Jan. 6 committee shares new evidence of Trump's refusal to condemn actions of the mob he assembled
New testimony from Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, Eric Herschmann, and others reveal they had to practically beg former President Donald Trump to give a speech on Jan. 7 denouncing the insurrection on Jan. 6.
According to Cassidy Hutchinson, talk of invoking the 25th Amendment was the real reason Trump eventually spoke. His staff was concerned that if he didn’t condemn the riot on the Capitol, the U.S. Senate could replace him with Vice President Pence, as Trump would be deemed unfit to lead. “You need this as cover,” Hutchinson said in her testimony about conversations about Trump on the evening of Jan. 6.
The newly released testimony also shows Trump’s edited draft of his speech. As Jonathan Karl, of ABC News tweeted, “He deleted any mention of DOJ prosecuting the rioters. And he crossed out this message to those who committed the violence: ‘I want to be very clear, you do not represent me. You do not represent our movement.’”
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