Don't hold your breath for surprise appearances from former Vice President Mike Pence, Justice Clarence Thomas' wife Ginni or self-proclaimed 'dirty trickster' Roger Stone when the House Jan. 6 committee takes the stage again on Thursday.
Don't hold your breath for surprise appearances from former Vice President Mike Pence, Justice Clarence Thomas' wife Ginni or self-proclaimed "dirty trickster" Roger Stone when the House Jan. 6 committee takes the stage again on Thursday.The committee's last hearing before the midterms, and perhaps ever, will focus overwhelmingly on one central antagonist — former President Trump — and won't feature live testimony, people familiar with the plans tell Axios.
The committee may show some of the roughly 800,000 pages of Secret Service materials received in response to a subpoena about their communications on and around the attack, sources told Axios. A crucial question has been why some Secret Service text messages from Jan. 5-6 went missing. The committee also is expected to use some evidence from a Danish film crew that followed Stone for a documentary, titled "A Storm Foretold." The crew shared text messages with the committee showing Stone's relationship with extremist groups like the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, as well as how he sought a pardon after Jan. 6.
While the panel may reference some testimony from Thomas, the conservative activist and wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, her closed-doorThe hearing also will serve as a closing moment on the congressional stage for the two Republicans on the panel — Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger — who are taking steps to solidify the legitimacy of their political leadership after being cast out of their party.
After voting to impeach Trump, Kinzinger announced he would not seek re-election. Cheney lost her GOP primary to a pro-Trump challenger.
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