The House of Representatives committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021 storming of the Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump will present evidence this week that the former president submitted lists of fake voters in an attempt to overturn the result. of the 2020 election, a Democratic elected official said on Sunday.
“We will present evidence of the president’s involvement in this scheme,” Rep. Adam Schiff said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“We will also show what his own lawyers thought of this scheme, and we will show how courageous officials in the states concerned rejected this plan to either reconvene the assemblies or decertify the results in favor of Joe Biden,” he said. -he adds.
The fourth public hearing of the congressional committee to investigate the events on Capitol Hill and Donald Trump’s refusal to recognize the election results is to be held on Tuesday.
Concrete evidence of the former president’s involvement in a conspiracy to manipulate the election results could be crucial to the Justice Department’s criminal investigation into allegations of the government’s use of fake voters. Republican Party.
In March, the organization American Oversight presented copies of false electoral lists compiled by supporters of Donald Trump to support their contestation of the results in seven states (Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin).
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