Can you imagine this made up story?” he said while recounting the now-infamous incident where he allegedly lunged at a Secret Service agent. “I mean, I’m the President of the United States. He also attacked the credibility of Cassidy Hutchinson, the aide to former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows whose bombshell testimony before the committee gave damning insight into the inner workings of the Trump administration in the days leading up to Jan. “But, three weeks after January 6th, she wrote us a letter saying, ‘Oh, I loved working for the President. “I watched this hoax last night where this young lady said, ‘Oh, I’m so heartbroken,'” he said, referring to Matthews’ appearance during the July 22 primetime hearing. Trump then railed against his former deputy press secretary Sarah Matthews, one of the committee’s witnesses, accusing her of being an attention-seeking hypocrite. Republican Blake Masters says Trump "literally saved" America - which I guess is Arizona speak for "sat in the White House dining room doing nothing for four hours on Jan. They want to damage me in any form so I can no longer represent you.”Īt one point, Masters joined Trump at the podium, stating the former president “ literally saved this country” - a curious claim considering the committee’s latest findings showed Trump willingly and deliberately refused to take any action during the siege of the Capitol, despite repeated pleas from White House staff and other officials. “Never forget: Everything this corrupt establishment is doing to me is all about preserving their power and control over the American people, for whatever reason. “Where does it stop? Where does it end?” he said of the committee’s investigation. He has, truly, locked himself up.It wasn’t until nearly two hours had elapsed before Trump finally mentioned the Jan. After four years of trying to keep people out, his defensible space has grown smaller and smaller, a contracting web of non-scalable wire mesh, and Trump barricading himself inside with a deadly virus and (tomorrow night, for the East Room Election Night bash) hundreds of his closest friends and followers. In a photo from July, the fences alternate, black and white, layers of further insulation from reality.įences have become the signature motif of the Trump presidency - a flimsy border wall that does little and Mexico most definitely has not paid for, chain-link cages for children, haphazard barriers around public buildings made from concrete blocks and topped with loops of razor wire, the array of defenses surrounding Trump Tower. There are white concrete traffic barriers to match. There are monolithic white panels that look like cheap kitchen cabinets from Home Depot with neoclassical panel molding. There are crowd-control barriers made from arched black steel. Around the White House now, there are two wrought-iron fences, one at the perimeter and one at the sidewalk. In the Obama years, a fence redesign was announced in the Times with an almost lighthearted tone - “ Wanted at the White House: A Fence That Says Halt! (With Curb Appeal)” - but by the time his successor was in office, the national mood had changed.
The most visible change was in 1995, when Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the building was permanently closed to traffic, not long after the Oklahoma City truck bombing. It will not be easy to get as close on Election Day.įor decades now, the Secret Service has called for a wider and wider security belt around the White House. In summer, the fence quickly became a stunning crowdsourced public art installation, threaded with calls for justice. It’s also known as an “anti-climb” fence, made from a welded wire mesh that’s so tightly woven it’s impossible to get a foothold - and very difficult to cut.
Every news report has quoted the presidential press office, calling it “ non-scalable,” and it’s similar to the barrier erected in June after protests thundered through American cities. There’s a fence going up at the White House today, aiming to keep protesters at bay on Election Night and beyond.
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