Former President Donald Trump sat in the White House dining room watching the drama unfold on TV as advisers, staff and family members begged him to do something, as angry Trump supporters stormed Congress in 2021.

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This is how the January 6 Commission describes the time the former President of the United States delivered his speech outside Congress to the time he told the protesters three hours later to go home, with the words “We love you, you are so special.” and “Go home, come home in peace.”

Friday night’s hearing (Norwegian time) was expected to be the last in a row from the committee investigating what happened on January 6, 2021, but Republican Liz Cheney opened the hearing by saying there would be more.

– Although we are now in the ninth hearing, we still have more to do. We’ve had more evidence to share and new witnesses come forward. She said we’ll use August to collect this and then come back with more sessions in September.

The commission wants to determine what role Trump and his associates played during the raid.

One of the committee’s main arguments thus far has been that Trump was the only one who could have prevented the mob from storming Congress — but he chose not to.

Former Trump associates Sarah Matthews and Matthew Pottinger will testify. Both resigned shortly after storming Congress.

Since then, Matthews has publicly criticized Trump and expressed his displeasure with what happened on January 6.

Democrat Elaine Luria and Republican Adam Kinzinger will lead the hearing. They stated that the committee would review what happened minute by minute:

– (Trump, editor’s note) He didn’t move. He had a responsibility to act. So, we’ll go into it in detail, and from there we’ll build on the information we’ve provided in previous hearings, Luria said Sunday.

The audit committee wants the largest possible audience, and as before it wants the hearing at night Live broadcast in the evening. The first hearing was watched by at least 20 million people.

Friday night’s session is planned to be the eighth and final in the series. However, there may be more sessions throughout the summer, according to several international media outlets.

– There is no reason to believe that this will be the last hearing, a commission aide said on Wednesday. According to the Guardian newspaper,.

January 6, 2021 was the day Joe Biden was officially approved as the new President of the United States. In the days and weeks leading up to the then president Strong pressure on Vice President Mike Pence, among others to reject the election results.

Usually this process is just a formality. On the other hand, Trump managed to create a lot of disagreement about the election outcome Many Republicans planned to refuse consent Biden as the new president.