Days ahead of the first public hearings about the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, lawmakers say they have evidence that former President Donald Trump engaged in "a lot more than incitement."
In an interview with Washington Post Live on Monday, Democrat Jamie Raskin — a member of the bipartisan House committee investigating the attack — said, "The select committee has found evidence about a lot more than incitement here, and we're gonna be laying out the evidence about all of the actors who were pivotal to what took place on Jan. 6."
Asked what can be expected from the hearings — night one of which will be televised in primetime — Raskin said viewers will see "a comprehensive introduction and overview of the findings that will be laid out over the course of the month of June, and we are going to tell the story of a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 presidential election and block the transfer of power."
Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, a Republican on the panel, also used the word "conspiracy" to describe the committee's findings in a different interview over the weekend.
When asked directly whether she believed there was a conspiracy, Cheney told CBS Sunday Morning: "I do," adding that it was "extremely broad, extremely well-organized — it's really chilling."
Cheney previously said that evidence indicates Trump and his circle broke the law in their efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election he lost.
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