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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!”
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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.
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The hearing is scheduled for Tuesday, June 21, 2022, at 11:00 a.m. MDT / 1:00 p.m. EDT.
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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.
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The panel is delving deeper into what it calls the “big lie,” the defeated Republican president’s false claims of voter fraud.
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Committee chair Rep. Bennie Thompson, the Democrat from Mississippi, said the attack put America’s “constitutional democracy at risk.”