Thompson said the committee will request testimony from Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, a conservative activist and the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. “It felt like he was pouring gasoline on the fire,” she said.Īlso on Thursday, Rep. In a taped deposition, deputy press secretary Sarah Matthews testified that a tweet Trump sent on Jan. The panel said the vice president was very close to the rioters, at one point there was only “40 feet between the vice president and the mob.” Nine people died in the insurrection and its aftermath. Video was shown of the rioters spewing vulgarities about Pence as they headed toward the Capitol. Thursday’s session also presented new evidence about the danger Pence faced as rioters outside the Capitol were chanting “Hang Mike Pence” armed with makeshift gallows as the vice president fled with senators into hiding. In the statement published by CNN, he said that if Pence had adhered to Trump’s demands to overturn the election, “America would immediately have been plunged into what would have been tantamount to a revolution within a paralyzing constitutional crisis.” 6 as a “war on America’s democracy” in his written statement to the committee. “I would have laid my body across the road before I would have let the vice president overturn the 2020 election on the basis of that historical precedent,” Luttig said in his testimony. Retired federal judge Michael Luttig called the plan from Eastman, his former law clerk, “incorrect at every turn.” 6 committee shows montage of Capitol attack When leaders “break, twist and fail to enforce our laws in order to achieve their partisan ends, or to accomplish frustrated policy objectives they consider existentially important, they are breaking America,” he said. The law “is not a plaything for presidents or judges to use to remake the world in their preferred image,” Jacob said in a written statement. Jacob told congressional investigators in a deposition that Eastman admitted to Trump days before the insurrection that the plot would require Pence to violate federal law. 6 and concluded “there is just no way that the framers of the Constitution … that they would have put in the hands of one person the authority to determine who was going to be president of the United States.” He said that Pence studied the law and the history before Jan. In opening remarks, Greg Jacob, the vice president’s counsel who fended off Eastman’s ideas for Pence to carry out the plan, said Pence summoned him to his West Wing office to seek clarity about the vice president’s role in the certification of election results. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol holds a hearing at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, June 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) Greg Jacob, who was counsel to former Vice President Mike Pence, left, and Michael Luttig, a retired federal judge, arrive before the House select committee investigating the Jan. In a last-ditch and potentially illegal plan, Trump seized on the unorthodox proposal from conservative law professor John Eastman to have Pence turn back the electors when he presided over Congress to certify the election results on Jan. “Our democracy came dangerously close to catastrophe.” “Trump wanted Mike Pence to do something no other vice president has ever done,” Thompson said. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., opened the hearing citing Pence’s own words that there is “almost no idea more un-American” than the one he was being asked to do - reject the vote.” Pence didn’t testify at the hearing but was in the spotlight as two witnesses shed light on Trump’s desperate attempts to persuade him to overturn the election results.Ĭhairman Rep. Capitol detailed Thursday then-President Donald Trump’s last-ditch effort to salvage the 2020 election by pressuring Vice President Mike Pence to reject the electoral count.
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