Testimony Depicts the Former President as Content to Let the Riot Rage

[Scott]

Testimony Depicts the Former President as Content to Let the Riot Rage

 

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol portrayed former President Donald Trump at its prime-time hearing Thursday as failing to call off the rioters, and on some occasions encouraging them, during the 187 minutes between his speech to his supporters that day at the Ellipse and the release of a video late in the afternoon calling them to go home.

 

“Our hearings have shown many ways in which President Trump tried to stop the peaceful transfer of power in the days leading up to January 6,” said Rep. Elaine Luria (D., Va.), who with Adam Kinzinger (R., Ill.) led questioning of witnesses at the hearing, the eighth and last such session this summer. “With each step of his plan, he betrayed his oath of office and was derelict in his duty.”

 

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/jan-6-hearing-today-trump

 

 

[candide]

The moron, who incidentally was the Commander in Chief, just watched the mob assaulting the Capitol and did nothing. ????

[heybruce]

The kindest description that can be applied is dereliction of duty on a grand scale.  I think there are less kind descriptions that are more accurate.