Washington (AFP) – Donald Trump defended the 2021 storming of the US Capitol and repeated his bogus claims of voter fraud Thursday after lawmakers accused him of a “criminal conspiracy” to overturn the 2020 election. The former president was responding to a bombshell legal filing Wednesday by the House select committee investigating the January 6 assault that said Trump had tried fraudulently to obstruct Congress’ certification of President Joe Biden’s victory. “The actual conspiracy to defraud the United States was the Democrats rigging the election, and the fake news media and the unselect c…