Former Trump campaign manager will testify at the ‘Big Lie’ hearing

Former Trump campaign manager will testify at the ‘Big Lie’ hearing

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June 13, 2022

Former Trump campaign manager will testify at the ‘Big Lie’ hearing

The US congressional committee probing the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol said on Sunday that former President Donald Trump’s campaign manager and former officials from Atlanta and Philadelphia will testify on Monday.
After a blockbuster session on Thursday night featuring testimony showing that close Trump allies, including his daughter Ivanka, rejected his false claims of voter fraud, the House of Representatives Select Committee will hold its second public hearing this month on Monday at 10 a.m. EDT (1400 GMT).The second of six scheduled hearings on Monday will centre on the former Republican president’s claim that his loss to Democrat Joe Biden in the November 2020 election was caused by false charges of election fraud, dubbed the “Big Lie.
“William Stepien, Trump’s 2020 campaign manager after serving as Trump’s White House Director of Political Affairs from 2017 to 2018, will be the first witness on the stand.

The US congressional committee probing the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol said on Sunday that former President Donald Trump’s campaign manager and former officials from Atlanta and Philadelphia will testify on Monday.

After a blockbuster session on Thursday night featuring testimony showing that close Trump allies, including his daughter Ivanka, rejected his false claims of voter fraud, the House of Representatives Select Committee will hold its second public hearing this month on Monday at 10 a.m. EDT (1400 GMT).

The second of six scheduled hearings on Monday will centre on the former Republican president’s claim that his loss to Democrat Joe Biden in the November 2020 election was caused by false charges of election fraud, dubbed the “Big Lie.”

William Stepien, Trump’s 2020 campaign manager after serving as Trump’s White House Director of Political Affairs from 2017 to 2018, will be the first witness on the stand.

Stepien is expected to be a hostile witness, according to a committee aide who spoke on the condition of anonymity to preview the hearing.

Stepien’s firm is now working with Harriet Hageman, a Trump-endorsed candidate running against Representative Liz Cheney, vice chairperson of the Jan. 6 Select Committee, in the Republican primary for Cheney’s Wyoming House seat.

Chris Stirewalt, a former Fox News political editor, will also testify during the first panel. After the Fox News political bureau was the first to declare Arizona for Biden in November 2020, Stirewalt was chastised by Trump and his fans. Fox has disputed that his departure influenced the decision.

The second panel will feature conservative Republican election attorney Ben Ginsberg, Byung J. Pak, who resigned as a US attorney in Atlanta as Trump’s campaign sought to overturn Georgia’s election results, and Al Schmidt, who was the only Republican on Philadelphia’s elections board and became a target of Trump’s attacks after defending the integrity of the 2020 presidential election.

Georgia and Pennsylvania were among the states that voted for Trump in 2016, but switched to Biden in 2020. They have been the target of unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud.

The hearing will also include testimony from the more than 1,000 depositions and interviews taken during the nine-member Democratic-led Select Committee’s almost one-year inquiry into the events leading up to and including the Capitol attack, according to a committee staffer.

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