Political Quotes

“I send a question to the desk directed to the House managers. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from West Virginia has a question for the House managers. The clerk will read the question. The legislative clerk read as follows: Would the President be made aware of the FBI and intelligence information of a possible attack and would the President be responsible for not preparing to protect the Capitol and all elected officials of government with National Guard and law enforcement as he did when he appeared in front of the Saint John's Episcopal Church? Ms. Manager PLASKETT. It is the responsibility of the President to know. The President of the United States, our Commander in Chief, gets daily briefings on what is happening in the country that he has a duty to protect. Additionally, the President would have known, just like the rest of us know, all of the reports that were out there and publicly available. How many of you received calls saying to be careful on January 6, to be careful that day? I'm not--I'm seeing reports. It doesn't seem safe. How much more would the President of the United States? Donald Trump, as our Commander in Chief, absolutely had a duty and a sworn oath to preserve, protect, and defend us and to do the same for the officers under his command. And he was not just our Commander in Chief. He incited the attack. The insurgents were following his commands, as we saw when we read aloud his tweets attacking the Vice President.…”