The House Select Committee examining Jan. 6, 2021, insurgency focuses particularly on the provoking rhetoric and preparations that followed via President Donald Trump’s tweet days prior threatening a “wild” demonstration on Jan. 6.
The 7th day hearing for the White House insurrection incidence by the January 6 Committee kicked off on Tuesday. The criteria for the session were established by Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, who pointed to the information given concerning what Trump knew about the lack of proof to support his vote-rigging accusations.
“President Trump is a 76-year-old man. He is not an impressionable child. Just like everyone else in our country, he is responsible for his actions and his own choices,”
-Liz Cheney, the Republican co-chair of the committee.
She also added that their study reveals, then President Trump was very clear that the voting was not truly hijacked, more than nearly any other US citizen could be. He was also informed the same over and over again. After all this, no normal or sane guy could ignore such knowledge and cultivate an adverse inference. Further, she stressed that Donald Trump cannot avoid accountability by choosing to be willfully blind.
Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-FL), one of the other subcommittee members overseeing the hearing on the day, said the Dec. 19 tweet “acted as a call to action and, under certain instances, like a call to arms for many of Donald Trump’s most ardent fans.”
Clips from White House official Pat Cipollone’s preliminary closed-door proceedings from Friday have now been presented, including one in which he was harshly critical of a proposal pushed by certain earlier President’s aides to confiscate voting equipment to show fraud. To which he remarked, “That’s not how we do things in the United States.”
Background of the Jan 6 White House Insurrection
On January 6, 2021, followers of the then-presidential candidate Donald Trump broke into the US Capitol, immersing the structure in turmoil when Trump pushed his sympathizers to oppose the symbolic counting of the votes in the Electoral College to confirm President Biden’s victory.
After that, at 1:10 PM, Trump escaped to the White House in his SUV after saying he would accompany them, where he viewed the mayhem on TV news. Groups of pro-Trump demonstrators broke over barricades placed across the Capitol’s perimeter shortly after that. Then they started clashing with policemen wearing riot gear and yelled “traitors” at them for performing their duties.
Within one and a half hours demonstrators got into the building and a Trump supporter was also pictured standing at the Senate dais following the break-in. The building wasn’t once again settled until about 5:40 p.m. ET, as per one of the US Capitol Police officer’s statements collected that day.
What’s Next Step in the Jan 6 Committee Hearing
In yet another open session, the House select committee looking into the uprising at the US Capitol on January 6 is expected to present its conclusions. A major focus of the committee’s investigation has been the precise moment and manner of the occurrences on that day.
Actual eyewitness accounts are expected from Jason Van Tatenhove, the Oath Keepers’ national spokesperson and a close assistant to Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes. Another witness to be heard in the subsequent trials is Stephen Ayres, a rioter who unlawfully entered the House on the day the incident took place.
According to one of the committee members Rep. Adam Schiff, the panel is anticipated to produce evidence demonstrating ex-president Donald Trump’s “attempts to organize that mob on the shopping complex. It would also establish links between Trump and numerous agitator groups during the parade before the insurrection on the US capital building.
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