- Retired Lieutenant General Russell Honore told MSNBC that the Trump White House “participated in planning” the riots in the Capitol.
- Honoré also hinted that Trump’s White House was behind the postponement of the federal response that day.
- After the attack, he reviewed the security of the U.S. Capitol.
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The retired Lieutenant General Russel Honoré was commissioned by the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi proceed checking Regarding the security of the U.S. Capitol after January 6, it was stated on Tuesday that former U.S. President Donald Trump’s White House was an “accomplice” in planning the rebellion.
Honoré said in an appearance on MSNBC: “I personally think that the executive branch participated in the plan and the delayed response that brought more federal aid to the Capitol that day.” He emphasized that this conclusion did not lead to him. Take the lead in a security review.
“This is my own opinion. Based on what I have seen and heard, in fact the former president continues to tell people,’This is not a riot, no harm, it’s like a picnic,'” Honoré added. “The last time I heard from him, he told people to go to the Capitol and turn hell into hell.”
Shortly before the deadly violence in the Capitol, when Trump made an inflammatory speech near the White House, Lie to his supporters with lies about the 2020 election And call them “Fight like hell.”
Trump was impeached for instigating a rebellion, but with the help of his Republican allies, he was acquitted in the Senate-including Republican members who said he was responsible for the deadly riot.
retreat. Lieutenant General Russel Honoré conducted a security review after the January 6 uprising. He said that he believed that the Trump White House “participated in the plan” and assumed ultimate responsibility. pic.twitter.com/3gmmITdTj8
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Regarding why law enforcement agencies did not prepare for that day, given the advance warning and What caused the federal response to be slow. Three days before the uprising, a congressional police intelligence assessment warned of possible violence among Trump supporters on January 6. “Congress itself is the goal” On the 6th, the threat assessment stated that it was based on a 104-page report by the Congressional Police Attorney General.
Federal investigators are continuing to investigate the uprising, and the House of Representatives has begun investigating the origin of the riot and the security issues surrounding it.
In the weeks leading up to the Capitol attack, Trump made unprecedented efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. As Trump spread baseless allegations of large-scale voter fraud, the President and his allies have posed dozens of legal challenges to the results. They all failed.
Trump has repeatedly urged his supporters to participate in the “Stop Theft” rally in Washington, DC on January 6, when members of Congress gathered to prove the victory of the electoral college of US President Joe Biden. “The massive protest in Washington on January 6,” Trump tweeted December 19th. “There, it will be wild!”
In his speech, Trump urged his supporters to march to the Capitol. “You will never take back our country in a weak way. You must show strength, you must become strong,” Trump said at the time. “We fight desperately. If you don’t fight desperately, you will no longer own a country.”
What happened next was one of the most shocking events in U.S. history and the most significant or largest damage to the U.S. Capitol. Since the war of 1812.
As the deadly violence continued, Trump actually sat and watched.It took him a few hours to call on the supporters to disperse and release a video in which he repeated the lies about the election that caused the riots and called the rebels “Very special.”
During the testimony of the House Special Committee investigating the January 6 uprising, the four policemen who suffered brutal violence that day Condemn Trump and his Republican defenders. One of the officers referred to the rebels as “terrorists,” while another officer condemned the attack on the Capitol as an “attempted coup.”
