WASHINGTON — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol plans to carry a hearing next Tuesday to disclose its findings in regards to the connections between former President Donald J. Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election and the domestic violent extremist groups that helped to prepare the siege on Congress.
The panel announced that the session would happen on July 12 at 10 a.m. It is anticipated to be led by Representative Jamie Raskin, Democrat of Maryland, and Representative Stephanie Murphy, Democrat of Florida, who plan to chart the rise of the right-wing domestic violent extremist groups that attacked the Capitol and the way Mr. Trump amassed and inspired the mob. The panel also plans to detail known links and conversations between political actors near Mr. Trump and extremists.
The hearing will probably be the primary for the reason that explosive, surprise testimony last week by Cassidy Hutchinson, a junior-level aide in Mr. Trump’s White House who got here forward to offer a damning account of the president’s actions on Jan. 6, 2021. She recounted how Mr. Trump, knowing his supporters were armed and threatening violence, desired to loosen up security measures to permit them to maneuver around Washington freely, urging them to march to the Capitol and in search of to affix them there.
She testified to having overheard a conversation wherein Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff and her boss on the time, said that Mr. Trump had privately sided with the rioters as they stormed the constructing and called for the hanging of Vice President Mike Pence, saying that he deserved it and that his supporters were doing what they must be doing.
The select committee has held seven public hearings so far, starting with one last yr wherein it highlighted the testimonials of 4 law enforcement officials who battled the mob and helped secure the Capitol.
After conducting greater than 1,000 interviews, the committee began a series of public hearings last month to put out the findings of its investigation, including one wherein it focused heavily on the role the Proud Boys extremist group played within the storming of the constructing.
The following session focused on how Mr. Trump spread the lie of a stolen election at the same time as he was told repeatedly that the vote was legitimate, ripping off his donors and deceiving his supporters in the method. Subsequent hearings focused on how Mr. Trump pressured Mr. Pence, state officials and the Justice Department in a barrage of increasingly desperate efforts to overturn the election.
In a recent interview with The Latest York Times, Mr. Raskin declined to offer specific details about communications between political actors near Mr. Trump and militia groups. But he said it was clear that no mob would have come to Washington or descended on the Capitol were it not for Mr. Trump’s direction.
“Donald Trump solicited the mob; he summoned the mob to Washington,” Mr. Raskin said, adding, “All of this was targeted on the joint session of Congress.”
