The witness list for Tuesday’s hearing includes three people from Georgia: Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, his deputy Gabe Sterling and former poll worker Wandrea ArShaye “Shaye” Moss.
“During this hearing, what we will demonstrate is that President Trump and his allies waged a pressure campaign based on lies and these lies led to threats that put state and local officials and their families at risk, these lies perpetuated the belief of the public that the election was stolen, tainted by widespread fraud, and these lies also contributed to the violence on January 6,” a select committee aide said.
“We will show that the president was warned that these actions, including false claims of voter fraud, pressuring state and local officials, carried a risk of violence,” the aide added, but Trump “did it anyway.”
Committee aides said the panel will showcase the role Trump’s former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, played in the Trump-led pressure campaign in these key states, “particularly Georgia.” And attendees shared that in addition to live witnesses, the committee will feature testimony from officials in Michigan and Pennsylvania about the Trump-led pressure campaign there.
Bowers, Raffensperger and Sterling will be part of a panel detailing the Trump campaign’s effort to force states to nullify their certified election results.
Moss is scheduled to appear separately in a second panel, according to the committee’s hearing notice. Trump and others accused her of running a fake ballot scheme in Fulton County, Georgia. Moss plans to tell the committee that false stories amplified by Trump and Rudy Giuliani accusing her of engaging in voter fraud led to her receiving death threats, according to a written version of her intended testimony provided by her attorney on Monday.
In her written comments, Moss describes people telling her and her mother, a temporary poll worker, that they should be “hanged … for committing treason.”
She says that her son also received threats and that people went to his grandmother’s house and tried to make a “citizen’s arrest”.
Bowers, who supported Trump’s 2020 re-election bid, refused to give in to intimidation and efforts to get him to back efforts in the legislature to uncertify Biden’s victory in Arizona.
Raffensperger’s profile grew after the 2020 election when he resisted Trump’s efforts to pressure him to “find” the votes needed for the then-president to win Georgia in an infamous January 2021 phone call.
The Georgia Republican has already spoken privately with the committee about his experience in addition to testifying before a special grand jury in a criminal investigation into Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election in the Peach state.
This story has been updated with more developments on Monday.
CNN’s Manu Raju, Katelyn Polantz and Shawna Mizelle contributed to this report.
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