🇺🇸 The House panel investigating the #Jan6insurrection at the US Capitol laid the blame firmly on Donald #Trump Thursday night, saying the assault was hardly spontaneous but an “attempted coup” and a direct result of his effort to overturn the 2020 election.
Bennie Thompson, Democrat of Mississippi and chair of the panel, laid out the committee’s initial findings that Trump led a “sprawling, multi-step conspiracy aimed at overturning the presidential election”.
The panel’s vice chair, Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, called it a “sophisticated seven-part plan.
The panel played a quip from former Attorney General Bill Barr who testified that he told Trump the claims of a rigged election were false.
In another, the former president’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, testified to the committee that she respected Barr’s view that there was no election fraud, admitting, “I accepted what he said.”
House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy called the panel a “scam” and labelled the investigation a political “smokescreen” for Democrats’ priorities.
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