Former Attorney General William Barr believes that former President Donald Trump was responsible for the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.⁠

“I do think he was responsible in the broad sense of that word, in that it appears that part of the plan was to send this group up to the Hill,” Barr told NBC News host Lester Holt in an interview that is scheduled to air Sunday. “I think the whole idea was to intimidate Congress. And I think that that was wrong.”⁠
But Barr added that he has not seen evidence that Trump was “legally responsible for it in terms of incitement.”⁠

The assault on the Capitol occurred after Trump spoke at a “Stop The Steal” rally in Washington, D.C., and urged the crowd to march to the Capitol while Congress was in the process of certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election. A violent mob of Trump supporters then stormed the building in an attempted insurrection that left multiple people dead and more than 140 officers injured.⁠

More than 725 people have since been charged by the Justice Department. A bipartisan select committee probing the insurrection has issued hundreds of subpoenas, including to members of Trump’s family. In a court filing this week, the House panel said that Trump and his associates engaged in a “criminal conspiracy” to prevent Congress from certifying President Biden’s victory, spread false information about the outcome and pressured state officials to overturn the results, potentially violating multiple federal laws.⁠

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✍️: Yahoo News⁠
📸: AP



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20 COMMENTS

  1. Bill Barr is the responsible one. He never investigated shit, and it pissed a lot of people off.

  2. We all know that it’s politicians in Washington filling their pockets with American tax payer money and not doing their job that caused those riots, hence why we want term limits.

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