It’s been more than two months since the last Jan. 6 committee hearing aired. So here’s a refresher on what the first several televised sessions revealed, to bring you up to speed ahead of Thursday's (probably final) public hearing.
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol has been building a case against former President Donald Trump in a series of televised hearings. And now, what’s expected to be the final public hearing before the committee publishes its full report will be airing at 1 p.m. Eastern on Thursday. Here’s what to expect.
Bill Barr called election-fraud claims ‘bullshit’ — and Ivanka Trump agreed with him. One of the most viral moments from the first public hearing featured a clip of former Attorney General Bill Barr giving a deposition in which he said that he tried telling Trump that he had lost the election, and that Trump’s fraud claims were “bullshit.”
The committee’s first hearing, which was televised in prime-time, was seen by 19.4 million people, Nielsen reported. The ‘Big Lie’ was also a ‘big rip-off.’ The Trump campaign used false claims that the election had been stolen to fundraise $250 million for an “election defense fund” that, the Jan. 6 committee investigation found, likely did not exist. Nearly $150 million was raised in the first week after the Nov. 3, 2020, election alone.
Pence — said to have called a “wimp” by Trump during a phone call before the riot — refused to leave the Capitol that day, his lawyer Greg Jacob said, in order to continue his ceremonial role of presiding over the counting of the electoral votes. And also because, “he did not want to take any chance that the world would see the vice president of the United States fleeing the United States Capitol.
Trump attempted to misuse the Department of Justice as president to keep himself in the White House. The fifth panel hearing featured an argument that Trump breached protocol by hounding the Justice Department daily to act on his baseless claims of election fraud — suggesting, for example, a federal seizure of voting machines, or issuance by the Justice Department of an unfounded declaration that the election was corrupt.
“The only reason I know to ask for a pardon is because you think you’ve committed a crime,” said Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, one of two Republicans tapped to serve on the select committee after House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy withdrew his slate of committee nominees in what critics viewed as an attempt to paint the committee’s investigation as partisan and politically motivated.
Trump knew the mob was armed and heading to the Capitol but observed that ‘they’re not here to hurt me.’ In a surprise hearing added to the Jan. 6 committee’s originally planned seven-hearing roster, the panel presented Cassidy Hutchinson, an aide to then–White House chief of staff Meadows. Hutchinson said Trump was aware that many people trying to attend his rally on Jan. 6 were armed, and he was angry that the Secret Service was screening them for weapons.
Remorseful Jan. 6 rioter tells Trump supporters to ‘take the blinders off.’ The seventh hearing attempted to connect the dots between Trump’s tweets and public statements, and to show how his rhetoric summoned his more extreme supporters, including the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, to storm the Capitol on Jan. 6. And it featured some former Trump followers regretting their actions.
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