The select committee of the House that investigates the insurrection plans of January 6, 2021 to hold its seventh public hearing on Tuesday, with an expected focus on the ways in which former President Donald Trump and his allies convened far-right militant groups in Washington as he became increasingly desperate to stay to power.
It is likely that the hearing will deepen in the period after the states cast the votes of the polling station on December 14, 2020, an action that confirmed the victory of Joe Biden. Trump, the committee is expected to argue, and then focused its focus on using the date of the vote count in Congress, January 6, 2021, to block a peaceful transfer of power.
A committee aide said Monday in a conference call with reporters that the audience will expose the way far-right militant groups such as the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers and others took clues from the former president and his allies. Special attention will be paid to his December 19, 2020 post on Twitter: “Great protest in DC on January 6,” Trump tweeted. “Be there, it will be wild!”
The tweet that served as “a key moment that stimulated a chain of events, including the Proud Boys’ pre-planning,” noted the committee’s assistant, who was not allowed to speak at the minutes. The tweet was posted “just over an hour after meeting with Rudy Giuliani, General Mike Flynn [ret.]Sidney Powell and others where they are considering taking actions such as confiscating voting machines, appointing a special lawyer to investigate the election. “
The committee will also highlight the ties between violent extremist groups and Trump associates, connections that committee lawmakers already hinted at during previous hearings.
“We will show how some of these far-right groups that came to DC and led the attack on the Capitol had ties to Trump associates, including Roger Stone and General Mike Flynn,” the committee assistant said.
During a hearing late last month with Cassidy Hutchinson, a former Assistant to Trump’s White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, committee vice president Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) Asked Hutchinson about his former chief’s communications with Stone and Flynn.
“I have the impression that Mr. Meadows completed both a call to Mr. Stone and General Flynn on the evening of the 5th,” Hutchinson replied.
Hutchinson also stated in a videotaped statement that he generally recalled “having heard the word Oath Keeper and hearing the word Proud Boys closer to the planning of the January 6 demonstration when [Rudolph] Giuliani would be close.
Tuesday’s hearing, led by Reps Jamie B. Raskin (D-Md.) And Stephanie Murphy (D-Fla.), Will also address conspiracy theories, such as QAnon, which eventually radicalized some of the Americans who stormed the Capitol. One of the live testimonials scheduled for Tuesday is Jason Van Tatenhove, who served as national spokesman for the Oath Keepers and as a close collaborator of Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, between 2014 and 2018, a time he said Rhodes considered “the golden years.” for your group.
Van Tatenhove’s job was to try to get Rhodes on Fox News or Infowars, an online conspiracy claims dealer. Van Tatenhove was part of the inner circle of Oath Keepers leadership in their formative years, but he had left the group well. before the 2020 election. In interviews with The Washington Post last year, Van Tatenhove described Oath Keepers as a cult of personality around Rhodes.
Von Tatenhove is among many former Oath Keepers who say Rhodes, who has a law degree from Yale, promoted violent ideology and called on supporters to revolt, but was an expert at protecting himself from legal consequences. Van Tatenhove said Rhodes collected membership fees to radicalize cadres of military veterans and former police officers. Rhodes amassed a large national network, although he commanded few royal forces; the January 6 screening was one of the largest in Oath Keeper’s history and was ultimately the group’s demise.
Rhodes is now among those accused of Capitol riots facing seditious conspiracy charges and his group has been divided into rogue and derivative chapters. A book proposal by Van Tatenhove last year described him working “side by side” with Rhodes for about three years. “Jason has been waiting for the right time to tell his own story in his own words about his misadventures with Oath Keepers,” the proposal said. “Now is the time.”
The final part of the hearing will look at the efforts of White House staff and the president’s advisers to keep Trump away from the Capitol, despite his attempts to get there. Murphy and Raskin will also talk about “the involvement of members of Congress in the final stretch before Jan. 6, especially their participation in a pressure campaign against the vice president specifically,” a committee aide said.
Tuesday’s post-hearing, which is expected to be led by Representatives Elaine Luria (D-Va.) And Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), Was tentatively scheduled for Thursday, but is now scheduled for next week in light of new evidence and testimonies obtained by committee investigators.
Panel lawmakers said over the weekend that the public could expect to see parts of Friday’s transcribed interview of former White House attorney Pat Cipollone. they appear during Tuesday’s hearing.
Committee spokesman Tim Mulvey told the Washington Post on Sunday that Cipollone offered “critical testimony on almost every important topic in his investigation, reinforcing key points about Donald Trump’s misconduct and providing very relevant new information.” which will play a central role in its upcoming audiences. “
A federal judge on Monday rejected Stephen K. Bannon’s offer to postpone his trial next week after the Justice Department called his offer to testify before the committee as a “last attempt to avoid liability” for accusations of criminal contempt in Congress. Bannon had resisted for months testifying before the committee, but reversed over the weekend.
Bannon’s name could come out in the hearing on Tuesday as lawmakers see the former White House strategist as a key figure in radicalizing some of Trump’s supporters. They say they have evidence showing that Bannon spoke repeatedly with Trump and his advisers before Jan. 6.
The January 6 insurrection
The select committee of the House investigating the January 6, 2021 uprising held a series of high-profile hearings in June. That of the committee The next public hearing is scheduled for July 12.
Hearings in Congress: The House committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol has held a series of hearings to share its findings with the American public. The sixth hearing featured an explosive testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson, a former White House aide.
Will there be charges? The committee could make criminal references to former President Donald Trump for his role in the attack, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) Said in an interview.
What do we know about what Trump did on January 6th: New details emerged when Hutchinson testified before the committee and shared what he saw and heard on Jan. 6.
The riot: On January 6, 2021, a pro-Trump mafia stormed the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to stop certification of the results of the 2020 election. Five people died that day or immediately thereafter, and 140 police officers were killed. attacked.
Inside the siege: During the riot, rioters came dangerously close to entering the building’s inner shrines while lawmakers were still there, including former Vice President Mike Pence. The Washington Post examined text messages, photos, and videos to create a video timeline of what happened on Jan. 6.