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Attorneys representing people arrested in connection with the Capitol riot are focusing on Trump.
They re blaming him for inciting the deadly siege with his spread of disinformation about the election.
The allegations bolster House Democrats impeachment case against Trump and expose him to more legal risk.
The rioters were adamant when they stormed the US Capitol: Joe Biden and the Democrats had stolen the 2020 election from Donald Trump. Congress wasn t doing anything to stop it, so it was up to patriotic Americans like themselves to save the country.
âI answered the call of my presidentâ: Insurgents say Trump urged them on
By Alan Feuer and Nicole Hong New York Times,Updated January 17, 2021, 9:28 p.m.
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In this Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021 file photo, supporters of President Trump climbed the west wall of the US Capitol.Jose Luis Magana/Associated Press
In the two weeks since a raging mob stormed the Capitol, President Donald Trump has shown no sign that he believes he shares responsibility for the worst incursion on the halls of Congress in more than two centuries. Shielding him further, his loyalists have started shifting blame for the attack to an array of distracting bogeymen: far-left anti-fascists, Black Lives Matter activists, even vague conspiracies of a setup involving Vice President Mike Pence.
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In the two weeks since a raging mob stormed the Capitol, US President Donald Trump has shown no sign that he believes he shares responsibility for the worst incursion on the halls of Congress in more than two centuries.
Shielding him further, his loyalists have started shifting blame for the attack to an array of distracting bogeymen: far-left anti-fascists, Black Lives Matter activists, even vague conspiracies of a setup involving Vice President Mike Pence.
But one group of people has already come forward and directly implicated Mr Trump in the riot at the Capitol: some of his own supporters who were arrested while taking part in it.
A Delaware County man linked to the white supremacist Proud Boys has been charged with assaulting three Capitol Police officers with a fire extinguisher
A retired Pennsylvania firefighter was arrested Thursday on federal charges that he threw a fire extinguisher that hit three Capitol Police officers during the.