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Jonathan Bernstein: Jan. 6 panel made the case against Trump

At long last, the House Jan. 6 committee held its first hearing, and made it a pretty good one. Right at the top, Chairman Bennie Thompson gave us the right wording: Former President Donald Trump’s actions and those of his associates were an effort to “overthrow the government.” That’s what…

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Only one major cable news channel did not carry the Jan. 6 hearing live: Fox News

Airing the hearing would have required Fox to broadcast flat contradictions of what its personalities have told their audience in the past year and a half: that the riot was a mere legal protest.

WEKU

Four key questions for the January 6 committee hearings to answer

The select committee will unveil its findings over a series a public hearings which will begin Thursday at 8pm

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Jared Kushner attacked for calling Trump counsel’s threats to quit ‘whining’ in ‘slimy’ Jan 6 appearance

‘Jared Kushner is a slimy weasel,’ one social media user says

The Independent UK

Capitol Riot Panel Blames Trump for 1/6 ‘Attempted Coup’

The House panel investigating the Jan.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Capitol riots: Panel investigating insurrection blame Donald Trump for ‘attempted coup’

Riots at the Capitol building were 'the culmination of an attempted coup, a brazen attempt, as one rioter put it shortly after January 6, to overthrow the government'

Irish Mirror

US Capitol riot: Donald Trump accused of orchestrating ‘attempted coup’ at prime-time congressional hearing

The former president was blamed by the congressional panel for ‘lighting the flame’ of the attack on January 6, 2021

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Laying bare Trump’s coup attempt, Jan. 6 hearings forced us not to look away

Viewers who tuned in Thursday to the first night of public hearings by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection were not Washington political theater as usual. On the contrary, the broadcast portion of the largest-scale investigation in congressional history was a clean, concise production of real substance.…

Los Angeles Times

House January 6 panel shows it still has surprises in store in televised hearing

Analysis: Committee presented evidence that Trump said Pence ‘deserved’ hanging and that Republican members of Congress sought pardons

The Guardian - US

January 6 hearing: five key takeaways from the first primetime Capitol attack inquiry

The House select committee presented their findings that the US Capitol attack was the ‘culmination of an attempted coup’

The Guardian - US

‘He lit the flame’: Jan 6 hearing uses Ivanka, Kushner, Barr and violent video to paint Trump as insurrectionist in chief

The January 6 committee’s overarching message was clear: ‘The conspiracy to thwart the will of the people is not over’

The Independent UK

Key takeaways from US Congress hearing on January 6 Capitol riot

Trump took centre stage as US lawmakers pushed to highlight the danger and violence of the 2021 attack on US Capitol.

Al Jazeera

Jan. 6 hearing gives primetime exposure to violent footage and dramatic evidence – the question is, to what end?

A violent mob of Trump supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, intent on disrupting a joint session of Congress that was meeting to count electoral votes and declare Democrat Joe Biden the winner of the 2020 presidential election.

The Conversation

Donald Trump, the Proud Boys and shocking video: The key moments from the first January 6 committee hearing

Armed with new videos, text messages and emails, the committee investigating the riots at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, has laid out its evidence for the American public. Here's what we learned.

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Axios

"I was slipping in people’s blood": Eyewitnesses testify at Jan. 6 hearing

"It was carnage. It was chaos. I can’t even describe what I saw."

Los Angeles Times

Jan. 6 attack on Capitol the ‘culmination of an attempted coup,’ chairman says

WASHINGTON — As rioters battered police and stormed inside the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, then-President Donald Trump grew angry with advisers pleading with him to do something, Vice Chairwoman Liz Cheney said Thursday in the first hearing by the House select committee investigating the attack.

Los Angeles Times

Jan. 6 attack on Capitol the ‘culmination of an attempted coup,’ chairman says

WASHINGTON — Americans watching the first Jan. 6 Select Committee hearing Thursday night were jolted back to the horror of the Capitol attack in early 2021, with the panel deploying never-before-seen footage of violence and graphic, emotional testimony from an officer wounded in the melee to place then-President Donald Trump…

France 24

Trump spurred ‘attempted coup’ at US Capitol, January 6 panel tells hearing

The House panel investigating the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol laid the blame firmly on Donald Trump Thursday night, saying the assault was hardly spontaneous but an “attempted coup” and a direct result of the defeated president’s effort to overturn the 2020 election.

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The Independent UK

Jan 6 police officers cry in hearing as committee shows video of violence

Video incorporates bodycam footage, documentary scenes

The Independent UK

Takeaways: Jan. 6 panel says Trump led 'brazen' conspiracy

House investigators are making the case to the American public that the violent insurrection by President Donald Trump’s supporters should not be forgotten

WEKU

Bennie Thompson says Jan. 6 was the 'culmination of an attempted coup'

The chair of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection called the attack a "culmination of an attempted coup," in opening remarks at Thursday's hearing about that day's riot.

Los Angeles Times

Jan. 6 hearings to lay out ‘scheme ... to undermine the will of the people,’ chairman says

WASHINGTON — The House Select Committee investigating what caused the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol is beginning a series of hearings Thursday evening by laying out its evidence of a coordinated effort to stop certification of the 2020 presidential election and keep former President Donald Trump in office.

The Independent UK

Cheney unleashes on GOP colleagues who asked Trump for pardons after Jan 6: ‘Your dishonour will remain’

Select committee chairman Bennie Thompson opened Thursday’s prime-time hearing with a warning to Americans that the ‘conspiracy to thwart the will of the people’ which led to the 6 January 2021 attack on the Capitol remains ongoing

Roll Call

McCarthy rips Democrats over GOP bill that called Jan. 6 ‘domestic terrorist attack’ - Roll Call

Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy touted a measure to create a “National Commission on the Domestic Terrorist Attack” on the Capitol.

The Guardian - US

January 6 hearings: who are the key players on the House committee?

The panel features Democrats and Republicans and counts on a staff of investigators who have interviewed over 1,000 witnesses

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