Jan. 6 probe will detail Capitol riot and Trump White House response in televised public hearings
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- The House panel investigating the Capitol riot aims to hold lengthy public hearings next year detailing "in vivid color" the events of Jan. 6, including in former President Donald Trump's White House.
- Republican Rep. Liz Cheney said the select committee aims to conduct "multiple weeks of public hearings" sometime in 2022, a year of crucial midterm elections.
- Less than a day earlier, the panel voted to advance contempt proceedings for ex-Department of Justice official Jeffrey Clark over his alleged defiance of a subpoena.
Pro-Trump supporters storm the U.S. Capitol following a rally with President Donald Trump on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. Samuel Corum | Getty Images
The House panel investigating the deadly invasion of the U.S. Capitol aims to hold lengthy public hearings next year detailing "in vivid color" the events of Jan. 6, both at the Capitol and in former President Donald Trump's White House, Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., said Thursday.
Cheney, the vice chair of the select committee and one of its two Republican members, said the panel aims to conduct "multiple weeks of public hearings" sometime in 2022, a year of crucial midterm elections where the GOP hopes to retake majority control of at least one chamber of Congress.
Those hearings will lay out "exactly what happened every minute of the day on Jan. 6 here at the Capitol and at the White House and what led to that violent attack," Cheney said in a House Rules Committee hearing.
Cheney revealed the plans less than a day after the select committee voted to advance contempt proceedings for former Department of Justice official Jeffrey Clark over his alleged defiance of a subpoena for documents and testimony.
The investigators on Wednesday evening unanimously voted for a report recommending that the House hold Clark in contempt. Rules Committee Chairman Jim McGovern, D-Mass., said Thursday morning that his panel would not yet rule on that report, because Clark was being given another chance to appear before the investigators on Saturday.
Clark is the second Trump associate to be accused of contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with the committee's subpoenas. The first, former White House senior advisor Steve Bannon, was held in contempt by the House and subsequently indicted on two criminal counts by a federal grand jury. He has pleaded not guilty.
Cheney's consistent denouncements of Trump over the Capitol riot, and her participation in the Jan. 6 committee itself, have made her a target of criticism from the former president and from many of her Republican colleagues.
Cheney was stripped of her leadership role after she refused to stop criticizing Trump for spreading the false conspiracy theory that the 2020 election was rigged against him.
Hundreds of Trump's supporters, many of whom claimed they wanted to reverse President Joe Biden's victory in the election, stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 and forced Congress into hiding.
Trump has never conceded to Biden, and continues to spread baseless conspiracy theories about election fraud even as he hints he may run for president again in 2024. Trump was impeached in the House for inciting the attempted insurrection, but he was acquitted in the Senate where 60 votes are required for conviction.
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From what is rumored to be the focus of the investigation, these public televised hearings are going to blow everybody's mind.
This will make the televised Watergate hearings back in the day look like child's play.
Liz Cheney wants to nail some right wing hide to the wall.
What is rumored? Some people never learn. As long as "by everyone" you mean the few people that watch MSNBC and CNN then I would agree with you. Most Americans have moved on with their own lives and all the deflection attempts in the world to make them believe Jan 6th was actually a threat to democracy are not going to make them forget what they are paying at the pump and at the grocery stores.
Donald Trump, who was president of the United States at the time, tried to overturn the legitimate results of the 2020 election and in the process disenfranchise millions of voters.
That , among other things, is what the Jan 6 committee will prove.
You are assuming people will blindly believe what the committee will "prove". They started out with the narrative they want to "prove" and are now just looking for anything to support that narrative.
You are also assuming people even care at this point. That is a pretty huge assumption.
I am at the point where I honestly believe that neither Trump or the other traitors in Congress will ever face the music. It is all a dog and pony show.
Liz Cheney wants high ranking Trump administration hide. I actually think this is going to be the must see tv event of next year and is going to be explosive. There are now identified emails from Trumps highest ranking aide (Meadows) saying he "loved" a plot to steal the election through rogue electors.
You are probably correct, but that may be why they are planning on televising it. It will put a stink on those involved that may stick until the next election. It is harder to deny the facts when they are shown on live video proceedings. Although that has never slowed Trump or the GOP down from lying, it does make them work harder.
I dont think the purpose of these hearings will be to put anyone in jail. The purpose is going to be to show that there was a "coup" attempt by Trump forces and that these people are in effect traitors.
The committee is going to have some ammunition.
BTW, Trump just lost a court case to keep information from the committee.
You have to admit, he is damn good at losing those cases. He loses almost all of them.
Those involved will get reelected because their base thinks their shit does not stink, no matter what they do.
Not their base - their constituents who don't know any friggin' better.
Not only do they think it doesn't stink, they revel in it like the "Emperor has no clothes" fable.
Oops... LOL
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