Thread by @juliaioffe

When this is over, don't forget that neither Jared nor Ivanka stopped Trump.

Amazing, chilling reporting from @AshleyRParker @PhilipRucker @jdawsey1

washingtonpost.com/politics/trump…

“He was hard to reach, and you know why? Because it was live TV,” said one close Trump adviser. “If it’s TiVo, he just hits pause and takes the calls. If it’s live TV, he watches it, and he was just watching it all unfold.”

"The man who vowed to be a president of law and order failed to enforce the law or restore order. The man who has always seen himself as the protector of uniformed police sat idly by as Capitol Police officers were outnumbered, outmaneuvered, trampled on—and in one case, killed."

And after calling on regular citizens to fight, @EricTrump and @DonaldJTrumpJr, these men of the people, got on shuttles to go home to their multi-million-dollar homes.

WOW: "The lawmakers reiterated that they had been loyal Trump supporters and were even willing to vote against the electoral college results — but were now scared for their lives, officials said."

My god. "McCarthy did eventually reach Trump, but later told allies that he found the president distracted. So McCarthy repeatedly appeared on television to describe the mayhem, an adviser said, in an effort to explain just how dire the situation was."