Trump’s possible ties to far right militias examined by January 6 committee

Capitol attack panel expected to study links between Trump and the extremist groups in closer detail at seventh public hearing

Towards the end of her testimony to the House January 6 select committee, former Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson raised for the first time the prospect that Donald Trump might have had a line of communication to the leaders of the extremist groups that stormed the Capitol.

The potential connection from the former US president to the extremist right-wing groups came through her account of Trump's order to his White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to call Roger Stone and Mike Flynn - which Meadows did - the evening before the Capitol attack.