{"id":834,"date":"2024-02-09T12:07:53","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T12:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/09\/after-supreme-court-arguments-trump-offers-his-false-jan-6-history\/"},"modified":"2024-02-09T12:07:53","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T12:07:53","slug":"after-supreme-court-arguments-trump-offers-his-false-jan-6-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/09\/after-supreme-court-arguments-trump-offers-his-false-jan-6-history\/","title":{"rendered":"After Supreme Court arguments, Trump offers his false Jan. 6 history"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cBut if you take a look at my words right after, you take a look at my speech from the Rose Garden, which was very shortly after. \u2026 If you take a look at those five or six tweets, you will see very beautiful, very heartwarming statements. \u2018Go home, the police are doing their job, etc., etc.\u2019 Beautiful statement. If you see my statement made in the Rose Garden, I think you have to watch that today.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 Former president Donald Trump, in remarks at his Mar-a-Lago estate, Palm Beach, Fla., Feb. 8<\/p>\n

After saying he\u2019d listened to the Supreme Court oral arguments Thursday on whether Colorado and other states can bar him from appearing on the ballot in his bid to return to the White House, Trump reverted to one of his signature falsehoods. The ballot case centers on whether Trump is disqualified from office because he supported an insurrection. Trump, in his Mar-a-Lago remarks, referred to what his detractors \u201ckept saying about what I said right after the insurrection \u2026 if it was an insurrection.\u201d He claimed that what he really did was offer \u201cvery beautiful, very heartwarming statements\u201d during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. He also suggested people should view the video he posted late in the day \u2014 or as he put it, \u201cvery shortly after.\u201d<\/p>\n

That would be hard. The video was removed from YouTube and other social media shortly after being posted, on the grounds that it violated the terms of service by spreading false information about the 2020 election.<\/p>\n

In reality, as documented in the House select committee report on the Jan. 6 attack and other reporting, Trump was reluctant to take action to calm the situation, even as his staff pleaded with him to tell the rioters to leave the Capitol. Trump\u2019s tweets were so inadequate, in the view of staff members, that many resolved to resign. Even his children Ivanka and Donald Jr. found the tweets to be inappropriate. Nearly three hours passed before Trump finally told the rioters to \u201cgo home.\u201d<\/p>\n

As a reminder, here\u2019s how the day unfolded. The tweets were removed by Twitter, now known as X, but preserved by the American Presidency Project at the University of California at Santa Barbara, with timestamps to the second.<\/p>\n

1:10 p.m.: Trump concludes his remarks to the crowd gathered for the \u201cSave America March\u201d on the National Mall.<\/p>\n

1:25 p.m.: Trump is informed by a White House staff member that the Capitol is under attack.<\/p>\n

1:49 p.m.: Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund informs the D.C. National Guard \u201cthat there was a dire emergency on Capitol Hill and requested the immediate assistance\u201d of as many National Guard troops as possible. The Metropolitan Police Department officially declares a riot.<\/p>\n

1:49:54: Trump tweets a link to a recording of his speech at the Ellipse, but without any other comment.<\/p>\n

2:13 p.m.: Rioters break into the Capitol and swarm the building.<\/p>\n

2:24:22: Trump issues his first written tweet since the attack.<\/p>\n

\u201cMike Pence didn\u2019t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the committee\u2019s report: \u201cEvidence shows that the 2:24 p.m. tweet immediately precipitated further violence at the Capitol. Immediately after this tweet, the crowds both inside and outside of the Capitol building violently surged forward. Outside the building, within 10 minutes thousands of rioters overran the line on the west side of the Capitol that was being held by the Metropolitan Police Force\u2019s Civil Disturbance Unit, the first time in history of the DC Metro Police that such a security line had ever been broken.\u201d<\/p>\n

Deputy national security adviser Matthew Pottinger told the committee that the tweet convinced him to resign that day. \u201cI read it and was quite disturbed by it,\u201d he told the committee. \u201cI was disturbed and worried to see that the President was attacking Vice President Pence for doing his constitutional duty. So the tweet looked to me like the opposite of what we really needed at that moment, which was a de-escalation. \u2026. It looked like fuel being poured on the fire.\u201d<\/p>\n

White House counsel Pat Cipollone told the committee: \u201cMy reaction to it is that\u2019s a terrible tweet, and I disagreed with the sentiment. And I thought it was wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

The committee report says that Trump\u2019s daughter Ivanka rushed to the Oval Office dining room, where Trump was watching coverage of the riot on Fox News. \u201cAlthough no one could convince President Trump to call for the violent rioters to leave the Capitol, Ivanka persuaded President Trump that a tweet could be issued to discourage violence against the police,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n

