Trump Was Alone When He Tweeted Attack On Pence

Politico reports:

Smith reveals that Trump was alone in the Oval Office dining room when he issued an incendiary tweet about Pence during some of the most violent moments of the attack. Rioters — some of them chanting “hang Mike Pence!” — amplified the tweet, which accused Pence of lacking “the courage to do what should have been done.”

Many of the new details in the filing are clearly the result of interviews Smith’s team conducted with people who spoke directly to Trump during the critical two-month period between Election Day and Jan. 6 — and phone records confirm.

When many of Trump’s aides and other fellow Republicans responded to his false claims with skepticism or outright repudiation, Trump responded with a mix of private pressure and public attacks, prosecutors say.

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16) ! Trump was *alone* in the Oval Office dining room when he tweeted his attack on Pence, prosecutors say, even as the Fox News broadcast he had on made clear the Capitol had been breached and was locked down. pic.twitter.com/skBt55mrA8

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