Liz Cheney resumes January 6 hearings by saying Trump is 'not an impressionable child'
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- The House Select Committee resumed its January 6 hearings on Tuesday.
- A hearing scheduled for Thursday night has been postponed.
- Rep. Liz Cheney started off by promising to hold former President Donald Trump accountable.
At the start of the seventh House Select Committee hearing on the January 6 insurrection, Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming set the stakes for the hearing and hearkened back to the evidence presented about what Trump knew about the lack of evidence to back up his election fraud claims.
"President Trump is a 76-year-old man. He is not an impressionable child. Just like everyone else in our country, he is responsible for his own actions and his own choices," Cheney, the Republican co-chair of the committee, said. "As our investigation has shown, Donald Trump had access to more detailed and specific information showing that the election was not actually stolen, than almost any other American. And he was told this over and over again. No rational or sane man in his position could disregard that information and reach the opposite conclusion. And Donald Trump cannot escape responsibility by being willfully blind."
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Rep. Stephanie Murphy of Florida said the hearing would focus on the planning leading up to the January 6 protests and the Trump White House's last efforts to overturn the election ahead of the Capitol siege.
The committee showed video clips from former White House counsel Pat Cipollone's video deposition, taken behind closed doors on Capitol Hill last Friday.
Cipollone, like several other former top Trump White House officials, declined to testify to the committee. However, the former White House counsel came forward following former aide Cassidy Hutchinson's bombshell testimony.