Just hours before the riots, then-President Donald Trump gave a speech to his supporters, where he encouraged the huge crowd to march down Pennsylvania Avenue, home to the iconic United States Legislative Assembly – Congress.
Only several hours after the mob entered Congress did he ask supporters to return home.
Now – almost a year after the violent riots – however, the committee investigating what actually happened on that fateful day reveals that daughter Ivanka Trump has begged the father to intervene.
The committee believes it has clear evidence that the White House was “asked to do something” to stop the violent scenes that unfolded in the capital. That confirms the Democrat who is leading the investigation, Bennie Thompson, opposite CNN.
Among those who have asked the president to act faster is his own daughter, Ivanka Trump.
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– We know his daughter. We have first-hand information that Ivanka went to him at least twice and said: “Please, put an end to this violence,” Liz Cheney, deputy chair of the committee, told ABC News.
– This has gone too far and is out of control. He must condemn this shit right away, he wrote in an SMS to his father’s chief of staff Mark Meadows as protesters entered the convention building.
Meadows is considered a possible key witness to clarify what the White House knew about the storming of Congress. He has refused to testify in the case, but the investigative committee has still been given access to the messages that were sent to Meadows during the storm.
The reports – which were published in mid-December – show that both politicians and others tried to get the chief of staff to pressure Trump to condemn the attack.
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– Hi Mark, The President must tell people in Congress that they must go home… This hurts us all… He is destroying his legacy, wrote Fox presenter Laura Ingraham.
Ingraham’s colleague Brian Kilmeade also feared for the Trump legacy.
– Please get him on TV. This destroys everything you have achieved, he wrote.
– I’m pushing to make it happen. I agree, Meadows should have answered.
57 senators voted for Trump’s guilt. Among them were seven Republicans and all of the Democrats’ 50 senators. 43 senators voted for acquittal, all of whom are Republicans.