Former President Donald Trump refused to declare the 2020 election was over in a rehearsed national TV address condemning the Capitol rioters a day after the Jan. 6, 2021 attack.
In video outtakes aired Thursday by the House Jan. 6 committee, Mr. Trump was urged by his staff, including daughter Ivanka, to say that Congress had certified the election and the election was “over.”
“I don’t want to say that the election is over,” Mr. Trump said.
The former president also got angry, upon a line saying his goal was to protect the “integrity of the vote.