The House January 6 Committee on Monday held its second day of public hearings, focusing on witness testimony contesting President Donald Trump’s claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election.
During their first public hearing last week, the committee singled Trump out as the cause of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol breach in a hearing that has been blasted by conservative critics as overtly partisan.
Absent from that hearing—during which panel members displayed four tweets or videos that had been selectively edited—was any discussion of the circumstances of the death of Ashli Babbitt, who was shot point-blank by Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd, or Roseanne Boyland, who was trampled after a panicking crowd rushed from a Capitol tunnel filling with tear gas before being beaten by a capitol officer while unresponsive….