The committee investigating the January 6, 2021 Capitol siege is set to convene on Tuesday for a public hearing to investigate what it calls the final phase of Trump’s multi-pronged effort to stop US President Joe Biden from winning. As dozens of lawsuits and false allegations of voter fraud tumbled, Trump tweeted the rally invitation in a pivotal moment, the panel said. “We will present the full body of evidence that we have that speaks to how the president’s tweet in the early hours of December 19th titled ‘Be there, be wild’ was a siren call to these people,” the committee member said. Stephanie Murphy on NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday, referring to a tweet by Trump on December 19, 2020. What the committee plans to investigate Tuesday is whether extremist groups, including the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers and QAnon followers who have rallied for Trump in the past, coordinated with White House allies for the Jan. 6 event. The Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, far-right extremist groups whose leaders and others now face rare sedition charges for their role in the attack, prepared to come to Washington, according to the courts. Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio speaks to the media in Washington on January 14 after being released from custody at the DC Central Detention Center where he had been held since September 2021. Tarrio and other Proud Boys face federal charges related to January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters) On Dec. 29, the Proud Boys president posted a message on social media that said members planned to “walk out in record numbers on Jan. 6,” according to a federal indictment. The night before Jan. 6, Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio met with Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes in an underground parking garage, according to court records along with footage a documentary filmmaker following the group gave to the committee. Committee member Jamie Raskin tweeted Monday: When he sent this tweet, Trump became the first president in American history to call for a protest against the peaceful transfer of power. In tomorrow’s hearing, America will see how it mobilized dangerous extremists & white nationalist groups to come armed to ‘Stop the Steal’. pic.twitter.com/z6muqx3AlZ —@RepRaskin
At least 1 more televised hearing is planned
An attorney for Rhodes recently told the committee that their client wants to testify publicly. Rhodes has already been interviewed by the committee in private, and it is unlikely that the committee will agree to a public hearing. The Oath Keepers denied that there was a plan to invade the Capitol. WATCH l Catch up on highlights from the committee’s previous televised hearing:
Trump knew participants at Jan. 6 rally had guns, top aide testifies
Donald Trump dismissed the threat of armed protesters marching on Capitol Hill on Jan. 6, 2021, a key former White House aide told investigators on Tuesday. This is the seventh hearing since early June in a series that featured numerous revelations from the Jan. 6 committee, which is made up of seven Democrats and two Republicans — Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger — who have been estranged from the party leadership. them, which has dismissed the commission’s work as partisan politics. Last month, the committee created a hard-hitting narrative of a defeated Trump “disengaged from reality,” clinging to his bogus claims of voter fraud and working feverishly to reverse his election loss, both inside the Justice Department and by pressuring state officials in battlefield. . It all culminated in the deadly attack on the Capitol, the panel said. The commission had scheduled a hearing Thursday, but postponed it. The commission is expected to report on its findings before the end of the year. Trump and his staunchest allies raised allegations of voter fraud almost immediately after the polls closed on November 3, 2020, but dozens of cases were brought to US courts and dismissed, with Trump’s attorney general William Barr calling many of the allegations of fraud as unfounded. The Trump administration’s own Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency called the 2020 election “the most secure in American history” in a statement.
