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Wall Street Journal condemns Trump’s 'dereliction of duty on Jan. 6'

Following what could be the last public hearing by the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection, the very conservative editorial board of the Wall Street Journal wrote that they had seen enough and stated that Donald Trump should be held to account for his attack on democracy.

Highlighting new revelations from Thursday's hearings, the board called out the former president's actions before, during and after the assault on the Capitol and hammered him for continuing to lie about it.

"What the committee has accomplished, however, is to cement the facts surrounding Mr. Trump’s recklessness after Nov. 3 and his dereliction of duty on Jan. 6. The Justice Department and Mr. Trump’s own campaign repeatedly told him that his fraud claims were without basis. Whether it was willful blindness or an intentional strategy, he kept repeating them," they wrote.

"That day he riled up the crowd and urged it to march on the Capitol," the editors continued. "Committee members said Thursday they will write a report summarizing their findings. Transcripts of the testimony ought to be released at the same time."

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