The damning final report into the US Capitol riot comes with Donald Trump again running for the presidency while also facing multiple federal investigations.
says Donald Trump criminally engaged in a "multi-part conspiracy" to overturn the lawful results of the 2020 presidential election.
The witnesses - ranging from many of Mr Trump's closest aides to law enforcement officers to some of the rioters themselves - detailed the former president's actions in the weeks ahead of the insurrection and how his wide-ranging pressure campaign to overturn his defeat directly influenced those who pushed past the police and smashed through the windows and doors of the Capitol on 6 January 2021.
Mr Trump's repeated lies of widespread voter fraud resonated with his supporters, the committee said, and were amplified on social media, building on the distrust of government he had fostered for his four years in office.Donald Trump running again for presidency, facing multiple federal investigationsand also facing multiple federal investigations, including probes of his role in the insurrection and the presence of classified documents at his Florida estate.
It is also a final act for House Democrats who are ceding power to Republicans in less than two weeks, and have spent much of their four years in power investigating Mr Trump.Democrats impeached Mr Trump twice, the second time a week after the insurrection. He was acquitted by the Senate both times. Other Democratic-led probes investigated his finances, his businesses, his foreign ties and his family.
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