The investigation into the attack on Congress on January 6, 2021 in the USA focuses on the claim that a message shared on Twitter by then-president Donald Trump mobilized the far-right to gather in Washington DC.
Despite losing the presidential election on November 3, 2020, Trump called on his supporters to gather outside the Congress building.
The commission that conducts the investigation in Congress accuses Trump of attempting a coup to stay in power.
On January 6, 2021, when members of Congress met to confirm the presidency of Joe Biden, who won the election, Trump’s supporters attacked Congress and stormed the building.
Before the investigative commission meeting, Republican Trump shared a message on his social media platform, Truth Social, which he founded, describing the Democrat-led House of Representatives panel as a “SCAM” and a “Political Hackers and Bandits” group.
The joint commission has been conducting a nearly a year-long investigation into the attack on the Capitol. Tuesday’s session focused on a Twitter message Trump sent on December 19, 2020, and the six-hour meeting at the White House prior to this post.
At this meeting, which was considered the “craziest meeting of the Trump presidency”, White House advisers and names in his own campaign team told Trump that he should make concessions to Democrat Biden.
On December 18, Trump hosted some of his unofficial advisers at the White House, urging him to continue allegations of widespread election fraud.
This group, which includes his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, suggested that Trump order the military to seize state ballot boxes.
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“I don’t think any of these people are giving good advice to the president,” Pat Cipollone, the White House adviser who attended the meeting, said in his statement to the committee.
The meeting ended with the rejection of the idea of confiscating the ballot boxes, with Trump tweeting at 1:42am local time, “Statistically impossible to have lost the 2020 election. Massive protest in (Washington) DC on January 6. Be there, it’s going to be crazy. He made a call to his supporters with his statements.
According to Democrat Jamie Raskin, a member of the Commission of Inquiry, the post “excited and mobilized” Trump’s supporters, who believed the election was stolen from him.
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