The House committee investigating Jan. 6 made a strong case that former President Donald Trump was responsible for what happened that day. Here are 4 takeaways from last night's hearing — plus new evidence.
becoming wider, and with conservative media doing all it can to circle the Trump wagons and downplay the committee's findings.1. New facts and information were revealed.Not previously publicly seen video footage from police body cameras, Capitol hallway and office footage, as well as police radio communication;
Trump lawyer Alex Cannon affirming there was no evidence of widespread election fraud or the election being stolen. The video was also effective in showing Trump's tweets and seeing militant members in the crowd, needing a mob fired up, literally reading from Trump's tweets through a bullhorn almost as marching orders — all because Trump couldn't handle losing and he lied to his crowd of supporters. Violence from the mob of Trump supporters — striking officers with hockey sticks in one scene — was interspersed with Trump saying just five days later that these were"peaceful" people.
But pretty much everyone around Trump knew the truth and couldn't tame or control him, not only his attorney general and his daughter, but Fox's Hannity and Trump's press secretary, McEnany., Hannity tells McEnany,"No more stolen election talk" and that the 25th Amendment possibility of the Cabinet removing Trump from office was"real."
If you watched this hearing with a split screen between Fox News and everyone else, it was eye-opening.
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