Longtime Trump Confidant Told Special Counsel Jack Smith the Ex-President Was ‘Just Not Interested’ in Stopping Jan. 6 Riot


A new report has revealed previously undisclosed details about Donald Trump’s inner circle and how they tried to get the former president to call off his rioting supporters on January 6th.
ABC News, on Sunday morning, reported that Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team interviewed Dan Scavino — the former Trump White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications, after his executive privilege claims were overruled last year. The report described key details offered by Scavino, former Trump aide Nick Luna, and others who were close to Trump that day and are now being legally compelled to comply with Smith despite any previous claims of executive privilege.
Previous reports about the storming of the U.S. Capitol have noted that Trump refused to quell his rioting supporters even when his aides urged him to do so.
“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.”
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More than half an hour later, Trump allowed Scacvino to tweet a message he wrote telling the rioters to “stay peaceful,” but aides reportedly kept pressing for more to be done. And Scavino confirmed that Trump had other concerns than stopping the riot.
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The conversation between Scavino and Smith’s team went on with him reportedly being yet another Trump official who saw no evidence of mass fraud that corrupted the results of the election.
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Trump aide Nick Luna told Mr Smith’s team about the moment Mr Trump was informed that Vice President Mike Pence had to be moved to a secure location, ABC News reported. The then-president allegedly responded, “So what?”
Just when I thought I couldn't get any sicker over Jan 6....

A new report has revealed previously undisclosed details about Donald Trump’s inner circle and how they tried to get the former president to call off his rioting supporters on January 6th.
ABC News, on Sunday morning, reported that Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team interviewed Dan Scavino — the former Trump White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications, after his executive privilege claims were overruled last year. The report described key details offered by Scavino, former Trump aide Nick Luna, and others who were close to Trump that day and are now being legally compelled to comply with Smith despite any previous claims of executive privilege.
Previous reports about the storming of the U.S. Capitol have noted that Trump refused to quell his rioting supporters even when his aides urged him to do so.
“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:
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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.
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.
More than half an hour later, Trump allowed Scacvino to tweet a message he wrote telling the rioters to “stay peaceful,” but aides reportedly kept pressing for more to be done. And Scavino confirmed that Trump had other concerns than stopping the riot.
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Trump listened to the pleas, “but he was just not interested at that moment to put anything out,” Scavino told Smith’s team, according to the sources. Instead, Trump was focused on watching TV and taking in the chaotic scenes, Scavino said, the sources added.
The conversation between Scavino and Smith’s team went on with him reportedly being yet another Trump official who saw no evidence of mass fraud that corrupted the results of the election.
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Trump aide Nick Luna told Mr Smith’s team about the moment Mr Trump was informed that Vice President Mike Pence had to be moved to a secure location, ABC News reported. The then-president allegedly responded, “So what?”
Just when I thought I couldn't get any sicker over Jan 6....
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