Liz Cheney said that the House select committee had received testimony from President Donald Trump's daughter, who asked him to intervene twice. While sitting in the dining room next to the Oval Office, Trump watched the riot on television. Cheney said that his daughter went in at least twice to ask her father to stop the violence.
The president could have walked into the room and told his supporters to stop, says Liz Cheney. On January 6th, Trump's actions.
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Trump could have taken steps to make sure the violence didn't get out of hand, but he chose not to. The White House briefing room is a short walk from the Oval Office. The president could have walked into the room and told his supporters to stop attacking the Capitol. Cheney said that Trump did nothing. He could have ordered them to stand down. He failed to tell them to go home. It is hard to imagine a more serious and significant failure of duty than that.
The Republican Party has to make a decision. We can either be loyal to the Constitution or to Donald Trump, but we can't be both, says Liz Cheney.
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Trump should not be allowed near the Oval Office again. Cheney said that any man who would watch television as police officers were being beaten is not fit for office. She said that the way in which Trump refused to stop the riot shows that he cannot be trusted. Republicans have a choice. We can either be loyal to the Constitution or to Donald Trump, but we can't be both.
The panel had received testimony that the White House had been told to do something and ignored the pleas, according to Rep. Bennie Thompson. Thompson said it was unusual for anyone in charge of anything to watch what was happening.
The testimony leads us to believe that the White House was told to do something. "We want to verify all of it." says Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson on the House select committee investigating the Capitol Hill riot.
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The State of the Union was published on January 2, 2022.
