Next Jan. 6 hearings to focus on how Trump’s ‘big lie’ fueled rioters

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The second public hearing by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection will focus on then-President Donald Trump’s baseless claims that the 2020 election was stolen — dubbed the “big lie” — and how those false claims were connected to the pro-Trump mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol that day in a bid to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s electoral college win, lawmakers on the bipartisan panel said Sunday.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/06/12/jan6-hearing-trump-inaction/
 
Testifying on Monday before the committee will be former Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien; Chris Stirewalt, a former political editor for Fox News; Benjamin Ginsberg, a Republican election lawyer; former U.S. attorney B.J. “BJay” Pak; and Al Schmidt, a former city commissioner of Philadelphia.

The witnesses are likely to bolster the committee’s assertion that Trump had a “seven-part plan” to overturn the results of the 2020 election, as Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), the committee’s vice chair, said Thursday.
 
What will future hearings focus on?

To make that case, the committee intends to bring in Chris Stirewalt, a former political editor at Fox News who made the decision on election night to project that Joseph R. Biden Jr., not President Trump, had won Arizona, a critical swing state.

Mr. Stirewalt has been critical of his former employer for subsequently perpetuating harmful falsehoods about the election, including Mr. Trump’s insistence that the election was stolen.

https://www.nytimes.com/article/jan-6-hearings-watch-tv-channel-schedule.html
 
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