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Washington (AFP) - Members of right-wing militia groups and other supporters of Donald Trump staged the January 6, 2021 assault on the US Capitol after a tweet from the former president seen as a "call to arms," lawmakers said Tuesday.

WASHINGTON — Faced with no legal path to staying in office, former President Donald Trump summoned supporters to Washington to pressure Congress to overturn the 2020 election results, a move far-right extremists saw as a cue to attack the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, the House committee investigating the insurrection…

WASHINGTON — Sidney Powell, the Dallas lawyer who was once a key member of Donald Trump’s legal team until the former president’s personal attorneys publicly disavowed her, has been the subject of renewed focus as the House panel probing the Jan. 6 Capitol riot continues its bombshell public hearings.

“American carnage, that’s Donald Trump’s true legacy."

Panel hears former president had no reason to believe election was unfair: ‘President Trump is a 76-year-old man. He is not an impressionable child’

Former president’s phone call was revealed in closing statement of latest hearing

The committee has referred the matter to the Justice Department, Cheney said.

House investigators are laying out the origins of the violence at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021

The former president’s actions had a profound influence on extremist groups focusing on Jan. 6 to overturn his election loss, committee says.