According to House Manager David Cicilline [RI-01; Foreign Affairs; Judiciary] many Rep’s and Senators phoned the W.H. begging for help during hours of the ongoing attack asking for POTUS to issue a call to Stop the Attack. WH Call Logs should have those phone calls logged ; those records should be subpoenaed to be heard and inspected by Senators before they vote on impeachment conviction.
Cicilline just said that Kushner, the Daughter, and others went into personal visits with POTUS to ask the same. Sen. Ben Sasse [NE; Judiciary; Intelligence; Budget; Finance] quoted WH officials (unnamed) who claimed heated exchanges with POTUS were happening. Cicilline claimed a phone-contact screaming match between POTUS and Rep. Kevin McCarthy [CA-23; Republican Leader] that should be logged into the WH records, too. Senate or House Managers should Subpoena Rep. McCarthy to answer questions about this and any other phone-contacts, e-mails, texts and the like between him and POTUS during the afternoon and early evening of 6 Jan 2021. Make Sen. Sasse testify, too.
House Manager Joaquin Castro [TX -20; Foreign Affairs; Education and Labor] spoke at length about contacts between POTUS and others as reported in The Washington Post on 7 Jan 2021, “After inciting mob attack, Trump retreats in rage. Then, grudgingly, he admits his loss.”
D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser should also be called as a witness to reveal her requests to POTUS; subpoena the National Guard commander(s) who were involved in contacts with POTUS, as well. Otherwise, Senators should hear testimony by Vice President Pence who worked directly with acting defense secretary Christopher C. Miller and the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, Gen. Mark A. Milley, as well as with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Leader Charles E. Schumer and Senate Leader Mitch McConnell, concerning the unrest at the Capitol and military deployments that were discussed by any of them if POTUS refused to engage with any of them as they all should be subpoenaed.
“Cloistered in the White House, Trump raged uncontrollably about perceived acts of betrayal. He tuned out advisers who pleaded with him to act responsibly. He was uninterested in trying to repair what he had wrought.
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As a mob of Trump supporters breached police barricades and seized the Capitol, Trump was disengaged in discussions with Pentagon leaders about deploying the National Guard to aid the overwhelmed U.S. Capitol Police, according to two people familiar with the talks.
Vice President Pence worked directly with acting defense secretary Christopher C. Miller and the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, Gen. Mark A. Milley, as well as with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), concerning the unrest at the Capitol and military deployments, the people said.
As for Trump, one of the people said, “he was completely, totally out of it.” This person added, “He made no attempt to reach out to them.”
Instead of exercising his commander-in-chief duties to help protect the Capitol from an attempted insurrection, Trump watched the attack play out on television. Though not necessarily enjoying himself, he was “bemused” by the spectacle ...
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“He was a total monster today,” this (administration) official added, describing the president’s handling of Wednesday’s coup attempt as less defensible than his equivocal response to the deadly white-supremacist rally in 2017 in Charlottesville.
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We learned something new today:
- initially the event was to be confined to the area around the White House, but the former president personally intervened in the permit process to ensure that rally goers would be allowed to approach the Capitol.
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Video below ↓ day 2 Evidence shown by Rep. David Cicilline ─► fwd. to 7:58:33
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impeachment trial day 2 Evidence shown by Rep. Joaquin Castro ─► fwd. to 8:21:57