The commission tried to bring to light the seriousness of the threat to democracy in the days and weeks after the election on Tuesday, given the enormous and persistent pressure from President and Rudy Giuliani on officials and ordinary Americans to promote the “big lie”. . that Trump had won the election. The ability of these Americans to withstand this pressure came at a great personal cost. “Our democracy has been maintained because courageous people like you heard today put their oath in the constitution above their faith in one man,” said committee member Adam Siff. “The system lasted but hardly and the question remains, will it last again?” The hearing presented the plan worked out by Trump and his allies in Arizona to replace Biden’s bona fide voters with fake ones. The fake voters rallied in Arizona, which Arizona House Speaker Rasti Bowers called a “tragic parody.” Bowers denied any involvement in the fake electoral campaign promoted by Giuliani. The texts revealed by Sif revealed that Republican Sen. Ron Johnson from Wisconsin could also have played a role in the fake voter plan. The texts, between Johnson’s chief of staff and a Pence aide, showed Johnson’s aide informing Pence’s aide that the senator was ready to hand Pence fake ballots. “Do not give it to him,” replied Pence’s assistant. Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, a former Georgia election official, testifies as a select committee of the House of Representatives investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol continues to reveal the findings of a year-long investigation at the Washington Capitol on Tuesday. , 2022. Jacquelyn Martin / AP Bowers said that “one doctrine of my faith is that the Constitution is divinely inspired” and that what he was asked to do was “foreign to my very existence.” The Arizona House Speaker also described what his personal life was like after the election. In an emotional testimony, Bowers said that “until very recently,” his family had begun to fear on Saturdays when Trump supporters circulated in his neighborhood and falsely claimed he was a “child killer” and a corrupt politician. He narrated an argument between a neighbor and a man with a pistol, while he also spoke about the reactions of his family. “At the same time, in some of them, we had a daughter who was seriously ill who was upset by what was happening outside and my wife, who is a brave person, a very strong, quiet, very strong woman,” he said. growing emotional. “So it was annoying.” Bowers did not say that in early 2021, his daughter died after her illness. Fulton County Sheriff Wandrea Arshaye (“Shaye”) Moss, who was falsely accused along with her mother of plotting fake ballots and calling them professional voting fraudsters, allegations that led to death threats and intimidation. forced him to hide, commission aides said. The panel showed a video of Moss’s mother, Ruby Freeman, testifying that she “lost my name” after all the threats. Moss said her life had been turned upside down after the election. “I did not go anywhere at all – I gained about 60 kilos, I do nothing anymore, I guess what I do,” said Moss. “It affected my life a lot, in every way. All because of lies about me doing my job, the same thing I did forever.” Moss said she and none of her colleagues at Fulton County are still working there. The committee’s vice president, MP Liz Cheney, said Trump “did not care about these threats of violence” and said “we can not let America become a nation of conspiracy theorists and thugs.” Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson said in his inaugural statement that “pressure on civil servants to betray their oaths was a fundamental part” of Trump’s “game book.” Thompson said Trump’s pressure on these election officials was based on a “big lie.” “The lie has not disappeared. It corrupts our democratic institutions,” Thompson added, noting in particular that a New Mexico county official had refused to confirm recent preliminary results. The commission also heard testimony from two Republicans in Georgia, Secretary of State Brad Rafensperger and Gabriel Sterling, chief of staff for the Secretary of State’s office. Raffensperger and Sterling explained how they were pressured by Trump to find more votes in their states. “I think sometimes the moments require you to stand up and just shoot – you’re doing your job,” Raffensperger said. “And that’s all we did. We just followed the law and we followed the constitution. At the end of the day, President Trump was late.” The committee will hold its next public hearing on Thursday at 3 p.m.
