Jan. 6 Committee Lays out How Trump Let Capitol Riot Rage for Three Hours While He Watched Fox News
The testimony on Thursday evening centered around what’s come to be known as the “187 Minutes” — the duration of time that passed between the start of the melee and the tweeted video in which Trump eventually ordered his supporters to stand down. Witnesses who were in the White House during the 187 Minutes described how, during that period, Trump sat in the dining room of the White House watching Fox News, refusing to do anything that might have bring the mob to disperse.
The committee displayed photographs taken of the president as he arrived back at the White House, where Luria said within 15 minute of leaving the rally, he was aware an attack was underway. From there, he then spent approximately two and half hours in the White House dining room, making no attempt to quell the violence he and his closest advisors had instigated at the Ellipse.
Luria said phone records showed the Guiliani call lasted approximately four minutes, and that Fox News was playing on the television in the room as it ended. Video of Fox News’ broadcast played by the committee showed images of the MAGA crowd surrounding the Capitol building. A reporter is heard saying, “The president, as we all saw, fired this crowd up,” while claiming tens of thousands — “maybe a hundred thousand or more” — had surrounded the Capitol.
News reports indicate that the agents had been advised on multiple occasions to back up any messages ahead of the migration — a practice which is standard throughout the federal government — and that the purge also occurred after Congress had requested access to communications overlapping with events leading up to Jan. 6. The Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General had similarly requested access to the messages, but was told none existed relevant to its inquiry.
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