as trump s lawyers are arguing? or is that claim not just constitutionally wrong, but also say license for future presidents to commit crimes while in office, as the justice department argues? and on the eve of a hearing on the question of whether trump can be prosecuted for his actions while in office, we are learning incredible new details about what donald trump said on january 6 and what h did and did not do. thanks t testimony, to the special l closest aides, the deputy chief of staff dan scavino. from that reporting, quote, sources say scavino told smith s investigators as the violence began to escalate that day, trump was just not interested in doing more to stop it sources also say that the former trump aidk luna told federal investigators that when trump wa informed that then-vice president mike pence had to be ush rushed to a secure location, trump responded so what. luna saw an unexpected willingness by trump to let potential harm come to a long time loyalist. and
only the people involved, but the number of ways in which trump was asked to rein this back. i want to quote more from this abc news reporthi says after unsuccessfully trying for up to 20 minutes to per trump trump to release some sort of calming statement, scavino and others walked out of the dining room leaving trump alone, sources said. that s when according to sources trump posted a message on his twitter account saying that pence, quote, didt have the courage to do what shod have been done, end quote. trump s aides told investigators they were shocked by t post. aside from p, scavino was the o other person with access to trump s twitter account and he was often the one posting messages to . so when theessage about pence popped up, cipollone and other white house attorney racedo findscavino, demanding to know why he would post that in the midst of a precarious situation. some of trump s aides returned to the dinele room to explain to