A former White House communications official who resigned from her post after the January 6 insurrection said that she had a method for getting to the bottom of who wrote what.
She told the committee that it was obvious when Trump decided to use his own account.
Matthews reported to McEnany that she was rarely involved in the drafting of his Tweets. Matthews said that sometimes you could tell when he was writing.
She said that the spelling of the words was more correct than the drafted ones.
Matthews became Trump's deputy press secretary in the last months of his presidency, but resigned in protest on January 6th, claiming that she was deeply disturbed by the events of the day. She testified in front of the January 6 committee in July of 2022.
In times of crisis, you want your leader to meet the moment, and to me, it felt like he didn't meet the moment. I kept thinking that he might get this right.
Matthews said in her testimony that she and other staffers in the White House communications office felt that Trump should issue more of a condemnation of the rioters.
According to testimony shared by the committee on Thursday, Matthews said in February that she quit because of the attack. The anniversary of the attack was called a coup attempt by Matthews.
"Make no mistake, the events on the 6th were a coup attempt, a term we'd use had they happened in any other country," Matthews said.
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