A video of former U.S. President Donald Trump from his January 6th Rose Garden statement is played as Cassidy Hutchinson, who was an aide to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows during the Trump administration, testifies during House Select Committee a public hearing to investigate the January 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol, at the Capitol, in Washington, June 28, 2022.
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The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot said its next hearing will focus on how former President Donald Trump’s failure to quell the violent mob for several hours showed a “supreme dereliction of duty.”
The committee’s eighth public hearing, expected to air in prime time on July 21, marks its last scheduled presentation of evidence implicating Trump in a multi-pronged conspiracy to overturn his 2020 election loss that culminated in the deadly invasion.
The final hearing will highlight the more-than-three-hour gap between Trump’s departure from a rally that preceded the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, and his eventual call for the mob to go home, committee members said.
The lawmakers “plan to go through that 187 minutes,” said Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Va., in an ABC News interview Wednesday afternoon. She is set to lead the hearing with Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill.
Trump made “inflammatory remarks” at the pre-riot rally, Luria noted. He pressured then-Vice President Mike Pence to reject key electoral results and vowed to march with his supporters to the Capitol....
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