(CNN)Former President Donald Trump's campaign manager Bill Stepien testifies Monday before the House January 6 committee's second hearing this month, which will be focused on Trump's lies about the 2020 election.
House select committee aides said the hearing would scrutinize how 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 that 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.
The hearing will also seek to connect Trump's lies about the election to the violence at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, aides said, including how rioters echoed the former President's baseless allegations that the election was being stolen.
Stepien will be testifying alongside former Fox political director Chris Stirewalt, whose decision to call Arizona for Joe Biden on election night infuriated the Trump campaign -- and conservative Fox hosts.
A second panel of witnesses testifying Monday includes former US attorney for the North District of Georgia BJay Pak, who was pressured to embrace Trump's fraud claims and resigned; former Philadelphia city commissioner Al Schmidt, who debunked false claims about election fraud in Philadelphia; and conservative election attorney Ben Ginsberg, who is...
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