Georgia election worker Shaye Moss and her mother Ruby Freeman told the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack how Trump’s false claims fueled threats.
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Watch live: Jan. 6 panel to hear from officials Trump pressured to overturn election results
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is to testify about Trump’s phone call asking him to “find 11,780” votes that could flip the state to prevent Biden’s election victory.
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Facebook removes video of armed Republican Senate candidate ‘RINO hunting’
Eric Greitens is shown armed with a shotgun breaking through the front door of a home and saying, ‘Join the MAGA crew. Get a RINO hunting permit.’ RINO is a Trump term used to deride moderate Republicans.
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Trump criticizes McCarthy for ‘bad decision’ to walk away from Jan. 6 panel
Trump appeared to concede that it was a huge blunder to cede total control of the committee to his political enemies, effectively giving him no way to influence the proceedings.
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Trump advisers tell Jan. 6 panel the plan for Pence to reject electors was ‘nuts’
The pressure Trump put on his vice president, including at a Jan. 6 rally, led directly to the insurrection at the Capitol, the panel said.
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Jan. 6 panel probes Trump’s ‘last-ditch’ effort to pressure Pence to reject 2020 election results
The panel is reconvening for a third hearing, plunging into Donald Trump’s last-ditch effort to salvage the 2020 election by pressuring Vice President Mike Pence to reject the electoral count.
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Jan. 6 hearings: What we’ve learned, and what’s next
After the hearings, the House committee says its investigation will continue. And panel members will ultimately have to make a decision about whether they have found criminal activity.
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Repeatedly told he lost, Trump refused to let go, Capitol panel says
When the committee meets again Monday, it will delve into its findings that Trump and his advisers knew early on that he had lost the election but engaged in a ‘massive effort’ to spread false information to convince the public otherwise.
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Capitol riot panel blames Trump for Jan. 6 ‘attempted coup’
The House panel held its first public hearing on Thursday, featuring a never-before-seen 12-minute video of extremist groups leading the deadly siege and startling testimony from Trump’s most inner circle.
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Jan. 6 committee goes prime time with probe of Capitol insurrection
The Jan. 6 panel’s yearlong investigation will begin to show how America’s tradition of a peaceful transfer of presidential power came close to slipping away.