Senate Hearing On The Capitol Riot Exonerated Trump
The Senate held its first hearing on Tuesday that looked into the January Capitol riot. The biggest takeaway from the testimony was a miscommunication among Capitol Hill police that left an intelligence report suggesting violence was being planned against the seat of government ignored. But we learned something else as well. We learned it is absurd to claim, as Democrats and some Republicans have, that Donald Trump incited the riot.
The key testimony came from former House Sergeant at Arms Paul Irving, who described in some detail what the authorities expected from the rally and march on Jan. 6. “The intelligence was not that there would be a coordinated assault on the Capitol, nor was that contemplated in any of the inter-agency discussions that I attended in the days before the attack,” Irving said.
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House impeachment lead Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-MD) on Saturday pushed for the Senate to call for witnesses. He said it was important to hear from Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA).
Raskin pointed to breaking news that occurred late Friday night. Attention was called to Herrera Beutler s conversation with McCarthy, where the minority leader allegedly recounted a conversation he had with President Trump. According to Herrera Beutler, McCarthy allegedly told Trump to call off the riots at the Capitol. The president allegedly said it wasn t his supporters who caused the chaos and violence at the Capitol.
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I wrote earlier about how all the Senate Democrats voted to have witnesses at the impeachment trial, joined by five Republicans.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) then both said they would call House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca) to grill her about what she knew and when she knew it.
That of course didn’t thrill Democrats. But then after realizing that they were digging themselves a hole from which they might not be able to get out, they flipped back again, making a deal to just accept a statement but not having any witnesses.
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