Georgia S Foreign Minister And Other State Officials Were Due To Testify At The Jan. 6 Hearing.

The list of witnesses for Tuesday’s hearing includes three people from Georgia: Foreign Minister Brad Rafensperger, Deputy Gabe Sterling and former election official Wandrea ArShaye “Shaye” Moss. Rasti Bowers, a Republican who is the speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives, is also scheduled to testify, the commission officially announced Monday. “During this hearing, what we will show is that President Trump and his allies have led a campaign of pressure based on lies, and these lies have led to threats that endangered state and local officials and their families,” he said. the lies perpetuated the public belief that the elections were stolen, tainted by widespread fraud. “These lies also contributed to the violence on January 6,” said a select aide to the commission. “We will show that the president had been warned that these actions, including false allegations of electoral fraud, pressure from state and local officials, were in danger of being violent,” the aide added, but Trump “did it anyway.” Aides to the commission said the panel would show the role played by former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows in Trump’s campaign of pressure on those key states, “especially in Georgia.” And aides shared that in addition to the living witnesses, the commission will present testimonies from officials in Michigan and Pennsylvania about the Trump-led pressure campaign there. Bowers, Raffensperger and Sterling will participate in a panel that will detail Trump’s campaign effort to force states to overturn their certified election results. Moss is expected to appear separately in a second panel, according to the committee hearing. He was accused by Trump and others of carrying out a fake ballot paper in Fulton County, Georgia. The commission will hear first-hand about its experiences and the threats it has received as a result of Trump’s false allegations, aides to the commission said on Monday. Bowers, who backed Trump’s candidacy for re-election in 2020, refused to succumb to intimidation and attempts to get him to support the legislature’s efforts to validate Biden’s victory in Arizona. Raffensperger’s profile grew after the 2020 election, when he resisted Trump’s efforts to pressure him to “find” the votes needed for the then President to win Georgia in a notorious January 2021 phone call. The Georgia Republican has already spoken privately with the committee about his experience, in addition to testifying before a jury in a criminal investigation into Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Rodakino State. CNN’s Manu Raju contributed to this report.