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Washington (AP) — it wouldn’t have been seen before in the United States — the defeated president, Donald Trump, stood in the Capitol. January 6, 2021 With a swarm of armed supporters who disagree with the election results.
Trump intended to go there that day. His allies were planning For now, I imagine the president going into the House of Representatives as he makes a speech outside the building and Congress opposes proving Democratic Joe Biden’s 2020 election results.
“He will look strong,” said Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani. Young White House aide 4 days ago.
But White House lawyers thought it was a “terrible” idea.Attorney Pat Cipollone warned that Trump could be prosecuted “All possible crimes” If he joins the Capitol Hill mob in an attempt to thwart authentication.
After all, Trump never arrived at the Capitol on January 6th. His guards refused to take him as a mob.
Furious and stuck in the White House, Trump saw a riot on television.
The January 6 hearing gave supporters a dramatic new insight into Trump’s intentions when he told supporters to join a march down Pennsylvania Avenue to “fight like hell” for the presidency. It offers.This account is primarily derived from testimony Former White House Assistant Cassidy Hutchinson.. Her memories of the president and his inner circle suggest that Trump’s request was not the barbaric desire of the impulsive commander-in-chief, but part of his last plan to stop Biden’s victory. doing.
Trump and his allies quickly challenged Hutchinson’s explanation, and the former president interviewed himself a few days later, despising her with sneaky commentary and nicknames.
Next week, the Commission will focus on the actions of Trump himself and the actions of the radical Oath Keepers and Proud Boys, who allegedly led the attack on the Capitol.
See what is known about Trump’s plans to join the mob on January 6th:
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January. 2
It was Saturday night. Giuliani met with Trump’s Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows, and others at the White House.
The White House and Meadows made about 18 calls that day. Blood RafenceGeorgia Secretary of State, before Trump finally gets an election civil servant over the phone.
Trump was disagreeing with the outcome of the election in Georgia, but he lost it slightly.He was asking for a rafence purger “Find 11,780 votes” Just enough to get out of balance from Biden’s victory. The employee who turned from an engineer to a civil servant declined.
That night, when Giuliani left the White House, he went out with Hutchinson, a senior adviser to Meadows’ young aide.
“Cass, are you excited about the sixth time?” Giuliani asked, as Hutchinson recalled in his previous testimony to the Commission on January 6. “It will be a great day.”
Mr Hutchinson was listening to discussions on January 6 and a planned rally outside the White House as Congress was set up to prove the outcome of the election. She also heard references to two radical groups, Oath Keepers and Proud Boys, when Giuliani was there.
She saw Giuliani and asked him to explain.
“We go to the Capitol,” Giuliani told her. “It will be great. The president will go there. He will look strong.”
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January. 3
On Sunday, Siporone personally expressed concern to Hutchinson about planning a trip to the President’s Capitol.
Siporone told her that there were “serious legal concerns” if Trump went ahead while Congress was proving the election. He urged her to convey her concerns to her boss, Meadows.
According to Hutchinson’s testimony, “we need to prevent this from happening,” Siporone said. “This is a terrible idea for us. We have serious legal concerns when we go to the Capitol that day.”
That Sunday was a busy day at the White House.
Trump’s Justice Department leaders threatened to resign if the president replaced Jeffrey Rosen, acting lawyer president, with Jeffrey Clark, a lower civilian head, in pursuit of an election challenge. Was there.
And that same day, US Capitol Police issued a special event rating, noting that Proud Boys and other groups are planning to be in Washington on January 6.
Police said, “Unlike previous post-election protests, Protrump supporters’ targets are not necessarily opposition protesters … rather. Congress itself is the target On the 6th. “
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January. Five
According to Hutchinson, on Tuesday, the eve of January 6, Trump asked Meadows to contact two of his fellow presidents, Roger Stone and Michael Flynn.
According to the committee, Stone attended a Trump rally in Washington and was photographed with several members of the Orskipers allegedly responsible for his security details. Both Stone and Flynn exercised the rights of the Fifth Amendment rather than testifying in front of the Commission.
On the morning of January 6th, a large “Stop the Steal” rally was planned near the White House. Meadows talked to both Stone and Flynn that night, Hutchinson said. Stone challenged her account.
