Cheney, the vice-chairwoman of the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021 uprising, made the remarks during her opening remarks at the committee’s first hearing – which was highlighted by a 10-minute video of the violence unfolding. , was recorded by increasingly frantic radio communications from Washington and US Capitol police. “You will hear President Trump shouting and he was ‘really angry’ with advisers who told him he needed to do more,” Cheney said. this. excerpt: “Maybe our supporters have the right idea.” “Mike Pence’s quote ‘is worth it.’ Cheney also claimed that “in many months, Donald Trump oversaw and coordinated a complex seven-part plan to overthrow him. [2020] presidential elections and to prevent the transfer of presidential power. In our hearings, you will see details for each element of this plan “. “On the morning of January 6, President Donald Trump’s intention was to remain President of the United States, despite the legal outcome of the 2020 election. And in violation of his constitutional obligation to step down,” Cheney continued. Wyoming’s Republican spokeswoman Liz Cheney claimed that President Donald Trump said Vice President Mike Pence “deserved” to be hanged as Trump supporters shouted “hang Mike Pence” during the Kappi uprising. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / AFP via Getty Images Cheney, one of two Republicans on the panel, has repeatedly clashed with Trump during his four-year term, particularly on foreign policy. She voted last year to refer Trump for alleged incitement to the uprising, and Trump approved her challenge in Congress to Harriet Hagman. The MP’s opening statement was more detailed than the one read by President Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), Who spoke at length about the events of 6 January 2021 and his views on them. “I am from a part of the country where people justify the actions of slavery, the Ku Klux Klan and lynching. “I remember this dark story as I hear voices today trying to justify the actions of the uprising on January 6, 2021,” Thompson said. Cheney said Trump acted in “violation of his constitutional obligation to step down.” AP / J. Scott Applewhite, Swimming Pool The first of many video clips played during the hearing was the testimony of Attorney General Bill Barr, in which he recalled telling the 45th president that his allegations of electoral fraud were “bulls.” Cheney, meanwhile, quoted the commission from interviews with former Trump aide Jason Miller, who described talks with Trump over his election defeat, and with Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kouchner, who admitted that he had Former White House Undersecretary Pat Chipolone threatens to step down over Trump’s post-election maneuvers. Cheney further claimed that a December 19, 2020 tweet from Trump read “Great protest in DC on January 6. Be there, it will be wild! ” set in motion the commotion. That day, Trump addressed thousands of supporters near the White House before urging them to march on the Capitol to pressure Pence and Republican lawmakers to reject Joe Biden’s electorate. That morning, Donald Trump sent tweets encouraging his supporters to attend “wild” rallies, which escalated into riots. BRENDAN SMIALOVSKI / AFP via Getty Images “This tweet started a chain of events. “The tweet led to planning for what happened on January 6, including the Proud Boys, who eventually led the invasion of the Capitol and the violence that day,” he said. A video analysis by the Wall Street Journal found that members of the Proud Boys were involved in early clashes with police that led to the collapse of a security perimeter around the Capitol while Trump was still talking near the White House. Cheney promised that during the commission’s public hearings “you will hear about members of the Trump cabinet discussing the possibility of invoking the 25th amendment and replacement of the President of the United States” and accused the 45th President of doing nothing to help relief of besieged members of Congress. that day. Trump supporters are trying to break a police barricade at the Capitol in Washington. AP / Julio Cortez “President Trump not only refused to tell the mob to leave the Capitol, but he did not call on any elements of the United States government to order the defense of the Capitol,” Cheney said. “He did not call his defense minister on January 6. He did not speak to his attorney general. He did not speak to the Ministry of Internal Security. President Trump did not order the deployment of the National Guard that day and made no effort to work with the Department of Justice to coordinate and develop law enforcement. “But Vice President Pence did each of these things.” Following Cheney’s statement, Thompson released the video, some of which appeared in the trial of Trump’s removal to the Senate after the uprising. Other footage was taken by documentary filmmaker Nick Questt, who appeared as a witness at the hearing. The video involved members of Congress leaving the office of Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy as the mob approached, a rioter reading a Trump tweet underestimating Pence over a bullhorn as he raged on chaos and a police officer his colleague near the Western Capitol Front: “We can not hold this. These are too many people. Look this.”
