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January 6 hearings: Trump urged armed supporters to storm Capitol
![Ex-aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified to the committee probing the 6 January riots that Mr Trump and his top staff knew the potential for violence.]()
The president also demanded to join the march on the Capitol himself, Ex-aide Cassidy Hutchinson said. Ex-aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified to the committee probing the 6 January riots that Mr Trump and his top staff knew the potential for violence.
In explosive public testimony, a former White House aide on Tuesday told the committee investigating the January 6 insurrection that Donald Trump knowingly directed armed supporters to march to the US Capitol in a last-gasp effort to invalidate the results of the 2020 presidential election that he lost.
Donald Trump knew supporters had weapons when he urged them to storm the Capitol to overturn the 2020 election, a former White House aide has said.
Ex-aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified to the committee probing the 6 January riots that Mr Trump and his top staff knew the potential for violence.
But a planned rally went ahead, with Mr Trump saying the armed attendees were "not here to hurt me".
The president also demanded to join the march on the Capitol himself, she said.
In a series of public hearings, the Democrat-led 6 January committee has sought to link the former president directly to the efforts to prevent Congress from certifying the 2020 election results.
The House of Representatives panel accuses Mr Trump of an attempted coup.
