Rolling Stone reports:
While a violent mob attacked the Capitol, equipped with a gallows for his vice president, President Donald Trump endorsed the crowd’s chants of “Hang Mike Pence” when speaking to his advisors, according to the committee.
“Maybe our supporters have the right idea,” Trump said, according to committee Vice Chair Rep. Liz Cheney. “Mike Pence deserves it.”
Cheney also said, “President Trump believed his supporters at the Capitol … and I quote… ‘were doing what they should be doing.’ This is what he told his staff as they pleaded with him to call off the mob, to instruct his supporters to leave.”
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Vice chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., read an account that said when Trump was told the Capitol mob was chanting for Vice President Mike Pence to be hanged, Trump responded that maybe they were right, that he “deserves it.” https://t.co/rbNR5h1HZu
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 10, 2022
BREAKING: Trump’s Shocking Comments That Pence ‘Deserves’ to Be Hanged on Jan. 6 Revealed at Hearinghttps://t.co/krmU619MuJ
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) June 10, 2022
Trump didn’t want the riot to stop:
“The committee revealed testimony from White House officials who said Trump did not want the attack to stop, resisted his own advisers who urged him to call off the rioters, & thought Pence “deserved” to be hanged.”https://t.co/178nT5jXjv
— Michael J. Stern (@MichaelJStern1) June 10, 2022