Former President Trump took to his Truth Social platform late Thursday to condemn the commission’s Jan. 6 prime-time public hearing.
“So the Unselect Committee of Political HACKS refuses to play any of the many positive witnesses and statements, refuses to talk about the electoral fraud and irregularities that took place on a large scale,” Trump wrote in a message. “Our country is in such a problem!”
Trump had also publicly denounced the hearing earlier in the day before the event began in a statement from his Save America PAC, in which he described the 2021 Capitol riot as the “biggest move” in U.S. history.
The former president has continued to spread baseless conspiracy theories that the 2020 presidential election was fraught with fraud, claims that led a mob of Trump’s followers to storm the Capitol on January 6, 2021, to try to avoid certifying the election.
The House select committee investigating Thursday’s Capitol riot launched a torrid public case against Trump during the prime-time hearing using testimony and video clips from the day of the attack.
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), the vice chair of the commission started by the GOP leadership to challenge Trump, put the blame for the events of January 6 directly at the feet of the former president.
“Those who barged into our Capitol and spent hours fighting law enforcement were motivated by what President Trump had told them: that the election had been stolen and that he was the rightful president,” Cheney said. “President Trump called the crowd, gathered the crowd and lit the flame of this attack.”
The commission also played clips of people close to Trump, including former Attorney General William Barr, who said Trump’s claims about stolen elections were unfounded.
“I told him it was crazy stuff and they were wasting their time on it and it was doing the country a big, disservice,” Barr said in a clip.
Also on Thursday night, Trump campaign spokesman Jason Miller pushed back on the hearing, saying that one of the clips the House select committee played of Miller testifying before the committee was incomplete.
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