The group of American lawmakers investigating Donald Trump will hold a new prime-time hearing on Thursday, focusing on what the former president was doing while his supporters attacked Congress on January 6, 2021.
“For several hours, Donald Trump refused to intervene to stop”
this attack, indicated the vice-president of this parliamentary committee, Liz Cheney.
“You will hear that Donald Trump never picked up his phone that day to order his administration to lend a hand”
to the police, assured this elected official, one of the few Republicans to dare to publicly criticize the billionaire .
On January 6, 2021, at the call of Donald Trump, thousands of Americans went to Washington to protest against the result of the presidential election won by Joe Biden.
They had attacked Congress in chaos, after hearing the president invite them to
"march to the Capitol".
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Donald Trump had taken more than three hours before calling them to leave the premises, in a video posted on his Twitter account.
"I know your pain, I know your pain
," he told supporters from the White House gardens.
"But we have to go home now."
The demonstrators had finally withdrawn from the outskirts of Congress after the establishment of a curfew, decreed by the mayor of Washington.