“Obviously, you have to go through the hearings, but we have a lot of witnesses that people have not talked to in the past who will prove that a lot happened in the Trump orbit while it all happened,” said the Mississippi Democrat. Thompson did not specify the nature of the talks, although evidence gathered in the Justice Department’s Oath Keepers and Proud Boys cases shows that both groups stayed close to some right-wing VIPs, especially those believed to have provided voluntary “security”. 5 and 6 January 2021. Joshua James, the juror who has pleaded guilty to subversive conspiracy, led Roger Stone, for example. Stone also has close ties to prominent members of the Proud Boys, who date back years. During the riots, some Oath Keepers discussed trying to help Republican MP Ronny Jackson – though it was unclear who they contacted to find out about Jackson’s condition. And according to another piece of evidence in the Oath Keepers case, a lawyer working with the group discussed contacting people around the Trump campaign in a recorded conference call in November 2020. However, not all contacts are described. so explicitly. An Oath Keeper said as part of his guilty plea that he saw team leader Stewart Rhodes call an unnamed man on the night of Jan. 6 and ask him to speak directly with Trump. The person did not have to. Thompson’s comments came after the panel held its first hearing, detailing its findings and reproducing new video from behind-the-scenes testimony by members of Trump’s team and depicting violence in the Capitol. The committee introduced to the American public two of the most militant far-right extremist groups in the country, which were present on January 6: The Proud Boys and Oath Keepers. These groups were at the forefront of the uprising. He was one of the first to trespass on the building and is accused of plotting violence. Explaining the committee’s approach to the hearings, Thompson told Tapper that “everything the public heard tonight is documented. We can prove it. Because, as you know, data controllers will look at everything that has been presented and we have made a conscious effort to , what could we prove “. “Well, we put the tweets from the President. We put videos from the President,” he continued. “We put everything in order, but we put it in a order that the public could now see that even when the President said by the head of law enforcement that he had appointed an attorney general, there was nothing wrong with the election. Obviously, the people he was listening to were not credible when it came to examining the evidence. And so the President burst out and started listening to people who had no real say in the matter. “ Thursday’s hearing was the first in a series this month to highlight the commission’s findings, which included interviews with more than 1,000 people about how Trump and his team sought to reverse the 2020 election results. on multiple fronts. CNN’s Marshall Cohen and Zachary Cohen contributed to this report.
