Trump Campaign Manager Won't Testify At Jan. 6 Hearing Due To Family Emergency

Invoice Stepien, Donald Trump’s 2020 marketing campaign supervisor, is not going to seem at Monday’s public listening to resulting from a household emergency, the Home committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot introduced.

“His counsel will seem and make an announcement on the document,” an advisory by the Jan. 6 committee reads.

Because of this the general public listening to shall be delayed by 30 to 45 minutes, per the announcement.

Stepien was subpoeaned by the Home panel in November 2021 together with different Trump officers, together with Jason Miller, a senior advisor to Trump’s 2020 marketing campaign. The committee mentioned Stepien “supervised the conversion of the Trump presidential marketing campaign to an effort centered on ‘Cease the Steal’ messaging and associated fundraising.”

“That messaging included the promotion of sure false claims associated to voting machines regardless of an inner marketing campaign memo by which marketing campaign workers decided that such claims had been false,” the Home panel continued.

Throughout Thursday’s listening to, the committee aired a part of Miller’s testimony acknowledging Trump’s marketing campaign workers instructed the previous president he misplaced the 2020 president election. Miller detailed an incident the place Matt Oczkowski, Trump’s marketing campaign inner information skilled, held a name with Trump within the days following the election, telling Trump he had misplaced, based mostly on the reported outcomes.

“I bear in mind he delivered to the president fairly blunt phrases that he was going to lose,” Miller instructed the committee.

Stepien was scheduled to testify at Monday’s listening to together with Ben Ginsberg, a Republican lawyer who is taken into account an skilled on elections, and Chris Stirewalt, a former Fox Information political editor.

All main information networks, together with Fox Information this time, are planning to air the listening to reside.

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