Headline Roundup • October 15th, 2022
Will the January 6 Committee's Latest Hearing Have an Impact?
Summary from the AllSides News Team
The House January 6 committee held its ninth and likely final public hearing on Thursday, revealing video footage of lawmakers during the riot and voting unanimously to subpoena former President Donald Trump for testimony.
Key Quotes: In newly released video footage, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was informed during the riot that Trump had originally planned to come to the Capitol. She replied, “If he comes, I’m going to punch him out. I’ve been waiting for this. For trespassing on the Capitol grounds, I’m going to punch him out. And I’m going to go to jail, and I’m going to be happy.” Trump himself responded to the committee’s subpoena with a four-page statement, calling the investigation a “Charade and Witch Hunt” carried about by “highly partisan political Hacks and Thugs.” Trump’s statement began with the phrase, “THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2020 WAS RIGGED AND STOLEN!”, and included 10 pages of election fraud claims and other complaints.
What the Right Said: Voices from the right either ignored the hearing or criticized it as “theatrical.” Fox News (Right bias) prominently featured an article on opinion writers who thought the committee had been “ineffective” and “tedious.”
What the Left Said: Voices from the left were generally critical of Trump and supportive of the committee, often calling the new footage “dramatic.” Some stressed that the committee’s findings should be backed up with “accountability” for Trump and his allies.
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ALEX WONG / GETTY IMAGES
In a dramatic ending on Thursday to the final scheduled public hearing of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack, the committee unanimously voted to subpoena former President Donald Trump. “We are obligated to seek answers directly from the man who set this all in motion, and every American is entitled to those answers,” said committee vice chair Rep. Liz Cheney ahead of the vote.
The subpoena means that Trump has been ordered by the committee to provide relevant documents and testimony under oath as part of its investigation....
Shuran Huang for The Washington Post
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack has held what is expected to be its final public hearing, driving home a conclusion that once would have been unthinkable, but now is inescapable: The president of the United States was directly responsible for an assault on the nation’s government.
Donald Trump dodged accountability for the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol when Senate Republicans acquitted him the following month in his second impeachment trial. Prosecuting the former president raises complex questions of law — and about whether doing so would ultimately set...
AP
Donald Trump will never testify before Congress’s Jan. 6 committee, subpoena or no subpoena. He will resist it and will challenge any such subpoena in the courts — for a couple of months.
Since the overwhelming likelihood is that Republicans will win control of the House in November, in one way or another, the subpoena will probably be quashed come January 2023.
So the highly theatrical decision of the committee to vote (with a full roll call, like in “1776” when they sign the Declaration of Independence) to compel the former...
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