After a year and a half of work, the House committee investigating the events of the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, is set to hold its final hearing and issue a report on its findings. Over the course of 10 public hearings, the panel heard from a wide swath of witnesses who showed how former President Donald Trump and his allies helped foment the violence that left at least seven people dead and more than 100 police officers injured.
In the committee’s first hearing, members of the U.S. Capitol and D.C. Metropolitan Police described the violence they experienced firsthand on Jan. 6.being crushed by the crowd, saying,"I could feel myself losing oxygen and recall thinking to myself, 'This is how I'm going to die — trampled, defending this entrance.'"
“As I was swarmed by a violent mob, they ripped off my badge, they grabbed and stripped me of my radio, they seized ammunition that was secured to my body. They began to beat me with their fists and what felt like hard metal objects,” Fanone said.hurled racial epithets At the hearing’s conclusion, the officers called for a thorough investigation, even if it meant implicating the committee members’ fellow legislators.
“I made it clear I did not agree with the idea of saying the election was stolen and putting out this stuff, which I told the president was bullshit,” Barr said. “And, you know, I didn't want to be a part of it. And that's one of the reasons that went into me deciding to leave when I did.” Jacob told the committee that during a Jan. 4 meeting, Eastman acknowledged, in front of Trump, that his proposal would “violate several provisions of the Electoral Count Act,” but he rationalized that it could still be carried out because “in his view, the Electoral Count Act was unconstitutional.”
“And he said, 'Absolutely. Al Gore did not have a basis to do it in 2000; Kamala Harris shouldn't be able to do it in 2024, but I think you should do it today.'”The Republican speaker of Arizona’s state Legislature, Rusty Bowers, testified that Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani phoned him shortly after the November 2020 election and asked him to start the process of swapping out electors for Biden — who won the state — for those loyal to Trump.
“I don’t want anyone knowing my name,” Moss said. “I don’t wanna go anywhere with my mom ’cause she might yell my name out over the grocery aisle or something. I don’t go to the grocery store at all. I haven’t been anywhere.” The committee also played pre-recorded testimony from Freeman, who sat behind her daughter. Freeman said that she lost her reputation and a sense of security because Trump and Giuliani “decided to scapegoat me and my daughter to push their own lies about the election being stolen.”
“I just had an interesting conversation with Rudy, Mark. Sounds like we’re going to go to the Capitol,” she said she told Meadows. “He didn’t look up from his phone and said something to the effect of, ‘There’s a lot going on, Cass, but I don’t know, things might get real, real bad on Jan. 6.” Ayres said his original plan was just to attend Trump’s speech, but"the president got everybody riled up and told everybody to head on down [to the Capitol]. So we basically were just following what he said."
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