I wonder if we'll see any clips of Proud Boys or Oath Keeper testimony. It would be interesting, to say the least, if they actually had one or more of them there for live testimony.A federal judge noted in February that there’s no evidence former President Donald Trump ever met or plotted with a Proud Boy or an Oath Keeper. But some conspiracies, he added, can be “tacit.”
The Jan. 6 select committee’s next hearing is expected to delve deeply into that relationship, exploring all the subtle signaling between Trump’s orbit and the seamy underworld of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers that prosecutors and congressional investigators have been probing.
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“Our investigation shows that there was a tremendous convergence of interests between the domestic violent extremist groups and the broader MAGA movement,” [Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.)], who will lead next week’s hearing, told Nightly in an interview. “This hearing will be the moment when one sees both the convergence of efforts at a political coup with the insurrectionary mob violence. We see how these two streams of activity become one.”
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Tuesday’s hearing is of intense interest to the Justice Department, which is preparing to try sprawling seditious conspiracy cases against the leadership of both the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers. The department already agreed to delay the Proud Boys trial from August until December, citing potential “prejudice” created by the public hearings, as well as the likelihood that the select committee publicly dumps 1,000 witness transcripts into the public domain in September.
Politico
I'm more interested in the July 14 hearing, which I'm assuming will involve Pat Cipollone's testimony.
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