CBS News will broadcast live coverage of the audition from 1 p.m. ET. Two Georgian GOP election officials, Foreign Minister Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, and Gabriel Sterling, chief operating officer of the Foreign Office, are expected to appear before the committee. , also Republican. Also appearing will be Wandrea ArShaye “Shaye” Moss, a former Fulton County, Georgia election official. Trump lost both Georgia and Arizona to President Biden, but he and his campaign officials pushed top officials in those states to overturn the election results, in part through an alternative vote in favor of Trump. . Selected aides to the commission said they would show that Trump “was warned that these actions, including false allegations of electoral fraud and pressure from local officials, were threatening to undermine confidence in our democratic institutions.” In Georgia, Trump urged Rafensberger in a phone call on January 2, 2021, to “find” enough votes to nominate him as the winner, although Rafensberger repeatedly rejected the president’s efforts and denied the allegations in a statement. Both Raffensperger and Sterling defended the integrity of Georgia’s elections and were widely criticized for their actions, receiving death threats and, in Raffensperger’s case, reproach from the state Republican Party. Despite the backlash, Raffensperger defeated Trump-backed lawmaker Jodi Hayes and two other candidates who challenged him in last month’s Republican primary for secretary of state. The two election officials also testified earlier this month before a special judicial committee in Fulton County investigating Trump’s efforts to overturn the election results. Moss, Fulton County Sheriff’s Office, sued One America News Network and Rudy Giuliani in December for defamation, claiming the network had leaked stories that falsely accused her and her colleague’s mother of electoral fraud. to change the outcome of the 2020 election, according to the lawsuit. The two reached a settlement agreement with One America News in April, although Giuliani remains a defendant. Trump himself also accused Moss and her mother of plotting fake ballots and called them professional voting fraudsters, allegations that led to death threats and intimidation and forced them to hide, commission aides said. In Arizona, Bowers, who backed Trump in 2020, received a call from Trump and Giuliani, the former president’s lawyer, in late November 2020 urging him to replace the state legislature with a by-election list. Biden’s victory in the state, according to the Republic of Arizona. Bowers also received an email from Ginny Thomas, a conservative activist and wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, in early November 2020 urging him to choose a “clean slate of voters,” according to the Washington Post. The committee asked to speak with Thomas, and told The Daily Caller he was looking forward to talking to House investigators. Trump’s White House officials, including former Chief of Staff Mark Mendous, are expected to testify at Tuesday’s hearing. Tuesday’s hearing will begin the third week of the Jan. 6 selection committee, which describes to Americans how Trump ran a multifaceted campaign to overturn the outcome of the 2020 presidential election and stop a peaceful transfer of power. culminating in the violent attack on the Capitol building. Earlier hearings focused on the Jan. 6 violence in the Capitol as law enforcement officials struggled to control a mob of Trump supporters descending on the band to stop the counting of ballots by Congress. Trump’s decision to declare victory on election night, even though his closest aides knew there was no evidence to support his claims that his election was stolen. and the former president’s efforts to forcefully arm Vice President Mike Pence to reject the state ballot and declare him the unilateral winner of the election. At the third hearing last week, aides to the former vice president said Trump’s repeated election lies pushed the country to the brink of a constitutional crisis and put Pence in danger when a mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol. “About 40 feet. That was all, 40 feet between the vice president and the mob,” said Pete Aguilar, a Democrat from California, last week. “Do not be mistaken in the fact that the vice president’s life was in danger.” California lawmaker Adam Siff is expected to play a leading role in the fourth hearing. He told CNN on Sunday that the panel would show Trump’s campaign against state officials and local elections that endangered their lives and provide evidence of the former president’s role in a plan to persuade states to name alternative voter lists in favor of Trump. . “The system worked because many state and local election officials kept their oaths in the Constitution,” Sif told CNN. Since its inception nearly a year ago, the selection committee has conducted more than 1,000 interviews – including with former White House and Trump campaign officials as well as members of the former president’s family – and has collected more than 140,000 documents. . Trump, meanwhile, has continued to attack the commission, falsely claiming to have won the 2020 election. edited videos with testimonies and accused its members of being “liars and swindlers”.
