Today the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th attack on the U.S., Capitol will hold it’s 9th hearing. The hearing was originally scheduled for September 28th 2022, but was postponed do to Hurricane Ian slamming into Florida.
On Wednesday the Committee tweeted:
Expectations are high given that most feel this will be their last hearing before their final report is released in December.
The New York Times reported on Wednesday that today’s hearing will present new evidence about Twice Impeached 45’s state of mind and central role in the plan to overturn the 2020 election.
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Armed with new witness interviews and unreleased footage of the violence of Jan. 6, 2021, the panel is planning to argue that Mr. Trump’s lies about widespread voter fraud inspired far-right extremists and election deniers who present a continuing threat to American democracy.
Unlike previous hearings, which focused on specific aspects of Mr. Trump’s attempts to overturn the election, members will attempt to portray the entire arc of the plan, demonstrating Mr. Trump’s involvement in every step — even before Election Day.
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To bolster its case, the committee has obtained more than 1.5 million pages of documents and communications from the Secret Service that include details of how agents blocked Mr. Trump’s attempts to join his supporters at the Capitol even after they had begun the assault.
The communications lay out how Secret Service personnel attempted to find a route to take Mr. Trump to the Capitol in a presidential S.U.V., and how those plans were ultimately rebuffed amid the chaos.
New York Times. 10/12/2022.
NBC News reported on Wednesday that the hearing will not feature live witnesses according to a committee aide on a conference call with reporters; Tomorrow, what we’re going to be doing is taking a step back and we’re going to be looking at that entire plan, the entire multipart plan to overturn the election. We’re going to be looking at it in a broader context and in a broader timeline as well.
The aide confirmed that some of the new information would be the Secret Service records.
Some new information from a trove of Secret Service records — including more than 1 million electronic communications sent by agents in the lead-up to and during the insurrection — will be revealed in the hearing, an aide confirmed. Since the panel’s last hearing at the end of July, the committee also conducted interviews with new high-profile witnesses, including former Trump Cabinet members Mike Pompeo and Elaine Chao; their testimony could be featured Thursday as well, though aides would not name names.
NBC News. 10/12/2022.
The Committee aide would not confirm if we’d hearing any testimony from Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Unlike other witnesses Ginni Thomas was not videotaped due to “an agreement with her, Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., recently said on MSNBC. But transcripts and quotes from Thomas may still be used on Thursday, Lofgren said.”
The hearing is set to begin at 1:00 p.m. D.C., time.
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