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Former Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien, who was set to be one of the higher-profile witnesses at the Jan. 6 committee hearing on Monday, will no longer appear, citing a family emergency.
Instead, a lawyer for Stepien will make a prepared statement on his behalf. The former campaign manager and White House official was compelled to appear under a subpoena from the panel, so it was unclear how forthcoming his testimony was going to be.
Donald Trump, Bill StepienIt’s not entirely clear what the details surrounding the emergency are, but sources have said his wife went into labor on Monday morning.
Lawmakers hoped to use his testimony to further their case that former President Donald Trump privately knew he lost the election even as he continued to tell supporters it was stolen.
As Trump’s campaign manager, Stepien would have been present for several inside conversations in the weeks following the election. Among those are conversations that led Trump to declare victory prematurely on election night despite some races not being called and numbers showing him losing in other states.
Lawmakers had hoped to question Stepien in detail about what Trump knew as he made claims about widespread voter fraud in the weeks following the election. Those details are set to be the focus of the hearing on Monday.
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The hearing on Monday was delayed 30 minutes from its initial 10 a.m. start time. Monday’s hearing is the first of three that are scheduled to be held this week and will feature testimony from several prominent witnesses.
Witnesses include:
- Chris Stirewalt, a former political editor for Fox News
- Benjamin Ginsberg, a Republican election lawyer
- B.J. “BJay” Pak, a former Trump-appointed U.S. attorney based in Atlanta, Georgia
- Al Schmidt, a former city commissioner of Philadelphia
