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Lauren Gambino in Washington

House panel showed Trump conspired to seize the election – but was it illegal?

Portrait of Donald Trump speaking into a microphone, pointing at the camera.
The House committee investigating the attack on the US Capitol declared Donald Trump was at the center of a conspiracy to seize a second term in office. Photograph: Jonathan Drake/Reuters

During the course of its landmark summer of hearings, the House select committee investigating the deadly insurrection at the US Capitol has sought to show that Donald Trump was at the center of a multi-layer conspiracy to seize a second term in office, accusing him of having “summoned the mob, assembled the mob and lit the flame of this attack”.

Then, for 187 minutes on 6 January, the president let the firestorm he ignited burn, the panel argued in a gripping capstone presentation on Thursday.

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