President Donald Trump intended to use the Jan. 6 riot to stop the certification of the 2020 election and stay in power, Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Va., said on July 21 as the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack presented its findings to the public.
The hearing focused on what President Donald Trump was doing during the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol in an effort to interrupt the certification of Joe Biden’s presidential victory.
“Donald Trump summoned a violent mob and promised to lead that mob to the capital to compel those he thought would cave to that kind of pressure,” Luria said. “It was the final action of Donald Trump’s own plan to usurp the will of the American people and remain in power.”
Luria said that only after it was apparent the riot would fail to stop the certification of the election, did Trump send a message to his supporters asking them to leave the Capitol.
In the year since its creation, the committee has conducted more than 1,000 interviews, seeking critical information and documents from people witness to, or involved in, the violence that day.
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