Former President Trump's legal exposure may be growing – and four other takeaways from the Jan. 6 hearing via DomenicoNPR:
An image of former President Donald Trump talking to his Chief of Staff Mark Meadows is displayed as Cassidy Hutchinson, a former top aide to Meadows, testifies about events around the Capitol insurrection to the House Jan. 6 select committee.
"He doesn't want to do anything, Pat," Meadows said, per Hutchinson, in a conversation with White House lawyer Pat Cippolone, who was urging Meadows to push Trump to tamp down the violence. Hutchinson painted a picture of a volatile man who was far from what Americans have long expected of how their presidents should comport themselves. Here's some of what she recounted:
Hutchinson said there were"several times" throughout her tenure with Meadows, when Trump threw dishes and flipped the tablecloth in the dining room so contents of the table broke or went everywhere.It's a difficult threshold to reach, but the committee is deliberately and intentionally laying out the building blocks for intent and premeditation. At Tuesday's hearing, it showed:
Flynn has been linked to the QAnon conspiracy and pleaded the Fifth, the right not to incriminate yourself, on multiple occasions before the Jan. 6 committee, including when asked simply if he believed in the peaceful transfer of power in the United States. -- Trump resisted calls to tamp down the violence, and Hutchinson quotes Meadows saying Trump thought Vice President Mike Pence deserved to be hanged.At another point, Hutchinson said she overheard Meadows telling Cipollone, who was urgently telling Meadows about the violence and that they even are chanting to hang Pence,"You heard him, Pat. He thinks he deserves it. He doesn't think they're doing anything wrong.
She noted that Cippolone said it would look like Trump was inciting a riot and there could be charges related to obstruction of Congress and conspiracy to defraud the United States because of blocking the counting of electoral votes.
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