January 6 ‘was a coup organized by the president’, says Jamie Raskin
by Ankita Rao in Washington from US news | The Guardian on (#5YBK3)
Member of House Capitol attack panel says hearings will focus on Trump's bid to cling to power
Donald Trump attempted a coup on 6 January 2021 as he tried to salvage his doomed presidency, and that will be a central focus of forthcoming public hearings of the special House panel investigating events surrounding the insurrection at the US Capitol, the congressman Jamie Raskin has said.
Raskin is a prominent Democrat on the committee and also led the House efforts when Trump was impeached for a historic second time, in 2021, accused of inciting the storming of the US Capitol by his extremist supporters who were trying to stop the certification of Joe Biden's victory.
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