WASHINGTON, June 12 (Reuters) – Former President Donald Trump’s campaign manager and former Atlanta and Philadelphia officials will testify on Monday before the U.S. Congressional Committee investigating the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack , the committee said Sunday.
The select committee of the House of Representatives will hold its second public hearing this Monday from 10 a.m. EDT (1400 GMT), following a hugely successful session on Thursday night with witnesses showing that close allies of Trump, even his daughter Ivanka, dismissed his false claims. vote fraud. Read more
Monday’s hearing, the second of a scheduled six, will focus on the former Republican president’s claim that his defeat by Democrat Joe Biden in the November 2020 election was due to unfounded allegations of election fraud. , the so-called “big lie”. Read more
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The first panel of witnesses will include William Stepien, who served as campaign director for the Trump campaign in 2020, after serving as director of Trump’s political affairs at the White House from 2017 to 2018.
An aide to the committee, speaking on condition of anonymity to see the hearing beforehand, declined to comment on whether Stepien was expected to be a witness to the confrontation.
Stepien’s company is now working with Harriet Hageman, a Trump-backed candidate running against Rep. Liz Cheney, vice president of the Jan. 6 Select Committee, in the Republican primary for Cheney’s seat in Wyoming.
Chris Stirewalt, a former Fox News political editor, will also testify on the first panel. Stirewalt was criticized by Trump and his supporters after the Fox News political board was the first to call Arizona for Biden in November 2020.
Fox has denied that his departure had anything to do with the call.
The second panel will include Republican Conservative election lawyer Ben Ginsberg; Byung J. Pak, who resigned as a U.S. attorney in Atlanta when the Trump camp sought to overturn Georgia’s election results, and Al Schmidt, who was the only Republican on the Philadelphia Electoral Board. became the target of Trump’s attacks after defending the integrity of the 2020 presidential vote.
Georgia and Pennsylvania were among the states that supported Trump in the 2016 election, but fell into the Biden column in 2020. They have been a focus of unfounded election fraud allegations.
The committee’s assistant said the hearing will also feature testimony from more than 1,000 depositions and interviews conducted during the nearly one-year investigation by the nine-member Democratic-led select committee into the events before and during the attack on the Capitol.
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Report by Patricia Zengerle; Editing by Chris Reese, Daniel Wallis and Kenneth Maxwell
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