The House select committee probing the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol charted a path showing how the Trump campaign and allies used baseless claims of election fraud to raise millions of dollars from the former president's supporters — money that was then funneled into the pockets of entities with close ties to Trump.
The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol held the third in a series of public hearings with testimony from former Vice President Mike Pence's former counsel Greg Jacob and conservative jurist J. Michael Luttig. The hearing focused on former President Donald Trump's campaign to pressure Pence to reject electoral votes. The committee has continued to lay out evidence showing Trump encouraged his supporters to descend on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, after peddling false claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.
The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol held its fourth hearing that focused on President Donald Trump's pressure on top election officials, lawmakers and workers in Arizona and Georgia to overturn the 2020 election results in their states. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, Wandrea "Shaye " Moss, a former Georgia election worker, were among the witnesses who testified before the committee. The committee sought on to bring to light the severity of the threat to democracy in the days and weeks after the election, given the enormous and persistent pressure by the president and by Rudy Giuliani on officials and ordinary Americans to promote the "big lie" that Trump had won the election.
Former acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen, former acting deputy attorney general Richard Donoghue and former assistant attorney general Steven Engel appeared before the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. The panel detailed former President Donald Trump’s pressure on the Justice Department to overturn the 2020 election results. In the other days of testimony, the committee has outlined how Trump and his allies pushed false claims of election fraud leading up to Jan. 6, 2021. Trump then encouraged his supporters to descend on the Capitol to stop former Vice President Mike Pence from certifying the Electoral College votes.
Cassidy Hutchinson, a former top aide to President Donald Trump’s last chief of staff Mark Meadows, testified at an unexpected Jan. 6 hearing. The committee said it would be holding the last-minute hearing to "present recently obtained evidence and receive witness testimony."
The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol focused on the mobilization of the mob at the U.S. Capitol and the links between extremists and former President Donald Trump. Jason Van Tatenhove, the former media director for the Oath Keepers, and Stephen Ayres, who pleaded guilty to illegally entering the Capitol building, also testified at the hearing.
The House Jan. 6 committee conducted a public hearing to examine what former President Donald Trump was doing for 187 minutes — from when rioters descended on the Capitol to his videotaped statement urging them to go home. "The mob was accomplishing President Trump's purpose, and he did not intervene," said Rep. Adam Kinzinger, one of the committee members leading the hearing.
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol voted Thursday to issue a subpoena for documents and testimony from former President Donald Trump. In its ninth – and possibly final – hearing, the panel focused on former President Donald Trump's mindset after the 2020 election. The committee has sought in its public hearings to connect Trump and his allies' efforts to overturn the 2020 election with the mobilization of the mob at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
The January 6 Committee holds its final public hearing on the attack of the U.S. Capitol.