Unpublished video shown during a public hearing of the US House committee investigating the Capitol invasion shows that former President Donald Trump did not want to admit defeat to Joe Biden a day after the episode of violence in Washington.
“I don’t want to say the election is over,” Trump said in a video recorded on January 7 of last year and shown on Thursday (21).
“For those who broke the law, you will pay. You don’t represent our movement, you don’t represent our country. And if you broke the law… I can’t say that. I already said ‘you will pay,'” he said. the reluctant Republican to members of his team in another part of the video.
Protesters stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, minutes after former President Donald Trump, during a rally in Washington, urged activists to go to the House of Representatives. The action forced the House and Senate to lock the doors and paralyze the session that confirmed Joe Biden’s victory in the elections held in 2020.
The attack is being investigated by the House committee, which seeks to clarify the role of public figures and protesters in the episode considered one of the biggest attacks in American democracy in history.
“One day after the uprising based on a lie, President Donald Trump still can’t say the election is over,” Congresswoman Elaine Luria said at the committee’s eighth public hearing on Thursday.
Representative Bennie Thompson said the Republican “paved the way for anarchy and corruption”. “[Trump] tried to destroy our democratic institutions,” the Democrat said.
An anonymous witness reported that Secret Service agents, fearing for their lives, called family members to say goodbye during the attack. “This will have serious consequences, otherwise I fear our democracy will not recover,” Thompson said.
