This evening’s January 6 committee hearing is likely to lead to more major revelations about what Trump was doing as his supporters thronged the streets in one of the worst attacks on the US government in history.
And while this may be the “season finale” for the hearing, which is being organized by a team Including ABC News executive, chances are that it will not last. The committee’s investigation, including text messages, continues from the secret service that was fired after the attackAnd it will come as no surprise if MPs announce more sessions in the future.
But is their evidence changing Americans’ views of Trump? a Reuters/Ipsos poll Released this afternoon indicates that this could happen. Forty percent of Republicans say Trump was at least partially to blame for the attack, an increase of nearly seven percentage points before the hearing. The proportion of Republicans who think Trump should not run for office again rose to 32 percent from 26 percent in early June.
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In Georgia, a special grand jury investigation is proceeding into Trump’s attempt to reverse the results of the 2020 election in the state. A matter which has also been noticed by the Committee of 6th January,
Associated Press report Today as several Republican lawmakers in Georgia signed a fake document claiming that Trump, instead of Joe Biden, won the state, lost his bid to rescind the summons for his appearance before the special panel. has given. The body, based in Atlanta’s home, Fulton County, will issue a report that the local prosecutor can then use to bring an indictment based on its information. Today’s ruling indicates that the special grand jury will remain a possible avenue for aides to the former president, or perhaps Trump himself, to face criminal charges over his interference in the 2020 election.
Among other former Trump officials summoned by jurors: Rudy Giuliani.
Hugo Lowell
Guardian Hugo Lowell Here’s a preview of what to expect from today’s January 6 committee hearing:
The House Select Committee on January 6 is expected to make the case at a hearing on Thursday that Donald Trump Potentially violated the law when he refused to take action to prevent a 2021 attack on the US Capitol by a group of his supporters, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
The panel will demonstrate that the former Republican president was “abandoned in his duty” to protect the US Congress and would also have broken federal law that prohibits obstructing an official proceeding before Congress, which gathered to certify democrat Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election.
Trump could call on National Guard troops to restore order when he watched the scuffle in the Capitol on TV, the panel is expected to debate, or he could call in rioters via a live broadcast from the White House press briefing room. , but he didn’t. Or he could have sent a tweet trying to stop the violence during the 187-minute period of the Capitol attack, more than he actually did.
This evening’s January 6 committee hearing is likely to lead to more major revelations about what Trump was doing as his supporters thronged the table in one of the worst attacks on the US government in history.
And while this may be the “season finale” for the hearing, which is being organized by a team Including ABC News executive, chances are that it will not last. The committee’s investigation, including text messages, continues from the secret service that was fired after the attackAnd it will come as no surprise if MPs announce more sessions in the future.
But is their evidence changing Americans’ views of Trump? a Reuters/Ipsos poll Released this afternoon indicates that this could happen. Forty percent of Republicans say Trump was at least partially to blame for the attack, an increase of nearly seven percentage points before the hearing. The proportion of Republicans who think Trump should not run for office again rose to 32 percent from 26 percent in early June.
In the final scheduled hearing, on January 6, the Press Cases Committee Trump broke the law
Good afternoon, American Politics Blog readers. In a few hours, the January 6 committee will hold its final scheduled hearing, in which House legislators will The case that former President Donald Trump may have violated the law by not stopping the attack on the Capitol, As if it was not a packed news agenda in itself, President Joe Biden announced earlier today that he had tested positive for covid-19 – Joining your Vice President Kamala HarrisMuch of the Democratic leadership of Congress and, yes, Trump, in contracting the virus.
Here’s what else happened today: