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President Donald Trump was reluctant to address the nation after last year’s Jan. 6 Capitol riot — and omitted lines from his prepared speech calling on rioters to be prosecuted, House probers revealed Monday. 

Rep. Elaine Luria (D-Va.) shared a video on Twitter that featured the panel’s pre-taped interviews with various aides to the former president, including his daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner, discussing the scripted speech.

It is not clear who wrote the original speech, but the tweeted 3-minute-39-second video focuses particularly on the lines the 45th president apparently crossed out with black marker before reading the remarks to the nation Jan. 7, 2021. 

Among the nixed lines was one directing the Department of Justice “to ensure all lawbreakers are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”

Trump also axed this sentence: “We must send a clear message — not with mercy but with JUSTICE. Legal consequences must be swift and firm.”

In addition, he crossed out, “I want to be very clear, you do not represent me. You do not represent our movement,” while leaving in, “You do not represent our country.”

Also, instead of warning rioters, “You will pay,” Trump changed the line to, “You belong in jail.”

The original line that had read, “I am outraged and sickened by the violence, lawlessness and mayhem” was instead changed to leave out the word “sickened,” too.


  “I don’t want to say the election is over,” then-President Donald Trump objected. The White House “I don’t want to say the election is over,” then-President Donald Trump objected. The White House

Monday’s video came four days after the House select committee’s latest primetime hearing in its investigation into the Capitol riot. 

Thursday’s hearing — which focused on Trump’s inaction while the siege was going on — featured deleted scenes from the president’s taped Jan. 7 remarks. The video aired by the panel also showed Trump objecting to certain lines, including when he said, “I don’t want to say the election is over.”

The new video shows that during Ivanka Trump’s deposition, she was pressed on the script, titled “Remarks on National Healing.”

“Do you recognize what this is?” she was asked. 

“It looks like a drafted copy of remarks for that day,” the former president’s daughter responded.


  A document titled “Remarks on National Healing” featured several lines crossed out and some alternate words written alongside the text.  Jan. 6 Committee A document titled “Remarks on National Healing” featured several lines crossed out and some alternate words written alongside the text.  Jan. 6 Committee

  “It looks like my father’s handwriting,” Ivanka Trump said of the edited script. Jan. 6 Committee “It looks like my father’s handwriting,” Ivanka Trump said of the edited script. Jan. 6 Committee

  Jared Kushner said he did not know why President Donald Trump crossed out the line about legal consequences. Jan. 6 Committee Jared Kushner said he did not know why President Donald Trump crossed out the line about legal consequences. Jan. 6 Committee

The committee asked, “And as you can see, throughout the document, there are lines crossed out, there are some words added in. Do you recognize the handwriting?”

“It looks like my father’s handwriting,” Ivanka Trump said. 

Kushner was asked why Trump did not want to include the line that warned the DOJ would prosecute lawbreakers.

“I don’t know,” Kushner replied.

In terms of Trump crossing out the line that told the protesters, “You do not represent me,” Kushner said he didn’t know why his father-in-law nixed that either.

The language Trump sought to remove had been encouraged by former White House counsel Pat Cipollone.


  “You do not represent me. You do not represent our movement” was omitted from President Donald Trump’s speech after the deadly riot on Jan. 6. Stephen Yang “You do not represent me. You do not represent our movement” was omitted from President Donald Trump’s speech after the deadly riot on Jan. 6. Stephen Yang

  President Donald Trump had to reportedly be encouraged to deliver the speech in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 riot. Stephen Yang President Donald Trump had to reportedly be encouraged to deliver the speech in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 riot. Stephen Yang

Monday’s video also featured an interview with John McEntee, director of the White House personnel office under Trump. 

During his deposition, McEntee revealed Kushner had asked him to “nudge” Trump “along” in delivering the video message or speech. 

“[Kushner] knew since I’m always with [Trump] that, ‘Hey, if he asked your opinion, you know, try to nudge this along. This will help everything cool down,’ ” McEntee recounted.

When asked what Kushner meant by that, McEntee said the former president’s son-in-law sought “to make sure” Trump delivered the speech. 

“Was the implication that the president was in some ways reluctant to give that speech?” McEntee was asked. 

“Yeah,” McEntee said, detailing that it was because of “the fact that somebody has to tell me to nudge it along.” 

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