The committee’s seventh hearing on Jan. 6 wrapped up after it detailed hearings of an “unspoken” White House meeting on election fraud and a “call to arms” to Donald Trump’s supporters first with a tweet encouraging dangerous extremists and then in the president’s speech at the Ellipse. the morning of the Capitol uprising that led the crowd to march on the Capitol. In addition to taped testimony, including the first excerpts of the panel’s interview with former White House counsel Pat Cipollone, the hearing also included in-person testimony from a Capitol riot defendant and a former member of the Oath Keepers. Previously unseen text messages also emerged from Brad Parscale, Trump’s former campaign manager, to Katrina Pearson, a former spokeswoman, which showed Mr Parscale blaming the violence on his former boss. “A sitting president is calling for civil war. This week I feel guilty for helping him win,” Mr Parscale wrote. In a bombshell moment at the end of the proceedings, Rep. Liz Cheney revealed that the former president has been reported to the Justice Department for alleged witness tampering. The eighth hearing will take place next week.
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Former Oath Keeper Warns If Trump Is Reelected
Former Oath Keepers spokesman Jason Van Tatenhove shared his fears about another term of Donald Trump in the White House as he testified before the Commission on January 6th. “We’re extremely fortunate there wasn’t more bloodshed because the potential was there from the beginning,” he said Tuesday. Gustaf Kilander reports on Mr Tatenhove’s concerns about the next election cycle.
Former Oath Keeper warns committee Jan. 6 dire warning if Trump is re-elected
“If he is re-elected, all bets are off at that point. And that’s a scary idea.” Oliver O’Connell13 July 2022 06:30 1657688745
Trump claims he could one day bring Elon Musk to his ‘knees’
Donald Trump has boasted he could get Elon Musk to “get on his knees” and “beg” for his help as the former president ignored the latest bombshells on January 6 to escalate his feud with the Tesla titan . “When Elon Musk came to the White House asking me for help with all his many subsidized projects, whether it’s electric cars that don’t drive enough time, driverless cars that crash, or rockets to nowhere, without which it would be useless, and telling me how he was a big Trump fan and a Republican, I could have said, ‘get on your knees and beg,’ and he would have…” Trump posted on Truth Social. He also mocked Musk for his new legal battle with Twitter, which he agreed to buy earlier this year.
Trump boasts he could make Elon Musk ‘drop to his knees’
Tesla boss urges ex-president to ‘sail off into the sunset’ Sravasti DasguptaJuly 13, 2022 6:05 am 1657687500
Highlights from the last committee hearing on January 6
The Jan. 6 panel investigated Donald Trump’s encouragement of extremist groups to join his effort to prevent a peaceful transfer of power at its final public hearing on Tuesday. The committee drew a line between the president’s rhetoric and the violence that day, accusing Trump of leading angry militias and extremists to the Capitol building to stop the certification of the election he lost. The most egregious example of this, the panel said, was a tweet by the then-president about a Jan. 6 rally in which he urged his supporters to “be there, be wild.” “This tweet served as a call to action, and in some cases a call to arms, for many of President Trump’s staunchest supporters,” said committee member Stephanie Murphy. The hearing focused on the role of extremist groups Proud Boys and Oath Keepers in the attack on the US Capitol. Members of both groups are known to have been front and center in the attack on the Capitol on January 6, and leaders of both have been charged with conspiracy to riot for their involvement in the events of that day. The Independent’s Richard Hall reports on the key takeaways from Tuesday’s hearing.
Here are the highlights from the last committee hearing on January 6th
The hearing focused on the role of extremist groups Proud Boys and Oath Keepers in the attack on the US Capitol Oliver O’Connell13 July 2022 05:45 1657685745
The campaign manager blamed Trump for the Jan. 6 deaths
Donald Trump’s former senior campaign adviser Brad Parscale blamed the death of Ashley Babbitt in the US Capitol riot on the former president’s heated rhetoric, text messages have revealed. In messages from the day of the riot, Mr Parscale told Mr Trump adviser Katrina Pearson he “felt guilty” for helping Mr Trump win the White House and described him as a “sitting president asking for civil war”. The messages were shared at the latest hearing on January 6.
