Former Trump campaign manager drops out of January 6 ‘Big Lie’ hearing

WASHINGTON, June 13 — A key witness withdrew from a hearing today of the US congressional committee investigating the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol but the panel went ahead with its plans to highlight former President Donald Trump’s baseless claims that the 2020 election was stolen.

The panel is holding the hearings to discuss initial findings of its year-long investigation into the events of January 6, when thousands of Trump supporters attacked the Capitol as Vice President Mike Pence and lawmakers met to certify Trump’s defeat in the November 2020 election by Democrat Joe Biden.

Trump has denied wrongdoing and he and his supporters dismiss the Democratic-led Select Committee as a political witchhunt. Democrats call it a necessary investigation into a terrible and deadly event and say House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi wanted a bipartisan independent commission but Republicans refused.

A committee aide told reporters during a conference call previewing the hearing that Representative Zoe Lofgren would play a leading role during today’s hearing.

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