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House Committee Schedules Possibly Explosive Prime Time Hearing One Week from Today

The Committee has not held a hearing, including a prime-time hearing, since summer. It is very safe to say that the Committee has gathered a lot of evidence in the interim period. Just within the last week, they’ve interviewed Ginni Thomas, who gleefully told the Committee that she knows more than the approximately 60 federal judges who reviewed the evidence in lawsuits and found nothing to indicate that Trump was meaningfully cheated or that the election was rigged, and they’ve deposed Kari Lake, who took the 5th to every substantive evidence, obtained more evidence from Mark Meadows texts and phone records, and, of course, “thousands” of Secret Service emails/texts that had been hidden, that should fit nicely into today’s testimony in Stewart Rhodes’s trial in which another Oath Keeper said that he believed Rhodes had a contact in the Secret Service. It will be an eventful hearing.

One can bet that the Committee wants to go out with a bang (into the election, though they’ll still function at least through December). From The AP:

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has scheduled its next hearing for Oct. 13, pushing the investigation back into the limelight less than three weeks before the midterm election that will determine control of Congress.

It will be the panel’s first public session since the summer when lawmakers worked through a series of tightly scripted hearings that attracted millions of viewers and touched on nearly every aspect of the Capitol insurrection.

The committee had planned to hold the hearing in late September but postponed it as Hurricane Ian made landfall in Florida.

Panel members still want to get to the bottom of missing Secret Service texts from Jan. 5-6, 2021, which could shed further light on Trump’s actions during the insurrection, particularly after earlier testimony about his confrontation with security as he tried to join supporters at the Capitol. Thompson said earlier this month that the committee has recently obtained “thousands” of documents from the Secret Service.

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