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Actor Sean Penn was in attendance Thursday at a hearing before the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. The focus of Thursday’s hearing was the pressure campaign then-President Donald Trump conducted in an effort to sway officials at the Department of Justice to attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election in his favor rather than then-candidate Joe Biden’s.
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Penn told reporters he was “just here to observe” as “a citizen” and was a guest of former D.C. police officer Michael Fanone.
Fanone was severely injured during his efforts to protect the Capitol during the Jan. 6 attack and later resigned from the force. He has been a vocal critic of lawmakers who he said downplayed the day’s events.
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Penn recently starred as John Mitchell, President Richard Nixon’s attorney general, in the Watergate drama Gaslight. Penn also has engaged in political and social activism, including his humanitarian work in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the 2010 Haiti earthquake.
