{"id":45009,"date":"2022-06-10T07:47:37","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T11:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/?p=45009"},"modified":"2022-06-10T07:47:37","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T11:47:37","slug":"ap-house-panel-firmly-blames-donald-trump-for-jan-6-insurrection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/ap-house-panel-firmly-blames-donald-trump-for-jan-6-insurrection\/","title":{"rendered":"AP: House Panel Firmly Blames Donald Trump for Jan. 6 Insurrection"},"content":{"rendered":"
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January 6 Hearings (Still Photo Courtesy of PBS)<\/p><\/div>\n

The Associated Press reports the House panel investigating the January 6 insurrection<\/strong> at the U.S. Capitol<\/strong> laid the blame firmly on Donald Trump<\/strong> Thursday night, saying the assault was hardly spontaneous but an \u201cattempted coup\u201d and a direct result of the defeated president\u2019s effort to overturn the 2020 election.<\/p>\n

With a never-before-seen 12-minute video of extremist groups leading the deadly siege and startling testimony from Trump\u2019s most inner circle, the January 6th committee provided gripping detail in contending that Trump\u2019s repeated lies about election fraud and his public effort to stop Joe Biden\u2019s victory led to the attack and imperiled American democracy<\/p>\n

The hearings may not change Americans\u2019 views on the Capitol attack, but the panel\u2019s investigation is intended to stand as its public record. Ahead of this fall\u2019s midterm elections, and with Trump considering another White House run, the committee\u2019s final report aims to account for the most violent attack on the Capitol since 1814, and to ensure such an attack never happens again.<\/p>\n

Testimony showed Thursday how Trump desperately clung to his own false claims of election fraud, beckoning supporters to the Capitol on January 6 when Congress would certify the results, despite those around him insisting Biden<\/strong> had won the election.<\/p>\n

Former Attorney General Bill Barr<\/strong> in videotaped testimony said: “I made it clear I did not agree with the idea of saying the election was stolen..”<\/p>\n

In another videotaped interview, the former president\u2019s daughter, Ivanka Trump<\/strong>, testified to the committee that she respected Barr\u2019s view that there was no election fraud.<\/p>\n

Others showed leaders of the extremist Oath Keepers<\/strong> and Proud Boys<\/strong> preparing to storm the Capitol to stand up for Trump. One rioter after another told the committee they came to the Capitol because Trump asked them to.<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Trump summoned a violent mob,\u201d said Rep. Liz Cheney<\/strong>, R-Wyo., the panel\u2019s vice chair who took the lead for much of the hearing. \u201cWhen a president fails to take the steps necessary to preserve our union \u2014 or worse, causes a constitutional crisis \u2014 we\u2019re in a moment of maximum danger for our republic.\u201d<\/p>\n

There was an audible gasp in the hearing room when Cheney read an account that said when Trump was told the Capitol mob was chanting for Vice President Mike Pence<\/strong> to be hanged for refusing to block the election results. Trump responded that maybe they were right, that he \u201cdeserves it.\u201d<\/p>\n

At another point it was disclosed that Republican Representative Scott Perry<\/strong>, a leader of efforts to object to the election results, had sought a pardon from Trump, which would protect him from prosecution.<\/p>\n

When asked about the White House lawyers threatening to resign over what was happening in the administration, Trump\u2019s son-in-law Jared Kushner<\/strong> scoffed they were \u201cwhining.\u201d<\/p>\n

Police officers who had fought off the mob consoled one another as they sat in the committee room reliving the violence they faced on January 6.<\/p>\n

The riot left more than 100 police officers injured, many beaten and bloodied, as the crowd of pro-Trump rioters, some armed with pipes, bats and bear spray, charged into the Capitol. At least nine people who were there died during and after the rioting, including a woman who was shot and killed by police.<\/p>\n

Biden, in Los Angeles for the Summit of the Americas, said many viewers were \u201cgoing to be seeing for the first time a lot of the detail that occurred.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump, unapologetic, dismissed the investigation anew \u2014 and even declared on social media that January 6 \u201crepresented the greatest movement in the history of our country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee<\/strong> tweeted: \u201cAll. Old. News.\u201d<\/p>\n

Emotions are still raw at the Capitol, and security was tight. Law enforcement officials are reporting a spike in violent threats against members of Congress.<\/p>\n

Against this backdrop, the committee was speaking to a divided America. Most TV networks carried the hearing live, but Fox News Channel did not.<\/p>\n

Among those testifying was documentary maker Nick Quested<\/strong>, who filmed the Proud Boys storming the Capitol \u2014 along with a pivotal meeting between the group\u2019s then-chairman Henry \u201cEnrique\u201d Tarrio<\/strong> and another extremist group, the Oath Keepers, the night before in a nearby parking garage.<\/p>\n

Court documents show that members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers were discussing as early as November a need to fight to keep Trump in office. Leaders of both groups and some members have since been indicted on rare sedition charges over the military-style attack.<\/p>\n

In the weeks ahead, the panel is expected to detail Trump\u2019s public campaign to \u201cStop the Steal\u201d and the private pressure he put on the Justice Department to reverse his election loss \u2014 despite dozens of failed court cases attesting there was no fraud on a scale that could have tipped the results in his favor.<\/p>\n

The panel faced obstacles from its start. Republicans blocked the formation of an independent body that could have investigated the January 6 assault the way the 9\/11 Commission probed the 2001 terror attack.<\/p>\n

Instead, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi<\/strong> ushered the creation of the 1\/6 panel through Congress and rejected Republican-appointed lawmakers who had voted on January 6 against certifying the election results, eventually naming seven Democrats and two Republicans.<\/p>\n

The Justice Department<\/strong> has arrested and charged more than 800 people for the violence that day, the biggest dragnet in its history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Associated Press reports the House panel investigating the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol laid the blame firmly on Donald Trump Thursday night, saying the assault was hardly spontaneous but an \u201cattempted coup\u201d and a direct result of the defeated president\u2019s effort to overturn the 2020 election. 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