The House select committee investigating the Capitol attack will unveil new evidence at Watergate-style public hearings this week showing Donald Trump and top aides acted with corrupt intent to stop Joe Biden’s certification, according to sources close to the inquiry. The House select committee meets to consider a vote to recommend contempt of Congress charges for Dan Scavino and Peter Navarro, on 28 March. The former president’s most ardent defenders in Congress and top Republicans led by the House minority leader, Kevin McCarthy, are planning aggressive counter-programming to the public hearings that slam the panel as partisan, according to party aides. After all, the sources said, the panel is not trying to convince Democrats of Trump’s role in the Capitol attack. Still, the target audience for the select committee is not Republicans but swing voters, Ornstein said.

Source: The Guardian June 06, 2022 12:05 UTC