“There’s a lot more to come,” from the Jan. 6 survey, Cheney said
U.S. Vice President Liz Cheney (R-WY) made her opening remarks during a public hearing of the House of Representatives Election Commission to investigate the January 6 attack on the United States Capitol on Capitol Hill. in Washington, USA, June 9, 2022.
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Vice President Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., Said the commission has much more evidence to uncover in the Capitol riot investigation.
“Our committee has just begun to show America the evidence we have gathered,” Cheney said in his opening remarks.
“There is still a long way to go, both in our hearings and in our report,” Cheney said.
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Trump wanted the Department of Justice to “help legitimize his lies,” Thompson said
Former President Donald Trump appeared on screen during the fourth hearing by the House Election Commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol at the Cannon House office building on June 21, 2022 in Washington, DC.
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Trump wanted the Department of Justice to actively support his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, Thompson said at the beginning of the hearing.
“Trump didn’t just want the Justice Department to investigate. He wanted the Ministry of Justice to help legitimize his election lies. To call the election groundless corrupt. Appoint a special adviser to investigate alleged election fraud. To send a letter to six states, lawmakers are urging them to consider changing the election results, “Thompson said.
When those efforts failed, Trump tried to replace then-Attorney General Rosen with Clark, he said.
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Federal agents reportedly searched the home of Jeffrey Clark, a former DOJ employee linked to Trump’s election efforts.
Jeff Clark, Assistant Attorney General in the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, spoke at a press conference at the Department of Justice in Washington, DC, September 14, 2020.
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Federal agents searched the residence of former Justice Department employee Jeffrey Clark in Virginia on Wednesday morning, numerous news outlets reported.
Clark, a former justice lawyer at the Justice Department, played a public role in Trump’s attempt to cancel the 2020 election. The commission plans to consider his participation during a hearing Thursday afternoon. The panel plans to show how Trump wanted to appoint Clark as acting attorney general as part of his plan to overturn Biden’s victory in the 2020 election.
ABC News, which reported earlier Thursday on activities at Clark’s home in Lorton, Virginia, quoted a neighbor as saying it had seen FBI agents enter and leave the residence.
A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, DC, told NBC News that “it can confirm that there was law enforcement in this area yesterday.” The spokesman declined to give further details.
Spokesmen for the Department of Justice, the FBI and the selected committee did not immediately respond to CNBC’s requests for comment on the reported demand.
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The hearing will address Trump’s presidential pardons, the president said
U.S. Representative Benny Thompson, chairman of the House of Representatives committee investigating the Capitol riot, spoke during a House of Representatives selection committee to investigate the Capitol attack on Jan. 6 at the Capitol Cannon House office building in Washington, June 13, 2022..
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Commission Chair Benny Thompson, D-Miss., Said late Wednesday that the fifth public hearing would include “some pardon talks”.
Vice President Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., Noted in a previous hearing that “many other Republican congressmen have also asked for the president’s pardon for their role in trying to cancel the 2020 election.”
She summoned Representative Scott Perry, R-Pa., Who allegedly tried to get Justice Department official Clark to be appointed as attorney general, and refused to testify before the commission.
Thompson on Wednesday night declined to name other lawmakers seeking pardon. “You have to come to the hearing,” he told reporters.
Thompson also said the commission could hold more than the seven hearings originally announced. “We can do eight, nine or ten. A lot depends on what we come up with, “he said.
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A GOP spokesman, Kinzinger, described in detail the death threats against him and his family
US Representative Adam Kinsinger (R-IL) participated in the inaugural public hearing of the US House of Representatives Election Commission to investigate the January 6 attack on the United States Capitol on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, June 9, 2022.
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Representative Adam Kinzinger, one of the two Republicans on the committee, said threats and harassment against him, his family and other committee members were “permanent” and increasing.
On Sunday, Kinzinger posted a screenshot on Twitter showing a handwritten death threat that the congressman said was “Addressed to my wife, sent to my home, threatening my family’s life.”
“Darkness is kindly spreading by cowardly leaders who are afraid of the truth,” Kinzinger tweeted.
Kinzinger told CNN on Wednesday that he had received another message “last night threatening execution”, saying it now seemed “normal”.
The congressman’s involvement in the Jan. 6 investigation and regular criticism of Trump made him a pariah among many Republicans. He said he shared the threat of death to point to the “corruption” that revolves around the investigation with political accusations, saying “that there are people who would literally come up with the idea of killing a five-month-old child because you don’t agree with me.” to participate in the committee on January 6. “
“We have security, we have strengthened our security position,” Kinzinger said. “We will move forward and that will not hinder or frighten us.”
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The Commission adjourned several hearings
This afternoon’s hearing of the Ministry of Justice was originally scheduled for last week, but was postponed without a clear explanation.
The commission announced on Wednesday that it was also postponing its last two public hearings from June to July.
Chairman Benny Thompson, D-Miss., Suggested on Wednesday that new evidence obtained by the commission had led to changes in the schedule. An aide to an elected committee told CNBC that the committee “continues to receive additional evidence related to our investigation” into the Capitol riot, and that it will announce dates and times for the latest hearings “soon.”
This new evidence reportedly includes unprecedented documentaries from a director who had access to Trump and his family before and after the uprising. Investigators are also continuing to seek the cooperation of key witnesses, including former White House lawyer Pat Chipolon and Ginny Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
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