An evening hearing of the House Select Committee looking into last year’s attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 was held on Thursday evening, with members of the panel presenting their findings and showing new video evidence from closed-door depositions of members of President Donald Trump’s team.
The panel’s investigation, which included interviews with more than 1,000 people, uncovered how Trump and his administration attempted to overturn the results of the 2020 election on several fronts, and Thursday’s hearing was the first in a series of events this month that will spotlight the findings.
The committee’s hearings will attempt to recount the tale of January 6 to the American people, by reporting many specifics.
The following are some of the most important takeaways:
Video clips from the attack on January 6 were shown to the committee, including some of the most harrowing.
They included some never-before-seen material, including bird-eye footage from security cameras that showed the enormous pro-Trump mob as it started swarming the Capitol grounds.
Additionally, the tape indicated how the crowd was influenced directly by Trump, as one rioter was seen repeating Trump’s tweets over a megaphone. During the joint session of Congress to recognize Joe Biden’s victory, Pence stated that he would not alter the results of the 2020 election.
There was a now-famous clip of Trump fans shouting, “Hang Mike Pence,” after that point in the montage.
That’s when the newscasters showed images of the mock nooses and gallows built near the Capitol and a chilling video of protesters calling out “Nancy! Nancy!” as they stormed Nancy Pelosi’s office.
Clips from January 6 brought back the horrors of that day, which may easily get forgotten in the partisan squabbles about the investigation and the committee. While this investigation was taking place, more than 140 police officers were injured and several were killed in a violent and fatal attack. As a chilling reminder of a sad chapter in American history, the graphic footage served as an eye-opener for many.
Trump did not want the riots to end.
Witnesses testified that Trump refused his own aides’ pleas for him to stop the violence, and thought his own vice president “deserved” to be hanged for his role in the riots at the US Capitol.
Also, it provides a new insight into Trump’s mood during the violence, which the committee has consistently stated would be a crucial element of their public hearings.
According to testimony from a witness, Trump was aware of the “Hang Mike Pence” shouts and seemed to approve of them.
“The President’s response to the rioters’ chants to ‘hang Mike Pence’ was this: ‘Maybe our supporters have the right idea.’ “Mike Pence deserves” it, as the saying goes,
On January 6, Cheney described Trump’s inaction as a “failure” because of his 187-minute delay “Duty dereliction.
The Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, two of the most extreme far-right extremist groups in the country, were introduced to the American public by the committee on January 6.
The riot started with these groups at the front. As the first to enter the premises, they are suspected of preparing violence. The Proud Boys converged on the Capitol before Trump’s speech at the Ellipse, as documentary filmmaker Nick Quested testified on Thursday, indicating that they weren’t interested in the rally and were looking at the Capitol.
Thompson and Cheney tried to connect Trump’s comments about the Proud Boys standing back and watching during a debate in September 2020 to these radicals. Proud Boys leaders testified about how they interpreted that as a call to arms.
These groups’ members have been accused by federal prosecutors at the Justice Department of seditious conspiracy, a serious charge that was brought to light by the committee on Thursday.
The testimony of a Capitol Police officer was riveting.
Officer Caroline Edwards of the US Capitol Police was the first witness to testify, and she became the face of the brutality against law police that day. Officer Edwards, according to the report, was the first to be hurt by the rioters. On the day of the attack, she spoke of her pride in her work to “defend America’s symbol of democracy,” as well as how she was subjected to brutal public scrutiny after she was knocked unconscious and suffered TBI.
“On January 6, 2021 and the days that followed, I was called a number of things,” Edwards recalled. “I was referred to as Nancy Pelosi’s dog, incompetent, a hero and a villain, and even a hero and a villain.. I was accused of being a traitor to my nation, my home, and my Constitution. In reality, I was nothing of the above.”
“I was an American standing face to face with other Americans asking myself how many time — many, many times — how we had gotten here. I had been called names before, but never had my patriotism or duty been called into question,” added Edwards.
As the granddaughter of a Korean War veteran, Edwards referred to herself as “proud.”
“I am my grandfather’s granddaughter, proud to put on a uniform and serve my country,” said Edwards. “They dared to question my honor. They dared to question my loyalty. And they dared to question my duty. I am a proud American, and I will gladly sacrifice everything to make sure that the America my grandfather defended is here for many years to come.”
The testimony of Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman, who took part in the incident, will be heard next week. On that fateful day, Goodman, who drove a mob away from the Senate chamber as its members remained trapped inside it during the rebellion, he said, this week that he will be giving public evidence for the first time about what transpired.
