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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,010 posts)
Wed Sep 15, 2021, 12:37 PM Sep 2021

TFG ignored pleas to intervene during Capitol riot and kept watching the violence unfold on TV

instead, book says

A national security official pleaded with President Donald Trump to intervene and stop his supporters attacking the US Capitol on January 6, but was ignored while Trump watched the violence unfold on TV, according to extracts of a new book.

In the new book "Peril," veteran reporters Bob Woodward and Robert Costa describe the chaotic final months of the Trump administration.

At the time, the president was trying to overturn his defeat by Joe Biden, pushing baseless claims of electoral fraud which inspired his supporters to attack the Capitol.

According to extracts of the book published by CNN Tuesday, Trump watched the chaos unfold on live TV in the White House.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-ignored-pleas-to-intervene-during-capitol-riot-and-kept-watching-the-violence-unfold-on-tv-instead-book-says/ar-AAOt7VK
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TFG ignored pleas to intervene during Capitol riot and kept watching the violence unfold on TV (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2021 OP
If a Dem president had ever pulled something like that, I wonder what the Rs would be doing? Crunchy Frog Sep 2021 #1
This MsLeopard Sep 2021 #2
I'm becoming less excited about the Woodward book if Tomconroy Sep 2021 #3

Crunchy Frog

(26,587 posts)
1. If a Dem president had ever pulled something like that, I wonder what the Rs would be doing?
Wed Sep 15, 2021, 12:40 PM
Sep 2021

Whatever that is, our side should be doing at least a fraction of it right now.

 

Tomconroy

(7,611 posts)
3. I'm becoming less excited about the Woodward book if
Wed Sep 15, 2021, 01:01 PM
Sep 2021

This is what his nonreveals are like. Supposedly a substantial portion of the book is about the first months of the Biden administration. I want dirt on Trump!

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