Such defiance, however, has come at a cost.
Mr. Bowers told the committee that after shoving Mr. Trump, a truck was driven through his neighborhood, playing an audio recording claiming he was a pedophile. Mr. Bowers, who spoke about the Constitution with reverence and spirit, was in tears as he described his seriously ill daughter as suffering some sort of harassment outside their home. (She passed away last year.)
Subject of House Committee Hearing on January 6
Similarly, Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s secretary of state, testified that after he turned down Mr. Trump’s request in a phone call to find out the number of votes that would get him to run for the election, his 40-year-old wife received threats of “sexualization” by text messages and people broke into his daughter-in-law’s house.
Wandrea Moss, an election officer in Georgia who was implicated in one of Mr. Trump’s false election fraud allegations, said in her emotional testimony: “It has ruined my life. turn upside down”. Ms Moss, who is known as Shaye, added, “It has impacted my life in a major way – in every way – all because of the lies.”
And the panel contrasted the four officials’ willingness to speak out with many of Mr Trump’s allies and those around him refusing to tell investigators what they knew. In particular, Representative Liz Cheney, a Wyoming Republican and vice chairman of the panel, singled out Pat Cipollone, Mr. Trump’s White House adviser, who repeatedly pushed back against attempts to overturn the election.
“Our committee is sure that Donald Trump doesn’t want Mr. Cipollone to testify here,” she said. “But we think the American people deserve a personal response from Mr. Cipollone. He should appear before this committee, and we are working to secure his testimony.”
The plan to enlist the help of state lawmakers to create fake groups of electors appeared to have begun just days after the election when a pro-Trump attorney, Cleta Mitchell, sent an email proposing The idea for John Eastman, another lawyer close to Mr. Trumpet.
