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Capitol crimes A conspiracy was laid bare – but where does it end for Trump?

During its landmark hearings, the House select committee investigating the deadly insurrection at the US Capitol has sought to show that Donald Trump was at the cent re of a conspiracy to seize a second term in office, accusing him of having “summoned the mob, assembled the mob and lit the flame of this attack”.

Then, for 187 minutes on 6 January, the president let the firestorm he ignited burn, the panel argued in a gripping presentation last Thursday.

In its final summer hearing, one of its most dramatic of the series, the panel argued that Trump betrayed his oath of office and was derelict in his duty when he refused to condemn the violence for hours as

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