Video Outtakes Show Trump Refusing To Condemn Riot

The Washington Post reports:

One day after the last rioter had left the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, President Donald Trump’s advisers urged him to give an address to the nation to condemn the violence, demand accountability for those who had stormed the halls of Congress and declare the 2020 election to be decided.

He struggled to do it. Over the course of an hour of trying to tape the message, Trump resisted holding the rioters to account, trying to call them patriots, and refused to say the election was over, according to individuals familiar with the work of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack.

The public could get its first glimpse of outtakes from that recording Thursday night, when the committee plans to offer a bold conclusion in its eighth hearing: Not only did Trump do nothing despite repeated entreaties by senior aides to help end the violence, but he sat back and enjoyed watching it.

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SCOOP with @jdawsey1 & @pkcapitol: Jan 6 committee plans to show outtakes tmw from Trump’s remarks the day after the Capitol attack, when he resisted calling for accountability for the rioters and or saying the 2020 election was over: https://t.co/4EAmSIp8iZ

— Amy Gardner (@AmyEGardner) July 20, 2022