Former Philadelphia City Commissioner Al Schmidt, a target of former President Donald Trump's false claims about 2020 election fraud, will testify Monday for the Congress' Jan. 6 Select Committee.
Al Schmidt, the only Republican city commissioner to oversee the 2020 presidential election in Philadelphia, will testify Monday before the U.S. House Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Schmidt, who declined to comment about his upcoming testimony, will appear on a panel with elections attorney Benjamin Ginsberg and BJay Pak, the former U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia.
Also set to testify are Bill Stepien, campaign manager for former President Donald Trump, and Chris Stirewalt, a former Fox News political editor who left that job amid controversy after accurately calling that Trump had lost Arizona in 2020 to Joe Biden.
This won’t be Schmdit’s first trip to Washington, D.C., to discuss how false claims about that election reverberated through Trump supporters, prompting some to threaten the lives of his children.
Schmidt testified about that in October in the U.S. Senate, telling the Committee on Rules & Administration that threats to election officials increase when misinformation about those elections increase. He noted that his family received threats after the 2020 general election that died down for a time, only to increase when state legislators in Harrisburg started pushing for a so-called “audit” of the vote.
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