Capitol Riot Hearing On Monday To Prove Trump Knew He Lost 2020 Election

KEY POINTS

The committee will focus on Trump's false election claims and how it led a mob to attack the Capitol
A number of people previously affiliated with Trump will testify in the second hearing
The House Select Committee is expected to hold three public hearings over the week

The House Select Committee will Monday discuss evidence that proves former President Donald Trump knew he already lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden, contrary to his claims, according to panel leaders.

In a statement made during the first hearing, Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., said the panel will reveal evidence proving that Trump continued to promote false claims about the election event after he and his team knew they lost the election.

“In our second hearing, you will see that Donald Trump and his advisers knew that he had in fact lost the election,” Cheney, committee vice chairwoman, said at the first hearing last Thursday. “But despite this, President Trump engaged in a massive effort to spread false and fraudulent information to convince huge portions of the U.S. population that fraud had stolen the election from him.”

In addition to proving that Trump was aware of his loss, the second hearing would also focus on proving how Trump’s conspiracy theories about the 2020 election led a mob of pro-Trump supporters to storm the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in a bid to stop lawmakers from certifying Biden’s electoral college win.

“We’ll show that some of those individuals responsible for the violence on the 6th echoed back to those very same lies that the president peddled in the run-up to the insurrection,” a committee aide said during a background briefing Sunday.

The second hearing is likely to include previously unseen clips from more than 1,000 interviews the panel conducted behind closed doors. Additionally, a number of people previously associated with Trump are expected to testify, including former campaign manager William Stepien, former Fox News political director Chris Stirewalt, election lawyer Benjamin Ginsberg, former Philadelphia City Commissioner Al Schmidt and former U.S. attorney for the northern district of Georgia Byung “BJay” Pak.

The House Select Committee is scheduled to hold three public hearings over the week. The third hearing will be held Wednesday and is expected to focus on how Trump and his closest allies attempted to pressure the Justice Department to overturn the results of the election.