The Jan. 6 committee aired outtakes from Trump's remarks the day after the Capitol attack as he struggled to admit the election was over. “I don't want to say the election is over,” he said. “I just want to say Congress has certified the results.”
While rioters smashed through police lines at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Donald Trump asked aides for a list of senators to call as he continued to pursue paths to overturn his defeat.
New images and video shown on Thursday shed specific light on the climate surrounding Trump’s vice president, Mike Pence, and members of Congress as they fled violent rioters. The committee aired audio from Pence’s Secret Service detail making rapid-fire decisions about the proper route through the Capitol to avoid confronting the mob.
“Donald Trump ignored and disregarded the desperate pleas of his own family, including Ivanka and Don Jr.,” said the select panel’s chair, Rep. Bennie Thompson , referring to the former president’s children. “He could not be moved.” One of the committee’s live witnesses, former Trump White House press aide Sarah Matthews, described how easily his aides could have arranged for him to address to the White House press corps to condemn the riot: “He could have been on camera almost instantly.” But the order never came, she said.
The panel also aired outtakes from Trump’s remarks on the afternoon of Jan. 6 and in the aftermath on Jan. 7, as he struggled to condemn the violence and admit the election was over. Thompson said the committee would reconvene in September to continue presenting evidence to the American people about a “coordinated, multi-step effort to overturn an election overseen and directed by Donald Trump.”
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