WASHINGTON — As rioters battered police and stormed inside the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, then-President Donald Trump grew angry with advisers pleading with him to do something, Vice Chairwoman Liz Cheney said Thursday in the first hearing by the House select committee investigating the attack.
Aware of the rioters’ chants to “hang Mike Pence,” the president responded with this sentiment, Cheney, a Wyoming Republican, said: “Well, maybe our supporters have the right idea. Mike Pence, quote, ‘deserves it.’ ”
The revelation was just one of the bombshell allegations that Cheney said the committee will corroborate during subsequent hearings to prove a coordinated effort to stop certification of the 2020 presidential election and keep Trump in office.
