January 6th Select Committee Hearings: Attack On The United States Capitol – Day 7 (July 12, 2022)
Dear Friends & Neighbors,
(Please click on red links & note magenta)
For updated global info & data on COVID-19, please click HERE. For updated global data & graphs on COVID-19, please click HERE. For COVID-19 cases and death counts in USA by state, please click HERE. For COVID-19 cases in Florida via Florida COVID Action, please click HERE. For COVID-19 cases in Florida, via Florida state government, please click HERE.
Rep. Stephanie Murphy, D-Fla., spoke on July 12, 2022, as the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack presented its findings to the public. The focus of the hearing was on extremist far-right groups like the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers and the role they played in the Capitol insurrection. She laid out a series of facts that pointed to the people who told former President Donald Trump he had lost the election fair and square. Taped testimony of former press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, Trump’s daughter and advisor Ivanka Trump, and Pat Cipollone, former White House counsel, backed up these claims. “Did I believe he should concede the election, at a point in time? Yes I did,” Cipollone said. “I believe [Republican] Leader [Mitch] McConnell went onto the floor of the Senate, I believe, in mid-December, and basically said the process is done. That would be in line with my thinking on these things.” Murphy also played clips of former Attorney General Bill Barr, as well as former aide Cassidy Hutchinson, both of whom said they had told Trump the election was called and that it was time to move on. In the year since its creation, the committee has conducted more than 1,000 interviews, seeking critical information and documents from people witness to, or involved in, the violence that day, in the video published on July 12, 2022, “WATCH: In taped testimony, former officials say they told Trump he lost the election fairly“, below:
Rep. Liz Cheney, Jan. 6 committee vice chair, said in her opening statement that they have “seen a change in how witnesses and lawyers in the Trump orbit approached this committee.” in the video published as “Cheney: Trump ‘is not an impressionable child’ and is responsible for his actions“, below:
Stephen Ayers, who took part in the Capitol riot, speaks to the January 6 committee about what made him come to the rally with former President Trump and march to the Capitol. He also recalled what finally convinced him the 2020 election had not been stolen as the former president had been suggesting, in the video published on July 12, 2022, “Stephen Ayres On Capitol Riot And What Convinced Him Election Wasn’t Stolen“, below:
Jason Van Tatenhove, former spokesperson for the far-right military group the Oath Keepers, testified on July 12 as the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack presented its findings to the public. The focus of the hearing was on extremist far-right groups like the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers and the role they played in the Capitol insurrection. He spoke about his view that the group hoped to become a paramilitary force. Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., asked Van Tatenhove about whether the group had discussed committing violence against elected political leaders. Van Tatenhove said the Oath Keepers leader he spoke with wanted to make up a deck of cards of “key players that they wanted to take out,” similar to military cards, which Van Tatenhove did not do. “I do fear for this next election cycle because who knows what that might bring? If a president that’s willing to try to instill and encourage to whip up a civil war amongst his followers, using lies and deceit and snake oil, regardless of the human impact, what else is he going to do if he gets elected again? All bets are off at that point,” Van Tatenhove said. “And that’s a scary notion.” In the year since its creation, the committee has conducted more than 1,000 interviews, seeking critical information and documents from people witness to, or involved in, the violence that day, in the video published on July 12, 2022, “WATCH: Former Oath Keeper spokesperson fears for next election cycle if Trump runs for office“, below:
Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., spoke on July 12 as the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack presented its findings to the public. The focus of the hearing was on extremist far-right groups like the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers and the role they played in the Capitol insurrection. He laid out the connections that former President Donald Trump associates like close adviser Roger Stone and former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn had with those far-right groups. Raskin also showed how the groups started working together to coordinate ahead of Jan. 6, 2021. “Trump’s Dec. 19 tweet motivated these two extremist groups, which have historically not worked together to coordinate their activities,” Raskin said. “Hours after President Trump’s tweet, Kelly Meggs, the head of the Florida Oath Keepers declared an alliance among the Oath Keepers, the Proud Boys and the Florida Three Percenters, another militia group,” he said. Raskin said phone records show that later the same day, Meggs called Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio, who was later charged with seditious conspiracy after his role in Jan. 6. “The very next day, the Proud Boys got to work. The Proud Boys launched an encrypted chat called the Ministry of Self Defense. The committee obtained hundreds of these messages, which show strategic and tactical planning about January the 6th, including maps of Washington, D.C., that pinpoint the location of police in the weeks leading up to the attack.” Raskin said leaders of the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers worked with Trump allies, like Flynn. In the year since its creation, the committee has conducted more than 1,000 interviews, seeking critical information and documents from people witness to, or involved in, the violence that day, in the video published on July 12, 2022, “WATCH: Far-right extremist groups coordinated with Trump associates ahead of Jan. 6, committee shows“, below:
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack will hold its seventh public hearing July 12. It is not yet clear what the focus of the hearing will be about. To preview the hearing, the PBS NewsHour’s Nicole Ellis will speak with NewsHour’s Laura Barrón-López at 12:45 p.m. ET. The hearing is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. ET. The hearing comes after the committee on June 28 focused their hearing on the testimony of Cassidy Hutchinson, a senior aide to former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows, who, in the course of her work for the White House, had firsthand insight into communications between Meadows and former President Donald Trump, including those leading up to the insurrection and in the days afterward, in the video published on July 12, 2022, “WATCH LIVE: Jan. 6 Committee hearings – Day 7“, below:
Much of the evidence presented Tuesday during the Jan. 6 hearing was about what former President Trump did and didn’t do surrounding the violent Capitol insurrection. Mary McCord, director of the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection, and Jamil Jaffer, a law professor at George Mason University and former associate counsel to President George W. Bush, join Judy Woodruff to discuss, in the video published on July 12, 2022, “Jan. 6 committee focuses on connections between the violent mob and Trump“, below:
Gathered, written, and posted by Windermere Sun-Susan Sun Nunamaker More about the community at www.WindermereSun.com
We Need Fair Value of Solar
~Let’s Help One Another~
Please also get into the habit of checking at these sites below for more on solar energy topics:
www.kiva.org/team/sunisthefuture
