Donald Trump called a witness in the investigation.
A lawyer told the House panel after the witness did not reply.
Evidence was shown that witnesses were being pressured to do the right thing.
The House investigators notified the Justice Department after Donald Trump tried to call a witness.
President Trump tried to call a witness in our investigation after our last hearing." In a bombshell revelation that concluded the House January 6 committee's seventh public hearing, Cheney said that the person declined to answer or respond to the call.
She said that the committee gave the information to the Department of Justice. We will take any effort to influence witnesses very seriously.
Cheney, the Hosue January 6 committee's vice chair, had previously gone public with the House January 6 committee's concerns about witness tampering as it continues to investigate the Capitol attack. She said that the practice of Trump allies pressuring witnesses raises significant concern.
According to Cheney, witnesses have been urged to do the right thing by Trump's allies.
At the committee's June 28 hearing, Cheney said that attempting to influence witnesses to lie presents very serious concerns.
The House January 6 committee may have referred Trump's call to the Justice Department. A Justice Department spokesman wouldn't say anything.
The three-hour hearing focused on the former president's embrace of plans to retain power and his role in organizing far-right groups that descended on the Capitol.
The House January 6 committee played footage of former White House counsel Pat Cipollone and two cabinet officials testifying that they knew Trump had lost the election after the Electoral College voted to certify the results in late December 2020.
In order to stay in the White House, Trump appointed Sidney Powell, a conservative lawyer known for propounding conspiracy theories, as special counsel to investigate baseless claims of voter fraud.
I was not in favor of it. Cipollone told the committee that he did not think she should be appointed to anything.
The House committee described a December 18, 2020, meeting in which Powell and Michael Flynn urged Trump to name Powell special counsel and sign an executive order to seize voting machines. Powell said that Cipollone set a land-speed record when he rushed to intervene in the meeting.
Cipollone didn't like to see the people in the Oval Ofice.
During the second half of the hearing, the House committee looked at the rhetoric that Trump used to mobilize his supporters, including members of far-right groups. On December 19th, 2020, Trump said on his verified account that there would be a big protest in D.C. Be there and you will be crazy!
The congressman said that Trump's rhetoric "electrified and galvanized" his supporters. He said the Watergate break-in was like a Cub Scout meeting compared to the assault on our people and our institutions.
The true legacy of Donald Trump is American carnage. The counting of electoral college votes was halted for the first time in American history because of his desire to seize the presidency.
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