Donald Trump sat for two and a half hours in his presidential dining room on the afternoon of January 6 2021, watching live coverage on Fox News as a mob of his supporters stormed the US Capitol, a congressional committee has heard.
The panel investigating the violence said on Thursday night it had evidence from multiple White House witnesses that the former president ignored the pleas of those closest to him — including his own family — to make a statement calling on his supporters to stand down.
Instead, the committee heard Trump watched the events on television, tweeted out his rally speech from earlier in the day, and made calls to senators who were supposed to be certifying the results of the 2020 election.