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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Andrew Feinberg

Trump’s ‘legacy of American carnage’: Jan 6 hearing reveals president’s role in secret plot to bring mob to Capitol

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Former president Donald Trump planned to order the riotous mob he’d brought to Washington to march on the US Capitol on January 6, just as Congress was meeting to conduct the final certification of his loss to Joe Biden, according to evidence presented by the House select committee.

The committee revealed that it had obtained White House records and other evidence showing Mr Trump’s intent to order such a march, including a draft of a tweet in which he would have told his 80 million Twitter followers that his speech at the rally was to be followed by a march to the Capitol.

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