- A former federal prosecutor said Donald Trump and Mark Meadows “wanted the Capitol to be taken.”
- Former prosecutor Glenn Kirchner bases his analysis on new testimony given to Capitol riots.
- Testimonies revealed that Trump and Meadows had planned with Republicans to undo Biden’s victory.
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Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirchner believes that former President Donald Trump and his former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows “wanted the Capitol to be taken” on the day of last year’s uprising.
“Donald Trump, Mark Meadows and others in the Donald Trump administration deprived the Capitol of the federal law enforcement forces it needed to defend itself,” Kirchner said in a video posted on YouTube on Friday.
“And that, my friends, leads to a very convincing conclusion. Perhaps we can even call it the only reasonable conclusion: that Donald Trump and Mark Meadows wanted the Capitol to be conquered; that Donald Trump and Mark Meadows are the angry mob to stop certification from Joe Biden’s victory. “
Kirchner’s remarks came after testimony from a House of Representatives committee tasked with investigating the Capitol riots revealed that Meadows had planned with Republican lawmakers to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
In December 2020, representatives Matt Gates, Jim Jordan and other Republicans attended talks and meetings with Trump and his aides after he lost the 2020 presidential election, according to testimony given to the committee by Cassidy Hutchinson, who serves as assistant to Meadows.
Hutchinson said in the filing records that various Republican lawmakers, including Gaetz, Jordan, Scott Perry, Marjorie Taylor Green and Louis Gomert, either met in person or attended meetings to discuss ways to undo Biden’s victory.
During these meetings, Republican lawmakers explored ways that “could potentially be a constitutional and viable option, either to delay election certification, or to delay in office, or to assert that Mr. Trump has actually won.” said Hutchinson.
The testimony helps shed light on the intentions of Trump and Meadows, Kirchner said. Earlier, Kirchner said the testimony was “certainly incriminating” for Trump.
Other political figures agree that the testimony so far has been shocking. For example, Maryland spokeswoman Jamie Ruskin, who served in the House of Representatives on Jan. 6, said the testimony before the committee “will really blow up the House’s roof.”
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