Six hours of paralysis: Inside Trump's failure to act after a mob stormed the Capitol

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NEW —> Six hours of paralysis: Inside Trump’s failure to act after a mob stormed the Capitol

My latest with ⁦@AshleyRParker + ⁦@jdawsey1⁩, a behind-the-scenes account of the commander in chief abdicating his responsibilities

Six hours of paralysis: Inside Trump’s failure to act after a mob stormed the Capitol
As his allies pleaded for help, the president watched the crisis on TV.
washingtonpost.com

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-mob-failure/2021/01/11/36a46e2e-542e-11eb-a817-e5e7f8a406d6_story.html

Hiding from the rioters in a secret location away from the Capitol, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) appealed to Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser. Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) phoned Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter.

And Kellyanne Conway, a longtime Trump confidante and former White House senior adviser, called an aide who she knew was standing at the president’s side.

But as senators and House members trapped inside the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday begged for immediate help during the siege, they struggled to get through to the president, who — safely ensconced in the West Wing — was too busy watching fiery television images of the crisis that was unfolding around them to act or even bother to hear their cries for help.

“He was hard to reach, and you know why? Because it was live TV,” said one close Trump adviser. “If it’s TiVo, he just hits pause and takes the calls. If it’s live TV, he watches it, and he was just watching it all unfold.”

Even as he did so, Trump did not move to act. And the message from those around him — that he needed to call off the angry mob he had egged on just hours earlier, or lives could be lost — was one to which he was not initially receptive.

“The president saw these people as allies in his journey and sympathetic to the idea that the election was stolen,” Graham said in an interview.

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[Greybnk48]

1. It reminded me of when republicans let people drown in New Orleans

during Katrina with no help at all for days.

[Cha]

2. Rt TY!

[madaboutharry]

3. Trump has slipped into total madness.

He is suffering from psychosis. Everyone knows this and yet only a few Republicans are willing to step up and stand with Democrats to protect the nation from a madman.

It will forever be their shame.

[jimlup]

4. Not quite - he is the same tRump he's always been ...

The psychosis is what his supporters are suffering from.

[madaboutharry]

6. He is reportedly much worse since the election.

He is apparently stark raving mad now as opposed to his baseline lunacy.

[dalton99a]

5. Trump's tweet on Mar 8th 2020 - 6:18:35 PM EST

[Wounded Bear]

7. Hell, Baby Bush only froze for 6 or 8 minutes...and he sucked....nt