The Season 1 Finale: Hearing 8 Recap

187 Minutes

The season 1 finale did not disappoint. This hearing focused on the excruciating 187 minutes between when Trump learned about the attack and when he finally released the video telling the attackers to stop. Using testimony, phone call data, text messages, video, real-time news coverage, and law enforcement radio chatter, the Committee presented nearly a minute-by-minute review of Trump’s complete and total abdication of his duty and his oath to the office.

We have already been presented with Trump’s 7-part plan to overturn the election. We understand his motive — to stop the vote count in order to stay in power. The armed mob was what finally worked to stop the vote count. He deliberately chose not to act during those 187 minutes because the mob was finally accomplishing his goal.

VP Pence’s secret service detail had rushed him out of the chamber and they were frantically trying to get him out of harm’s way. The Committee synced up video from that day with the Secret Service police radio. As a cop’s wife, I can’t tell you how HAIR RAISING it was to hear that Pence’s Secret Service detail were saying goodbye to their families over the radio. They didn’t think they’d make it out alive. If the mob had broken into the room that Pence was in, the agents would have unloaded their weapons on American citizens. Trump put those Secret Service agents in that position. Trump put those citizens in that position. It’s so dishonorable it is sometimes difficult to comprehend.