'January 6th was the culmination of an attempted coup,' said Rep. BennieGThompson.
from the chair of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol, which has been wielding congressional authority to probe the 2021 insurrection and the role that Trump, his White House staff, his outside allies, and Republican lawmakers played in the violent attempt to prevent certification of President Joe Biden's election win.
"Donald Trump had his days in court to challenge the results," Rep. Bennie Thompson said in his remarks kicking off the hearing, the first in a series that's set to run through July."He was within his rights to seek those judgments. In the United States, law-abiding citizens have those tools for pursuing justice. He lost in the courts just as he did at the ballot box. And in this country, that's the end of the line.
The hearing featured the familiar case that Trump's falsehood-riddled speech just ahead of the Capitol attack as well as his repeated lies about the election results in the preceding weeks helped spur the violence that took place on January 6, delaying—but ultimately not preventing—Congress from making Biden's victory official despite the"Those who invaded our Capitol and battled law enforcement for hours were motivated by what President Trump had told them: that the election was...
"For anyone who didn't understand how violent that event was—I saw it, I documented it, and I experienced it,"Lisa Gilbert, the executive vice president of Public Citizen, said in a statement following the hearing that"the sober investigative facts and gripping video presented by the bipartisan committee simply speaks for itself."
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