(CNN)Former Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien will be among the witnesses testifying Monday before the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, the panel announced Sunday. Stepien will testify under subpoena, he told CNN.
Committee aides said Sunday that the hearing would scrutinize how former President Donald Trump embraced false claims of fraud in the 2020 election and how he decided to declare victory in the hours after the election, even though he was told that the numbers didn't bear it out.
Aides said the hearing would show how Trump's team pursued legal challenges in court and lost those cases, and that Trump then chose to ignore the will of the courts and continued to try to overturn the election.
"We will reveal information about how the former President's political apparatus use these lies about fraud about a stolen election to drive fundraising, bringing hundreds of millions of dollars between Election Day 2020 and January 6," aides added.
The hearing will also seek to connect Trump's lies about the election to the violence at the US Capitol on January 6, aides said, including how rioters echoed the former President's baseless allegations that the election had been stolen.
Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California, a member of the select committee, will play a "key role" in the presentation, but the hearing will technically be led by Chairman Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat, according to panel aides.
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