Newly released video recordings showed members of Trump’s administration and campaign, as well as his daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner, all expressing their disbelief in Trump’s allegations that the election was rigged. These were shown at the committee’s first hearing.
William Barr, the former attorney general, called Trump’s charges of voter fraud “bullshit.”
William Barr, the former attorney general, called Trump’s charges of voter fraud “bullshit.”
Ivanka stated she respected Barr and accepted what he had to say about the election.
According to Trump press secretary Jason Miller, the campaign data person told Trump in “very direct language” that he was going to lose the election.
According to testimony from Trump campaign lawyer Alex Cannon, he told Meadows in mid-to-late November that the campaign had failed to identify widespread fraud in important states that Trump lost. Cannon stated Meadows said, “So there’s no there there,” in response to his evaluation.
McCarthy’s senior aides fled, but the Republican Party refocused on President Trump.
House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy’s office was shown in one of the committee’s new tapes fleeing the Capitol after rioters broke in.
On January 6, McCarthy played an important role. Since then, he has demonstrated his disapproval of the January 6 committee.
A furious phone chat between McCarthy and Trump occurred on January 6 when the unrest was still raging in the city. According to the January 6 subpoena, McCarthy has been summoned to testify about the call. As soon as the rebellion had taken place, McCarthy claimed that Trump “bears responsibility.”
After Trump’s inauguration on January 6, though, McCarthy reunited with him. For years, he opposed the institution of a panel to investigate the January 6 terrorist attack and has frequently criticized it during its inquiry.
The hearing on Thursday demonstrated the committee’s attention on the Republican leader, as did Cheney, who was booted from her post as GOP leadership last year by McCarthy.
“The President was implored for help” by a number of Capitol Hill leaders, including McCarthy, Cheney said in her opening remarks. “Scared,” she said, McCarthy called various members of Trump’s family after failing to persuade the president on his own terms.
Pence, not Trump, made the appeal for aid.
Mark Milley, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was interviewed by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and said that Pence ordered the National Guard to respond to the violence on January 6, but that he had been instructed by the White House to say Trump.
“A few phone calls were made to Vice President Pence. Orders were given with great emphasis, and they were given in the clearest possible terms. Obviously, it was the case “In the video, Milley states.
“He was enthusiastic, direct, and uncompromising in his approach to the Secretary of State. ‘Send the soldiers and the guards to this location. Then, ‘describe this circumstance and so on,'” “in reference to Pence, he went on to say
That same day, Milley told how he had a very different chat with Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows.
“He said: We have to kill the narrative that the vice president is making all the decisions. We need to establish the narrative, you know, that the President is still in charge and that things are steady or stable, or words to that effect,” Milley says in the video, referring to what Meadows told him.
“I immediately interpreted that as politics, politics, politics. Red flag for me, personally. No action. But I remember it distinctly,” he added.
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Former Independent Counsel Ken Starr, who was instrumental in the impeachment of former President Bill Clinton, has passed away.
Starr passed away on Tuesday at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center in Houston, Texas… owing to postoperative problems… that’s what his relatives say.
Starr led the massive Whitewater investigation of the Clintons in the 1990s and is famous for this. The investigation started with the Clintons’ real estate dealings and widened to encompass the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal.
Starr’s career as an attorney was highly successful… It was Reagan who put him forward for a position on the Supreme Court of the United States. District of Columbia Court of Appeals. Later becoming U.S. Secretary of State under former President George H.W. Bush. State Department’s top lawyer.
Starr was a United States Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia and argued 36 cases before the Supreme Court. He worked as an associate attorney general under William French Smith and as a law clerk for Warren E. Burger.
Active in the field of higher learning, during his 25 years of teaching, he has held positions at New York University, George Mason University, Pepperdine University, Chapman University, and Baylor University. In addition to his role as President and Chancellor of Baylor, Starr formerly served as Dean of the Pepperdine University School of Law.
Starr attended Sam Houston High School and Trinity University to receive his Bachelor of Arts after he was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas. He earned an M.P.S. in political science from Brown and a J.D. from Duke.
Ken’s children, Randall, Carolyn, and Cynthia, and his wife of 52 years, Alice Mendell Starr, survive him.
In a statement released in Starr’s son’s honor, the family expressed their “deep sadness at the loss of our dear and loving Father and Grandfather, whom we admired for his prodigious work ethic, but who always put his family first. The love, energy, endearing sense of humor, and fun-loving interest Dad exhibited to each of us was truly special, and we cherish the many wonderful memories we were able to experience with him.”
