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‘Just following what he said’: Takeaways from the Jan. 6 hearing on Trump’s actions and the riot

Pat A. Cipollone, who served as White House counsel for President Donald J. Trump, appears on a video screen above members of the Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol during the seventh hearing on the January 6th investigation in the Cannon House Office Building on July 12, 2022, in Washington, D.C. The bipartisan committee, which has...

WASHINGTON — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol spent its seventh hearing Tuesday focused on the origins of the mob and former President Trump’s role in inciting it.

The hearing covered the period from Dec. 18, 2020 — when a wildly contentious meeting took place in the Oval Office between Trump White House aides and conspiracy-minded outside advisers — to the morning of Jan. 6.

Led by Reps. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., and Stephanie Murphy, D-Fla., the hearing featured extensive testimony from former White House counsel Pat Cipollone, who was interviewed by the committee for eight hours Friday.

Cipollone has emerged as a key witness over the course of the hearings, as others who have testified made note of his

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