January 6 committee gets inside Trump's West Wing wall of obstruction

 https://edition.cnn.com/2022/01/03/politics/donald-trump-january-6-committee/index.html

Vice Chair Liz Cheney, a Wyoming Republican, told ABC News of "firsthand testimony" that Trump's daughter Ivanka, then a West Wing adviser, twice asked him to intervene in a melee in which police officers were beaten by his crowd.

 

Cheney did, however, warn that Trump's conduct was so egregious that he should not be allowed anywhere near power again, as the former President considers a potential new tilt at the White House in 2024.

"This is a man who has demonstrated that he's at war with the rule of law. He's demonstrated that he's willing to blow through every guardrail of democracy," Cheney said on CBS News' "Face the Nation" on Sunday. "And he can never be anywhere near the Oval Office again."

On the face of it, a refusal by the commander in chief to intervene to stop an assault on the citadel of American democracy during the process of certifying Biden's election is a clear infringement of his oath of office to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution.