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Post by Admin on Jun 10, 2022 17:05:52 GMT
Former US President Donald Trump accused of 'attempted coup' - BBC News 14,094 views Jun 11, 2022 Former US President Donald Trump has been accused of orchestrating last year's Capitol riot in an "attempted coup".
Trump supporters stormed Congress on 6 January 2021 as lawmakers met to certify Joe Biden's election victory.
After almost a year of investigating, a congressional hearing revealed Never-before-seen footage and interviews with members of Mr Trump's inner circle about what happened - including the ex-president's daughter, Ivanka Trump.
Former US President Donald Trump orchestrated last year’s Capitol riot in an “attempted coup”, a congressional inquiry has heard as a prime-time hearing opened into the raid.
Liz Cheney, the Republican vice-chair of the committee, said Mr Trump had “lit the flame of this attack”.
Bennie Thompson, a Democrat, said the riot endangered American democracy.
Trump supporters stormed Congress on 6 January 2021 as lawmakers met to certify Joe Biden’s election victory.
After almost a year of investigation, the Democratic-led US House of Representatives select committee opened on Thursday evening by showing clips from interviews it conducted with members of Mr Trump’s inner circle.
Footage was aired of testimony by former US Attorney General Bill Barr saying the former president’s claims that the election was stolen were baseless.
“We can’t live in a world where the incumbent administration stays in power based on its view, unsupported by specific evidence, that there was fraud in the election,” said the former attorney general.
The hearing also featured a recording of testimony by Ivanka Trump, the ex-president’s daughter, saying she “accepted” Mr Barr’s rejection of her father’s conspiracy theory.
Before the House inquiry opened on Thursday evening – the first of six hearings expected this month – Mr Trump dismissed it as a “political HOAX”.
The former president has been publicly hinting about another White House run in 2024. He continues to peddle unsubstantiated claims that the last election was rigged by mass voter fraud.
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Post by Admin on Jun 10, 2022 19:04:45 GMT
‘It should be uncomfortable’: Officer attacked on Jan. 6 reacts to new video of riot 901 views Jun 11, 2022 US Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn described the emotion of witnessing the first prime-time hearing on the January 6 riot and reliving what he and his colleagues experienced while defending the Capitol building. #CNN #News
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Post by Admin on Jun 10, 2022 22:36:18 GMT
ABC News Live: Graphic new video of Capitol riot shown in Jan. 6 hearing 72,985 views Jun 11, 2022 Plus, the anti-abortion rights movement in the U.S. appears to be on the cusp of a major victory, despite public opinion, and taking a closer look at faith and identity during Pride Month.
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Post by Admin on Jun 11, 2022 0:43:57 GMT
Former President Trump made at least nine posts on his social media platform Truth Social on Thursday night and Friday morning to slam the prime-time Jan. 6 hearing. Driving the news: "So the Unselect Committee of political HACKS refuses to play any of the many positive witnesses and statements, refuses to talk of the Election Fraud and Irregularities that took place on a massive scale, and decided to use a documentary maker from Fake News ABC to spin only negative footage," Trump wrote on Thursday night. "Our Country is in such trouble!" he added. State of play: During its prime-time hearing, the Jan. 6 committee tied the former president to the violence of that day. "President Trump summoned the mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame,” Vice Chair Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said. Cheney said that testimony will reveal Trump saying that former Vice President Mike Pence "deserves" to be hanged. The committee also played video clips showing Trump cabinet members, including former Attorney General Bill Barr, saying that the false claims about the 2020 presidential election were illegitimate. "I told the president it was b******t. I didn't want to be a part of it," Barr said in a closed-door video aired during the hearing. What he's saying: Trump in a series of posts on his social media platform said Barr "was a weak and frightened Attorney General" and said his daughter, Ivanka Trump, "was not involved in looking at, or studying, election results." "The so-called 'Rush on the Capitol' was not caused by me, it was caused by a Rigged and Stolen Election!" Trump wrote on Friday morning. "I NEVER said, or even thought of saying, 'Hang Mike Pence.' This is either a made up story by somebody looking to become a star, or FAKE NEWS!" he wrote.
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Post by Admin on Jun 11, 2022 6:35:56 GMT
Trump Responds To Former AG Barr’s January 6th Testimony 33,291 views Jun 11, 2022 The January 6th committee argued that the attack on the U.S. Capitol was no spontaneous riot but the culmination of a months-long attempted coup, with former President Donald Trump at the center of the conspiracy. Trump called former Attorney General William Barr a coward on social media after Barr disagreed with Trump’s assertions that the presidential election in 2020 was rigged.
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