“I have lost my name, I have lost my reputation”: official testimony of voters at the January 6 hearings
Hearings on Thursday, January 6, have looked in depth at how Donald Trump and his allies have pressured the Justice Department to help cancel the 2020 election.
Acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue told the committee that Trump personally instructed him to say the election was “corrupt” and that he would use it as an impetus for Congress to act and refuse to certify the results.
“Just say it was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican congressmen,” Donald Trump said, in words read aloud by committee member Adam Kinzinger on Jan. 6.
Even after being repeatedly briefed by DOJ officials that his election claims had no merit, Mr. Trump still said he considered “smart” supporters who mutinied in the Capitol because of his opinion. that the presidential contest was stolen.
“They were angry from the point of view of what happened in the election,” Trump told filmmaker Alex Holder. “Because they’re smart and they see and they saw what happened, and I think that was a big part of what happened on January 6.”
As Republicans advanced their plan to challenge the election, Congressmen Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Mo Brooks apologized to Donald Trump.
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According to the report, Trump angrily watches every January 6 hearing, almost yelling at television while no one defends him
A close adviser told The Washington Post that Mr. Trump is “about to shout on television” while watching the hearings.
Another source in Trump’s inner circle told the newspaper that the former president often complains that “there is no one to defend me” in hearings.
But one person familiar with the situation rejected that idea to Insider, saying, “That’s not true. He’s barely seen any of the audiences.”
Gustaf Kilander has more.
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What’s next for the January 6 hearings?
Federal agents issued new subpoenas on the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol and stormed the homes of two people involved in the plot to overturn the 2020 presidential election, The Washington Post reported.
The FBI confirmed to The Post that it conducted law enforcement activities at the home of Brad Carver, who allegedly signed a document to be Trump’s voter, as well as Thomas Lane, who worked in the Trump’s effort to cancel the election in Arizona and New York. Mexico.
Other potential participants in former President Donald Trump’s plan to send an alternative list of voters to cancel the 2020 presidential election received citations.
The citations and activity in the homes come a day after Arizona State House Speaker Russell “Rusty” Bowers, as well as Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and his deputy Gabriel Sterling, would describe the efforts of Mr. Trump and his associates to annul the election. results.
Eric Garcia and Andrew Feinberg have more information on the next steps for the high-profile committee.
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VIDEO: Sean Penn watches January 6 audiences at the Capitol
Actor Sean Penn was in the gallery Thursday to attend the Jan. 6 hearings, sitting next to DC police officers who were attacked during the riots at the Capitol.
Sean Penn sits down with Capitol police officers at the Jan. 6 hearing
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Far from the January 6 hearings, right-wing news channels face a bill for false election claims
Proponents of the lie that the 2020 election was stolen are currently facing a very public reckoning. Millions of Americans are tuning in to see how the Jan. 6 House committee presents evidence of a concerted effort by Donald Trump and his allies to cancel the election.
But another calculation of accounts, largely gone so far, may still take place for the people and institutions that promoted these lies. In court, right-wing media companies issuing false claims about manipulated voting machines are being hit with billions of dollars in lawsuits, and they are not disappearing.
At the heart of these demands are two voting machine companies whose equipment was used in the 2020 election: Dominion and Smartmatic. They are in the process of suing Fox News, the parent company of Fox News, and the pro-Trump news media Newsmax and One America News (OAN), for billions of dollars collectively.
The highlight of these cases goes to the heart of the Murdoch dynasty. Dominion has claimed that Fox Corp, the parent company of Fox News, allowed false claims about the company to be made in its news media, and that President Rupert Murdoch and his son, CEO Lachlan Murdoch, they allowed this coverage to continue knowing what those claims were. false.
Read the full report at Richard Hall.
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LOOK: Matt Gaetz asked for the presidential pardon
During hearings Thursday, Jan. 6, committee members testified revealing which Republicans apologized to President Trump for his involvement in efforts to cancel the election.
Among them was Matt Gaetz of Florida.
Check out the tests below.
Matt Gaetz among lawmakers who apologized to Trump said the Jan. 6 hearing
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Trump aides surprised by the revelation of an unseen documentary quoted by the Jan. 6 committee: “What the hell is this?”
The January 6 hearings are not the only piece of television that worries Trump.
Unprecedented, an upcoming docuserie that includes interviews with Donald Trump and others, has uncovered those in his inner circle.
Graig Graziosi has the details.
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Who is the documentary filmmaker who shakes up the January 6 audiences?
This would be Alex Holder, who filmed the upcoming Unprecedented series in the moments just before and after January 6th.
The film, which includes interviews with Donald Trump, his sons and election experts, has now been examined by committee members.
Andrew Buncombe took that look at the director behind.
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Donald Trump was on the precipice of the new “Saturday night massacre”
The committee’s special hearings on Thursday, January 6, revealed that Donald Trump was just moments away from repeating President Richard Nixon’s infamous “Saturday Night Massacre,” when several Justice Department officials resigned in instead of continuing the cover-up of the Watergate scandal.
Donald Trump narrowly avoided that fate, officials said Thursday.
He and his allies spent months pushing for an incumbent Attorney General named Jeffrey Clark, who urged the DOJ to declare him a suspect in the 2020 election and encourage state officials to send illegitimate list of pro-Trump voters.
Things came to a head when the DOJ leadership met with Donald Trump in the White House. They warned that they would resign en masse if more power was given to Mr. Clark, along with hundreds of colleagues.
“The leadership would have disappeared. Jeff Clark would run a cemetery,” former Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue told the president.
Josh Marcus June 24, 2022 2:45 p.m.
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On January 6, an era of political violence began
Every day, it seems that American politics is becoming more and more violent.
Today we have several stories of politicians and people linked to Washington facing death threats for their positions.
January 6, hopefully, was the culmination of an increasingly violent era in American politics, but it doesn’t seem to be the end.
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Trump saw the January 6 violence as “inevitable” and was “jovial” after the Capitol riots, says British filmmaker
British filmmaker Alex Holder told CBS News on Thursday night in an interview that President Donald Trump saw the January 6 violence as “inevitable” and was “jovial” in the hours following the Capitol riot.
Mr. Holder, whose documentary footage was reviewed by the Jan. 6 committee, testified today in camera about what he saw as he followed Mr. Trump and his inner circle during the months before and after the election. 2020.
Following his testimony and the public publication of a select footage of his upcoming three-part documentary series that will premiere on Discovery Plus later this summer, Mr. Holder spoke to CBS News, telling host Norah O’Donnell he predicted the Jan. 6 violence.
“The volume of rhetoric and the kind of belligerence that came after the election was so significant that, in my head, I finally had to end up with something violent,” Holder said. “Even if you look at how the campaign went before, the idea that the elections were something that was going to be irregular was already emerging at that time as well. Therefore, for me, January 6 does not go by itself ”.
Abe Asher has all the details.
Josh Marcus June 24, 2022 1:45 p.m.