Recap of the J6 Hearings to Date

and the DOJ Investigations

Luella Schmidt
4 min readJul 11, 2022

The next hearing is tomorrow, Tuesday, July 12th. The hearing will focus on the extremist militias and Trump ties to those groups. You can watch past hearings or watch live at the Committee’s website.

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Here’s what we’ve learned so far.

Hearing 1

Vivid video and testimony of the horror of that day, the weapons used, the bloody hand-to-hand combat, and the astonishing bravery of law enforcement as they tried to protect the lives of the trapped Congresspeople, Senators, and the VP.

Hearing 2

GOP officials testified that Trump was told multiple times that he was about to lose the election, and then that he did lose. Trump knew there was no fraud in the election. He not only lied, he bilked our neighbors out of a quarter of a billion dollars to “fight fraud”. Multiple GOP officials helped perpetrate this fraud and raised funds off the lies.

Hearing 3

One part of the conspiracy was to pressure VP Pence into overturning the election himself on J6. Multiple GOP officials told us how Trump’s Team was told repeatedly that this idea was illegal but they continued to pursue it. Trump deliberately and repeatedly told the attackers that Pence was to blame. This…

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Luella Schmidt
Luella Schmidt

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