The visitation will be held on September 23 in Waco, and the burial will take place in the Texas State Cemetery in Austin.
A 76-year-old Starr in some circles of politics passed away.
CHERYENNE, Wyoming. Following a crushing defeat in the Wyoming Republican primary to an opponent sponsored by former President Donald Trump, Representative Liz Cheney became increasingly outspoken on Wednesday about considering a 2024 presidential candidacy.
The three-term congressman stated on NBC that Trump poses ““a very grave threat and risk to our republic,” adding that she plans to join “a broad and united front of Republicans, Democrats, and independents” to stop him.
She wouldn’t confirm or deny whether or not she was considering a presidential run, but she did admit, “it’s something that I’m thinking about.”
The primary results, especially her loss by more than 35 points, highlighted the swift rightward movement within the Republican Party. Trump’s populist appeal and, more than anything else, his rejection of loss in 2020 have transformed the Republican Party, which was once dominated by national security-focused, business-friendly conservatives like her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney.
The claims have been rejected by federal and state election officials as well as Trump’s own attorney general and judges he selected, turning Cheney from an occasional critic of the former president into the strongest voice within the GOP warning that he constitutes a threat to democratic principles. She alluded to her political future by mentioning that she is the ranking Republican on the House panel looking into the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by a mob of Trump supporters on January 6, 2021.
“I have said since Jan. 6 that I will do whatever it takes to ensure Donald Trump is never again anywhere near the Oval Office — and I mean it,” she said during her concession speech on Tuesday.
Cheney addressed a small group of supporters, including her father, on the edge of a large field framed by mountains and bales of hay on Wednesday morning, and she described her primary loss from Tuesday night as the beginning of a new chapter in her political career.
“Our work is far from over,” she said, evoking Abraham Lincoln, who also lost congressional elections before ascending to the presidency and preserving the union.
Celebratory Hageman supporters, many of whom were dressed in cowboy boots, hats, and blue jeans, congregated for a massive outdoor rodeo and Western cultural celebration in Cheyenne, some 400 miles (645 kilometers) to the east of Cheney’s concession address.
Hageman, an attorney for the ranching business who came in third in a previous run for governor, expressed his gratitude to President Trump for recognizing the importance of Wyoming’s lone congressional representative.
She courted Trump’s supporters by echoing his conspiracy theories and saying the 2020 election was “rigged,” which is demonstrably wrong.
As Trump’s largest political triumph of the primary season, Cheney’s defeat was cause for celebration among Trump and his staff. The former president has described the findings as “a complete condemnation” of the January 6 committee.
He said of Cheney, “Liz Cheney should be ashamed of herself, the way she acted, and her spiteful, sanctimonious words and actions towards others,” he wrote on his social media platform. “Now she can finally disappear into the depths of political oblivion where, I am sure, she will be much happier than she is right now. Thank you WYOMING!”
Meanwhile, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, another major Republican critic of Trump, advanced from her primary in Alaska, which also took place on Tuesday. In the contest for Alaska’s lone U.S. House seat, Sarah Palin, the GOP’s 2008 vice presidential contender and a fervent admirer of Trump, was also headed for the general election in November.
The focus, though, was on Cheney, whose defeat just two years ago seemed impossible. She comes from a prestigious political family in Wyoming, as her father was the state’s vice president. Moreover, she was the third-ranking Republican in the House of Representatives, making her a powerful figure in party politics and policy and ensuring that she had a solidly conservative voting record.
Now that Cheney has reached the end of her third and final term in Congress, she will be compelled to leave office in January. No one will be expecting her to exit Capitol Hill quietly.
She will remain in charge of the congressional group until its dissolution at the end of the year, when the probe into the attack on January 6 will have concluded. She has sworn to do all in her power to combat Trump’s influence in her party, and she is seriously considering a run for the White House in 2024, either as a Republican or as an independent.
On Thursday, Attorney General Merrick Garland said he personally approved the search warrant that was used to raid Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort.
Garland also disclosed that the Department of Justice has submitted a motion to unseal an FBI property receipt and a search warrant.
“Federal law, long-standing department rules, and our ethical obligations prevent me from providing further details as to the basis of the search at this time. There are, however, certain points I want you to know,” Garland said.
“First, I personally approved the decision to seek a search warrant in this matter. Second, the department does not take such decisions lightly.”
Given Trump’s “public confirmation of the search,” the circumstances surrounding the search, and the considerable public interest in this subject, Garland said they decided to move to unseal the materials.
The warrant and the FBI’s receipt were “given to the former president’s attorney who was on-site during the search,” Garland added.
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