The new date is Jun 9, 2022.
The vice chair of the House committee investigating the January 6 riot said that one of the members asked for a pardon.
In Washington, DC, on January 6, 2021, President Donald Trump will be in office. A group of Trump supporters gathered in the nation's capital to protest the Electoral College victory of Joe Biden. The photo was taken by Samuel Corum.
According to the New York Times, it's not clear whyPerry asked for a pardon, but he had previously pushed Trump to install Jeffrey Clark, an obscure Justice Department official who supported Trump's false voter fraud claims.
According to Cheney, Donald Trump told White House staffers on January 6 that the rioters were doing what they should be doing and that he deserved to be hung.
Cheney said that despite frantic efforts by the White House staff, Trump was hesitant to call off the rioters.
In recorded testimony, Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, said that on the day of the riot, Donald Trump's chief of staff MarkMeadows focused on the riot's political ramifications, while Vice President Mike Pence called for National Guard support.
The 25th amendment to the constitution spells out a process for the cabinet to sideline the incumbent president according to Cheney.
Lawmakers played testimony of former Attorney General Bill Barr calling Trump's claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election "bulls**t."
White House Counsel Pat Cipollone threatened to resign multiple times because he was concerned the Trump Administration's behavior was illegal, according to Cheney.
The attack on the U.S. Capitol amounted to an ongoing conspiracy to subvert the will of the people, according to the committee chair.
A committee made up of seven Democrats and two Republicans started investigating the attack last summer. Dozens of former Trump staffers have been interviewed as part of the investigation into the riot. The investigation has been slammed as a witch hunt by the former president and many of his supporters.
There's more to come.
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