Main findings from January. 6 Capitol Uprising Hearings

House committee investigating Jan. 6, the attack on the Capitol resumed after a nearly three-month hiatus to take stock and bolster the case brought against President Trump over the summer.

Deputy Chairman of the Committee Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wayo) said the hearing will focus on facts that reveal former President Trump’s state of mind and motives in connection with his electoral defeat.

House Select Committee to Investigate Capitol Attack Jan. 6 Commented

Members of the committee accepted the terms by speaking during Thursday’s hearing at the Cannon House office building.

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Committee members took turns dwelling on various aspects of the former president’s efforts to reverse the election: Trump’s plan to declare victory before all the ballots were counted; that he repeated false allegations of fraud even though his allies told him he was wrong; and that he privately admitted that he had lost while still trying to change the result.

The committee concluded its speech with an answer to a question that had hung over its work for months: Will the group seek testimony from Trump? The committee unanimously approved the decision to subpoena him at the end of the hearing.

“This is a question of accountability to the American people,” Chairman Benny Thompson (D-Miss) said ahead of the vote. “He must answer for his actions.”

Here are the key points made by the committee during the ninth hearing:

“Victory no matter what”

The committee presented new evidence that Trump intended to declare his victory on Election Night, regardless of the result of the vote count.

“It was the president’s deliberate plan to declare victory, no matter what the outcome,” Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose) said. “He made a plan to stay in office until Election Day.”

Trump and his allies knew there would be a “red mirage” on Election Night over partisan splits in how people voted. Trump has been dismissive of mail-in ballots, even as his campaign manager Bill Stepien and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Bakersfield) argued that encouraging Republicans to vote by mail could help them on Election Day. The committee played audio recordings of Trump advisers Roger Stone and Stephen K. Bannon saying that Trump would take advantage of the delayed mail-in vote.

“He doesn’t give up easily,” Bannon told a group of colleagues days before the election, according to an audio recording played by the committee. “If Biden wins, Trump will do some crazy shit.”

Trump privately admitted he lost

The committee showed excerpts from interviews with former Trump staffers who said he privately admitted he lost, even as he tried to overturn the election results.

“I popped into the Oval [Office] just to, for example, give the president headlines and see how he’s doing. And he was watching TV and he said, “Can you believe I lost to this pompous guy?” former Trump White House staffer Alyssa Farah Griffin said, describing the interaction about a week after the election.

Trump also seemed to admit that he lost because of politics. Days after President Biden was declared the winner, Trump ordered the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan and Somalia ahead of Biden’s inauguration. The orders were not carried out, and the committee showed videotaped testimony from the military, who said it would have been a disaster otherwise.

Former President Trump is projected onto a monitor during a House committee hearing.

An image of former President Trump is projected onto a monitor during Thursday’s hearing.

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“These are very important actions by a president who knows that his term will soon end,” said the member of the House of Representatives. Adam Kinzinger (R-Illinois)

After the Trump campaign suffered another legal defeat in the U.S. Supreme Court in December 2020, a Secret Service agent warned that Trump was “pissed off.” Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified that she witnessed a conversation between former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and Trump in which the former president admitted he had lost.

“[Trump] said something like “I don’t want people to know that we lost, Mark, this is embarrassing, sort it out.” I don’t want people to know we lost,” Hutchinson said.

More evidence that Trump and the Secret Service knew the crowd was armed

At past hearings, the committee presented evidence that Trump knew that some people who attended its meeting in January 2018. 6 speeches on the Ellipse near the White House were armed, primarily due to Hutchinson’s testimony.

Although the Secret Service deleted the text messages that were sent around January. The 6 committee was able to receive more than a million emails and other electronic communications, the Rep. said. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank), adding that the commission has been studying these reports since August.

Jan. On August 4, 2021, an intelligence memo revealed that the Secret Service had received reports of “calls to occupy federal buildings” and discussion of “intimidation of Congress and invasion of the Capitol building.”

One tip, sent to the FBI and passed on to the Secret Service in December 2020, warned that the Proud Boys, a far-right group, “think they’re going to have a big enough group to march into D.C. armed.”

“Their plan is to literally kill people,” the source warned. “Please, please take this advice seriously and investigate further.”

New video of Congress leaders from January. 6

The Committee shared extensive video footage of Congressional leaders, including Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) and then Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-New York).

“Why don’t you ask the President to tell them to leave the Capitol? Attorney General?” Schumer asked Jeffrey Rosen, then acting attorney general.

The video also shows Pelosi talking to the former governor of Virginia. Ralph Northam seeks help from the State National Guard.

“It’s just awful,” Pelosi said as she viewed CNN footage of the Capitol attack from a safe location. “And all at the instigation of the President of the United States.”

Committee asks for Trump’s testimony

After several months of deliberation, the committee unanimously passed a resolution on Thursday calling the former president to court.

Introducing the resolution, Cheney noted that more than 30 witnesses invoked their 5th Amendment rights when asked about their interactions with Trump before and after the January events. 6 attacks, including Stone, former national security adviser Michael Flynn, Trump lawyer John Eastman and former deputy. Atti. Gene. Geoffrey Clark.

Cheney also noted the ongoing lawsuit against Meadows, Bannon and former Trump administration official Peter Navarro, who refused to comply with the subpoena.

“We have a responsibility to seek answers directly from the person who set this all in motion, and every American has a right to those answers so that we can act now to protect our Republic,” Cheney said, announcing the resolution.