Stepien will appear before the panel in a panel with Chris Stirewalt, the former political editor of Fox News who was fired after defending the network’s early publicity claim that Trump lost Arizona on election night – a move that angered the former president. A political adviser who is now advising Harriet Hagman, Trump’s candidate for the role of the January 6 commission leader, Dim. Liz Cheney, R-Wyoming, Stepien, will testify before the jury on Monday, his lawyer confirmed to ABC News. A second panel of witnesses at the two-hour hearing will include Al Schmidt, a former Philadelphia city Republican commissioner who has repeatedly denied allegations of state fraud. Veteran GOP election lawyer Ben Ginsburg and Byung “BJay” Pak, a former U.S. Attorney General for the Northern District of Georgia. City Commissioner Al Schmidt stands outside the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia on November 6, 2020. Lynsey Addario / Getty Images, FILE Lawyer Byung J. “BJay” Pak speaks during a conference in Atlanta, May 14, 2019. Bob Andres / AP, ARCHIVE Pack previously told Senate investigators that he resigned in January 2021 after learning that Trump tried to fire him because he did nothing more to substantiate his false allegations of widespread electoral fraud in Georgia. In an article in the Los Angeles Times after the Capitol Uprising, Stirewalt, who was fired by Fox News on January 19, 2021, wrote that after the call in Arizona, “he became the target of murderous rage by angry consumers who had not confirmed their views “. In a briefing with reporters on Sunday afternoon, select committee aides said Monday’s hearing would investigate Trump and his campaign in the days and weeks following election night, as well as the decision to promote “the big lie to millions of supporters “and withdraw the allegations that the rioters later used to justify the attack on the Capitol on January 6. A video of former President Donald Trump speaking during a rally near the White House on January 6, 2021, shows members of the committee from left to right, spokesman Stephanie Murphy, spokesman Pete Aguilar, spokesman Adam Schiff, Rep. Zoe Lofgren, President Bennie Thompson, Vice President Liz Cheney, Vice President Adam Kinzinger, Representative Jamie Raskin and Representative Elaine Luria are watching as the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol makes its first public hearing to reveal the findings of a one-year investigation, at the Capitol in Washington, June 9, 2022. J. Scott Applewhite / AP The interrogation of living witnesses, along with excerpts from interviews the commission videotaped with other key witnesses, will show how Trump said he lost the election and had no evidence of widespread voter fraud as he continued to claim his election was stolen, aides said. . “I think we can prove to any reasonable, open-minded person that Donald Trump knew perfectly well because he was surrounded by lawyers, including the attorney general of the United States, William Barr, who told him uncertainly that Donald Trump could is BS, “Jamie Ruskin, a spokesman for D-Maryland, told CNN on Sunday. The committee hearing, which will be chaired in part by Zoe Lofgren, D-California, will show “how litigation usually works” and argue that Trump had an “obligation” to “abide by the state.” of law “. when his dozens of lawsuits failed in courts across the country. Nearly 20 million people attended the committee’s first hearing last Thursday, the first of seven scheduled for this month. Using videos of the Capitol attack that he had never seen before and the testimony of Barr and Trump’s daughter Ivanka, the commission presented the general findings of its investigation, placing Trump at the center of a “coup attempt” last year. The hearings, scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday, will investigate Trump’s efforts to pressure the Justice Department to investigate and spread false allegations of widespread electoral fraud and force Vice President Mike Pence to block the election. .
