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By 2:24, Trump had been in his dining room for an hour. Decent people would have told the rioters to go home. His advisors begged him to. But he didn't.

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Two tweets: "Stay peaceful" and "remain peaceful" even though he knew they were committing violent.

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Don Jr. and Meadows texts. At 2:53, DJ said "he's got to condem this shit." DJ and Hannity both told Meadows that Trump needed to stop the violence. So did members of Congress, White House officials, Laura Ingraham and Kilmeade of FNC, Mark Mulvaney, friends, and so on.

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Cipollone said he knew the tweets were not enough. Wanted a public statement. Pat Philbin, Eric Herschmann, Meadows, Ivanka, Jared, General Kellogg, Dan Scavino, all said he needed to do something more.

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Cipollone said NO ONE of White House staff wanted the riot to continue. Suggests Trump DID want it to continue.

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2:38 tweet in context: Representatives are hiding in the chamber and are hunkering down with gas masks. Dangerous situation.

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After 2:24 tweet Matthews told McEnany that Trump MUST tell Trump to call them off. She went to the dining room. Then told Matthews that a tweet had gone out, but McEnany said Trump did not want to talk about peace. Finally Ivanka Trump suggested "stay peaceful."

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Ali Alexander told someone that was deliberate. Jessica Watkins communications about the tweet say "there's no safe place in the United States for these m*therfuckers." They recognize he didn't tell them to stand down, but to stay away from the Capitol Police. Go after Congress.

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They say Trump is not leaving office.

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Pottinger says Trump's tweet was "insufficient." Wanted to hear him tell them to go home.

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Matthews says there was a convo in the press office. A colleague said Trump shouldn't condemn the violence because it would be "handing a win to the media" if he turned against his supporters. She disagreed.

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Mad that they were talking about politics in the middle of the violence.

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Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) told Trump to call off his supporters. When Trump refused, McCarthy turned to Ivanka Trump.

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Trump's secretary transferred McCarthy's call to Trump.

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McCarthy told Trump to "call these people off." Trump said they're antifa. McCarthy said no, they're your people. Trump said: "Well, Kevin, I guess they're more concerned about the election than you are." Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA) told the story.

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Kushner says McCarthy was scared and begging for help. Trump turned him down. So he called Trump's kids Rep. Mike Gallagher also called.

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Biden called on Trump to call an end to the siege, too. Trump still refuse.

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Finally, Trump yielded. At 4:17, more than 3 hours after the Ellipse when he had sent an armed mob to the Capitol. Sent video saying they mob was special and he loved them.

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But by then, law enforcement was on the way to put the mob down. It wasn't going to work. So THEN Trump told them to go home.

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Staff had prepared a script. He refused to use it. Rejected calls to leave the Capitol. Instead, spoke off the cuff.

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Nicholas Luna says he doesn't know why Trump didn't use a script.

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Outtakes of the video: "We had an election that was stolen from us. It was a landslide election and everyone knows it." He is 100% doubling down on the Big Lie.

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The fighting at the Capitol continued. Officers attacked. Terribly disturbing video.

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Meanwhile, congressional leaders continue to try to put the country's government back on track. Clip of McConnell and Schumer talking to acting Secretary of Defense Miller to clear the building and resume the proceedings.

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Pence also worked the phones to get the country up and running again.

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Jt. Chief Milley says Pence issuing orders to acting Secretary of Defense Miller.

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Trump didn't call Milley but Meadows did. Meadows told Milley that "we have to kill the narrative that the vice president is making all the decisions." Need to establish the story that Trump is in charge. Milley: "I don't do political narratives."

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Matthews mad that Trump pushed Big Lie in the video. Glad he told them to go home, but not happy that he said he loved them. They had tried to overturn our democracy. Refused to defend that.

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She resigned that evening.

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Press office reaction: Judd Deere said video was the "bare minimum." McEnany said he should have told them to go home earlier. "Of course."

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Rioters reacted to the 4:17 message immediately. Dispersed the crowd. "That's a order," one said.

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At 6:01, Trump tweeted to justify the violence that had wounded more than 100 police officers. Called the mob "great patriots." Showed NO remorse.

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Then he talked to a White House employee. Didn't mention the attack. Just said "Mike Pence let me down."

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Matthews: "January 6, 2021 was one of the darkest days in our history."

