Donald Trump slams US Congress inquiry into Capitol Hill Riots; calls probe a 'Kangaroo Court'
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Donald Trump slams US Congress inquiry into Capitol Hill Riots; calls probe a 'Kangaroo Court'

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In a statement, Donald Trump said Democrats created the narrative of 6 January to detract from the much larger and more important truth that the 2020 election was ‘rigged and stolen’ Washington: Former US president Donald Trump on Monday decried the congressional probe into the riot by his supporters last year at the US Capitol as a “mockery of justice.” In a rambling, 12-page missive, Trump said that instead of focusing on the country’s larger problems, the Democratic-led panel was “a Kangaroo Court, hoping to distract the American people from the great pain they are experiencing.” The former US leader also reiterated the same conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election that earlier in the day the congressional probe had argued were a key motivating factor for his supporters to riot. “Democrats created the narrative of 6 January to detract from the much larger and more important truth that the 2020 Election was Rigged and Stolen,” Trump, who turns 76 on Tuesday, said in the statement. Trump, fuming that the committee was one-sided in its approach, said the panel “is making a mockery of justice.” As part of Monday’s televised hearing, the congressional panel – which is composed of seven Democrats and two Republicans – showed videos in which former aides to Trump testified that they repeatedly told the president that his assertions of widespread fraud in the election were false. “When I went into this and would tell him how crazy some of these allegations were, there was never an indication of interest in the actual facts,” former US attorney general Bill Barr said in testimony revealed Monday, as he likened addressing Trump’s avalanche of false allegations with playing the game “whack-a-mole.” The committee ended its hearing on Monday with video of Trump supporters on January 6, 2021, repeating his theories of fraud in the election, shortly before a mob descended on the Capitol.

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