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Findings of the J6 Committee
The J6 Committee has interviewed hundreds of people, poured over thousands of documents, and is building a case against Donald J. Trump and his acolytes
The January 6 Committee plans to issue its report in September of 2022 and we will be following their findings here
Televised Hearings
The Select Committee began to televise hearings in June to involve the public and present its findings. We will be posting those videos here as we put together the additional supporting contents of this section. We are linking the C-SPAN version of the videos because of the versatility they provide. You can watch the entire video or see portions at your leisure. We also provide written transcripts of each meeting at the bottom of the write up.
The Select Committee to Investigate January 6 has a very informative website where you can see all of the information to date and even provide tips to the investigators.
01 June 9, 2022
The first televised hearing in this series was held on Thursday, June 9, and showed never-before-seen video and related audio of the attack. Caroline Edwards, an injured Capitol Police officer, and Nick Quested, a videographer embedded with The Proud Boys, also testified. You also see video testimony of Ivanka Trump and former Attorney General Bill Barr.
Capitol police officer Caroline Edwards describes the scene, and the injuries to her and her fellow officers, as they fought off the insurrectionists outside the Capitol that day.

02 June 13, 2022
The second televised hearing focused on those in Trump's inner circle who tried to convince him that the election was lost as they watched the results come in from The White House. For the first time, we have a different committee member leading the questioning in Rep. Zoe Lofgren (CA). Testifying is Chris Stirewalt, former Fox political news director on calling Ariona for Biden, as well as Bill Stepien, former Trump Campaign Manager and adviser Jason Miller. We see much more of Bill Barr's testimony here.
Former attorney general Bill Barr told Trump that the "claims of fraud were bullshit." He also stated they "wasted a whole month on Dominion voting machines and they were idiotic claims."
03 June 16, 2022
The third televised hearing focused on Trump's relentless pressuring of Mike Pence to overturn the 2020 election. This was done both publicly via Trump's pre-insurrection speech and privately over a period time prior to the event itself. After hearing the crowd chanting "Hang Mike Pence" and seeing the gallows constructed outside, it is clear that Pence was in danger, as were other legislators who were trying to formally certify the election. It should also be noted that there was absolutely no legal standing to overturn this election. The highlight was testimony from retired Judge J. Michael Luttig, who stated at the end of the day's proceedings that "Donald Trump and his allies and supporters are a clear and present danger" to American democracy, not only because of what they did on January 6, 2021, but because they are talking about a repeat performance in 2024. Judge Luttig explains here why this historical event and the findings of the committee, should not be ignored.
04 June 21, 2022
The fourth televised hearing featured Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and Georgia voting systems implementation manager Gabriel Sterling who testified about the pressure put on them by Trump, Rudy Giuliani and others in Trump's inner circle. Rusty Bowers, the Republican Arizona state House speaker, gave powerful testimony, stating flat out that all of Trump's assertions about the Arizona election was false. Prior to his appearance before the committee, Trump had gone on the attack and stated that Bowers had told him that he won Arizona. Bowers addressed that immediately and refuted Trump's statement. Let's add that to Trump's list of lies.
Perhaps the most horrifying testimony of the day came from two women whose lives have been turned upside down by Donald Trump, who targeted mother and daughter election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss. At one point, Rudy Giuliani stated that they were passing around USB sticks of doctored votes like they were "vials of heroin or cocaine," an overt racist stereotype. No civil servant should ever be subjected to such abuse, but Shaye and her mother aren't the only ones who have been. Reuters actually covered this story in December 2021.
05 June 23, 2022
The fifth televised hearing focused on the pressure Trump exerted over his Justice Department to overturn the 2020 election, nearly throwing it into catastrophe. This was not unlike Richard Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre, which resulted in his attorney general and deputy attorney general resigned. When Trump suggested replacing acting AG Jeffrey Rosen with the highly unqualified Jeffrey Clark, there were threats of mass resignations. White House Counsel Pat Cipollone called the move a "murder-suicide pact" that would affect everyone. Clark proposed sending a letter to Georgia's state officials falsely claiming that the DOJ had "identified significant concerns" that would affect Georgia's election results. The letter, which you can read here, was never sent. On June 22, FBI agents raided Clark's home, taking his electronics. He then spent some time on Tucker Carlson's show whining about the treatment he received and called the raid "Stasi-like." Perhaps somebody should tell him that's what happens when you attempt to commit treason.
06 June 28, 2022
The sixth televised hearing featured Cassidy Hutchinson, former senior aide to former White House Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows. She testified that Trump said, “You know, I don’t even care that they have weapons. They aren’t here to hurt me.” Trump knew they were armed, some with AR-15's, but invited them to the Capitol anyway. Hutchinson also revealed that several members of Trump's staff discussed invoking the 25th Amendment on January 6, and that Sean Hannity told Trump that impeachment was a reality if the stolen election talk continued. Trump was also hell-bent on going to the Capitol with the insurrectionists and, when he found out that was not in the cards, he grabbed the wheel of the car he was riding in and physically attacked his Secret Service agent. Hutchinson also revealed that both Mark Meadows and Rudy Giuliani requested pardons for their roles in the January 6 insurrection. Not prosecuting Trump at this stage of the game would be dereliction of duty. At the end of today's hearing, Vice Chair Liz Cheney showed texts to several witnesses who had upcoming depositions that could best be described as intimidation and witness tampering. Those will be revealed in later meetings, sometime after the July 4 break.
