Trump knew Capitol experienced been breached just before criticizing Pence on Twitter: Jan. 6 panel

Cami Mondeaux

June 16, 11:55 AM June 16, 11:55 AM

Then-President Donald Trump realized the Capitol creating had been breached by supporters on Jan. 6, 2021, at the time he posted a tweet slamming Vice President Mike Pence for not acquiring “the courage” to overturn the election final results.

The Capitol creating was breached at 2:13 p.m., just 11 minutes just before Trump despatched the tweet criticizing his No. 2, who was within the Capitol as protesters stormed the creating, according to evidence examined by the Jan. 6 committee. That tweet, lawmakers argue, fueled anger toward Pence and painted him as responsible.

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“We have the vice president, who was 1 window pane absent from the mob,” Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-CA) informed NBC Information. “We detect correct absent, you know, in 90 seconds, the vice president is getting evacuated right immediately after that Trump tweet. [Trump] understood that there was violence, and he even now tweeted the vice president didn’t have the courage to do what was essential.”

Minutes prior to the creating was breached, Pence was presiding in excess of the Senate as members satisfied to certify the benefits of the 2020 election. At the time it was crystal clear the building was breached, the vice president was evacuated from the setting up.

Just lately launched pics from that day display Pence in his ceremonial workplace with his spouse and daughter immediately after the Key Services escorted him from the Senate flooring. Shortly just after, he was moved to an underground loading dock area and refused to get in a automobile to go away the Capitol.

In one of the shots, an aide is noticed showing Pence the tweet from Trump in which he criticized the vice president for not trying to overturn the benefits of the election, which Trump experienced publicly asserted various periods Pence could do. Pence continuously refused the request.

Meanwhile, protesters within the Capitol making had been chanting, "Cling Mike Pence.” On the other hand, Pence has downplayed the events of the riot as "one working day in January" and critiqued the media's emphasis on it as becoming a way to distract from the Biden administration's "failed agenda."

The new specifics bordering Pence’s practical experience inside of the Capitol in the course of the attack came one particular day before the find committee is established to maintain its third listening to, focusing on what lawmakers explain as a “pressure campaign” on the vice president to ”unilaterally change the final results of the election in the joint session of Congress on Jan. 6,” a committee aide told reporters this week.

The choose committee will reconvene at 1 p.m. Thursday and will listen to from two witnesses: Greg Jacob, the former counsel to the vice president, and Michael Luttig, a retired judge for the U.S. Courtroom of Appeals and an casual adviser to Pence.