Vicky Ward: What Trump World Really Thinks About Last Night's Jan. 6 Hearing

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Trump World is buzzing today in the wake of new revelations at yesterday's Jan. 6 hearing, but not about the safety of Mike Pence or his security detail.

They want to know: Who leaked the video clip of Trump rehearsing both his Jan. 6 and Jan 7 speeches?

vickyward.substack.com
What Trump World Really Thinks About Last Night’s Jan. 6 Hearing
A former senior Trump campaign official says it wasn’t Pence’s security detail’s goodbye calls that bothered them, but the leaked videos of Trump’s speech rehearsal: “We didn’t know they still lived”
3:14 PM · Jul 22, 2022

https://vickyward.substack.com/p/what-trump-world-really-thinks-about


I’ve spent today talking to sources in Trump World about their reactions to the testimony in last night’s Jan. 6th hearing. I was particularly eager to see if I could corroborate reporting I saw last night on TV that some of the former President’s loyalists were shocked to learn that, in the midst of the attack on the Capitol, members of former Vice President’s security detail called their loved ones to say goodbye.

What I learned did not corroborate that reporting. In fact, what I learned was antithetical—and worse. I spoke to three people—one big donor and two campaign officials—who all said that the calls and texts in Trump world, according to these three people, had nothing to do with the safety of Mike Pence or his security detail. A very senior 2020 campaign official who agreed to talk on the condition of speaking anonymously told me there are two huge concerns buzzing on the phones of Trump World last night and today:

1. Who leaked the video clip of Trump rehearsing both his Jan. 6 and Jan 7 speeches? The Trump folks didn’t know those clips even existed. They thought they’d been erased.

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2. Why did the Democrats throw former campaign officials such as Tim Murtaugh (whose texts decrying the President’s behavior were shown and read aloud) and former Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien (who testified)—both of whom had had no public quarrel with Trump— “under the bus” as opposed to showing footage of the extremists who supported Trump’s stolen election theory—people such as Steve Bannon, Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and John Eastman? Is it just all politics, to ensure Trump no longer has good campaign staff for his next presidential run? That’s what my sources say Trump World is mulling.

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[Funtatlaguy]

1. Why do I have a belly button? Where'd the button go? Blah blah 😑

[agingdem]

2. Remember Alex Holder?

He was subpoenaed by the J6 committee to turn over any unseen raw footage of Trump and Trump’s children in the White House on January 6…

[Historic NY]

3. Well now they know what he actually thought about their criminal acts...

he spent an hour to make it too.

"I would like to begin by addressing the heinous attack yesterday, and to those who broke the law, you will pay. You do not represent our movement, you do not represent our country. And if you broke the law—I can't say that, I'm not gonna—I already said you will pay.




[link:https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-election-over-jan6-outtakes-transcript-capitol-riot-1726999|]