The Jan. 6 committee looking into the Capitol attack will focus on another alleged attempt by former President Donald Trump to maintain power on Thursday during its fifth hearing on its findings: an attempt to pick a Justice Department official who was sympathetic to his election fraud accusations.
Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., the committee’s head, said the committee will provide evidence on Trump’s attempt to involve the Justice Department in his proposal during closing remarks on Tuesday.
To justify his attempt to rig the election, Thompson claimed that on Thursday, “we’ll hear about another component of that scheme: His attempt to corrupt the nation’s highest law enforcement organisation – the Justice Department.”
Hearing testimony on Tuesday revealed the Trump campaign’s futile attempts to persuade election authorities to conduct a recount, look for additional Trump votes in their states, or even contemplate submitting a list of fictitious electors who voted in Trump’s favour.
Date of the committee hearings on January 6: Date of the committee hearings on January 6: Here is the schedule for the next hearings on January 6 and what to expect.
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What subject will the committee debate on Thursday? When are upcoming hearings planned? This is what we do know:
What time is the hearing on Thursday, January 6?
Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., a committee member, would provide specifics on Tuesday, according to Thompson, regarding Trump’s plan to shuffle the Justice Department and choose people who would support his attempt to overturn the election results.
Before showing a portion of Richard Donoghue’s pre-recorded video testimony, Thompson said, “We will learn on Thursday that Donald Trump was also the driving force behind the campaign to corrupt the Justice Department.”
In the video, Donoghue claimed that he informed Trump that he would leave his position as soon as Rosen was replaced as acting attorney general by Jeff Clark, who was then in charge of the DOJ’s civil division.
Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., committee vice-chair, stated in December that Trump intended to have Clark send a letter after his appointment accusing the election of being rigged. Top Justice Department officials threatened to resign to oppose the scheme.
According to Donoghue’s video testimony, Clark is someone who “there is no way I’m serving one minute under.”
When Clark agreed to a meeting with the committee in February, the House’s vote on the contempt charge was postponed. The committee had decided in December to hold Clark in contempt for failing to comply with a subpoena.
Who is giving evidence?
Steven Engel, a former assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel, will also be called to the witness stand with Rosen and Donoghue.
Engel met with Trump for two and a half hours in the Oval Office to discuss replacing Rosen with Clark. Also present were former White House counsel Pat Cipollone, deputy counsel Pat Philbin, and attorney Eric Herschmann. All of them, except Clark, were against the idea.
What did Day 4 teach us?
To swing the Electoral College in Trump’s favour, the Trump campaign pressured state election officials to submit different slates of electors.
Rusty Bowers, the Republican speaker of the Arizona House, received a call from a member of Trump’s legal team pleading with him to reject the state’s electors who had chosen Joe Biden as their choice.
Rudy Giuliani, the attorney for Trump, claimed to have proof of voter fraud—including a sizable number of illegal immigrants and deceased people—but he never actually did so.
Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., wanted to give Vice President Mike Pence a different slate of electors from Michigan and Wisconsin on January 6, 2021, according to texts between a staffer for Johnson and a Pence aide at the time.
A spokesperson for Johnson, Alexa Henning, asserted that Johnson “had no involvement in the creation of an alternate slate of electors and had no foreknowledge that it was going to be delivered to our office.”
To cast their votes the following day, fake electors in Michigan planned to spend the night in the state Capitol.
After their contact information was leaked, Trump supporters began to harass the witnesses. The house of Raffensperger’s daughter-in-law was broken into, Ruby Freeman, a Georgia state election worker, was compelled to leave her home for two months before Inauguration Day, and protesters frequently showed up at Bowers’ house.
Freeman and her daughter Wandrea’ Arshaye “Shaye” Moss, who is also an election worker, was charged by Giuliani with handling a USB drive containing illegitimate votes. Actually, the “drive” was a ginger mint.
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The alternate slate of electors’ plans was opposed by Trump’s campaign officials.
Although the committee believes Trump is opposed to speaking with Cipollone, Cheney made the following statement during closing remarks: “Our committee is certain that Donald Trump does not want Mr Cipollone to testify here.” “Indeed, Mr Cipollone and his office made an effort to act morally, according to our evidence. They made an effort to thwart several of President Trump’s plans for January 6.”
Date of the committee hearings on January 6: When is the following hearing?
The committee’s final hearing for June is the one scheduled for this Thursday. According to NBC and Politico, among other media outlets, Thompson stated on Wednesday that hearings would resume in July.
