In its latest public hearing on Thursday, the House select committee investigating the Capitol insurrection zeroed in on former president Donald Trump’s effort to pressure his vice president, Mike Pence, to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory.
Joe BidenIn its latest public hearing on Thursday, the House select committee investigating the Capitol insurrection zeroed in on former President Donald Trump’s effort to pressure his vice president, Mike Pence, to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory.
The hearing relied heavily on the testimony of witnesses, including Pence’s former chief counsel Greg Jacob and J. Michael Luttig, a former federal judge who advised Pence in the lead-up to Jan. 6, who appeared before the committee in person.In his testimony to the committee, Greg Jacobdescribed multiple conversations he had with John Eastman prior to Jan. 6 in which, Jacob said, Eastman acknowledged that Pence did not have any legal authority to reject certified electors from certain states.
Trump was aware that a violent mob had descended on the Capitol when he attacked Pence in a tweet at 2:24 p.m. on Jan. 6. A video from the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol shows Trump supporters calling for the lynching of Mike Pence. The committee presented an email Jacob received from Eastman late in the evening on Jan. 6, once Pence and lawmakers had returned to the Capitol to finish certifying the Electoral College votes. In it, Jacob told the committee, Eastman attempted to argue that the day’s proceedings, which had been interrupted by rioters for several hours, had already violated the Electoral Count Act.
During the committee’s initial hearing last week, Cheney said House investigators have obtained evidence that in the wake of Jan. 6, “multiple” Republican members of Congress, including Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., pursued pardons from the outgoing president.Luttig warned that Trump and his supporters remain a “clear and present danger to American democracy.”
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