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January 6 United
States Capitol attack
Timeline • Planning
Background
2020 presidential election
and other causes
Related groups and persons
Participants
Notable people
Organizations
Law enforcement response
Aftermath
Biden inauguration
Investigations and charges
Corporate actions
Reactions
Impeachment and 2024 presidential election

A series of five scheduled hearings by the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack began on June 9, 2022. The first and fifth hearing were scheduled in the evening so that they could be broadcast on prime time television.[1] House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy plans to lead a response in Congress in defense of Trump.[2]

Hearing schedule[3]
Hearing Date Day Eastern Time Video Transcript
1 June 9 Thursday 8 P.M. (ET) [4] [5]
2 June 13 Monday 10 A.M. (ET) [6]
3 June 15 Wednesday 10 A.M. (ET)
4 June 16 Thursday 10 A.M. (ET)
5 June 23 Thursday 8 P.M. (ET)

First hearing — June 9, 2022

The first hearing was carried live by the major broadcast television networks ABC, CBS and NBC, as well as cable channels such as C-SPAN, CNN, Fox Business Network, MSNBC, and Newsmax, as well as various live streaming outlets. Fox News did not carry the hearing live; its regular programming of Tucker Carlson Tonight and Hannity was aired without commercial breaks. During the weeks following the 2020 election, Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity had often amplified Trump's election falsehoods on their programs; previously disclosed text messages between Hannity and White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany were presented during the hearing.[7][8][1][9][10] Nielsen Media Research estimates that at least 20 million households watched the first hearing on traditional television, comparable to the average rating for NBC Sunday Night Football, which ranks as television's number one program.[11]

The committee panel noted that Donald Trump attempted to overturn a free and fair democratic election by promoting a seven-part conspiracy.[12][13] According to Bennie Thompson, chairman of the committee, "Jan. 6 was the culmination of an attempted coup, a brazen attempt, as one rioter put it shortly after Jan. 6, to overthrow the government ... The violence was no accident. It represents Trump’s last stand, most desperate chance to halt the transfer of power.” Trump, according to the committee, "lied to the American people, ignored all evidence refuting his false fraud claims, pressured state and federal officials to throw out election results favoring his challenger, encouraged a violent mob to storm the Capitol and even signaled support for the execution of his own vice president."[12][13]

Testimonies

The committee revealed clips of videotaped testimony:

  • A senior adviser to the Trump campaign, Jason Miller, testified that Trump was internally advised he had lost the election. According to Miller, the campaign's top data aide, Matt Oczkowski, told Trump very shortly after the election "in pretty blunt terms, that he was going to lose".[14]
  • Trump campaign lawyer Alex Cannon testified he'd spoken to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows in November 2020 soon after the election and told Meadows there was no evidence of widespread voter fraud. According to Cannon, Meadows replied: "So there's no there there".[15]
  • Attorney general Bill Barr said, regarding Trump's desire to put out the message that "the election was stolen": "I told the president [it] was bullshit."[15]
  • Ivanka Trump said she "accepted" Barr's assessment.[15]
  • Jared Kushner claimed that he had deemed White House counsel Pat Cipollone to be "whining" when Cipollone and other members of his team threatened to resign on principle. Kushner also said "my interest at that time was on trying to get as many" presidential pardons finished as possible.[16]

Representative Liz Cheney, vice chair of the committee, said that Representative Scott Perry and other Republican members of Congress had "sought Presidential pardons for their roles in attempting to overturn the 2020 election."[5] Jared Kushner, in his videotaped testimony, admitted to fast-tracking pardon requests during the administration's final weeks.[16]

Attack on the Capitol

Compilation of video from the January 6 attack, which was released by the committee and played during the first hearing

The committee showed video, much of it never before seen by the public, of the mob charging the Capitol and battling police. The video began with scenes of roughly 200 Proud Boys leading the assault on the Capitol. As later scenes showed a violent rampage, audio was overlaid of Trump later saying, "The love in the air. I’ve never seen anything like it." As the attack lasted several hours, the video contained timestamps to illustrate the timeline.[17] Live, in-person testimony was given by documentary filmmaker Nick Quested, who was embedded with the Proud Boys on January 6, and Capitol police officer Caroline Edwards, injured in violence instigated by the Proud Boys on January 6.[18]

