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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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David Smith Washington bureau chief

Trouble for Trump as committee makes case Capitol attack was premeditated

Donald Trump is facing growing legal peril as the House January 6 committee lays out a case that appears increasingly geared to making a criminal prosecution all but inevitable.

The panel’s seventh hearing on Tuesday argued that Trump instigated an attack on the US Capitol that was premeditated rather than spontaneous and that he cannot hide behind a defence of being “willfully blind”.

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