By Michael Lopez-
The U.S House select committee has accused former American president, Donald Trump of being at the center of an “attempted coup” and “multistep conspiracy aimed at overturning the presidential election,” with the panel’s chairs emphasizing how Trump and his allies repeatedly tried to stop the peaceful transfer of power.
Never-before-seen footage including graphic testimony from a Capitol Police officer, who described the crowd as an “absolute war zone,” brought some in the hearing room to tears, as the committee laid out how it will explain in subsequent hearings a “sophisticated seven-part plan” by Trump to steal the election.
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Trump has long been accused of inciting an insurrection at Capitol Hill on January 6, 2020 in an attempt to overturn the certification of Joe Biden as the winner of the U.S 2020 elections and then next president of the United States.
Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., said the 11-month-long investigation with more than 1,000 interviews revealed that Trump was “well aware” of the violence at the Capitol and security risk to Vice President Mike Pence and lawmakers but chose to do nothing.
“Not only did President Trump refuse to tell the mob to leave the Capitol, he placed no call to any element to the United States government to instruct at the Capitol be defended,” she said. “The vice president — Pence — did each of those things.”
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Capitol Police officer Caroline Edwards, who suffered a traumatic brain injury after rioters knocked her to the ground, described in detail what she called a “an absolute war zone” as officers struggled to hold the line.
“I can just remember my — my breath catching in my throat, because I — what I saw was just — a war scene,” she said. “It was something like I had seen out of the movies.
Chairman Bennie Thompson concluded the hearing with a video featuring the interviews of rioters’ with the committee, with more than half-a-dozen Capitol rioters explaining in their own words why they marched on the Capitol last Jan. 6.
“Trump only asked me for two things,” said Robert Schornack, who was arrested last March and pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor last December. “He asked me for my vote, and he asked me for January 6th.”
“He asked us to come to come to D.C. and said things are going to happen,” said Daniel Herendeen,” who pleaded guilty last year to illegally entering the Capitol.
Trump has always insisted that dead people were registered as voters and hired lawyers to contest the results of the elections in several states at the time-but all failed at hearings held by judges he himself appointed during his time as president.
The belief the elections were rigged is a view that was shared by a number of Republicans , despite no evidence to support the claims, and this view was spread within some circles.
Trump infamously told his supporters at a rally before the insurrection that Mike Pence did not have the courage to do the right thing, and that the crowd needed to be strong or they would not have a country anymore.
Following the deadly riots that ensued, he initially refused to tell the crowd to stop, but eventually told them to go home, adding that ”we love you, you are very special”.
The entire scenes, including the then president’s role were unbelievable and truly resembled something out of a movie.
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