Trump Urged Armed Supporters to Storm Capitol

Donald Trump knew supporters had weapons when he urged them to storm the Capitol to overturn election result, ex-White House aide says

The former aide testified to the committee probing the 6 January riots that Mr. Trump and his top staffers “knew of the potential for violence.”

But a planned rally, which attorney Rudy Giuliani said would make Mr. Trump “look powerful,” went ahead.

The president also ‘demanded’ to join the march on the Capitol himself.

In a series of public hearings, the 6 January committee has sought to link the former president directly to the efforts to prevent Congress from certifying the 2020 election results.

The sixth hearing – hastily announced with what the committee said was due to the “revelation of new evidence – drew on the testimony of Cassidy Hutchinson, the principal staffer to Mr Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows.”

BBC /Shakirat Sadiq