Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), the chairman of the Jan. 6 panel, said there was a connection between far-right extremists groups and those around former President Trump leading up to and during the Capitol riot.
In an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper after the committee’s first prime-time hearing on Thursday, the journalist asked Thompson if future hearings will have witnesses who can attest to conversations between extremist groups and those close to Trump.
“Yes,” Thompson responded. “Obviously, you have to go through the hearings but we have a number of witnesses who’ve come forward. People who have not talked before will document a lot of what was going on in the Trump orbit while all of this was occurring.”
During the hearing Thursday, the committee highlighted extremist groups such as the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers who were present during the Jan. 6 attack and encouraged to come to Washington, D.C. by Trump.
Thompson has said the panel is going to make the case that Trump was directly responsible for the deadly attack that killed multiple people and injured many others.
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