Early Afternoon (Around 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM):
- The Capitol building is breached by rioters. At this time, Trump was reportedly watching the events unfold on television.
2:38 PM:
- Trump tweets: "Please support our Capitol Police and Law Enforcement. They are truly on the side of our Country. Stay peaceful!"
3:13 PM:
- Trump tweets: "I am asking for everyone at the U.S. Capitol to remain peaceful. No violence!Remember, WE are the Party of Law & Order – respect the Law and our great men and women in Blue. Thank you!"
Okay. Then explain the three hours it took for Trump to call for peace on January 6th.
That's easy. The media never reported these tweets calling for peace and discouraging violence.
Go google these tweets and see for yourself. It's not the first or the last time media has lied to you for their own profit.
He was the president of the United States. His job was not to tweet about what was going on, it was to get off his ass and get on the phone with the national guard or whomever he needed to ensure an actual real world response was put together as soon as possible to protect the Capitol. To this day there is not a shred of evidence he did any of that, instead electing to watch it all on TV wondering why those around him were not as excited about what was going on as he was.
But of we want to talk about the tweets themselves, I'll turn it over to factcheck.org:
"As the violence at the Capitol escalated, the report notes, Meadows’ phone was flooded with messages from supporters urging the president to intervene. For example, at 2:32 p.m., Fox News anchor Laura Ingraham wrote to Meadows, “Hey Mark, The president needs to tell people in the Capitol to go home.”
And at 2:35 p.m., former acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney wrote, “Mark: he needs to stop this, now.”
As Trump watched Fox News images of “the chaos and attack, with tear gas filling the air in the Capitol Rotunda,” he issued a tweet at 2:38 p.m., stating: “Please support our Capitol Police and Law Enforcement. They are truly on the side of our Country. Stay peaceful!”
But many in Trump’s circle believed that wasn’t enough.For example, at 2:53 p.m., Donald Trump Jr. texted to Meadows, “He’s got to condem [sic] this shit. Asap. The captiol [sic] police tweet is not enough.”
Matthews, the then-deputy press secretary, said she told her boss, then-Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany, that she didn’t think the president’s tweet went far enough and “that I thought there needed to be a call to action and he needed to condemn the violence.”
Matthews said McEnany told her “in a hushed tone” that Trump didn’t even want to include “any sort of mention of peace in that tweet and that it took some convincing on their part, those who were in the room. And she said that there was a back and forth going over different phrases to find something that he was comfortable with. And it wasn’t until Ivanka Trump suggested the phrase ‘stay peaceful’ that he finally agreed to include it.”
Trump wrote another tweet at 3:13 p.m., asking everyone at the Capitol to “remain peaceful. No violence!” and to “respect the Law.”
But again, Trump did not tell everyone to go home.
At 3:31 p.m., Fox News anchor Sean Hannity texted Meadows, “Can he make a statement. I saw the tweet. Ask people to peacefully leave the capital [sic].”
According to the committee’s report, “Almost everyone, including staff in the White House also found the President’s 2:38 p.m. and 3:13 p.m. tweets to be insufficient because they did not instruct the rioters to leave the Capitol.” And despite urging from numerous White House aides and Trump confidantes, “None of these efforts resulted in President Trump immediately issuing the message that was needed,” the committee’s report states.
According to the committee’s report, “Evidence showed that neither of these tweets had any appreciable impact on the violent rioters. Unlike the video-message tweet that did not come until 4:17 finally instructing rioters to leave, neither the 2:38 nor the 3:13 tweets made any difference.”
The fact that these tweets were insufficient because they did not tell the rioters to leave or even condemn what they were actively doing is common sense, and everyone from Mark Meddows to Shawn Hannity understood that on real time. The fact that Trump supporters find this argument convincing is a testament to how partisan hackery destroys the brain.
