How Republicans oppose the hearings
President Donald Trump congratulates House of Representatives majority leader Kevin McCarthy of California when he arrives at an event to announce that Broadcom is relocating its global headquarters to the United States, to the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC on Thursday, Thursday. November 2017
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Unlike Trump’s two impeachment trials, when prosecutors’ accusations against the then president were opposed in real time by his defense team, the committee’s hearings will be interrupted by its critics.
Instead, Republicans seeking to undermine the commission’s plan make their case known directly to the media.
“This is the most political and least legitimate committee in American history,” House Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-California, said of the January 6 press conference at a news conference on January 6.
“And let’s be honest, this is a smokescreen for Democrats to push through their radical agenda,” McCarthy added, accusing his opponents of using the investigation to try to overthrow the Electoral College. He also criticized Democrats for ignoring a number of hot political issues, including what he called “left-wing mob violence” at some protests in 2020.
Other senior Republicans are also working to stop the hearings. “I work closely with President Trump, leader Kevin McCarthy, Jim Jordan and my colleagues to help Republicans in the House of Representatives repel President Pelosi’s fictitious political witch hunt,” said Republican Representative Elise Stefanick, a Republican. The house told Fox News this week.
Fox reportedly has no plans to broadcast the hearings live on its main channel and will instead broadcast the coverage to Fox Business, which typically attracts far fewer viewers.
From the outset, senior Republicans have characterized the House of Representatives’ investigation into the Capitol Rebellion as a guerrilla tool for Democrats to denigrate Trump and his supporters.
The nine-member committee includes two Republicans, Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinsinger of Illinois, both of whom voted to impeach Trump. Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy withdrew all five of the panel’s elections after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected two.
McCarthy and Republicans Jim Jordan, one of two Republicans rejected by Pelosi for the group, said in a recent Wall Street Journal article that the elected committee “is arming the government to attack Republicans.”
Both McCarthy and Jordan were summoned after refusing to cooperate voluntarily in the investigation.
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Trump tweets that Jan. 6 will be “wild” after meeting with Powell, Giuliani and Flynn at the White House
Sidney Powell, a lawyer later disavowed by Trump’s campaign, attends a press conference with US President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani at Capitol Hill Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington, DC, November 19, 2020.
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Former President Donald Trump has released a “major” tweet that “led to the planning” for the January 6 uprising shortly after a meeting with General Michael Flynn, Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani at the White House, said Liz Cheney, deputy chairman of the committee.
The group discussed “a number of dramatic steps” during the meeting on December 18, 2020, “including the military to seize voting machines and possibly repeat elections,” Cheney said in his introductory statement.
Cheney, who was reviewing information to be presented at an upcoming hearing, said that “just over an hour after the group left the White House, Trump tweeted a call for people to come to Washington on January 6, 2021.” Be there, it will be wild! ” Trump tweeted.
“As you will see, this was a key moment,” Cheney said. “This tweet initiated a chain of events. The tweet led to planning for what happened on January 6, including by the Proud Boys, who ultimately led the Capitol invasion and violence that day.
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Watch new footage of the Capitol riot
The elected committee concluded its introductory statements by broadcasting new footage of the violence that erupted during the Capitol riot.
The video combines videos showing rebels rushing to the Capitol, swarming police officers and attacking them with weapons.
The latest video shows rebels beating police officers with hockey sticks and other objects. At the same time, Trump is heard defending the mafia in an interview with Fox News more than six months after the uprising: “These were peaceful people. They were great people. The crowd was amazing. And I mention the word love, love in the air, I’ve never seen anything like it. “
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Jared Kushner says he believes repeated threats by White House councilors to resign to “just whine”
Former senior White House councilor Jared Kushner was seen on video during a hearing of the US House of Representatives Electoral 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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Former senior White House counselor Jared Kushner said he considered repeated threats by White House councilor Pat Chipolon to resign in the weeks before the Capitol uprising for “mere whining.”
The remarks of Kushner, son-in-law of former President Donald Trump, were made during a recorded interview with the elected committee, part of which was released during an introductory statement by Vice President Liz Cheney, R-Wyo.
“The White House adviser was so concerned about potentially illegal activities, he threatened to resign many times. This is extremely rare and extremely serious. He requires immediate attention, especially when the whole team is threatening to resign,” Cheney said.
“However, this was not uncommon at the Trump White House and was not taken seriously,” she said.
In the video, Kushner was asked, “Jared, do you know of any cases where Pat Sipilon threatened to resign?”
Kushner replied: “Somehow, as I said, my interest at the time was to try to make as many pardons as possible, and I know that he, he and the team always said, ‘Oh, we’re going to resign. We will not be here if this happens, if this happens.
“So I kind of thought I was just whining to be honest with you,” Kushner said.
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Cheney says Trump and his advisers knew he lost the election
U.S. Vice President Liz Cheney (R-WY) made her opening remarks during a public hearing of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol on Capitol Hill in Washington, USA, June 9, 2022.
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Elected committee chairwoman Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., Said former President Donald Trump “knows he actually lost the election” – but still pushes out false information to convince the public that the race was stolen from him. .
Cheney said the commission would step up in that aspect of the investigation during Monday’s second hearing.
Her opening remarks were filled with clips from testimonies of people close to Trump, who recall telling the former president that he had lost the election and could not find evidence of voter fraud.
These included former Trump Attorney General William Barr, campaign spokesman Jason Miller and Trump’s campaign lawyer Alex Cannon.
Former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr is seen on video during his testimony at a public hearing of the U.S. House of Representatives Election Commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the United States Capitol on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., 9 June 2022
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Her speech also included a video of Trump’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, who said she “accepted” Bar’s assessment that the Justice Department had found no evidence of electoral fraud enough to cancel the election.
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Thompson says Trump is “at the center” of the conspiracy to cancel the 2020 election
US President Donald Trump gestured as he spoke during a rally to challenge the certification of the results of the 2020 US presidential election by the US Congress in Washington, DC, USA, January 6, 2021.
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Former President Donald Trump was “at the center” of a conspiracy to undo his loss to President Joe Biden in the 2020 election, said commission chairman Benny Thompson, D-Miss.
Trump lost the election and then lost dozens of lawsuits to challenge election results in key states, Thompson said.
“But for Donald Trump, this was just the beginning of what has become a protracted, multi-stage conspiracy to undo the presidential election, aimed at discarding the votes of millions of Americans – your votes, your voice in our democracy – and replacing the will of the American people with his will to stay in power after the end of his term, “Thompson said.
“Donald Trump was at the center of this conspiracy,” Thompson said.
“Ultimately, Donald Trump, the president of the United States, encouraged a host of internal enemies of the constitution to march on the Capitol and undermine American democracy,” he added.
The Capitol riot was the culmination of a coup attempt, Thompson said.
“A brazen attempt, as one rebel put it shortly after January 6, to overthrow the government,” he said. “The violence was not accidental. It was Trump’s last, most desperate chance to stop the transfer of power.”
“Kevin Brewinger.”
Thompson says Trump is the first president in 220 years to try to thwart a transfer of power
A man breaks a window while a crowd of supporters of US President Donald Trump storms the US Capitol building in Washington, January 6, 2021.
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Elected commission chairwoman Benny Thompson, D-Miss., Said former President Donald Trump’s refusal to recognize the 2020 election was the first in 220 years since a US president tried to thwart a peaceful transfer of power.
This precedent “stands for 220 years, even when our democracy is facing its most difficult challenges,” Thompson said.
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