美国广播公司新闻部驻华盛顿首席记者乔纳森·卡尔(Jonathan Karl)在美国广播公司的《本周》节目中透露，1月6日国会大厦遭到袭击时，美国前总统唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)仍在公众视线之外，在白宫私人餐厅看电视
卡尔在他的新书《背叛:特朗普秀的最后一幕》中报道说，加州众议院少数党领袖凯文·麦卡锡打电话给特朗普，要求他告诉暴徒离开国会大厦
据称麦卡锡告诉特朗普，“我刚从国会大厦撤离!有人在房子的地板上开枪。你需要停下来。”
一位熟悉麦卡锡和特朗普之间通话的消息人士表示，这位前总统进行了回击，称“他们只是比你更难过，因为他们比你更相信这件事，凯文”，指的是选举被窃取的谎言。
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向袭击美国国会大厦的特朗普总统的支持者发射催泪瓦斯
根据卡尔的消息来源，这位前总统喜欢他所看到的，吹嘘人群的规模，并与希望他告诉他的支持者停止骚乱的助手争论。
骚乱开始两小时后，特朗普终于默许录制了一段视频声明。在推特上发布的信息中，他要求他的支持者回家，但也赞扬了他们。“我们爱你。你很特别，”特朗普在视频中说。
出席录音的一名助手说，“特朗普不得不多次录音，他们才认为他说得对。”
根据卡尔的说法，在早期版本中，他忽略了告诉他的支持者离开国会大厦。
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唐纳德·特朗普总统在白宫椭圆形办公室的仪式上聆听.
上周，一份参议院报告记录了特朗普试图利用司法部推翻总统选举的令人震惊的新细节。司法部长比尔·巴尔拒绝同意，这激怒了特朗普，他在12月初表示没有普遍的欺诈行为。
报道称，巴尔在12月中旬离任后，特朗普向代理司法部长杰弗里·罗森施压，要求他帮助窃取选举，但他也拒绝了。
罗森告诉参议员，他告诉特朗普，司法部“不能也不会只是扳动开关，改变选举。”
对此，特朗普要求DOJ“只说选举腐败，剩下的交给我和(共和党)国会议员。”
去年12月下旬，特朗普求助于杰弗里·克拉克(Jeffrey Clark)，这位律师没有选举法方面的经验，但他承诺在没有证据的情况下宣布存在广泛的选民欺诈，并向有争议的州施压，要求推翻拜登总统的胜利。
克拉克也给谎言的混合物带来了新的阴谋论。两名熟悉克拉克行动的消息人士表示，特朗普“认为，一家名为Nest Labs的公司在中国为谷歌制造的无线恒温器可能被用来操纵佐治亚州的投票机。这个想法很疯狂，但引起了特朗普的兴趣，他要求国家情报总监约翰·拉特克利夫对此进行调查。”
根据卡尔的说法，在1月3日戏剧性的三小时椭圆形办公室会议上，特朗普说他想让克拉克担任代理司法部长。
根据罗森的国会证词，特朗普说:“我们知道的一件事是，你，罗森，不会做任何事情来推翻选举。
随后，特朗普被告知，如果他完成计划，每个DOJ高级官员都将辞职，白宫法律顾问帕特·西波隆也是如此，他表示，根据卡尔的说法，特朗普的计划相当于“谋杀-自杀协议”。
《背叛:特朗普秀的最后一幕》将变得可用十一月十六日。
Trump boasted of crowd size at Jan. 6 riot, new book says
While the Capitol was under attack on Jan. 6, former President Donald Trump remained out of sight from the public and watched TV in the White House private dining room, ABC News' chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl revealed on ABC’s "This Week."
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., called Trump to ask him to tell the rioters to leave the Capitol, Karl reports in his new book, "Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show."
McCarthy allegedly told Trump, "I just got evacuated from the Capitol! There were shots fired right off the House floor. You need to make this stop."
A source familiar with the call between McCarthy and Trump said the former president pushed back, saying, "They are just more upset than you because they believe it more than you, Kevin," referring to the lie that the election had been stolen.
The former president liked what he saw, boasted about the size of the crowd and argued with aides who wanted him to tell his supporters to stop rioting, according to Karl's sources.
Two hours after the riot started, Trump finally acquiesced to recording a video statement. In the message posted to Twitter, he asked his supporters to go home but also praised them. "We love you. You are special," Trump said in the video.
An aide present for the recording said, “Trump had to tape the message several times before they thought he got it right."
In earlier versions he neglected to tell his supporters to leave the Capitol, according to Karl.
Last week, a Senate report documented alarming new details about the way Trump attempted to use the Justice Department to overturn the presidential election. Attorney General Bill Barr refused to go along, infuriating Trump when he said in early December there was no widespread fraud.
After Barr left office in mid-December, the report said Trump pressured Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen to help steal the election but he too refused.
Rosen told senators he informed Trump that the Justice Department “can't and won't just flip a switch and change the election.”
In response, Trump asked that the DOJ “just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the [Republican] congressmen.”
In late December, Trump turned to Jeffrey Clark, a lawyer with no experience in election law, but who promised to declare without evidence that there was widespread voter fraud and to pressure contested states to reverse President Biden's victory.
Clark also brought a new conspiracy theory to the cocktail of falsehoods. Two sources familiar with Clark’s actions said Trump “believed that wireless thermostats made in China for Google by a company called Nest Labs might have been used to manipulate voting machines in Georgia. The idea was nuts, but it intrigued Trump, who asked Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe to look into it.”
At a dramatic, three-hour Oval Office meeting on Jan. 3, Trump said he wanted to make Clark acting attorney general, according to Karl.
"One thing we know is you, Rosen, aren't going to do anything to overturn the election, Trump said, according to Rosen's congressional testimony.
Trump was then told every senior DOJ official would resign if he went through with his plan, as well as White House counsel Pat Cipollone, who said Trump’s plan amounted to “murder-suicide pact," according to Karl.
"Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show” willbecome availableNov. 16.
