Conservative Election Lawyer Ben Ginsberg To Testify In Committee On Monday January 6Th.

Ginsberg is considered a leading Republican expert on electoral fraud and played a key role in the Florida recount when’s then-candidate George W. Bush defeated then-Vice President Al Gore. Even before the election, in a September 2020 essay, Ginsberg spoke strongly about the former president’s claim’s impossibility and criticized the allegations as incomplete and “unsustainable.” The committee has not released any information on who will testify on Monday and declined to comment. Another witness on Monday will be Chris Stirewalt, the former political editor of Fox. Fox fired Stirewalt in January 2021 following right-wing reactions to the Arizona network’s call for then-candidate Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election. Stirewalt wrote in a Los Angeles Times article after his dismissal that the refusal to believe the election results among many of Trump’s supporters was a “tragic consequence of the information malnutrition that is affecting the nation so badly.” Monday night’s hearing will focus on how Trump widely challenged the election process, knowing that his allies’ claims would not change the outcome, commission Vice President Liz Cheney, a Republican in Wyoming, said last week. The commission will try to show how “Trump participated in a huge effort to spread false and fraudulent information,” even though “Trump and his advisers knew he had actually lost the election.”