Meadows also tried to join Giuliani and others who set up a “war room” at the Willard Hotel near the White House, she testified.
“I told Mr. Meadows that he didn’t think it was a wise idea to go to the Willard Hotel that night,” she said.
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January. 6: Rally
On the morning of the rally on Wednesday, January 6, Siporone once again begged Hutchinson to prevent Trump from heading to the Capitol.
“Please,” he said, “please don’t let us go up to the Capitol, Cassidy,” she remembered. “If we make that move, we will be prosecuted for all possible crimes.”
Hutchinson’s desk in the White House was just below the Oval Office on one corner and the office of his boss, Meadows, on the other corner. But that day, she and the president investigated a crowd of supporters outside the White House behind the scenes.
Trump was furious.
The crowd wasn’t as full as Trump wanted. Supporters stayed outside the security screening and did not want their weapons to be confiscated by the secret service to participate in the main rally area.
Trump ordered his guards to remove a metal detector known as a magnetometer, claiming that armed supporters were not a threat to him.
The police radio made a crackling sound with the information. A man with trees with a rifle or a man with a pistol on his waist. Three men with an AR-15 walking on 14th Avenue and Independence Avenue.
Trump challenged Hutchinson’s account. “I didn’t want a gun,” he said in an interview with Newsmax, which aired two days after the hearing.
But Hutchinson told the committee what she had heard.
“They aren’t here to hurt me,” Trump told his staff, Hutchinson recalled. Remove …. effingmags. Then they can march to the Capitol. “
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January. 6: Speech
The president took the stage at a “stop stealing” rally complaining about the election results and the need to stop Biden from becoming president.
“We walk, and I’m there with you.” Trump said To thousands of supporters of the lawn oval.
“We’re going to walk to the Capitol. You’ll never regain our country with weaknesses. You have to show strength,” Trump said. ..
Many have already begun to peel off towards the Capitol, and Trump advised the crowd to go.
“I know everyone here will soon march towards the Capitol and hear your voice peacefully and patrioticly,” he said. “Walk on Pennsylvania Avenue.”
The White House security log, revealed by the Commission on January 6, shows the scramble that Trump was in the process of going to the Capitol as well.
“Mil Aide has confirmed that he wants to walk,” said one entry in the National Security Council chat.
“They are asking him to rethink,” another person reads.
The next entry was a discussion of the “current route” of Trump’s convoy to 15th, F, 6th, Pennsylvania Avenue, and Capitol.
Read another entry, “So this is happening.”
Hutchinson was still in the tent behind the rally stage when he received a call from California Republican leader Kevin McCarthy.
McCarthy hurried, frustrated, and sounded angry, she said. “I said I wouldn’t be here this week. Why do you lie to me?” He asked Hutchinson, a former House aide.
“I’m not lying. I wasn’t lying to you,” she replied. And McCarthy said, “Well, he said it on stage, Cassidy. Understand it. Don’t come here.”
The mob was breaking through the security fence around the Capitol.
“Parliament police have reported multiple violations,” the security log reads. “The Parliament Building is currently looking for everyone who can handle it.”
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January. 6: Behind the wheel
Hutchinson recalled that Trump boarded a presidential SUV that decided to be taken to the Capitol.
Secret Services, like Trump, is challenging her account. However, Hutchinson testified under her oath that Trump was infuriated by Anthony Ornart, Deputy Chief of Staff for the White House.
“The president said something to the effect,’I’m an effective president. Take me to the Capitol now,'” she recalled.
When driver Bobby Engel replied, “Sir, I have to go back to the West Wing,” she said, Trump grabbed the steering wheel and plunged into the driver’s “clavicle.”
Trump did not reach the Capitol. His convoy returned to the White House.
In an interview with Newsmax, Trump dismissed the idea of trying to “command” the car to go to the Capitol as “totally wrong.” He marveled at the “incredible size” of the crowd — he said he was one of the biggest attracts ever. But he didn’t dispute that day he wanted to go to the Capitol.
“I wanted to go very badly,” he said in an April interview with The Washington Post.
At a hearing, security logs revealed how close Trump was to creating that invisible image — standing with a mob while an armed riot was besieging the Capitol. The defeated president.
“He seems to be back home for now,” the security log said.
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