Good evening. Fitch Ratings has revealed that the Capitol riots, where Donald Trump supporters stormed the seat of US democracy, was among the reasons it downgraded the US’s credit rating. 

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Richard Francis, a senior director at Fitch Ratings, said the polarisation of politics in America contributed to its decision to remove its AAA rating from the world’s largest economy. 

The move, which former US Treasury secretary Larry Summers described as “bizarre and inept,” sent global stock markets into decline. 

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It comes as Donald Trump was on Tuesday night criminally charged with trying to “defraud the United States” over the riot at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.