After watching the eighth hearing, the January 6 Committee has announced that an interim report on the matter will be published in September 2022, and the public hearings are set to reconvene following an August 2022 recess, but here’s what we learned from the Public hearings of the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack:⤵️

• On July 27, 2021, the House Select Committee held a preliminary public hearing about law enforcement experiences on January 6th, 2021.
• On June 9, 2022, the Committee began holding live televised public hearings for the year 2022. During this first hearing of 2022, the chair and vice-chair (Democrat Bennie Thompson and Republican Liz Cheney, respectively) said President Donald Trump tried to stay in power even though he lost the 2020 presidential election. Thompson said it was a “coup.” Cheney said the hearings would present evidence showing that Trump used a seven-part plan, culminating in the January 6 attack on the Capitol. The committee has been calling witnesses, most Republicans and some Trump loyalists. They testified under oath. The committee is also making extensive use of video from many sources, including sworn deposition testimony obtained earlier. During this hearing, the committee shared footage of the attack, discussed the involvement of the Proud Boys, and included testimony from a documentary filmmaker and a member of the Capitol Police. Here’s The Trump administration’s seven-part plan to overturn the 2020 election, according to the January 6 Committee:⤵️

1. Trump had knowledge that he lost the 2020 election but spread misinformation to the American public and made false statements claiming significant voter fraud led to his defeat;
2. Trump planned to remove and replace the Attorney General and Justice Department officials to force the DOJ to support false allegations of election fraud;
3. Trump pressured Vice President Pence to refuse certified electoral votes in the official count on January 6, in violation of the U.S. Constitution;
4. Trump pressured state lawmakers and election officials to alter election results in his favor.
5. Trump’s legal team and associates directed Republicans in seven states to produce and send fake “alternate” electoral slates to Congress and the National Archives;
6. Trump summoned and assembled a destructive mob in Washington and sent them to march on the U.S. Capitol; and
7. Trump ignored multiple requests to speak out in real-time against the mob violence, refused to instruct his supporters to disband, and failed to take any immediate actions to halt attacks on the Capitol.

• The second hearing of 2022 focused on evidence showing that Trump knew he lost and that most of his inner circle knew claims of fraud did not have merit. William Barr testified that Trump had “become detached from reality” because he continued to promote conspiracy theories and pushed the stolen election myth without “interest in what the actual facts were.”
• The third hearing examined how Trump and others pressured Vice President Mike Pence to selectively discount electoral votes and overturn the election by unconstitutional means, using John Eastman’s fringe legal theories as justification.
• The fourth hearing included appearances by election officials from Arizona and Georgia who testified they were pressured to “find votes” for Trump and change results in their jurisdictions. The committee revealed attempts to organize fake slates of alternate electors and established that “Trump had a direct and personal role in this effort.”
• The fifth hearing focused on Trump’s pressure campaign on the Justice Department to rubber stamp his narrative of a stolen election, the insistence on numerous debunked election fraud conspiracy theories, requests to seize voting machines, and Trump’s effort to install Jeffrey Clark as acting attorney general.
• The sixth hearing’s exclusive witness was Cassidy Hutchinson, a top aide to former White House Chief of Staff​ Mark Meadows. Conversations within Trump’s inner circle revealed White House officials knew, days in advance of January 6, that violence was possible. Her testimony showed Trump knew supporters at the Ellipse rally were armed with AR-15s and other weapons and that he wanted less stringent security checks at his speech. Trump planned to join the crowd at the Capitol and became irate when the Secret Service refused his request. Closing the hearing, Rep. Liz Cheney presented evidence that witness tampering may have occurred.
• The seventh hearing presented links between then-President Donald Trump and the extreme domestic militias that helped coordinate the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021. The committee and panel of witnesses discussed “the rise of the right-wing domestic violent extremist groups that attacked the Capitol and how Mr. Trump amassed and inspired the mob.” In addition, the panel described “known links and conversations between political actors close to Mr. Trump and extremists.” Committee member Jamie Raskin stated, “Donald Trump solicited the mob; he summoned the mob to Washington ... All of this was targeted on the joint session of Congress.” It focused on testimony from former White House Counsel Pat Cipollone, plotting by far-right extremist groups and discussions about using the military to seize voting machines.” Jason Van Tatenhove, who served as media director of Oath Keepers, testified as well. The focus of the hearings was connections between the Trump administration and militia groups such as the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys” and that “Roger Stone ... and Michael Flynn were two of those connections, among others.
• The eighth hearing presented evidence and details of Trump’s refusal to call off the attack for hours despite numerous pleas from officials.

• The eighth hearing on July 21, 2022, presented evidence and details of Trump's refusal to call off the attack on the Capitol, despite several hours of repeated pleas from numerous officials and insiders. According to The New York Times, this final July hearing focused on evidence and witness testimony that highlighted two significant positions that the select committee wanted to communicate to the American people. First, Rep. Liz Cheney made the case that Trump should never hold office again, asking: "Can a president who is willing to make the choices Donald Trump made during the violence of Jan. 6 ever be trusted with any position of authority in our great nation again?" Secondly, there were urgent calls for legally-binding federal investigations into the actions of the former president and his associates: "If there is no accountability for Jan. 6, for every part of this scheme, I fear that we will not overcome the ongoing threat to our democracy," Rep. Bennie Thompson said. "There must be stiff consequences for those responsible."

  The ninth hearing on October 13, 2022, maybe the final hearing, though vice-chair Cheney wants more hearings. The hearing presented a video of Roger Stone and evidence that some Trump associates planned to claim victory in the 2020 election regardless of the official results. The committee voted unanimously to subpoena Trump.

Overall, The January 6th Committee has done its job (as of now). Now it’s time for The United States Department of Justice (DOJ), also known as the Justice Department, to do theirs and Prosecute Trump for his Crimes against Democracy (aka Democracide).
We demand Justice!