{"id":69676,"date":"2022-07-27T11:07:42","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T09:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/?p=69676"},"modified":"2022-07-27T11:07:42","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T09:07:42","slug":"trumps-role-in-capitol-riot-being-investigated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/trumps-role-in-capitol-riot-being-investigated\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s Role in Capitol Riot Being Investigated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Umamah Bakharia<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Exhibits released by White House investigators, former US president Donald Trump&#8217;s original script for his speech the day after the Capitol insurrection included tough talk, which ordered the Justice Department to &#8220;ensure all lawbreakers are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law&#8221; and stating the rioters &#8220;do not represent me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But those words were crossed out with thick black lines, apparently by Trump.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"69677\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/trumps-role-in-capitol-riot-being-investigated\/images-1-9\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/images-1-1.jpg?fit=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"300,168\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"images (1)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/images-1-1.jpg?fit=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/images-1-1.jpg?fit=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69677 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/images-1-1.jpg?resize=300%2C168&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <em><strong>Radio Islam International<\/strong><\/em>, analyst Ebrahim Deen says the hearings are aimed at unpacking what transpired on 6 January 2020.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[The hearings are aimed at] finding out what led to the events and [then] try to come up with recommendations to ensure that it doesn&#8217;t happen again,&#8221; says Deen.<\/p>\n<p>On 6 January 2020, people stormed the Capitol Hill building, which led to several deaths, injured more than 140 police officers and delayed certification of Democratic President Joe Biden&#8217;s victory in the November 2020 election. Hearings have been ongoing in Trump&#8217;s role that could have prevented the riots from escalating.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many of the Republicans have boycotted the hearing, so its a very democratic led hearing,&#8221; says Deen.<\/p>\n<p>This point has resulted in American media coverage is on the hearings, with the Republican media stations trying to create doubt on Trump&#8217;s involvement in the riots.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Its been so difficult to avoid it though that many of the more Republicans writing in conservative media [are] trying to promote a narrative that is actually nullified the hearings,&#8221; says Deen.<\/p>\n<p>The hearings have been affecting public opinion at the polls.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Media Lens: Trump&#039;s Role in Capitol Riot Being Investigated by Radio Islam International\" width=\"1080\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1312639645&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=1000&#038;maxwidth=1080\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Umamah Bakharia Exhibits released by White House investigators, former US president Donald Trump&#8217;s original script for his speech the day after the Capitol insurrection included tough talk, which ordered the Justice Department to &#8220;ensure all lawbreakers are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law&#8221; and stating the rioters &#8220;do not represent me.&#8221; But those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28,132,5451,4997],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-opinion-and-analysis","category-political","category-world"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/images-1-1.jpg?fit=300%2C168&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pc0QIf-i7O","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 22:00:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}