“They were peaceful people. These were great people,” President Donald Trump said. “The love in the air — I’ve never seen anything like it.
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Cast as Cassandra, former attorney general William P. Barr made an early appearance — seen by video during Thompson’s opening statement delivering a frank assessment of Trump’s quest to overturn his loss. There was Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, heard on tape dismissively recalling a conversation where White House chief of staff Mark Meadows pushed him to intervene in the brewing crisis: “Politics, politics, politics — red flag.
Trump’s words from the Ellipse, exhorting his followers to action, are heard echoing across the Mall as Proud Boys and Oath Keepers go on the march: “You’ll never take back our country with weakness.” As the crowd grew hostile, she sounded a radio warning to a supervisor that could have come out of a movie script: “I said, Sarge, I think we’re going to need a few more people down here.”
Thompson and Cheney cited other acts of heroism: The Justice Department officials who pushed back on Trump’s plot. Vice President Mike Pence and aides who held fast to their oath amid fierce pressure. And the soldiers who poured into Washington in the aftermath of the attack, taking up garrison inside the breached Capitol grounds.
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