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Stephanie Murphy
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Opening Statement at the Ninth Public Hearing of the January 6th Select Committee – Oct. 13, 2022
October 13, 2022
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. President Trump’s efforts to unlawfully overturn the results of the 2020 election were not limited to the Big Lie and pressuring State officials and the Department of Justice officials. Another key part of the President’s effort was a scheme to assemble fake electors to cast false electoral votes in the States that President Trump lost. This was something done not only with the President’s knowledge but also with his direct participation. Ronna McDaniel, chair of the Republican National Committee, testified before this Committee that President Trump […]
Zoe Lofgren
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Opening Statement at the Ninth Public Hearing of the January 6th Select Committee – Oct. 13, 2022
October 13, 2022
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We begin this meeting by returning to election night, November 3, 2020. As the Chairman noted, we have previously presented testimony about how the election results were expected to come in that night. In certain States, ballots cast by mail before election day would be counted only after the polls closed that evening. That meant that election results would not be known for some time. Although President Trump’s campaign manager, Bill Stepien, House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, and Jared Kushner had advised Donald Trump to encourage […]
Elizabeth “Liz” Cheney
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Opening Statement at the Ninth Public Hearing of the January 6th Select Committee – Oct. 13, 2022
October 13, 2022
Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Much has happened since our last public hearing on July 21st. As the Chairman mentioned, we have received new and voluminous documentation from the Secret Service, which we continue to analyze. We have received new witness testimony, including about efforts to obstruct our investigation and conceal key facts. According to public reporting, the Department of Justice has been very active in pursuing many of the issues identified in our prior hearings. Our Committee may ultimately decide to make a series of criminal referrals to […]
Zoe Lofgren
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Opening Statement at the Second Public Hearing of the January 6th Select Committee - June 13, 2022
June 13, 2022
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. In our opening hearing we gave an overview of our investigation into the January 6th attack. The plot to overthrow the election was complex and had many parts, which we’ll explore in remaining hearings. But today we examine the false narrative that the 2020 election was ’stolen’. Former President Trump’s plan to overturn the election relied on a sustained effort to deceive millions of Americans with knowingly false claims of election fraud. All elements of the plot relied on convincing his supporters about these false claims. […]
Stephanie Murphy
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Opening Statement at the Seventh Public Hearing of the January 6th Select Committee - July 12, 2022
July 12, 2022
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that then-President Donald Trump lost in a free and fair election. And yet, President Trump insisted that his loss was due to fraud in the election process, rather than to the democratic will of the voters. The President continued to make this claim despite being told, again and again, by the courts, by the Justice Department, by his campaign officials, and by some of his closest advisors, that the evidence did not support this assertion. This was the […]
Elaine Luria
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Opening Statement at the Eighth Public Hearing of the January 6th Select Committee - July 21, 2022
July 21, 2022
Thank you, Madam Vice Chair. Article II of our Constitution requires that the President swear a very specific oath every four years. Every President swears or affirms to "faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States" and, to the best of their ability, "preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States." The President also assumes the Constitutional duty to "take care" that our nation’s laws be "faithfully executed," and is the "Commander in Chief" of our military. Our hearings have shown the many ways in which […]
Elizabeth “Liz” Cheney
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Closing Statement at the Eighth Public Hearing of the January 6th Select Committee – July 21, 2022
July 21, 2022
Let me again thank our witnesses today. We have seen bravery and honor in these hearings. And Ms. Matthews and Mr. Pottinger – both of you will be remembered for that. As will Cassidy Hutchinson. She sat here alone, took the oath, and testified before millions of Americans. She knew all along that she would be attacked by President Trump, and by the 50, 60 and 70 year old men who hide themselves behind Executive Privilege. But like our witnesses today, she has courage, and she did it anyway. Cassidy, […]
Elizabeth “Liz” Cheney
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Opening Statement at the Eighth Public Hearing of the January 6th Select Committee – July 21, 2022
July 21, 2022
Let me begin tonight by wishing Chairman Thompson a rapid recovery from COVID. He has expertly led us through eight hearings so far, and he has brought us to the point we are today. In our initial hearing, the Chairman and I described what ultimately became Donald Trump’s seven-part plan to overturn the 2020 Presidential election, a plan stretching from before Election Day through January 6th. At the close of today’s hearing, our ninth, we will have addressed each element of that plan. But in the course of these hearings, […]
Elizabeth “Liz” Cheney
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Closing Statement at the Seventh Public Hearing of the January 6th Select Committee – July 12, 2022
July 12, 2022
Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman: Mr. Chairman, let me put what you have seen today in a broader context. At the very outset of our hearings, we described several elements of President Trump’s multi-part plan to overturn the 2020 election. Our hearings have now covered all but one of those elements: An organized campaign to persuade millions of Americans of a falsehood – that the 2020 election was stolen by widespread fraud; A corrupt effort to pressure Vice President Pence to refuse to count electoral votes; An effort to […]
Elizabeth “Liz” Cheney
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Opening Statement at the Seventh Public Hearing of the January 6th Select Committee – July 12, 2022
July 12, 2022
Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Our Committee did not conduct a hearing last week, but we did conduct an on-the-record interview of President Trump’s former White House Counsel, Pat Cipollone. If you have watched these hearings, you have heard us call for Mr. Cipollone to come forward to testify. He did. And Mr. Cipollone’s testimony met our expectations. We will save for our next hearing President Trump’s behavior during the violence of January 6th. Today’s hearing will take us from December 14th, 2020, when the Electoral College met and […]