Former US President Donald Trump’s tweets are set to take the centre stage at the next hearing of the January 6 committee. Trump’s “siren call” social media posts reportedly motivated his protestors to gather at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.

Less than a month before the riots, Trump sent out a post on Twitter. This read, “Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!.” He added that it was “statistically impossible” for him to lose to his Democratic rival Joe Biden, who was the President-elect at that time.

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The social media post acted as an invitation for his supporters, who converged at the Capitol complex. Before proceeding to the building, his supporters also heard Trump’s address in Washington DC. Far-right groups like Proud Boys and Oath Keepers were also part of the mob.

Jamie Raskin, a January 6 panelist expected to lead the hearing on Tuesday, spoke about the subject of the session at NBC News’s ‘Meet the Press’.

He said, “People are going to hear the story of that tweet, and then the explosive effect it had in Trumpworld, and specifically among the domestic violent extremist groups, the most dangerous political extremists in the country at that point”, Washington Post reported.

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The January 6 committee has said it is also looking closely at any ties between people in Donald Trump’s orbit and extremist groups accused of helping put into motion the violence at the United States Capitol.

Top leaders and members of the Oath Keepers and another far-right group — the Proud Boys — have been charged with seditious conspiracy in the most serious cases the United States Department of Justice has brought so far in the January 6 riot.