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The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol returned to prime time on Thursday to continue making its case it against former President Donald J. Trump, accusing him of dereliction of duty for failing to call off the assault carried out in his name.

“For 187 minutes on Jan. 6, this man of unbridled destructive energy could not be moved,” Representative Bennie Thompson, Democrat of Mississippi and the chairman of the committee, said in opening remarks. “Not by his aides, not by his allies, not by the violent chance of rioters, or the desperate pleas of those facing down the mob. He could not be moved.”

Thursday night’s presentation is the culmination of weeks of gripping public hearings designed to document for the public, and for history, the relentless efforts by Mr. Trump and his allies to subvert the 2020 election — efforts that led to a violent mob assaulting the Capitol in a desperate bid to stop the election’s final certification.

Using testimony from some of Mr. Trump’s top aides — including his deputy national security adviser, his top lawyer, his spokeswoman and others — the committee on Thursday accused the president of having been derelict in his duty to protect Congress, saying he did nothing to help for more than three hours as he watched the attack play out live on television from just.