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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Hugo Lowell in Washington

January 6 hearing to focus on Trump’s tweet to extremist group

Then-US president Donald Trump speaks to supporters from the Ellipse near the White House in Washington on 6 January 2021
Then-US president Donald Trump speaks to supporters from the Ellipse near the White House in Washington on 6 January 2021. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images

The House January 6 select committee is expected to make the case at its seventh hearing Tuesday that Donald Trump gave the signal to the extremist groups that stormed the Capitol to target and obstruct the congressional certification of Joe Biden’s electoral college win.

The panel will zero in on a pivotal tweet sent by the former president in the early hours of the morning on 19 December 2020, according to sources close to the inquiry who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the forthcoming hearing.

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