Mr Trump sent a rallying call to supporters after 'the craziest meeting' of his presidency, the inquiry hears.
A Trump tweet mobilised far-right extremists to converge on Washington DC on the day of last year's Capitol riot, a congressional inquiry has heard.
Hours before the hearing, Mr Trump, a Republican, dismissed the Democratic-led House of Representatives panel on his Truth Social social media platform as "Political Hacks and Thugs" perpetrating a "HOAX".The select committee has been conducting a nearly year-long investigation into the attack on the Capitol.
However, on 18 December he welcomed to the White House some informal advisers who had been urging him to pursue his unfounded claims of widespread voter fraud. The post, Mr Raskin argued, "electrified and galvanised his supporters", who believed Mr Trump's claims that the election had been stolen from him.
Committee members are trying to draw a direct line between the social media post and the violence on 6 January. The panel is seeking to build a case that Mr Trump's efforts to overturn his defeat in the 2020 election constitute illegal conduct.
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