WASHINGTON — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol returned after a nearly three-month break to summarize and bolster the case it made against President Donald Trump over the summer.
Committee Vice Chair Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., said that the hearing would focus on facts revealing Trump’s state of mind and motivations around his election loss.
Members of the committee took turns expanding on different aspects of the former president’s efforts to overturn the election results: Trump’s plan to declare victory before all ballots were counted; that he repeated false fraud claims even as his allies told him he was wrong; and that he privately acknowledged that he’d lost while still trying to change the result.
