The House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol began presenting its findings to the public for the first time Thursday night.
PUBLISHED 10:30 PM EDT Jun. 09, 2022The House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol began presenting its findings to the public for the first time Thursday night, seeking to convey to the American people the role former President Donald Trump and his allies played in attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
The panel sought to show that the Jan. 6 attack was an “attempted coup” which put “two and a half centuries of constitutional democracy at risk” through never-before-seen video and audio — both from the brutal attack and from hours of interviews and depositions conducted by the committee — as well as testimony from an officer who defended the Capitol and a documentarian who filmed the far-right Proud Boys.
“As you will see in the hearings to come, President Trump believed his supporters at the Capitol and I quote, ‘were doing what they should be doing,’” she said. “This is what he told his staff as they pleaded with him to call off the mob, to instruct his supporters to leave over a series of hearings in the coming weeks.”
“You will hear evidence that President Trump refused for hours to do what his staff, his family and many of his other advisers begged him to do: immediately instruct his supporters to stand down and evacuate the Capitol,” Cheney said. In this image from video released by the House Select Committee, former Attorney General William Barr gives a video deposition to the House select committee investigating the the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S.
In a separate clip, Barr said he told Trump in “no uncertain terms” that he did not see evidence of fraud that would have affected the outcome of the election. Barr also said he saw “zero basis for the allegations” that Dominion voting machines were rigged against Trump. The first such video came before a break in Thursday’s hearing, and Thompson warned it would not be easy to watch.
Much of the never-before-seen footage came from U.S. Capitol Police officer Caroline Edwards, who was the first in-person witness called Thursday. Edwards said while she and her fellow law enforcement officers are trained in crowd-control, they are not trained for combat. “I was called a lot of things on January 6, 2021 and the days thereafter,” Edwards said in her opening remarks. “I was called Nancy Pelosi’s dog, called incompetent, called a hero and a villain. I was called a traitor to my country, my oath and my constitution.
A spokesperson for Perry denied the allegations, saying that “laughable, ludicrous, and a thoroughly soulless lie.” The next morning, Quested said he met up with the Proud Boys again at the National Mall. Instead of walking toward the Ellipse, where then-President Donald Trump was holding a rally, the contingent of “a couple of hundred Proud Boys” marched toward the Capitol around 10:30 a.m., before Trump had spoken, the filmmaker said.
“For anyone who didn't understand how violent that event was, I saw it, I documented it, and I experienced it,” Quested said. Future hearings will show how some of those top officials threatened to resign should Trump continue spreading his false claims, while others – including sitting members of Congress – have refused to cooperate with the House committee, choosing instead to remain loyal to the former president.
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