Hearing 3 of the Capitol Hill Committee will focus on the pressure Trump exerted on his deputy
The panel will seek to show that the pressure campaign "directly contributed" to the attack, which also endangered Mike Pence's life.
One piece of evidence will show that former White House attorney Eric Hershman told Trump's lawyer the day after the attack that he should "hire an excellent 'fucking' criminal lawyer" because he gave illegal advice
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16/06/2022
Thursday, 16 June 2022, 14:43 Updated: 15:04
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The U.S. House of Commons' Special Inquiry into the Assault on Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021 will hold its third hearing tonight (Thursday), and is expected to focus on the pressure exerted by then-President Donald Trump on the vice presidential election results in 2020, and how that pressure " Contributed directly "to the attack on Capitol Hill, which also endangered the life of Mike Pence," said aides to the committee.
They said the hearing would focus on how Trump launched the pressure campaign against Vice President Pence, even though White House lawyers told him he had no authority to undermine the election results unilaterally.
The panel also intends to show at the hearing that there is an "ongoing threat" to democracy from people who support the false opinion that the election was fake, the advisers told CNN.
The hearing that was scheduled to take place yesterday was postponed due to "technical glitches".
The next hearings will be held on June 21 and June 23 at 8 p.m., Israel time.
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Donald Trump at a rally before the attack (Photo: Reuters)
The commission plans to move on from the source of the theory put forward by Trump's lawyer, John Eastman, according to which Lantern had the authority to turn the election results into an issue of Trump's pressure campaign that lasted weeks and led to an attack.
The hearing, the aides said.
Will include new material regarding the actions of a flashlight on January 6, including its location.
The hearing this time will be chaired by Democratic Cognars member Pete Aguilar of California.
This time, too, the panel will present videos of testimonies.
Testimony of former Attorney General William Barr (Photo: Reuters)
At Tuesday's hearing, the panel hinted that it would present testimony in which former White House attorney Eric Hershman told Eastman the day after the Jan. 7 attack that he should "hire an excellent 'fucking' criminal lawyer."
Eastman was the architect of the plan to make the flashlight turn the election results around.
The commission wants to prove that he persuaded Trump to put pressure on his deputy - despite the former president's lawyers insisting that this was not good advice.
"Eastman asked me about the outcome in the state of Georgia and something about an appeal," Hershman said in his recorded testimony Tuesday.
"I said to him, 'Have you gone mad? Because I want to hear only those words coming out of your mouth now: an orderly transition of power. I do not want to hear any other words coming out of your mouth. Repeat those words in front of me.'"
Hershman added that he had warned Eastman about the fact that his actions could be against the law.
"Eventually he said, 'An orderly transition of power.' I told him, 'Very well John. Now I'll give you the best free legal advice you'll ever get. Hire an excellent fucking criminal lawyer. Conversation".
The attack on Capitol Hill
In video: Trump supporters raid congressional building in attempt to halt Biden's appointment (Photo: Reuters and from Twitter)
Greg Jacob, who served as Pence's vice president's lawyer, and Michael Lutig, a retired judge who served as Pence's unofficial adviser will testify before the panel.
Lantern chief of staff at the time, Mark Short, will not testify today, but some of his testimony will be shown on video.
According to the New York Times, Short warned the Secret Service that Trump was going to betray the flashlight and condemn it at the planned rally, and that there was a security risk to the life of the vice president.
"I think the vice president felt safe because of the secret service agents who accompanied him. I think none of us foresaw what happened on January 6," he said.
In an interview with CNN yesterday, Short said that "ultimately the responsibility lies with the president. He was responsible for listening to the advice or ignoring it, but I also think there were people around the president who gave him bad advice."
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