The congressional committee investigating last year’s attack on the US Capitol announced Wednesday that will take a break from the media hearings that it anticipates, after receiving a large amount of new video material about Donald Trump and his family by a documentary filmmaker.
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Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson told reporters that Thursday’s hearing, into Trump’s alleged attempts to corrupt the Justice Department, will be the last until they resume in “late July.”
“The timeline of the hearings is, and continues to be, determined by the investigation. The select committee continues to receive relevant new evidence that we think will be very important to the investigation.said a panel attendee.
The new evidence includes documents from the National Archives and multiple new leads that have come to a tip line since televised hearings began in June.
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The most valuable material would be a compilation of hours of video recordings by documentary filmmaker Alex Holder, who was given wide access to Trump and his inner circle, including sons and Vice President Mike Pence, beginning in September 2020 and before and during the events of January 6.
In fact, Discovery + announced this Wednesday that it acquired the rights to the videos with which producer Alex Holder documented Donald’s last days.
Trump in the White House.
The channel, owned by the new Warner Bros. Discovery conglomerate, will broadcast the documentary, divided into three parts, at the end of the summer, although some of its scenes will be made public this Thursday during hearings in the US Congress.
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This documentary series will offer intimate and unprecedented interviews with Trump, his family and others from the White House
“Featuring never-before-seen footage of the Trump family during the campaign and their reactions to the election result, this documentary series will offer unprecedented and intimate interviews with Trump, his family and others from the White House,” said a staffer at the platform to the specialized press in Hollywood.
According to the newspaper Politico, the documentary contains conversations by the Trump family and their advisers that would be contradictory to what they have declared before the investigation commission.
The future of audiences
When lawmakers return from a two-week recess in the second week of July, they are expected to devote the remaining hearings to the issue of radicalizing extremists who stormed the Capitol, as well as the culture of political violence on the extreme right.
As a sign of the political tension surrounding the hearings, New York Times reported an increase in violent threats against the nine-member panel.
Some who have been harassed include Adam Kinzinger, one of two Republicans on the committee, whose wife received a death threat against her and their five-month-old daughter.
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Also Liz Cheney, vice president of the panel, had to suspend massive public events in part due to concerns related to her safety.
These developments come after officials from Arizona and Georgia appeared Tuesday at the fourth public hearing, where they described Trump’s efforts to cling to power, which involved intimidation of local officials and poll workers. In addition, they pointed him out for defaming them and publishing personal data.
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*With information from AFP
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