Capitol Police officers seated in the hearing room to apologize and shake their hands. 6 attack, testified he regrets believing Trump’s false claims: “We basically were just following what he said.” On Tuesday, Ayres approached former U.S. ▪ NBC News : Stephen Ayres, who pleaded guilty last month in the Jan. ▪ The Hill : Trump ally Stephen Bannon predicted “all hell is going to break loose tomorrow” after a call with Trump on Jan. ▪ The Hill : Cheney says Trump’s team has changed its Jan. Capitol Police officers who had been on duty also died, including from suicide, and are included by many lawmakers as among the total fatalities (The New York Times). 6 contributed to the deaths of four people who had been in the crowd. 6 to advice from many quarters to urge supporters to cease the violence at the Capitol and go home. It is likely to focus on Trump’s resistance on Jan. Raskin said a hearing next week “will be a moment of reckoning” for the country. The committee postponed a primetime hearing originally planned on Thursday because of additional information it received. 6 panel is hurting Trump but not helping President Biden or Democrats. ▪ The Associated Press: “Screaming” and a Trump tweet never sent. 6 hearing focused on Trump post-election chaos. 6 with a description that a planned event “will be wild.” Far-right commentators and extremists seized on the post and encouraged followers to storm the Capitol and commit violence, the committee showed using contemporaneous messages. 18, 2020, meeting, Trump posted a tweet the next day that summoned supporters to Washington on Jan. That’s not how we do things in the United States,” Cipollone testified (CNN).Īfter the machine-seizure idea was discussed by the former president’s allies at the White House at a Dec.

“To have the federal government seize voting machines? That’s a terrible idea for the country. The former White House counsel, in videotaped testimony obtained by the panel on Friday, recounted how he opposed the idea, even as a group of outside allies urged that Trump move ahead. “There’s no probable cause, and we’re not going to seize any machines” (The New York Times). “ Absolutely not,” he said he had replied. In videotaped testimony played on Tuesday, former Attorney General William Barr said Trump asked him to use the Justice Department to seize machines, a request that Barr denied. Senior Trump administration officials described how Trump personally sought to use the federal government to seize voting machines. 6 after he was repeatedly advised by senior government officials and campaign aides that he lost the 2020 election.Īccording to testimony and evidence, Trump rejected the facts and was swayed by loyalists, who had been labeled “the crazies” by some senior advisers, to try to retain power through a combination of force and falsehoods. Tuesday’s seventh public hearing relied on videotaped, sworn testimony and communications, including from former White House counsel Pat Cipollone, to assert that Trump carefully plotted a closely held plan about Jan.

He said that as more individuals from Trump’s former inner circle come forward to describe what they saw and heard in 20, the committee wanted to emphasize that witness tampering is a crime and “people should not be approaching witnesses to try to get them to alter their testimony.” Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), who led the questioning on Tuesday, told reporters after the hearing that they did not have more details about the witness to whom Cheney referred in her closing remarks.

The Justice Department has been vague about whether it would pursue criminal referrals from the panel involving Trump.Ĭhairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and Rep. 6 could be criminal based on witness testimony and evidence. Members of the committee have used words such as conspiracy, plot and sedition in general summations, indicating that investigators believe the former president’s actions tied to the election outcome and Jan. Cheney last month referenced witness tampering, a possible crime. The individual did not take the call and reported it to the committee through a lawyer, and the committee, in turn, reported the contact to the Justice Department, she said (The Hill). In a bombshell disclosure in the final minutes of the hearing, committee Vice Chairwoman Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said Trump phoned an unnamed witness set to appear at a future hearing. 6 on Tuesday said former President Trump recklessly stoked a mob to attack the Capitol in a brazen attempt after weeks of desperate efforts to retain presidential power by force and intimidation. The House committee investigating the events of Jan.

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