2:38:58: Trump issues a second tweet.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlease support our Capitol Police and Law Enforcement. They are truly on the side of our Country. Stay peaceful!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Since the committee\u2019s report was issued, ABC News has reported that special counsel Jack Smith, who is prosecuting Trump for his efforts to overturn the election, has developed evidence that Trump did not write this tweet. Instead it was written by his deputy chief of staff, Dan Scavino, ABC said. (Scavino had refused to be interviewed by the committee, but he spoke to Smith\u2019s team after a judge overruled claims of executive privilege.) Scavino was the only other person who had access to Trump\u2019s Twitter account, and he said he was blindsided by the tweet attacking Pence. Scavino printed out proposed messages to post on Twitter, which Trump refused to approve until Ivanka\u2019s intervention.<\/p>\n

The committee\u2019s report said that Trump had even resisted using the word \u201cpeaceful.\u201d It quotes Sarah Matthews, who was the deputy White House press secretary, about a conversation she had with Ivanka after Matthews expressed concern the tweet did not go far enough. \u201cIn a hushed tone [she] shared with me that the President did not want to include any sort of mention of peace in that tweet and that it took some convincing on their part, those who were in the room,\u201d Matthews told the committee.<\/p>\n

In any case, the tweet did not condemn the violence or tell rioters to leave the Capitol.<\/p>\n

Around 3 p.m.: White House senior staff worked to produce a message on a notecard for Trump to send: \u201cANYONE WHO ENTERED THE CAPITOL ILLEGALLY WITHOUT PROPER AUTHORITY SHOULD LEAVE IMMEDIATELY.\u201d (Illegally is crossed out.) Trump declined to make the statement, the committee\u2019s report says.<\/p>\n

3:13:26: Trump issues a third tweet.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am asking for everyone at the U.S. Capitol to remain peaceful. No violence! Remember, WE are the Party of Law & Order \u2014 respect the Law and our great men and women in Blue. Thank you!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

This tweet also did not tell people to go home \u2014 and even suggested they could remain in the Capitol, as long as they were peaceful. The report says there is evidence that Trump knew by this time that someone had been shot during the melee.<\/p>\n

The committee\u2019s report says that Trump repeatedly resisted telling people to go home. \u201cAlmost everyone, including staff in the White House, also found the President\u2019s 2:38 p.m. and 3:13 p.m. tweets to be insufficient because they did not instruct the rioters to leave the Capitol.\u201d It quotes texts to Trump\u2019s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, from outsiders, such as Trump\u2019s son Donald Jr. and Fox News host Sean Hannity, urging a stronger response. \u201cI saw the tweet. Ask people to peacefully leave the capital [sic],\u201d Hannity wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvidence showed that neither of these tweets had any appreciable impact on the violent rioters,\u201d the report says.<\/p>\n

4:17:24: Trump posts a video that contains many falsehoods about the election, but he finally encourages people to leave the Capitol. The committee\u2019s report says Trump refused to stick to the script written by his staff, so the video included statements such as:<\/p>\n

\u201cI know your pain. I know you\u2019re hurt. We had an election that was stolen from us. It was a landslide election, and everyone knows it, especially the other side, but you have to go home now. We have to have peace. We have to have law and order. We have to respect our great people in law and order.\u201d<\/span>
\n\u201cThis was a fraudulent election, but we can\u2019t play into the hands of these people. We have to have peace. So go home. We love you. You\u2019re very special. You\u2019ve seen what happens. You see the way others are treated that are so bad and so evil. I know how you feel. But go home and go home at peace.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The video has its intended effect \u2014 the riot ends \u2014 but it came nearly three hours after Trump learned of the attack. The committee\u2019s report suggests Trump issued the video only once it was clear the riot would fail to end the certification of Joe Biden\u2019s election victory.<\/p>\n

\u201cDown at the Capitol, the video began streaming onto rioters\u2019 phones, and by all accounts including video footage taken by other rioters, they listened to President Trump\u2019s command,\u201d the report said. \u201c \u2018Donald Trump has asked everybody to go home,\u2019 one rioter shouted as he \u201cdeliver[ed] the President\u2019s message.\u2019 \u2018That\u2019s our order,\u2019 another rioter responded. Others watching the video responded: \u2018He says, go home.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n

6:01:04: Trump ends the day with a final tweet that seemed to justify the violence.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long. Go home with love & in peace. Remember this day forever!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

White House aides were aghast.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt that point I had already made the decision to resign and this tweet just further cemented my decision,\u201d Matthews said. \u201cI thought that January 6, 2021, was one of the darkest days in our Nation\u2019s history and President Trump was treating it as a celebratory occasion with that tweet.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought it was inappropriate,\u201d said Greg Jacob, counsel to vice president Mike Pence. \u201cTo my mind, it was a day that should live in infamy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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