Jan. 6 Hearing Focuses on Extremist Groups
Summary from the AllSides News Team
The House Jan. 6 committee focused on the role of extremist groups like the Proud Boys in another public hearing on Tuesday.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) discussed a meeting that previous witness Cassidy Hutchinson called “unhinged,” in which former President Donald Trump met lawyers from outside the White House. Shortly after that meeting, Trump tweeted a call for a “big protest in DC on January 6th” that would “be wild”; Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-Fla.) argued this tweet was “a call to arms for many of President Trump's most loyal supporters.”
The committee discussed the tweet’s impact on many of Trump’s supporters and extremist groups like the Proud Boys, who began collaborating with other groups following Trump’s tweet, often using violent rhetoric. After Trump’s tweet, a Twitter employee said, “It felt as if a mob was being organized and they were gathering together their weaponry.” The committee also heard testimony from former Oath Keepers spokesman Jason Van Tatenhove and Stephen Ayres, who participated in the Capitol riot.
Coverage was widespread across the spectrum on Tuesday afternoon. Major right-rated outlets featured coverage of the hearing less prominently than left-rated outlets, which displayed coverage at the top of homepages. Outside of live coverage, headlines in left-rated outlets were more likely to highlight the hearing's focus on groups like the Oath Keepers.
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From the Left
'Call to arms': Jan. 6 panel argues Trump summoned the violent extremistsThe day after an explosive Oval Office meeting in which a motley crew of outside advisers clashed with White House lawyers over a plan to seize voting machines, then-President Donald Trump turned his focus to riling up his supporters for the Jan. 6 push to stop the counting of electoral votes, according to evidence presented in Tuesday's House committee hearing.
Two longtime Trump advisers, Michael Flynn and Roger Stone, were in contact with leaders of the violent extremist groups The Proud Boys and The Oath Keepers, according to text messages and...
From the Right
Trump sought to name Sidney Powell as White House special counsel to seize voting machinesPresident Trump‘s proposal to appoint conservative attorney Sidney Powell as a special counsel to investigate voting fraud in the 2020 election culminated in a profane screaming match between Trump loyalists and White House advisers who opposed the plan, witnesses told the Jan. 6 committee on Tuesday.
Former White House counsel Pat Cipollone was shown in video testimony saying he was “vehemently opposed” to having Ms. Powell appointed to any position in the White House.
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The testimony came in the committee’s seventh hearing of the year, focusing on potential connections between Mr. Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election and far-right groups allegedly at the center of the day’s violence.
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