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Former South Carolina GOP Rep. Trey Gowdy was hoping the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot would produce something new and exciting.
One hour into the first hearing, the former congressman pointed to three new developments the Jan. 6 committee might produce to really get people’s attention: the notion that former President Donald Trump knew he lost the 2020 election, that he knew claims over rampant voter fraud weren’t “dispositive,” and that he was pleased with chants calling for the hanging of his vice president.
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“If, in fact, the president knew he lost, if, in fact, he knew he lost the election — that’s new. I’ve never heard him say that. So if they have testimony on that, I think that’s important if he knew the fraud was not dispositive,” Gowdy said. “The thing I really highlighted, Brett, Martha — if he really thought that hanging Mike Pence was a good idea, then that is both provocative and new.”
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Still, Gowdy cautioned that the panel still had yet to deliver proof of those claims and echoed fellow guest Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley’s point about whether the panel was being fair to allies of Trump.
“But to professor Turley’s point, it also has to be fair, and when you get to call all the witnesses and you get to select which excerpts to read or play or which videos — ours is an adversarial system. I mean, every major court decision is based on adversary, so there needs to be more of that for the jury to buy it,” he continued on Fox Business.
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Gowdy also downplayed the panel’s references to former Attorney General William Barr. The panel played a clip showing Barr calling Trump’s claims of election fraud “bulls***.” The committee also displayed a clip of Ivanka Trump’s reaction to Barr’s dismissal of her father’s election fraud claims, accepting the attorney general’s assessment that the Justice Department did not find evidence of a stolen election.
https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1535053051471462416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1535053051471462416%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonexaminer.com%2Flive-blog%2Flive-blog-jan-6-committees-prime-time-debut-opens-up-investigation-for-everyone-to-see”Speaking of AG Barr, it’s compelling. It’s probative — it’s just not new. So what I was looking for, me, we all know that Bill Barr, he wrote a book about it. So … I’m looking for things that are both probative and new,” Gowdy stressed.
