Two weeks after the short-term hearing of Cassidy Hutchinson, then senior adviser to Chief of Staff Mark Meadows ( we reported ), the Committee to Investigate the Events of January 6, '21 met again in front of the Capitol, this time to focus on the role of extremist extremists Groups to concentrate in planning the siege.
Among other things, it emerged that Trump deliberately provoked the storm on the Capitol and that the White House maintained direct contact with right-wing extremist organizations.

The start

The deputy chairwoman of the committee, Liz Cheney, emphasized at the beginning that the committee's findings so far appear to be having an effect: Trump's defenders have apparently now recognized that the committee is presenting solid facts.

So far, the Trump team's argument has shifted to the claim that the ex-president was simply poorly advised by advisors like lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell in the run-up to January 6th and " couldn't distinguish right from wrong. " , but it was now becoming increasingly clear that Trump himself knew exactly what he was doing.

President Trump is a 76-year-old man. He's not an impressionable child ," Cheney said, emphasizing that " no sane person " would go ahead with the Jan. 6 plans despite having been repeatedly made clear that there was no evidence of voter fraud.

Concern on Twitter

Twitter headquarters has been watching the events since December with growing alarm. An anonymized Twitter employee testified that Trump's December 19 tweet calling for a rally in Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2021, elicited threatening responses that felt " as if a mob was being organized ."

The employee was shocked by the reaction the tweet provoked, which Trump seemed to like: " Be there, it's going to be wild !" he wrote in a reply. Things got even wilder, at least on Twitter, because shortly afterwards the right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones also called on Trump supporters to show up on January 6th.

Back on September 29, when Trump said during his debate with Joe Biden that the far-right Proud Boys should “ stand back and stand by ,” there was consideration of suspending his Twitter account because it was the first time he “ spoke directly to extremist organizations. ” . But the joy that Twitter was Trump's " favorite and most used service " prevailed.

But of course it went far beyond Twitter: Jody Williams, operator of a right-wing extremist website, said in a video statement that “ all other plans were pushed aside ,” and in his and other right-wing extremist and racist forums everything revolved around planned violence against the police , who guarded the Capitol.

Right-wing extremist organizations in direct contact with the White House

Testifying at the hearing was Jason Van Machenhove, former spokesman for the Oath Keepers, a far-right, anti-state militia in the United States. Van Machenhove warned that the danger was not yet over.

Accordingly, the founder of Oath Keepers, Stewart Rhodes, saw this as an opportunity to create a paramilitary organization. The attack on the Capitol could have been the spark that sparked a civil war - with the Oath Keepers on Trump's side.

Evidence was also presented that members of the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys were in contact with Roger Stone, an informal adviser to Trump, and Michael Flynn, who briefly served as national security adviser.

Trump employee feels guilty

Further evidence includes published messages from employees at the time. On the evening of January 6, Brad Parscale, who was Trump's campaign manager in 2020 and an adviser in 2016, sent texts to Katrina Pierson, who was involved in planning the rally at the Ellipse.

  • Brad Parscale:This is about Trump driving insecurity in our country. A sitting president calling for civil war. This week I feel guilty for helping him win .”
  • Katrina Pierson:You did what you thought was right at the time, and therefore it was right .”
  • Brad Parscale:Yes, but a woman is dead .”
  • Katrina Pierson:They knew something like this would happen .”
  • Brad Parscale:Yes, if I were Trump and knew my rhetoric was going to kill someone .”
  • Katrina Pierson:It wasn’t the rhetoric .”
  • Brad Parscale: Katrina . Yes, that was it.

Trump wanted to provoke a lynching

Trump's speech on January 6th originally contained no references to Vice President Mike Pence, whom he pressured to refuse to count the electoral votes - but this changed very spontaneously.

Pence told Trump that he would not block the vote count because he had no authority to do so, whereupon Trump practically bombarded him with insults and demanded that references to Pence be reinserted into the speech. Only a reference was added. But Trump mentioned him a total of six times.

And this apparently was very calculated, because Trump was not squeamish about Pence in his speech, until the supporters in front of the Capitol finally shouted “Hang Pence!” – which Trump deliberately provoked and, according to statements from the last hearing, even approved of.

Treacherous draft tweet: The march on the Capitol was planned

The previous finding was that Trump's call for his supporters to march on the Capitol was a spontaneous action, but a draft tweet obtained from the National Archives shows otherwise.

In the tweet, which was tagged with the words "President saw," Trump called on his supporters to come to his speech at the Ellipse and then march to the Capitol, followed by the final words, " Stop the steal!!! “. Trump originally wanted to go to the Capitol himself, but the Secret Service prevented this.

Now solid grounds for impeachment against Trump?

John Dean, a key witness in the Watergate investigation, said former President Donald Trump and others will likely face legal consequences from the evidence presented at the committee hearing.

Dean argued in an interview with CNN that the testimony of the former Oath Keeper spokesman and another involved proves the extent to which the rioters believed they were sent by Trump, which could be used by prosecutors when bringing charges against the former Raise presidents.

One witness, Stephen Ayres, told the committee that he believed he was following Trump's wishes by attacking the Capitol and said he left after Trump urged them to do so in a tweet.

It is almost irrelevant that last week Trump tried to call a witness who had not yet testified before the committee, but the witness did not answer the calls.

Article image: Pixabay
Sources: Business Insider , Deadline


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