Six Major Questions Still Unanswered After Capitol Riot Hearings Screenshot from official @USNationalGuard Twitter.
Reprinted with permission from ProPublica
After two weeks of congressional hearings, it remains unclear how a rampaging mob of rioters managed to breach one of the most sacred bastions of American democracy on January 6.
During more than 15 hours of testimony, lawmakers listened to a cacophony of competing explanations as officials stumbled over themselves to explain how America s national security, defense, intelligence and law enforcement agencies allowed a homegrown enemy to put an entire branch of government in danger during the attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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Chris Miller, defense secretary on Jan. 6, sees cause and effect between Trump s words and Capitol riot William Cummings, USA TODAY
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The top official in charge of the Pentagon and America s defenses when rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 said he believes there was direct cause-and-effect between then-President Donald Trump s words and the actions of the insurrectionist mob.
Former acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller said the crowd of Trump s supporters would not have descended on the U.S. Capitol if the president had not delivered a speech just before the riot in which he decried the presidential election as stolen. Repeating baseless claims of election fraud he first made even before voting began, Trump alleged that a criminal enterprise involving Democrats, the news media and complicit Republicans had robbed him of victory, though he offered no evidence to support the existence of such a vast conspiracy.
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