the next election to try to make sure your side is a better chance next time the people sell their differences at the ballot box. . you cannot turn violent and you cannot try to achieve desires through harassment or intimidation. and a real leader who sees that going down that path, approaching that line has a responsibility to say stop. we gave it our boost. we came up short. we try again next time. because we settle our differences at the ballot box. on december 14th, 2020, the presidential election was officially over. electoral college had cast his vote, joe biden was the president elect of the united states. by that point, many of donald trump s supporters were already convinced that the election had been stolen. because that s where donald trump had been telling them. so with donald trump was acquired to do in that moment, but would have been required of any american leader was to say we did our best and we came up short. he went the opposite way. he seized on the anger
the committee will be in order. the chair recognizes the gentleman from maryland, mr. raskin. mister chairman, president trump s tweet drew tens of thousands of americans to washington to form the angry crowd that would be transformed on january the 6th into a violent mob. doctor dental hardin who was the chief of homeland security and intelligence for d.c. told the committee how his team saw trump s december 19th tweet unite violent groups across the spectrum on the far right. we ve got derogatory information from oh sent suggesting that very violent individuals were organizing to come to d.c. and not only were organizing but these groups, these non aligned groups were aligning and so, all the red flags went up at that point. you know, when you have armed militia, collaborating with