Quested testified that he joined the Proud Boys at the Mall at 10:30 a.m., and that the Proud Boys walked past the Capitol at 11:52 a.m. He noted there was "only one police officer on the barricades that subsequently are overrun by the protesters. We then walked around the Capitol, and then we doubled back...around 12:45, we walked over to the peace circle and we stopped." He added, "I don't know if violence was a plan, but I do know that they weren't there to attend the rally because they had already left the rally by the time the president had started his speech."[5]

The committee revealed videotaped testimony of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley. According to Milley, it was Pence who directly ordered the National Guard to respond on January 6, yet the White House told him to say that the order came from Trump.[15]

Second hearing — June 13, 2022

Former U.S. attorney from Atlanta BJay Pak testified. Pak resigned his position days before the January 6 attack; he later told the Senate Judiciary Committee that the White House informed him Trump would fire him if he did not publicly state his office had found election fraud in Georgia.[19][20]

Ben Ginsberg, a long-term Republican election attorney, testified about the failure of Trump's election lawsuits amidst the absence of any evidence of widespread fraud.[21]

Chris Stirewalt, a former Fox News politics editor, testified. Fox News was the first network to declare Biden as having won Arizona in the 2020 election; after Stirewalt defended that journalistic choice, Fox News fired him in January 2021.[22]

Al Schmidt, the Republican former city commissioner of Philadelphia, testified. He had drawn Trump's ire for refusing to publicly announce the city's election results were rife with fraud. He resigned in 2021, saying he had received death threats.[23]

Bill Stepien was subpoenaed to testify, but his wife went into labor and he canceled his appearance;[24] his attorney was to read a statement on his behalf.[25] Stepien is a longtime Republican operative who joined Trump's 2016 campaign, later becoming the White House political director, before becoming Trump's campaign manager two months before the 2020 election. He was involved in the Stop the Steal effort, including spreading false information about voting machines despite a staff memo finding the allegations were false. Stepien had provided the committee a deposition under subpoena in December 2021.[26][27]

The committee presented clips of videotaped testimony:

  • Trump adviser Jason Miller said Rudy Giuliani was "definitely intoxicated" on election night when he advised Trump to lie that he had won.[28]
  • Trump campaign staffer Bill Stepien said he disagreed with Giuliani's advice on this matter: “Ballots were still being counted. It was far too early to be making any proclamation like that.”[28] Stepien said that Trump's advisers fell into two camps on this matter, and Stepien considered himself to be on "Team Normal".[29]
  • More video of Barr's testimony was presented. At times he could not control his laughter at the absurdity of some fraud allegations, such as the Italygate theory that satellites controlled from Italy had flipped votes from Trump to Biden, and that former Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez had orchestrated an election fraud scheme, despite having died seven years earlier. Barr testified Trump never gave "an indication of interest in what the actual facts were," adding the president had "become detached from reality if he really believes this stuff."[30]

Chris Stirewalt testified how, as the vote count wrapped up, he saw Trump's statistical chances of winning shrink to essentially zero.[24]

Committee member Zoe Lofgren and senior investigative counsel Amanda Wick described how Trump used false claims of election fraud by a "left-wing mob" to solicit donations for an "Official Election Defense Fund" beginning days after the election. The solicitation raised some $250 million, nearly $100 million in the first week after the election. Lofgren noted most election-related litigation had ended within weeks of the election, yet the solicitations continued. Reuters analysis of the legal language of the email solicitations days after they began showed that donors were asked to register for recurring donations and that donations under $8,000 would not go into a defense fund, but rather to Trump's Save America PAC and to the Republican National Committee, which would have broad discretion with the donations. Lofgren asserted, "Not only was there the big lie, there was the big rip-off." When later asked by CNN if any Trump family members had personally benefited from the post-election fundraising, Lofgren asserted Kimberly Guilfoyle had been paid $60,000 for delivering a 2½ minute introduction at the Stop the Steal rally.[31][32][33]

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