Trump’s supporters in Congress could fill in many of the blanks about the events surrounding the attack on the Capitol, but many are increasingly committed to an extreme and conspiratorial view not only of January 6th but also of the 2020 election.
last Thursday, was a standoff in which Donald Trump came close to firing his acting Attorney General, Jeffrey Rosen. The plan was to replace Rosen with a Department of Justice official named Jeffrey Clark, who was ready to send officials in six of the states Joe Biden had won a letter saying that the D.O.J. had uncovered voting irregularities, and that their legislatures might want to reassign their states’ electors. “This letter is a lie,” Cheney said.
Perry was active in Trump’s post-election efforts in Pennsylvania, conveying outlandish theories about how foreign forces—including, oddly, the British—had tampered with the ballot count. Politico reported that a witness told the committee that she had seen, Trump’s chief of staff, burn documents after he’d had a meeting with Perry.
None of the five Republicans was hard to find on Thursday. Brooks, who was initially endorsed by Trump in Alabama’s May Senate primary, then was unendorsed, and now, in a bid to bebefore a June 21st runoff, is portraying Trump’s rejection of him as a benevolent act , tweeted that the hearing was a “kangaroo court.” Perry and Biggs took to the House floor, with, of Georgia, as their wingwoman, to preëmptively denounce the hearing.
over January 6th and Trump. Adam Kinzinger, of Illinois, the only other Republican on the committee, is not running for reëlection. Cheney is trailing her Trump-endorsed opponent in the Wyoming primary, Harriet Hageman, by a wide margin.
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