A new public hearing from the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 coup attempt focused on Trump's specific actions to assemble a "wild" crowd on that date, a crowd spurred to action by Trump's knowingly false claims of a "stolen" election. New evidence indicated that violent extremists were expecting Trump to order them to march to the Capitol during the counting of electoral votes, which Trump then did. Trump also altered his planned Jan. 6 speech to more explicitly reference then-Vice President Mike Pence, who Trump believed could unilaterally throw out electors from Biden-won states. The committee also says it has evidence that Trump himself has attempted to contact an upcoming hearing witness—a move very likely to be considered an attempt to tamper with a witness, if we still have a functioning Justice Department. Do we?
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