And we’re back! The January 6 Select Committee reconvenes this afternoon for a public hearing focused on Donald Trump’s infamous December 19, 2022, tweet urging his supporters to attend the “Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!”
“People are going to hear the story of that tweet, and then the explosive effect it had in Trumpworld, and specifically among the domestic violent extremist groups, the most dangerous political extremists in the country at that point,” Rep. Jamie B. Raskin
told CBS News’s “Face the Nation.”
Raskin will lead the hearing along with Rep. Stephanie Murphy, who called the tweet a “siren call” that worked exactly as intended, to bring thousands of militants into DC in hopes of intimidating Congress into certifying a fraudulent victory for Trump.
After Cassidy Hutchinson
faced a campaign of intimidation prior to her testimony, the committee is keeping the witness list under wraps. But it looks like we’ll hear from former Oath Keepers spokesman Jason Van Tatenhove, Capitol riot defendant Stephen Ayres, who recently pled guilty to disorderly conduct, and former deputy White House press secretary Sarah Matthews, who will corroborate much of Hutchinson’s testimony.
And speaking of corroboration, former White House Counsel Pat Cipollone finally cowboyed up and testified under oath, during which he
did not contradict Hutchinson’s version of events either. Will we finally get to see Patsy Baloney on tape today?
Let’s find out together!
1:00 Away we go! Chair Bennie Thompson looks strapped for bear, says “we settle our differences at the ballot box.”
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