“According to what sources said, Scavino told Smith’s team, Trump was ‘very angry’ that day,” ABC reported.
“Not angry at what his supporters were doing to a pillar of American democracy, but steaming that the election was allegedly stolen from him and his supporters, who were ‘angry on his behalf.’

Scavino described it all as ‘very unsettling,’ sources said.”

Scavino — who has worked for Trump for the past three decades — was the only other person who had access to Trump’s Twitter account at the time.

As such, ABC reported that when Trump blasted former Vice President Mike Pence for refusing to go along with his scheme to throw out the 2020 election results, White House staffers confronted Scavino “demanding to know why he would post that in the midst of such a precarious situation.”

From the report:

Scavino said he was as blindsided by the post as they were, insisting to them,
“I didn’t do it,” according to the sources.

Some of Trump’s aides then returned to the dining room to explain to Trump that a public attack on Pence was “not what we need,” as Scavino put it to Smith’s team.

“But it’s true,” Trump responded, sources told ABC News. Trump has publicly echoed that sentiment since then.

At about the same time Trump’s aides were again pushing him to do more, a White House security official heard reports over police radio that indicated Pence’s security detail believed “this was about to get very ugly,” according to the House committee’s report.

As Trump aide Luna recalled, according to sources, Trump didn’t seem to care that Pence had to be moved to a secure location.

Trump showed he was “capable of allowing harm to come to one of his closest allies” at the time, Luna told investigators, the sources said.

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