Posted on 01/07/2024 4:25:39 PM PST by bitt
Another day, another leak.
Special Counsel Jack Smith has uncovered new details about Trump’s so-called ‘inaction’ to stop the protestors on January 6 in a leak to ABC News ahead of Trump’s pitch to the appeals court on immunity claims.
President Trump told supporters on January 6 to “peacefully and patriotically” protest.
The new hit piece targets Trump’s senior advisor Dan Scavino.
“Special counsel Jack Smith’s team has uncovered previously undisclosed details about former President Donald Trump’s refusal to help stop the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol three years ago as he sat watching TV inside the White House, according to sources familiar with what Smith’s team has learned during its Jan. 6 probe.” ABC News reported.
Excerpt from ABC News:
Many of the exclusive details come from the questioning of Trump’s former deputy chief of staff, Dan Scavino, who first started working for Trump as a teenager three decades ago and is now a paid senior adviser to Trump’s reelection campaign. Scavino wouldn’t speak with the House select committee that conducted its own probe related to Jan. 6, but — after a judge overruled claims of executive privilege last year — he did speak with Smith’s team, and key portions of what he said were described to ABC News.
Sources said Scavino told Smith’s investigators that as the violence began to escalate that day, Trump “was just not interested” in doing more to stop it.
Sources also said former Trump aide Nick Luna told federal investigators that when Trump was informed that then-Vice President Mike Pence had to be rushed to a secure location, Trump responded, “So what?” — which sources said Luna saw as an unexpected willingness by Trump to let potential harm come to a longtime loyalist.
According to sources, when speaking with Smith’s team, Scavino recalled telling Trump in a phone call the night of Jan. 6: “This is all your legacy here, and there’s smoke coming out of the Capitol.”
Scavino hoped Trump would finally help facilitate a peaceful transfer of power, sources said.
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More scuttlebutt from the garbage media.
This sounds like pure BS.
LOL- Smith is desperate.
1-Scavino won’t turn on Trump.
2-Trump requested NG troops days in advanced and nazi pelosi refused
3- how does “not doing more” equate to insurrection???
There was no violent attack except on Ashly
Babbit.
And you notice that "sources" is the only source, as it were.
If I'd showed that to my boss when I started in journalism, he would have sent me flying out the door and thrown my hat and coat after me.
I call BS on this story!
Refused?!? Trump had all of his social media - Twitter, Instagram, YouTube - blocked so that he couldn't send out any messages. He had to hold an impromptu press conference from the Rose Garden and have the networks cover it to tell the protesters to go home.
Besides Ashli Babbitt there was a woman who fell as the protestors were walking away and a black female capital cop beat her death while she was on the ground.
Even if true, Trump was not in charge of the capital security. What was he gonna do? Order the army to attack the rioters from a nearby army base. It would have been over by the time they got organized.
I see nothing illegal here, just a smear leak.
In a just world Byrd would get a life sentence for a cold-blooded murder. Instead he got a raise, promotion and a healthy pension.
Smith is PURE EVIL!!
How, exactly, was Trump supposed to stop the riot while sitting in the White House???
He was not allowed to have the military on site.
Someone who is a member keep checking Dan Scavino’s truth social to see if he says anything. Some user pages simply will not show up to non-members and his is one of them.
Trump had all of his social media - Twitter, Instagram, YouTube - blockedLet's be specific here: the FIB had Trump's social media blocked.
Rosalyn (or Rosanne) Boyland.
But yes, she was murdered as well. And the MSM and Capitol Gestapo and most of our Congressmen laugh it off.
And Roseanne Boyland, Benjamin Phillips and Kevin Greeson all died due to unprovoked law enforcement violence, on Jan 6.
Don’t forget the suicides
And the black cop said she deserved what she was getting. The woman’s name was Roseanne Boyland
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