US Capitol riot hearings to take break as new evidence floods in
- Lawmakers investing the January 6 attack have received a glut of new video footage of Trump and his family from a documentary filmmaker
- Thursday’s hearing on the ex-president’s alleged attempts to corrupt the Justice Department would be the last until two further hearings ‘later in July’
The congressional panel investigating last year’s attack on the US Capitol announced a break from its blockbuster series of televised hearings Wednesday after receiving a glut of new video footage of Donald Trump and his family from a documentary filmmaker.
Chairman Bennie Thompson told reporters Thursday’s hearing on Trump’s alleged attempts to corrupt the Justice Department would be the last until two further hearings “later in July”.
Thompson did not elaborate on the timetable but said further hearings after the two in July were “always a possibility”.
“The timeline of the hearings is driven, and continues to be driven, by the investigation. The select committee continues to receive relevant new evidence that we think is very important to the investigation,” an aide to the panel said.
“It’s important that our members (and) investigators take the time needed to assess that information and figure out how we’re going to use that information as we continue to make our presentation to the American people.”
The new evidence includes documents from the National Archive and multiple new leads given to a tip-line since the televised hearings began earlier in June.
