Nothing has been entered in the official diary, there is no record of telephone calls, while there is only one official photograph, that of Donald Trump in a coat returning to the White House . Otherwise it’s a blackout of 187 minutes, during this endless afternoon of riots on January 6, 2021, when American democracy wavered. After finishing his speech at 1:10 p.m. and inviting his supporters to march on the Capitol, the US president, defeated in the presidential election, remained in his dining room, next to the Oval Office, watching the television channel Fox News curator. And it took until 4:17 p.m. for him to finally urge the crowd, which was ransacking the premises of the Congress, to return home, with a short speech.
The House of Inquiry into the attack on the Capitol tried to piece together the thread of events, during its last public session before the summer break, which was broadcast on major American channels from 8 p.m., Thursday, July 21 , with the notable exception of Fox News, which focused on Covid-19 contracted by President Joe Biden. The evening was listened to like a thriller, with a mise-en-abîme of the events filmed at the Capitol and tweets from Donald Trump, who refused to intervene.
During his speech, in the middle of this day of January 6, Donald Trump promises to march with his supporters on Congress. “We’re going to the Capitol… We’re going to try to give our Republicans — the weaker ones because the stronger ones don’t need our help — we’re going to try to give them the kind of pride and boldness that they have.” needed to take back our country”declares Mr. Trump, who wants to prevent the certification of the election of his rival, Joe Biden.
Part of the crowd is armed, some are in the trees, and Donald Trump’s driver, Mark Robinson, will wait more than three quarters of an hour for a green light from the Secret Service to drive the president there. This green light will never come and will cause a heated altercation. “I don’t know if you want to use the word ‘insurrection’, ‘coup’, whatever. We all knew it would go from a normal democratic public event to something else”said, on condition of anonymity, a White House security adviser.
Panic among Donald Trump’s advisers
As a result, from 1:25 p.m., Donald Trump finds himself alone in his dining room, watching Fox News live. He sends his official photographer back and witnesses the first attacks on the Capitol live. The chair does nothing because he doesn’t want to do anything, as committee members explain. The crowd is in the process of achieving what it has failed to obtain for weeks through legal and political means: preventing the certification of the election by the two chambers of Congress meeting on Capitol Hill.
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Nothing has been entered in the official diary, there is no record of telephone calls, while there is only one official photograph, that of Donald Trump in a coat returning to the White House . Otherwise it’s a blackout of 187 minutes, during this endless afternoon of riots on January 6, 2021, when American democracy wavered. After finishing his speech at 1:10 p.m. and inviting his supporters to march on the Capitol, the US president, defeated in the presidential election, remained in his dining room, next to the Oval Office, watching the television channel Fox News curator. And it took until 4:17 p.m. for him to finally urge the crowd, which was ransacking the premises of the Congress, to return home, with a short speech.
The House of Inquiry into the attack on the Capitol tried to piece together the thread of events, during its last public session before the summer break, which was broadcast on major American channels from 8 p.m., Thursday, July 21 , with the notable exception of Fox News, which focused on Covid-19 contracted by President Joe Biden. The evening was listened to like a thriller, with a mise-en-abîme of the events filmed at the Capitol and tweets from Donald Trump, who refused to intervene.
During his speech, in the middle of this day of January 6, Donald Trump promises to march with his supporters on Congress. “We’re going to the Capitol… We’re going to try to give our Republicans — the weaker ones because the stronger ones don’t need our help — we’re going to try to give them the kind of pride and boldness that they have.” needed to take back our country”declares Mr. Trump, who wants to prevent the certification of the election of his rival, Joe Biden.
Part of the crowd is armed, some are in the trees, and Donald Trump’s driver, Mark Robinson, will wait more than three quarters of an hour for a green light from the Secret Service to drive the president there. This green light will never come and will cause a heated altercation. “I don’t know if you want to use the word ‘insurrection’, ‘coup’, whatever. We all knew it would go from a normal democratic public event to something else”said, on condition of anonymity, a White House security adviser.
Panic among Donald Trump’s advisers
As a result, from 1:25 p.m., Donald Trump finds himself alone in his dining room, watching Fox News live. He sends his official photographer back and witnesses the first attacks on the Capitol live. The chair does nothing because he doesn’t want to do anything, as committee members explain. The crowd is in the process of achieving what it has failed to obtain for weeks through legal and political means: preventing the certification of the election by the two chambers of Congress meeting on Capitol Hill.
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