Emails and text messages that Meadows submitted to the select committee, however, tell a different story.
Meadows, as Trump’s right-hand man, had a front-row seat to the president’s response as the violence at the Capitol unfolded. And the trove of documents that Meadows turned over to investigators reveals that he was fielding desperate messages from Trump’s eldest son, GOP lawmakers and the leading pundits at Fox News — including Hannity — urging Meadows to convince Trump to tell his supporters to end the siege and go home.
News reports have also revealed that Meadows was working behind the scenes with Ivanka Trump, the former president’s elder daughter, in an effort to press her father to make a public statement urging an end to the insurrection.
The elder Trump, alone in his private dining room watching the riot on television, resisted those pleas for hours. After the Capitol building was breached at 2:11 p.m., Trump’s first public statement was a tweet attacking former Vice President Mike Pence, himself a target of the rioters, for lacking “the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country.” That was at 2:24 p.m.
In a second tweet, at 3:13 p.m., Trump encouraged his supporters to “remain peaceful” and “respect” the police officers in the Capitol — a message that even his closest allies said was inadequate, since it suggested the rioters were welcome visitors in the Capitol.
Source: Meadows falsely claims that Trump ‘acted quickly’ to quell Jan. 6 riot | TheHill

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