The committee declined to identify the official and masked the official’s voice. Testimony from a White House security official, who had access to what Secret Service agents in the Capitol protecting Vice President Mike Pence were saying to each other over their radios, showed how agents feared for their lives as protesters drew near. Doug Mills/The New York Times Members of Pence’s Secret Service Detail Feared for Their Lives The committee masked the official’s voice. 6 committee that Secret Service agents protecting Mike Pence grew fearful as rioters drew near. “You’re the commander in chief - you’ve got an assault going on the Capitol of the United States of America and there’s nothing? No call? Nothing? Zero?” General Milley said in audio of his deposition.Īn anonymous White House official testified to the Jan. Trump’s response in his interview with the committee. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Trump was watching from his dining room, showed how the Capitol Police were under siege, massively outmanned and struggling to repel the crowd. Trump never reached out to the heads of any law enforcement or national security department or agency in the government to seek help in responding to quell the violence. Through a range of witness testimonies, the committee demonstrated that Mr. Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times Trump Never Made a Single Call to Law Enforcement or the Pentagon Trump never reached out to law enforcement or national security officials to seek help in quelling the mob attack on the Capitol. 6 committee that former President Donald J. Cipollone and said ‘the president didn’t want to do anything,’” the witness testified. Cipollone, about the call from the Pentagon seeking to coordinate a response. One witness, testifying anonymously, described an exchange between Eric Herschmann, a lawyer working in the White House, and the White House counsel, Pat A. “He told Mark Meadows that the rioters were doing what they should be doing and the rioters understood they were doing what President Trump wanted them to do,” Mr. Representative Adam Kinzinger, the Illinois Republican who helped lead the hearing, said that the president, after learning of the Capitol breach, resisted putting out a tweet saying “Stay peaceful.” Text messages and audio obtained by the committee showed that protesters massing at the Capitol were paying close attention to Mr. Trump not only ignored them but repeatedly signaled that he did not want anything done. But witnesses told the committee that Mr. Trump to call off the violence as it unfolded in front of him on television. Members of Congress, aides and his own daughter, Ivanka, made pleas to Mr.
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Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times Trump Ignored a Torrent of Pleas to Call Off His Supporters Illinois Representative Adam Kinzinger said President Trump refused to put out a tweet saying “Stay Peaceful” after learning about the Capitol breach.
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