The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack gathered for its seventh public hearing on Tuesday to establish the existence of ties between the former president, Donald Trump, his closest advisers, and members of far-right militant groups who had gathered in Washington D.C.
An anonymous ex-employee testified before the committee about how the leaders of the company ignored warnings over violent rhetoric.
The congressman described the plan to stop the counting of electoral votes as being comprised of three rings. He said that the first was an effort inside the White House to force the Vice President to reject the votes. It would have given Trump multiple avenues for retaining power if this undertaking had failed.
The second was the work of Trump to mobilize and embolden violent extremists such as the Proud Boys, helping to build their numbers online by painting a target on federal lawmakers' backs.
The Oath Keepers viewed Trump's claims as a "nod," an approval to engage in violence, according to the former national spokesman.
Tatenhove was once an aide to Stewart Rhodes who was charged with seditious conspiracy for his role in the insurrection.
Tatenhove described Rhodes as a military leader who saw Trump as legitimizing his mission. Tatenhove said that what it was going to be was an armed revolution.
That day, people died. The law enforcement officers died. No one would have won the civil war because of this.
The mob that gathered near the Capitol was part of the third stage of Trump's plan, which included a campaign lawyer and an executive.
Since the election, Powell and other advisers have been promoting baseless allegations of voter fraud. On the evening of December 18th, she and other Trump cronies gathered at the White House. According to reports, the president was offered solutions that included declaring a state of emergency, giving Powell top secret clearance, and allowing her to investigate voter fraud.
The select committee said that Trump wanted to invalidate the election results by calling for a large and wild crowd to storm the Capitol and stop the thieves.
In recorded testimony aired Tuesday, Donell Harvin, the former chief of Homeland Security for D.C., said that Trump's December 19th "wild" rally in the nation's capitol prompted "very, very violent individuals" to organize for it. The flags went up.
The violent rhetoric resulted from Trump's call. It was a call to action and a call to arms for many of President Trump's most loyal supporters according to Rep.Stephanie Murphy.
According to a former employee interviewed by the committee, they had urged their bosses to not allow violence to be discussed on the platform because of Trump's statements. When people are shooting each other tomorrow, I will try and rest in the knowledge that we tried, according to the employee.
The employee, who wore a disguise to protect their identity, said that the warnings about the platform's role in inciting violence were ignored.
The hearings have had a noticeable effect on Trump loyalists who initially decided to deny and delay the findings. She said that everyone close to the president, from key Justice Department officials to his own White House advisors and counsel, had told him that there was no evidence that the election was rigged.
Trump engaged with a bunch of outside advisors willing and able to perpetuate his theories about the election.
Cheney argued that he was bamboozled by this group of lawyers who have no formal ties to the administration, and that many of Trump's supporters have switched gears. She said that the president was poor served by these outside advisers.
She said this is nonsense. The president is not an impressionable child.
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