![]() Instead it was Pence who made the calls.Ĭhairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley testified that then– White House chief of staff Mark Meadows told Milley on January 6, “We have to kill the narrative that the vice president is making all the decisions. governmental forces to secure the Capitol during the riot, including the Department of Justice or the National Guard. The hearing featured a clip of recorded testimony from ex-Trump senior adviser Jason Miller saying that the campaign’s lead data aide told Trump “in pretty blunt terms that he was going to lose.”Īdditionally, the committee played video testimony of Trump’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, saying she “accepted” it when then–attorney general Bill Barr dismissed her father’s stolen-election claims.Ĭheney said Trump did not make any calls to any U.S. The committee also introduced testimony that suggested several people in Trump’s inner circle disagreed with the former president’s claims that the election had been stolen. She went on to claim that Representative Scott Perry (R., Pa.) and “multiple other Republican congressmen” sought presidential pardons “for their roles in attempting to overturn the 2020 election.” “On the morning of January 6th, President Donald Trump’s intention was to remain president of the United States, despite the lawful outcome of the 2020 election and in violation of his constitutional obligation to relinquish power,” Cheney said. ![]() Mike Pence deserves it,” she said.Ĭheney’s opening remarks laid out during the prime-time hearing what the committee plans to unveil in its upcoming hearings, including what she said was a “sophisticated seven-part plan” that Trump had to overturn the presidential election - though she did not immediately disclose what steps were included in that plan. “Aware of the rioters’ chants to ‘hang Mike Pence,’ the president responded with this sentiment, ‘Maybe our supporters have the right idea. “This is what he told his staff as they pleaded with him to call off the mob, to instruct his supporters to leave,” Cheney said Thursday evening during the first hearing of the House select committee investigating the Capitol riot.Ĭheney went on to say that the committee’s hearings will feature testimony from staffers that Trump “did not really want to put anything out calling off the riot or asking his supporters to leave” and that he was yelling and “really angry at advisers who told him he needed to do something more.” Capitol on January 6, 2021, were “doing what they should be doing.” ![]() Representative Liz Cheney (R., Wyo.) said Thursday that, according to testimony from former White House staffers, Trump said the supporters who stormed the U.S.
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