WASHINGTON – The House Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol on Tuesday plans to detail President Donald J. Trump’s personal involvement in a lobbying campaign against state officials to subvert voter will, as well as a bold plan to present false. voter boards in seven states to keep him in power.
At its fourth hearing this month, scheduled for 1 p.m., the committee will try to demonstrate what has been a recurring point for the panel: that Mr. Trump knew — or should have known — that his lies about stolen elections and the plans he was pursuing to stay in office were wrong, but he pushed them forward anyway.
The committee also plans to highlight, in a potentially emotional testimony, the vitriol and death threats suffered by election workers due to the lies of Mr. Trump.
“We will show evidence of the president’s involvement in this scheme,” said Rep. Adam B. Schiff, a California Democrat and a member of the panel, on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“We will also show evidence of what your own lawyers thought about this scheme,” he continued. “And we will show the brave state officials who stood up and said they would not agree with this plan to reconvene the legislatures or decertify the results of Joe Biden.”
Schiff, who will play a key role in Tuesday’s hearing, told The Los Angeles Times that the panel would publish new information about the deep involvement of Mark Meadows, the last chief of staff of Mr. Trump. Among those tests, Mr. Schiff, there will be text messages revealing that Mr. Meadows wanted to send “Make America Great Again” autographed hats to people who did an audit of the Georgia election.
The first witness to the hearing will be Rusty Bowers, a Republican who is the spokesman for the Arizona House of Representatives. Mr. Bowers withstood the pressure of Mr. Trump to overturn his state election; Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mr. Trump; and even Virginia Thomas, the wife of Judge Clarence Thomas.
Mr. Bowers will describe the pressure campaign of Mr. Trump and his allies, according to a committee aide. He will also describe the harassment he suffered before and after Jan. 6, and its impact on his family, the aide said.
The panel will then hear testimony from Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and State Secretary’s Office of Operations Gabriel Sterling, who were pressured to overturn the results of the elections of his state. In a phone call, Mr. Trump pushed Mr. Raffensperger to “find him” enough votes to put the state in his column and vaguely threatened him with “a criminal offense.”
Finally, the committee will hear from Shaye Moss, a Georgia election worker who was targeted by a right-wing smear campaign.
Ms. Moss and her mother, Ruby Freeman, both of whom processed ballots in Atlanta during the 2020 election for the Fulton County Board of Elections, filed a defamation suit against The Gateway Pundit, a right-wing conspiracy website who published dozens of false stories about them. The stories describe the two women as “crooked Democrats” and claim that they “took out their suitcases full of ballots and started counting these ballots without election monitors in the room.”
Mrs. Moss and Mrs. Freeman also sued Mr. Giuliani, saying he “has a substantial and disproportionate responsibility for the partisan assassination campaign” they were facing.
Investigations by the Georgia Secretary of State’s office found no charges by the two women.
The pressure on state officials came when the Trump campaign organized fake blackboards of voters in seven oscillating states won by Joseph R. Biden Jr. The committee and federal prosecutors have been investigating how these whiteboards were used by Trump’s allies in an attempt. to interrupt the normal operation of the certification of the Congress of the votes of the Electoral College on January 6.
The fourth hearing comes as the committee continues to build its case against Mr. Trump, presenting evidence of how he spread lies about election results, then raised hundreds of millions of dollars with those lies and how he tried to stay in office to pressure Vice President Mike Pence to reject legitimate election votes.
A fifth hearing scheduled for Thursday will examine Mr. Trump intervened in the running of the Justice Department, including exploring the possibility of removing the incumbent Attorney General for failing to follow his plans.
The committee continues to gather evidence as it holds its hearings. Recently, the panel sent a letter to Ms. Thomas, nicknamed Ginni, asked her to interview him about his communications with John Eastman, a Conservative lawyer who advised Mr. Trump on how to cancel the election, and later unsuccessfully sought a sorry.
“We believe you may have information about John Eastman’s plans and activities relevant to our investigation,” the panel wrote to Ms. Thomas in a letter obtained by The New York Times.
As the committee explores how Mr. Trump’s lies provoked death threats against election workers, a panel member on Sunday revealed part of the vitriol he had suffered. Legislator Adam Kinzinger, a Republican from Illinois, posted a letter on Twitter threatening to kill his family.
“This threat that came, they mailed it to my house,” Mr. Kinzinger told ABC’s “This Week” and added: “We received it a couple of days ago and it threatens to run me and my wife and 5-month-old. We’ve never seen or experienced anything. similar”.