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House committee will hold its final scheduled hearing, making the case Donald Trump may have violated the law by not stopping Capitol attack.

The proportion of Republicans who think Trump shouldn’t stand for office again also increased, to 32 percent from 26 percent in early June. Forty percent of Republicans say Trump was at least partly to blame for the attack, an increase of about seven percentage points from before the hearings. Or he could have sent a tweet trying to stop the violence far earlier than he actually did, during the 187-minute duration of the Capitol attack. Today’s rulings indicates the special grand jury will continue to remain one potential avenue for allies of the former president, or perhaps Trump himself, to face criminal charges over his meddling in the 2020 election. “Donald Trump ignored and disregarded the desperate pleas of his own family, including Ivanka and Don Jr,” Thompson said. Photographers gathered beneath the dais to take close-up shots of the witnesses. During a previously aired clip of tesimony he gave, he said he decided to quit after seeing a Trump tweet saying that Mike Pence should have had more courage. Within 15 minutes of leaving the stage, President Trump knew that the Capitol was besieged and under attack.” Efforts to litigate and overcome immunity and executive privilege claims have been successful, and those continue. “In the course of these hearings, we have received new evidence and new witnesses have bravely stepped forward. Pottinger resigned as deputy national security adviser in response the January 6, the highest-ranking White House official (other than cabinet secretaries) to do so. She resigned, saying she was “was deeply disturbed by what I saw” on January 6.

With the exception of a few states, dereliction of a duty is mostly used in military law and does not apply to citizens, including US presidents.

A more precise way to consider the legality of President Trump’s conduct on Jan. 6 is to determine whether he wanted the rioters to commit a criminal act and engaged in some speech or behavior that urged them to do so or assisted them in some way. Given that most people believe dereliction of duty is a failure to take action that is legally required, the phrase can be used in this context to summarize a broader behavior and offer a way to cast blame. The House committee investigating President Trump’s actions on Jan. 6 may find that he did not fulfill his duty to “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed,” a requirement of each president, detailed in Article 2, Section 3 of the Constitution. Committee Chairman U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Democrat from Mississippi, didn’t use “dereliction of duty,” but he detailed Trump’s inaction for 187 minutes between the time the president ended his speech at the rally near the White House at 1:10 p.m. and when he asked the rioters to leave in a video taped message from the Rose Garden at 4:17 p.m. The justification for using that term is that Trump encouraged attendees at a rally to march on the Capitol and then failed to do anything to stop the violence once they had invaded the U.S. Capitol building, despite the pleas of his staff, political leaders and his family to do so. “But he refused to do anything…It was a dereliction of duty.”

In the ninth hearing, the January 6 committee focuses on what former US president Donald Trump was doing while rioters stormed the Capitol.

"As a spokesperson, I knew I would have been asked to defend that. Not only to the people that work there, but to the American people generally and the work of Congress that, by law, needed to be conducted that day." After Wednesday, no-one can deny this is harmful." And they knew how he connects with his supporters," Ms Luria says. Truth matters. "The case against Donald Trump in these hearings is not made by witnesses who were his political enemies. Character matters. We have much work yet to do and we will see you all in September." By Jessica Riga By Jessica Riga By Jessica Riga By Jessica Riga

Former US president Donald Trump "blazed a path of lawlessness and corruption" during the assault on the US Capitol last year, the chair of a congressional ...

He lied, he bullied, he betrayed his oath," the committee's Democratic chairperson, Representative Bennie Thompson, said via a remote video feed after being diagnosed with COVID-19. all the way up to the Oval office. Did he call the head of Homeland Security? Did he call the US attorney-general? "Over the last month and a half, the select committee has told a story of a president who did everything in his power to overturn an election. The hearing, expected to be the last until September, detailed both the violence that played out as Trump supporters fought their way into the Capitol and Trump's actions in the hours after his speech in which he urged the crowd to "fight like hell" and the release of the video telling the rioters to go home.

The Jan. 6 select committee will take on a tall order Thursday night: Trying to prove not just that Donald Trump delayed calling off the violent Capitol mob ...

The panel is also likely to turn the lens on the post-Jan. 6 period in the White House, when a still defiant Trump continued to consider ways to overturn the election. Aides have testified about his communications with Trump during the riot. But rather than contact security agencies or military leaders, Trump called allies in his quest to overturn the election. Several aides, including Cipollone, press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, Trump’s executive assistant Molly Michael and national security adviser Keith Kellogg confirmed to the panel that Trump was watching news coverage of the riot as it unfolded. Rioters had already breached police lines when Trump pressed a crowd — which he knew included armed supporters, according to at least one witness — to descend on Congress as former then-Vice President Mike Pence oversaw the certification of Biden’s election. Thursday night’s hearing was supposed to be an explosive finale for the select panel.