Instead, they assembled at the Washington Monument around 10 a.m., according to one of the committee’s live witnesses, Nick Quested, a documentary filmmaker who was embedded with the group that day.Ībout 200 members of the group gathered that morning, Mr. Trump’s address near the White House on Jan. Unlike many of their fellow Trump supporters, the Proud Boys did not show up for Mr. Trump in December 2020 calling on his supporters to come to Washington for a “wild” rally on Jan.
Representative Liz Cheney, Republican of Wyoming, who is serving as the committee’s vice chairwoman, said in an opening statement that the “pivotal movement” in the run-up to the Capitol attack was a Twitter post from Mr. His unyielding efforts to hold on to the presidency despite his loss were matched in the committee’s telling by the organized and determined efforts by the Proud Boys and other groups like the Oath Keepers, who felt they had been summoned to Washington by Mr. Trump also refused to intervene as the rioting got out of control, and he never gave an order to deploy the National Guard. Trump’s daughter Ivanka came to reject his lies about the election having been stolen. Trump, the committee established through snippets of testimony, had been informed directly by his attorney general and other aides that there was no evidence of the fraud he had claimed had cost him his election. The narrative the committee laid out to a national audience on prime-time television sought to draw a series of sharp distinctions: most notably between a president who watched on television as the riot raged and told aides that his vice president, Mike Pence, deserved the chants from supporters calling for him to be hanged, and the Capitol Police officer, Caroline Edwards, who was pounded unconscious as the Proud Boys mounted their attack.
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