President Donald Trump said on Jan. 6, 2021, during the riot by his supporters at the U.S. Capitol, that Vice President Mike Pence “deserves” to be hanged for not tossing out electoral votes for Joe Biden, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) stated at Thursday night’s congressional hearing.
At the first prime-time House select committee hearing on the insurrection, the nine-member panel that has investigated the Capitol riot for the last year squarely blamed Trump for the violence that unfolded more than 17 months ago. The attack led to the deaths of five people and injuries to 140 law enforcement officers.
The committee noted that Trump was told he had lost the 2020 presidential election multiple times but lied to the American people that his defeat was due to fraud.
In her opening statement, committee Vice Chair Cheney, who voted to impeach Trump and was ousted from her position as the No. 3 House Republican, promised the world that it would hear testimony from “more than half a dozen former White House staff in the Trump administration, all of whom were in the West Wing of the White House on January 6.”
“You will hear testimony that ‘the president did not really want to put anything out’ calling off the riot or asking his supporters to leave,” Cheney said. “You will hear the President Trump was yelling and ‘really angry’ at advisers who told him he needed to be doing something more.”
Then, Cheney said that the president indicated his support for the pro-Trump mob on Jan. 6, 2021,...
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