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Donald Trump is set to give a policy address Tuesday. It'll include more claims of a stolen election - USA TODAY

A video showing alterations that, according to Ivanka Trump's testimony, former President Donald Trump made for a speech directed at the Capitol rioters on January 6 has gone viral on social media.

Representative Elaine Luria (D-VA), who led part of the January 6 Committee's public hearing last week, shared the video to her Twitter page on Monday.

The video shows previously unseen testimony about Trump and how he wanted to deal with the aftermath of January 6. The clip has so far been viewed more than 1 million times on Twitter

"It took more than 24 hours for President Trump to address the nation again after his Rose Garden video on January 6th in which he affectionately told his followers to go home in peace. There were more things he was unwilling to say," Luria wrote as the video caption.

The video showed Trump's eldest daughter and former White House adviser Ivanka Trump, former White House senior adviser Eric Herschmann and former White House adviser Jared Kushner discussing how the White House was preparing to respond to the January 6 riots the following day.

They were also asked about a speech prepared for the former president and asked why certain sentences were crossed out by Donald Trump. A copy of the annotated draft was presented to his daughter Ivanka Trump and she said the handwriting looked like her father's.

The speech, entitled "Remarks on National Healing" had the first two words, "Good Afternoon" crossed out as well as the word "today" in the following sentence.

Another sentence would have read: "Like all Americans, I am outraged and sickened by the violence, lawlessness and mayhem," the words "and sickened" were crossed out.

An entire section discussing the repercussions for those who broke the law was also crossed out.

"I am directing the Department of Justice to ensure all lawbreakers are prosecuted to the full extent of the law. We must send a clear message not with mercy but with JUSTICE. Legal consequences must be swift and firm."

As the speech specifically addressed those who had behaved destructively and violently, the sentence, "I want to be very clear you do not represent me. You do not represent our movement," were crossed out.

A closing sentence of the paragraph was also altered. Initially, it was meant to read: "And if you broke the law, you belong in jail and the words "belong in jail" were crossed out and replaced with "will pay".

When asked about the speech, Ivanka Trump said: "It looks like a copy of a draft of the remarks for that day( January 7, 2021)."

When asked whether she recognized the handwriting on the draft she said it looked like her father's handwriting.

In a separate interview, Ivanka Trump's husband, Kushner, said he had discussed the remarks with others who agreed "it was important to further call for de-escalation."

When asked why lines were crossed out, Kushner responded in a clip from an interview with the committee: "I don't know."

Newsweek has contacted Trump's office for comment.

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Every Word Donald Trump Crossed Out, Per Ivanka, From His 1/7 Speech - Newsweek

She is a local prosecutor who, while a Democrat, had little to do with the former president until he allegedly committed crimes in her jurisdiction. And her 2015 prosecution of a cheating scandal involving Atlanta teachers, a traditionally Democratic group, burnishes her nonpartisan prosecutorial credentials. Unlike federal prosecutors, she is unencumbered by Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel opinions on the powers of the presidency that can complicate charging current or former presidents.

None of this is to say that she will not encounter extreme scrutiny. Her every act will now be examined, as suggested by recent critical comments from a Georgia judge hearing a motion for her recusal from the Trump investigation. It was filed by a false elector, and several others later joined the motion, because of what we see as ethically permissible campaign activity by Ms. Willis. (The judge granted the motion as to the original petitioner, citing conflict of interest, but denied it to the others.) Still, she must proceed with extra care.

Her prosecutorial task will not be easy. When you charge a president, you need more than the standard proof beyond a reasonable doubt; you need proof way beyond a reasonable doubt. That is what the committee has helped deliver, producing a mountain of additional evidence that might have taken her years to gather if she could have gotten it at all.

Take the testimony by the former acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen and other witnesses about Mr. Trumps attempt to hijack the Justice Department which included an effort by Jeffrey Clark to send a letter to state officials in states, including Georgia, that falsely claimed that the Justice Department had identified significant concerns that would affect the states election results.

Then there is the phony electors scheme. Here again, the committee came to Ms. Williss aid, obtaining testimony from Ronna Romney McDaniel, the chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, and others describing Mr. Trumps personal involvement in helping recruit false electors in states like Georgia. That testimony directly linked Mr. Trump to the conspiracy Ms. Willis may charge.

