"Our election integrity policy prohibits content
advancing false claims that widespread fraud, errors or glitches changed the
outcome of the 2020 US presidential election, if it does not provide sufficient
context," YouTube spokesperson Ivy Choi said in response to an AFP
inquiry.
"We enforce our policies equally for everyone, and have
removed the video uploaded by the January 6th Committee channel."
The committee, which is in the middle of a series of public
hearings investigating the attack on the seat of US government on January 6,
2021 in a bid to overturn the presidential election results in Trump's favor,
did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
YouTube did not specify which video was taken down at the
channel, but media reports indicated the nixed clip contained Trump making
baseless claims challenging the integrity of the election.
Trump pressured his vice president Mike Pence to go along
with an illegal plot to overturn the 2020 US election and whipped up a mob that
put his deputy's life in danger when he refused, congressional investigators
and former administration aides said Thursday.
The committee probing the attack detailed how the former
president berated Pence for not going along with the scheme both knew to be
unlawful - even after being told violence had erupted as Congress was meeting
to certify Democrat Joe Biden's victory.
At its third public hearing into the insurrection, the panel
detailed a "relentless" pressure campaign by Trump on Pence - as
cornerstone of a criminal conspiracy to keep the defeated president in power.
The committee maintains that Trump's pursuit of this scheme
led to the violence at the Capitol, which was linked to at least five deaths.