Investigation into Capitol Hill Attack: Trump's Tweets "Call for Arms"
The committee is focusing on the impact of a tweet sent on December 19, 2020 by Trump that read, "Great demonstration at DC on Jan. 6. Be there! Be crazy!"
A former Twitter employee: "If everyone else's account belonged, he would be suspended"
Tali Goldstein
12/07/2022
Tuesday, 12 July 2022, 20:56 Updated: 21:09
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The House today (Tuesday) hearing of the House Committee, which is investigating the attack on Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021, focuses on coordinating far-right groups with former President Donald Trump and his senior aides ahead of the onslaught.
The first hearing was held today in July, and the seventh in number so far.
It is estimated that the committee will hold another hearing next week.
The moderators of the hearing are Democratic Congressmen Stephanie Murphy and James Raskin.
According to Murphy, Trump's tweets before the attack were "a call for weapons for his most loyal supporters."
Former Trump Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia told the committee he urged Trump to give up his plans on Dec. 14, when the electoral vote confirmed Joe Biden's victory.
"We spoke at 14 - and I told him it was time for him to admit that President Biden had won," Scalia said in a recorded testimony.
"I told him that once the legal process is over, unless it is determined that there was a scam that affected the election results,
Recorded testimony of former White House attorney Pat Sipoloni was presented to the panel.
Siploni said in his eight-hour testimony that he agreed with various sources that there was insufficient evidence of electoral fraud.
"If you ask if I believed he should admit his loss at that point, then yes," he said.
He said Sen. Mitch Mitchell thought so too.
Assaulting Capitol Hill (Photo: Reuters)
The committee focuses on the impact of a tweet sent on December 19, 2020 by Trump that read, "Great demonstration at DC on Jan. 6. Be there! Be crazy!".
Trump tweeted the tweet a day after a meeting with National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Sydney Powell, which discussed the possibility of boycotting all voting machines and appointing Powell as a special lawyer with the authority to boycott the machines.
According to Sipoloni, Powell's proposal to boycott Dominion's voting machines was a "bad idea."
"This is not the way we do things in the United States," he said.
Raskin added that "even Rudy Giuliani's legal team has admitted that there is no real evidence of fraud sufficient to change the election results."
Regarding the tweet, a former Twitter employee said that if it was any other user, his account would have been suspended long before it happened.
He said it was clear from the December 19 tweet that this was Trump's call for his supporters to come and rally to act violently.
He was surprised by the amount of violent reactions to Trump's call to come to Washington, D.C. that day.
According to committee members, members of the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys had ties to Trump's associates, Roger Stone and Flynn, in the days before the attack.
Flynn and Stone have already been interviewed by the committee and have maintained their right to remain silent for most of the time.
Flynn, a former senior U.S. military official, served as Trump's national security adviser for the first 23 days of his administration.
After reports that he misled the administration about communications he had with Russia before Trump entered the White House, he was forced to resign.
He was charged and admitted to lying to the FBI, but eventually received a presidential pardon from Trump.
Stone, a longtime political activist and ally of Trump, was present at the events leading up to the January 6 events.
Stone received a pardon from Trump after being convicted of a crime that included lying to Congress and attending a rally to turn the January 6 election results accompanied by members of the "Oath Keepers."
According to Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony last month at the last hearing, the night before the onslaught, Trump told chief of staff Mark Meduse to ask Flynn and Stone what was going to happen the next day.
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Assaulting Capitol Hill (Photo: Reuters)
Assaulting Capitol Hill (Photo: Reuters)
The hearing will be physically testified by Stephen Ayers of Warren in Ohio, who recently admitted to entering the Capitol that day, as well as former "Oath Keepers" spokesman Jason Van Tettenhove.
Ayers argued that a "civil war would break out" if the election results did not change.
He accused President Joe Biden, other Democrats and the media of "betrayal".
The committee will also examine White House advisers who had information about possible violence on Jan. 6 and those who did not approve of Trump's arrival on Capitol Hill that day.
It is unclear whether these are special agents Tony Oranto, Bobby Engel or Trump's driver, amid reports that the former president tried to take control of the car to reach his supporters.
Steve Bennon, who has long been at the top of the list of witnesses the commission wanted to interview, said over the weekend that he was ready to speak.
The then-White House adviser to Trump and chairman of his campaign was a key figure in efforts to change the election results. Benon will appear physically or in recorded testimony, and even if he appears himself, he may maintain his right to remain silent.
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