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Right-wing extremists and supporters of Donald Trump staged the January 6, 2021 assault on the US Capitol after a tweet from the former president seen as a “call to arms”, lawmakers said on Tuesday. Liz Cheney, vice-chair of the House select committee investigating the attack on Congress, said meanwhile that Trump had attempted recently to call a committee witness. The witness, who was not identified, did not take the call from Trump and alerted their lawyer, who contacted the committee, Cheney said. “This committee has supplied that information to the Department of Justice,” she said. During its seventh televised public...
