As Donald Trump watched rioters storm the Capitol on television on January 6, 2021, one of the president’s top aides drafted Trump’s first tweet that urged protesters to remain peaceful, ABC News reported.

Last year, a congressional panel investigating Trump’s role in the January 6 events outlined how the former president was reluctant to call in additional law enforcement to stop rioters during the first few hours of the Capitol breach and instead spent much of his time watching television or making calls to his attorney and Republican allies.

New details of what went on inside the White House during that time show Trump needed the hand of Dan Scavino, who was his deputy chief of staff and is now senior advisor to Trump’s reelection campaign, to try to calm protesters.

  • @aelwero
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    1 year ago

    Ya know, I read an article yesterday, and I saw the specific comment about scavino having posted that, and I recalled trump pulling a printout of that very tweet out of his pocket during an interview, and this exact thought occurred to me… That it wasn’t even actually his tweet…

    I didn’t really think much of it tbh, but here it is as it’s own headline lol.

    Y’all know what interview I’m talking about right? Dude definitely claimed that tweet in his defense in that interview… Sham…

    Edit- I found it… https://youtube.com/shorts/_wH-CDWZ7Wg

    Sketchy…

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      It is hilarious what a pathological liar he is.

      Looks at notes “Before 2:30”

      The article time stamps the first response on Jan 6th at 2:38. Like, why even…?