Liz Cheney Nukes the Supreme Court—With an Urgent Warning About Trump
But investigators wanted to know more.
Thomas Joscelyn, a senior Jan. 6 committee staffer and principal drafter of its final report, says more cooperation from Scavino, Meadows, Cipollone, and others would have produced a fuller picture of Trump’s conduct during the riot and in the lead-up to it. We know many Republicans and advisers begged Trump to calm his supporters, but we have scant insight into how he reacted beyond doing nothing for hours. What did he say about the riot as it raged?
That would shed light on Trump’s “full intent for the mob,” Joscelyn says, noting that there are a “few hours” where we still need to know “exactly what he said to people.” As Joscelyn told me: “Very few witnesses were willing to pierce that inner sanctum of Trump.”