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The January 6th Hearings: #9 (10/13/22) full hearing

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President Trump's Twitter Message to Vice President Mike Pence

The president bears responsibility for Wednesday's attack on Congress by mob rioters. He should have immediately denounced the mob when he saw what was unfolding. This deliberate decision to further enrage the mob against Vice President Pence cannot be justified by anything that Trump might have thought about the election. The impact of that tweet was foreseeable and predictable. We've obtained new documents from the Secret Service. Real-time chats underscored the threat they knew the vice president would be facing because of the president's escalating incitement of the mob.

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