Democrat Jamie Raskin, who is on the House Committee to Investigate the Attack on Capitolassured at the seventh hearing that Trump “Electrified and galvanized” to his followers, encouraging them to demonstrate on 6 January.
“Trump’s tweet at 1:42 a.m. (local time) electrified and encouraged his supporters, especially dangerous extremists from the Oath Keepers, Proud Boys and other racist and white nationalist groups who seek to fight the government,” Democrat Jamie explained Raskin.
In this new hearing, the committee tries to understand the former president’s supporters’ connection Trump and some members of far-right organizations within the mafia that laid siege to the Capitol, according to the NBC network.
Specifically, the message he refers to is one in which Trump assured on the Twitter platform, in which he repeatedly posted messages to encourage electoral fraud, according to the committee, that there would be a “big protest” on January 6. “I’ll be there, it’s going to be wild,” he said.
The responses, Raskin explained, urged supporters and protesters to come with “body armor, knuckles, shields, bats, pepper spray and whatever.” “They were all used during the January 6 riots,” Raskin said.
USA: what is the role of Stuart Rhodes?
At this seventh hearing, important witnesses will appear, such as two members of the organization. Proud Boys, Ethan Nordin and Dominic Pezzolaas well as Stuart Rhodesan army veteran who founded the far-right Oath Keepers in 2009 and was on Capitol Hill on January 6.
Rhodes was also a member of the Signal “VIP” chat along with Roger StoneAli Alexander, Alex Jones and other key Trump allies, according to people familiar with messaging on the Signal messaging app, according to CNN.
In addition, along with nine other members of the Keepers of the Oath, they will appear in court in September on charges of seditious conspiracy. He is currently being held at a federal detention center near Washington. Rhodes pleaded not guilty to all criminal charges filed on January 6.
The 56-year-old used social media the day before the attack to urge his family, “all patriots”, to go to Washington to the “security mission” with which to defend the “struggle of the President TrumpThis support did not last long, because on the same day of the assault, and lamenting that the former president could only “complain”, he said that it was time to “get down to business.”
Another key witness to emerge Stephen Ayresone of the many people who descended on Capitol Hill on January 6, who was later charged and pleaded guilty to trespassing on Capitol Hill.
USA: December 18 meeting
Ruskin also spoke of a heated quarrel with shouting and insults in White House December 18, including the former president Trumpto a lawyer Sydney Powell, Michael Flynn and many officials White House.
The meeting began when a staff member brought together the aforementioned election fraud conspiracy supporters. Later, other administration officials learned of this and joined in, causing much controversy.
“This was followed by a heated and unholy confrontation between this group and the advisers White House President Trump, who traded personal insults, accusations of disloyalty to the president, and even challenges to physical combat,” he said.
(As reported by Europe Press)
Source: RPP
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