Former President Donald Trump’s tweet early on December 19 was call to action for his supporters to attack the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, the House committe investigating the incident said in its seventh hearing on Tuesday. 

Trump, who lost the 2020 presidential elections, posted a series of tweets building up to the riots. 

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 “WE HAVE JUST BEGUN TO FIGHT!!!” the former President tweeted on December 12. 

“Statistically impossible to have lost the 2020 Election. Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!” he said a week later. 

However, Stephanie Murphy, the co-lead of the seventh hearing, said that Trump’s ‘Be there, will be wild!’ tweet was the call to action for his supporters. 

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“Early in the morning of December 19th, the President sent out a tweet, urging his followers to travel to Washington, DC… this tweet served as a call to action, and in some cases as a call to arms, for many of President Trump’s most loyal supporters,” Murphy said. 

The committe also revealed that Trump’s tweet attracted some of his most extreme supporters, which included QAnon followers, White supremacists and other groups. 

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The administrator of 8kun, an online forum that is the home of the QAnon conspiracy, Jim Watkins, told the House committee that he decided to go to Washington on Jan. 6 after Trump’s tweet on December 19. 

“When the President of the United States announced that he was going to have a rally. Then I bought a ticket and went,” Watkins said in his testimony. 

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The House panel further revealed that some of the former President’s followers posted violent rhetoric on social media. 

One online commenter called for the “DAY OF THE ROPE!” and for a “WHITE REVOLUTION.”

“I’m ready to die for my beliefs,” posted someone on the anonymous forum 4chan on Jan. 5, 2021. “Are you ready to die police?”

The committee further added that white extremist group Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, who never worked together, decided to join hands after Trump’s call.