Inflammatory Trump tweets on day of Capitol breach were final straw for loyal White House staffers Print this article
In the end, after a day of violence, weeks of baseless allegations that the election was stolen, and months refusing to commit to a peaceful transfer of power, it was the tweets that pushed President Trump s loyalists into a flurry of resignations.
Former staffers accused Trump of stoking violence in tweets that called on supporters to disperse but still included inflammatory claims about voter fraud.
The final trigger was apparently an evening message in which he said the violence, during which a protester was shot dead, was the result of an election victory being stripped from “patriots.”