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Experts: Capitol riot product of years of hateful rhetoric

by Michael KunzelmanAmanda Seitz
| January 6, 2021 5:07 PM

COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — The storming of the U.S. Capitol is a jarring but natural product of years of violence and hateful rhetoric stoked by disinformation and conspiracy theories, experts on far-right extremism said as they pored over images of Wednesday's riot.

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