Hearings about the Capitol attack began today. At least six different hearings are planned.
Yrjö Kokkonen,
Sami Spåra
10.6. 05:36 • Updated June 10. 05:52
The first hearing on the Capitol riot was held this Friday morning at 3 pm Finnish time.
It all started when Congress met in Epiphany in 2021 to confirm the outcome of the presidential election, according to which Donald Trump lost in the election To Joe Bidenwhich received more than seven million votes more.
Trump did not admit his defeat, but gave a furious speech to his supporters, urging them to protest about the election result they considered fraudulent.
Trump’s supporters stormed inside the congress building. Five people died and several dozen were injured in the violence.
Two key witnesses were heard during the congressional hearings; riot seriously injured Capitol police Carolie Edwarsia, as well as a documentary filmmaker Nick Questedia, who filmed footage of the far – right group Proud Boys before and during the attack. The group is accused of planning a deadly attack.
A total of 860 Trump supporters are charged.
“Democracy in jeopardy”
– 6 January and the lies that led to the uprising have put two and a half hundred-year-old democracies at risk, Bennie Thompson said in his opening remarks before the start of the hearing.
– The Capitol attack was the culmination of a coup attempt, Thompson continued.
– Trump convened the crowd, gathered them together and set fire to this attack, the vice-chairman of the committee, the Republican Party Liz Cheney said in his own speech.
Former advisor to Trump Jason Miller Trump said in a recorded testimony that Trump was clearly told he had lost the election.
Vice president Mike Pencen the then chief of staff told the committee that Pence’s loyalty to democracy was more important than loyalty to Trump.
At the hearing, the committee presented videos that had not been seen in public before.
“They were hard to watch,” Bennie Thompson of the Republicans said.
Former Minister of Justice William Barr said in a video:
– I made it clear that I do not accept that the election was allegedly stolen. In the same video, Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump said he trusted Justice Minister Barr’s view of the correctness of the election.