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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Hugo Lowell

Trump’s possible ties to far-right militias examined by January 6 committee

Trump supporters clash with police and security forces as they try to storm the US Capitol on 6 January 2021.
Trump supporters clash with police and security forces as they try to storm the US Capitol on 6 January 2021. Photograph: Joseph Prezioso/AFP/Getty Images

Towards the end of her testimony to the House January 6 select committee, former Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson raised for the first time the prospect that Donald Trump might have had a line of communication to the leaders of the extremist groups that stormed the Capitol.

The potential connection from the former US president to the extremist right-wing groups came through her account of Trump’s order to his White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to call Roger Stone and Mike Flynn – which Meadows did – the evening before the Capitol attack.

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