The Jan. 6 Committee Votes To Subpoena Donald Trump As The Midterm Elections Approach—Yikes!
October 16, 2022 by Marissa Matozzo
This article was posted on 07/30/22 titled: More Bombshells About Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 Speech Were Just Dropped During The Committee Hearing
The January 6 committee has revealed more lines that former president Donald Trump allegedly removed from his ‘National Healing’ speech on the day after the infamous Capitol riots. On the evening of January 7, 2021 (just a day after Trump dubbed the violent rioters “very special” and told them “we love you” but also “go home”), the twice-impeached president gave another speech from The White House.
Last week, Rep. Elaine Luria noted during a televised hearing that the billionaire was reluctant to even give a second speech. He changed his mind, however, Luria said, when advisors warned him of “concerns he might be removed from power under the 25th Amendment or by impeachment.” Luria also showed outtakes from the video in which Trump refused to say the following line, “This election is now over.”
Earlier this week, Luria shared another video online of Trump and prefaced it by saying, “There were more things he was unwilling to say.” The video also depicts an annotated document labeled, ‘Remarks on National Healing’ admit witness testimony gathered during the committee’s investigation.
Ivanka Trump, (his daughter and former White House advisor) also notably told the panel that the document “looks like a copy of a draft of the remarks for that day” and that black lines which crossed out some words and added others “looks like my father’s handwriting.”
If Trump had followed the original script seen in the video Luria posted on Twitter, he would have said, “I am directing the Department of Justice to ensure all lawbreakers are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. We must send a clear message — not with mercy but with JUSTICE. Legal consequences must be swift and firm.” However, these lines were crossed out in black pen.
And it didn’t stop there, as the following lines were also changed and left out of his script: “I want to be very clear: you do not represent me. You do not represent our movement.” Instead, the following was left in the script, “You do not represent our country.” Trump also allegedly decided to change the following line, “And if you broke the law, you belong in jail.” According to the black pen scribbles, this was edited to, “And if you broke the law, you will pay.”
He also reportedly shortened the following line, as it originally appeared, “Like all Americans, I am outraged and sickened by the violence, lawlessness and mayhem,” but it instead was changed to, “I am outraged by the violence, lawlessness and mayhem.”
Jared Kushner, (Trump’s son-in-law and former advisor) also gave testimony about this very Jan. 7 speech. He said, referring directly to the draft remarks that were prepared for the president, “We felt like it was important to further call for de-escalation.” In the video, an investigator asks Kushner why Trump would have crossed out the line about “lawbreakers” being “prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.” Kushner replied, “I don’t know.”