he met with after the mass shooting and the victims of another preventable tragedy, this time in his hometown. watch. uvalde, texas, is where i was born. it s where my mom taught kindergarten less than a mile from robb elementary. uvalde is where i learned to master a disy bb gun. took two years before i graduated to a 410 shotgun. uvalde is where i was taught to revere the power and the capability of the tool that we call a gun. uvalde is where i learned responsible gun ownership. wore green high top converse with a heart she had drawn on the right toe because they represented her love of nature, camilla s got these shoes. can you show these shoes, please? wore these every day, green converse with a heart on the right toe. these are the same green converse on her feet that turned out to be the only clear evidence that could identify her after the shooting. how about that? you know what every one of these parents wanted what they asked for, what every parent separately expr
official who spoke up on the side of the rule of law and the truth. the challenge i wouldn t call it a challenge, but the sort of fly in the ointment for the trump side here is that all the witnesses will be deep, deep trump insiders and all the testimony will be on tape and in texts. it s in their own words how they tried to politicize an election and overthrow the u.s. government. (. right, i think trump will just continue to lie about it in all his, you know, fund-raising requests that he sends out and any interviews that he gives, but this puts every republican candidate, nicolle on defense. you know, you can t say i m not a member of the proud boys. i wasn t mark meadows in the white house that day. i don t know how it got so far out of hand, and have been silent all of these months when all of the revelations that we already know have been divulged,
ex-president s call to, quote, walk down to the capitol after his rally at the ellipse on january 6th. from that post report, quote, shortly before pro-trump rioters stormed the u.s. capitol on january 6th, secret service agents scrambled to try to secure a motorcade route so then president trump could accompany his supporters as they marched on congress to demand he stay in power. the hectic events that day followed nearly two weeks of persistent pressure from trump on the secret service to devise a plan for him to join his supporters on a march to the capitol from the park near the white house where he was leading a massive rally that he predicted would be wild. that s not the only extraordinary piece of reporting today in the post, this on the scheme to set up alternate slates of electors now under investigation by doj. it formed the linchpin of that strategy to disrupt the certification of the electoral college results. a staffer for donald trump presidential campaign instructed re
trump desired to walk with his reporters from the capitol to the ellipse far earlier than has previously been reported, which suggests he was well aware of the plans that were going to go down at the capitol. he applied lots of pressure in various different ways on his u.s. secret service and those around him making clear his desires to do so. he told our colleague in an interview even that that was what he wanted to do, march to the capitol but that u.s. secret service wouldn t allow him to do it. our reporting shows that the secret service actually did act in those very final moments, just an hour before protesters sieged the capitol and actually breached security to try to fulfill trump s wishes after he told pro trump supporters who had gathered to watch him speak at the ellipse that he was going to march with them, if not for the d.c. police intervening and rebuffing those efforts that might have actually happened, but they responded to secret
democrats, independents all saw it for the most part as a dark day in american history, and they knew who to blame for that dark day. in the months since that time the parties have retrenched and voters have gone back to their original camps, and so this is a potential opportunity for many democrats to promote what they re seeing at these hearings, the new revelations that will come out and to remind voters and the american people about how democracy is on the line on january 6th, and that s not something to forget about as you re making your decisions going into the midterms. and you know the smoking gun evidence that the right knows this is fox news s decision not to carry it, and if you look at the way fox news carried trump s water, it was by smearing colonel vindman, it was by smearing marie yovanovitch, it was by smearing any government