Featuring live testimony from two former White House aides and excerpts from a trove of more than 1,000 interviews, the nearly two-hour session will focus on that three-hour period after earlier hearings heard testimony about the weeks Trump spent pursuing allegations of election fraud after the November 3, 2020 vote that he lost to Joe Biden “He didn’t call the military. His Secretary of Defense didn’t get an order. He didn’t call his Attorney General. He didn’t talk to the Department of Homeland Security,” committee Vice Chairwoman Liz Cheney, Republican of Wyoming, said at an earlier hearing. In delving into the timeline, the panel aims to show what happened between the time Trump left the stage at the “Stop the Steal” rally shortly after 1:10 p.m. on Jan. 6, 2021, after telling supporters to march on Capitol Hill, and about three hours later, when he issued a video address from the Rose Garden in which he told rioters to “go home” but also praised them as “very separate”. “The president hasn’t been doing much, but he’s been happily watching TV during that time frame,” said committee member Adam Kinzinger, Republican of Illinois. What was Donald Trump doing while the Capitol was under siege? Take a look. pic.twitter.com/9mz3P6C4qK —@RepKinzinger The committee also expects to produce additional evidence about Trump’s confrontation with Secret Service agents who refused to take him to the Capitol. Matt Pottinger, who was deputy national security adviser, and Sarah Matthews, then a press aide, are scheduled to appear in person at the hearing Thursday night. Both tendered their resignations on January 6, 2021, after what they witnessed that day. That hearing comes a day after a bipartisan group of senators agreed to proposed changes to the Election Counting Act, the post-Civil War certification law for presidential elections that came under intense scrutiny after the attack on Capitol Hill and Trump’s bid to overturn the election.
‘No person is above the law’: US Attorney General
Although the Jan. 6 panel cannot charge people based on what it revealed, there were more signs this week that criminal matters are being considered outside its remit. Attorney General Merrick Garland said Wednesday that the department was committed to holding accountable “any person criminally responsible for attempting to subvert the presidential election,” calling the events leading up to Jan. 6 the most significant investigation the department has ever undertaken. . Attorney General Merrick Garland spoke briefly to reporters Wednesday in Washington, DC, about the importance of carefully conducting any investigation on January 6. (Oliver Contreras/The Associated Press) “No person is above the law in this country, I can’t say it any clearer than that,” Garland said after a reporter asked if his statement applied even to a former president. No former president has ever been federally prosecuted by the Justice Department. President Gerald Ford in 1974 pardoned his predecessor Richard Nixon before the possibility was seriously considered, just a month after Nixon’s resignation over the Watergate crimes. Meanwhile, the Georgia prosecutor investigating through a special subcommittee whether Trump and others illegally interfered in that state’s 2020 general election has notified 16 Republicans who served as fraudulent voters that they could face criminal charges. An attorney for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ office said in a court filing Tuesday that each of the 16 people is a target of the investigation after they signed a certificate falsely declaring Trump won the 2020 presidential election and stating “ duly elected and elected” of the state. qualifications’ voters. Biden had won the battleground state of Georgia. WATCHES | Republican strategist on compelling testimony from most recent hearing:
The January 6 committee calls possible witness tampering
Allegations of witness tampering by former US President Donald Trump have been raised by the January 6 committee. Republican Sen. Rick Wilson shares his thoughts on this new allegation and what’s been learned from the hearings so far. In connection with the violence and violation observed at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, more than 840 people have been charged with federal crimes. More than 330 of them have pleaded guilty, mostly to misdemeanors. Of the more than 200 defendants to be sentenced, about 100 have been sentenced to prison terms. No credible allegations of widespread election fraud in 2020 were made in dozens of cases brought to court and subsequently dismissed. The Trump administration’s own Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency called the election “the most secure in American history” in a statement, and former attorney general William Barr, Trump’s pick, has denied many of the former president’s allegations of fraud. and his most faithful advocates.
