Washington D.C.

A major focus of the hearing was Trump’s Dec. 19 tweet about a “big protest” at the coming joint session of Congress: “Be there, will be wild!”

The House Jan. 6 committee used its hearing Thursday to show how Donald Trump tried to install a loyalist atop the Justice Department who would pursue his false claims of voter fraud and stop the certification of the 2020 election that Democrat Joe Biden won.

The hearing is scheduled for Tuesday, June 21, 2022, at 11:00 a.m. MDT / 1:00 p.m. EDT.

Lawmakers on the nine-member panel, and the witnesses who testified at the hearing, all described Pence’s decision as having averted a constitutional crisis.

The panel is delving deeper into what it calls the “big lie,” the defeated Republican president’s false claims of voter fraud.

Committee chair Rep. Bennie Thompson, the Democrat from Mississippi, said the attack put America’s “constitutional democracy at risk.”