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Jan. 6 Hearings Point Finger at Donald Trump. But Federal Prosecutors Haven’t Gone That Far.

The Intercept Briefing

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The House Select Committee's First Hearing on January 6th Was Held in Prime Time on Fox News.

The first hearing was held on june ninth, livon television in prime time. The goal of the house select committee appears to be to make a public case that trump is a would be autocrat who is personally and perhaps criminally responsible for unleashing a violent mob whose aim was to overturn the results of the 20 20 election. Using testimony from former trump officials in camp ain staff, the january sixth committee revealed how trump had been told in no uncertain terms that there wasn't significant evidence to support claims of vote or fraud. Yet the trump campaign raised more than 250 million dollars in donations by leveraging false claims ofvote or fraud under the monicr, the official election defense fund. But

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