Police were ordered to be slaughtered by Trump.
An ex-aide testified that Trump was aware of the lack of police at the capitol.
The testimony of the former aide shows that Trump was involved in the insurrection.
On January 6th, a former White House staffer testified that Donald Trump knew that protesters were armed and that there was not enough security at the US Capitol building.
The Arizona lawmaker said that if it wasn't for Cassidy Hutchinson, they wouldn't know what was happening. It's a sad moment in our country.
One of the witnesses to the attack in the Cannon Caucus room who expressed shock at the aide's sworn account of that day was a former US Marine who taught fellow lawmakers how to wear gas masks.
The House panel continues to investigate the Capitol insurrection.
His remarks came after Cassidy Hutchinson, an aide to former White House chief of staff MarkMeadows, testified that Trump and his White House advisers were informed that protesters on the National Mall were armed and headed to the US Capitol building.
Hutchinson testified that Trump was angry that the crowd area for his speech wasn't filled with people and that he was indifferent about the armed and angry crowd.
She recalled that Trump said he didn't care that they had weapons. They are here to help me. The mags should be taken away. My people can go to the Capitol from here. The people should be allowed in.
She recalled that the White House staffers were told that there wasn't enough security on Capitol Hill to keep protesters out.
US Capitol Police Sergeant Aquilino Gonell told Insider that he felt betrayed after hearing Hutchinson recount how the Capitol Police were outnumbered and how Trump wanted to march with his supporters.
He told Insider that even though he didn't know, he still didn't help us. We wanted to lead the crowd in a certain way.
Gonell was one of the officers who tried to stop the pro- Trump supporters from entering the US Capitol. "This is how I'm going to die" was the thought that went through the mind of an Army veteran who served in Iraq.
More than 140 law enforcement officers were hurt.
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