Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers, a Republican, is expected to speak out about harassment and intimidation by Trump allies for the first time, commission staff said. And a trio of election workers from Georgia, where Trump is being prosecuted for his efforts to change Georgia’s results, are also set to testify. “We will look closely at how the president and his allies came up with these plans to pressure Republican-controlled legislatures and other state officials to reverse the certification of his electoral defeat or deny certification in some controversial states,” he said. staff on monday. The House committee investigating the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol, including (1 to r) Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.), President Bennie Thompson (D-Miss), Liz Cheney (R-Wy) ) and Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill), held his third hearing on June 16, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Michael Robinson Chavez / The Washington Post via Getty Images) Tuesday’s hearing will mark the fourth in a series of hearings on the violent attack on the US Capitol sparked by Trump’s widespread campaign to deny defeat in the 2020 election and try to stay in power. Thursday’s hearing is expected to focus on Trump’s efforts to pressure the Justice Department to assist him in his efforts to stay in power illegally, commission staff said Monday. Trump, for his part, called for “equal time,” complaining that he has none of his supporters on the committee. Asked if the commission was trying to obtain a testimony from Trump, a commission official said he would “welcome” the testimony of anyone involved. A pair of Trump’s representatives did not respond to requests for comment. Over the weekend, committee member Adam Schiff, D-Calif., Said the committee may be open to inviting former Vice President Mike Pence to testify before the committee. A commission official declined to say on Monday whether Pence would be pressured to testify. A large number of commentators asked Pence to testify after the last hearing, which focused on Trump’s intense pressure on Pence and the subsequent Jan. 6 uprising that threatened Pence’s life. The story goes on Former United States President Donald Trump addresses the Faith & Freedom Coalition during the annual Road To Majority Policy Conference at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center on June 17, 2022 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Seth Herald / Getty Images) The committee also expressed renewed interest in Ginny Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, following the Washington Post report that she tried to pressure 29 Arizona lawmakers to approve fake voters in an attempt to keep in charge. The commission later revealed that Ginny Thomas was in contact with John Eastman, the lawyer at the center of Trump’s latest attempt to overthrow the election, the Post reported. Committee leaders Bennie Thompson, D-Miss, and Liz Cheney, R-Wyo, sent a request to Ginni Thomas last week, asking her to testify before the committee sometime between July 6 and July 11 . “I look forward to talking to them,” Thomas told the Daily Caller last week. Sif, who has long been a central figure in the Trump investigation, is set to lead Tuesday’s hearing. In addition to Bowers, Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Rafensperger, who recently defeated a Trump-backed challenger, and Gabriel Sterling, one of his top aides, are set to testify about their relentless pressure. “Find” the votes he needed. win Georgia. Georgia’s Foreign Minister Brad Rafensperger is holding a press conference on the state of the ballot count on November 6, 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Jessica McGowan / Getty Images) In a call that is now at the heart of the investigation by Fulton County Attorney Fani Willis, Trump asked Raffensperger to get 11,780 votes in his favor. Georgia State Election Commissioner Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, who has been targeted by Trump supporters with death threats and repeated harassment, is also scheduled to testify Tuesday. The fourth hearing is also expected to focus on Trump and his allies trying to send fake voters to Washington to stir up chaos and give Pence a reason not to certify Biden’s victory. Retired federal judge J. Michael Luttig testified at the third hearing last week that the use of fake voters was a key tactic in trying to overturn the election result and would likely be used again if Trump or his “anointed successor” was a candidate. 2024 and lose.
