Two days into the public January 6 committee hearings, former President Donald Trump delivered a 12-page statement accusing Democrats of seeking to distract from the Biden administration’s failings with a ‘kangaroo court.’
Earlier the House committee had played testimony of Trump officials and aides describing how they had told Trump he lost the 2020 election and that there was not enough voter fraud to overturn the result.
He dismissed its efforts on Monday as a ‘sham.’
‘The January 6th Unselect Committee is disgracing everything we hold sacred about our Constitution. If they had any real evidence, they’d hold real hearings with equal representation,’ he said in an emailed statement.
‘They don’t, so they use the illegally constituted committee to put on a smoke and mirrors show for the American people, in a pitiful last ditch effort to deceive the American public…again.’
The committee has interviewed more than 1000 witnesses and assembled hundreds of thousands of pages of…
