Former president Donald Trump spoke at a rally in Wyoming on Saturday in support of Harriet Hageman, who is challenging congresswoman Liz Cheney in a Republican primary in midterm elections. Credit: Chet Strange/Getty

As the House committee investigating the attack on the US Capitol by extremist supporters of Donald Trump prepares to start public hearings next week, the former president called the insurrection on January 6, 2021, a hoax.

Trump spoke at a rally in Wyoming on Saturday night in support of the Republican primary challenger in the midterm elections to congresswoman Liz Cheney. Cheney sits on the committee and has been vilified by Trump since she voted in favor of his historic second impeachment over the insurrection.

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Addressing the sub-capacity crowd at a rally in Casper for Republican candidate Harriet Hageman, Trump slammed Cheney, saying: “As one of the nation’s leading proponents of the insurrection hoax, Liz Cheney has pushed a grotesquely false, fabricated, hysterical partisan narrative.”

He added: “Look at the so-called word insurrection, January 6 – what a lot of crap.”

Trump was impeached by the House of Representatives a week after […]

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