“This is our democracy. This was the biggest attack on American democracy in my life. The world is watching how we react to this,” the Rhode Island Democrat told CNN.
Sicillin, a former Trump impeachment manager, said the House of Representatives committee investigating the January 6 uprising in the US Capitol has significantly more evidence than in 2021 during the second impeachment of former President Donald Trump. He said the commission questioned or removed more than 1,000 witnesses and collected more than 135,000 documents.
The elected committee officially announced on Thursday that its first public hearing will be held on June 9 at 20:00 ET.
“I think there will be substantial evidence that really demonstrates coordination, planning and efforts, despite the fact that they realized that Donald Trump lost the election and even after the uprising began and the violence there was ongoing efforts to persuade the former president to stop violence and to urge people to go home, but he refused to do so, “Sicillin said.
The lawmaker added: “I think the American people will learn the facts about planning and implementing what will be very worrying.”
During the interview, Sicillin also presented the accusation of Trump adviser Peter Navarro on Friday as a victory, but stressed the importance of the congressional oversight body. He said he found the Justice Department’s decision not to prosecute Mark Meadows, former President Trump’s chief of staff, and Dan Scavino, Trump’s former deputy chief of staff, to be “puzzling” in the echoing language used in the statement. Commission of 6 January.
He added: “I am confident that the Attorney General (Merrick Garland), when a referral is made, the Department of Justice will make the decisions it deems appropriate.”
He praised Garland for acting as a lawyer for the American people, not the president, adding that Garland runs the Department of Justice “the way it should be run.”
The first hearing on Jan. 6 will be a broad overview of the commission’s 10-month investigation and will prepare the ground for the next hearings, which are expected to cover specific topics or topics, sources told CNN.
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