President Donald Trump “blazed a path of lawlessness and corruption” as he sought to overturn the results of the 2020 US election, the chairman of the House committee investigating last year’s attack on the Capitol said on Thursday. Bennie Thompson, speaking at the televised prime-time finale of a series of public hearings into the attack, said there must be “accountability” for what he called an attack on democracy. The Jan. 6 Committee’s Democratic chairperson, Representative Bennie Thompson, described how Trump didn’t leave his dining room table to send his followers home, despite pleas fro…
