President Trump did not fail to act during the 187 minutes between leaving the Ellipse and telling the mob to go home. He chose not to act.
Adam Kinzinger: “President Trump did not fail to act during the 187 minutes between leaving the Ellipse and telling the mob to go home.…”
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Rep. Kinzinger asserts that Trump made a conscious decision not to intervene during the Capitol riots.
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I’ll give her a little credit, which is she could see the tea leaves, which is like, Trump is going away, if I want to run for president or governor or whatever – I can be the former crazy that now is normal.
I think it's very obvious that the president didn't do anything but gleefully watch television while this was going down.
[A]s I watch the behavior of our political leaders, the comments of an ever-increasingly unhinged Trump, and the growing indifference of many Americans toward our role in the world, I have to ask a painful question: Are we now the bad guys?
It's chilling. I mean, I think he was sending a very clear message, which is, this is my Department of Justice.





