6 key details from Capitol riots hearing including security guards tearful goodbyes to families 🔴 Donald Trump is accused of ignoring pleas from aides and families to call off a mob that stormed the Capitol and of 'pouring gasoline on the fire'.
In a video testimony, White House counsel Pat Cipollone told the hearing: “I said that people need to be told, there needs to be a public announcement, fast, that people need to leave the Capitol”.
The clips show the then-President saying “I don’t want to say the election is over. I just want to say Congress has certified the results without saying the election’s over, OK.” At one point, an angry and frustrated Mr Trump says: “My only goal was to ensure the integrity of the vote.”Former White House press aide Sarah Matthews branded the then-President’s tweet about Mr Pence lacking “courage” as “indefensible”.
She said: “If the president had wanted to make a statement and address the American people, he could have been on camera almost immediately.
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