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A Trump subpoena, never-before-seen footage and new evidence: Takeaways from Thursday’s Jan. 6 committee hearing

Newly released video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D- Calif., from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol Building is shown during a hearing of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol in the Cannon House Office Building on Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022, in Washington, D.C..

WASHINGTON — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol returned after a nearly three-month break to summarize and bolster the case it made against President Donald Trump over the summer.

Committee Vice Chair Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., said that the hearing would focus on facts revealing Trump’s state of mind and motivations around his election loss.

Members of the committee took turns expanding on different aspects of the former president’s efforts to overturn the election results: Trump’s plan to declare victory before all ballots were counted; that he repeated false fraud claims even as his allies told him he was wrong; and that he

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