‘The lie hasn’t gone away’: Jan 6 committee chairman says Trump threat to elections is ongoing
Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows’s top aide Cassidy Hutchinson is reportedly expected to testify before the committee investigating the 6 January attacks at the Capitol.
Ms Hutchinson has already provided information to the committee behind closed doors, sitting with the investigators over the span of three separate interviews. She would be the first White House employee to testify publicly before the committee.
The committee had announced a surprise extra hearing that will contain new evidence of Donald Trump’s “dereliction of duty”.
“The final hearing will cover what the president was doing and more importantly, what he was not doing as we were being attacked,” Rep Adam Schiff told NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday.
The latest round of the highly watched inquiry will take place at 1pm ET on Tuesday, 28 June.
Previously, the special congressional committee had no more planned hearings until lawmakers returned from their 4 July recess.
The final hearing will bring to a close a month that featured five other days packed with shocking testimony before the committee.
Jan 6 hearing moved up because of safety fears for Meadows aide
The latest January 6 Committee hearing was moved up because of safety fears for witness Cassidy Hutchinson, a former special assistant to the president and aide to former Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows.
The panel said the hearing had been scheduled for 1pm on 28 June to “to present recently obtained evidence and receive witness testimony”.
Punchbowl News reported that the hearing was moved up because panel members had “sincere concerns” for Ms Hutchinson’s safety because of the testimony she has provided.
Gustaf Kilander28 June 2022 14:15
Video shows FBI stopping Trump’s ‘coup memo’ lawyer John Eastman and seizing his phone
A lawyer linked to Donald Trump’s efforts to reverse the result of the 2020 election has claimed the FBI stopped him outside a restaurant and seized his phone. And a new video appears to show the moment the incident occurred.
In a court filing, John Eastman said that federal agents approached him on the evening of 22 June.
The details of the alleged incident were contained within a court filing, in which the 62-year-old was trying to recover the property.
Video of the incident showed federal agents stopping Mr Eastman, with the lawyer placing his hands above his head.
“On the evening of June 22, 2022, federal agents served a search warrant on movant while movant was exiting a restaurant,” said the filing.
Andrew Buncombe28 June 2022 14:10
What was the ‘QAnon Shaman’ doing on January 6
Members of the January 6 committee revealed further involvement in the “Stop the Steal” effort by the so-called “QAnon Shaman” on Tuesday as the panel focused on efforts by the president and his team to pressure state lawmakers to overturn the election.
New footage released by the lawmakers revealed that the costumed conspiracy theory devotee known as the “QAnon Shaman,” aka 32-year-old Arizonan Jacob Chansley, was present a month earlier at Arizona’s state capital where he joined a crowd attempting to pressure state lawmakers into halting the certification of Joe Biden’s victory.
Mr Chansley previously captured derision and notoriety with his participation in the attack on Congress, when he was seen on video in costume screaming “freedom” inside the US Senate.
Get the latest on this strange character.
Josh Marcus28 June 2022 13:56
Former US Attorney slams Trump allies for not testifying: ‘They ought to be ashamed’
Gustaf Kilander28 June 2022 13:40
‘The president of the United States tried to get the vice president killed’
Gustaf Kilander28 June 2022 13:23
The January 6 investigation isn’t close to over yet
Federal agents issued new subpoenas regarding the January 6 riot at the US Capitol and raided the homes of two people involved in the plot to overturn the 2020 presidential election, The Washington Post reported.
The FBI confirmed to The Post that it conducted authorised law enforcement activity at the home of Brad Carver, who allegedly signed a document to be a Trump elector, as well as Thomas Lane, who worked on Trump’s effort to overturn the election in Arizona and New Mexico.
Other would-be participants in former president Donald Trump’s scheme to send an alternate slate of electors to overturn the 2020 presidential election received subpoenas.
Josh Marcus28 June 2022 12:56
ICYMI: Key takeaways we’ve learned from the committee so far
Need to get up to speed before Tuesday’s surprise extra January 6 hearing?
Andrew Feinberg has you covered.
Josh Marcus28 June 2022 11:56
Trump fan poses wild theory that Ivanka Trump ‘clone’ appeared at Jan 6 hearing
Many staunch supporters of former president Donald Trump, such as the ones who came out to hear him speak in Mississippi as part of his American Freedom Tour last weekend, are not closely following the January 6 committee’s hearings on the Capitol riot.
On Thursday evening, The Daily Show released a nearly seven-and-a-half minute video of correspondent Jordan Klepper quizzing rally attendees about the committee’s work.
One of the clips Mr Klepper showed was of the president’s daughter Ivanka Trump testifying that she accepted Attorney General William Barr’s assertion that there was no widespread fraud in the 2020 election.
“It don’t even look like her. It might be one of those — what do they got, clones out there these days?” one supporter said of Ms Trump’s testimony.
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar28 June 2022 11:07
Donald Trump seems to genuinely admire January 6 protesters
Former President Donald Trump had little more than compliments for the rioters who stormed the US Capitol in new documentary footage from March 2021 that was obtained by the January 6 committee this week.
In the footage, published by CNN on Thursday, Mr Trump claims (falsely) that a “small” number of people stormed the Capitol and calls them “smart” for believing his claims about widespread election fraud, which his own attorney admitted in separate audio released this week that the Trump campaign had no evidence to prove.
“They were angry from the standpoint of what happened in the election. Because they’re smart, and they see and they saw what happened, and I believe that that was a big part of what happened on January 6,” says the former president in the clip.
John Bowden has more in this report.
Josh Marcus28 June 2022 10:56
The same Q movement that fueled Trump is now coming for trans rights
The Independent first observed trans issues bubbling up through QAnon and other conspiratorial far-right communities in the first half of 2021, following the movement’s failure to stop the inauguration of President Joe Biden by storming the US Capitol.
As Donald Trump and his most extreme supporters were purged from mainstream social networks, many turned to the private messaging app Telegram, where numerous new channels sprung up for the varied and often fractious cloud of movements and subcultures that adopted Trump as their mascot.
“A man cutting off his genitals and pretending to be a woman is about as satanic as it gets,” said one commenter during an extended discussion about trans rights in a conspiracy-peddling Telegram channel last January.
Io Dodds has this in-depth investigation.
Josh Marcus28 June 2022 09:56