On January 6, the chairman of the committee, Bennie Thompson, stated that former President Donald Trump needed six attempts to record a video message, urging his supporters to return home during the riots in the U.S. Capitol. .
Thompson said Trump’s video is one of the records that Federal Court Judge Tanya Chutkan ruled that the committee investigating the uprising can access. Como prime time.
The Democratic congressman from Mississippi stated that a video of Trump’s words on the day of the rebellion was crucial for his committee to draw conclusions about what happened.
“President, the video took him six times to tell people to go home,” Thompson said CNN anchor Chris Cummer Tuesday.
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Thompson said: “If you need six times in a riot to… ask people to go home, there is a problem,” Thompson said. “I want to see what the other five videos say.”
When Cuomo asked “What’s the problem with the other five?” Thompson replied, “Well, we want to see what he said.”
“His own people said to him,’This is not good enough. You didn’t tell these people to go home.'”
Hours after the Capitol was breached, the then president called on his supporters to leave the building and stop the violence. He said: “You must go home now. We must have peace. We must have law and order.”
A book published earlier this year also raised the argument that Trump must try multiple times to get the correct video information. Washington post Reporters Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker.
According to this book, when recording the video, Trump has been “deviating from the script prepared by the writer of his speech.” I can solve it alone: Donald J. Trump’s disastrous last year.
“The released version is the most palatable choice,” the book says, even though it claims that only three lenses are required.
Thompson told CNN on Tuesday, “We want the public to know what the President of the United States said to American citizens during the rebellion.”
Because they are part of the archive record, Thompson said “we can access these videos now,” he said.
Chukan Said on Tuesday That trump card Administrative privileges cannot be invoked to prevent him from communicating about the incident that caused the riot.
The National Archives said it will begin transferring records to a House committee, but may appeal. These files include notes, records of White House calls, video records, and timetables.
Thompson said: “According to the court’s ruling, we will have access to a lot of things that have been said and written.”
When contacted for comment, the Trump representative mentioned Weekly newspaper A tweet by Taylor Budowich, the former president’s communications director.
The tweet said: “From the very beginning, the struggle to defend the president’s past, present and future executive privileges was destined to be decided by the Court of Appeals.”
It added that Trump “remains committed to defending the Constitution and the Office of the President, and will witness this process.”
