The House Select Committee spent the majority of its ninth public hearing focusing on Donald Trump's role in the Jan. 6 riot.
Pelosi is later filmed talking to then-vice president Mike Pence, telling him she had gotten a report of “defecation,” or human feces, on the House floor and that it could take a while to restore order.
“It was obvious that only President Trump could end this,” he said. “Former aides publicly begged him to do so. Loyal allies frantically called the administration.” The documents showed that Secret Service agents were aware of the potential for violence at the Capitol over a week before the insurrection, having been tipped off by an individual that the far-right group the Proud Boys were planning to march on the Capitol on Jan. 6. That correspondence was received by the Secret Service on Dec. 26, 2020.
Other documents concerned the numerous warnings former President Donald Trump received about the potential for violence that day, and the Secret Service’s reaction to the president’s request to march with his supporters to the Capitol after a morning speech on the National Mall. The new documents included an email from a Secret Service official at 1:19 p.m. ET on Jan. 6 sent to Robert Engel, then-head of the Secret Service detail, warning him they were “concerned about an OTR [off the record] movement to the Capitol."
Because of the new testimony received from the Secret Service, the committee “will be recalling witnesses and conducting additional investigative steps,” according to Rep. Aguilar.A photo of then-President Donald Trump in the Oval Office with his coat still on as he returns from speaking on the Ellipse on Jan. 6, as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol holds a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022.
Former attorney general Bill Barr said Trump repeatedly raised concerns about Dominion’s machines, despite having “zero basis” for the claims. Trump later directly asked local officials to take a second look at their results, including in Georgia, where he notably asked the secretary of state to “find” votes to help him win the state, though they had already tallied the votes three times.Cassidy Hutchinson, then a top aide to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, recounted a conversation about the call in a videotaped deposition.
“For the department to insert itself into the political process this way, I think, would have had grave consequences for the country,” Donoghue testified earlier this year.“The president ultimately relented only because the entire leadership of the Department of Justice, as well as his White House Counsel, threatened to resign,” Luria concluded.
“I remember maybe a week after the election was called, I popped into the Oval just to like, give the president the headlines and see how he was doing,” she told lawmakers, saying Trump then said of Joe Biden: “And he was looking at the TV and he said, ‘can you believe I lost to this effing guy?’” “Those cases resulted in 61 losses, and only a single victory which did not affect the outcome for any candidate,” Kinzinger said.
Hutchinson told the panel in a videotaped deposition that Trump was "just raging" about the decision said he "people to know we lost." The panel on Thursday showed new video it obtained of Roger Stone, a political operative and longtime ally of former President Donald Trump, saying before Election Day that Trump should prematurely claim victory.
Lofgren said, according to witness testimony, Stone was at meetings on Jan. 5 and 6 at the Willard Hotel in Washington, where Trump asked his chief of staff, Mark Meadows, to speak with Stone and Michael Flynn. The then-President’s advisors, including his son-in-law Jared Kushner, urged Trump to push vote-by-mail for Republicans. But his mind was made up, Kushner said. So, election night vote counts initially leaned toward Trump — a “red mirage,” Lofgren called it. When absentee ballots came in, Biden’s lead became clear. And Trump, against his advisors’ recommendations, sought to declare victory.
While then-Vice President Mike Pence’s staff set out to ensure that Pence not be percieved as having made a decision regarding electoral votes before the facts had come in, Trump advisor Tom Fitton presented a plan seeking to state that only ballots counted by the “election day deadline” would be valid.
At the end of Thursday's hearing, Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., addressed four police officers who served during the Jan. 6 riot, and said that the panel "asked them what they hope to see the committee accomplish over the course of our investigation." "Our duty today is to our country, and our children, and our constitution," said vice chair Liz Cheney, who presented the motion. "We are obligated to seek answers directly from the man who set this all in motion."The move marks the panel’s most aggressive action yet as it looks to investigate the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol — and would likely set up a court battle between the select committee and the former president.
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