Thursday was unanimously voted by the Jan.6 Committee to subpoena former President Donald Trump as testimony for the panel.
“A key task remains we must seek the testimony of the January 6 central player, ” Rep. Liz Cheney, the vice chairman of the Jan. 6 committee, said during Thursday’s hearing.
They vote, taken before a recess in the day’s hearing, came back 9-0.
The committee had returned from a long break for what’s to be a final time, and with what co-chair Bennie Thompson said would be “new evidence and testimony” showing how former President Donald Trump had a multifaceted plan to overturn the 2020 election – even though he knew he’d lost it.
Going back to this spring, with the most recent hearing in July, the committee has laid out evidence and testimony from former aides in Trump’s administration in an attempt to show how his actions and tweets stoked the eruption of violence. Cheney said that Thursday’s hearing would be about Trump’s state of mind – what he knew, and what everyone around him was saying vs. what he claimed.
“The central cause of Jan. 6 was one man,”Cheney spoke. “Donald Trump.”
She claimed that Trump is sticking to his unverbunished claims that the election had been stolen. “not a defense,”But it is also not true.
Secret Service messages revealed that agents knew that some mob members had guns and that Trump wanted his crowd to be allowed in at his rally near Capitol without passing through metal detectors.
“None of this is normal, or acceptable, or lawful in our Republic,”Cheney spoke.
Secret Service emails revealed by Senator Adam Schiff indicated that the agency knew that groups such as The Proud Boys were looking at Jan. 6, for some type of violent assembly. Agents around the Capitol reported sightings that day of firearms, ballistic armour and other weapons.
The Secret Service was “watching the crazies”Schiff said that Schiff described a calm before storm on Jan. 6th, suggesting they knew what was ahead. Schiff stated that the Secret Service “and other agencies”The threats of violence were well-known in advance.
Highlights of previous hearings
Day 8. The July 21 hearing painted a picture of an uncaring President who watched the attack on TV – even as everyone around him knew he was the only one who could stop it. The hearing focused on 187 minutes of Jan. 6: from the moment Trump concluded his 1 p.m. rally at The Ellipse, urging his followers to march on the Capitol, until 4:17 p.m., when Trump finally released a video telling them to go home. Two Trump White House staff members — former deputy national security adviser Matthew Pottinger and former deputy press secretary Sarah Matthews — were on hand to detail that time period. Find out more about Day 8 highlights.
Day 7Multiple witnesses testified that multiple witnesses were present on July 12. “heated and profane” fight at the White House raged for six hours on December 19 between Donald Trump’s competing factions of advisers. The result, the committee said, was Trump’s now-infamous “Be there, will be wild!”Tweet the next day. A videotaped testimony was also recorded by a Twitter employee, whose voice was omitted. The employee said he unsuccessfully implored his company to censor the president’s incendiary tweets, telling his superiors: “When people are shooting each other tomorrow, I will try and rest in the knowledge that we tried.”Learn more about Day 7 by clicking here
Day 6 On June 28, Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony, an ex-top White House aide, was presented to the committee. “furious”Donald Trump, who tossed dishes at the wall, directed that rallygoers carrying weapons be allowed into the speech and physically fought with his own security personnel who refused him to drive him to Capitol Building while the riot was underway. You can read Day 6 highlights here.
Day 5on June 23 included testimony showing that Trump pressured on his own attorney general’s office to overturn the 2020 election – an effort one dissenting Justice Department official called a “murder-suicide pact.” The committee was expected to hear from a documentary filmmaker Alex Holder, who chronicled the final six weeks of the Donald Trump presidency, but Holder’s appearance was delayed. Find out more about Day 5 highlights.
Day 4 on June 21 included Republican state officials from around the country telling the committee how Trump tried to pressure them to overturn election results, including sending supporters to officials’ homes, waving weapons and shouting insults and threats of violence. Here are the highlights from Day 4.
Day 3The June 16th hearing featured testimony that focused on the intense pressure that President Trump placed on Vice President Mike Pence in order to end the election. John Charles Eastman was an attorney and campaign adviser to Donald Trump and his election teams. He emerged as the key architect of this plan. You can read about Day 3 highlights.
Day 2 testimony on June 13 included new allegations of Trump campaign-donor fraud, former Attorney General Bill Barr saying Trump’s claims of a stolen election were “complete nonsense,”Stories of Rudy Giuliani, a drunken man offering advice on election night, give rise to “Team Rudy” “Team Normal.”Learn more about Day 2 Highlights here.
Day 1 Trump’s June 7th speech showed that “summoned a violent mob”to press lawmakers to change the election results. Nick Quested, a documentary maker who filmed the Proud Boys storming Capitol, also testified. Caroline Edwards, Capitol Police Officer, testified to how she tried fighting violent protestors Jan. 6. Read Day 1 highlights.