The House of Representatives panel investigating the Jan. 6 uprising in the US Capitol accused Donald Trump on Thursday night, saying the attack was not nearly spontaneous but a “coup attempt” and a direct result of the ousted president’s attempt to overthrow the ousted president. 2020. With a 12-minute video you have never seen before with the deadly violence and astonishing testimony from Trump’s inner circle, the House 1/6 Committee provided striking details by claiming that Trump’s repeated lies about electoral fraud and fraud his public effort to stop Joe Biden. The victory led to the attack and endangered American democracy “Democracy remains in jeopardy,” said Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., Chairwoman of the committee, during the hearing, which was scheduled for the first time to reach as many Americans as possible. «Jan. “The 6th was the culmination of a coup attempt, a brazen attempt by a rioter shortly after January 6 to overthrow the government,” Thompson said. “The violence was not accidental.” In a video clip that did not appear before, the commission played a joke on former Attorney General Bill Barr, who testified that he told Trump that allegations of rigged elections were untrue. David Sribman: The January 6 hearing was fascinating portrayal of Donald Trump as the mastermind behind the attempt to overthrow the election Watch the committee’s first hearing on 6 January Elsewhere, former president Ivanka Trump’s daughter testified to the committee that she respected Barr’s view that there was no electoral fraud. “I accepted what he said.” Others showed extremist leaders Oath Keepers and Proud Boys preparing to invade the Capitol to defend Trump. One of the officers, Caroline Edwards, testified in person, who was seriously injured while fighting with the mob that pushed her into the Capitol. “President Trump has called a violent mob,” said Liz Cheney, a Romanian lawmaker who is chairing the committee that led for much of the hearing. “When a president fails to take the necessary steps to maintain our union – or worse, it provokes a constitutional crisis – we are at a time of greatest danger to our democracy.” There was a sigh of relief in the courtroom when Cheney read an account he said when Trump was informed that the Capitol mob was calling for the hanging of Vice President Mike Pence, who said they might be right. ” Trump was angry that Pence, who chairs the House of Representatives, refused his mandate to reject the certification of Biden’s victory. Officers who had fought mobs were comforting each other as they were sitting in the committee’s hall, re -lived the violence they faced on January 6th. Officer Harry Dan wept as body camera footage showed rioters hitting his colleagues with flagpoles and baseball bats. Biden told the US Summit in Los Angeles that many viewers “would see for the first time many of the details that happened.” Trump, without apology, again rejected the investigation – and even stated on social media that January 6 “represents the largest movement in the history of our country.” Republicans in the House Justice Committee wrote on Twitter: “Everything. Old. News. “ A congressional hearing about the attack on the US Capitol by Donald Trump’s supporters trying to reverse his 2020 election defeat on Thursday showed that close allies, including Ivanka’s daughter, had rejected his false allegations. in the elections. Reuters The outcome of the coming weeks of public hearings may not change the hearts or minds of politically polarized America. But the commission’s 1,000-interview survey is set to set a public record for history. A final report aims to provide a record of the most violent attack on the Capitol since the British set it on fire in 1814, and to ensure that such an attack never happens again. The uprising left more than 100 police officers injured, many beaten and bloodied, as crowds of pro-Trump rioters, some armed with pipes, batons and bear spray, stormed the Capitol. At least nine people were killed during and after the riots, including a woman who was shot and killed by police. Emotions are still raw in the Capitol and security will be strict for the hearings. Law enforcement officials report an increase in violent threats against members of Congress. In that context, the commission was speaking in a divided America, ahead of the midterm elections, when voters decide which party controls Congress. Most TV channels broadcast the broadcast live, but Fox News Channel did not. Among those present were several lawmakers who were trapped together in the Parliament Gallery during the attack. “We want to remind people, we were there, we saw what happened,” said Dean Phillips spokesman D-Minn. “We know how close we are to the first non-peaceful transition of power in this country.” The committee’s chairman, political rights leader Thompson, opened the hearing with a scan of American history, saying he had heard those denying the harsh reality of Jan. 6 grow up in an age and place “where people justified their actions. of slavery. the Ku Klux Klan and lynching. “ Republican Cheney, the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, described what the commission learned about the events that led to that tumultuous January day when Trump sent his supporters to Congress to “fight like hell” for as undertaken by lawmakers. the typical routine work of certifying the results of the previous November. Among those who testified was the documentary Nick Quested, which filmed the Proud Boys invading the Capitol – along with a pivotal meeting between then-group president Henry “Enrique” Tarrio and another extremist group, the Oath Keepers, last night. in a nearby car park. garage. Court documents show that members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers have been discussing since November the need to fight to keep Trump in power. Leaders of both groups and some members have since been charged with rare charges of insurgency. In the coming weeks, the commission is expected to present in detail Trump’s public campaign for “Stop the Steal” and private pressure on the Justice Department to reverse its electoral defeat – despite dozens of failed lawsuits and its own general prosecutor who confirmed that there was no fraud on a scale that could have turned the results in his favor. The panel faced obstacles from the beginning. Republicans prevented the formation of an independent body that could have investigated the January 6 attack in the way the 9/11 Commission investigated the 2001 terrorist attack. Instead, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi inaugurated the 1/6 committee through Congress on the objections of Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell. He rejected lawmakers nominated by Republicans who voted against certifying the election results Jan. 6, eventually naming seven Democrats and two Republicans. House of Representatives GOP Chairman Kevin McCarthy, who has been involved in the investigation and defied the committee’s summons for an interview, reiterated Trump on Thursday. He called the commission a “fraud” and described the investigation as a “smokescreen” for Democrats’ priorities. The hearings are expected to introduce Americans to a cast of characters, some acquaintances, others elusive, and what they said and did as Trump and his allies tried to overturn the election result. The public will learn about the actions of Mark Meadows, the then president’s chief of staff, whose more than 2,000 text messages provided the committee with a real-time snapshot of the struggle to keep Trump in power. by John Eastman, the conservative law professor who was the architect of the failed plan to persuade former Vice President Pence to stop certification on Jan. 6. Justice Department officials who threatened to step down instead of following Trump’s proposals. The Ministry of Justice has arrested and charged more than 800 people with violence that day, the largest net in its history. Our Morning and Afternoon Newsletters are compiled by Globe editors, giving you a brief overview of the day’s most important headlines. Register today.
