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Trump denies responsibility

US President Donald Trump, facing impeachment on a charge of 鈥渋ncitement of insurrection,鈥 on Tuesday denied responsibility for his supporters鈥 violent invasion of the US Capitol last week and said his remarks before the siege were appropriate.

Trump told reporters that his speech before Wednesday鈥檚 assault in which he urged supporters to march on the Capitol and fight had been analyzed by unnamed others, who he said believed it was 鈥渢otally appropriate.鈥

鈥淚f you read my speech ... what I said was totally appropriate,鈥 he said. 鈥淭hey鈥檝e analyzed my speech and my words and my final paragraph, my final sentence and everybody ... thought it was totally appropriate.鈥


 

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