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TRUMP SLAMS CAPITOL RIOT INQUIRY AS ‘KANGAROO COURT’

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Former US President Donald Trump called the congressional investigation into the Capitol brawl a "Kangaroo Court."

 

He said the probe was launched to divert attention away from the "failure" of Democratic-led rule in a 12-page statement.

 

 

 

It comes after the committee had two public hearings accusing Mr Trump of staging a coup in order to keep power.

 

 

 

On Monday, the panel highlighted evidence of Trump advisors' disagreements about whether or not to recognize his electoral defeat.  On January 6, 2021, Trump supporters stormed Congress in an attempt to prevent Joe Biden's election victory from being certified. More than 800 people have been arrested in virtually every state as part of a separate criminal probe.

 

"Democrats are unable to propose answers seventeen months after the events of January 6th," Mr Trump, a Republican, said in a statement posted through his Save America PAC.

 

 

 

He went on to say, "They are trying to rewrite the narrative of a failing society, without even making note of the chaos and death wrought by the Radical Left just months before," referring to the riots that erupted during US racial justice rallies in the summer of 2020.

"Make no mistake: they have complete power over the government." They are to blame for the calamity. They're hopeful that these hearings would help them turn around their bleak outlook."

 

Mr Trump accused the "unselect pseudo-committee," a Democratic-led House of Representatives select committee that has been investigating the matter for the last year, of treason.

 

 

Mr Trump rehashed his baseless claims of voting fraud throughout the majority of his address. Since the November 2020 election, a handful of similar cases have been prosecuted, but none on a scale that might have swung the election in Mr Biden's favor.

Mr. Trump referred to Vice President Joe Biden as "Basement Biden." "Our country is in free fall," he said, dismissing the congressional investigation as a ruse to keep him from running for president in 2024.

 

On the second day of public hearings, the House committee was presented video evidence from former campaign manager Bill Stepien, who claimed that the aides had divided into two squads after the election.

 

 

 

He distinguished between "team normal," which accepted the election results, and "Rudy's team," who believed Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani's charges of election fraud.

On the night of the election, both Mr Stepien and another witness, former Trump aide Jason Miller, said that Mr Giuliani seemed to be drunk.

 

Mr. Giuliani advised that Trump "go ahead and proclaim victory and announce that we'd won it fully" despite the fact that results were still pouring in, according to Mr. Miller.

 

 

 

 

Mr Giuliani denied being drunk on election night through a spokeswoman on Monday, saying he didn't know why Mr Miller would "make such a ridiculous accusation."

 

 

 

Former Attorney General Bill Barr claimed he repeatedly warned Mr Trump there was no foundation for accusations of manipulated voting machines or ballot "dumps" – which he called "crazy nonsense" – in filmed evidence shown at Monday's session.

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