Donald Trump Casually Sipped A Diet Coke, Watched Capitol Riot On TV: Report

Former President Donald Trump sipped his diet coke and watched the Capitol riot on television on January 6, 2021, a White House employee said according to new documents released by Special counsel Jack Smith on Friday. The attorney made nearly 2,000 heavily redacted pages of documents in his 2020 election subversion criminal case against Trump public. Most of the pages from the release are completely redacted and believed to include grand jury transcripts and notes from FBI interviews. However, some contained information that has been released publicly. Those include a transcript of Donald Trump's phone call with the Georgia secretary of state after the 2020 election. Read More: According to a transcript of an interview with a White House employee, Trump watched the riot unfold on TV. The former president had pulled away from his speech because 'they’re rioting down at the Capitol'. “And he was, like, What do you mean? I said, It’s, like, they’re rioting there at the Capitol. And he was, like, Oh, really? And then he was like, All right, let’s go see,” the employee said. He told the committee that he took off the Republican nominee's coat, got a TV and handed Trump the remote. He also got the 78-year-old a Diet Coke. Read More: Donald Trump watched the insurrection from the Oval Dining Room. “I’m taking off his outer coat that he’s wearing right now, and I get the TV, like, ready for him, and hand him over the remote, and he starts watching it,” the employee said. “And I stepped out to get him a Diet Coke, come back in, and that’s pretty much it for me as he’s watching it and, like, seeing it for himself.”