In its last scheduled public hearing on Thursday in prime time, lawmakers laid out — moment-by-moment — the 187 minutes between Trump's rally at the Ellipse and his finally, grudgingly telling his violent supporters to 'go home.'
July 23, 2022, 8:27 AMBloomberg via Getty ImagesThe House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol has spent six weeks revealing in dramatic detail the findings of its year-long probe, placing former President Donald Trump at the center of what it has described as an "attempted coup.
Even the day after Jan. 6 -- despite all that had happened -- the committee on Thursday showed outtakes of Trump struggling to tape a statement to the nation, refusing to say the words "this election is now over." Using taped depositions from Trump officials at the time -- including Attorney General Bill Barr, White House counsel Pat Cipollone and Trump's daughter Ivanka -- the panel argued the former president was "well aware" that he lost the election yet still moved forward with an illegal plot to stay in office.MORE: Trump fires back at Ivanka, Bill Barr over Jan. 6 deposition testimony
The two camps divulged into screaming matches, witnesses testified. Text messages aired by the committee showed Hutchinson telling Tony Ornato, then-White House deputy chief of staff for operations, that "the West Wing is unhinged." Former Department of Justice officials testified about Trump's pressure on them to find instances of fraud and encourage states to send different "fake" electors. Richard Donoghue, the acting deputy attorney general at the time, said Trump asked the agency to seize voting machines among other requests.
Donell Harvin, former D.C. homeland security chief, said in a deposition these usually "non-aligned groups were aligning, and all the red flags went up at that point." Obtained from the National Archives, an undated draft tweet showed Trump planned to alert his Twitter followers of the march. Trump also planned on joining them, officials testified. Hutchinson said a Secret Service official told her of a physical altercation in the presidential vehicle when Trump was told he could not go and tried to grab the steering wheel.Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThe committee provided a never-before-seen photograph of a "heated" phone call between Trump and Vice President Mike Pence on the morning of Jan. 6, 2021.
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