January 6 Committee Vice Chair Liz Cheney said that Donald Trump was the “central cause” of what happened on Jan. 6, and that he was “was personally and substantially involved in all of it.”
The committee’s ninth and — the committee says — final hearing has been expected to cover not only Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election ahead of Jan. 6, but his continuing efforts to subvert democracy since leaving the White House.
The committee has also been expected to detail the potential role of longtime Trump ally Roger Stone, as well as what the Secret Service did and did not do on Jan. 6. NBC Newsearlier this week that the committee obtained over one million electronic communications from the agency from prior to and on the day of the riot.
The committee in previous hearings revealed plenty about the former president’s push to stay in power in the weeks leading up to the riot, noting that he was personally involved in the reach-out to state officials in an attempt to get them to work with state legislatures to reverse President Biden’s win.
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