by Nomad
Day Four of the House Select Committee hearings on the events of January 6 will include the testimony of Brad Raffensperger, secretary of the state of Georgia, and Gabriel Sterling, one of his top aides.
According to Wikipedia:
Trump launched a protracted campaign to overturn the election results and keep himself in power, but was ultimately unsuccessful. As part of this campaign, Trump made a recorded phone call on January 2, 2021, in which he attempted to persuade Raffensperger to change the vote count in Georgia in Trump's favor. He resisted pressure from Trump, and claimed that the outgoing president's claims were based on falsehoods. Evidence will be presented that Trump attempted to influence state legislators in delegitimizing election results.
And why is the testimony of Gabriel Sterling important? As the chief operating officer for the Georgia secretary of state, Sterling was at the center of President Trump's illegal attempts to rig the outcome of the results of the election in that key state.
PBS explains:
In early December 2020, Sterling held an emotional press conference where he admonished Trump’s efforts to overturn the election and pleaded with him to stop claiming fraud.The committee will reconvene for that testimony Tuesday, June 21, 2022, at 1 p.m. Eastern time. Watch the hearing live and uninterrupted with your friends right here on Nomadic Politics.
“It’s all gone too far. All of it,” a visibly angry Sterling said.
“Stop inspiring people to commit potential acts of violence,” Sterling said, addressing Trump. “Someone’s going to get hurt. Someone’s going to get shot. Someone’s going to get killed,” he said.
Sterling suggested that Trump’s advisers were potentially misleading him or the public.
“The people around the president know better,” he said.
The Jan. 6 committee has tried to substantiate that idea by showing clips of Trump advisors admitting they knew there was no fraud.
After a recording was made public of Trump calling Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, asking him to “find” thousands of more votes because, in his view, he won the state, Sterling again called out Trump’s falsehoods.
Day 5
Former acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, former acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue and the head of the Office of Legal Counsel Steven Engel will testify today.