January 6 hearing: Trump was at heart of plot that led to ‘attempted coup’
by Lauren Gambino in Washington from US news | The Guardian on (#606MD)
House panel makes case in primetime broadcast, revealing Trump said perhaps Mike Pence deserved to be hanged by rioters
The House select committee investigating the deadly January 6 assault on the US Capitol in 2021 said Donald Trump was at the center of a sprawling conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election that culminated in an attempted coup".
With a shocking new accounting of the worst attack on the halls of Congress in more than two centuries, the committee outlined in gripping detail over the course of two hours on Thursday night the grave threat posed to American democracy then and now by the former president's actions.
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