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Riots at the Capitol building were 'the culmination of an attempted coup, a brazen attempt, as one rioter put it shortly after January 6, to overthrow the government'

The former president was blamed by the congressional panel for ‘lighting the flame’ of the attack on January 6, 2021

Viewers who tuned in Thursday to the first night of public hearings by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection were not Washington political theater as usual. On the contrary, the broadcast portion of the largest-scale investigation in congressional history was a clean, concise production of real substance.…

Analysis: Committee presented evidence that Trump said Pence ‘deserved’ hanging and that Republican members of Congress sought pardons

The House select committee presented their findings that the US Capitol attack was the ‘culmination of an attempted coup’

The January 6 committee’s overarching message was clear: ‘The conspiracy to thwart the will of the people is not over’

Trump took centre stage as US lawmakers pushed to highlight the danger and violence of the 2021 attack on US Capitol.

A violent mob of Trump supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, intent on disrupting a joint session of Congress that was meeting to count electoral votes and declare Democrat Joe Biden the winner of the 2020 presidential election.

Armed with new videos, text messages and emails, the committee investigating the riots at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, has laid out its evidence for the American public. Here's what we learned.

"It was carnage. It was chaos. I can’t even describe what I saw."

WASHINGTON — As rioters battered police and stormed inside the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, then-President Donald Trump grew angry with advisers pleading with him to do something, Vice Chairwoman Liz Cheney said Thursday in the first hearing by the House select committee investigating the attack.