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Thursday, May 14, 2026

Trump responds to Jan. 6 hearing with anger, bogus fraud claims - Business Insider

  • Trump responded to the first hearing of the committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot.
  • He did so by repeating his bogus claims about voter fraud, saying the committee is ignoring them.
  • Many Capitol rioters believed claims by Trump and his allies that Trump lost the election due to voter fraud.

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Former President Donald Trump responded to the first public hearing by the House committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot by repeats bogus voter fraud claims.

Trumps shared his comments on Truth Social, the social media network that he launched, writing early on Friday: "So the Unselect Committee of political HACKS refuses to play any of the many positive witnesses and statements, refuses to talk of the Election Fraud and Irregularities that took place on a massive scale. Our Country is in such trouble!"

The committe held its first public hearing on Thursday, where it made the case that Trump and his allies fueled an attempted coup.

Before Trump's comment on Friday, his spokesperson Liz Harrington also tweeted out misleading voter fraud claims, without directly engaging with what was said at the hearings.

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