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posted on Twitter the day after the riot at the U.S. Capitol, according to panel members.
The outtakes were recorded as part of the production for the Jan. 7, 2021, speech in which Trump conceded that a new administration would take power on Inauguration Day. The outtakes reportedly show Trump having difficulty with the taping of his concession speech, refusing to say the election results had been settled and attempting to refer to the rioters as"patriots."The Jan. 6 committee will host its eighth hearing, second in prime time. Here's what to expect.
The panel's hearing on Thursday — which is expected to be the “last one at this point,” according to committee Chairmanbetween when the former president ended his “Stop the Steal” rally and when he posted a video telling the rioters at the Capitol to “go home.” Lawmakers will offer a minute-by-minute account of what was going on inside the White House while rioters breached the Capitol, with two former Trump aides offering testimony of what they encountered during that time frame.
“The story we’re going to tell tomorrow is that in that time, President Trump refused to act to defend that Capitol as a violent mob stormed the Capitol with the aim of stopping the counting of the electoral votes and blocking the transfer of power,” a committee aideThe panel will also reveal a deleted tweet that Trump posted at 6:01 p.m. on Jan. 6, 2021, in which he suggested that widespread election fraud was responsible for the Capitol attack.
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