China News Service, June 10 (Xinhua) According to a comprehensive report, on the 9th local time, the U.S. Congressional Committee responsible for investigating the riots in the Capitol on January 6, 2021 held its first public hearing.
Videos of testimony from prominent figures in the administration of former U.S. President Donald Trump were shown at the hearing, along with some of Trump's inflammatory speeches before the riots.
Data map: On January 6, 2021 local time, supporters of former US President Trump gathered outside the Rotunda of the Capitol.
According to the report, the committee played video, including testimony from Trump’s daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Kushner, and then-U.S. Attorney General Barr.
The testimony showed that Trump's "confidants" and daughters did not believe his so-called election fraud.
After the results of the general election, Trump has been calling Biden and the Democratic Party electoral fraud and that he is the "real winner" in the 2020 election.
In addition, the report said the committee also showed a video of Trump's inflammatory speeches before the riots, in which he repeated allegations of election fraud and pointed supporters' anger at then-Vice President Mike Pence, who was in the Capitol at the time Oversees congressional certification of Biden's election victory.
In his opening remarks, committee chairman Benny Thompson called the January 6, 2021 attack "the culmination of an attempted coup."
The U.S. House of Representatives special investigation committee is scheduled to start a series of public hearings on June 9, and will hold six successive hearings on the 23rd.
Thousands of Americans gather on Capitol Hill in Washington and force their way into the Capitol on January 6, 2021, in an attempt to prevent a joint session of the U.S. Congress from confirming the newly elected president of the United States.
The riots killed five people, including a congressman, and injured about 140 law enforcement officers.