https:\/\/www.vox.com\/23205660\/trump-unhinged-giuliani-flynn-powell-january-6<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“On the eve of former President Donald Trump\u2019s infamous tweet calling for his supporters to show up in Washington on January 6, the West Wing was \u201cunhinged.\u201d<\/p>\n
As shown by the select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, the December 19 tweet followed an Oval Office meeting where insults, personal attacks, and even challenges to fistfights were exchanged among participants, as a group of outside advisers to Trump tried to persuade him to issue an executive order to seize voting machines and name lawyer Sidney Powell as a special counsel to investigate fraud in the election.<\/p>\n
In a text message provided to the committee, former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, who was also in the West Wing at that time, described the meeting to another White House aide. \u201cThe west wing is UNHINGED,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n
Even that fails to describe the fiery nature of the showdown between attorneys from the White House counsel\u2019s office and the likes of Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, former national security adviser Michael Flynn, and former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne. Giuliani testified that he called Trump\u2019s White House lawyers \u201ca bunch of pussies\u201d for not zealously backing Trump\u2019s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[336,1143,1138,431,221,1135,222,1134],"class_list":["post-8733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-attack","tag-capitol","tag-capitol-building","tag-democracy","tag-donald-trump","tag-insurrection","tag-president","tag-riot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8734,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8733\/revisions\/8734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}