The January 6 committee is holding its fourth hearing today. This is what we know

Members of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Capitol Hill will focus on former President Donald Trump’s attempts to pressure state officials to nullify the 2020 presidential election at their fourth hearing Tuesday afternoon.

Testimony at the hearing “will show that President Trump and his allies waged a pressure campaign based on lies” that put state and local election officials at risk, according to committee aides who briefed reporters.

Attendees also said the hearing will show how the Trump campaign organized fake voter lists in states that Trump lost to President Biden to facilitate the disruption of congressional proceedings to certify the Jan. 6 election.

For the past two weeks, the committee has held hearings aimed at proving that Trump was responsible for the deadly attack on the US Capitol.

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and Gabriel Sterling, director of operations for the Georgia Secretary of State’s office, are among those scheduled to testify Tuesday.

Raffensperger and Sterling, both Republicans, strongly defended the state’s handling of the 2020 election under public and private pressure from Trump and his allies to overturn Biden’s victory in Georgia. Trump was recorded on a phone call with Raffensperger telling him to “find” enough votes to change the state, and Trump endorsed Georgia Republican Rep. Jody Hice in an unsuccessful primary run against Raffensperger last month.

As violent threats against poll workers poured in in the days and weeks after the 2020 vote, Sterling spoke at a news conference to warn, “Someone is going to get hurt, someone is going to get shot, someone is going to die.”

Another witness will be Shaye Moss, a Georgia poll worker who, along with her mother, was the target of a conspiracy theory spread by Trump and his attorney Rudy Giuliani. Her family was inundated with violent and racist threats.

Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers, also a Republican, is also expected to appear in person to tell how he was directly pressured by Trump and Giuliani.

Tuesday’s hearing is expected to be led by Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and other witnesses may also appear on video. The committee said former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows will also be under scrutiny on Tuesday.

During a speech at the Faith and Freedom Coalition policy conference on Friday, Trump called the committee’s investigation “bogus and disingenuous” and claimed that video interviews of former campaign officials and associates had been “rigged.”

The last three hearings have focused on how Trump knew the voter fraud conspiracies were false but continued to claim the election was stolen anyway, as well as his pressure on then-Vice President Mike Pence to refuse to certify electoral votes. January 6th.

So far, the in-person and video testimonies have featured mostly Republicans, including Trump aides and allies such as former Attorney General Bill Barr, former impeachment prosecutor Eric Herschmann and conservative attorney and former federal judge Michael Luttig, who recount the moments before, during and after the election that culminated in the violent attack on the Capitol.

In September, the panel is expected to release a lengthy report on its findings.

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