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This is a preview of our ongoing coverage of the January 6th hearings.
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**JULY 22, 2022**

When Trump Finally Told His Mob to Go Home

BY HAROLD MEYERSON

It was only when it became clear that the January 6th coup wouldn't
succeed that Trump told his insurrectionists to stand down.

AP PHOTO/J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE

Outtakes of a speech by former President Trump on January 7th, 2021,
were a highlight of the hearing.

It wasn't a night for big reveals. It was a night for putting things
in context, in particular the context of the ticking clock.

The Thursday night primetime hearing by the Committee to Investigate the
January 6th Attack sought chiefly to explain what then-President Trump
was doing, and not doing, as his supporters sacked the Capitol and came
closer than we knew to knocking off his vice president. The Committee
showed us text messages from notable Trumpians (from Fox News hosts Sean
Hannity and Laura Ingraham to his own son Don Jr.), imploring him to
call a halt to the violence. It showed us testimony from his closest
advisers, begging him to stop it.

But we already knew about those, as we knew about his refusal to do
anything. We knew, as Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) made clear, that
"Trump didn't fail to act; he

**chose**not to act."

We already knew, from Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony, that Trump had
fought with Bobby Engel, who headed his Secret Service detail, when
Engel kept him from driving to the Capitol to join his armed mob. We
heard testimony tonight from other witnesses saying they'd heard the
same account.

We had not heard what one of last night's witnesses, whose identity
was kept secret, said: That White House security was concerned that if
Trump succeeded in joining his mob, what would follow would be "a
coup," or at least, an attempted coup. That testimony echoed the
presentiments of other West Wingers who feared that, if Trump went
unscripted before the press room cameras while the rioters were still
advancing in the Capitol, he might well tell them to keep going.

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