The commission investigating the January 6th Congressional attack in the US is expected to present evidence at this week’s hearings that former President Donald Trump plans to send a fake electoral roll list to nullify the 2020 election results.
Speaking to CNN television, Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff, a member of the January 6 commission, said, “We will present the evidence showing that the President (Trump) is involved in this plan. We will also present evidence showing what their lawyers think of this plan. “We’re going to show the brave state officials who oppose it and say they won’t implement the plan,” he said.
The January 6 Commission, made up of seven Democrats and two Republicans, will hold two more sessions tomorrow and Thursday.
Sessions are also important for the Ministry of Justice investigation
Evidence that will be presented against former president Donald Trump at this week’s hearings could also be important to the Justice Department’s investigation into the fraudulent selection panel scheme.
According to the reports in the US press, the Department of Justice has so far convened the grand jury to summon witnesses as part of the investigation.
Democratic Congressman Jamie Raskin, one of the members of the commission, said in a statement to the “Meet the Press” program broadcast on NBC television on Sunday, stating that new information continues to come and said, “We know some things this weekend that we did not know last weekend.”
Threat to the Republican member of the commission
Adam Kinzinger, one of the two Republican members of the January 6 Commission, said he and his family had received death threats.
Touching on the subject in his post on Twitter, Kinzinger said, “The threat was sent to my house via mail. In the mail sent a few days ago, they threatened to execute me, my wife and my five-month-old child. I’ve never seen or heard of anything like this before,” he said.
Former President Donald Trump, on the other hand, continued to repeat his false claims that the 2020 election was stolen.
Targeting former vice president Mike Pence on Friday, Trump claimed that “Pence didn’t have the courage to act.”
The focus of one of the January 6 Commission hearings last week was Trump’s efforts to pressure former Vice President Mike Pence on and before January 6 to refuse to have the votes counted.
Trump supporters tried to stop the ratification of the results by pressing the joint session of Congress on January 6, 2021, where the election results won by Democratic President Joe Biden will be registered.
Some were seen putting up gallows-like things outside the Capitol and were heard chanting “Hang Mike Pence”. These images were also watched in the first session organized by the commission.
Vice President Mike Pence, in a statement in Florida in February, said that Trump was wrong to think he had the authority to change the results of the election, saying, “I had no right to reverse the election.”
Highlights of the sessions
In the commission investigating the January 6 Congress attack within the House of Representatives, in the first of the public hearings, Trump’s role in the Congress attack, in the second, that Trump knowingly spread the unfounded allegations of election irregularities, and in the third, that Trump’s vice-president, Mike Pence, on January 6 and before, voted. Efforts to pressure him to refuse to be counted were focused on.
One of the prominent statements in the sessions held so far was Trump-era Attorney General William Barr.
William Barr, in the video recording played at the session held on June 13, described the allegations of election irregularities as “nonsense and crazy things”, and for Trump, “If he believes in these, it means he has lost his connection with reality. I didn’t want to be a part of it,” he said.
Last session in September
The first of the public hearings organized by the January 6 Commission was broadcast in prime time, the time zone where televisions are watched the most, and more than 20 million people watched the session live.
The last public session of the commission is planned to be held in September, that is, before the congressional elections in the USA in November.