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"I don't want to say the election is over,"
Trump said in footage recorded as he rehearsed a Jan. 7, 2021,
speech that White House staff wrote in the hope of encouraging
calm after a mob of the then-president's supporters launched the
deadly attack intended to overturn his election defeat.
The previously unseen footage was broadcast during Thursday's
hearing of the House of Representatives Select Committee
investigating the Jan. 6 attack.
"I just want to say Congress has certified the results without
saying the elections over, OK?" Trump said. Unseen off-camera,
his oldest daughter Ivanka could be heard helping revise the
speech text.
In the version of the address that was aired at the time, Trump
simply said, "Now Congress has certified the results. A new
administration will be inaugurated on Jan. 20."
The hearing on Thursday focused on what members said was Trump's
failure to act for the 187 minutes between the end of his
inflammatory speech at a rally urging supporters to march on the
Capitol, and the release of a video telling them to go home.
(Reporting by Moira Warburton, Doina Chiacu and Rose Horowitch
in Washington; Editing by Scott Malone)
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