: 8th hearing on Jan 6 riots wraps up blaming Trump of inaction #IndiaNEWS #National,IANS Special Series By Ashok NilakantanNew York, July 22 (IANS) The July 21 Thursday prime time virtually proved

8th hearing on Jan 6 riots wraps up blaming Trump of inaction #IndiaNEWS #National ,IANS Special Series
By Ashok NilakantanNew York, July 22 (IANS) The July 21 Thursday prime time virtually proved to be D-Day for former US president Donald Trump after the Congressional committee investigating the January 6 Capitol Hill insurrection provided new damning footage on the mob attack by Oath Keepers and Proud Boys on the citadel of democracy and key witnesses Sara Mathews (press aide) and Mathew Pottinger, deputy National Security Advisor, explained why they quit White House due to the indefensible action of Trump not to quell the riotous mob.
The House panel showed never before seen footage of how White House officials rushed to respond to an attack on the US government, as the Commander in Chief Trump chose for hours to do nothing.
The House committee investigating the January 6 riots, documented President Donald J. Trumps inaction to call off the mob during the 187 minutes after rioters descended on the Capitol, before he issued a public response, New York Times reported of the 8th hearings conclusion of evidence gathered against the former president by the congressional committee probing the Capitol Hill Insurrection on January 6, 2021.
The select committee virtually provided a panoramic account of how, even as the lives of law enforcement officers, members of Congress and his own vice president Mike Pence were threatened, Trump did nothing and could not be moved to act until after it was clear that the riot had failed to disrupt Congresss session to confirm his election defeat to democrat Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential elections.
Even then, the committee showed in never-before-seen footage from the White House, Trump privately refused to concede I dont want to say the elections over! he angrily told aides as he recorded a video message that had been scripted for him the day after the attack or to condemn the assault on the Capitol as a crime.
Drama unfolded in the 8th hearing as a stellar line up of witnesses assembled before the congressional committee making it hard for the prime-time viewers to dismiss the hearings as part of a partisan witch hunt. With top Trump aides, veterans and military leaders, loyal Republicans and even members of Trumps own family, Ivanka Trump, daughter the committee established that the president willfully rejected their efforts to persuade him to mobilize a response to the deadliest attack on the Capitol in two centuries.
Youre the commander in chief. Youve got an assault going on on the Capitol of the United States of America, and theres nothing? Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the nations highest-ranking military officer, told the panel. No call? Nothing? Zero?
Milleys statement virtually climaxed a year-long hearing against Trump and seemed like it was a closing argument of sorts in the case the panel has built against Trump, one whose central assertion in which the former president was accused of dereliction of duty to keep the oath of a president for failing to do all that he could or anything at all, for 187 minutes to call off the assault carried out in his name.

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