Capitol Attack Committee Targets Trump Again
Trump's claim that he was robbed of his election victory in 2020 has been described by critics as a "big lie".
In the investigative committee into the attack on the Capitol, they want to prove that the Republican deliberately lied.
The allegations against former US President Donald Trump are to be substantiated in the next meeting of the investigative committee into the storming of the US Capitol. “We will tell the story of how Trump knowingly spread his Big Lie,” committee member Adam Schiff wrote on Twitter on Sunday.
Trump’s critics describe his refuted claim that he was cheated of his victory in the November 2020 presidential election by fraud as a “big lie”. Democrat Schiff wrote that Trump used this lie to ultimately unleash the aggressive mob that stormed the Capitol in January 2021.
Trump supporters stormed the Capitol
The committee announced that Trump’s former campaign manager, William Stepien, would testify at Monday’s meeting. The panel will meet in Washington at 10:00 a.m. (local time/4:00 p.m. CEST) for its second public hearing. It wants to show that Trump and his advisors were fully aware of their defeat in the 2020 election against Democratic challenger Joe Biden – and still stuck to the allegations of fraud.
On January 6, 2021, supporters of the then Republican President Trump attacked the seat of parliament in the capital Washington. They wanted to prevent Biden’s election victory from being confirmed. Several people were killed in the attack. Trump had recently incited his supporters at a rally by claiming that his election victory had been stolen.
“No spontaneous uprising”
Committee chair Bennie Thompson of the Democrats spoke of an “attempted coup” at the widely publicized first public session on Thursday. Thompson warned that democracy in the US was still in danger. For Vice Committee Chair Liz Cheney, a Republican herself known as a Trump critic, the attack was “not a spontaneous uprising.”
“President Trump summoned the mob, rallied the mob, and lit the flame of this attack.” For months, Trump coordinated an elaborate plan to overturn the outcome of the election and prevent the transfer of power.
Trump claims to this day that he was deprived of victory by fraud. His camp has failed with dozens of lawsuits against the election results. Trump called the committee’s work a “witch hunt” after its first public meeting.
committee is threatened
Of the nine congressmen on the committee, seven are Democrats and only two are Republicans. The two Republican MPs Cheney and Adam Kinzinger are proven Trump critics. The House of Representatives is currently controlled by the Democrats. However, they are threatened with losing their majority to the Republicans in the congressional elections in November. Then the committee could face the end. The committee is therefore under pressure to present results as quickly as possible.
The investigative committee had interviewed hundreds of witnesses behind closed doors for months and examined large amounts of documents and evidence. The third public hearing is scheduled for this Wednesday (10 a.m. local time/4 p.m. CEST).
