Democrat Bennie Thompson said “the world is watching” the US response to the Capitol Uprising Committee’s long-running inquiry into the Jan. 6, 2021 uprising, and the defeated president’s outstanding effort to prevent Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s election victory. He described the coup as “a daring attempt” and said “Donald Trump was at the center of this conspiracy”. “Democracy remains in jeopardy,” Thompson said. “We must face the truth with honesty, determination and determination.” The commission presented 12-minute videos he had never seen before the deadly violence that day, as well as Trump administration officials in the creepy background as Trump tried to overturn Biden’s victory. In an excerpt, the commission played a joke on former U.S. Attorney General William Barr, who testified that he told Trump that allegations of rigged elections were “bullshit.” CLOCKS The committee presents what it has learned:
Trump at “conspiracy center” during US Capitol uprising, committee chairman says
The US Congressional Committee hearing on the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol is under way, with opening remarks by Bennie Thompson and Liz Cheney.
“They called a violent mob”
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.” Thursday night’s hearing was intended to describe in fascinating detail that the deadly violence was not accidental. Instead, the panel said it was the result of Trump’s repeated lies about electoral fraud, his public appeal to his supporters to come to Washington, and his private campaign at the highest levels of government to prevent Congress from certifying his vote. Biden. “President Trump has called for a violent mob,” said Republican lawmaker Liz Cheney, the committee’s vice president. “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.” Former United States President Donald Trump speaks at a May 6 rally in Greensburg, Pension. House investigators are unlikely to summon Trump to testify about his role in the Jan. 6 uprising, according to Mississippi lawmaker Benny Thompson, chairman of the Democrats in the nine-member committee investigating the attack. (Gene J. Puskar / The Associated Press)
Acoustic breathing in the hearing room
There was a loud panting in the auditorium when Cheney read a bill he said when Trump was informed that the Capitol mob was calling for the hanging of his vice president, Mike Pence, to which Trump replied that they might be right. that “it’s worth it”. Trump was angry that Pence did not refuse to accept the certification of Biden’s victory. 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. An image of Ivanka Trump appears on a screen on Thursday. He testified that he “accepted” when then-Attorney General Bill Barr said there was no electoral fraud. (Mandel Ngan / Pool / The Associated Press) 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. U.S. Capitol Officer Caroline Edwards, who was seriously injured in the attack, testified. Documentary creator Nick Quested testified about the shooting of the Proud Boys who invaded the Capitol – along with a pivotal meeting between then-right-wing leader Henry “Enrique” Tarrio and another extremist group, the Oath Keepers, last night nearby garage. 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. U.S. Capitol Officer Caroline Edwards, left, and British director Nick Quested are sworn in on Thursday. (Jonathan Ernst / Pool / The Associated Press)
“We were there, we saw what happened”
In that context, the commission speaks to the divided United States ahead of the midterm elections, when voters will decide which party controls Congress. Most TV channels broadcast the broadcast live, but Fox News Channel did not. Among them in the audience are several current and former police officers who fought the mob in a desperate battle to protect the Capitol, and lawmakers who were trapped together in the Parliament Gallery during the siege have stayed close. “We want to remind people, we were there, we saw what happened,” said Minnesota Democrat Dean Phillips. “We know how close we are to the first non-peaceful transition of power in this country.” Thompson, chairman of the commission and leader of civil rights, opened the hearing with a scan of American history, saying he had heard those denying the dark reality of Jan. 6 his own experience growing up in a time and place “where people justified the actions of slavery, the Ku Klux Klan and lynching. “ In this photo of January 6, 2021, insurgents loyal to Trump try to open the door of the US Capitol as they rise up in Washington. (Jose Luis Magana / The Associated Press) He and Cheney, a Republican and daughter of former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, described what the commission had learned about the events that led to that tumultuous January day when Trump sent his supporters to Congress to “fight like hell “for his presidency. as lawmakers took on the standard routine work of certifying results last November. 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 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 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 Pence to stop certification. and 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.
