Trump campaign manager, former state officials to headline Jan. 6
panel's 'Big Lie' hearing
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[June 13, 2022]
By Patricia Zengerle
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former President
Donald Trump's campaign manager and former officials from Atlanta and
Philadelphia will testify on Monday to the U.S. congressional committee
investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, the committee
said on Sunday.
The House of Representatives Select Committee will hold its second
public hearing this month on Monday starting at 10 a.m. EDT (1400 GMT),
after a blockbuster session on Thursday night featuring testimony
showing that close Trump allies - even his daughter Ivanka - rejected
his false claims of voting fraud.
Monday's hearing, the second of an expected six, will focus on the
former Republican president's contention that his defeat by Democrat Joe
Biden in the November 2020 election was due to unfounded allegations of
election fraud, the so-called "Big Lie."
The first panel of witnesses will include William Stepien, who served as
campaign manager for Trump's 2020 campaign, after serving as Trump's
White House Director of Political Affairs from 2017 to 2018.
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A committee aide, speaking on condition of anonymity to preview the
hearing, declined to comment on whether Stepien was expected to be a
confrontational witness.
Stepien's firm is now working with Harriet Hageman, a Trump-endorsed
candidate running against Representative Liz Cheney, vice chairperson of
the Jan. 6 Select Committee, in the Republican primary for Cheney's
Wyoming House seat.
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Also testifying at the first panel will be Chris
Stirewalt, a former political editor of Fox News. Stirewalt came
under fire from Trump and his supporters after the Fox News
political desk was the first to call Arizona for Biden in November
2020.
Fox has denied that his departure had anything to do with that call.
The second panel will include conservative Republican election
attorney Ben Ginsberg; Byung J. Pak, who resigned as a U.S. attorney
in Atlanta as Trump's camp sought to overturn Georgia's election
results, and Al Schmidt, who was the only Republican on
Philadelphia's elections board and became a target of attacks by
Trump after he defended the integrity of the 2020 presidential vote.
Georgia and Pennsylvania were among states that backed Trump in the
2016 election, but fell into Biden's column in 2020. They have been
a focus of the unfounded assertions of election fraud.
The committee aide said the hearing also will feature testimony
recorded from the more than 1,000 depositions and interviews
conducted during the nine-member Democratic-led Select Committee's
nearly one-year-long investigation of the events before and during
the attack on the Capitol.
(Reporting by Patricia Zengerle; Editing by Chris Reese, Daniel
Wallis and Kenneth Maxwell)
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