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David Clark

Donald Trump 'watched US Capitol riots on TV and ignored desperate pleas for peace'

Donald Trump ignored advisers as he spent hours watching the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol unfold on TV, a hearing was told.

Trump's children and other close advisers urged him to intervene and tell his supporters to stop the violence, witnesses told a congressional hearing on Thursday.

The House of Representatives Select Committee used its eighth hearing this summer to detail what members said was Trump's refusal to act for more than three hours between the end of his inflammatory speech at a rally urging supporters to march on the Capitol, and the release of a video telling them to go home.

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