House shares security footage of House staffer Nancy Pelosi hiding from violent Trump mob
Pelosi was evacuated from the complex before the mob moved around her suite offices, and her staff quietly hid behind closed doors.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Prosecutors on Wednesday unveiled an icy security video in Donald Trump’s indictment, in which crowds of rioters break into the Capitol, smash windows and doors and search threateningly for Vice President Mike Pence and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as the overwhelming police beg for help on their radios.
In the previously unreleased recordings, home prosecutors showed gripping scenes of how close the rioters were to the country’s leaders, and they wandered around the halls with ‘Hang Mike Pence’, some equipped with combat equipment . Outside, the mob set up a temporary gallows.
From the day of the riot, videos of the siege have been circulating, but the graphic composition has been a more complete story, recounting every moment of one of the country’s most worrying days. In addition to the apparent chaos and danger, it offers new details about the attackers, scenes of police heroism and whispering and cries of distress.
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In a dramatic moment, the video shows police shooting through a broken window into the crowd and killing a San Diego woman, Ashli Babbitt. In another, a police officer is seen crushed by the mob. Five people were killed.
The vice president, who presided over a session to ratify Joe Biden’s victory over Trump – thus earning Trump’s criticism – is said to have been rushed to safety, where he is in an office with his family just 100 meters from the rioters hide. Pelosi was evacuated from the complex before the mob moved around her suite offices, and her staff quietly hid behind closed doors.
The police, overwhelmed by the mob, angrily announce “we have lost the line” and call officers for safety. One died later.
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Donald Trump’s second indictment has opened in the Senate with a graphic video of the deadly January 6 attack on Congress.
Although most of the Senate jurors had already decided on acquittal or conviction, they were nailed down and sat still. Rioters rattled through their desks in the room where the indictment is now being held. Screams of sound and video filled the room. One Republican, James Lankford of Oklahoma, bows his head and a colleague of the GOP comfortably puts his hand on his arm.
“They did it because Donald Trump sent them on this mission,” said State Attorney Stacey Plaskett, the Democratic delegate representing the Virgin Islands.
“President Trump put a target on their backs and his mob broke into the Capitol to hunt them down.”
Some senators acknowledged that this was the first time they had understood how dangerously close to the country came to serious danger.
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“When you see that all the pieces come together, just the total awareness of it, the extent of it, the threat, not only to us as human beings, as legislators, but the threat to the institution and that Congress represents, it’s disturbing, ” said. Republican Lisa Murkowski of Alaska. “Very disturbing.”
The beautiful presentation opened the first full day of arguments in the trial, as prosecutors argued that Trump was not an “innocent bystander” but the “instigator” of the deadly Capitol riot, a president who has been lying for months. spread and built up a crowd. fans began his call to stop Biden’s victory.
The House Democrats themselves have shown heaps of evidence of the former president – hundreds of Trump tweets and comments that culminated in his January 6 call to go to the Capitol and ‘fight like hell’ to overthrow his defeat. Trump then did nothing to stop the violence and watched with “cheerfulness” as the mob marched through the iconic building.
“For us, it may have felt like chaos and madness, but there was a way to use the madness that day,” Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., The chief prosecutor, said what Trump indicated as the instigator.
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“And when his mob overwhelmed and occupied the Senate and attacked the house and assaulted law enforcers, he watched it on TV as a reality show. He delighted himself.”
In one scene, a Capitol senator leads police officer Mitt Romney, R-Utah, down a hallway to avoid the crowd. It was the same officer, Eugene Goodman, who was praised as a hero for luring rioters from the Senate doors.
“It tears in your heart and brings tears to your eyes,” Romney said after watching the video. He said he did not realize how close he was to danger.
The day’s proceedings took place after Tuesday’s emotional start that caused the former president to rage when his lawyers made a tortuous defense and did not stop the trial on constitutional grounds. Some allies have asked his legal team for another stir.
Timeline of the riots at the US Capitol on January 6
What began as a congress and democratic exercise in the peaceful transfer of power, transferred into death, destruction and chaos.
Trump is the first president to face an indictment after leaving office and the first to be charged twice. He is charged with ‘inciting rebellion’ with fervent words protected by his defense lawyers by the first amendment of the Constitution and fair words.
Prosecutors allege that Trump’s words were part of ‘the big lie’ – his relentless attempts to cast doubt on the election results. It started long before the votes were tabled, prompting his followers to stop ‘stealing’, although there was no evidence of significant fraud.
Trump knew very well what would happen when he grabbed the microphone that day at the suburban rally in the White House when Congress convened to confirm Biden’s victory, Rep. Joe Neguse, D-Colo, said.
“It was not just a speech,” he said.
Security remained extremely strict at the Capitol on Wednesday, fenced with razor wire and patrolled by National Guard troops.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Biden would not look into the trial.
The difficulty facing Trump’s defenders became clear at first when, unlike any other, they relied on the trial process, rather than the former president’s case. They said the Constitution did not allow indictment on this late date after he left the White House.
Although the Senate rejected the argument during the vote to proceed, the legal issue may resonate with Republicans who are eager to acquit Trump without considering his behavior.
Defense attorney Bruce Castor on Tuesday urged senators to be ‘cool-headed’ as they judged the arguments.
A frustrated Trump has revived his demands for his lawyers to concentrate on his unsupported allegations of voter fraud. He repeatedly called former White House assistant Peter Navarro and said in an interview with The Associated Press that he agreed. He appeals to Trump to fire his legal team.
“If he does not make a middle course correction here, he will lose this Super Bowl,” Navarro said, referring to public opinion, not the unlikely possibility of conviction.
While six Republicans agreed with Democrats to vote to proceed with the trial, the 56-44 voting right was far from the two-thirds mark of 67 votes that would be required for conviction.
Minds does not seem to change, even after seeing the graphic video.
“I’ve said many times that the president’s rhetoric is sometimes overheated, but it’s not a referendum whether you agree with everything the president says or tweets,” said Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas. the attempt to challenge the Electoral College. “It’s rather a legal process.”
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., Another leader of the election challenge said: ‘Nothing new here for me at the end of the day. ‘
As the country disappeared over the crushing of civilian norms in the Trump era, prosecutors tried to remind senators and the nation how extraordinary it was to have a sitting U.S. president to discredit the election.
In hundreds of tweets, remarks and interviews all spring and summer, Trump has been spreading false allegations about the election, refusing to commit to the peaceful transfer of power once it is over.
The public attack scenes were distilled in very personal terms, only when Raskin broke down in tears on Tuesday and described how his family was hiding in the Capitol that day. Neguse, the son of immigrants, recalled Wednesday that he told his father how proud he was to return to Congress that night to complete the certification of the election.
Trump’s second indictment is expected to deviate from the long, complicated case of a year ago. In that case, Trump is accused of privately pressuring Ukraine to oust Biden, then a Democratic rival for the presidency. It can be over in half the time.