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JAN. 6 CAPITOL ATTACK HEARING: ‘An attempted coup’ by Trump and his supporters, prime-time audience told

By Lisa Mascaro, Mary Clare Jalonick and Farnoush Amiri, AP Posted on June 9, 2022
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The chairman of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection and Donald Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election declared at Thursday’s prime-time hearing that the attack was an “attempted coup” that put “two and half centuries of constitutional democracy at risk.”

Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said “the world is watching” the U.S. response to the panel’s yearlong investigation into the Capitol riot and the defeated president’s extraordinary effort to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s election victory. He called it a “brazen attempt” to overturn the election.

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