Former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao was one of the last top Trump administration officials to learn of the trauma of January 6th – because she was stuck in a long line taking photos with agency employees while the riot raged.
Chao testified to the House Committee that the long photo-line days before the end of the Trump administration kept her from learning that rioters had broken through police barriers, then climbed scaffolding and busted through Capitol windows, later occupying the House and chambers.
'I was at the Department, and I was taking farewell photographs with employees. So there was a long line, and that took about the afternoon. And an assistant came in at about, I think, 3:30, and said the Capitol had been breached, I think that was the word,' she testified, according to an interview transcript released by the House January 6 committee.
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