State officials from Arizona and Georgia, who have been pressured by Donald Trump to help reverse the 2020 election defeat, are set to chair the fourth hearing of the House Select Committee. On Tuesday afternoon, team aides said.
Committee staff said the speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives, Republican Rusty Powers, is expected to speak for the first time about being harassed and intimidated by Trump’s allies. And three election staffers from Georgia, where Trump is being prosecuted and testified for his attempts to overturn Georgia’s results.
“We will closely monitor how the president and his allies came up with these plans to change the certification of his election defeat for Republican-controlled legislatures and other state officials, or to prevent certification in some of the competing states,” group staff said Monday.
Tuesday’s hearing marks the fourth in a series of violent attacks on the U.S. capital, triggered by Trump’s extensive campaign to deny defeat in the 2020 election and seek to stay in power. Team staff said Monday that Thursday’s hearing is expected to focus on efforts to pressure the judiciary to help Trump try to stay in power illegally.
Trump, for his part, has demanded “equal time” and complained that none of his supporters are on the board. When asked if the team was trying to get testimony from Trump, a team employee said he “welcomes” testimony from anyone involved. Trump spokesmen did not provide requests for a couple comments.
Over the weekend, team member representative. Adam Schiff, de Khalif., Said the panel may have been open to chanting former vice president Mike Pence to testify before the committee. A group of employees declined to say whether Pence would be pushed to testify on Monday.
Numerous commentators have called for Benz to testify following the last hearing that focused And the January 6 riots were a threat to Pence’s life.
The panel also expressed new interest in Ginny Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Judge Clarence Thomas He sought to persuade 29 Arizona state legislators to approve bogus voters in an attempt to keep Trump in power. Team Evidence that Ginny Thomas was in contact with John Eastman, the lawyer at the center of Trump’s last attempt to thwart the election, the Post reports.
Committee Leaders, Rep. Penny Thompson, D-Miss. And Rep. Liz Cheney, R.-Vio., Last week, Ginny asked Thomas to testify before the panel between July 6 and July 11. Thomas said Last week, “I’m looking forward to talking to them.”
Schiff, who has long been a central partner in the investigation into Trump, is set to chair the trial on Tuesday.
In addition to Powers, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensburger, Gabriel Sterling, a pro-Trump rival and one of his key aides, is set to testify to Trump’s relentlessness. He wants to beat Georgia.
In a call that is now the focus of the Fulton County District Attorney Trump made the request to Rafensberger To him.
Georgia State Electoral Officer The man, who has been the target of death threats and continued harassment by Trump supporters, is scheduled to testify on Tuesday.
The fourth investigation is expected to focus on the tactics of Trump and his allies, trying to send fake voters to Washington to provoke confusion and give Pence a reason not to certify Biden’s victory.
Retired Federal Judge J. Michael Luttick testified at a third hearing last week that the use of fake voters was a major ploy in an attempt to overturn the election result. If Trump or his “anointed heir” loses the race in 2024.
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