That includes the expectation that lawmakers will present a broader view of the “multipart plan to overturn the 2020 presidential election” rather than any particular piece of it, committee aides said. Thursday’s hearing has some trappings of a closing presentation, with all members likely to speak and a more generalized narrative than a particular focus. Thursday’s hearing could be the committee’s last.Īlthough committee aides told reporters Wednesday that the panel would publish a report before it adjourns at the end of the year, the committee has not scheduled another hearing. Many Republicans running in races across the country this fall have repeated the false claim - raised by Trump and used as the pretext for the Capitol attack - that the 2020 election was stolen and that Trump would have rightly won. Members on Thursday will lay out “ongoing threats to democracy that persist to this day,” a committee aide said. Ongoing threats to democracyĪmong the panel’s roles under the House resolution that created it was to provide recommendations to prevent future attacks and block other threats to U.S. Previous hearings have explored Trump’s hold over his supporters and his foreknowledge of potential plans to incite violence. The Washington Post reported Wednesday that the Secret Service records would show Trump was aware of the threats his supporters posed and still moved to rile them up. The panel will reveal new evidence and will use findings it has previously shown to document how central Trump was to the planning and execution of the attack. Thursday’s hearing will also focus on “the former president’s state of mind,” a committee aide said Wednesday. One episode included Trump grabbing for the steering wheel in a rage when agents began taking him back to the White House instead of the Capitol. The subpoena closely followed perhaps the most staggering of the committee’s first eight hearings, in which Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, told the panel that Secret Service agents witnessed Trump outbursts. In mid-July, the panel demanded text messages and other Secret Service records related to the attack and a Jan. Secret Service provided to the panel under a July subpoena, committee aides said Wednesday. The committee will present new documentary evidence, including from information gleaned from hundreds of thousands of pages the U.S. Here are four things to watch for, starting at noon Central: Many Secret Service texts The hearing, which will be livestreamed, is likely the final public meeting for the panel ahead of next month’s mid-term elections. Cheney lost reelection in her August primary and Kinzinger is retiring after his district lines were reset. The panel’s two Republicans, Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, are both leaving Congress at the end of their terms.
Members include Democrats Stephanie Murphy of Florida, who is retiring at the end of this term Jamie Raskin of Maryland and Elaine Luria of Virginia, who is in a competitive reelection race. In another change to the format the committee has employed for most of its public hearings, all of the committee’s nine members are expected to participate Thursday. The committee will present new evidence, but will also synthesize findings presented at earlier hearings. Lawmakers will instead provide an overview of the “multipart plan” by former President Donald Trump and his allies to subvert the 2020 election results, committee aides told reporters Wednesday. In a break from most of the panel’s previous eight hearings in June and July, Thursday’s meeting will not drill down into one specific aspect of the attack.
It will hold its first hearing in nearly three months Thursday - and potentially its last. House committee investigating a pro-Trump mob’s attack on the Capitol on Jan.
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