The House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol began making their case for Donald Trump's culpability for the deadly riot...
Ivanka Trump, a former senior adviser to her father, President Donald Trump, displayed on a screen during a hearing of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the US Capitol in Washington, D.C., US, on Thursday, June 9, 2022.he House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S.
“I made it clear I did not agree with the idea of saying the election was stolen and putting out this stuff, which I told the president was bullshit,” former Attorney General William Barr recalled committee investigators in taped testimony, referring to a December 2020 meeting with Trump. “And I didn’t want to be a part of it.”
The revelations were among the most explosive and significant of the evening. Legal experts and former prosecutors have said that any evidence that Trump was informed that he was spreading a lie and prevent Congress from certifying Biden’s election victory could implicate him on charges of intent to defraud. “It’s really important if you can prove he knew he lost, that helps bolster claims of corrupt intent and fraudulent intent,” Barbara McQuade, a former U.S.
The committee also sought to provide evidence that Trump did not take action to stop the Capitol attack as it was unfolding, even expressing approval as some of the mayhem unfolded. The crowd in the hearing room in the Cannon House Office Building collectively gasped when Rep. Liz Cheney, Republican from Wyoming and the panel’s vice chair, shared evidence provided to the committee of remarks Trump made to his staff after the mob started chants to hang Vice President Mike Pence.
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