
We knew much of this before last night’s live Jan. 6 committee hearing. But last night, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) made clearer that as leaders huddled inside the Capitol and White House staff begged him to act, this is what Donald Trump did for hours as the Capitol was under attack: nothing.
“Not only did President Trump refuse to tell the mob to leave the Capitol, he placed no call to any element of the United States government to instruct that the Capitol be defended,” Cheney said. “He did not call his secretary of defense on January 6. He did not talk to his attorney general. He did not talk to the Department of Homeland Security. President Trump gave no order to deploy the National Guard that day. And he made no effort to work with the Department of Justice to coordinate and deploy law enforcement assets. Vice President Pence did each of those things.”
Chief of Staff Mark Meadows was more concerned about controlling the narrative that Trump had lost control to Pence.
It gets worse. It will get worse still.
As will the pressure on Attorney General Merrick Garland and his department to bring charges against those who planned the coup attempt and provoked the deadly riot.
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