Any prosecution must consider intent, and the committee has secured proof of Mr. Trumps state of mind that might not have been otherwise available. Testimony from an array of witnesses especially those closest to Mr. Trump, like his former attorney general Bill Barr and his former White House counsel Pat Cipollone demonstrated that Mr. Trump was told that he had lost the election and, after Dec. 14, when the Electoral College cast its votes, that there was no legitimate legal basis to continue his attack.

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Opinion | This Georgia Prosecutor Has Donald Trump in Her Sights, and Shes Not Stopping - The New York Times

Jared Kushner, a former senior aide to then-president Donald Trump who is married to Trumps daughter, Ivanka, wrote in a memoir to be published next month that he had a bout with thyroid cancer in 2019 that was previously undisclosed.

According to excerpts of the book seen by Reuters, Kushner wrote that White House physician Sean Conley pulled him aside on Air Force One as Trump flew to Texas to tell him his test results from Walter Reed Medical Center showed he had cancer and we need to schedule a surgery right away.

Kushner had the surgery right before Thanksgiving that year and managed to keep his cancer diagnosis secret despite working in a White House where news leaks were rampant. The book excerpts were first reported by the New York Times.

Unbeknownst to Kushner, Trump was aware of the cancer diagnosis. Kushner wrote: The day before the surgery, Trump called me into the Oval Office and motioned for his team to close the door. Are you nervous about the surgery? he asked.

Kushner asked how Trump knew, to which he replied: Im the president. I know everything. I understand that you want to keep these things quiet. I like to keep things like this to myself as well. Youll be just fine. Dont worry about anything with work. We have everything covered here.

Kushner reveals the cancer diagnosis in his memoir Breaking History: A White House Memoir, to be published on 23 August.

Kushner said a substantial part of his thyroid was removed during the surgery, which came during tense negotiations with China about a trade deal.

Kushner was a lead negotiator in a US-brokered normalisation deal between Israel and several Arab countries in 2020. He now runs global investment firm Affinity Partners, and has stepped away from politics for the time being.

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Jared Kushner says he had thyroid cancer while aide to Trump in 2019 - The Guardian US

It was great TV.

This is what then-President Donald Trump was apparently thinking as rioters sacked our nations Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. While so many of us were dumbstruck and left reeling by what was unfolding at the seat of our nations government, Trump was watching with rapt attention, tuned into the riot that had been his brainchild as though he were witnessing the greatest reality TV show of all time.

Thursday nights hearing by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot brought the depths of Trumps malfeasance more clearly into focus than ever.

The long and the short of it: our nations 45th president instigated the riot and then did exactly nothing to call off the insurrectionists once they were running rampant across and throughout the Capitol. Nothing. Despite repeated pleas for a statement.

The question one needs to ask after six weeks of hearings staged by the Jan. 6 panel: Does any of this matter, or are Trumps hardcore backers so solidly on board with their man that theres nothing that could shake their faith? The good news on that front: Theres increasing evidence that the cumulative effect of the hearings has been taking a toll on the former reality TV stars standing. We can only hope.

For about three hours while the Capitol was under attack from roughly 1 through 4 p.m. Trump was secluded in the White House private dining room. During this period, while our democracy was under siege, the commander-in-chief of our nations armed forces didnt contact the secretary of defense, the attorney general or the secretary of homeland security. Instead, the TV-obsessed Trump apparently just watched and watched.

Its surely worth asking whether Trump should be criminally charged in connection with the events of Jan. 6. There are, of course, reasonable arguments pro and con.

But separate from possible criminal charges coming from the Department of Justice, theres the very real fact that Trump is being tried in the court of public opinion. And hes increasingly looking guiltier than sin.

Suppose it is clear one day soon that Trump has effectively become yesterdays news, with far too many Republicans and independents having moved on for him to ever again have a shot at the presidency. Would that be sufficient? Not for many. But it surely wouldnt be bad at all.

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Donald Trump was overseeing greatest reality TV show of all time (Editorial) - MassLive.com