correction An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that spokeswoman Elaine Luria (D-Va.) Would chair Monday’s hearing. Luria is scheduled to chair the hearing on June 23. An earlier version also mistyped the name of the “Fox News Sunday” presenter. It’s Bret Baier, not Brett. The second public hearing by the House Select Committee investigating the January 6, 2021 uprising will focus on then-President Donald Trump’s baseless allegations that the 2020 election was stolen – called the “big lie” – and how these false allegations are with the pro-Trump mob attacking the U.S. Capitol that day in a bid to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s victory in the electoral college, lawmakers told the bipartisan panel Sunday. In a briefing to reporters Sunday night, a select committee aide said the hearing on Monday, chaired by President Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.) With the help of MP Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) , you will analyze the fundraising mechanism built around the “big lie” to raise cash after the election. “We will reveal information about how the former president’s political apparatus used these lies for fraud, for stolen elections, to raise funds, bringing in hundreds of millions of dollars between election day 2020 and January 6,” said an aide. of the committee. “And we will show that some of those responsible for the violence at 6 echoed the same lies that the president told in the run-up to the uprising,” he added. The Post previously reported that investigators had tried to track down every dollar raised and spent on Trump’s false allegations that the election had been stolen, interviewing low-profile Trump campaign officials who wrote fundraising posts and from the accumulation of large amounts of cash. in the aftermath of Trump’s defeat. Trump’s former campaign director, Bill Stepien, will testify before the committee on Monday. Chris Stirewalt, former political editor of Fox News. Benjamin Ginsberg, Republican Election Lawyer. former US lawyer BJ “BJay” Pak; and Al Schmidt, a former Philadelphia City Commissioner. Witnesses are likely to support the commission’s claim that Trump had a “seven-party plan” to overturn the results of the 2020 election, as MP Liz Cheney (R-Wyo), the committee’s vice-chairwoman, said on Thursday. Full coverage of the January 6 attack on the Capitol and hearings Efforts by Trump and his allies to pull “every lever of government” to try to keep him in power will become clear as the commission’s findings are met, said Elaine Luria (D-Va.), A member of the commission. . On Sunday on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” show. “If there were no people in the right places at the right time doing the right thing, it could have turned out very differently – and that includes the Justice Department, the former vice president,” Luria said, referring to then-Vice President Mike Denial. Pence to overturn the election results. “This campaign of pressure was widespread.” The selection committee will hold three public hearings this week, as its members continue to present the findings of their year-long investigation. Nearly 19 million viewers watched the first audition during the first hour on Thursday. The commission’s third public hearing Wednesday will focus on the campaign by Trump and his allies in the Justice Department to overturn the results of the presidential election. Members of the Jan. 6 selection committee on June 12 declined to say whether former President Donald Trump should be prosecuted for the January 6 attack on the Capitol. (Video: JM Rieger / The Washington Post) Luria said the bipartisan committee interviewed 1,000 witnesses and put together “a very comprehensive timeline” of what Trump was doing as the Capitol attack unfolded. Luria will lead a hearing later this month on whether and how then-President Donald Trump’s actions – and inaction – may have encouraged his supporters to attack the Capitol that day. “I think it would be clearer to describe it as what it did not do,” Luria said. “[For] 187 minutes, you know, this man had the microphone. he could speak all over the country. His job was to get up and say something and try to stop it. “Well, we will talk about this and what I see as the omission of his duty and he had a duty to act.” Other members of the Jan. 6 commission said Sunday that subsequent hearings would continue to show evidence that Trump was responsible for the Capitol attack. On ABC News’ “This Week,” spokesman Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.) Said there was credible evidence that Trump had committed a number of federal crimes and that it would be up to the Justice Department to decide if he could prove it. a jury beyond any reasonable doubt. “The evidence is very strong that Donald Trump started telling this big lie even before the election that he was saying that any ballots counted after election day would be inherently suspicious,” Sif said, referring to his baseless allegations. Trump that widespread voter fraud costs money. in the 2020 elections. “This lie continued after the elections and eventually led this mob to gather and attack the Capitol.” Representative Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) Acknowledged that there was no specific legislative provision for the mere referral of crimes by a former president to the Department of Justice. He also distanced himself from considering whether the ministry should accuse Trump, saying he wanted to respect his independence. “I guess our whole investigation is a referral to crime, both to the Department of Justice and to the American people, because it’s a massive attack on the American Republican apparatus, when you have an incumbent president trying to overthrow the majority in the electorate. “His opponent, who won him by more than 7 million votes,” Ruskin told CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday. Trump “knew full well” that he had lost the election, Ruskin added, which he believed the commission could prove to “every reasonable, open-minded person” during its hearings. “[Trump] heard it from the White House adviser. “He heard it from all the lawyers who threatened to resign if he carried out his small coup against the Ministry of Justice by installing someone who would go along with his tale that there was electoral fraud and corruption,” Ruskin said. “Well, yes, I think any sane person in America would tell you that he should have known he was spreading a big lie. And it continues to spread to this day. “He continues to impose this propaganda on his followers.” Both Ruskin and Sif said this week’s hearings would also provide evidence that many Republicans in the House of Representatives asked Trump for a pardon for trying to overthrow the election, rejecting denials by some of those GOP lawmakers, including MP Scott Perry (P., whose office described the allegation as a “lie without a soul”. “We will show the evidence we have that members of Congress were asking for forgiveness,” Sif said. “For me, I think they are some of the most fascinating proofs of guilt. “Why did the members do it if they felt that their involvement in this conspiracy to overthrow the election was somehow appropriate?” The jury’s first public hearing on Thursday was covered by all major cable news outlets except Fox News Channel. In an appearance on Fox News Sunday, Sen. Christopher A. Coons (D-Del.) Tried to break through the party information bubble by squeezing comments about the committee into a section that was otherwise dominated by inflation questions. and threats to Supreme Court justices. “I think the point here is to take a hard and clear look at what happened on January 6 and new facts that have been revealed about the role of the former president’s close advisers in shaping the events that led to that really critical moment. in our modern American history, “Coons told host Bret Baier. “We have never had an American invasion of our Capitol. “We have never tried to stop the peaceful transfer of power through insurrection, through insurrection.” Shortly afterwards, Bayer redirected the interview to questions about whether Biden would run for re-election in 2024. Nick Quested, a director who was part of the Proud Boys during the Jan. 6 attack and who testified at Thursday’s hearing, said he was initially making a very different documentary about why America is so divided, asking broader questions about the far-right views of the right-wing group on healthcare and immigration. “Afterwards, if I knew what I know now, I would have changed my question line a lot,” Quested told Meet the Press, adding that it took months for his crew to process it – mentally and physically. – what he had seen. “My camera broke. I was shot with pepper balls and I had a fight in various fights right on [Capitol] steps, which was particularly shocking because we were not prepared for it. “ Aaron Gregg and Caroline Kitchener contributed to this report.
