The former president is continuing to tell the same kinds of lies that incited the Jan. 6 attack.
Jan. 6 started with a rally near the White House and ended with a violent mob breaking into the Capitol, fighting police and ransacking the building.
A bipartisan House majority voted to impeach Trump for “incitement of insurrection” shortly after the attack. A bipartisan Senate majority voted to convict, but the vote fell short of the two-thirds total needed for conviction. Republicans have since downplayed the significance of the riot, including opposing an investigatory commission and dishonestly blaming Democrats for the Capitol’s vulnerability to the attack.
But the select committee, which has two Republican and seven Democratic members, has been steadily gathering evidence, conducting depositions and issuing subpoenas. Rep. Bennie Thompson , its chairman, has said the committee will make criminal referrals to Trump allies who defy subpoenas. Trump has continuously lied about the 2020 election, which he lost by a wide margin, and has made plenty of excuses for the Capitol attack, but Wednesday’s comment is one of his most brazen yet.
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