Former Trump campaign director Parscale said Trump’s “rhetoric” killed a Capitol mutineer
Trump 2020 campaign director Brad Parscale addresses the crowd before U.S. President Donald Trump meets with his supporters in Manchester, New Hampshire, USA, on August 15, 2019 .
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Former Trump campaign director Brad Parscale wrote after the Jan. 6 riot that he felt “guilty” of helping Trump win the presidency and blamed him directly for a death that occurred during the attack on the Capitol.
“This is a Trump pressing for uncertainty in our country,” Parscale said in text messages to Katrina Pierson, a former Trump campaign official who is said to have been involved in organizing the previous rally. to the Trump riots.
Text by former campaign manager Brad Parscale during a research hearing on January 6, July 12, 2022.
“An incumbent president calls for a civil war,” Parscale wrote. “This week I feel guilty for helping him win.”
Pierson replied, “You did what you thought was right at the time and therefore it was right.”
Parscale replied, “Yes. But a woman is dead,” and added with apparent surprise, “Yes. If I were the triumph and you knew my rhetoric was killing someone.”
Text by former campaign manager Brad Parscale during a research hearing on January 6, July 12, 2022.
Courtesy: Select Committee of 6 January
Pierson told him, “It wasn’t rhetoric.”
But Parscale replied, “Katrina. Yes it was.”
– Kevin Breuninger
Organizers of the Jan. 6 rally knew in advance that Trump would convene a march toward the Capitol, according to evidence
Michael J. Lindell, the My Pillow Guy, speaks on stage during an event hosted by former U.S. President Donald Trump at the Delaware County Fairgrounds, Ohio, USA, on April 23, 2022.
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Pro-Trump figures implicated in the January 6 events seemed to know in advance that Trump would ask his supporters to march on the Capitol after a demonstration in front of the White House, according to evidence.
The committee showed a text by Kylie Kremer, who organized the Jan. 6 rally in DC, telling Jan MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell on Jan. 4 that Trump “will make us leave” for the Capitol and that “only is “. he will ask for it unexpectedly “.
The panel also showed an image of an undated draft of a tweet in which Trump would tell his supporters to “arrive early” at the Jan. 6 rally and “then march to the Capitol.” Tweet not sent.
Another screenshot showed a January 5 text from “Stop the Steal” organizer Ali Alexander, who wrote, “Tomorrow: Ellipse and then U.S. Capital. Trump is supposed to order us to the capitulate at the end of his speech, but we’ll see. “
– Kevin Breuninger
Cipollone: ”I don’t think any of these people were giving good advice to the president”
Pat Cipollone, a former White House attorney for President Donald Trump, walks down a hallway during a break from a meeting with the Select Committee to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol in the O’Neill House offices in Washington, July 8th. , 2022.
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Cipollone described his displeasure to learn that a group of election fraud conspiracy theorists was meeting with Trump in the Oval Office, with no White House staff present on December 18, 2020.
“I opened the doors and went in, I saw Gen. [Michael] Flynn, Sidney Powell sitting there, “Cipollone said in his videotaped testimony.” I wasn’t glad to see the people who were in the oval office. “
In addition to these two, Cipollone saw former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne at the meeting, whom he did not recognize. The session soon disintegrated into participants shouting and insulting each other as Cipollone and other staff members challenged Powell and the others to present evidence of election fraud, attendees said.
“I don’t think any of these people were giving good advice to the president, so I didn’t understand how they had come in,” Cipollone said.
– And manganese
“The west wing is disengaged,” Hutchinson wrote during the White House election
A test paper is shown on screen during a full committee hearing on the “January 6 investigation,” at Capitol Hill on July 12, 2022, in Washington, DC.
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A senior aide to then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows wrote that things had been baffled when Trump’s allies clashed with administration officials at a mid-December meeting on his 2020 election defeat.
Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani and Michael Flynn advocated for Trump to take drastic action to try to undo his loss to Biden.
They met strong resistance from Cipollone, White House lawyer Eric Herschmann and others at an hour-long meeting on December 18, 2020, which featured harsh discussions, shouting and insults, according to witnesses.
Hutchinson sent a text message to another White House aide, Tony Ornato, “the west wing is disengaged.”
