Former President Donald Trump raged on his social media website Reality Social after Thursday’s listening to by the Home choose committee investigating final yr’s Capitol riot, saying at one level that “the USA goes to hell.”
Whereas the committee highlighted the forty fifth president’s inaction for greater than three hours as his supporters laid siege to Congress on Jan. 6, 2021, Trump accused the panel of spreading “lies.”
“The Unselects are embarrassed by their ‘efficiency’ tonight!” the previous president wrote shortly after the primetime listening to was adjourned.
All through his posts, Trump repeated his frequent declare that Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) had turned down his provide to ship 10,000 Nationwide Guard troops to Washington forward of the riot, and requested why the “unselect committee” — his moniker for the panel — hadn’t addressed the difficulty.
Aside from Trump’s phrase, there is no such thing as a proof that such a suggestion of or request for troops was made by the White Home.
“The Unselect Committee refuses to do that as a result of it ends their faux case,” Trump wrote. “Will there be any point out or examine by the Unselects of how the Election was Rigged and Stolen? There's sooo a lot proof, however the Unselects don’t need it seen in any means, form, or type – and for good motive – it will wreck their newest Rip-off!”
“It’s Nancy Pelosi’s fault, she turned down the troops! Maybe she was disengaged – perhaps in search of her husband!” he mentioned in one other put up.
At one level, Trump tried to disparage former White Home deputy press secretary Sarah Matthews, one in every of Thursday night time’s two in-person witnesses.
“However wasn’t this the identical Sarah Matthews, who I don’t know, that mentioned such good issues about me on January twentieth – or lengthy after January sixth?” he wrote, referring to a tweet by Matthews on Trump’s final day in workplace, through which she mentioned: “Thanks President Trump and Vice President Pence on your service to the American folks. It was the best honor and privilege of my life to serve this nice nation.”
Throughout the listening to, nonetheless, Matthews mentioned she resolved to resign her put up on Jan. 6 after Trump tweeted that then-Vice President Mike Pence “didn't have the braveness” to cease the certification of Joe Biden’s election win — which the previous White Home spokesman mentioned was “pouring gasoline on the fireplace and making it [the riot] a lot worse.”
Trump additionally tried to minimize video proof produced by the committee that confirmed Senate Minority Chief Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) working with Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and the Pentagon to clear the constructing, in addition to Home Minority Chief Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) saying Trump admitted he bore duty for what occurred throughout the riot.
“Is that this the identical Mitch McConnell who was shedding massive in Kentucky, and got here to the White Home to BEG me for an Endorsement and assist? With out me he would have misplaced in a landslide,” Trump wrote. “A disloyal sleaze bag!”
He continued: “1. However Crooked Hillary Clinton, Stacey Abrams, and lots of others, contested their Elections – and for a far longer time than I. 2. How do they know I watched on T.V.? 3. I by no means mentioned that to Kevin McCarthy, who got here to Mar-a-Lago to say ‘hello’ very early on (the Unselects don’t say this),” he wrote in one other assault. “So many lies and misrepresentations by the corrupt and extremely partisan Unselect Committee!”
Trump then rounded on committee vice chair Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), whom he referred to as “a sanctimonious loser.”
“The Nice State of Wyoming is sensible to her,” he mentioned. “Why not present the tapes, or interview, people who, with proof, problem the election?”
All through this summer season’s sequence of hearings, Trump has repeatedly blasted the proceedings and witnesses, most notably former White Home aide Cassidy Hutchinson.
Throughout her testimony, Hutchinson alleged that the previous president threw meals at a wall within the White Home after then-Legal professional Common Invoice Barr mentioned in December 2020 that the Division of Justice had discovered no proof of large voter fraud. She additionally claimed that Trump tried to overpower his Secret Service element and drive himself to the Capitol to hitch his supporters on Jan. 6.
“Why haven’t the Unselects requested for Secret Service corroboration of the so-called ‘choke maintain?’ As a result of they know the reply, and don’t prefer it,” he mentioned. “A Kangaroo Court docket!”
Thursday’s listening to additionally featured outtakes of a speech Trump gave the day after the riot, through which he refused to say the 2020 presidential election was over.
“This election is now over,” Trump says within the video. “Congress has licensed the outcomes.”
He then broke off to inform his aides: “I don’t wish to say the election is over. I simply wish to say Congress licensed the outcomes with out saying the election is over, OK?”
In response to the listening to, Trump continued to insist that the 2020 presidential election was rigged towards him, saying, “I had an election Rigged and Stolen from me, and our Nation. The USA goes to Hell. Am I alleged to be blissful?”
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