“I don’t want to say the election is over,” Trump appears to say in a video filmed as he rehearses a speech on Jan. 7, 2021.
The day after the storming of the Capitol, in January 2021, Mr Donald Trump stubbornly refused to acknowledge defeat in the US presidential election in a speech, according to a new video shown Thursday to a House committee investigating the attack.
“I do not want to say that the election is over”, Trump appears to say in a video filmed as he rehearsed a speech on January 7, 2021. The speech was prepared by White House staff in the hope that the outgoing US president would appeal for restraint and calm. A few hours earlier, enraged Trump supporters had launched a deadly attack on the Capitol, refusing to accept Joe Biden’s victory in the presidential election.
The previously unreleased video was shown during a hearing of the House of Representatives committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack. “I just want to say that Congress ratified the results without saying that the election is over, Okay;” says Donald Trump. Although not visible in the footage, Ivanka Trump (his eldest daughter) can be heard helping to change the text.
In the speech broadcast at the time, Trump said the following: “Now Congress has ratified the results. A new government will be sworn in on January 20.”
Thursday’s hearing focused on allegations of Trump’s failure to act in the 187 minutes since the end of his fiery speech to a rally of supporters – during which he urged them to march on Capitol Hill – and the release of a video of which asked them to return to their homes.
Oh my god. These Trump outtakes are as humiliating as they are incriminating. pic.twitter.com/rI5PHrYx6s
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