Jan. 6 hearings to lay out 'scheme ... to undermine the will of the people,' chairman says
As rioters battered police and stormed inside the Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, then-President Trump grew angry with advisors pleading with him to do something, Vice Chairwoman Liz Cheney said Thursday in the first hearing by the House select committee investigating the attack.
Cheney said the panel will also reveal evidence that Rep. Scott Perry and multiple Republican members of Congress sought pardons after Jan. 6 for their roles leading to that day and that the president’s Cabinet secretaries considered invoking the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office. Thompson and others on the panel have stressed that the hearings will not only cover the insurrection at the Capitol a year and a half ago, but also address what can be done to keep similar events from happening again.“Our democracy remains in danger. The conspiracy to thwart the will of the people is not over.
“Rep. Scott Perry, who was also involved in trying to get Clark appointed as attorney general has refused to testify here. As you will see, Rep. Perry contacted the White House in the weeks after Jan. 6, to seek a presidential pardon. Multiple other Republican congressmen also sought presidential pardons for their roles in attempting to overturn the 2020 election,” Cheney said.
That Trump summoned a violent mob and directed them to the Capitol and then failed to take action, including a minute-by-minute recounting of Trump’s actions during the attack from more than a half-dozen White house staff and administration officials.
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