Trump angrily threw his lunch when he learned then-AG Barr said publicly that the Justice Dept. found no evidence of election fraud, Hutchinson says, adding, 'there were several times throughout my tenure...that I was aware of [Trump] throwing dishes.'
Trump did not necessarily disapprove of the rioters chanting “hang Mike Pence”
during the attack on the Capitol. Hutchinson confirmed that in her testimony today. Cipollone told Meadows that the president needed to act. “You heard him — he doesn’t want to do anything, Pat,” Meadows told Cipollone, but the still two went to speak to Trump in the Oval Office dining room, Hutchinson said.During that meeting, Hutchinson brought Meadows his phone with Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, on the line. In the background she could hear the conversation referring to the crowds’ chants.
That tweet would be read out loud by the rioters, spurring them on further, as we saw in footage during an earlier committee hearing.2h ago / 6:33 PM UTCby pleading with then-White House counsel Pat Cipollone to appear before the committee, noting “[o]ur evidence shows that Mr. Cipollone and his office tried to do what was right.
Between last week’s testimony and today’s, we know Cipollone opposed three critical elements of Trump’s efforts to overturn the election: Trump’s plan to install Jeff Clark as attorney general, Trump’s walk to the Capitol, and the Capitol attack itself. Why — having thrown himself in front of Trump’s wayward bus repeatedly —
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