– Kevin Breuninger
Trump considered appointing Sidney Powell as “special counsel” to investigate alleged election crimes
A video with Sidney Powell, President Trump’s campaign attorney, is played during the fifth hearing of the select committee of the House to investigate the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol in the Cannon office building House on June 23, 2022 in Washington, DC.
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Trump had an executive order drafted that would have ordered the Pentagon to confiscate voting machines and installed Trump’s attorney Sidney Powell as a special attorney to investigate election-related crimes.
“As you can see here, this proposed order orders the Secretary of Defense to stop voting on the machines, to cite, with effect immediately, but it goes beyond that,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-MD, who showed a copy of the proposed Order of December 16, 2020. “Under the order, President Trump would appoint a special attorney with the power to seize machines and then charge people with crimes with all necessary resources. to carry out its functions “.
Raskin said Powell “spent the post-election period making strange statements about Venezuelan and Chinese interference in the election.”
– John Rosevear
Eugene Scalia, son of the late Supreme Court Judge Antonin Scalia, told Donald Trump that the 2020 election was over
Eugene Scalia, U.S. Secretary of Labor, speaks during an information session of the White House coronavirus working group at the Department of Education in Washington, DC, USA, on Wednesday, July 8, 2020.
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Former Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia, who is also the son of late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, said he told Trump the election was over.
The committee said Tuesday that Scalia told committee investigators she called Trump in mid-December and tried to encourage him to acknowledge that Joe Biden was the duly elected president.
“I made a call to the president, we spoke on the 14th, in which I conveyed to him that I thought it was time to acknowledge that President Biden had prevailed in the election,” Scalia said.
Trump would continue to make false claims about the election robbery, including on January 6, 2021, in preparation for the riots of Trump supporters at the Capitol.
– Brian Schwartz
Cipollone: ‘I agree’ that there was no evidence of election fraud
Former White House attorney during a January 6 Committee interview.
Courtesy: January 6 Select Committee of the Congress
In the first video clip of his much-sought-after statement last week, Cipollone said he agreed that there was no evidence of widespread election fraud that could have nullified the results of the 2020 election. .
The clip shows Cipollone that an investigator asks if he agrees with the conclusion drawn by other former Trump officials, including former Attorney General William Barr, that “there is not enough evidence of election fraud to undermine the outcome in a state concrete “.
“Yes, I agree with that,” Cipollone replied.
In another clip, Cipollone said he thought Trump should grant the election.
He noted that Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Had said in the Senate chamber in mid-December that the electoral process was over. “That would be in line with my thinking about these things,” Cipollone told the committee.
– Kevin Breuninger
“President Trump is a 76-year-old man. He’s not an impressionable kid,” Cheney bursts out
U.S. Representative Liz Cheney speaks at the opening of a hearing on the “January 6 investigation,” at the Capitol on July 12, 2022 in Washington, DC.
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Cheney scoffed at what he said was a “new strategy” to blame Trump’s lawyers and others for pushing false claims of election fraud in the 2020 contest, rather than holding him responsible for that narrative.
“The strategy is to blame the people his advisers called‘ the crazy people ’for what Donald Trump did,” Cheney said. “This new strategy is to try to blame only John Eastman or Sidney Powell or Congressman Scott Perry or others and not President Trump.”
Cheney said it was “nonsense.”
“President Trump is a 76-year-old man. He is not an impressionable child,” he said.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a rally in support of Republican candidates Adam Laxalt and Joe Lombardo (not pictured) on July 8, 2022 in Las Vegas.
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“Like everyone else in this country, he is responsible for his own actions and his own choices,” Cheney said.
– And manganese
Cipollone’s testimony “met our expectations,” Cheney says
Deputy Liz Cheney (R-WY), vice chair of the select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, made a comment during the seventh hearing on the Jan. 6 investigation in the U.S. Capitol building. Cannon House on July 12, 2022 in Washington dc.
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Select Committee Vice President Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., Said the former White House attorney’s testimony last week “met our expectations.”
Cipollone, a wanted witness who testified under summons for hours on Friday, is expected to occupy a prominent place in sight.
Cipollone’s actions before and during January 6 …