The committee to investigate the Jan. 6 attack, throughout this month, has revealed new facts about the plot to overturn the 2020 election — but the most jaw-dropping moments from the hearings have often been the personal, emotional ones.
Tuesday featured officials from Arizona to Georgia who resisted President Donald Trump’s pressure campaign to overturn their states’ election results.
“The system held, but barely,” said Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.). And across the country, these officials who stood up to the pressure campaign faced harassment, death threats, break-ins to their homes and extreme stress on their families. Many election workers report that the trend continues today.
Here are some of the threats faced by those who either stood up to Trump or were targeted by his false election claims, according to testimony shared on Tuesday.
“I received just shy of 4,000 text messages over a short period of time”: That’s Michigan Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey (R), describing what happened after Trump retweeted his phone number, pressuring Shirkey and Republican state lawmakers to flip the state’s election results to him. Shirkey said the people who texted “were believing things that were untrue.”
“[W]e had to disconnect our home phone for about three days because it would ring all hours of the night”: Pennsylvania House Speaker Bryan Cutler (R) said he got daily voice mails from Trump’s legal team. There were also protests outside his district office and his home,...
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