CNN
The day after the violent attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, then-President Donald Trump was convinced to put out a short video trying to turn the page on the efforts to overturn the election and move toward an orderly transition of power. In never-before-seen outtakes of that speech, Trump is seen refusing to actually acknowledge that “the election is over.
In a one-minute-and-forty-four-second video that’s about as revealing as anything about Trump’s actual state of mind after Jan. 6, the former president is seen struggling to come to grips with the damage caused by the seditious riot. The clip was aired towards the end of Thursday night’s Jan. 6 committee dramatic hearing.
“I would like to begin by addressing the heinous attack yesterday, and to those who broke the law, you will pay,” Trump declared in the video, reading a prepared speech. “You do not represent our movement. You do not represent our country. And if you broke the law—I can’t say that. I’m not – I already said, you will pay.”