The public hearings by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection will also focus on Trump's efforts to pressure the Justice Department and other levers of government to keep himself in power, lawmakers say.
after projecting on election night that Biden would win Arizona; Benjamin Ginsberg, a Republican election lawyer; former U.S. attorney B.J. “BJay” Pak; and Al Schmidt, a former city commissioner of Philadelphia.
“If there weren’t some people in the right places at the right time who did the right thing, this could have turned out very differently — and that includes at the Department of Justice, the former vice president,” Luria said, referring to then-Vice President Mike Pence’s refusal to overturn the election results. “This pressure campaign was widespread.”
The select committee will hold three public hearings this week as its members continue to lay out the findings of their year-long investigation.on Thursday. The committee’s third public hearing, on Wednesday, will focus on Trump and his allies’ pressure campaign at the Justice Department to overturn the results of the presidential election.
Other Jan. 6 committee members said Sunday that the next hearings would continue to show evidence that Trump was responsible for the Capitol attack. On ABC News’s “This Week,” Rep. Adam B. Schiff said that there was credible evidence that Trump committed multiple federal crimes and that it would be up to the Justice Department to make a decision about whether it could prove that to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt.
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