WASHINGTON, June 12 (Reuters) – The head of former President Donald Trump’s election campaign and former Atlanta and Philadelphia officials will testify Monday before a U.S. congressional committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol on Sunday. .
The House Election Commission will hold its second public hearing this month on Monday, starting at 10 a.m. EDT (1,400 GMT), following a Thursday night blockbuster session that included testimony showing that Trump’s close allies – even his daughter Ivanka – rejected his false allegations of fraud in the vote. Read more
Monday’s hearing, the second of six expected, will focus on the former Republican president’s claim that his defeat by Democrat Joe Biden in the November 2020 election was due to baseless allegations of electoral fraud, the so-called “Big Lie.” Read more
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The first panel of witnesses will include William Stepien, who was Trump’s campaign manager in 2020 after serving as Trump’s director of political affairs at the White House from 2017 to 2018.
An aide to the commission, who requested anonymity to see the hearing, declined to comment on whether Stepien was expected to witness the confrontation.
Stepien’s firm is now working with Harriet Hedgeman, a Trump-approved candidate who is running against Liz Cheney, the deputy chairman of the January 6th election committee, in the Republican primary for Cheney’s place in Wyoming.
The first panel will also feature Chris Stewworth, a former political editor at Fox News. Stirewalt came under fire from Trump and his supporters after the Fox News political bureau was the first to call Biden in Arizona in November 2020.
Fox denied that his departure had anything to do with the call.
The second panel will include Conservative Republican Election Attorney Ben Ginsberg; Bung J. Pak, who resigned as a U.S. lawyer in Atlanta as Trump’s camp tried to overturn Georgia’s election results, and Al Schmid, who was the only Republican on Philadelphia’s election board and came under attack from Trump after defending his integrity. in the presidential elections in 2020
Georgia and Pennsylvania were among the states that supported Trump in the 2016 election, but fell into Biden’s column in 2020. They were the focus of baseless allegations of electoral fraud.
The commission’s aide said the hearing would also include testimony from more than 1,000 testimonies and interviews conducted during a nearly year-long investigation into the Democrat-led committee of nine members before and during the Capitol attack.
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Report by Patricia Zengerle; Edited by Chris Reese, Daniel Wallis and Kenneth Maxwell
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