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President's assistant Nicholas Luna said he thought the tweet would lead people to think he "had something to do with the events at the Capitol."

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Various Trump officials calling the attack unpatriotic, terrible, unAmerican.

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Effort to delay the counting continued. Giuliani called a number of senators and congressmen to get them to delay the count.

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Some members did. But the joint session did its job.

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Clips of Republicans condemning Trump. McConnell clip is first. (He had just voted to acquit Trump.) McCarthy also condemning Trump. Chip Roy (R-TX), too.

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Trump posted on Dan Scavino's twitter account that there would be an orderly transfer of power, but it wasn't from Trump, but from Jason Miller.

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Trump talked to McEntee, head of personnel (a Trump loyalist). No one knew if they should resign or stay to try to hold the country stable. Worried about who would replace them.

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(I still can't believe these people all enabled him for so freaking long.)

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Meadows told people Trump was in a "really dark place."

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Eugene Scalia told him to stop talking about stolen elections, and to work with Cabinet rather than the Giuliani team.

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This feels like a fitting time to remember that five police officers who had served at the Capitol on Jan. 6, died

nytimes.com/2022/01/05/us/poli

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Steve Vladeck

This isn't anywhere near the most important point, but it's *fascinating* to me that neither Acting Secretary Miller nor Chairman Milley seemed to have raised any hackles about taking instructions from Vice President Pence — who's not *anywhere* in the chain of command...

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Pottinger said presidential transitions are always times of national vulnerability. But January 6 hurt national security by giving our enemies a narrative that the US is in decline and our system doesn't work.

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Allies, too, were concerned about the health of our democracy.

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Matthews thought Americans needed to hear Trump commit to an orderly transition of power. Her resignation statement told him this, hoping to put public pressure on him.

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Staff had speech prepared for January 7, but he wouldn't do it. Finally he agreed out of fear he'd be removed from office either by the 25th amendment or impeachment.

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Raw footage of January 7 speech: Still refuses to say the election is over. Ivanka is coaching him. (Damn he's like a naughty child, determined not to admit he did something bad.)

Still refused to say the election was over.

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Pottinger: This isn't the first time we've had a close election. OK to challenge in court, but once he lost, he had to conform to the law. Still fight? You are challenging the Constitution and the country.

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Uncomfortable with Pottinger calling this election close. It wasn't. 7 million popular majority; 306 to 232 Electoral College.

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House resolution asked Pence and the Cabinet to remove Trump under the 25th. McCarthy said what Trump did is indefensible.

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McCarthy says Trump told him he DID bear some responsibility for the attack.

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Luria calls out police to thank them for their support.

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Trump campaign officials were unhappy that he didn't speak about death of Brian Sicknick: "shitty not to have acknowledged the death." Say he doesn't want to fault the mob, because it is ultimately his fault for egging them on.

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Kinzinger: Trump refused to call off the attack. He alone could get through to his supporters, but he refused to honor his oath. Only once the tide turned that he engaged "in the political theater" of telling the mob to go home.

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"Donald Trump's conduct... was a supreme violation of his oath of office." Will recommend changes to laws and policies to guard against this happening again, and must because Trumpism hasn't gone away.

Kinzinger: "Laws mean nothing without public servants dedicated to the rule of law." People MUST demand character and truth from our lawmakers or lose our great experiment.

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mpb 🇦🇺 in 🇺🇸  

@Jezibaba that's a very good point.

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MisterE  

@Jezibaba Why would he fear Impeachment? Already twice-impeached and the stooges in the Senate wouldn't convict.

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The Unabeefer  

@Jezibaba I'm surprised the Onion didn't have an article on the anniversary about how he finally, a year later, urged his supporters to go home... Or something along those lines.

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Mel🥄MeMe LaS'Mores  

@Jezibaba
Pottinger experienced resignation, not deification

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Dustin hates fascism  

@Jezibaba Nowhere close.

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Mel🥄MeMe LaS'Mores  

@Jezibaba
And can you blame them?

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Eyeatola  

@Jezibaba Look like Mr pottinger needs a nap.

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Mel🥄MeMe LaS'Mores  

@Jezibaba
I itch to have him in a much darker place...

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🥃 Liberal Librarian 📚  

@Jezibaba These are villains, but their testimony is even more devastating because of it.

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@Jezibaba

:facepalm:

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