Representative Liz Cheney (R., Wyo.) said Thursday that, according to testimony from former White House staffers, former president Donald Trump said that his supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, were “doing what they should be doing.”
“This is what he told his staff as they pleaded with him to call off the mob, to instruct his supporters to leave,” Cheney said Thursday evening during the first hearing of the House select committee on the Capitol riot.
Cheney went on to say that the committee’s hearings will feature testimony from staffers that Trump “did not really want to put anything out calling off the riot or asking his supporters to leave” and that he was yelling and “really angry at advisers who told him he needed to do something more.”
“Aware of the rioters’ chants to ‘hang Mike Pence,’ the president responded with this sentiment, ‘Maybe our supporters have the right idea. Mike Pence deserves it,” she said, confirming previous reporting.
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