January 6 Report: Trump ‘Lit That Fire’ of Capitol Riot
Posting on his social media site, the former president called the report ‘highly partisan’ and pointed to his statement on January 6 that his supporters should protest ‘peacefully and patriotically.’
WASHINGTON — The House January 6 committee’s final report asserts that President Trump criminally engaged in a “multi-part conspiracy” to overturn the lawful results of the 2020 presidential election and failed to act to stop his supporters from attacking the Capitol, concluding an extraordinary 18-month investigation into the former president and the violent riot two years ago.
Mr. Trump “lit that fire,” the committee’s chairman, Representative Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, writes.
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