This advisor sounds like a good first-hand witness for the prosecution:
“The president himself was busy enjoying the spectacle. Trump watched with interest, buoyed to see that his supporters were fighting so hard on his behalf, one close adviser said.”
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“The president himself was busy enjoying the spectacle. Trump watched with interest, buoyed to see that his supporters were fighting so hard on his behalf, one close adviser said.”
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2. “The Twitter missive was insufficient, and the president had not wanted to include the final instruction to ‘stay peaceful.’”
3. “A small group of aides ... was imploring Trump to speak out against the violence. Meadows’s staff had prompted him to go see the president, with one aide telling the chief of staff before he entered the Oval Office, ‘They are going to kill people.’”
4. “McCarthy pleaded with [Kushner] to persuade Trump to issue a statement for his supporters to leave the Capitol, saying he’d had no luck during his own conversation with Trump.”
5/5 And, finally, that scripted conciliatory speech Trump gave:
“The president said he wished he hadn’t done it, a senior White House official said, because he feared that the calming words made him look weak.”
“The president said he wished he hadn’t done it, a senior White House official said, because he feared that the calming words made him look weak.”
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