As the committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection weighs how much responsibility President Donald Trump holds for that violence, members have said that finding out what Trump did or didn’t do that day is one of their top priorities.
Based on what’s been publicly reported, there are substantial chunks of Trump’s day that we don’t know about — especially what he did during the 187 minutes of the attack before he released a video telling protesters, “Go home. I love you, you’re special.” We know Trump was working the phones all day, but official White House call logs go dark around the time protesters storm the Capitol and start back up again after it’s secured by the military.
Several new details emerged Tuesday afternoon when Cassidy Hutchinson, a former top White House aide, testified before the committee and shared what she saw and heard that day. She testified that Trump knew the protesters who gathered in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021, had weapons — and he encouraged them to go to the U.S. Capitol anyway. Her testimony raised even more questions about what Trump knew about the attack.
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University of Rochester Medical Center and a former pathologist resolved a retaliation suit alleging URMC violated the False Claims Act by firing her for calling attention to federal grant fraud. ...