US lawmakers on Tuesday accused Donald Trump of inciting a group of his supporters to attack the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, in a last-ditch effort to stay in power, as Congress formally confirmed the then-defeated president.
In video testimony shown by the House committee investigating the attack, witnesses described a noisy six-hour nighttime meeting in December 2020 for Democrat Joe Biden.
Instead, Trump aligned himself with outside advisers, who urged him to continue making unfounded allegations of election fraud. Committee members said Trump was ultimately responsible for the chaos that ensued.
“President Trump is a 76-year-old man. He is not an impressionable child … He is responsible for his own actions and choices,” said Liz Cheney, the panel’s vice-president, Republican lawmaker.
Committee members say Trump incited the attack with comments such as a Twitter post on December 19, 2020, shortly after the six-hour meeting, refusing to acknowledge that Trump lost the election, and urging supporters to fill Washington for a “major protest”. Saying “Be there, it will be wild”.
Trump, a Republican who has stated he will run for the White House again in 2024, denies misconduct and claims he lost due to widespread fraud that only benefited Democrat Biden.
(Reporting by Patricia Zengerle and Richard Cowan, additional reporting by Sarah N. Lynch, Doina Chiacu and Rose Horowitch)
source: Noticias
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