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Rolling Stone reports:
President Trump ignored a Jan. 6 call from Pentagon officials seeking a coordinated response to the Capitol attack, according to national security officials’ testimony released Thursday. Trump instead was calling Republican senators to ask them to delay certification of the 2020 election, according to testimony given to Congress’ Jan. 6 committee and released at Thursday’s hearing.
In testimony to the committee, a former White House employee described a conversation between Eric Hershman and Pat Cipollone regarding a pending call from the Pentagon seeking to “coordinate on the response to the attack.” Mr. Herschman allegedly turned to Cipollone and said “the president didn’t want anything done.” Cipollone ended up taking the call himself.
Rep. Elaine Luria says when Trump was in the dining room for more than 2.5 hours, Trump wasn’t calling law enforcement or military leaders, instead, he was calling senators to encourage them to delay or object to the certification.
It’s unclear which senators Trump called.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 22, 2022
Kayleigh doesn’t remember which Senators Trump called. pic.twitter.com/GvI6GwUqwX
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) July 22, 2022
So what was Trump doing? He was calling senators asking them to delay the certification. He called them one by one. McEnany testifies she doesn’t know who he called but he asked for a list of senators and she left that list with him. pic.twitter.com/S4sCmJdPZk
— Brandi Buchman (@Brandi_Buchman) July 22, 2022
On 1/6 Trump did not stop the violence. He called his lawyer Rudy Giuliani & he sought to contact a list of senators, but he didn’t walk “probably less than 60 seconds” to the press briefing room to make a statement & end the violence. #January6thHearing https://t.co/hmg8SCXDL0
— Don Lemon (@donlemon) July 22, 2022
If Trump wasn’t calling law enforcement or military leaders, what did the President spend his time doing when he first settled into the dining room?
He was calling Senators to encourage them to delay or object to the certification.
Here’s Kayleigh McEnany, his Press Secretary: pic.twitter.com/7CD4kaJfS0
— January 6th Committee (@January6thCmte) July 22, 2022