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US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said politicians will establish an outside, independent commission to review the “facts and causes” related to the deadly 6 January attack on the Capitol by supporters of then-President Donald Trump.
Ms Pelosi said in a letter to politicians on Monday (local time) that the commission would be modelled on a similar one convened after the 11 September, 2001 attack on New York and the Pentagon.
Ms Pelosi said the panel will also look at the “facts and causes relating to the preparedness and response of the United States Capitol Police and other federal, state, and local law enforcement .
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By Henry Ojelu with agency report
Donald Trump’s acquittal in a Senate impeachment trial on a charge of “incitement of insurrection” for his role in the United States Capitol violence does not spell an end to possible accountability – or legal troubles – for the former president.
Trump’s actions and words leading up to the deadly January 6 violence, in which rioters stormed the seat of the US legislature as Congress met to certify the election victory of President Joe Biden, garnered more bipartisan support for conviction than any previous Senate impeachment trial.
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