WASHINGTON - The House Jan. 6 committee is set to unveil "surprising" details including evidence from Donald Trump’s Secret Service about the 2021 attack on the U.S.
Capitol in what is likely to be its last public hearing before the November midterm elections.The hearing Thursday afternoon, the 10th public session by the panel, is expected to delve into Trump's "state of mind" and the central role the defeated president played in the multipart effort to overturn the election, according to a committee aide who discussed the plans on condition of anonymity.The committee is starting to sum up its findings: Trump, after losing the 2020 presidential election, launched an unprecedented attempt to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s victory.
The result was the deadly mob siege of the Capitol.FILE - Images on the screen related to the security of Vice President Mike Pence on January 6 are seen, as the House select committee investigating the Jan.
6 attack on the U.S. Capitol holds a primetime hearing on Capitol Hill on Thursday, July 21, "The mob was led by some extremist groups — they plotted in advance what they were going to do," Rep.