Brad Parscale blamed Trump for Jan. 6 deaths, text messages reveal
Brad Parscale also said he “felt guilty” about helping the former president win the White House Sravasti DasguptaJuly 13, 2022 05:15 1657684860
The Jan. 6 rioter blames Trump for the Capitol attack
A man who earlier this year pleaded guilty to criminal charges related to the Capitol Hill riot testified Tuesday that he went on the attack at the direction of Donald Trump. Stephen Ayres told committee members during his testimony that he never planned to go to the Capitol itself before Donald Trump’s rhetoric during his speech calling on his supporters to march into the building and “fight ” about his conspiracies for electoral fraud. “Basically the president, he pissed everybody off, he told everybody to go down, so basically we [were] just going by what he said,” Mr. Ayres testified. John Bowden reports from Capitol Hill.
Jan. 6 rioter blames Trump for Capitol attack: ‘We were just following what he said’
Trump supporter explains how the president’s words had a big impact on the crowd Oliver O’Connell13 July 2022 05:01 1657683038
Trump delivered violent lines in the Ellipse speech
Donald Trump edited his remarks at the Jan. 6 rally and improvised violent lines to pressure then-Vice President Mike Pence in his efforts to persuade Pence to try to overturn the election, the House Select Committee investigating the insurgency said. “The President took the stage and then he gave the speech he wanted to give,” Florida Democrat Stephanie Murphy said during Tuesday’s hearing. “It included the formal changes he had requested the night before and that morning, but also several important last-minute changes to the ads.” Gustaf Kilander reports from Washington, DC.
Trump touted violent lines in the Ellipse speech and brought back Pence’s references
“A scripted reference to the speech to Mike Pence became eight. A single scripted reference to the rallies that marched on Capitol Hill became four” Oliver O’Connell13 July 2022 04:30 1657681238
Draft tweets and secret far-right messages reveal Trump had plan to rally Jan. 6 crowd on Capitol Hill
President Donald Trump secretly planned days before Jan. 6 to lead supporters from the Ellipse outside the White House to the US Capitol, where he hoped to deliver remarks outside the building. Trump’s plans were revealed Tuesday for the first time by the Jan. 6 panel, whose members obtained private text messages between White House officials and far-right activists, including MyPillow CEO Mike Liddell, as well as a draft tweet that apparently Mr. Trump was planning. to send days before his supporters reach the Capitol. Together, the messages describe what spokeswoman Stephanie Murphy described as a “deliberate strategy” to rally Mr. Trump’s supporters on Capitol Hill as Electoral College results were certified. John Bowden reports from Capitol Hill.
Secret far-right messages reveal Trump had ‘strategy’ to rally crowd Jan. 6 on Capitol Hill
The National Archives received a draft, although it has never been sent Oliver O’Connell13 July 2022 04:00 1657679438
Far Right Plans ‘Red Wedding’ in Wild Protests After Trump’s Tweet
The House Select Committee investigating the riot on Capitol Hill on January 6 released video showing many far-right commentators promoting plans for a protest on the day of the riot after former President Donald Trump said it would be “wild”. Eric Garcia participated in the hearing.
‘Red wedding’: Video shows far-right activists promoting protest plans after Trump’s tweet
“Now it’s calling us the people to take action and show our numbers,” Alex Jones said in a video from December 2020. Oliver O’Connell13 July 2022 03:30 1657677638
Photo shows Rudy Giuliani being escorted from the White House after an ‘unbroken’ meeting
A top aide to Mark Meadows shared with the committee Jan. 6 a photo of her then-boss escorting Rudy Giuliani out of the White House after a contentious meeting with Donald Trump and West Wing officials. The photo was part of Ms. Hutchinson’s and others’ accounts of an explosive meeting in the Oval Office and around the White House on Dec. 18, 2021, in which Mr. Giuliani and Sidney Powell, along with General Mike Flynn, tried to persuade Trump to grab the vote. machines and take his plans to subvert the election even further. John Bowden has the story.
Photo shows Rudy Giuliani being escorted from the White House after meeting with the “holes”.
Cassidy Hutchinson’s photo shows the end of the “unbreakable” meeting at the White House Oliver O’Connell13 July 2022 03:00 1657675838
Twitter considered stricter rules after Trump’s ‘stand by’ message to Proud Boys
Twitter considered stricter moderation policies after Donald Trump told the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by,” but the company chose not to act, an employee told the Jan. 6 committee. Democrat Jamie Raskin of Maryland said the committee “interviewed a former Twitter employee who explained the impact Trump has had on…
