The House January 6 Committee in its fifth public hearing focused on efforts by President Donald Trump to sway the Justice Department (DOJ) to respond to his claims of election fraud.
The hearing is the most recent in an extended effort by the commission to paint the January 6 “Stop the Steal” rally as part of a plot by the 45th president to plan an “insurrection” against the U.S. government.
In its past two hearings, the Democrat-dominated commission focused on claims that Trump had orchestrated a pressure campaign to cajole Vice President Mike Pence into refusing to certify electoral slates from contested battleground states and that he had orchestrated a similar campaign to sway state lawmakers and legislatures….