Jan 6 hearings continue with testimony on how Trump pressured state officials to overturn the 2020 election.
Trump's pressure campaign:
Freeman, a small business owner who went by the name of Lady Ruby, said during videotaped testimony that she stopped giving out her name in public because of threats she received from Trump supporters. To wit: Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani claimed the video showed the two women exchanging a USB drive full of bogus votes.Trump targeting turned election worker’s 'life upside down.’
“There were just a lot of horrible things there,” Moss said. “Lot of threats, wishing death upon me, telling me I’ll be in jail with my mother.” Trump claimed that the Georgia secretary of state and the attorney general were lying. His claims included how Fulton County Republican poll watchers were ejected from the room after a water main burst and how election officials pulled suitcases of ballots out from under a table and illegally scanned them.
But, “we didn’t have any votes to find,” Raffensperger said, adding that votes had been counted accurately and that the vote totals had been certified. “Whatever you can do Frances, it would be, it’s a great thing. It’s an important thing for the country, so important. You have no idea, so important and I very much appreciate it,” Trump told Watson in a taped phone call played during the hearing.
Former Georgia U.S. Attorney BJay Pak, who resigned over Trump’s efforts to overturn the election, testified that he reviewed a videotape purportedly showing the fraud. “There was nothing there,” he said.Asked by Schiff about the accuracy of the claim, Raffensperger said “No he did not.” A Georgia election official told the committee how frustrating it was to answer Trump's repeated lies about alleged voter fraud in Georgia.
One of the most frustrating claims, Sterling testified, was about the “suitcases of ballots” that Trump allies said were pulled out from under a table after election monitors had been kicked out. Sterling said he lost his temper to the point he got red in the face. That inspired him to say to Trump via a press conference, “Stop inspiring people to commit potential acts of violence. Someone’s going to get hurt. Someone’s going to get shot. Someone’s going to get killed. And it’s not right.”Democratic Reps. Madeleine Dean of Pennsylvania and Veronica Escobar of Texas — both of whom were trapped in the gallery on Jan. 6 — are watching today's proceedings in the hearing room.
“He told me that the Michigan Republican electors were planning to meet in the Capitol and hide overnight so that they could fulfill the role of casting their vote” in the Michigan legislative chambers, Cox said.– Michael CollinsArizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers said he received over 20,000 emails and tens of thousands of voicemails and texts following the 2020 election. The influx of emails and calls made it challenging for his office to work and communicate, he said.
When he learned of the scheme, Bowers said he thought of the book “The Gang that Couldn’t Shoot Straight." He read to the committee his personal journal he kept in December 2020, a month before the Capitol attack. “It is painful to have friends who have been such a help to me, turn on me with such rancor,” Bowers wrote. “I do not want to be a winner by cheating. I will not play with laws I swore allegiance to.
A staff member for Johnson sent a text message to an aide for Pence minutes before the beginning of the joint session, but Pence’s aide, Chris Hodgson, instructed Johnson’s aide to not give Pence the alternate slate of electors.. The committee played video of a former Trump staff member talking about the anger he and others felt over the"fake elector" scheme that even campaign attorneys wouldn't stand behind.
Bowers said it is a tenet of his faith that the Constitution is divinely inspired. Bowers said he was concerned that Giuliani would ask him to violate his oath to uphold the Constitution without offering any “strong judicial quality evidence” of election fraud. On multiple occasions, Bowers and other senators pushed Giuliani and other Trump attorneys for names of individuals and evidence of fraud, but Giuliani never provided evidence. “I don’t know if that was a gaffe or maybe he didn’t think through what he said, but both myself and others in my group and my counsel remembered that specifically and kind of laughed about it,” Bowers said.
Bowers said Giuliani told him “yes” and that Trump told Giuliani to give him what he wanted. Bowers said he “never” received the information he asked for despite asking for the information “on multiple occasions.”Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers opened his testimony by directly denying a claim Tuesday by former Trump that Bowers said the 2020 election was rigged.
Cutler asked his lawyers to have Giuliani stop calling, but the calls continued. He said there were multiple protests at his house and district office following. His personal email, cell phone and home phone number were shared online. Trump began by pressuring states to stop the counting of votes on Election Day. Then he put more pressure on officials who refused to certify him as winner of states he lost. When state elected officials refused to go back into session to appoint Trump electors, Trump further “amped up the pressure, yet again” Schiff said.
"Each of these efforts to overturn the election is independently serious," Cheney said."Each deserves attention both by Congress and by the Department of Justice."
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