07 July 12, 2022
The seventh televised hearing on the J6 insurrection focused on Trump's tweets and statements that rallied the extremist troops. It also presented key evidence on The Proud Boys and other groups who are allied with The Trump administration. Testifying today was Jason Van Tatenhove, former spokesperson for The Proud Boys, who described the group as a "violent militia," and explains why he can no longer align himself with this group. Also testifying was Stephen Ayres, a family man who answered Trump's call in a move that would change the rest of his life.
08 July 21, 2022
The eighth televised hearing on the J6 insurrection focused on the 187 minutes between the end of Trump's incendiary speech and the time some semblance of order was restored at the Capitol. During those 187 minutes, Donald J. Trump did absolutely nothing about the insurrection and violence unfolding at the Capitol except watch it happen on television at the White House. That's called dereliction of duty. He did not make one call to end it in spite of the many people, including some of his closest advisors, telling him he had to take some kind of action to stop it all. He ignored all of it. He finally did make a speech calling for peace, but only after the damage was done. Watch the outtakes of this speech, which are shown at the end of the above video. They are more than just a little revealing, especially when he refused to say "the election's over" in the speech he finally did release. Testifying at the eighth televised hearing were Trump's deputy White House press secretary, Sarah Matthews as well as Matthew Pottinger, a former National Security Council official.
09 TBD-September
Co-Chair Liz Cheney announced that the committee would televise hearings again in September, after they spend the month of August going over new evidence that has come to light.
Ret. Judge J. Michael Luttig Talks About Trump's Continuing Threat to Democracy
"No American ought to turn away from January 6, 2021, until all of America comes to grips with what befell our country that day, and we decide what we want for our democracy from this day, forward."
The most important takeaway from Judge Luddig is that Trump and his supporters remain a "clear and present danger"
You can read Judge Luttig's searing 12-page statement sent to the January 6 Committee prior to his testimony here.
Trump's baseless lies have been so pervasive that we don't even need to wait until 2024 to see the results. As we roll through the midterm primaries, we are already seeing voting crises. If the losers do not like the results, they are refusing to certify them. New Mexico is one such state, where Couy Griffin, a county commissioner and election fraud conspiracy theorist, is refusing to certify primary results.
Before we go into discussion about the content of Judge Luddig's testimony, let's dispel some social media stuff. Many were annoyed at his speaking style, which was slow, thoughtful and deliberate. There were, of course, a number of rumors like he was recovering from a stroke, which I saw in several places. Others, clearly Trump supporters, started to wonder aloud if it were an indication that he was lying. It was nothing of the sort. In fact, the judge said that he's never been sick a day in his life. The full explanation can be found in this article, where Judge Luttig explains it himself.
"What you could not know, and did not know, but I will tell you now, is that I believed I had an obligation to the Select Committee and to the country, first to formulate then to measure and then to meter out
every single word that I spoke carefully, exactingly and deliberately, so that the words I spoke were pristine clear and would be heard, and therefore understood, as such."
What we do know is that Trump was aware that he lost the election to Joe Biden, and even admitted it. Yet he knowingly spread false information about the election being stolen and set out on a path to draw others into a full-fledged plot to overturn a legitimate election.
Trump was also told that
Mike Pence had no authority, constitutional or otherwise, to refuse to certify the election. Pence's job was largely clerical: Certify the election based on the electoral vote count, as has been done throughout our history. That is what he did. To his credit, Pence refused to cave to Trump's incessant pressure to do otherwise.
We also learned that, in spite of what Trump knew to be true, he met with a mid-level Justice Department official named Jeffrey Clark just three days before the insurrection. Clark encouraged Trump to name him attorney general in a last-ditch effort to overturn the election. "History is calling. This is our opportunity. We can get this done," Clark told Trump.
Why can't we simply move on? If you've been following Trump in the present, you know he has not stopped talking about the 2020 election being rigged or stolen. During his two-hour speech at the Faith and Freedom Conference just two days ago (Friday, June 17), he once again incriminated himself in an illegal plot to overturn the election when he spoke about putting pressure on Mike Pence to do so.
As he travels around the nation grifting off the American people and endorsing extremist candidates for the midterms who support The Big Lie, he continues to paint himself as a victim of massive voter fraud. He's also sending out warnings that he and his supporters won't tolerate a repeat of massive voter fraud again come 2024.
In short, Donald Trump and the GOP have not changed their tune in the least. In Nevada, the Trump-backed candidate for Governor lost his primary and is claiming election fraud. Trump's poison lie is now flowing through the system, and it will not end until and unless he and his allies are held accountable.
That is precisely why Judge Luttig says that Donald Trump and his allies and supporters remain a clear and present danger to our democracy. Every failed coup that is not dealt with is a dress rehearsal.
Mike Pence: Hero or No?
Is Mike Pence a hero? While some call him that, we think not. We reserve those titles for people like Caroline Edwards (see above). We give Pence credit for refusing Trump's pressure to overturn the election, and we acknowledge that he was certainly in danger on the day of the insurrection. However, there should be no confusion as to why he did not come forward about Trump immediately after January 6, and why he thinks he should just be able to "move on" now as if it never happened. We believe Mike Pence should provide a full accounting. His desire to just move on is based in political expediency. Mike Pence is planning a presidential run in 2024. He does not want to alienate Trump's base, which he feels he needs to win.
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