The 2024 candidate is accused of playing a key role in the Capitol attack.
Former President Donald Trump attends his civil business fraud trial at the New York Supreme Court, Oct. 24, 2023, in New York.After two and a half days of testimony about how former President Donald Trump allegedly played a key role in the violence on Jan.
Among the witnesses that Trump's attorneys called at the Colorado hearing on Wednesday and Thursday were former Trump administration official Kash Patel, former Trump campaign spokeswoman Katrina Pierson and another organizer of the event near the White House on the morning of Jan. 6, 2021, when then-President Trump addressed supporters shortly before the attack on the U.S. Capitol unfolded.
During cross-examination, there were sometimes contentious back-and-forth exchanges between CREW lawyers and Patel over the dates of his National Guard-related meetings with Christopher Miller, who was the acting defense secretary in the final days of the Trump administration. Miller said in 2021 that he was aware of the breach at the Capitol by the time Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser called on then-Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy at 1:34 p.m.
She said she had concerns about fringe right-wing figures, such as Alex Jones, potentially speaking at the Ellipse rally. Ultimately, they weren't involved. Kremer said that as people were listening to Trump speak at the rally, she "absolutely did not" get the feeling that he was telling people to storm the Capitol -- seeking to bolster a main argument of Trump's attorneys against the 14th Amendment theory.
Tom Bjorklund, the Colorado Republican Party's treasurer, was the last witness on Thursday morning -- and is expected to resume testifying after a break -- and he spoke about how he traveled to Washington on Jan. 6, both for the Ellipse event and then to go to the Capitol that day.Trump supporters hold signs outside the Minnesota Judicial Center, Nov. 2, 2023, in St. Paul, Minn.
"There could "potentially 50 different states who, depending on the nature of the statutes in those states, deciding this question differently," she said.
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