'A dangerous cancer': Jan. 6 panel depicts human toll of Trump's election pressure

The Jan. 6 committee returns Tuesday focused on then-President Donald Trump’s direct efforts to pressure state officials to overturn the 2020 election.

WASHINGTON — The Jan. 6 committee on Tuesday leaned on emotional testimony to illustrate the human toll that Donald Trump’s elaborate scheme to overturn the 2020 election had on public servants and their families.

While the Jan. 6 hearings have focused on Trump’s aggressive efforts to stop certification of Joe Biden’s victory, the committee’s fourth public hearing zeroed in on other consequences of that pressure campaign: the violent threats to those who stood up to Trump’s election lies and the upending of the lives of even the most low-level poll workers.

“The president’s lie was — and is — a dangerous cancer on the body politic,” said Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., a Jan. 6 committee member who played a prominent role in Tuesday’s hearing. “This pressure campaign brought angry phone calls and texts, armed protests, intimidation, and, all too often, threats of violence and death."

In live testimony, the committee elicited not just stories about the Trump effort to overturn the election, but the personal experiences that ran concurrent — a poll worker forced from her home for two months, a state official with a dying daughter and another who became irate after seeing the threats to a young man.

Former Georgia elections worker says her life was ruined after 2020 electionJune 21, 202207:56Wandrea "Shay" Moss, an election worker from Georgia, and her mother, Ruby Freeman, became the target of conspiracy theorists, fueling a barrage of racist attacks on both of them. Freeman testified earlier that around Jan. 6 the FBI told her it wasn’t safe to remain in her home after Trump called her out by name; she didn’t return for two months. Moss said Tuesday she now rarely leaves the house, has gained weight and continues to fear for her safety.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/january-6-committee-state-officials-georgia-arizona-raffensberger-rcna33006


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