“I’ve decided that I should be on the pardon list if that is still in the works,” Eastman wrote in an email to Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani, according to the panel. 19:51 GMT Eastman sought presidential pardonĮastman, who helped spearhead efforts to overturn the election according to the committee, sought a presidential pardon in the final days of the Trump presidency. “I would have never spoken those words ever in my life – except that that’s what the former president and his allies are telling us.” “I don’t speak those words lightly,” Luttig told the committee. Luttig, the retired federal judge, has said Trump and his allies remain a “clear and present danger to American democracy”.Ī conservative jurist who was appointed to the federal judiciary by former Republican President George W Bush, Luttig said Trump and his allies are already pledging that they “would attempt to overturn” the 2024 elections if it doesn’t go their way. 20:03 GMT Ex-judge says Trump still ‘clear’ danger to US democracy Open over this BORING January 6th Committee hearing. ANOTHER DUD,” and said that the committee “hasn’t produced any new bombshell evidence”. Shortly after the hearing ended, the House Judiciary GOP account tweeted “ANOTHER HEARING. Gas is over $5 per gallon!” tweeted Representative Jim Jordan, the ranking Republican member of the House Judiciary Committee. “Real America doesn’t care about the January 6th Committee.

Republican lawmakers and officials excoriated the January 6 hearings again on Thursday, calling them a “witch-hunt.” 20:16 GMT Republicans continue to condemn January 6 hearings

The first two public hearings this month by the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack have focused on Trump’s alleged role in the 2021 riots.īelow is a timeline of the hearing as it unfolded:.

Trump remains a “danger” to US democracy, says a former judge.

There is no constitutional basis to overturning elections, say experts.

Even after riots, Trump lawyers pushed Pence to overturn the results of the election.Pence’s life was in danger, the panel says.

John Eastman, Trump’s lawyer who spearheaded the assertion that Pence could reject the results of the election, conceded that his argument would likely be rejected in court.Ī former judge told the committee that he believed that Trump and his allies continue to pose a “clear and present danger” to US democracy because they say they plan to overturn the 2024 election if Trump – or whichever Republican he supports – loses. Pence’s aides testified that his refusal “never wavered” under immense pressure from Trump and that he was targeted on January 6, where rioters chanted “Hang Mike Pence.” Thursday’s hearing on the Januinsurrection at the US Capitol, the third hearing thus far, focused on Vice President Mike Pence’s refusal to go along with former President Trump’s scheme to overturn the 2020 United States election.

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