Former US President Donald Trump watched the violent congressional riot on television for two and a half hours and did not even try to intervene.
Despite various people’s described as desperate pleas, not the former President of the United States Donald Trump agreed to intervene in the congressional riot as an epiphany in 2021.
In the congressional hearings that continued at night Finnish time, it was reported that after the riot started, Trump’s aides, allies, members of Congress and Trump’s family members tried to appeal to him.
Despite pleas, Trump refused to order the crowd to stop storming and rioting in Congress.
It took 187 minutes from the start of the riot before Trump asked his supporters to leave Congress in a video message. In the same message, he praised those who participated in the riot. Earlier in the day, Trump had called on his supporters to march on Capitol Hill in his speech.
The hearing held at night focused on Trump’s actions during the riot.
Trump poured gasoline on the fire
According to the investigative committee, Trump, who lost the presidential election, “poured gasoline on the fire” instead of calming the situation.
After his speech, Trump watched the riot on television for more than two and a half hours and made no attempt to quell it. He did not make a single phone call to the security authorities.
Trump watched the riot on Fox News, his favorite channel at the time, from the White House dinner room. At the same time, Trump’s closest advisers and family members tried to get him to intervene in the riots.
– Trump decided not to act, said the Republican Adam Kinzinger in the hearing, according to news agency AP.
Kinzinger is one of the Republican members of the Democratic-led investigative committee.
Ivanka and Donald Jr. appealed to their father
Trump’s adviser at the time Pat Cipollone said in videotaped testimony that he tried to get Trump to condemn the riot.
– I said that you have to talk to people. They must be ordered to leave the Capitol grounds quickly, Cipollone said.
Apparently Trump’s children too Ivanka and Donald Jr appealed to their father.
The hearing about the congressional riot is the ninth in a row. The investigation will continue in August and the next hearings will be held in September.
The US Department of Justice will later decide whether to indict Trump for the congressional riot.
Trump supporters invaded Congress as the results of the presidential election were announced Joe Biden the profit was being confirmed on January 6, 2021.