Wednesday, July 13, 2022

Donald Trump Tweet Incited Capitol Attack, Says Inquiry - BBC News

Jul 13, 2022 A Trump tweet mobilised far-right extremists to converge on Washington DC on the day of last year's Capitol riot, a congressional inquiry has heard.

The then-president forged ahead with a rallying call to supporters eventthough aides repeatedly told him he had fairly lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden.

The committee accuses Mr Trump of an attempted coup to remain in power. Mr Trump has described the hearings as an attempt to distract Americans from the "disaster" of Democratic governance amid rampant inflation.



It has taken the authorities a long time to come to the conclusion that this was an attempted coup. My followers and visitors will surely remember that I called it out for what it was when it was actually happening. Like many others, I watched the events in real time. I concluded there and then that it was an attempted coup d’état.

Donald Trump is a sh**stirrer who should be incarcerated. At the very least, he should never be allowed to run for high office again. To allow him to do so would be asking for trouble: trouble for America and trouble for the rest of the world. – © Mark Alexander