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Trump defiant as House Committee takes US Capitol attack case public
Jan 6, 2021 assault 'a simple protest that got out of hand', he tells a Tennessee event
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A thousand kilometres from Washington in Nashville, Tennessee, last Friday, America's alternative realities were on stark display.
The Jan 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol by his supporters was "a simple protest that got out of hand", former president Donald Trump told an audience at an event organised by a group called the Faith and Freedom Coalition.
