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Donald Trump: Committee of Inquiry a “joke”, McConnell a “disloyal bastard”
On temperature in Arizona: Donald Trump railed against the investigative committee on January 6 and against disloyal companions.
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The parliamentary inquiry into the storming of the US Capitol is taking a break. Previous findings are driving Donald Trump more and more into a corner. He called the hearings a joke and ranted in a familiar manner.
Mary Trump, psychologist, niece and great critic of Donald Trump, said it in a recent interview: Her uncle, the ex-president, will be following the hearings on the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021 as if spellbound. He is helpless in the face of the constant accusations – especially since he cannot intervene. He is also unable to deal with allegations and always blames others. As evidence, Donald Trump now condemned the hearings in bulk during a campaign appearance in Prescott Vally, Arizona.
He observed the last hearing of the parliamentary committee of inquiry, Trump said on Friday evening, and it was a “joke”. In its TV public session, the panel showed a video of influential Republican leader Mitch McConnell blaming Trump for instigating the attack on the US Capitol during a speech before the Senate. McConnell said so at the time of the second impeachment against Trump.
Donald Trump: rude to McConnell
Even before his appearance in Arizona, Trump railed against McConnell and called him a “disloyal bastard”. Without him, McConnell would have lost a lot in Kentucky, the ex-president wrote in his post on his own channel “Truth Social”. The Republican leader came to the White House to ask him, Trump, for support and help. Mitch McConnell has represented the state of Kentucky in the US Senate since 1985.
Trump also didn’t have a good hair on Cassidy Hutchinson, formerly top assistant to Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows. Hutchinson has testified that Secret Service members told her how Trump, furious with all obstacles, tried to force her to drive him to the Capitol on January 6. The ex-president is even said to have grabbed the steering wheel. Although some of the Secret Service officials later contradicted Hutchinson’s testimony, the committee presented additional witnesses last Thursday who corroborated their version. Trump now claimed that it was not even possible for him to grab the steering wheel.
Allegations against the “corrupt establishment”
The committee of inquiry is only concerned with harming him in every conceivable way, Trump continued to erupt during his appearance in Arizona. Once again he raised allegations against the “corrupt establishment”, above all the chairman of the parliamentary body, the Democrat Adam Schiff from California.
But Trump also attacked unpleasant people from his own political camp in his sweeping attack. Above all, the speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives, Rusty Bowers. The Republican testified before the investigative committee that Trump and his former attorney, Rudy Giuliani, wanted to pressure him into overturning Joe Biden’s election victory. Bowers said he refused, which put him out of favor with Trump. The ex-president insulted Bowers during his speech “Rino” (Republican in name only), i.e. a would-be Republican – and supported a candidate loyal to him in the Republican primaries in Arizona.
Trump’s anger would also affect his own children
Mary Trump believes that if the committee’s investigation leads to an indictment, Donald Trump’s wrath will reach even his own children, Ivanka and Donald Jr. It remains to be seen whether the evidence the panel has assembled will be sufficient to instigate the storming of the Capitol. Trump believes that won’t happen because – according to his niece Mary – nothing has happened before.
Sources:C span