On 6 January 2021, The White House was a Caddyshack. Former Trump caddy, Dan Scavino’s more recent Special Counsel testimony has been forthcoming about Trump’s culpability. When told of the threat to Pence, Trump responded “So what?” Had Pence been harmed, the hoped-for Insurrection Act would keep Trump in power.
Aides allegedly said Trump was "not interested" in doing more to stop the riot.
The report states that senior adviser Dan Scavino, who refused to talk to the House select committee investigating the riot at the Capitol, has been more forthcoming with Smith's probe and detailed Trump's reactions as he watched the violence unfold on TV.
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New details also come from the Smith team's interviews with other White House advisers and top lawyers who -- despite being deposed in the congressional probe -- previously declined to answer questions about Trump's own statements and demeanor on Jan. 6, 2021, according to publicly released transcripts of their interviews in that probe.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson describes the first shot (1775) fired by the Patriots at the Lexington North Bridge in his "Concord Hymn" as the "shot heard round the world".[11]
References to the year 1776 and the American Revolution have grown substantially among the far-right as Trump supporters and conspiracy theorists have hinted at the possibility of a revolution in the wake of Trump’s election loss, which they view, falsely, as illegitimate. Trump allies and surrogates, including first-term Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), referred to Jan. 6 as Republicans’ “1776 moment.”
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The Whig Party was a conservative political party that existed in the United States during the mid-19th century. Alongside the slightly larger Democratic Party, it was one of the two major parties in the United States between the late 1830s and the early 1850s as part of the Second Party System. Four presidents were affiliated with the Whig Party for at least part of their terms.
Oath Keepers Jason Dolan and Graydon Young, who both pleaded guilty last year to charges of conspiracy and obstruction of an official proceeding, testified that they believed the militia had an implicit agreement that they were going to act to prevent the transfer of presidential power if Trump didn’t invoke the Insurrection Act. On Jan. 6, with dozens of Oath Keepers in D.C. and an armed quick reaction force stationed at a hotel in Northern Virginia, Assistant U.S. Attorney Kathryn Rakoczy said all Stewart Rhodes needed to do to put that into motion was to send the right signal – which he did, she said, in the form of a series of messages to his followers.
In one, Rhodes wrote, “All I see Trump doing is complaining. I see no attempt by him to do anything. So the patriots are taking it in their own hands. They’ve had enough.”
“When you told the people on this chat that all the president was doing was complaining, that’s all the call you needed to give, isn’t that correct?” Rakoczy asked.
When Rhodes denied he’d intended that as a call to action, Rakoczy followed up.
“You said next comes our Lexington, isn’t that correct?” she asked.