House Select Committee to Investigate the Case January 6, 2021 attack on US Capitol in Tuesday’s hearing detailed the threats made state legislators, election officials, and employees in Arizona and Georgia as President Donald Trump and his allies tried to force them to cancel elections. results in their states.
The committee sought on tuesday to bring light seriousness of threat to democracy in days and weeks after the election, given the enormous and constant pressure from the president and Rudy Giuliani on officials and ordinary Americans to advance”big lies” that Trump won elections. ability of these Americans, in order to resist this pressure, had to great private cost.
“Our democracy held on because the brave people like You heard today that they put their constitutional oath ahead of their allegiance. one people,” said Rep. Adam Schiff, committee member.
” system keeps but barely and the question remains whether it will withstand again?”
Hearing laid out the plan hatched by Trump and his allies in Arizona will replace Biden’s bona fide electors with fake. Fake voters gathered in Arizona, which Speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives Rusty Bowers called “a tragic parody.” Bowers refused to take any part in the fake voter plan is promoted by Giuliani.
The texts shown by Schiff showed that Republican Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin could also played their part in in false voter chart. Texts between Johnson’s boss of staff and a Pence aide showed a Johnson aide informing a Pence aide that the senator was willing to provide fraudulent ballots to Pence. “No need give it’s for him,” Pence’s aide replied.
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Bowers said that “the principle of I believe the Constitution is inspired by God” and that what he was asked for was “foreign to my very being”.
Arizona House Speaker also described what his personal life was like like since the election. In an emotional testimony, Bowers said that until “very recently” his family began to fear Saturday when Trump supporters drive around his neighborhood and falsely declare him a “pedophile” and a corrupt politician. He told about a quarrel between a neighbor and a man. with pistol, and also talking about reactions of his family.
“In the same time, on a little of these we had daughter who was seriously ill who was upset about what happened outside and my wife, she is a valiant person, a very strong, quiet, very strong woman,” he said, finding more and more emotion. “So that was a concern.” in beginning of 2021, daughter died after an illness.
Fulton County Electoral Specialist Vandrea Arshai (“Shai”) Moss, who was falsely accused along with with her mother, of carrier out fake voting scheme and called them professional vote scammers, allegations that led to death threats and intimidation, and forced them into hiding, committee aides said. Commission showed video of Moh’ mother Ruby Freeman testifying that she “lost her name” after all the threats.
Moss said her life was turned upside down after the election.
“I haven’t been anywhere at all – put on about 60 pounds, don’t do anything else, second“Guess what I’m doing,” Moss said. “It has affected my life. in main way, in each way. All because of lies for I do my job, the same thing I’ve always done.”
Moss said she and nobody of her colleagues in Fulton County so far work there.
Committee vice chair Rep. Liz Cheney said Trump “doesn’t care about these threats.” of violence” and said, “We cannot let America become a nation of conspiracy theories and gang violence”.
Committee Chairman Rep. Benny Thompson said in his opening statement that “pressure public the servants betrayed their oaths was a fundamental part” of Trump’s Game Book.
Thompson says Trump is putting pressure on of these electoral officials were based on “big lie.” “The lie has not disappeared. It corrupts our democratic institutions,” Thompson said. added, noting that New Mexico County official refused to certify a recent primary results.
Committee also heard testimony from two Republicans in Georgia, secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and Gabriel Sterlingmain operating Officer for in secretary of states office. Raffensperger and Sterling in detail how Trump made them find more votes in their states.
“I think sometimes moments call for you to stand up as well as just take pictures – you’re doing your job,” Raffensperger said. “And that’s all we’ve done. We just followed the law and followed the constitution. In the end of the day President Trump came up short.”
The committee will next public hearing on Thursday at 15:00
