'Trump to blame for insurrection'

Published date11 June 2022
Publication titleHuddersfield Daily Examiner
The committee said the assault was not spontaneous but an 'attempted coup' and a direct result of the defeated president's effort to overturn the 2020 election

With a never-before-seen 12-minute video of the deadly violence and testimony from Mr Trump's most inner circle, the House committee said the former president's repeated lies about election fraud and his public effort to stop Joe Biden's victory led to the attack and imperilled American democracy.

"Democracy remains in danger," said congressman Bennie Thompson, chairman of the panel, during the hearing. "January 6 was the culmination of an attempted coup, a brazen attempt, as one rioter put it shortly after January 6, to overthrow the...

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