Many of the revelations Thursday night came from videotaped testimonies of witnesses on camera, including former President Trump’s daughter, who have appeared before the commission in recent months. The hearing also presented new testimonies from witnesses who were at the Capitol that day. While some details of these issues may have appeared in the news report, Thursday night’s hearing put the details on file. Here are six things the hearing publicly confirmed for the first time on Thursday night:
1. Trump has never called on any law enforcement agency to protect the Capitol. Instead, Pence did, Cheney says.
According to Vice President Liz Cheney, Trump, who was president at the time of the uprising, did not make a single call to a federal entity to direct law enforcement to protect the Capitol. Instead, then-Vice President Mike Pence did, essentially assuming the role of president. “President Trump not only refused to tell the mob to leave the Capitol, but he did not call on any US government officials to order him to defend the Capitol,” Cheney said. “He did not call his Secretary of Defense on January 6. He did not speak to the Attorney General. He did not speak to the Department of Homeland Security. President Trump did not order the deployment of the National Guard that day. “Justice for the coordination and development of law enforcement means. Vice President Pence did each of these things.” In the panel sound, Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, urged him to create a “narrative” that Trump, not Pence, was in control and made the shots. Milley said he considered the request “political, political, political.” The commission is likely to provide more details on this point at subsequent hearings, as what exactly Trump did in those critical hours on January 6 remains unclear.
2. Ivanka Trump said she accepted Barr’s assessment of the election
Attorney General William Barr testified that he told Trump he disagreed with his belief that the 2020 presidential election had been stolen. “I have made it clear that I do not agree with the idea that the election was rigged and that making these things public, which I said to the president, was stupid **,” Barr said in a recorded statement. “And I did not want to be part of it.” When Barr found out that President Biden had indeed won the election, Ivanka Trump, Trump’s daughter and adviser, told the committee she believed him. “I respect Attorney General Bar. So I accepted what he was saying,” he said. The president’s daughter was the first member of the former first family whose testimony was broadcast during the hearings.
3. Many Republican lawmakers have apologized to the White House since Jan. 6
Cheney also claimed that many Republican members of Congress had called for a presidential election in the days following the Capitol uprising, including MP Scott Perry. Perry refused to comply with the committee’s calls. “Many other Republican lawmakers have also asked for a presidential pardon for their role in trying to overthrow the 2020 election,” Cheney said. He did not name the other Republicans.
4. Jared Kouchner took White House adviser threats to resign as “lamentation”
The president’s son-in-law and top adviser, Jared Kushner, was asked by Cheney during his taped testimony about “multiple threats” by White House adviser Pat Cipollone and his team to resign amid what Cheney called the “Illegal activity” that surrounds. Trump’s efforts to retain the presidency. “Do you know of many cases where Pat Cipollone threatened to resign?” Cheney asked Kouchner in a clip that was played during Thursday’s public hearing. “As I said, my interest at the time was to try to get as much forgiveness as possible,” Kouchner said. “And I know he and the team always said, ‘We’re going to give up, we’re not going to be there if this happens, if this happens. So I thought it’ s like grumbling, to be honest with you.”
5. The Proud Boys began marching to the Capitol before Trump’s speech began
The Proud Boys began marching to the Capitol before Trump even began his speech, gathering supporters, according to documentary Nick Quested, who was in the middle of shooting a documentary for the Proud Boys on Jan. 6. “I was somewhat confused because we were moving away from the president’s speech because that’s how I felt we were there to cover it up,” Quested said.
6. Members of Trump’s cabinet discussed the 25th amendment, Cheney says
Cheney said members of Trump’s cabinet discussed the “possibility of invoking the 25th Amendment,” adding that the American public would hear more about it at future public hearings. The 25th amendment provides the cabinet with a path to replace the president. It was never invoked on January 6 or in the following days.
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Many of the revelations Thursday night came from videotaped testimonies of witnesses on camera, including former President Trump’s daughter, who have appeared before the commission in recent months. The hearing also presented new testimonies from witnesses who were at the Capitol that day. While some details of these issues may have appeared in the news report, Thursday night’s hearing put the details on file. Here are six things the hearing publicly confirmed for the first time on Thursday night:
1. Trump has never called on any law enforcement agency to protect the Capitol. Instead, Pence did, Cheney says.
According to Vice President Liz Cheney, Trump, who was president at the time of the uprising, did not make a single call to a federal entity to direct law enforcement to protect the Capitol. Instead, then-Vice President Mike Pence did, essentially assuming the role of president. “President Trump not only refused to tell the mob to leave the Capitol, but he did not call on any US government officials to order him to defend the Capitol,” Cheney said. “He did not call his Secretary of Defense on January 6. He did not speak to the Attorney General. He did not speak to the Department of Homeland Security. President Trump did not order the deployment of the National Guard that day. “Justice for the coordination and development of law enforcement means. Vice President Pence did each of these things.” In the panel sound, Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, urged him to create a “narrative” that Trump, not Pence, was in control and made the shots. Milley said he considered the request “political, political, political.” The commission is likely to provide more details on this point at subsequent hearings, as what exactly Trump did in those critical hours on January 6 remains unclear.
2. Ivanka Trump said she accepted Barr’s assessment of the election
Attorney General William Barr testified that he told Trump he disagreed with his belief that the 2020 presidential election had been stolen. “I have made it clear that I do not agree with the idea that the election was rigged and that making these things public, which I said to the president, was stupid **,” Barr said in a recorded statement. “And I did not want to be part of it.” When Barr found out that President Biden had indeed won the election, Ivanka Trump, Trump’s daughter and adviser, told the committee she believed him. “I respect Attorney General Bar. So I accepted what he was saying,” he said. The president’s daughter was the first member of the former first family whose testimony was broadcast during the hearings.
3. Many Republican lawmakers have apologized to the White House since Jan. 6
Cheney also claimed that many Republican members of Congress had called for a presidential election in the days following the Capitol uprising, including MP Scott Perry. Perry refused to comply with the committee’s calls. “Many other Republican lawmakers have also asked for a presidential pardon for their role in trying to overthrow the 2020 election,” Cheney said. He did not name the other Republicans.
4. Jared Kouchner took White House adviser threats to resign as “lamentation”
The president’s son-in-law and top adviser, Jared Kushner, was asked by Cheney during his taped testimony about “multiple threats” by White House adviser Pat Cipollone and his team to resign amid what Cheney called the “Illegal activity” that surrounds. Trump’s efforts to retain the presidency. “Do you know of many cases where Pat Cipollone threatened to resign?” Cheney asked Kouchner in a clip that was played during Thursday’s public hearing. “As I said, my interest at the time was to try to get as much forgiveness as possible,” Kouchner said. “And I know he and the team always said, ‘We’re going to give up, we’re not going to be there if this happens, if this happens. So I thought it’ s like grumbling, to be honest with you.”
5. The Proud Boys began marching to the Capitol before Trump began his speech
The Proud Boys began marching to the Capitol before Trump even began his speech, gathering supporters, according to documentary Nick Quested, who was in the middle of shooting a documentary for the Proud Boys on Jan. 6. “I was somewhat confused because we were moving away from the president’s speech because that’s how I felt we were there to cover it up,” Quested said.
6. Members of Trump’s cabinet discussed the 25th amendment, Cheney says
Cheney said members of Trump’s cabinet discussed the “possibility of invoking the 25th Amendment,” adding that the American public would hear more about it at future public hearings. The 25th amendment provides the cabinet with a path to replace the president. It was never invoked on January 6 or in the following days.
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