January 6 Committee Details Trump’s Movements During ‘187 Minutes’ At 8th Hearing

During its eighth public hearing on July 21, the House January 6 Committee unveiled testimony and videos alleging to show that President Donald Trump was too slow to condemn the violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

The hearing, led by Reps. Elaine Luria (D-Va.) and Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), focused on the so-called “187 minutes” between President Donald Trump’s speech at the Ellipse and his video telling supporters at the Capitol to disperse on January 6.

In an interview before the hearing, Luria presaged the tone the hearing would take, saying that Trump “was doing nothing to actually stop the riot.”

This claim, that Trump failed to take sufficient action in a timely manner, was at the heart of the committee’s presentation on Thursday.

“What you will learn is that President Trump sat in his dining room and watched the attack on television while his senior-most staff, closest advisers, and family members begged him to do what is expected of any American president,” Luria said before the hearing.

Trump’s Actions During the ‘187 Minutes’ According to the January 6 Committee

Broadly, the committee on Thursday attempted to give a minute-by-minute account of Trump’s actions on January 6, starting at 1:10 p.m. ET upon the conclusion of his speech at the Ellipse and ending at 4:17 PM with his social media video telling supporters to disperse.

At the end of his Ellipse speech, Trump called on supporters to march to the Capitol in order to protest the certification of electoral slates by Congress.

“So we’re going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue—I love Pennsylvania Avenue—and we’re going to the Capitol,” Trump said. “And we’re going to try and give—the Democrats are hopeless, they’re never voting for anything, not even one vote—but we’re going to try and give our Republicans—the weak ones, because the

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